We're moving to South Haven.......

Over the past three nights, our little ladies have been sleeping well during the night.  They are still waking up every 2-3 hours to feed, but they go right back to sleep, allowing us to sleep.  That being said, goodbye Indianapolis, hello South Haven.  We have determined it must be the comforts of this quaint lakeside community or the cool breezes coming off the water.  Whatever it is, we're not leavin.  Weve had a good run in Indianapolis.  If anyone wants to buy our house, let me know.  We are going to live in the guest suite here at the GP's condo.  Free rent, great beef jerky, and lots of cribbage.  What more could we ask for?  I know we will get lots of messages from our Indianapolis friends saying they dont know how they will go on without us, but we have made up our minds.  Check out the pics from our new home on the flickr link.

Going Blog Crazy

So, in honor of Bri's mom Jill posting on the blog, I decided to help facilitate the intermingling of blog posses by posting links to our frequent poster's blogs.  If anyone else has one to add, let m e know.  Matt and Christine have not updated theirs in a year, so they are lame.  

Reading is Fundamental......

Apparently noone actually reads my posts.  I was informed that many people believe the pictures in the previous post were of our ladies.  They are not.  I found those pictures by googling 'fat babies'.  It was meant to be a projection of their current growth trajectory.    Come one people, seriously.

May I introduce you to our hungry hungry hippos....

So, we went to the doctor today for their 1 month checkup.  We were eager to see how much they (mostly Riley) weighed as Mrs. Beefy has been eatin a lot.  It had been 2.5 weeks since our last appointment.  At that time, Riley weighed 6lb 12 oz and Sanna weighed 5lb 13oz.  I will post their new weights as a comment so you can all have fun guessing how much they weigh now.  I heard somewhere that a typical newborn  gains about 1oz a day.  If you simpletons cant handle the math, that means Sanna should weigh 6lb 15oz and Riley should weigh 7lb 14oz.  It was 18 days since our last appointment.   

*side note...those are not our babies.  It is a digital rendering of what our babies will look like in about a month.

Paaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrttttyyyy!!!!!

The family ventured out to their first social gathering this past weekend. The Drlich's put on a spectacular party to celebrate Abe's second birthday. Our ladies did their best to not upstage Abe on his special day. We probably shouldnt have dressed them in their super cute 'matching' sundresses. I want to give a shout out to all my peeps over at 'Mental Notes' for checking out the scene over here at 'Verbal Diarrhea'. With our powers combined we can take over the baby blogging universe. I am attaching a video of Abe dancing to one of his favorite tunes. I must admit this was not his best work (probably too many distractions), but it is still tough to beat (I am talking to you Mr. Conaway). Highlights of the shindig include Bermes' stripper heels (appropriate for a two-year-olds birthday, I think not), Rian going crazy on Abe's bouncy horse, lessons in sharing led by the birthday boy, and taco salad. I probably should have led off with the taco salad. I ate about two pounds and could have eaten two more. Our ladies were perfect little angels, alllowing themselves to passed around like a game of hot potato without making a sound (good thing this party was done well before their witching hour). The Drlich's have now set the standard for children's birthday parties.  We have 11 months to plan our first celebration.  I welcome all suggestions for themes/concepts.   See the latest pics, including some from the party, on the flickr link.

Problem Solved!

It turns out all you "knowledgable", "experienced", "mothers" didnt know anything about soothing the savages beasts that are newborns.  All it took was a pair of booties knitted with love.  This picture was taken towards the end of a 6 hour sleeping session by Riley.  We're hoping she wakes up for the fantasy football draft in five hours.  We are still debating whether to take a chance on Favre.

Cat Fight!!!!!!!

Meeeeeowwwwww!

(Lack of) Sleep Update

So, our ladies are getting more independent.  By independent, they sleep at different times and are total bizzos. They were up most of the morning yesterday until about 2PM, then they slept all evening.  When we went to bed, they were tossing and whining.  Not wailing, but not sleeping.  They took turns sleeping in the bed with us, which normally worked.  After about 330AM they both slept more (Sanna in her crib, Riley in the bed). They are up and ready to party at 915. 

New poll

I should give some more background info to the latest poll. Sanna sleeps all day either on the bear or in someone's arms. She wakes up every three hours to eat. At night, after feeding, we put her in the cradle and she cries like someone is killing her. We normally pick her up, but it leads to no sleep for us if we are always holding her. One night, we didnt pick her up and she cried for ~20min and then slept all night. There are varying schools of thought. We are currently entertaining all of them.

To all my loyal readers.......

I apologize for the gap in time between now and the most recent post. As you may have heard, we have two newborns and I have a job. Until today, I wasnt aware anyone was missing the blog. The comment count had dropped down so I thought everyone was bored with our babies. Since that appears to not be the case I will carry on this pursuit of entertaining the masses through baby-related humor and cuteness.