The Most Wonderful Time of Year! – Update #25

The Jobs household has undergone significant changes over the past couple of weeks. Having the girls home has brought overwhelming joy to the hearts of not only ourselves but our family and numerous friends. Just to give you an idea, the blog has had over 10000 hits, so a super thank you all for your immense support and prayers through all of the ups and downs.

Obviously sleep is something that is scarce lately; many said “rest while you can”, or “store it up now” In theory all good advice, but to be honest, storing up sleep in my professional opinion is not really possible. Things have gotten much better than the first few nights. If we keep the girls from getting too stimulated during the day we find that they have a much easier time going down. One more quip that we thought would be applicable to us, “sleep while they sleep.” I have found this to be rather humorous as we have two kids who eat on different schedules and momma has to pump, and most often this all happens in one glorious succession. This results in a train of activities that basically doesn’t end. Oh well that is why there is two of us, our teamwork is being put to the test, and I must say I think we are coming through in spades.

Working has gone well, with my job I am able to be home at different points during the day to relieve momma for an hour or so. Our counter space has been held ransomed by the copious amounts of bottles, nipples, soothers, and various other paraphernalia in different stages of sanitization. Again a quick thanks to those who have been providing meals. To say food prep right now is a small challenge, would be a colossal understatement. So again our deepest thanks.

The girls are adjusting well to home life; they spend most of the daytime out in the living room in either our arms, a bouncy chair, the swing thingy, the bassinette or getting used to a little ‘tummy time.’ Night times rotate between the pack and play that is set up in our room and the nursery. Usually feedings happen in the nursery so others are not disturbed. They are growing and eating well. Bath times are enjoyed far more by Marika than by Kyra, hopefully this will change over time so Kyra has a more relaxing time.

The tale of our first Christmas is to come…. Stay tuned.

Here are some more pics of the completed nursery (click the picture) and of the girls of course.

Home Life

Ryan