Yawn............

I know I'm not "that" old but seriously, I used to do way better during stages of not so great sleep. Case and point - my birthday last weekend. Went out with friends and got home around 1:15. Dead tired. What - like four or so years ago staying up past 3 a.m. was a breeze. This is making it very difficult to even think about dropping the caffiene habit. Ha ha, not a chance!! Not sure on this getting old thing - is there a particular age that "young" isn't the best adjective to use or is that all just how you feel. I'll be better next year when, finally, hubby joins the ranks of being "in the thirties" as he apparently finds it amusing to point out he's still twenty-something.
(Must be a guy thing - he's not too concerned about doing anything for his birthday which is next Sunday. Fair enough, I already asked a friend to watch the girls so we can play gof and go out to dinner. If he doesn't want to make plans, I will.)

We don't have their 15 month appointment until July 7th so I won't have any fun stats for awhile. A bit tipsy / off-balanced, but both are walking all over the place. Allie, for whatever reason, prefers if you're around to help her, but on her own she's fine. Also yells "go, go. go" when on the move, thanks to hubby. I'm pretty sure "go Yankees" is right around the corner, sigh....... They also are huge on yelling "done" when they want out of their highchairs. Funny thing is once one yells, the other usually decides she's done too (even if she's really not) If Audrey takes her bib off, Allie has to also.

Not that it should be a surprise, but the girls aren't much for the logical side - I think that's going to be the toughest thing for me to work with as a parent. Awhile back we got the dvd player for the sedan since the girls have never been fans of the car. Well, I guess that only lasted for so long as Allie is back to screaming fits in the car. Okay, I'm science-based - there's got to be a reason, right? Rule out this or that and we'll figure it out. Problem is on Monday, she was perfectly fine and then on Tuesday, screaming mad. Weather-wise, travel time, all the major components were the same. Only other thought is either she gets gas or carsick so might try to find something baby-approved for motion sickness. (But again, then why was she fine on Monday?) She also is a lot more fussy once we get home on the days she's mad in the car - their doctor mentioned she has molars coming in so that might be part of it, who knows.

I apologize to anyone on facebook as this is the same video I posted. They are in love with the window curtains.

So much for planning...........

Nevermind all the other stuff clogging up my head. Although I'm really going to have to figure a few things out in the very near future so we can not feel so bogged down.

Very simple plan for last night / this morning.
Once the girls were in bed, do one load of laundry, pay some bills, go to bed around 10 so I get some decent sleep to get up by 6 for a workout. Simple, right?

Karma says not so fast. The dryer took forever so bedtime was closer to 11 - okay, I may be a little tired but still fine. I woke up around quarter to 2 to some pretty strong winds. Huh, that's odd, didn't see wind as part of the forecast. Of course then I realize that a front is probably moving in which means a storm (a thought echoed five minutes later with thunder) I'm the type that just can't fall asleep while a storm is going on. Rain, yes. Hail / thunder / bunch of noise, no. Well this sucker lasted forever, and to the point I finally checked out the radar to see that it was going to be a long night. Easily well past 3 am before things quiet down enough. 4:30 - another storm. At this point I give up. Can't get back to sleep, screw working out (which as my birthday is merely 11 days away is not cool!) and mentioned to hubby when he got up that an epresso drink was going to be necessary. And then why not blog about it?

Luckily the hail didn't cause any damage - good thing as their baby pool is still out on the deck.
The big silver lining to all this is the girls have yet to wake up during a thunderstorm. Guess they can't teach me?

Okay twin / close age sibling moms: How to deal with toy and book stealing without meltdowns, or is that a myth? Big, big problem as of late. If Allie wants us to hold a book and read it to her, Audrey wants to hold the book herself. If you try to give Audrey another book, forget it - she wants the one in question. Vice versa, same with toys, etc...............