First Colds

It's been so long since I've been able to write a new post!  We've all been very sick since about 2 days after Christmas - first Owen, then me, then Oliver, and lastly Ryan.  This was the first time the babies have ever been sick, and they were not very happy about it!  Luckily it was just a bad cold, no ear infections.  I learned that it takes a long time for a baby's cold to go away (the doctor said expect up to 2 weeks), particularly because there isn't much they can take for it and they don't know how to blow their own noses!  It also takes a long time for sick mommies and daddies to get better when they aren't getting any sleep because the babies are waking up every 30 minutes to an hour at night, uncomfortable and congested.  The only thing that helped them relax and fall asleep was to bring them into our bed and help them fall asleep by rubbing or patting their backs.  We were also too tired and sick ourselves to put in the effort of rocking them back to sleep, standing over their cribs waiting, etc. as we would normally do during a night wake up.  I think they've discovered they like sleeping with us as it's already been difficult to transition them back to their cribs. 

Even though they were sick and needed extra sleep, we couldn't let them sleep in too much past their normal wake up time of 7am (as much as we wanted to) or else the rest of the day and bedtime that night would become a disaster.  Instead we allowed slightly longer naps.  Sometimes we let them sleep in as much as an hour in the morning, but even then bedtime was difficult because it's not as simple as pushing everything forward 1 hour!  It takes several days for their bodies to realize a major schedule change like that (such as daylight savings time).  Here's a video of Owen reluctantly waking up one morning.  It's funny how he still looks confused and lost each time he looks around our room and realizes he's not in his crib...but you can see how happy he is once he figures it out!