Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have twins? Here is what our night was like last night...

8:30 pm: Begin to get things ready for bed, Meg and Abe both take turns brushing and flossing their teeth and getting into pj's, Meg gathers bottles and take them down stairs for the night shift (6 bottles total plus all of my pump equipment washed and ready). Abe fills the humidifier and entertains the babies.

9:00 pm: Get babies ready for bed. Both of them fed, changed, swaddled and put to sleep (this takes anywhere from 1 to 2 hours depending on how sleepy they are to start with. Lately it has been pretty consistent that they are both down in 1.5 hours. It requires a lot of patients, a lot of pacing and sometimes a lot of tears.

10:30 pm: Abe goes to bed and Meg goes to pump for the last time before bed and get bottles ready for the next feeding. Pumping takes about 10 minutes then I get the bottle prepared and wash my pump stuff and get it ready for the next time.

11:00 pm: Meg goes to bed.

11:15 pm: Jace wakes up so Meg picks him up and brings him to bed with her.

1:30 am: Jace wakes up. Meg takes Jace out of the room, feeds him, Jace smiles at her in his sleep and it melts her heart. She changes him and puts him back to sleep, this takes anywhere from 30 minutes to 1 hour.

2:15 am: Meg pumps, get's bottles ready and cleans pump stuff for next time.

2:45 am: Meg goes back to bed.

3:30 am: Jefferson wakes up. Meg takes him out of the room, feed's him changes him, then he spits up everything he ate all over the both of us. This scares Jefferson and makes him cry and make Meg feel bad for him. So Meg changes his clothes and her clothes.

4:30 am: Jace wakes up again while Meg is still dealing with Jefferson. Abe brings Jace out and feed's him, changes him and puts him back to bed. Meanwhile Meg re-feed's Jefferson and paces around with him because he is now so awake that he will not go back down.

5:00 am: Meg is still pacing with Jefferson. Jefferson is wide awake, Meg is now crying and doesn't feel as bad for him as she did before. We are out of breast milk so Meg puts Jefferson down and lets him cry while she pumps, gets bottles ready and cleans pump stuff for the next time. Meanwhile, Abe is sleeping and Jace wakes up again. Abe get's up and takes Jace to bed with him.

5:30 am: Meg gives up and puts Jefferson in his car seat(which is what they have been sleeping in) and starts walking up stairs with him to pawn him off on my dad who is sleeping soundly for the first night in a while. Meg get's to the top of the stairs and realizes that the motion has put Jefferson to sleep. Meg decides to let her dad sleep and takes him back to her room.

5:45 am: Meg takes Jace, who is now totally a sleep on Abe's chest and puts him in his car seat. Meg gets in bed and thinks she might finally get some sleep.

5:55 am: Jace wakes up! He is crying so Meg takes him out of the room. Jace's diaper is wet so Meg changes his diaper and decides if he won't sleep in his seat she will just bring him in bed with her and maybe she will get some sleep.

6:30 am: Abe's alarm clock goes off and Jefferson begins to stir. He isn't totally awake but Meg has had it and just can't handle it any more. Jace is sleeping on her and is so wiggly that she can't sleep.

7:00 am: Meg and Abe take both babies up to her parents and let them take over. Abe goes to work and Meg goes down stairs and pumps again, gets bottles ready, brings them back up for her parents, decides she is too tired to clean the pump stuff.

7:30 am: Meg is finally in bed sleeping with no distractions. Meg sleeps till 10:30 am and then has to get up, clean the pump stuff, pump and begin another day with twins.