Where is that Lunesta butterfly???

Every night I vow to myself, "Today was busy and crazy, but tomorrow, TOMORROW I will post on my blog." And every night turns into the next day (though in such a way as to make the days all daisy-chain together into one long endless series of "sun up"s and "sun down"s) and it doesn't happen. The best I can manage when I'm three day's time from my most recent shower is to do a fly-by post from my iPhone, so here goes, and please forgive any context-ruining autocorrect confusion.

The girls are now five weeks old. They're coming out of the (blessed) "sleepy newborn" phase, which fooled us into thinking we were actually doing pretty well and twins aren't so hard after all, and they're now moving into the world of "I want to be up, and held, and talked to, and looked at with unbroken eye contact ALL THE TIME and hey! HEY! Don't you look away when I'm talking to you!!!", mixed with a hefty dose of "oh, you think I'm hungry, and I probably AM hungry, but that don't mean I'm going to eat."

They're wonderful and I am very very tired. And I finally understand that I was wrong when I (somewhat snottily) assumed that women who don't get to shower often when they have a newborn must just have really busy or unsupported partners, because the past few days it's like I can't put the girls down for five minutes unless I'm at my parents' house, which has a fantastic "willing pair of arms" to babies ratio that includes my mother and her magic touch. And I'm there with the girls A LOT. it's an awesome place to be-- no new-mom isolation, lots of people to hold babies-- the girls are not put down ever when we're over there, just transferred to another person--plenty of real food, and every time I go over there I have ag least one friend or extended family member, usually my Aunt Mae, show up because we're visiting.

At home, it's been tricky the past few days. The girls were sleeping better at night and gave us up to two three- to four-hour stretches-- usually something like 12-4 and then 4:45-8. The last two nights, no such luck. I need to come up with a better feeding schedule before Ned so they don't get hungry as quickly, especially when they're cluster-feeding in the evening.

Okay, brain short-circuiting. More later-- hopefully not TOO much later!