Good naps, bad bedtime

This morning we had MOPs.  Both of the girls slept in and I ended up having to wake them up to feed them and get ready.  Emily regularly sleeps through the night now and it is amazing.  There's just something incredible about waking up in the morning and realizing that it's the first time you've woken up since you put your head down.  I don't think I will ever take sleep for granted again!

Anyways, once the girls were dressed and fed, we headed out the door to MOPS.  I go about twenty-five minutes early to help set up so Haley usually just brings her breakfast along in the form of a pop tart or bag of cereal.  Then she eats her breakfast and follows me around as I set up tables and chairs and everything.  Emily hangs out in her infant seat and watches all of the commotion.  She stays in there for almost all of set-up, there's plenty to see.  

Emily stayed with me during MOPs today.  We had a speaker come and talk about enjoying every stage of motherhood.  Her name was Crystal Bowman and she is from Holland Michigan!  She lives in Florida now but she is a children's book and devotional writer.  Emily sat and chewed on random things I found in the diaper bag for most of the presentation.  Towards the end I stood with her in the back because she was starting to get antsy sitting.

After MOPs I brought the girls back home and we ate lunch outside.  Emily was tired so I took her inside to take a nap and Haley followed and climbed into her bed and asked for her paci.  I hadn't planned on putting her to bed for another forty-five minutes but I figured if she wanted to sleep then she might as well.  It worked out because Haley slept almost three hours and Emily slept three and a half!

Haley played outside after her nap while I talked on the phone with Aunt Kelly.  She spent a lot of time trying to catch birds.  She watches them land in the yard and then she walks out to them and they hop away and she just keeps following them until they get annoyed enough and just fly off.  It's actually pretty funny, I should take a video of her doing it.  David got home a couple minutes after Emily woke up around 4.  He played with the girls for a while and then we loaded them up in the van and took them to the Caldwell's house.  Amanda had offered to watch them a night this week so David and I could go on a date.  We decided to go tonight because it worked out with David's work schedule.  Haley was so excited to be going to the Caldwells.

When we picked up the girls Haley and Lucy were playing pretty hard but Haley was excited to see us.  Emily was happy to see us too, she gave us big smiles and flailed her arms and legs a bunch.  Amanda said that Haley had eaten a lot of spaghetti for dinner and went potty once while she was there.  We brought the girls home and gave them a bath.  Then David put them to bed while I went to a MOPs planning meeting.  He said they were pretty difficult to get to sleep.  Both of them cried for a while and finally Haley asked for a snack so David brought them to the kitchen and gave her cheese.  Then he took them back to their room where Haley laid quietly and Emily cried.  David said he was starting to feel tense with Emily crying so he laid her in her crib and then just prayed that she would stop and he said she started calming down pretty much as soon as he started praying.  So I guess there you have it folks, a new sleep training method.  Sit next to the crib and pray.  Just as Emily was quiet, Haley popped her head up and asked to go to the potty.  David took her and then she went right to sleep too.

Haleyism:

Haley went boo for the mops workers and they were super impressed.  When I picked her up the teacher said to another teacher, 'Isn't Haley the one who went #2 in the potty?'  And the other worker said, 'yeah!'  They were acting like she had been tying her own shoes or something.

Emilyism:

Emily has gotten a little bit harder to put to sleep lately.  The past couple days that I have laid her in her crib, she has rolled over onto her back and started laughing.  It's really hard not to smile back at her!

Haley is feeding Emily her clementine slices which she has already gotten the juice out of and chewed up.  Emily accepts willingly. 

I was trying to upload a video that David took of Haley eating the other day and it wouldn't work.  So instead I uploaded this old one of Haley eating.