Good morning! Thanks for the advice about flicking the baby's hand. I will try it out tonight. As for which is more interesting, babies, or Carter . . . I have to say, the babies are more interesting, but Carter was much less work!
He is due for his annual vaccines and his nails are enormous again. I'm wondering if they can knock him out, clean his teeth, trim his nails, and give him his vaccines all at once. He can't have his nails done without being knocked out so it seems like we might as well do his teeth at the same time. OTOH just getting him out for the nails requires less anesthesia than getting his teeth done. Hmmm....
Andrea, sorry about the dog. I would definitely recommend hiring a pro ASAP to help you out. Your local human society can probably give you a referral (as can your vet).
Megan, that sucks about the project submitting tech problems. Hopefully you can get it sorted out soon! Glad you are feeling better.
We had a messy weekend. I was home from work Friday for a meeting with our lawyer to review our estate planning stuff. It's finally warmed up enough to go outside so we took the girls to the park and they enjoyed going in the swings (the bucket style). Then sometime in the middle of the night Friday night, baby A started refusing her pacifier. Since usually nighttime wakings consist of us going in there and popping a pacifier in her mouth, this was pretty tough! In the morning she ate her breakfast bottle okay, but then started refusing all her bottles. We got her to eat a little by sippy cup but ended up mixing most of her milk into solids to get her to eat. I'm pretty sure she's teething.
In any case Saturday and Sunday were a big giant pain because of her bottle refusal, pacifier refusal, and fussiness, but she seems to have gotten over the worst of it and is eating again as of yesterday afternoon. Unfortunately refusing so much of her milk the previous day left her with less hydration and now she's really constipated. Sigh. DH made their oatmeal with prune juice instead of milk this morning to help things along so hopefully it will clear up soon. At least C has been eating fine the whole time and sleeping well too.
We decided to not change their schedule at all because of DST -- instead of going to bed at 6pm and getting up at 5:30am they would just switch to going to bed at 7pm and getting up at 6:30am. Of course last night they were overtired somehow and went to sleep at 6:45 instead of 7, then got up at 6 instead of 6:30. They are doing well with being switched to scheduled naps though so now their naptimes are 9am and 1pm regardless of everything else.
The only other new development is that A has decided she hates going to sleep, and will now cry as soon as we take her into the nursery. I want her to associate the nursery with sleep, so I don't want it to be a play room, but I don't want her to cry every time she goes in! Just babies being babies.
Sorry to ramble so much about babies, those guys have pretty much taken over my life.