The good

• Everyone in our family is healthy right this minute.  I hope it holds.
• The babies had a great report at their 9-month checkup yesterday.  Alex weighs 19.12; Erin is 18.12.  I have no idea why, but that one pound feels like five.  But the doctor said they looked great and gave me some ideas for how to slowly combine our early morning feeding (4-5) with our breakfast feeding (8-8:30) into a 6:30-7 feeding so we can sleep all the way through the night.  Wouldn’t that be wonderful.
• Eric and I had a good weekend, mostly resting and recovering.  And we had some really good discussions about things and life and our future.  Totally worth the weird little side comment that hurt my feelings enough for me to start the discussion!

The whiny

• This would be the babies this morning.  W-H-I-N-Y!  And I did not get enough sleep to deal well with it this early.
• The rest of this section will be about me being whiny.
• The last two nights, the babies have slept pretty well, but something else conspired to steal my sleep
• Last night, an alarm clock went off at midnight, twice.  Apparently, I pushed snooze, not stop.  And even though I turned down the volume all the way, that does not apply to the alarm.  Nice.
• Night before last, the battery in the smoke detector in our bedroom died and started beeping at 2-3 minute intervals.  At 1:00 a.m.  Eric finally made it stop.  Grrr!
• Our first attempt at changing our morning feeding schedule didn’t go quite as planned.  I need to stay on it, though, because I really need us to get to a sleep schedule that actually lasts the entire night. 
• I had another something I was going to whine about, but lucky for all of us, I can’t think of it right now.  So I’ll just stop.

Happy Tuesday!