Twinsomnia

Today on the multiples blog, they had some "twin" definitions!  There are quite a few that made me laugh, so I thougth I would repost them on here (see below!).  I especially LOVE the dumbask!  HA HA HA...people ask so many hilarious questions when you have twins!  It cracks me up. 
The main definition that I am loving today though is twinsomnia. This is us to a tee right now.  Isabella is really pushing me to the edge of my sanity!

We really thought her sleeping problems were because of her ear pains and that the tubes would rectify that!  Ha ha...she sure proved us wrong.  She has gotten SO MUCH WORSE since the surgery!  She flat out refuses to go to bed for me and now won't even go for Cesar.  When we put the girls down at night she turns into a CRAZY MONSTER!  Really!  You have to see it to really understand what I am talking about.  She screams bloody murder, jumps up and down in her crib, even hits her head against the side of the crib or throws herself into the side of it.  She is just FURIOUS that we are putting her in her bed.  "So let her cry it out," you are probably thinking.  Yea...tried that...doesn't work.  She just works herself up more and more the longer we leave her.  Cesar let her go for almost an hour the other day and she was still just as crazy as the second we put her down.  I guess that is going to be our only option soon and I know that no kid has ever died from crying.  But...the question is...has a mom?  I feel like someone is stabbing me when she cries like that!  I just can't stand hearing my baby suffer so much.  I know she isn't "suffering" in real terms...but she sure makes it seem that way.  We had to let them cry it out when they were little and we were sleep training them...but that wasn't like this.  She never got this hysterical.
Poor Leah has just learned to go to sleep through the madness.  I am very close to separating them from each other, but I just don't want to.  I don't know why.  Deanna and I didn't share a room and we survived.  But there is just something special about twins and their relationship.  I think they should be together.  Maybe I'm just crazy, but that's the way I feel!  So..that will be the last resort!  For now...I am just trying not have a nervous breakdown every night as I try to get my little monster to fall asleep!  *Note to Isabella..when you read this as a teenager..you better give me something REALLY nice to make up for this.  I'm thinking...day at the spa, nice lunch date with your daddy, and then a quiet evening at home while you and your sister go off and do something good...like babysit for a parent of young multiples!!

TWINSOMNIA (twin-SAHM-nee-uh) n.:: The lack of sleep a mom of multiples experiences when her kids sleeping schedules fall out of synch.


STAYDATE (STAY-dayt) n.: The luxury/burden of always having a built in friend for your multiples to play/fight with any time they’re home together.

TWINGUISTICS (twin-GWISS-tiks) n.: The unique language that baby multiples use to communicate with one another that is completely indecipherable by anyone else.

DUMBASK (DUMM-ask) n.; A person who asks if your Twins who are a boy and a girl are “identical.”

TWINTERFERENCE (twin-tehr-FEER-entz) n.: When one multiple distracts the parent while the other pulls a fast one


TROUBLESUM (TRUBB-uhl-sum) adj.: The increased amount of trouble that can be found when multiple children work together to find it.


COORDTWINATE (co-ORD-twin-ayt) v.: To dress your multiples in matching outfits.


TWINIQUITY (twin-ICK-witt-ee) n.: The fundamental unfairness inherent in having multiples, due to the fact that you have to take care of more than one baby after only getting to have sex once.

MULTIPLOY (MULL-tuh-ploy) v.: When Multiples band together and deviously conspire against their parents.