Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiinally got H to bed... Every time I put her down, she would start crying within two minutes and she was starting to wake up her brother. I brought her into my bedroom for a little while and she eventually relaxed and stopped squeaking/wiggling. Fingers crossed that they will sleep for at least a couple hours now! I think it's time to separate the two of them at night, but we just don't have the space. We're working on that, but for now, I'm not sure what to do. The other night, one of our friends wanted to babysit H for the night (fine by me!), so they got a chance to sleep without each other. G did a five hour stretch without his sister here and my friend said H did a four hour stretch. Wow! However, last night was back to the usual every 2-3 hours "routine". And then H decided to only eat half of every bottle, so she was waking up every hour to eat more.
As I mentioned, we need to find a bigger place. Right now, we're in a two bedroom townhouse. That was fine when it was just the two of us, but holy shit, babies take up so much space. Plus, we're sick of being so far away from everything. We're trying to find something in SW Pdx, so we're closer to the city and our friends (and not too far from work), but it's proving to be quite the challenge! Seems like every ad I respond to on CL is either a scam or the place is already taken. I can't tell you how many emails I've received that go something like... "We will be pleased to rent our wonderful home to you. I have relocated to Nigeria to spread the good word of my Lord Jesus Christ (no joke!) and I am looking for clean and honest tenants to keep our home beautiful." Then something about emailing the application and them mailing the keys. Yeah, I'll get right on that. I've found pretty much every place I've lived over the last 10 years on CL and I have never encountered this problem before. I hate people.
We actually found one place that seems pretty great, but the lady has clearly never rented out a house before and has no idea what she's doing. She responded to MY housing wanted ad, so I thought we were on the same page about timing (within the next 1-2 months), and then she suddenly asked if September would work so she can move at the same time her son leaves for college a couple hours away. THEN she asked if it's okay if we "overlapped" a couple of weeks while she found another place. As in, all live there together. Um, are you kidding me? It seems like she's finally started to figure out how this rental thing works, though, so we'll see what happens. Not holding my breath or anything, but it's in a great area and is the perfect size/price.
In other news...
H was smiling up a storm today and I finally got a couple pictures. However, G was in the middle of a crying fit, so all I got of him were crying shots. Silly boy. He has been nearly as fussy as H lately; not sure what's going on. I remember a couple people telling me that the second month is the hardest, so I'm hoping this will pass!
Smiley:
And Mr. Grumpypants:
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