Daunting

When the Dinos were born, I had decided against to let them sleep in cradles despite my mummy's advice. Reason being, I do not want them to rely much on the swaying motion to fall asleep.

But when she took over to look after them full them to prepare me going back to work, mummy insisted for me to get cradles for them as she find it difficult to let them fall asleep without it. I think it's because its the only method she knew now to coax a baby to sleep given she used the same while we were young.

Mr Love and I gave in to the request. After all she's gonna be the 1 facing Dinos bulk of the time and I do not want make her life difficult. Turns out, my mil had the same request too. So its easier for us since the 2 care givers are on the same page.

Truth to be told, its easier to let them sleep in the cradles and it saves us quite alot of trouble when getting them to sleep during their initial months.

The down side is they so accustomed to sleeping in the cradles that they are not able to fall asleep on bed. Maybe once in a while yes, but if during nap or bed time, they would need to go back to the cradle. It makes it difficult for us to bring them out and we were mostly at home till recently.

Told Mr Love that we should start exposing the Dinos to going out and should start with our neighbourhood first.

People around me always questioned why we don't bring the Dinos out. I was like if you are not a parent of multiples, you don't come tell me how you are able to cope with going out with 2 children but of different age. To top it off, Mr Love and I are on our own on weekends, we do not have an extra pair of hands and we certainty did not want to bother our family members just so that we could go out.

Its different to be bringing 2 babies of the same age out. They have the same needs and are equally dependent on you. If you have a toddler and a baby, at least the toddler can listen to simple instructions or be a bit more self independent than the baby. Ours is a totally different game.

I'm not saying bringing a toddler and baby out is easy but it's definitely not as difficult as bringing twins out at least at my current stage.

We need an extra pair of hands when its milk time, to make the milk or to coax the impatient hungry screaming baby.

We need an extra pair of hands when 1 of the parents need go toilet.

We need an extra pair of hands during meal time since the Dinos are not able to sit on their own yet.

As much as I love to go out and have a meal,it seems impossible now till the Dinos can sit on high chair and entertain themselves.

That being said, I'm still hoping to do it in the coming months. Am now training to let them fall asleep on us while baby wearing them out. So far so good. Louis was cooperative when I took him to buy breakie yesterday. The queue was insanely long and I'm insane enough to join it.

Thought he might be pissed off since we struck in a queue ( he likes us to walk around so that he can take in the views). But he was just happy looking at the crowd and fell asleep even before I get to order my breakie. He slept all the way till I go on the bus to go home and woke up happy.

We tried going to the nearby mall too and successfully let them fall asleep on us when they are tired of looking around. But the real challenge starts when we got home.

Last Saturday, we did the same. Went out for a short walk at the mall at 3.30pm after the Dinos' nap and milk. It should gives us 2hours or so of free time. By the time we got home, it's time for small Dino's meal time and I fed him porridge. Big Dino seems to be jealous and demanded porridge too though it's still quite early for his next meal. I fed him after small Dino but he was too cranky to take much.

Tried putting them to sleep after that but both were cranky and refuses. You see hear their crying. Its like gonna bring the whole block down. I decided that small Dino must be looking for milk since its 6pm and his last bottle is at 1pm. Though he took porridge but sometimes he still wants milk. Fed him and he drank all.

Mr Love also decided that Big Dino is looking for his bottle and make a bottle for him too. But alas, that guy is just being his cranky usual and got even more when his papa try feed him milk.

End up I took over to calm him down while papa went to attend to small Dino. Small Dino on the other hand wasn't happy that I left him half way and decided to cry again. Man, Mr Love and I nearly died. We know they are tired and want to sleep but there's just something in their mind to keep crying and refuse to be calm no matter what papa do.

End up, I brought small Dino for his night bath. The Dinos have this habit of sleeping after a bath and I was hoping for the best. Turns out to be true. He fell asleep right after his bath. Did the same for Big Dino and he too fell asleep soon after.

It was about 2 hours later after coaxing, feeding, rocking and bathing them then we got to sit down for the 1st time after coming home. Was especially taxing on me since all they want is mummy only. Papa can only be the side entertainer for a while.

Tiring as it might be, but I have no qualms to bring them out again. I hope that by bringing them out often enough will accustomed them to being used to it and therefore not be as cranky as now after the trip.

Daunting as it is, I actually do enjoy getting out of the house with them:)