Major Sleep Deprivation

We've been dealing with bad-sleeping babies (particularly Monkey) for over a week now, and it's about to drive me batty. I know it's completely developmentally normal for 6 month olds to start sleeping badly, but that doesn't make it any easier. Both babies have been up several times a night, sometimes separately and sometimes together.

I usually prefer they get up separately because I can nurse lying down and go back to sleep. BUT I've also had to start supplementing at night again, which means I have to get up anyway. When I nurse them together with the supplement, though, it means I have to turn on the lights. Which means it's Party Time! Monkey was up for hours last night, just yelling.

The only thing that calms him down/gets him back to sleep is the swing. Our swing is a wind-up, which means I have to get up every half hour to rewind it or he'll wake back up. Does anyone have a battery-powered or plug-in swing they'd be willing to loan me or trade for?

I hope we get through this phase quickly.

Date Night

Papa Runner and I went on a unique date night on Friday. For one thing, we had a chaperone! We went house hunting with Bev V. We looked at several and found one in particular that we really like and another that would be great if the first one doesn't work out.

Our house went up on the market yesterday and we had three showings today! Wow! I hope that's a good sign that it'll go fast. It's been tough getting it ready to show with four kiddos, so the sooner the better.

What is it about Sundays?

I've heard it said that the Devil attacks children on Sundays to distract from the Lord's day, and I kinda believe it. It's been one of those days when I feel like listing the kiddos on ebay! Meltdowns over the color of sippy cups and who gets which dress-up outfit, whining for a snack when supper is in the oven, screaming at each other and waking up the babies. When they're inches from the babies' faces screaming, "WHY WON'T THEY STOP CRYING," I actually told them to just Shut! Up! And then they had to reprimand me for saying a "bad word." Yeah, not exactly a super-mom day.