Baby Magic

Here's when you know you're a baby fiend- if having 4 of your own and then taking on a 13 month old, 4 month old and 3 month old weren't a clue enough.
Let's say you have a wild morning. One baby is pretty upset, the 13 month old wants to keep helping, you're feed both infants at the same time, with the one screaming through most of it. You get them burped, one still screaming. It goes on so long that the other one gets tired and has to go back to sleep. The 13 month old has been a CHAMP through it.

When both babies are sleeping, your insides are still going (imagine how your insides are going by this time). You have a great snuggle with the 13 month old, who tries to fall asleep on you.

You feed him, plus 2 of your own kids, and finally let him go take a nap.

And...both infants wake up. You're getting used to this now, and because you suspected this might happen, you've warmed up both bottles. Tandem feeding. Same one that was fussy before is still having a time of it.

Eventually you get her back to sleep, and you walk by the fridge, which has this poem posted on it. :

Babies Don’t Keepby Ruth Hulburt Hamilton
Mother, O Mother, come shake out your cloth,
Empty the dustpan, poison the moth,
Hang out the washing,
make up the bed,
Sew on a button and butter the bread.
Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?
She’s up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.
Oh, I’ve grown as shiftless as Little Boy Blue,
Lullabye, rockabye, lullabye loo.
Dishes are waiting and bills are past due
Pat-a-cake, darling, and peek, peekaboo
The shopping’s not done and there’s nothing for stew
And out in the yard there’s a hullabaloo
But I’m playing Kanga and this is my Roo
Look! Aren’t his eyes the most wonderful hue?
Lullabye, rockaby lullabye loo.
The cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow
But children grow up as I’ve learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down cobwebs; Dust go to sleep!
I’m rocking my baby
...and babies don’t keep.


burst right into happy love tears and I'm SO THANKFUL I get these two babies. Baby FIEND.