"Taste of Little Italy" Festival

It's been a week since Rowan was fitted for her brace and she has been handling it pretty well. There is the occasional frustrated cry when she realizes she can't stretch out her legs but overall she has been a real trooper. The brace is to stay on for approx. 6 weeks to allow the sockets to grow into place.

Last weekend we walked down to Little Italy for the "Taste of Little Italy" Festival. We planned our walk ahead of time - so we stopped at Starbucks just before Little Italy to feed the girls before heading to the Festival. It was a very hot day and we were worried about how it would affect the girls so we didn't stay long. Long enough to try some calamari, rice balls and look through a couple of shops. I brought a hat to wear in the fall.

This week we arranged for a night nurse to come in the evenings 11pm till 8am, Monday - Thursday to allow Ed and I to catch up on some much needed sleep. Her name is Hyancith and she has been very helpful - it's wonderful to be able to get 7hours sleep. It's also been helpful to get the girls on a routine. They are now feed 6times (down from 8) a day and we are starting to implement a bedtime for them at 8pm. We feed and bath them - and then put them down for 8pm in a dark environment. Sometimes one of them (they take turns) will wake for a 11pm feeding but last night both slept until 2:30 and then slept until 6am. We are hoping that as they get bigger and eat more at each feeding time that we will be able to phase out the 2:30 feeding and get them to sleep the whole night (that is the goal -we'll see how it develops). Usually, one girl sleeps the entire time only waking for feeding while the other is fussy and then the next night they switch. We trying to keep both girls awake from 5pm onward to get them nice and tired.