The Check List

It's amazing what you will do during church to stay awake. Other than, you know, actually listen to the speakers. In the past, Trevor and I have come up with some good ones. I'd draw a head. Then he'd draw the eyes. Then I'd draw the nose...and we'd end up with some funny stuff. Or we'd play the name game--I'd write down a name, then he'd write one down, and then, Utah-style, we'd combine it into one name and ask ourselves, "Should we name our future kid that?" That's how we got the name "Catheter" out of Catherine and Peter. No. We are not naming of our twins Catheter. When we bought our house, we started making a list of all the things we wanted for it, big or small, just to dream about it. I even pulled that list out later on and checked it, to remind myself what we needed.

Well, we don't get quite as bored in church anymore. Afton keeps it--well, very lively. BUT, today she played with our next door neighbor through most of church and was actually well-behaved (WHY is she so good for everyone else and not for US??) so we started another list. And that is actually what I'm blogging about, despite my rambling and lengthy entry.

THINGS WE NEED FOR OUR TWINS:

• Bedding (what colors are we doing?)
• A name for baby #2 (What do you think about Scarlett? And if we choose Scarlett, won't one of the colors for the nursery HAVE to be red?)
• A light fixture for the nursery
• A lamp and hamper for the nursery
• 2nd baby bouncer
• Another carseat (CHECK! And all three carseats DO fit in the back seat of the car!!!)
• Two more bases for said carseats so they can go in both cars
• A new baby monitor (since our old one SUCKS and doesn't work)
• A twin stroller (Is this really a necessity, seeing as a decent double stroller is at least $250?)
• A second crib (Borrow from the Cox's?)
• A diaper jenie--one just isn't going to cut it anymore with three in diapers
• MONEY FOR ALL THIS STUFF!!!

 And then of course there's

• How are we going to rearrange pretty much every peice of furnature we own to make it all work?

And...What do we need to prepare AFTON for?

• Get rid of the binki
• Get rid of bottles
• Get her in a big kid bed
• Get her as close to potty trained as possible
• Give her twin dolls to take care of in preparation

Well. It's overwhelming. And since the chances of having my twins early is higher than with a singleton, I really want to be as ready as possible by May. Not much time! This weekend we managed to get a second car seat and get it installed, thus answering the question--do we need to buy a van or can we get by with our cars? And tonight we also started our "growing Afton up" campaign where we moved her to a toddler bed.

 So we took down her crib. We re-arranged the furniture. We decided the bottle and binki would have to come after we got her used to her new bed. She was SO tired tonight because, since we have 1:00 church (otherwise known as HELL) she never took a nap. She was very antsy while Daddy took down the bed and we rearranged and vacuumed everything. She was VERY excited about her bed. She turned on her little sound machine herself. She happily crawled into bed when it was time and took her bottle and binki. We turned out the lights.

AND SHE IS SLEEPING.

Is it really that easy? Or are we just lucky tonight? Or is this just one thing that might just go our way? Hooray for my little girl! At least for tonight! What should we do next??