Rare sleeping moments.

One of the most amusing pieces of advice we've received as new parents is to "sleep when the babies sleep." Well, easier said than done, my friends. While this sounds like a reasonable suggestion, there are a few reasons why it's proving to be next to impossible. First of all, it is rare that they both are sleeping at the same time. In fact, we can probably count the number of times when they have napped at the same time during the day on five fingers. Instead, there are many times when one baby will nap and the other baby will fuss... and that is when it occurs to us, "Gee, if we had just one baby, we probably would be sleeping a lot more." However, if they ever do nap at the same time, it is hard to resist using the quiet time to get our million other things done, without feeling guilty about leaving a baby crying in the other room. (Like writing this post right now, for example. :-) I think this might be why God gives twins to obsessive multitaskers. :-)

Now, this is not to say that we have fussy babies. They are just babies, and babies fuss... that's just what they do! And since there are two of them, the odds of fussing are even greater. We are lucky, however, that they have not problem falling asleep at night... but those daytime naps we've heard most newborn babies are so fond of just don't seem to exist in this house. That's why when the two rare sleeping moments you see here occurred, we just had to capture them on camera to prove that they actually did exist!