i have to admit...

when we got home from palm springs last week, carly surprised
us with the news that she took the twins bottles away. done. gone.
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now, don't judge me, let me first explain...............yes, they are 3.
we've been meaning to take their bottles away for quite sometime
but we've always had a surgery looming so we've kept them to
help boston get through his surgery. well, one surgery turned
into 5 and here we are over 3 years old with still..........a bottle.
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i was definitely excited, maybe i should say relieved, that i didn't
have to deal with it(carly said they never even asked for them!).
i'm sure it wouldn't have been so easy if i were the one taking it
away. but at the same time, i was sad...........these are my babies!
and in a way, i kinda wanted to do it myself. kinda is the big word.
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thank goodness carly did it! boy is life easier! less pee-ing! dry
diapers in the morning (no wet sheets=laundry to do!) no waking
up in the night wanting a bottle..............................the list goes on.
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as a result.........we told the twins, when they get big boy and big
girl beds, they can't have a bottle. so that first night home, not
having a big kid bed for them and not wanting to put them back
in their crib for fear of them reverting, we pulled their mattresses
out of their beds and put them on the floor. wallah: big kid beds!
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they are in heaven (although they did whine for a bottle for just a
minute and about once a day they still ask for them but it lasts
about 30 seconds!). they sleep soooooooooooooo good! we sleep
soooooooo good! so now we're in the market for beds. any ideas?
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their first night in big kid beds! very excited! lots of jumping!


i told them to pretend like they were sleeping. apparently,
brighton sleeps with a smile on her face! sweet dreams!