School is officially in session for all the boys. Connor started a few weeks ago, and those he's home today with a lingering illness, should be back tomorrow. The twins are approaching the one week mark. We're slowly finding our rhythm in this new routine.
It's a little bit of a marathon. Connor gets dropped off around 7:30 or so (trying to avoid those tardies) and the twins get dropped off at 10:35. The twins get picked up at 1:35 and then we make our way over to Connor's school to take our place in the car line. We will wait for about 45 minutes every day. It's not going to be fun.
Connor is still having trouble with the early mornings, even with earlier bedtimes. Yesterday he resisted an afternoon nap, even though he was actually sick, and held off for several hours until he crashed. He slept from 4 yesterday afternoon until about 7:30 this morning.
The twins have always had an off sleep schedule. Sawyer is almost always up before the dawn. Today it was around 6:30. Sometimes it's earlier, sometimes it's later. But it's never much later. Xander has lost his ability to sleep in at our new house. He's usually up before anyone these days.
And we're not sure which came first anymore, but we've been working hard at finishing up the job of potty training the twins. Both still wore pull-ups at night, even after we finished day training last year. But we took Sawyer out of his shortly after we moved into this house during the summer. He was staying dry all night, and we've not really had any accidents out of him since the switch. He's even progressed to the point that he will actually take himself to the bathroom if he needs to go, which is nothing short of impressive. We'll omit the fact that he's also the reason Buster no longer gets a water dish in the sun room, because apparently that looked like a good place to potty when the need struck him, too! Minor setback, really.
Xander is another story. He likes to use the bathroom more frequently than either of his brothers, as in every hour or so, if not more often. He's been more of a challenge. He still has accidents during the day, especially if he's doing something he really likes (like the computer). He cannot pull himself away for such mundane things as the bathroom or food. Computer trumps all things, even necessities apparently. He also tends to have accidents at night (meaning he just doesn't bother to get up and go because his door has long since been unlocked - he's not our night wanderer).
So we're working with him on it. After a few weeks of changing the sheets every single day, we've gone back to the pull-ups, for now. But the good news is they've been dry the last few nights. We're just making ourselves get up with him at whatever ungodly hour he decides to stir. Sometimes it's as early as 5 or 6 a.m. We take him potty, and often put him back in bed. Unlike the others, he will lay there and rest even if he doesn't fall back asleep.
And that's where we are right now. Trying to adjust to new sleep schedules, new school schedules, fitting in a little t-ball, and working on a little potty training in between.
