Thursday, May 11, 2006

Little Burritos

As we did with Janie, Owen and Kyle were always swaddled up as babies. They did it in the hospital and we did it at home. If they were tired, it was just a matter of re-wrapping them. In fact, the wrapping "like a burrito" as my sister would say helped to serve a great purpose when they could not keep their binkies in. You can just simply tuck it over the pacifier a bit!

Soooo, they are now 13 months old. We probably swaddled Janie for a month or maybe 6 weeks, but 13 months? Come on! These children still think they are in their mamma's tummy. So it goes, every night we "wrap" them up and put them to bed. If they don't go right down, we find ourselves taking a trip up stairs to "re-wrap" them. If they wake up during the night, we usually (there are definite exceptions) just "re-wrap" them. I guess you do what works!

The problem? The blankets are getting too small!

1 comment:

Billie said...

So funny! We swaddled our girls too, until they just seemed like they didn't need it anymore. We stopped swaddling Holland around 5 months, and Eden around 9 months. Oh wait, that's adjust age, so more like 8.5 months and 12.5 months. I did start to wonder how long Eden was going to keep it up! About the blankets...my suggestion is to go to the fabric store. You can buy it as big as you need! We made some really nice jumbo receiving blankets for my girls when the little ones weren't working anymore.
Billie