I picked the wrong week to give up Mountain Dew...
Okay so the twins have been going through this anxiety thing for a week now. At least I think that's what it is because otherwise we have some weird medical issues going on. They are fine all day long and then at bed time, bam! Their stomachs hurt, their heads hurt, they can't sleep, they wake me up a few times in the middle of the night for "I forgot" and "Nothing", they sleepwalk, and they are basically making my favorite part of the day rotten.
And I don't know what to do. Give me two 9 month old kids and I can handle the middle of the night stuff. Two 9 year olds, not so much... Like I said, during the day, they are fine and don't remember any of it or don't know why they can't go to sleep. And at 2am, you aren't going to get a straight answer out of anyone. (Unless it's puke, that's a pretty good clue to what's wrong.)
It could be the upcoming move but they seem excited about it. I don't think it's school because they are doing very well and Emily actually said she's not looking forward to summer because there won't be school. (Um, huh?) How do I get to the bottom of this? Should I wait it out? It'll probably be one of those things that in twenty years, they'll say, "Oh Mom, that week in the spring of 2008? Yeah we couldn't sleep because the bulletin board in our room was crooked."
The only part I have figured out is why the exact same thing is happening to both of them. They are twins. (Ha, I know! I'm so Sherlock Holmes.) 9 times out of 10, they are in the same place emotionally all the time. And 5 times out of 9, it's drama queen, "ohmygod, the world is ending because he looked at me funny, waaaaa!" I am so not ready for them to be teenagers.
A Venti White Chocolate Mocha probably has half my daily calorie intake, doesn't it? Blah...
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