### Disclaimer

This hasn’t been the most productive week, so there are a lot of loose ends floating around in my brain. It worries me a little, what might spill out in this post just because it wasn’t sufficiently tied up elsewhere... but I know that writing this will help me feel like I’ve accomplished something. So even if this post is a bit scattered or boring, at least I’ll be able to say I finished something this week!

### The first day of a second job on the third day of the week

Matt started another job on Wednesday (Monday and Tuesday were holidays). It’s a part-time teaching job so he has to leave at 6am to be at the facility on time. With the commute, he doesn’t get home til around 5.

The first day, the girls definitely missed him. Squirt looked at the door where he usually works in the morning and was sad when we looked in and Daddy wasn’t there. She kept saying “Dada” expecting him to turn up.

When he finally came home, I think they were relieved. Squish kept saying his name over and over with lots of commentary in between. Almost as though she was telling him all about the day and how we didn’t know where he was, but we were waiting for him to come back.

Later, Squirt looked up at him and said, “hi, Dad.” She’s imitated us saying it before but this was the first time she said it on her own. 😃

### Life unscripted

My first day back to being alone with the twins, and neither girl was feeling well. Squirt stayed in my arms the whole day with a low-grade fever and Squish kept going back to her crib to lay down. And to make the whole setup more tragic/comedic, someone started doing construction in the empty unit below us!

The girls were just drifting off to sleep, when the noise from the drill jolted them awake. The floor started to shake, and that really scared the girls. They wanted to be in my lap and wouldn’t get down. The drilling kept going off in spurts. Several times I tried to put the girls down for a nap, only to have the drill start up again!

I ended up showing them a video on YouTube so they would know what was making the sound. This was the first drill with sound I could find (so not exactly accurate) but the sound was similar and the girls were fascinated ... which was funny because what you see in the screenshot is basically what the entire video was like 😂

https://s26.postimg.cc/60gi797jd/B769_C57_B-00_A9-4_FF7-92_E5-9_E8_A2006044_C.png

By the time the construction finally ended (just before Matt got home), the girls were overtired and very cranky.

When Matt went to play with them, they ended up falling asleep!

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