Outnumbered!

It's official, we're outnumbered! I realized this at some point last night, when I was awakened by a tiny little cry...must be our princess, she always cries like a kitten, she was followed by her brother, who's cry I might add sounds nothing like a kitten, more like a loud wailing lamb...baah, baah, BAAH! Mew, mew, baah, baah, the cries growing louder by the second, as I quickly try to change two babies in the dark and get them latched on to nurse. I should add at this point that nursing twins is a challenge and unless you have a good sense of humor about it should not be attempted in front of any witnesses. I have this gigantic twins nursing pillow, it's a life saver but fairly comedic to see in action. I only wish I could post a picture, but since it's not exactly "G" rated and I think I've frightened my new brother-in-law enough, we'll just leave it for the imagination. I'm finally able to get us all situated, both babies latched on and sucking away (a whole new level of pain, I'll go into another time), when I hear Walnut crying. I usually just let him cry it out, but it goes on for some time, I should check on him. Needless to say I'm a little busy, so I yell at the One who Works, who up to this point has been snoring away peacefully in the bed next to me. He does not answer, must be really tired. The wailing is getting louder from Walnut's room, soon I hear Peanut yelling at Walnut to stop crying. Oh great, now Peanut's awake and whining. Aggh! In my distraction, the babies have unlatched, milk is now squirting them in the face...baah, baah, mew, mew...BAAH, BAAH, MEW, MEW! Walnut is now wailing and Peanut is screaming at him to be quiet! BAAH, BAAH, MEW, MEW, WAIL, WAIL, SCREAM, SCREAM....snore, snore, snore. It's three in the morning, what else can I do, I'm holding two screaming babies, who by now are soaked with spraying milk, trying to calm Walnut from where I am, while yelling at Peanut to stop yelling at Walnut. It's at this point I realize I'm seriously outnumbered, I should have joined them at this point, and just started crying too, but something about the whole situation just struck me as funny and I just laughed instead. Thankfully, we all slept in this morning, when we finally did get up, and before he headed off for work, the One who Works and I just looked at each other through our bloodshot eyes and said "just twelve hours, we only have to survive the next twelve hours and then we can go back to bed and get some sleep". So wish me luck today, I'm on hour 4 and still in my pajamas, but at least the boys are dressed, and the babies have been changed, they were beginning to smell like sour milk. Only 8 hours left, I can make it.

Introducing Grey & Addi

As I'm sure most of you have heard by now, our twins have arrived. They arrived with the easiest birth I've ever had. Labor was short, and I never felt a single contraction (thanks Dr. Epidural guy). Each baby arrived with a single contraction and were born 4 minutes apart. Our little guy was first to arrive; he came out screaming with a head full of light red hair, weighing in at 6lbs 1oz and 20 inches long.

Our little girl was next, just four minutes later she arrived, she was quite a bit smaller weighing only 5lbs 1oz and 18 inches long, she is really a girl I checked twice myself! Both babies went to the NICU and it was hours before I got to see them. Our Princess has premature lungs and the next few days were full of ups and downs. Grey and I were discharged from the hospital on Friday, it was very sad to leave our little girl behind, but she is in good hands and we visit her daily. I finally got to hold her a few days ago and she is so beautiful. The nurses put a little pink bow in her hair for me, I try to ignore all the tubes and wires she's hooked up to and just concentrate on that little bow. We are hopeful our little Addi will be joining us here at home later this week but if you've ever had a baby in the NICU you know it's always a road of progress and setbacks, either way she'll probably come home with oxygen and monitors.

One of the most disappointing things about having sick babies is that you can't really touch them a lot of the time, everything is scheduled and most of the time we couldn’t even hold them, so we were unable to ever see the babies together. Fortunately a nice NICU nurse took pity on us the day little Grey was discharged and let us put him next Addi for a few minutes, as you can see I don't thing they missed each other all that much, the look on Grey's face says it all!
Well hopefully we'll have only good news next time. We're so excited and happy with our new little additions and we love them so much. Please pray for our little princess, we know she'll be home with us soon but for now can use all the prayers she can get!

Babies Coming!

So I've made it! Tomorrow is the day. After walking around for the last 10 days dilated to a 3, (which I might add is not the most comfortable thing) I was checked at my OB appointment today and I'm now dilated to a 5 and 100% effaced. My blood pressure is a little up and so he decided to induce me tomorrow. Best news of all is the baby girl has somehow turned head down. YEA! So, tomorrow morning at 6am I'll be at the hospital getting ready to push these little babies out. I'm so excited. We've been told to expect a little NICU time for the babies since they will be almost 5 weeks early but hopefully with their big weights they'll be ok. Pray for us, we need all the good thoughts we can get! I've posted one last picture of our little family we took a couple of weeks ago, next time you see us we'll have twice as many kids!