Visitors

My dad and step mom are in town for a couple days and are using this time to spend with the girls and give us a break! They are cooking for us and have offered to watch the babies so Rob and I can go to dinner or a movie, we'll have to take them up on that offer. We'll post a few pics that we take.. and here's one of the girls this morning when they woke up.

Update

Our brother-in-law, Jay, came by last week to take some pictures of the girls for us. He did a great job and was super patient with them as they weren't the most cooperative!

This is what they did in most of the pictures...

Finally Caroline fell asleep

Daddy holding a calmer Olivia

I thought the girls were starting to sleep better at night as they slept a full 4 hours straight on Sunday night, which was heaven for mommy. But last night proved that they still have a while to go before we reach that point. Both girls would not fall asleep at the same time. I was up all night with both in shifts - if I finally got Caroline fed and calmed down and back to sleep, then that would somehow cue Olivia to promptly wake up and start screaming and I would then start the same routine with her. This continued over and over. Ugh. They were finally both peacefully sleeping after the 5am feeding and slept for a good 2 hours. Hopefully I'll catch a nap while they nap sometime today.

Happy Turkey Day

We hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving with your loved ones. We are so grateful to Rob's parents for hosting a wonderful meal at their house yesterday!

Our Little Turkeys

Must have been all the tryptophan!

Sleeping in mommy & daddy's bed

Original Due Date

Today was my original due date with the girls. Crazy to think that we've had them with us for 6 weeks now but they weren't supposed to born until now. Really puts a lot into perspective. We had a pediatrician appointment yesterday and both girls checked out great. Weights were as follows: Caroline - 7lb,1/2 oz and Olivia - 7lb,14oz. Olivia barely makes the 5th percentile for weight and Caroline is still under the charts but she assured us this is to be expected when the babies are six weeks behind. The doctor suggested I increase Caroline's calories by adding high calorie preemie formula to breastmilk in her bottle. Hopefully this will help her catch up to her sister soon. The girls are still eating every 2 to 3 hours around the clock which makes for some pretty restless nights for mom and dad. We asked the doctor when we could expect for the girls to start sleeping longer stints during the night and were told that because they are preemies it will still be a while before that blessed day. On a good note, I am now cleared to exercise and cannot wait to get back to the gym! Being on bed rest for 6 weeks and not leaving my house very often since the girls have been home has made me super anxious to get out and be active... all I have to do now is find the time to do this! :)

We'll be heading out to Rob's parents for Thanksgiving tomorrow. We wish everyone safe travels for the holiday!

Just the four of us again

Our guests left today to go back to Texas. We were especially sad to see my mom go since she has been our saving grace when it came to helping us with the girls. Guess it's time that Rob and I do this parenting thing completely on our own! Wish us luck. I have my 6 week postpartum check tomorrow morning and the girls have another pediatrician appointment on Tuesday morning, so updates to come.

Proud Grandma Karen

Our little ladybug and chick

More Grandparents!

Auntie Nessa!

Three Generations all in one Picture

Family in Town

So we haven't posted in a while...

As mentioned, my mom has been in town helping us out tremendously, and Auntie Vanessa flew in on Thursday with Jeremy to meet her nieces for the first time! They're having fun with them. My mom is a saint and stayed home with the girls yesterday so that I could go get my hair cut. I haven't cut it in SOOO long - probably about 8 weeks before I went into the hospital at 29 weeks pregnant. So it was much needed and so nice to be out by myself.

First Outing with the Babies

Today my mom and I were feeling adventurous and decided to take the babies to Target to get out of the house for a bit and to use up all my gift cards we received. It's pretty cold here so we bundled up the girls and got them in their carseats to run our errands. It actually wasn't too terrible! But there is absolutely no way in the world I would be able to do that with both girls by myself so might as well get it done while I have the help here. Olivia pooped her pants right when we got there, and both were a little fussy wanting to eat but we actually were able to get all of the stuff I needed.

Here are a couple short videos and pictures from the past couple days.

Liney happy in her boppy pillow

Livi in her bouncy seat

Daddy, Livi and Charlie lounging

Caroline taking a short nap