Weigh-In

We had a pediatrician appointment this morning for more shots :( another round of Synagis and also their second round of Hep B. Poor babies were not happy.

Caroline - 9lb, 7.5oz - almost at the 5% on the full term chart
Olivia - 11lb, 0oz - at the 15% on the full term chart

Eating Issues:
Caroline continues to eat less than her sister and it always turns into a scream/cry session EVERY time she eats (keep in mind they eat every 2.5 hrs around the clock). It takes me a full hour to feed her 2-2.5oz because she'll drink a little, cry a lot, want to burp and be held for a few minutes and then drink a little more, cry a lot more, etc, etc. Whhhheeeeww. It's hard work and I'm worn out after she finally falls back asleep. Olivia is a little easier. She eats about 3-4oz at every feeding and gets it down in about 30 minutes. We still fight them from falling asleep before finishing, but they're getting better. I always start each feeding off by feeding both of them together at one time (this is my wishful thinking that maybe one day they'll both just quietly drink all of their bottles in a few minutes without crying and I'll have them both finished and be able to have some downtime between feeding sessions.) But I usually end up having to put Olivia on "hold" and put her bottle down while I deal with Caroline and finish her before I can go back and finish with Olivia. By the time I have both of them fed to content, burped, calmed down and back to sleep it's been about 1.5 hours. and then guess what... I only have maybe 45 mins to an hour before they'll want to eat AGAIN! I'm basically feeding all day long. Ugh.

More Christmas Pictures

Here are some Christmas pictures of us with Rob's family.
~Thanks Uncle Jay!

Our little Family of Four

Mommy's Little Reindeers

And Cousin Katie too!

All the Krupa's Grandbabies

James says, "PRESENTS!"

We love Aunt Kari

Mama Diane

Papa Bede and Katie

Happy Belated New Year!

We didn't really have a very Happy New Year's Eve since I started getting sick on Tuesday with what I think was the flu and lasted until Friday. Yuck, I haven't felt that horrible in a long long time. Thankfully I'm feeling much much better today and I'm hoping and praying that these girls don't come down with it too. I did my best to keep my distance from them and daddy did a good job of stepping in for all the feedings, changings, etc. Poor Rob, he was pooped and very glad that mommy was back. So our New Year's Eve was pretty uneventful as I was in bed that whole day and Rob was tending to the babies. We hope everyone had a happy and safe NYE!

Here's a video of the girls from this morning during play time. Too cute.

Christmas in St. Louis

Sorry it took me a while to update the blog. We spent Christmas at my dad and step mom's house in St. Louis. We drove with the girls from Chicago - what usually is a 5 hour drive became an 8 hour trek on Christmas Eve. Between the snow fall, the traffic, stopping to feed and change them twice... it was a long trip to say the least. But once we got there it was well worth it since there was a house full of people to help us out with the babies and give mommy and daddy some time to just relax and hang out. We went to church Christmas morning and were pleasantly surprised that the girls actually slept the entire service! Rob and I were on the aisle seats ready to scoop them outta there at the first sign of a melt down, but we were proud that they were perfect little angels sleeping in their carriers the whole time. Thanks to Grandpa Richard and Grandma Linda for hosting such a Merry Chrismas for all of us!

Here are some pictures from the last few days.

After Christmas Morning Church

The whole family

Daddy and Livi

Livi staring at Grandpa

Mommy and Caroline

Double Trouble

Grandma Linda and Liney

Aunt Nessa

Uncle Jme holding Caroline

My dad and sister

Yeah! Exercise!!!

I made it to the kickboxing class at my gym this morning for the FIRST time since I was about 4 months pregnant. Of course it kicked my butt and I'll be sore for days, but it felt soooo good to be able to do it! Hopefully I'll be able to work this back into my weekly routine. Daddy stayed home with the girls and when I called from my cell to check on him all I heard was crying babies in the background and a slightly panicked voice from Rob. :) Today our mission is gift wrapping and laundry. Tomorrow we'll be heading over to Aunt Kari and Uncle Jay's house to have Christmas with the Krupa side. We'll be sure to get lots of cute pictures of the girls with their only cousins (so far) - James and Katie. Fun!

Pictures & Videos

Olivia always passes out in this positionMommy & Caroline


Smooches

Charlie watching over Livi

Our other child

Not much new to report here. Rob's parents came over to watch the girls on Sunday so we could get out and do our Christmas shopping. This was the first time that I had left my house in 6 days! We were on a mission since this would be our only chance and managed to get gifts for everyone on our list in about 3 hours. Looking forward to Christmas.

A quick video I took of them the other day.