Our Girls

The Princesses. . . .

Hannah is on the left, Abbie is on the right. Whenever we take pictures we have to make a mental note of who is who.

Spoke too soon

Abbie just vomited all over me. Joy.

Pictures Part III

Here are some Noah pictures too. Including one of Noah bitching at me at the museum today because I had the NERVE to take his picture. Call CPS. I hate to admit it, but he is SOO my child!

Pictures Part II

Pictures of Hannah

Enjoy!

The Long Awaited Baby Update

Long story short, the girls are doing GREAT!

At their "not quite" eight week appointment last week Hannah Eve weighed it at 10 pounds (50th percentile), which is impressive when you consider that she was the smaller twin at birth. Abigail Eden is 9 pounds 6 ounces (25th percentile), and both girls are 22 inches long. What's still strange for me is how much smaller they are compared to Noah at the same age. Noah wore newborn clothes for about a week. These little girls are just now outgrowing those clothes. The both eat every 3-4 hours and are both taking nothing but breastmilk. I am still pumping, but only about 4-5 times a day and never in the middle of the night. With this schedule I am pumping more than enough for the girls plus some for the freezer.

The girls have both licked their issues with jaundice but they have developed a new, more fun medical issue. Reflux with bouts of projectile vomiting. Noah had issues with reflux but his was more in the form of uncontrollable crying fits. The girls will fuss, but they're more into projectile vomiting. Fun times all around. The vomiting is unpredictable (although it ALWAYS happens if I am wearing black) but once they get it out of their system they're fine. They went from getting 1 tsp. of rice cereal in their bottles to 2 tsps. And as of Friday they also get 1 mil of xantac twice a day. We also learned that even though we have twins, and the girls were given the same prescription for the same medicine with the same dossage, it's still two seperate scripts. Does that make sense? For some reason I thought they would just give us one big bottle.

Sleeping. We seem to be doing very well in this area. Generally speaking, Hannah and Abbie sleep through the night. They don't do it every night, but often enough that it has had a positive impact on the entire household. We've also discovered that often one will wake up to eat but not necessarily the other. Monday night Hannah slept like a champ and Abbie woke up at 4am to eat. Both girls then slept until 7:30am. The last two nights they've bother slept from 10'ish until 7'ish. This is huge, and as a result, I feel terrific myself.

What else can I tell you? I don't know when I am going back to work but it will be sometime in the next month. It's bittersweet, because I've LOVED being at home with all three kids and at the same time I know that I need to get back to work. I feel like there is chapter of my life closing (pregnancy/newborns) and another is just beginning (real life with twins). I know the girls will be well cared for, but still. Noah's preschool has been closed for the Jewish holidays off and on for the last few weeks and I've loved getting to have play dates with other moms/kids and do special things with him. Yesterday he went with a friend to the zoo and today we went with another friend to the children's museum. I'm also hanging out with people that ordinarily I don't get to see because of my work scheudule.

Any-who, here are some recent pictures. All of these are of Abbie. :)

A little sad

I packed up my maternity clothes today. I desperately need to clean out my disaster of a closet to asses what I have. . . what fits, what's stained, what's worth keeping, etc. It's a big task, so I thought I would start small by just going through what's hanging up and by packing up the maternity stuff.

Don't get me wrong, I am thrilled that the twins are here, but I am a little sad that the pregnancy is over. I liked being pregnant. And while I would secretly LOVE to have another baby, it's probably not going to happen. But I cannot, and will not get rid of the maternity clothes. At least not right now. For the time being they are packed in a diaper box and will go in the storage room.

**Sigh**

As for the update. My computer just about crashed yesterday and my dad has been working on helping me salvage everything. Part of it was a memory issue, which is why I haven't uploaded pictures onto the blog. . .due to the memory problem I couldn't download them from my camera. But have no fear. This is going to be a pretty lazy weekend so I will update.

Crying Pictures

I know I am LONG overdue for an update on everything that's going on but I wanted to share the following picture with everyone in honor of my college friend and fellow blog mommy, Muriel. Someone left an anonymous comment on her blog about the fact that she posted pictures of her kids crying, because she should had picked them up and comforted them.

Whatever.

So I am posting this picture. Which I LOVE! It was taken at a birthday party in June 2006 when Noah was about 20 months old. He is flipping his shit because I put a birthday party hat on his head. Given his reaction, you would have thought that I had stolen his birthday cake. And for the record, he was "comforted" and has since turned out FINE!