Latest Hair Style

We're getting our family portraits done this weekend at Portrait Innovations. What do you think about the new hair style for the pics???!!! Just kidding! I was just playing around trying to make the twins look like girls...I feel like it's going to be ages before they get enough hair! NOW, if someone can tell me who's who? I actually am not sure myself. The only way i know there is a pic of each is because one of the girls hair touches the evenflo sign behind them and the other doesn't! I'm starting to think that they are in fact identical! HA HA! Enjoy the pics. They are already preparing to go to K State...Can you tell?

Movement on the homefront

Well the girls are finally starting to seem pretty interested in crawling. It's funny how they go back and forth. One day Sarah will really progress and move around really good...the next day Sam will over take the crawling progress and really kick butt. I'm so excited about them being so much more mobile....well maybe NOT! :) But i'm glad they are hitting all their milestones and doing so well. They are finally starting to slow on the crying and become happy healthy little infants. What a blessing! I'm starting to feel a little better about the whole "Twin" thing. I'm becoming more organized and planning ahead. I've learned what i need to pack, what i don't need to pack and really how to take the girls out in a more timely fashion. I've even been able to keep them out and feed them at the mall. I'm learning...but boy it's alot harder than it was with one. I keep telling Mel she's lucky she started with two b/c she will never know what it's like with one so she won't know what's she's missing/not missing. Like how much easier it would have been with just taking one to the dr. or to the mall, etc. I do know that. I know that i could do it alone with one...i wouldn't have to have paul accompany me to every dr. appt. like i do now. Our life has changed for a long time...i don't ever see myself loading/unloading 3 girls to just go to the store or walgreens. I'd much rather wait till Paul gets home and i go. I do, however see in my near future, a dinner with all the girls.

That brings me to my next point for today. I gave the girls those biter cookies this morning...then Paul looked at the box and said your not supposed to give them to a baby till they are 10 months. Mine aren't even 8! UGH! Either way, they sure did LOVE those cookies! I took them away for a sec so i could put bibs on them b/c they are kinda messy...the girls threw a fit when i took them out of their hands. The sad part is that i really liked them eating these b/c they are big, easy to handle, and it takes them a while to eat them. Since they can't have these again for a few months i'm going to try the zwiebat bread during lunch. We'll see how much they like that. I bet they will...my girls love any kind of food you give them. I bet they will even like that nasty meat when i get to the meat stage of feeding! POOR BABIES! I remember giving it to Hannah one time...almost puking from the smell and never giving it to her again until she could eat real meat with her teeth!

Think that's it for now. I will update again as the girls progress with crawling more. O yeah before i forget they are both pulling up on stuff. Sam tried to pull up on the end table yesterday and on the crib while i was changing Sarah...soo cute. Now we really have to put the beds down so they don't fall out! YIKES! Time is just flying by faster than i had imagined it would!

O yeah check out my tickers at the bottom of my blog. We're counting down till the girls are ONE and Hannah will be FOUR! WOW...my babies are growing quickly!

Babysitter

Tara came over last night around 700p to watch the girls. Our plan worked out just as i had hoped. She came over, we fed the girls, played with them till 730p and then put them to bed. Hannah stayed up a bit later but she went to bed before we got home. She totally remembered Tara like it was just yesterday that she had babysat. We had a great time...we went to red onion cafe and had some dinner and a few drinks. What a nice evening away. We are planning on having another evening out alone this coming friday since tara needs some money for school and we always love to get out an enjoy a few hours away from the daily grind. I'm looking forward to my next date/dinner night out.

O yeah before i forget the shower is still a no go. This is the THIRD Large Panel they have measured incorrectly! What a mess. The next one better be right! I'm not going to hold my breath though! LOL!

Sam is feeling MUCH better today!

This morning Samantha woke up about 530a and you could just tell she was feeling much better. Happy and smiling! Oh soo much better than the past few days. The girls are really moving alot now. Sarah can go all the way from one side of the play pad to the other and is very very active. Sam is a bit behind and sometimes i just think it takes a bit to get her going and once she does she'll also go rolling all over(i think she just needs some motivation). They are both getting their feet under their bellys to crawl but not quite doing it yet. I think they are pretty close though...it's just hard b/c they keep slipping when they get their legs under their belly. I think we may go out tonight and have dinner and Tara may watch the girls for an hour or so. We had plans to go to my sisters party but it's just to far and we'd be in the car for an hour of our time away and right now time is precious since we don't get out much...so i thought it'd be nicer if we just went somewhere right around here and sat down for dinner in peace and quiet for once.

Think that's it for now...o yeah Hannah really wants to go with us tonight to dinner...i wonder how she's going to act when Tara comes over since it's literally been over a year since she baby sat for us! YIKES!

Samantha Con't again

I took Sam back to the dr. The dr. said she has a very slight UTI but she thinks she may also have a virus on top of that but she's not sure. She said if she breaks out in a hive then that's the virus and not to worry about it. Sam is looking a bit better this afternoon and the girls are back to fighting for toys(that's a really good sign)! I feel much better now that i know what's wrong and now we'll just comfort her the best we can until she's back to normal.

Maybe i can make it to the NEXT Moms of Multiples infants play group. I'm not going to jinx myself and just not rsvp b/c it seems like every time i do i have to skip b/c someone is sick! UGH!

Samantha More

Samantha slept ok last night...till 4a. She got up screaming...so i went and got her out of bed and she slept with me for a little over an hour. About 520 she got restless and i got her up, gave her her meds and she ate about 4 ounces and hung with Paul. I'm EXHAUSTED from this but i know that's part of life and part of having babies! I just want her to get better asap! Also, this morning she smelt like pooh...it was actually urine. So i'm 99% sure it's a UTI. I thought though that taking the meds would help nip it in the bud and that since it hadn't stunk and we were already on the meds that it'd get better...it seems to still be getting worse. Anyway i'm thankful we caught it when we did...it could have been way worse. Anyway i'll keep updating as i hear back from the dr. I'm going to cal her today and ask her what we should do if Sam decides this weekend she's had it with food and goes on a hunger strike, or how many ounces she HAS to eat a day before little ms paranoid mom takes her to TCH!?

Samantha Con't

I'm really worried about Samantha. She's not eating...and she's been on the antibiotics for 3 doses now. She ate a bit today but after her 3p feeding she's only eaten 2 ounces which is not much. I've reserached UTI's in babies and it's not a good deal. It's really hard to explain and to be quite honest i don't really understand the whole thing. I do know that if the cuture comes back positive tomorrow we'll have to take all 3 girls in to the urologist for evaluation since Hannah has had one too. The dr. wants to catch this and make sure she nips it in the bud. I really think she does have a UTI because she has many of the signs that point to a UTI: failure to thrive, fever for no reason & very irritable. UGH..i hate this. I hate my poor baby feeling soo bad and crying all the time. I'm very nervous that we'll have to end up taking her to TCH for an IV if she doesn't start eating soon. It just seems to be a down spiral for us and esp for her. Please pray for my baby..i want her to get better fast! O thank God she just started eating a bit!

Samantha Update

Sam is doing a bit better today(so far). She took some of her medicine last night...we had to really work with her on taking it. Last night she was REALLY fussy...we stayed up past the normal 9p to get her to bed. She finally went down and stayed in bed all night...no peeps. I didn't check her because i was exhausted and also i didn't want to go in there and check her temp on her cheeks and wake her up since she was sleeping peacefully! This morning she got up about 520 which is totally normal...we gave her her meds since she was hungry and i thought she'd take it. She took it all with a little help by going back and forth with the puffs and then meds. Then she took a whole bottle...i know my poor little baby is starving! Thats it for now...gotta run!

Samantha's Test Results

I talked to the dr. and she said that Sam's test results pointed towards a UTI. The white blood cells were elevated and the urine had some signs of a UTI too. Bottom line is that we're giving her the meds to get started. I want her to get better Fast...i hate to see her so sick and crying soo much! All we can do to calm her down is to hold her and then that doesn't work sometimes. We'll have the big results on Friday b/c we have to get the specimen time to grow bacteria. I'm rather sure it's a UTI though b/c when she pees she groans to the point that i think she's pooping and check and all that's in her diaper is urine. Her temp has been doing well...now if she just wasn't in soo much pain! My poor poor baby! Please pray for her to get better soon!

What a night!

We decided to take the girls to National Night out last night! What a mess! Hannah had a blast but i noticed a few minutes before we left that Sam was acting weird. Very out of it for a lack of better words. SO i told paul hurry up it's time to go. Mind you it's 100degrees outside and we probably shouldn't have taken them anyway. SO, we got home and all the way home she was in and out of it...i thought maybe a bit hot and a bit sleepy. Well we got home and she was burning up! I took her temp and it was 102.7! WHAT? So i gave her tylenol immediately and tried to wait to see if she'd cool off. She didn't want/like the tylenol didn't want a bottle etc. I was pretty freaked out b/c i don't remember Hannah ever having a fever that high. I called the dr. and prepared to take her to the ER. The dr. told me not to and to medicate her with tylenol and rotate out with motrin. After about an hour the fever was reading 102.1/101.0 on the other themometer. Anyway to make a long story short she slept in bed with us so i could check her temp every 30minutes or so. I'm exhausted! I took her in to the dr. this morning and she wasn't sure what could be wrong. When she got up the morning she didn't have a fever..98.6 on the dot. By the time i had gotten back up to the dr. it was 101.0. WHAT? So she thinks a few things could be wrong: UTI or Virus. I had to take her up to NW memorial hospital to have blood work and they bagged her for urine to check and see if it could be a UTI. We should have the results back sometime today..i will update after that. Please pray for my little baby as she is really not feeling well...on top of that i took her around town all morning to the dr. then to the hospital and she was NOT happy and ready to go to sleep. She is resting peacefully right now...i just hope we have a better night tonight since bad things always seem to happen at night! UGH!

Hannah's Stats

Gosh i've been a blogging fool today! I just got back from the dr. with Hannah! She went in for her 3 yr appt. She is doing great. Here stats were the following:
weight: 28lbs 25% percentile up from 8% last year
height 38 inches 75%percentile up from 25% last year.
The dr. just said she's growing well and that she'll probably be tall and skinny. She got her Hep A shot and did SOOO well! I even told her she was going to get a shot and she wasn't scared. I think i was more nervous and more scared than she was today! What a trooper i have!

Some pics of the mall today! Yes, this is my second time this week! :)

Melody & I met up at the mall this morning. We had a blast! Melodys babies are SOO Cute! Just precious! Please see pics below. Melodys babies awake and hungry..and then fed and fast asleep! Mine after being fed...too bad mine just aren't good at sleeping after they eat! We caused a freak show at the mall by the way! Tons of people were asking if they were quads. Mel said at the end we should have just said they were since so many people were staring and asking!

A Day in the life of raising twins

Just so i can look back in a couple of years and remember what my life was like at the beginning. I wanted to do a day in the life of twins. But before that i wanted to quote the shirts Paul and i wear with pride every once in a while

My shirt says:
"One Day with Twins: 24 Diapers
14 bottles
6 bibs
4 changes of clothes
0 sleep
"It's a good thing they're cute"

Pauls shirt says it all too!
2 cribs: 600.00
2 bikes: 300.00
2 college educations: 100,000(really in 18 years this will be EACH, so for us x'3)
Being the father of twins: priceless!

I'd like to talk about my shirt first. First of all if i actually tabulated the amount of diapers i'd have to say it's probably more. There are 14 bottles because we still feed them at 6,9,12,3,5,7,9. That's ALOT of bottles to clean every day. UGH! Then the bibs...who needs bibs! I probably use them once a day but we use burb clothes all day since they still spit up so much. Lately, both girls have been having some back luck with diapers leaking...both #1 & #2 so i change their clothes at least once or twice a day...there have been times where i've done way more than 4 changes of clothes a day!

Now to our daily grind. Paul gets up about 3 or 4 depending on if we get woke up by someone crying wolf in the middle of the night. The girls just don't sleep like Hannah did when she was a baby. I hear them peep(for lack of a better word) normally at least once or twice a week. That doesn't seem like much but when your going all day long 7 days a week...it's ALOT! Anyway i get up dragging my whole body out of bed around 6ish...Sam gets up about 5ish so i get her out of bed after she screams for a bit and take her into paul who's already furiously working. He holds her till after i get up at 6a and take a shower. Then if he hasn't gotten the girls up while i was in the shower(which he normally does) i get out of the shower and get them up. Taking a shower has always been my one "getaway" a day! I have to get up and take a shower or i just can't get moving. So then at 7a paul either goes to work or goes to the office to work on Tue & Thur. On Mom, Wed & Fri he goes straight to work and gets home about 330ish. On Tue and Thur he stays here and takes Hannha to school at 830ish. So on Mon, Wed and Fri after Paul leaves we normally play till around 730ish and then we eat breakfast. While we're eating i normally feed the girls puffs and put them in their bumpos on the table with me. Then after breakfast around 8a i put them down for their first nap. They sleep till about 845ish and then they get up and we play till about 9a then i feed them. Around 915ish i change diapers and then we play some more. I normally have to move them around from the floor to the exersacucers to keep them busy so they don't get bored with playing with one thing. I make sure they get some floor time rolling around now so they learn to crawl asap. Around 1030ish i put them back down for another nap and they sleep till around 1130ish. At 11a while they are sleeping Hannah and I eat lunch as fast as possible so we get to eat in peace and quiet. Then when they get up i try to play with them for a few minutes so i get as close to noon as i can before i feed them again. After 12noon we eat, play some more and do the same thing over and over agin. I keep them on this strict schedule b/c it really works for me. They are much happier on a schedule and i know what's going on when myself. During naps i have tons to do on top of trying to do some selling on ebay. I load the dishwasher, wash and fold clothes, clean up messes, play with Hannah and give her as much attention as possible, deal with contractors and more. Paul gets to go to work and have real adult conversations. I think that's the one thing i've missed being home for so long and esp now that Julia is gone. At least with her here i had someone to talk to...Not that i don't LOVE being on my own in my own house..i just miss talking to people although i talk to Melody and compare notes with her at least once a day. It's nice because we are both home with no one to talk to most days.

I forgot to say, Hannah is getting ready to start a new school Aug 22nd. Luckily we decided to hold her back because of her bday b/c she's went soo backwards potty training wise that we wouldn't be admitted to the upper class b/c she's back to being totally not potty trained. We've give up and don't talk about it and when she's ready she'll tell us.

I've written a book and babies are crying i'll write more later!

The New Life of a MOM WITH MULTIPLES! LOL!

We are teaching the girls to hold their bottles...something we regretted not teaching Hannah to do although i don't think she would have held it anyway since she didn't like eating. Life is so different with two babies that thrive for food constantly! SOO MUCH LESS STRESSFUL! I wanted to show everyone what the life of luxury with twins looks like! I just started proping them up in their bouncys with their bottles. I still have to push the bottle up every few minutes so they don't suck in air but this is nice since before this i would feed one at a time while the other would sit in the exersaucer crying while one was eating. Normally i'd feed Sam first since she eats very very quickly...at the same time i thought it wasn't fair to Sarah to always end up getting fed last and crying bloody murder while Sam got food first. Before i forget..Mel's baby Sydney(the smaller of the two) is OFFICIALLY CRAWLING! I'm so excited for her and so happy things have turned out soo well for her and Ben! Her girls are just precious and very healthy considering all they've been through! We are going to their 1st bday party in a couple of weeks...i can't wait to see all the girls together for the first time if we don't make a mom play group before then! Enjoy the pics...

More pics of the girls from yesterday

I put the girls in these precious little dresses i bought from my friend/mom of multiple buddy. Her girls were born right around xmas 2 years ago and between mel and I we are making out like a bandit buying her precious boutique clothes. 1 dollar a piece! What a deal! We got them all dressed up to go to the mall. Paul said every little old lady that walked by flirted with the girls(althought he thought they were flirting with him when i wasn't around). LOL!!! He said one guy looked at them and said "man they are identical"! SO, can anyone tell them apart? I can...I think Hannah can...Paul can most of the time. No one else knows who's who!!!

Family Outing

First and foremost here are pics of our new "kid/baby friendly" living room. Talking about 2 play rooms in our house...we have a real one upstairs and now a "makeshift" one in our living room. The girls...all three of them...love it! They can see us now when we are in the kitchen and they are much happier now.

Second of all we had our first family outing today. Paul took us all to the mall. He took Hannah to the big play area in the mall while i went shopping with the twins to find something to match the red outfits i bought for the twins for our family pics. I can't figure out why i can't find one red shirt/outfit in any store in Houston. I went everywhere looking for something dark red to match the jumpers i bought for the girls. Nothing. So finally i decided to put her in pink instead of red. They won't all match, but that's ok. We mostly going anyway for her 3 year pics but we're going to do the family pics while we're at it. Anyway i guess i'll make an appt for next week to take them since i've found something for her to wear now.

Anyway back to the shopping trip to the mall. We had a GREAT TIME! It was definitely like a four ring circus with people staring at us and mainly at the twins...but that's ok..i like the attention. I'm proud to say they are all mine...except when they are pouting! LOL! ANyway we went to eat lunch at CPK and they did GREAT! We kept them in the stroller and fed them some puffs the whole time and they liked it. Gosh those puffs are such a life saver...the twins are like little birds waiting for mom to feed them. You just say PUFFS and they are making noises waitng for the puffs to come their way! They LOVE them! Anyway after that we went to the middle of the mall and fed them their bottles and they were ok. No fits or anything. I'm not sure if it was a fluke or not...but we had a great day without one tantrum!

Tonight we are trying for the first time to skip a bottle. They have 7 feedings a day still: 6,912,3 5,7,9 and so we are trying to drop the 9p feeding since they eat so much anyway they aren't going to starve to death. So after 7p tonight we put them to bed...cross your fingers they sleep through and don't realize we missed their bottle. They are little rascals and love to eat so if they find out we might have a crappy night. We'll see.

Think that's it for now!

Have a great weekend! I think we're finally starting to feel like our lives are semi getting back to normal. The girls are happier day by day and it makes me happier and not so stressed out. Now if we could get rid of these darn people who are working on the bathroom i could get out more and take the girls to some moms of multiples play groups!

Family Feast

I went to Familyfeast.com last night with my moms of multiples group. We had a blast. I left Paul with the girls about 6:15p and they were ALL crying! Mel said same with her. Paul said they all cried till about 7p and Hannah stood by the windows in the dining room waiting for me to come back! POOR BABIES HAD TO STAY WITH DAD FOR A WHOLE 4 hours! LOL!!!
There were about 15 people there including Melody who i haven't seen in a while and it was a really fun time. I met a few people who i will probably end up hanging out with alot b/c they have twins that are in my girls age range. Allison has 10 month olds, Kourtney has 6 week olds and then Melodys are almost 1 and mine are 7 months...so it's a nice age range. Allisons are 23 lbs already...i couldn't believe that considering my 3 yr old only weight 28 or 29lbs! All the ladies go the the infants playgroup and i plan on attending one really soon. I wanted to go 2 weeks ago and had it all plannned out that mom & dad would come over and watch hannah so i could go...BUT the girls ended up with runny noses and were'nt feeling too well so i cancelled. Now that they are well i hope she has one sometime soon...Mel went to the last one and said the babies had a blast. Anyway i didn't actually make a meal last night, i was too busy socializing and getting in as much adult conversation as i could but i did buy a couple of meals. They are all really low in fat and healthy for you...so i'm really excited to try them. We'll see!

Think that's it for now...we're planning on having family pics done soon...i just have to find Hannah an outfit that matches the girls outfits i bought. We should have the pics in the next week or two. I'll put them up once i get them!

Have a great weekend!

Happy Birthday Hannah!!!

At 9:30a three years ago on a Sunday...Hannah was born! I just can't believe how much she's grown in THREEE years! She has turned into a little lady. She talks like a grown up, she loves makeup & jewerly, she loves shoes & she loves to dress up, she loves playing outside, she loves riding her bike and she's very athletic, she loves chasing the dogs, swinging, riding her barbie bike, reading books, counting, singing, dancing to dora, taking pics with mom & dads camera, playing with the girls toys, and she's STILL not my champion eater(somedays only eating a hot dog and a doughnut! A little story about school yesterday. I let her get herself dressed and she wore a really cute dress. I knew she had some khaki shorts on underneath because at school they play hard so i let her just so she still looks like a little lady when sliding down the slide etc. Anyway when Paul brought her home she had on a different pair of shorts. I couldn't figure out why school would change her shorts so i asked her. Paul butted in and told me she had out on TWO pairs of shorts under her dress and he made her take one pair off before they got to school. I had no idea. Anyway, i thought that was so funny.

Anyway my baby is now very independent and such a sweetie. Sometimes she talks back and sometimes she ignores you...All in all though it's been a great experience raising her and she's really brought so much love to all our lives. Her sisters LOVE HER SOO Much! They just watch her and you can tell they already want to hang with big sis and do everything she does. One day we will have three walkers, talkers, & our babies will all talk back to us. I see days where they'll all gang up against us and i look forward to those days...because it'll be an experience and a challenge.

Well think that's all for now. I'm attaching a couple of pics of Hannah wearning the dress up boa & earrings & bday crown from Grandma & Grandpa Myers. Hannah loves the whole ensemble although she did say she can't wear the earrings and she wants me to save them for her till she gets older and is allowed to wear earrings...although they are clip on's and i told her she could wear them! :) She's soo funny! Enjoy the pics!

Love,

Brenda

More Pics of Hannah's bday party!

Hannah's 3rd Birthday!!!

What a great birthday party Hannah had today! She had such a great day and received soo many nice presents. We just had my family over and our neighbor Charlie across the street came over too. He is a very sweet older man who's a widow and kinda like hannah's 3rd grandpa! She yells hello to him all the time and when i bake a cake i always take some over to him! Anyway i think her favorite present was...the motorized barbie Jeep! Surprise! Between Hannah and Allison they rode most of the day except for when we were eating lunch! She also received a scooter, a training wheel bike and this huge tent system that takes up our whole living room!

Here are a few pics of the girls as well as a couple of my friend Megan and her girls Charley and Maddy. Megan came over yesterday to visit and her girls had such a good time with the babies. There was no fighting over who was going to hold who...there were enough babies to pass around! Luckily my girls were in a good mood...they just loved having someone to hold them for a while.

In the high Chairs Sarah is on the left and Sam is on the right. We just got new high chairs because they are really growing out of the bumpos. These keep them in and i don't worry about anyone falling on the floor!


In the crib Sarah is also on the left and Sam on the right...They were having a good day that day too!

Tomorrow is Hannah's bday party and i've decided she's getting a 4 wheeler barbie jeep! I think she's going to LOVE it! I sure hope so! I'll add more pics tomorrow after her family party!

A Bad week for us!

We've had a pretty stressful week with the girls so far. First and foremost both girls are getting up at night crying...i'm assuming because their teeth are coming in...YUCK! I've been feeding them tylenol and baby orajel all day everyday! I know this too shall pass...o but i didn't miss this after Hannah made it through this stage! :)

Second of all the girls are in fact sick. Their noses have been running and running and running. Poor babies...i feel so bad for them. Luckily they are troopers just like Hannah was and it doesn't really seem to bother them and the only sign i have of a cold is snot all over their faces.

Third of all I was holding Sam today and Paul noticed that her toe looked bloody. We took her to a bright light to check it out and sure enough somehow her middle toe nail got ripped off...completly! Poor Poor Baby! I feel so bad and cringe just thinking about it. I have no idea when or how it happened...

Lastly, we're planning Hannah's 3rd bday party...it's going to be very low key this year. We didnt' invite anyone other than family and Amy and her family. Amy won't be coming because they are in FL this year...so really it's just Mom. Dad, My sisters and their husbands and one of Hannah's favorite cousins Allison! We're going to blow up the big jumper and put up the pool and grill hamburgers and hot dogs. Should be fun and low key.

O yeah one more bit of info...our bathroom is still NOT done! Pauls shower door came in...but they totally measured mine wrong(we have double showers) and so they have to go back and recut and temper the glass again...after waiting FOUR WEEKS...or maybe even more! I'm furious and so annoyed and my patience is running low. How could this happen!???? So we'll see how long it takes for the SECOND TIME! UGH!

A few more pics...i'm finally learning how to load pics onto the computer

All the girls are growing up so fast. Here are a few pics of The Twins with Hannah & cousin Allison...They were totally acting like big girls holding the babies! It was soo cute!

I thought Sarah was going to take a dive onto the floor here. Hannah had to hold on tight! :)

Sarah just loves taking baths. I took the bathtub thing that hooks over the tub and put it in the sink...saving a bunch of money on water here since we fill up the sink v/s the bath! That's what you have to do when you have to bathe two babies, etc. :>) Next thing you know i'm going to be using the same dirty water for the second bath of the day! JUST KIDDING!