Dr. appt

Paul and I took the girls in for their 4 month check up today.

Good but Bad news:
Sarah & Sam are both overweight! Who would have known that! To me they are still tiny!

They weight the following:
Sarah is 13
Sam is 13.14 HOLY SMOKES!

Sarah is 40% percentile for weight
she is 22 3/4 inches so 5% for height
and 16 inches for head circumference which is also 5%

Sam is 50% weight
23 1/4 height so 10%
and 16 inches for head...

NOW the bad part is all these percentiles should be even...not close with my girls. They are way fat and way short! I knew they were short even in the womb...but now the dr. thinks they are too heavy. Good part about that for me is that if and when Hannah goes back to school...if she gets them sick i won't be so worried about them loosing a bit of weight.

With that being said...i told the dr. i had been giving them a bit of cereal in the morning...which they really don't get more than one mouthful when i feed them. She said NO MORE CEREAL and that i should give them veggies and fruits instead. I have never heard this one before...but i'm going to start on that as soon as i get to the store for some baby food. I've learned from last time i'm really going to push greens...esp avacodas(spelling) Hannah hates them but i hear they are really good for brain growth.

Other than the dr. appt not much going on over here.

We did the walk on Sunday! Had a semi good time. Sam was hungry by the time we got around the corner...had to prop her bottle up and feed her on the go. Hannah had a blast...she just loved seeing ben and melody and the girls!! She was yelling melodys name the whole time trying to have conversation after conversation with her! It was really cute!

O yeah on another note: Mr. Beta died last Moday. We went to get her a new one and ended up getting a new beta and 3 hermit crabs. She likes them and they are definitely more fun than the beta...but they STINK! I'm wondering how long before they find a home out on the porch! :)

Lastly, thank you to all those who donated money for such a great cause! I walked through the start point almost in tears seeing all the people who have suffered premature births. ALL the signs sponsored by companies with babies names on them...some celebrating life others had not made it. I definitely think this will be the charity we will always hold close to our heart after melodys situation. I also just found out there is a lady in our group who had IVF..she had two eggs inplanted...both took and SPLIT which is a one in 9 millions chance! She ended up with quads...two sets of identical babies....3 of the 4 lived...they were at the walk celebrating the boys lifes...as well as the one that didn't make it...they were celebrating in memory of him! I had to fight hard to keep the tears back...

If you do not have a charity you support you should make it next years new years resolution to get one and really support that charity....even research it and see how much actually goes to the charity how many employees they pay etc. It's the best feeling in the world and it's not like you have to give tons of money!

I think that's it for now! I hope to update and keep on this more often...it's been crazy around here the past few weekends...hopefully it'll slow down soon!

O yeah
Sarah is sleeping from say 8p-130ish
Sam is sleeping from 730ish - 1230a!

NOT SOO BAD...and i know it will only get better!

Pics

Gosh i didn't realize how bigs those pics were i sent to our family and friends. If you are reading this and i stopped up your email...SORRY! I had no idea how big the pics were until i asked Paul after i got a ton of return emails stating the pics were tooo big! OOOPS!

I'm going to add some updated pics of the girls...we took them out to the bluebonnets this morning...gosh they are such precious babies! We are so blessed to have such healthy beautiful baby girls!!

O yeah on another note...we sold the house! We signed the paperwork Sat and it's a done deal now. We close on May 4th...we are soo happy. Hopefully life will get back to normal soon after the house is a done deal and we get this darn bathroom finished! Should all be done by June1st! We'll see!

counter to date

I upgraded my blog as you all can see but the stupid thing lost all my info.

I had 1039 hits before i changed my template yesterday and revamped my counter.

Now if i can figure out how to put the darn lilypie thing back on i'll be set to go.

The girls are all doing well. S&S still have colds..nothing to be worried about. Hannah still has a cough...nothing to be worried about either. Paul is sick to with a cold...not good when he snores like a gorilla at night and i need as much sleep as possible since the girls still aren't sleeping through the night.

We're throwing around keeping Julia for another 6 months. Paul and i both kinda agreed that i'm really starting to think i'll need someone full time for another 6 months because the girls are still so high maintenance and i just don't see myself spending 500 a week on a nanny that comes and goes. SO, this may be our only way and if julia leaves in Feb we'll have more time before we have to put Hannah back in school. It's all kinda up in the air now...but we need to figure it out soon...so we can make plans.

O yeah my girlfriend Jaymie is pregnant! We are all so excited for her and Chad! She is Due Nov 20th and doing really well. We've all been praying for her to have a happy healthy pregnancy...she's at 9 weeks this upcoming week and is doing great!

We're going to take pics in the bluebonnetts tomorrow so check flickr this coming week for more pics!

Please Support our March of Dimes Team

Paul, Hannah, Sarah, Samantha and I are getting ready for the big walk. We still have a few weeks left to go...

I never thought i'd find a cause so close to my heart as i do with The March of Dimes. Just knowing that Melody's premature labor(my friend that had her babies at 26 weeks gestation and weighting in at 1.10lbs and 1.12lbs) could have been prevented with more reasearch on preterm births...i find myself really wanting to help out!!

Thank you to everyone that has already donated!

If you have not and want to help Please check out my website and support the March of dimes

http://www.walkamerica.org/twinmom122606

Love,
Brenda

Hannah

She definitely has a UTI. I talked to the dr. yesterday and the dr. said she had numbers for something(can't remember the name) in the hundreds of thousands. From what i got from that was that her numbers were high and she definitely had a UTI. She also said from the blood test they could tell Hannah was Anemic. YIKES! She said i need to feed Hannah some LIVER! YUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Paul said he's going to buy some and see if Hannah likes it. Perhaps i have horrible memories because my mom didn't know how to cook it...i DON"T KNOW!!!

Sarah & Sam both have colds...nothing really bad just the sniffles. I hope everyone gets better soon..but with this weather who knows.


Think that's it for now.

Happy Easter!
Love,
Brenda

Hannah

Well i'm assuming she had a UTI because the dr. said from her urinalysis everything pointed to a UTI. SO, she gave me the medicine and things are MUCH better. Yesterday was a BAD day for my sweet Hannah. She slept almost all day and didn't want to eat or drink or anything...that is when i finally decided to call the dr. and tell her we needed something because she is getting worse. Her fever was really high two nights ago...to the point i had to give her tylenol and then motrin rotating them out every 2 hours.

Now she doesn't have a temp and is taking her medicine like a big girl. She has also decided that she doesn't want to wear diapers and just wants to wear panties. She has had 2 accidents(one #2 and one #1). She is such a big girl...i can't believe my big girl is potty training herself!

Hannah & Sarah also have a cold. Both are also kinda stuffy and snotty. I'm sure they'll get better soon.

Update

I took Hannah to the dr. yesterday. She had some issues pooping all weekend...crying and telling me her butt hurt. The dr. checked her out and couldn't figure out what was wrong with her, although she did have a fever of 99.7, which isn't a really bad fever but does tell us her body is trying to fight something off. We ended up getting a urine sample and having a cbc(where the take blood out of her arm). It was pretty bad and she was NOT at all happy about someone taking blood. POOR BABY! I felt soo bad.

Anyway now we wait and see what the results show. I hope and pray she's ok.

Sarah and Sam are both a bit sick with stuffy noses...since this isn't my first baby i'm a little more lienient and not sooo worried. I did call the dr. and she said nothing i could do besides try to make them both comfortable. I'm using the suction and little noseys...it's helping a bit.

I weighted the girls today...my babies aren't such small babies anymore.

Sarah weighted in at 11.3
Sam weighted in at 12.2

I can't believe they are a whole pound apart now...but i can really tell the weight difference. Sam is soooo heavy...Sarah is heavy but definitely not as heavy. They are just both soo precious and cute little babies...they smile soo much now and they can focus on things really well too.

Now let's all say a prayer that they sleep through the night sometime soon. I don't know why they are still getting up every 3 hours....it's driving me CRAZY. I'd love to have just one whole night of sleep sometime soon...even if just 9-3 or 4a. ANY sleep would be fine...paul and i are both just so exhausted.

Will keep ya'll updated as soon as we hear more about Hannah!

Sarah has reflux

I took Sarah to the dr. today and she has pretty bad reflux. The pedi ENT i went to see gave her some Previcid and i give it to her daily for a month and then i go back for her to get another checkup. I sure hope and pray they don't have to put that snake looking scope back down her nose through her throat. THE SNAKE CAMERA WAS HORRIBLE! Sarah was so upset she turned completely RED to the point she looked like a RIPE RED APPLE!

Anyway i'm hoping that her reflux has a bit to do with the reason she doesn't eat much and still eats so many times per day. If i followed the normal guidelines the girls should only be eating about 4-5 times a day/night. They eat every 3, so they eat about 8 times give or take 1. I'll be really happy if previcid helps the pain and she eats more and less times. If this does work i'm going to do whatever i have to do to get Samantha some too....

Sarah slept through the NIGHT!!!

YAHOO! Sarah is finally getting accustomed to the schedule i put them on. She slept from 9p-340a! What a miracle! I never thought she'd be able to do it. I have heard a few scary stories about peoples twins taking a whole year to sleep through! I don't think that'll be us...or at least not ME! HA HA! Paul takes Sam at night and she's still taking a bit longer to sleep through. I guess that proves a point that cereal does not always really help them sleep through becuase i have never given Sarah a lick of cereal! Soo many people have told me to give them cereal...including my mom. Melody on the other hand started giving her girls cereal and Sydney slept 12 hours at night...maybe it depends on the baby.

I will update more as things happen. I'm just so extatic that i got some well deserved sleep last night...esp since during the day Sarah is so high maintenance and it's really hard for her to sleep the last hour of our 3 hour cycle of feed, play and sleep. I'm so excited that it's 4am and i'm WIDE AWAKE for the day!

Oh it's going to be a great FRIDAY!

We're putting the girls on a schedule

We've finally decided to give the girls a little "tough love". We are putting them on a schedule. It's just getting too hard to try to feed on demand now a days. I don't seem to ever have time to do anything other than sit on the couch and feed a baby. So as of 6p yesterday we've put them on a schedule. It's tough, and i know it will be for a few days...but it will get a LOT better soon. The girls did really good until the 3am feeding...that was pretty tough. THEN the 6am feeding was even HARDER for Paul becuase Sam really really wanted to eat. Anyway this morning at 9am was ok and they both ate 3ounces but i'm waiting for the hunger outburst to start again soon. :)

We are baptising the girls on april 21st. Steve, pauls brother is the God Father. My best friend Katie is the God Mother.

Lastly, Hannah is officially off her Paci. The other day she bit into one and showed it to me and told me she bit it. Yesterday for some reason i just decided to rip the tip off and give it back to her. She was really really MAD! I can't tell you how many times she threw it at me and how many hugs i had to give her to stop her from throwing anything she could find at me...but we are over that hump and she slept ALL night without it. She does keep asking for me to go buy her a new one...i've already told her they don't make that one anymore..which they really don't. And i think with time it will subside and she'll be just fine. WOW...how smooth of a transition that was. If i had known i definitely would have done it sooner. But perhaps it was so easy because anything is easy once you've raised two fussy twins! LOL!

Cross your fingers the girls do good on my schedule and that Hannah is finally over the paci frustration! :)

Dr. Appt

We took Sarah & Sam to the dr. today.

They are doing great.
Sarah weights 9.12 height 20 3/4 head 13.5
Samantha weights 10.2 height 20/12 head 14.5

We have to take Sarah to a pedi Ear Nose & Throat Dr. because of her crying while she eats. The dr. seemed to think it is reflux. Medoy knows all about reflux because Kately has it. She said it really sounds like Sarah has it. We have an appt for March 29th...can you believe that i had to wait FIVE WEEKS?? Crazy! Anyway other than that Sarah & Sam both have plugged up tear ducts and that is why they have eye boogies 24/7. I have to give them eye drops to get rid of the infection they have along with the plugged ducts. If they aren't better in 4 more months they will have to go to the eye dr. to have it checked out.

Other than that not much to report over here.
We did take the girls to dinner Sat night with my sister...BAD BAD idea. Sarah was a mess the entire time. It was horrible! I will probably never take them to dinner again if i can help it!

Lastly, Katie McDonald is going to be both girls God Mother and Steve(Pauls Brother) is going to be the girls God Father...i think i have made a great choice for both Katie and Steve.

The girls Weights

I weighted the girls today.

Samantha is a whopping 9.13lbs(yeah that's right almost 10lbs)
Sarah is a bit behind coming in at 9.5lbs but staying close behind her sister

Who would have known they'd be such great eaters considering little Ms. Hannah hated eating and never liked any foods i gave her either.

I'm so proud of my eaters...we really are blessed to have such good healthy babies!

Melodys babies

Everyone keeps asking about Melodys girls and i wanted to give a wonderful exciting update. Katelyn and Sydney are doing great. They have ECI(early childhood intervention) coming over once a week to help with all sorts of developmental things...but so far the girls are right on track with their adjusted age which is 6 weeks ahead of Sarah & Samantha. Melody thinks and we all hope the dr. has finally found an answer to Katelyns GI/Reflux problem. The dr. said her espohagus are irritated and that she needed to take out the feeding tube and give her new and adjusted dosages of medicine. She did and now katelyn is doing great. Melody took the tube out today and hasn't used it in 3 days and katelyn is taking right around 18 ounces a day which is great for her & without a feeding tube. Sydney is doing great and physically developing at her corrected age and sometimes even better. All in all the girls are doing great...and we are already trying to start planning some play dates for the summer after cold and flu season are over. I can't wait!

Sleeping

I'm probably going to jinx myself but today is a day of celebration!!! Sarah, who is my sleeping buddy, slept until 12:30a and then didn't wake up again till 5a! I'm sooo excited.

Pauls sleeping buddy, Samantha, slept from 9p to 3:30a without a feed!

I'm sure this was all a fluke. but if it's not, i'm finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel!

Anyway, besides not sleeping through the night, the girls are doing very well. Both had a bit of a stuffy nose last week and i used those little nosey saline drops and they are both fine now.

Now if i could just get them on a schedule, i'd be in heaven.

Right now they usually feed at the same time...but that tends to literally be all day! It's really hard for me emotionally because i really just sit on the couch all day feeding them both. If they'd start to slow down some i could get a few things around the house done. Right now it's been so crazy i wasn't even able to get their announcements out. I just had them done this past weekend so everyone should be receiving them soon although if you are reading this you know anyway. Either way the lady did a wonderful job AGAIN on the cards. So far she has put together Hannah's first bday invites, our christmas card last year and now these announcements. She's just so much more creative than i am...

Lastly, Katie, Jaymie and I are semi planning a girls weekend down here. The rodeo fell through because everyone kinda dropped the ball on tickets. Katie couldn't get them,,,i don't think Jaymie could and no one ever said well lets just buy them and get it over with..i guess i could have just bought them myself, too. SO, as of right now Katie is planning on coming down the beginning of April. We haven't confirmed it with Jaymie yet because she is soo busy we hardly ever talk to her...but Katie said either way we'll just make plans and hope Jaymie is free. We are planning on meeting up with some of our old classmates from high school if all goes as planned. The only stipulation for me was that S & S had to be sleeping through the night so Paul wouldn't be miserable taking care of two girls half of the night.

Well that's it for now...i will update with more pics soon!

You all wouldn't believe how big the girls are now. The girls are definitely starting to look more like infants than just blobs. They are very alert...love to play on their gymnis and swings...the only problem is that they aren't that big on walks. I'm going to have to change that soon so i can start walking and loose some of this baby weight. :)

Identical Twins

I forgot to add that Sarah & Samantha are definitely identical twins. When i went to the dr. Tuesday i found out that the hospital had done a test on the placenta just to make sure the girls were identical although my dr. was 99% sure at 8 weeks of gestation. Anyway, YES, they are identical twins. I asked him if he was sure because now that i see them everyday i can tell them apart as Sarah has a small head & Sam has a big head. Anyway, he said as they get older they will definitely look more alike just because right now they are growing at different rates etc.

Samantha & Sarah weights

I have great news...i just weighted Sam and she is 8.5 & 1/2 lbs. I can't believe it! She is such a big girl.Sarah weights 8.2lbs and really catching up with Sam quickly! Who would have known they'd put on so much weight soo quickly.

We had a bad bad day yesterday...actually Paul and Julia did b/c i had to go to the dr. for my 6 week checkup. Anyway when i got home it was a circus in the house...Sarah was crying uncontrolobaly(spelling). Anyway i'm not sure what was wrong...i pray she doesn't have colic but she sure is a fussy baby. She cries a lot more than Hannah ever cried.

We are talling up the amount of food the girls eat because i do believe they are over eating which could be why they cry so much in the afternoon... I will put the totals up tomorrow!

The Girls Weights

I surprisingly gave the twins baths today. Boy is that hard work. Sarah actually loved the bath today while Sam HATED it and cried the whole time. Anyway, i weighted the girls. As of last friday Sarah was 6.15 and Sam was 7.1. Now Sarah is 7.2 & Sam is 7.5. They are both putting on weight really well thank goodness. I can't believe it but Sam is now the height and weight Hannah was when she was born. Thats all for now...

Update on girls

The girls are doing great. We took them to the dr. on Friday(NO, i did NOT go alone i picked Paul up on the way for much needed help) and they had their one month check up. They are doing great.

Samantha is: 7.1lbs
Sarah is: 6.14lbs

They are both about the same height and both in the 5th percentile for their age and weight. The dr. said that she will be surprised if they aren't sleeping longer in the next few weeks. If my memory serves me correctly i think Hannah was sleeping through the night at 6 weeks...Oh gosh i could use some sleep and that would be better than anything else in the world at this point. But at the same time i know we are so blessed and that with such great healthy babies i'm ok with what we've been given and if they don't sleep through the night soon we'll both be ok just tired and grumpy. :) The best part is that they are both growing like weeds and eating like vultures which is nice and making this a little less stressful.

I think that's it for now...i will write more as soon as things start slowing down around here. If you could see us in the morning you'd think we were a circus act in the barnum and bailey circus between crying hungry babies and Hannah riding her bike around the house with all the bad weather we've had in the past few weeks and not being able to leave the house.

Haven't updated in a while

I haven't updated in a while so i thought i'd keep everyone up to date on Sarah and Samantha and life here with 3 beautiful girls and absolutely no sleep.

First of all the girls are all doing pretty good. We did have to take Sarah to the dr. friday because she has had a bit of jelly looking blood in her stools. The dr. seems to think it's a fisher tear down below and that it should be ok soon. I'm hoping that is what it is...but i still have my doubts just because it's not really blood but more like currant jelly looking stuff. We are monitoring her very closely and just playing the waiting game to see. The dr. seemed to believe that if it was something worse, she'd be tender in her belly. which so far she is not. Other than that Sarah is doing great. I weighted her today and she weights right at 6lbs which is really great! I'm not real worried about her weight because she is eating like a little piggy. They eat all day and on a good night they eat every 4 hours...on a bad night they eat every 2-3 hrs. It's weird and different how they eat so much compared to sweet little Ms. Hannah that has never really liked to eat. I even remember one time getting really worried and taking Hannah to the dr. when she was a tiny baby because she wasn't eating much. Not the case with these girls. Funny but i can already tell what kind of personality sarah is going to have. She is very needy and wants to be held ALL DAY long. She whines about the smallest thing and is a houdini that can get out of her burrito wrap no matter how tight paul wraps her.

Sam, on the other hand is very laid back. She weight 6lbs too and has really caught up with her sister very fast. She is doing great and we haven't had any issues with her thank goodness. Her peronality is great and if we had two of her we probably wouldn't even know we had two infants around the house. She is calm, quiet and can stare at you all day and not cry unless she is hungry. She cries a bit when she's hungry but NOTHING compared to Sarah who screams at the top of her lungs like she's hurting badly every time she gets hungry.

Before i forget, here is a link to the pic we had taken of the girls at the hospital for their first photo. The doll in the middle was the first doll the received from their aunt jennifer and cousin Allison. I think they look like little cabbage patch dolls in this pic.
http://www.growingfamily.com/webnursery/babypage_view.asp?URLID=5W4W2C0U8X

Check out the pic and be sure to sign the web nursery book.

Hannah is doing great and just really really loves her sisters. She kisses them and holds their hands all day long. It's really the cutest thing i've ever seen and she is just soo sweet to both girls. I just can't wait till their all old enough to interact together...it's going to be so much fun!

I think that's it for now. Sorry it's taken me so long to update with more info. Of course raising two babies is really hard and i hardly have time to even eat during the day when paul is at work and i'm here with all three girls. I definitely think i'm taking this much easier than i did with Hannah. Even with being doubly sleep deprived i'm not so scared and anxious, as i was when Hannah was born.

Hope everyone had a wonderful XMAS & Happy New Year. I will keep in touch more often once things settle down a bit.

Love,
Brenda

New blog site coming soon!

I'm going to create a new blog very soon because Paul said it's not just the Myerstwins anymore...but now it's the myers family! As soon as i get the new site up and running i will add a link to this blog.

By the way we went to the dr. today. The girls are doing really well except for Sarah loosing a bit more weight than we expected.

The girls weights are as follows:
Sarah birth weight: 5.11 and current weight is 5.4
Samantha birth weight: 5.7 and current weight is 5.7

I think the weight loss has something to do with the twin to twin transfusion but we're not sure. Sarah was the receiving twin while Samantha was the donating twin. So i think that perhaps because Sarah had so much blood, the blood may be breaking down and causing her to loose weight. Not for sure though.

Other than that the girls are doing great...lots of eating, sleeping and pooping!

I will keep you updated when i change the site.

By the way our contractor did disappear. I'm still just amazed that someone could do something so horrible to a family with brand new babies coming home! Paul has called him constantly called him since the day after xmas and no return calls. We are taking him to court and trying to get out of our contract asap so we can hire a new contractor to finish up. I have not one good thing to say about the contractor. he ruined so many things in our house it was a living nightmare! He even left the bathroom all opened up to the outside & our bedroom so it was like living outside when you walked into that side of the house. Luckily Paul and my dad sealed the bedroom up today so that we don't have a draft with the girls & ourselves right down the hall.
We found out today that the contractor has one case pending against him for deceptive practice, one case he lost and has to pay but has yet to pay and who knows how many other lawsuits against him! The lawyer said we have to write him a letter with what is left to do and what he has done and give him 10 days to respond and come back and if he doesn't we can fire him, the contract is void and we can get a new contractor. Then we'll go back after him for more money to pay for the mess.