These are Zoe's Toes. My little girl has pretty big feet! I love my little girls! So glad they are here and filling up my days with diaper changes and nursing them. It's amazing how great they are and how we've just adapted to having twins. I don't even feel like there's two unless they cry at the same time. lol They hardly ever cry. I am so absolutely blessed to have them! Mia and Gracie love* their new sisters so much! They are both such a big help and Grace just does so well with them. I am so proud of them and how well they have adjusted to being a family with 4 kids instead of just 2. I love them all dearly. God has blessed me and my family so much.
One Sunday this summer my parents took the twins so we could go to the beach with the big girls and just have fun and both of us go in the water with them. It was a perfect summer day! The only sad part was I got bit by one of those awful green head flies and had to go to the ER. Ugh! I had to go alone and get steroids because one of the bites got swollen, red and hot. Gross! They gave me a triple shot of steroids and it went down by the next night.
When the twins were first born they both fit in the bassinet together. For the most part they would just sleep together and soothe each other. They barely cried when they were together. Every once in a while if I didn't get to them fast enough after they woke up to feed them they would start trying to eat each others arms and faces. It was cute til they would start yelling at each other. I just adore them!
This is one of my favorite pictures from the day one the beach. I actually got waist deep with my expensive camera to get the shots I wanted. At one point the waves were starting to break up my back and neck. the strap on my camera got wet. It was a great day with my big girls and husband. I love my baby girls, but my big girls needed the attention that day and they thoroughly enjoyed mommy and daddy paying 100% attention to them for a few well deserved hours.
These girls are so awesome! I love editing the pictures I take of them as much as I love capturing the pictures. They just bring so much light into my life. With out them I think my world would be so boring. I always knew I wanted kids I just nevered realized how much I would completely love being a mommy. My children are the light of my life. God gives me so much. We have some things, but we have more in love than we do anything else. I would much rather have this great love we all share than all the stuff in the world. Stuff doesn't giggle with you when you're being silly in the kitchen making cupcakes. Stuff doesn't surprise you with a clean living room and clean kids and a hot meal on the table. Yes, I believe I'll take all the love we have over stuff anyday!
I love how the just play! It's so amazing to see them play like kids. Being an adult it's sometimes hard to let go like a child and just play but these kids know how to bring it out in you. I'd be pretty boring with out them. They make me a better person. The man I married makes me a better person. We push each other to be better. He makes me so happy. I don't know many people who have the kind of love we share. Anyone who doesn't see the love we share is probably a complete emotional void. Love like ours doesn't come around very often and when it does you embrace it and hold onto it for all it's worth. He's my better half.
My pretty princesses in their preemie outfits. They were so tiny! I am so blessed they got to come home with us! I'll finish my birth story now...
The night I went into labor I just remember being starving. Greg worked late and I asked him to stop and get me a Big Mac. lol
After I ate my sandwich about 20 minutes later I had to go potty. I stood up and started walking across the living room. About half way across I heard a ripping sound. My head whipped around and I looked at Greg and I asked him if he heard it. He said no because he was talking to the big girls. I went to the bathroom and my water started leaking. The ripping noise was my water breaking!
I called Greg in and he started getting all panicky, it was super cute. Mia had fallen asleep in the few minutes I was in the bathroom. Greg went over to her and told her it was time for the twins to come and she shot up and while Greg hopped in the shower she dressed herself her sister and finished packing their bag. In the 5 minutes it took Greg to shower my contractions became unbearable! I was bouncing around the house like a ball because they were so intense. We left the house around 12:00. We dropped the girls off at his parents house and got to the hospital at 12:34, great number. lol
They checked me and I was already 7 cm. My contractions were right on top of each other. They asked how long I had been in labor it had only been like 35-40 minutes. I told them to hurry up and for some dumb reason they debated on whether or not it was time to take me to the O.R. because unfortunately that is where twins are delivered.
When they got smart after I told them they had 15-20 minutes til I had these babies they took me to the O.R. The anasthesiologist showed up and everything was going so fast they didnt give me an IV yet so they had him give it to me. Well by the time the jerk started putting it in I was pushing Zoe out at 12:54am. Then as I'm getting ready to push Olivia out 6 min later at 1:00am he's telling me that if anything goes wrong they'll have to give me general anasthesia. Really dude? I'm didn't need an epidural for any of my labors, what makes you think half way through me pushing my twins out I'm going to need one? Can I say my hips popped back into place after I had them! They shrunk right back and my cracked pelvis healed awesome! The hardest most painful thing I have ever done in my life has been to carry my twins full term. I now know how strong I am and there isn't anything in this world that I can't do. If I can deal with the pain of carrying twins and the super intense short labor, nothing can hurt that badly. It was the most intense hour of pain in my life. The labor for Mia and Grace was easy compared to my labor with the twins. I guess it took a lot to put everything to rights after because I had tons of pain after delivery too. I never needed the motrin, but this time I took it, gladly! When I nursed the contractions were terrible like I was still in labor. Ugh! But I stuck it out and now I have fabulous nursers, 3 months later. They are still on the small side but they are really healthy little girls. Strong and hitting their milestones perfectly. They are my little miracles. I am so glad God gave me the opportunity to be a mom to twin little princesses. Amazing to see them grow and change and do things the same day or a few days apart.
Jeremiah 29:11
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord. "Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future."
Corinthians 13:4
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
