making friends

Today the boys made some new friends. Talon is almost three month old, Nicolas and Ethan are four and a half months (but still little in comparison)

Talon, Ethan, NicolasEthan wasn't so happy about having his picture takenThanks for coming to visit!

Swings

Tonight the boys are chilling in their new swings. Ethan Nicolas

I would not have it any other way. Having these kids is the best thing for me. I love being their mommy. Life has it's challenges - but I don't freak out like I thought I would. I feel life in the NICU has taught me what things are really worth stressing out about and what things just aren't important enough to stress out about.

Last week we got the boys swings and the boys really like them. Gives me a bit more free time. I also got a 'peanut shell' sling. That has helped in giving me an extra 'hand' when they don't want to be put in their swings. They are still small enough that I can put both of them in there for now.

Breast feeding has been SO hard for us. I don't know what I am going to do. To quit or not to quit. I guess I shouldn't feel like quitting would be failing, I know my circumstances are very out of the ordinary. But I just feel like I got cheated out of a lot with the premature birth and the extended hospital stay and I don't want to be cheated out of this too. But I am saying it is hard.

We got an OUTRAGEOUS electric bill this month.... So we are in the process of getting the house insulated this week to help. But then we found out today that our heater is not working properly.... That would explain our bill... so we also need a new unit. It still heats, but it just uses a lot more electricity than it should. Oh, the joys of owning a home!!

Here are a bunch more pictures - ENJOY!

Feeding time

Nicolas is very expressive with his eyebrows Nicolas: "I can hold my head up all by myself"
Nicolas: "let's play"Nicolas and his Fishy

Nicolas 4 mos. old

Nicolas deep in thought

Ethan

Ethan

The boys went to the Dr. Friday.

Ethan is 6 lb. 11oz. and 20 inches long.

& Nicolas is 7lb 12oz and 21 inches long.

They are growing well!!!

Our First Meeting

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Last night we went to our first meeting at the kingdom hall as a whole family. The boys were SUPER good for us. They were awake for a while to meet people then slept through most of the meeting. We paid for it when we got home though, because then they wanted to stay awake and I was ready to go to bed. I have been looking forward to last night for months now!!! I almost cried when we got there. It was a very happy night for us!!

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Our first meeting together as a family

Sorry it's been a little while since I've given an update, Trevor and I took turns the past week and a half getting very sick, but we are well now.
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So... what's new??..... We went to the Dr. today and I am happy to say that the Dr. has now released Nicolas from his apnea monitor!!! Ethan got off his monitor last week. It is so much easier to maneuver without trying to carry those around.

Nicolas is becoming more and more alert since he's been home. It is nice to see that from him. Ethan and Nicolas like to cuddle together as you could see from some of the pictures I have posted in the past.

They have pretty much outgrown their preemie clothes now and are wearing newborn size. Nicolas is over 20 inches long now--- that is 6 inches from his birth length!! Ethan is 19 inches long -- 5 inches from his birth length.

We are figuring out systems that work for us and are able to gradually add other normal things back into our life, like trying to have dinner prepared every night.

We have figurd out a color system for the boys to help keep track of bottles and pacifiers and such. Ethan is always blue and Nicolas is always green. This has been working pretty good for us so far.

We have started a bedtime routine of reading to them from their Bible Stories book and saying a prayer. It's nice to have some quiet family time without any other distractions.

Tonight Trevor is finishing up the last of the repairs to our bathroom. I think I forgot to mention it in my blog about the flooding we had the night I got released from the hospital after I had the boys. We had A LOT of rain and the city sewer had flooded our bathroom. So we had to do some major remodleing in there. Tonight it is finally finished!!!

Well That is all for tonight. Thanks for keeping up with us.

Parenting twins : "It's a juggling act, I wish I could say it was an art- but there is nothing pretty about it!!!" :P

sweet boys "I have a secret to tell you...."
Kisses

photo shoot

We had a mini photo shoot after our bath Wed night. Here are some of the pictures as well as some others.

Nicolas Conner MarcumTwo peas in a pod

Ethan Cole

Grandma and EthanGrandpa and Ethan