I took the girls to their 2 month check up today (They are really 2.5 months old, so we are a little late). I thought I would post how much the girls have grown.

Molly

Anna May

Cooper loves crackers! For dinner last night he had cut up pear, sweet potato, and chicken nuggets. But Cooper really wanted to eat crackers. I gave him two, but once they were finished he wanted more crackers. I told Cooper he had to finish his pears first. So Cooper shoved a bunch of pears in his mouth. I gave him one cracker for eating most of his pears. However, Cooper wanted another cracker. I told him to finish his pears again. He put a piece of pear in his mouth and I started to hand him a cracker, but he spit it out to eat the cracker instead. I took the cracker away from him and Cooper got every upset. Again, I told him to eat the 3 pieces of pear left and then I would give him the cracker. So Cooper put one piece of pear in his mouth and proceeded to take the remaining 2 pieces of pear and shove them under his highchair tray and “hide” the pear. Did Cooper really think we would not know that he just “hid” the pear? He hid them right in front of our eyes. HAHA!!! You have got to love the mind of a 20 month old toddler. Chris scooped up the hidden pear and told Cooper to finish them. Cooper finally finished the pear and I gave him his hard earned cracker!

The girls will be 8 weeks old on Friday. The last 8 weeks have been so much of a blur. I can hardly believe that I even made it this far. The first 5 weeks were not so bad. The girls were super easy newborns and all they did was sleep. Then something happened right in around 5.5 weeks old, they decided to wake up and stop napping, hit two growth spurts, and just get a little more fussy than before. All I feel like I do is breastfeed, burp, change diapers, swaddle, and wipe spit up off myself and the girls. Cooper has seen so much of this process that he has even started to pat me on the back to “help burp” me, haha. I long for the days when we will be out of diapers, not covered in spit up,  and marathon nursing every 2-3 hours during the day. I would like to reclaim a little free time to just eat lunch. Today I put my left over dinner in the microwave to eat, but then everything possible went wrong and I never ate my lunch. My reheated lunch just sat in the microwave until dinner time when I found it sitting there untouched, ooppss.

So that is my life with two month old twins and a 20 month old toddler. I know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel and that things will improve over time, but right now I feel like I am muddling my way through in the dark and just hoping that I stumble across the light switch one of these days. You know I cried when I found out I was having twins, not tears or joy, but tears of fear and sorrow. I knew how hard it is to take care of a newborn, but to take care of two newborns, I knew it would be hard. AND IT IS HARD! I think one of the hardest things is getting them down for their naps and also trying to make sure that Cooper is safe and not getting himself into trouble while I am soothing the girls and laying them down for a nap. Poor Cooper has spent many a start to a nap in his playpen so that I know he cannot harm himself.

I have been shedding a few tears the past two days feeling just overwhelmed with life. You know, Chris and I have been married for 3 year on June 2nd. Last night I looked up at Chris and just laughed at our life. Never in my wildest dream would have ever imagined being married for only 3 years with 3 children. You can never predict the future and what God has in store for you. I just pray that God gives me the strength to muddle through the next few months.
P.S. Chris says we are averaging one kid per year. So how many kids will we have in 10 years? Any bets?

Here are the girls at 6 1/2 weeks old. Anna May is on the left and Molly is on the right.

Ahhh (Calmly said), the family of 5! No, more like AHHHHH (screaming), the family of 5!!!!
Yes we are surviving, but I must say that to jump from a family of 3 to a family of 5 is quite the challenge. I will do my best to fill you all in, but I may have to go if one of the girls starts to fuss or wakes up, or better yet, if Cooper wakes up early from his nap.

I am still breastfeeding the girls. That has been a real challenge. I am using a special pillow designed to help twin mother’s breastfeed, but still it is quite the challenge. The girls spit up a lot and I never know when I am going to get soaked by one if their projectile spit-ups. Sigh! They are growing a ton. Molly is still larger than Anna and both girls are finally out of their preemie clothes and wearing newborn clothing. They have lost most of the hair on top of their heads, but it looks like it might be growing back finally. They sleep pretty well at night. They go to bed around 9pm and sleep until 2/3am. Then they wake up between 6-7am. So there is really only one middle of the night feeding, which is not that bad if you ask me.  Some nights are better than others, but for the most part that is not bad for almost 6 week old babies.

Outings: Well, we made it out of the house on Mother’s Day with all three kids. We went to the Zoo. It was a lot of fun. Cooper loved it and the girls napped in their strollers. We also made it over to my in-law’s house for dinner one night and that went pretty well too. Then finally this week, I took all three kids to the library so Cooper could go to Toddler Story time. Everything went well and Cooper had a great time.

I think the hard part is that I feel like I have not bonded with the girls. Cooper demands so much attention and you really cannot ignore him so I have to pay him more attention. So I feel like I never really spend any time with my girls unless it is to breastfeed or diaper change them. I do get some on-one-one time with each of the girls, but it is limited. When Cooper was an infant I had all the time in the world to just soak him up. I guess with your first you have that luxurie!
Cooper keeps getting cuter and cuter each day. I find that he says a new word all the time now. He is also very obedient and I am so grateful that he is such a good listener! For example, when we went to the library the other day, I told him to hold onto the stroller and to not let go as we walked from the parking lot into the library. He held onto the stroller and never once let go. Such a good boy! He loves playing outside and now that the weather is warm, well hot, he is outside a lot in the evenings. He loves to follow the other kids around that live on our street.

Here are some pictures of the kids. Enjoy!

Molly 4 Weeks Old

Anna 4 weeks old

Cooper 19 Months

Mommy with her 3 day old twin girls!

I am breastfeeding the twins, which has been going fairly well. I will admit it is a lot harder to breastfeed two babies at the same time rather than just one. I tried nursing one baby at a time, but that did not work out that well. I found that once I was done feeding them I did not have a lot of time left to myself and that also meant less time with Cooper. So I am tandem feeding (feeding them at the same time). I also worried that I would not produce enough milk to feed two babies. That is not the case!!! I am making more than plenty, which actually leads to the title of this post- fever. Because I am making too much milk, I have developed a fever twice now, 101 and higher, due to an over production of milk. It sucks! It makes me feel achy all over, chills, sweats, and headache.

Please pray that I am able to get over my current infection and fever.

Thought I would also include another picture of the girls until we finally get an album of pictures up and running. They are one week old here.

We came home from the hospital on Monday evening and we are going on our second full day with all three kids. Chris has been home with us which has been a huge blessing because I just cannot lift Cooper and keep up with the house hold chores right now because of my c-section. I am doing well and I am happy to report that the twins are doing great. They eat every 3 hours and I am breastfeeding them at the same time and that has been going well. At night we feed them at 11pm and then again around 3/4am and then we wake them up at 7am to start our day. It is great only having to wake up to do one middle of the night feeding so far. Cooper seems to be doing very well having the twins around. He loves to touch them and give them kisses. Since the twins sleep a lot, it has been a pretty gradual adjustment for him since they are always in their pack n play sleeping. I promise to post some more pictures either later tonight or tomorrow of the twins. But for now, here is a picture of big brother Cooper, Molly, and Anna May.

I had a doctors appt. today. Twin A is still breech and his cord is below his feet in my cervix. This is dangerous if my water breaks because the cord could compress or fall out causing a prolapsed cord. In order to prevent this from happening, my doctor has decided that tomorrow (Friday, April 9) that she would schedule me for a c-section. I will 38 weeks tomorrow and my doctor promises me that the babies are ready to be delivered and are healthy weights (between 6-7lbs each). We will be in the hospital for at least 2-4 days. Once the babies are born, Chris will send out an email and let everyone know the sex of the babies, how we are all doing, and include some pictures.

Please pray for no complications during/ after the c-section and for the twins to be healthy and not need any assistance after birth. Also pray that the twins would take to breastfeeding well and I would produce enough milk for two little ones. Please pray for Cooper’s adjustment to having two new siblings in his life.