Has it been a week already?

Where has the time gone? Mommy woke up this morning with tears in her eyes. I was up at about 6:45am and realized that in just 20 minutes, my first child was born one week ago. And of course, followed by her younger sister just 28 minutes later. I can't believe it has been a week already. I just want time to stop until I am ready to move on to the next stage.

The girls are excellent. We had a lactation appointment on Friday, and afterwards, we ran into Dr L in the hallway. She wanted to hold both babies right away...so of course we let her. Then we migrated down to ultrasound to see Paula. She was so shocked to see us because she had actually called L&D over the weekend to see if we had checked in!! Of course, we had checked in very late on Sunday night, so we fooled her. Anyway, she told us that she has a gift for the babies and wants us to stop back in this week to get it. She is the ONLY person who knew what sexes she was buying for before the girls arrived. Everyone has been so fabulous to us and the babies during this entire pregnancy.

We had a pediatrician appointment today. Alivia weighed 6#15oz at birth and now weighs 6#2oz (up from her lowest weight of 6 pounds even). Adalyn was 6#0oz at birth and now weighs 5#10oz (up from her lowest of 5 pounds 5 ounces). We have to go back to the pediatrician on Thursday for another weight check because the girls fell below 10% of their original body weight. So Dr K just wants to make sure that they continue on the upward swing. They are eating so much better though in the past few days, so I am confident that they will continue to gain weight and become our chunky little monkeys! But Dr K did say that we have some TALL, SKINNY babies. I told Nate that they definitely sound like basketball players. But he still thinks he's going to make them into swimmers. We'll see.

We're still trying to adjust to life with 2 newborns. We have had either my parents or Nate's parents here every night so far. What lifesavers!! But we know the day is coming when we are going to have to make it on our own...and I think we're rather petrified of the idea! Right now we are running a zone defense (yes, a basketball analogy). Once our help is gone, it will be down to man to man. And if I have to go to an appt or Nate needs to run up town, well, then we're outnumbered.

Our little praying ladies. Adalyn and then Alivia.

Eyes wide open (Adalyn). This is for uncle Jason who doesn't think they ever open their eyes!

More eyes! (Alivia)

Getting ready for our first family walk.

Look at those long legs!

One of our only decent family photos. We're going to have to work on this!