07-16-10

I can honestly say that being a "Stay At Home" Mom is a full time job. It is just like a job. You have your great days that everything works out perfectly and then you have the days that you wish never happened. Either way, surprise issues may arise that require special attention. Oh, those surprise issues are so much more interesting when you are at home with two little angels. Is is really possible to keep a schedule with infants? Alright...I will answer for you...NO NO NO! In fact, the schedule has a mind of its own. We are living our life three hours at a time. Technically, a couple hours at a time because of the preparation for feeding. I LOVE IT! I wish I could stay at home and do this all the time. But I will be returning to work on Monday. I am quite emotional about this sad situation. We do have a Nanny coming to the house to care for the girls. She is great. I just have to get used to the fact that someone other than Richard and I are taking care of the girls. We will see how long that lasts. We may be eating Ramen noodles for dinner but I will be staying home with those sweet babies before it is all over.

Not a whole lot of updates on the doctor front. We have a couple of appointments next week. We have our first physical therapy outside the hospital. Which I am not looking forward to that appointment. Miss Brooklyn doesn't prefer to look left. She favors her right to be turned right... all the time. Quinn favors the right but she will also look right. She will more likely do it on her own. When we lay Brooklyn on our chest, we make sure she has her head turned to the left to stretch those muscles. She hated it at first but is getting used to it. She can almost lay her head as flat on the left as she can on the right. So I fear there will be some strenuous physical therapy in store for us. I hated doing physical therapy on myself. Now I will be doing it for the girls. Fun!

We also have an appointment with the pediatrician for Miss Brooklyn's hyperthyroid. Apparently, her last scan for those "numbers" came back and were worse than when she left the NICU. So we are going in for a weight checkup to see if her weight is being affected and if medication is needed. She has been eating so much better this week. Many times she eats as much as Quinn does without any hesitation. Quinn is the one having a hard time with keeping her delicious meals down in her belly. Once last week and a couple times this week, she has so sweetly covered me or whomever is feeding her at the time with her belly contents. People say that when you have kids your laundry doubles. Well, she has a hidden talent of not getting any contents of her belly on her. It is more of a projectile spit up/vomit. MY laundry has doubled. I told the Nanny, her name is Anna, that she should just bring a change of clothes to keep her for that very reason. Afterwards, I feel so horrible for Quinn. She seems fine and wants more food but I just hate it for her. Poor baby.

The girls had their first photo session with L and L Photography. The pictures were stinkin adorable. The ones in the bathtub, which I will post on here, were so classic. Lacey does such a wonderful job with the girls. Well, they were great models.

Would you all like some depressing news? I believe my boobie milk is down to its last drop. I wasn't as committed to pumping after the girls came home so the tank is pretty much depleted. Very sad. But I did it to myself. I found it extremely difficult to pump when they both came home. The time was just not found by me. Also, my diaper hook up is no longer a hook up. I was ordering diapers from the hospital for really cheap. Well, apparently they have discontinued that program. So any diaper coupons you find and don't have a need for...let me know. I need to start stock piling. If I were to have a preference, it would be Pampers. I have been using my last pack of Newborn for Brooklyn and they are Huggies...I battle the diaper more than her. Quinn is in size one diapers now. The newborns were just a bit snug and cutting in on some of her chunkiness. So I graduated her to size one. They are a bit big but better than the "too-tight" marks on her legs. It is so fun to change her diaper now. Did I really just say that? Yep, I am loony. Which reminds me of another story. But she is noticing the fan in the room and just stares with her big blue eyes and is so infatuated with it.

Okay, speaking of loony. I am losing my mind. They said that I would have a hard time remembering things during pregnancy but I find it harder to deal with memory after the fact. STORY:

I collect the rewards points from the Pampers diapers. So before I throw away the pack I will remove the code from inside the package. Well, I opened the trashcan and saw a Pampers bag. I stared at it and then removed it. I turned the inside of the back only to find the sticker removed already. Anna caught me staring and stepped in and said that she already got the sticker. I told her that I would have bet money I threw that bag in the trash. She said that she just did it. But I could not remember throwing it away because I didn't. I will go upstairs to the nursery and not have a clue why I went up there. I needed something but remembering what is the tricky part. My Mom called me into the girls closets and showed me that she stacked the diapers on the shelf as you walk in the closet. That same night I go in there to get diapers and I could not find them. I looked up and was staring at the diapers but I didn't "SEE" them. LOONY!!!!! Exhaustion is probably the culprit. The other night I was sleeping hard. I think the lack of sleep will catch up to me every few days. But I was in a coma according to Richard. He actually said both girls were screaming and I never budged. So he finally got up and took care of them and prepared formula. He said that he tried waking me up but it was a lost cause. Sorry Richard.

Just so you know, I have a little booger here that is wide awake. Her name is Quinn and also a little tidbit of information...it is 5:30 in the morning. Silly girl. She was screaming so I rescued Brooklyn and Daddy so they would get some peace and quiet sleep. She is just watching me type and looking at the lights. So considering it is so late...or early I should probably get this girly tired...some how and sleep myself. I am not really tired. All four of us feel asleep on the couch for 4 hours so it was a pleasant nap. These youngins love sleeping on your chest so it is quiet time and we end up falling asleep too. It is so sweet though.

Night!!