Our 2 new additions!!

What an adventure the last 6 days have been! Here is a quick (okay maybe not so quick) recap of what has been going on at the "Mad House"....

Last Wed. - were supposed to go in and have the babies. Well we never went in and instead we sat around the house and waited for the hospital to call and say that there was an open room for us. The call never came. I didn't eat all day and by 3 we called the hospital and were told there wouldn't be any open rooms and to try again tomorrow. Very disappointing!

Last Thurs. - we called at 4:30 am and were told to come in by 5:30 am that they would then have a room for us. We got there at 5:15 am and there were no rooms. The nurse told us to hang out in the waiting room, that they would for sure have something by the afternoon because they were discharging 6 people. We waited all day, watched 4 pregnant women come in with their water broken and were sent home at 4 pm and told to try again the next day. Beyond very disappointing! (Especially since I once again didn't get to eat all day...hey, I'm a prego lady feeding 3!)

Last Friday - we called at 4 am and were told to come in that they would find something for us, a broom closet - anything, because they felt so bad. We went in, got a room right away and waited all day for them to start the "flipping" procedure. They came in at 3:30 am and they started the torturous procedure of trying to turn Lily and keep her there so that I could deliver without a c-section. It worked and we had babies...FINALLY!!!!

We were so excited to have these kids without surgery and feel quite blessed to have had the AMAZING doctors that we had who really worked with us. I feel pretty good all things considering. I was disappointed to find out after delivery that I wasn't going to turn into a super model after getting 2 kids out, but I guess I shouldn't be too surprised since I wasn't one to begin with! The girls are GORGEOUS! and we are all smitten with them. Okay, maybe not Luke. It was funny, when Luke and Caleb walked into the room for the first time to meet the girls they were both a little bashful. Caleb was immediately interested in the girls. Luke (maybe) looked at them for a second and then realized that out my hospital window you could see "aircraft" and had no interest in the girls at all after that! Now that we are home not much has changed. Caleb wants to hold them all the time, reads books to them and sings to them. It is SO surprising and amazing!! Lily is his favorite right now (because she is baby A and the letter A is the second letter in his name) and he can never figure out which one is which. Luke is still somewhat indifferent to them. Afterall they can't throw a ball, wrestle or get him food so how interesting can they be?

Back to the girls. They are BEAUTIFUL!! We don't think that they are identical, but they are hard enough to tell apart that we have to keep them labeled and we keep their hospital bands on their feet. Joseph seems to be the best at telling them apart. I can't for anything get them right. It will be interested to see how time changes them. We had a bit of a scare at the hospital with Ella. She stopped breathing and turned blue. They both have reflux pretty bad and the first couple of days didn't know what to do with it. They seem to be better at getting it up today, but you can tell it is still quite painful for both. They kept her in the NICU for observation after her incident and that was hard and exhausting for Joseph and I. Other than that it seems like they are perfectly perfect in every way!

Last night was our first night home and it was exhausting! Poor Joseph has probably had about 15 hours of sleep since Thursday night and had to go back to work today. I haven't had much more, but at least am getting to nap when the girls nap. Last night the girls aslept for 2 hours and then one or the other was up fussing for the next 3 hours. Painful. But they are wonderful and beautiful and I wouldn't trade them for all the sleep in the world. We are praying that it gets better though!

Here are some pictures...enjoy!