Our First Week as a Family of SIX!

I can hardly believe that the twins are a week old!! Time has really flown by. Our first week home was actually much easier than I anticipated. I think that I had imagined the worst, so this was a pleasant surprise. We all adjusted way better than I thought that we would. Of course much of that was due to the fact that we had lots of help. My mom is here and she basically took care of the boys, my amazing friends are making meals for us for the next month, and it was the cleaners week to visit our house. Oh, and Joseph has had two 4 day weekends now!! (God is good!) So if I had a personal chef, live in nanny, housekeeper & husband that didn't work, this mom of 4 kids under 5 thing would be easy!!!

We grow more in love with the girls every day! Joseph and I are more in love than we thought we could be, Caleb calls the girls "princesses", and even Luke kisses them every now and again. Caleb actually told me the other day, "I think the girls are the cutest things God ever made!" He was quite excited to announce to his class that his sister were born and when anyone comes to the house Caleb wants to hold the babies and show everyone how great he is at holding them. Luke's teachers at school said that he was telling everyone about the "baby girls"! Earlier one of the girls was fussing when I was changing their diaper and Luke told me "Don't hurt the babies!" I feel super blessed that these boys are already in love with and protective over their sisters.

Ella & Lily are doing well. We had doctors appts. for them twice this past week and they look very healthy. They picked up nursing quite easily and are already gaining weight. At night they go 4-5 hour stretches and we aren't complaining about that! If someone is here to help it only takes 45 min. to feed, burp & diaper the babies. If I am doing it all solo it takes about an hour. The biggest problem that we are having with them is that dreaded PACIFIER! When it falls out of their mouths they are drama. At 2 am duct tape starts to sound reasonable! (NO we would NEVER actually do it!)

We have gone on a couple of outings with the girls and we certainly draw a lot of attention. I guess that in some cultures it is good luck to stroke the heads of twins. Not too crazy about random people touching the head of my newborns!

Mama is doing really good too. I so appreciate the small things in life now...being able to stand in the shower, having the ability to put my under/pants on in less than 5 minutes, not having all food leave a weird after taste, being able to sleep on my stomach & the ability to breathe is nice too. I've lost over 20 pounds which is pretty good since I only gained 30. The bad part is that everything has shifted from it's original position. I was hoping to lose 40 pounds, but that isn't looking likey. Joseph is constantly reminding me that it's only been a week since I gave birth to the twins so be patient.

Earlier today I had all 4 of my kids in the car and it felt complete. I always wondered if I could love the girls as much as I love Caleb & Luke and since the moment I saw them I fell in love. My kids are amazing & my God is too!