M + S Update :: Months 1-4

(top row: 1 & 2 months, bottom row: 3 & 4 months)

Oh my has time flown by!  I can't believe my girls are already FOUR months old!  Actually, they're closer to 5 months now.  The first 2-3 months were a complete blur.  I was functioning purely on survival mode.  How else can you survive on 3-4 hours of interrupted sleep?!  They are currently 18.5 weeks old.  They've mastered tummy time, are thoroughly enjoying slobbering all over their hands, and are babbling and cooing.  They rolled over from their back to their front quite a few times, but it's been a week or so since they've done it again.  Hmm...strange.  Don't regress, girls!

Their 4 month photo was taken on the day of their 100 Day celebration w/ our families.  They looked so adorable in their dresses and cardigans.  Hehe.  Too bad Maddie had a pooping episode in her dress like 5 minutes after we arrived at the restaurant!  Ahh...you just have to roll with the punches when you have kids.

Traveling with Twins

In a couple of weekends, our little family is going on our first airplane trip together.  I was stressing a few nights ago and couldn't sleep for the life of me!  There are just so many logistical details you have to consider when you have little ones...especially twins.  Like...how are we going to manage pushing 2 strollers and our luggage when we arrive at the airport?  We each push a stroller and pull a suitcase??  Our solution?  Curbside check-in!  Problem solved.  But then what do we do when we arrive at our destination and have to get our rental car?  We'll probably have to take a shuttle bus to the rental car terminal.  We still run into the same problem.  Haha...oh the headaches.  We'll figure something out...  Wish us luck!

Featured Invitation!

Dino-mite! Two of my dinosaur invitations were featured here on the KandyOh blog.

Spring is here! Gorgeous just-because flowers from the husband.  I never knew daffodils smelled good!  Aren't these beautiful?!

Bath time = FUN time!

Maddie and Sophie's 1st bath at 2 weeks old in the Puj tub.  They were SO tiny!  We had to wait until their umbilical cord scabs fell off before giving them a real bath.  I was too nervous to bathe them.  I made the husband do it.

Eeee...I love that first photo of Maddie.  She really enjoyed her 1st bath after the initial shock of being in the water. Look at that face!  I love how her hair gets all fluffy and fuzzy after it's washed. Hehe.  Both of the girls LOVE bath time with Daddy.  They splash their arms and legs like crazy!

::Maddie::

 

Maddie at about 11 weeks.  I just wanna eat all her fat rolls!

::Sophie::

 

Sophie at 11 weeks.  Splishing and splashing in the tub.

Right now I'm...

listening to
the baby monitor as the girls sleep and the ocean waves on the white noise app.

enjoying
this new free time I'm having right now.  the girls are BOTH sleeping and it's 10pm?  whaaat??

eating
amazingly moist muffins from my new favorite grocery store, mariano's.

drinking
tropicana orange juice with extra pulp...b/c extra pulp makes it taste extra fresh.

uploading
photos onto Facebook from ages ago.

designing
cupcake toppers for a friend's party.

I'm loving this stress-free approach to giving an update.  Especially since I'm short on free time, this is great!  I got the idea from here and she got the idea from here.

A Long Overdue Update :: Meet M + S!

The past few months have been a blur.  I gave birth to my twin girls on December 10th.  They arrived a wee bit early at 35 weeks old.  Maddie was 4lbs 4oz and Sophie was 3lbs 12oz.  Both were tiny, but healthy.  Here are just a few pictures from my baby shower from back in late October and a few of the girls.  Many more pics of the girls to come!  You can imagine how many we have!  :)

The husband and me at my baby shower.

The lovely Sarah hosted the shower at my house and made these 

scrumptious cupcakes and all the decorations.

 Our first photo as a family of four...with me still on the operating table.

 Our hospital provided a professional photography shoot for all 

newborns.  Here are a few of the poses the photographer put them in.

 The girls at 1 week old.

 
At our family's Christmas Eve party with our 2 week old girls.

Right Now I'm...

listening to the sound of my baby girls breathing sound asleep (finally!)

living in yoga pants and old college tees

loving the idea of Project Life and creating a scrapbook of the girls' 1st year

wanting the girls to sleep a glorious 4-5 hour stretch so that I too can catch some zzz's

Since I have zero free time on my hands now, I thought this way of updating was brilliant! Discovered it on my one of my new favorite blogs, Paislee Press.

Thanksgiving Day

We spent Thanksgiving Day with both of our families. Lunch with my side and dinner with the husband's. We're lucky to have many of our relatives nearby and close to each other too. We only had to drive about 20 minutes from one party to the next!

It was also nice to have the husband home for the long weekend.  We spent the rest of the weekend volunteering at a soup kitchen, hanging out with friends, and eating more food.  We did stop by the mall later on Black Friday to check out a couple stores, but we weren't really in the mood to shop much. I did score a few cotton shirts and a super soft, plaid scarf from The Gap for 60% off! But that was the extent of our Black Friday shopping excursion.  How was your Thanksgiving weekend?

Cousin-in-law, Howie with my cousins, Tiffany & Amy

My sister and cousins posing w/ the turkey.

My sister and me

A family photo with our hunny bunny, Jobie.

Happy birthday to my MIL!

The husband and his cousins playing a drinking game.

Belly Wave + an Update

Here's a video of my belly that I took a few days ago at 32 weeks.  The girls have been super active, so my stomach looks like a wave.  It's pretty incredible and freaky!

At my 32 week ultrasound last week, the girls' organs and limbs were looking fabulous.  There was some concern raised about the size of Baby B though.  She isn't growing as fast as Baby A.  They used to be only a few ounces different, but now the gap has grown.  Baby A is 3lbs, 8oz and Baby B is only 2lbs, 11oz.  So I'm going to have to go in weekly for Doppler scans to check on their fluids, in addition to the weekly Non-Stress Tests.

I had my first Doppler scan this morning.  Thankfully, everything looked great.  A Doppler scan "examines the blood flowing through the umbilical cord between the placenta and the baby."  It also examines amniotic fluid levels.