Grammy, Grumple, and Aunt Jami Visit

Random stories and pictures while my mom, dad, and Jami visited us...

The twins smile when they are asleep or right before the spit up.  They have even laughed in their sleep!  SO CUTE!  They even make a little coo sound when they're happy.

Jake and my mom had to pack my c-section wounds for two weeks (OUCH!), then I got steri strips.  The doctor who performed my surgery isn't warm and fuzzy - ie: I had the babies in the room in their stroller and she never even asked to look at them.  Luckily my fav OB got back from vacation (she was a little upset that I went into labor while she was gone, hee hee!)  She keeps telling me that my body is handling the whole twin thing "just beautifully".  If this is beautiful, I feel bad for everyone else!  

I had to wear pads for a few weeks and Scarlett saw me using them.  She then pointed to the package and asked "mommy diapers?" hahaha!  Why yes, sweetie, yes they are.

Scarlett likes to let me know when the babies are crying: "Oh no baby cry!"  Thank you.  What would I do without that information...

My mom dubbed our house as a time vortex.  The days just seem to fly by and the nights drag on.  I think she's right.  I feel like I barely have time to do anything for myself besides a quick shower.  Between all the mouths to feed, bottoms to change, loads of laundry (so much laundry), and babies to sooth - there just isn't a spare moment.  

While my family was here they took turns working the night shift - giving the girls pumped milk for one feeding so I could get some sleep.  They eat every three hours, so theoretically I should get 2 hour chunks of sleep - but one baby always seems to wake up.  So I rarely have been getting REM sleep.  It is making me go insane!  I need to figure out how to get them to sleep better.  We are all so tired!!!!

We invented a new game.  After feeding two people each take a baby and compete to see who can get their baby to burp first.  It sounds lame, but we have really enjoyed ourselves! 

Preemie outfits!

We have great neighbors.  Some neighbor kids brought us a card they made.  Another neighbor left me a nice note with banana bread and a flowering plant.  Then one day our doorbell rang and it was a random neighbor who lives on another street.  She's a single 40something old lady who saw our "Welcome Home Twin Girls" sign and decided to bring us dinner.  She had bought us a chicken dinner and put together a baby present with pjs, diapers, baby food, and wipes.  How thoughtful and sweet!!!

Grammy knows how to feed a toddler.  She came up with some fun meals for Scarlett.  Including the presentation: toothpick appetizers, roller meat/cheese, picnic in the living room, etc.

Scarlett has had to try some of the things that they babies do, like drinking from a bottle, bathing in the sink, being swaddled in a blanket real tight, and laying in the bassinet.

Oops!

In order to calm the babies Jami decided to rap the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song.  The funny part was they really liked it!!!

One afternoon Jami, Jake and I were sitting in the living room and we could smell that Scarlett's bum needed to be changed.  Jami offered but she started gagging when she got close to Scarlett (Jami has a super sniffer and doesn't handle foul odors well).  Scarlett thought it was funny so she started chasing Jami around in just her diaper.  Well the saggy diaper had a system failure in the leg elastic and the next thing we new Scarlett was pointing to something on the floor in the kitchen "OH NO!"  Yes, little reindeer droppings were scattered along her path!  hahaha!

At night they sleep in these swaddle blankets.  They always remind me of those old Glo-Worm dolls!

While my mom was out here she and my dad decided to meet in NYC to attend a special event for a rockin cool cousin of mine.  So they were gone for a few days but then my dad flew back to my house with my mom and stayed til they all went home.  So the last week they were here we had 5 adults to 3 children!  Love those odds!!!  My parents slept on the guest bed in the basement and poor Jami had to use the twin bed in the twin's room!  Not very restful sleep I'm afraid...  On a side note:  we got a twin bed instead of a rocking chair for nursing them.  As I was thinking of the midnight logistics I realized a rocking chair doesn't offer any place for you to put the babies while you get yourself adjusted - especially with two of them the twin bed is like another set of hands.  I really like it.  I have even slept in there when they were having bad nights just so I didn't have to go back and forth every 20 min.

Jami bought all 3 girls matching jammies.

We loved having you all here and can't wait to see you again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!