TWINS : 1 Month

WOW!  I cannot believe that it has already been a month. 

Time sure does fly by when you are having fun!!

 

Miss Reese didn't feel like waking for pics!

 

This past month has been so incredible, so much fun and oh so tiring all at the same time!

 

I honestly didn't know if I was going to be able to do it.  You know, handling two newborns and a toddler every day alone.  But I have done it and we are all still alive!  I will admit when my hubby walks in the door he typically has at least one child being thrown in his direction while I spout out some excuse about wine or a target run that must happen at that exact moment.  But at the end of the day he comes home to three happy, bathed and fed children and a clean house.  I on the other hand am usually none of those things...except happy!

 

Reese and Morgan have made our family complete and I honestly  feel like we have just slid into this new stage as a family of five pretty seamlessly!

 

The girls are so sweet and are such good babies.  Parker is the most amazing big brother and while we still experience bouts of what has to be the trying threes, he has done great with this huge transition!

 

"I'll read them books!"

 

 

Here are some things about the girls at one month old.

 

REESE:

• You are our feisty one.  I like to refer to you as my high maintenance one!  You know what you want and like and are not too shy to let us know.
• When its time to eat, its time eat and you do not like anything to delay that. 
• you are still getting breast milk but we are supplementing with formula. You weight is finally moving in the right direction.  We go Wednesday for your 1 month visit, but last week you  weighed 6lbs 7oz!  You eat every three hours through the day and go for a little bit longer stretches at night.
• you love your sleep.  you will pass out anywhere and you don't like to wake up until you are ready (case in point, your 1 month pics!!)
• you love being held upright and resting your head and arm on our shoulders.  I love this and would hold you like this all day if I could!  Such a snuggler!
• you are still wearing premie clothes.  we have a few newborn outfits that we make work but for the most part they slide right off you.
• you are starting to smile more and more everyday!  nothing melts my heart more!
• you are a pro a getting your arms out of your swaddle. 
• You have a head full of dark hair (for now) and  it is crazy long in the back.  You love to take your fingers and twirl your hair...its precious!
• you LOVE bath time.  as soon as you hit the water a complete sense of relaxation comes over you and you start to doze off by the end of it!!
• you flip out every time I change your clothes.  You do not like having things pulled over your face/head.
• you love tummy time.  we are doing it more and more trying to get your neck strength up.  I have to fight to keep you up and going.  Take my eyes off you for a second and you are snoozing on the mat!

MORGAN:

• You are my laid back baby girl!  You are calm in almost all situations.  I wish I could take credit, but you get this from your dad.
• You are always just looking all around and taking it all in.  Always so alert and never wanting to miss out what is going on around you.
• you are still getting breast milk but we are supplementing with formula. You weight is finally moving in the right direction.  We go Wednesday for your 1 month visit, but last week you were weighed 6lbs 1oz!  You eat every three hours through the day and go for a little bit longer stretches at night.
• you love being swaddled up.  you seem completely content and never try to break free!
• you are still wearing premie clothes.  we have a few newborn outfits that we make work but for the most part they slide right off you.
• you love the swing and despise the bounce chair (just like your big bro)
• you do amazing with tummy time and are always moving all around and lifting your head up and turning it from side to side.
• you are starting to smile more and more everyday!  nothing melts my heart more!
• you have a head full of thin brown hair and it is long in the back too.
• you LOVE bath time.  as soon as you hit the water a complete sense of relaxation comes over you and you start to doze off by the end of it!!
• you almost seem relaxed when I change you and put bows on your head!  I see lots of dress up in our future!

You girls are such an amazing blessing and we are so in love with you!

This first month went by far too fast, so lets slow down a little bit!!!

 

 

 

 

The Nursery

I was so excited to decorate a nursery again.  I had so many ideas going through my head and onto my pinterest boards as soon as we found out we were expecting.

 

Finding out we were blessed with twins slightly threw things for a loop.  I know most people think, just add another crib...but it didn't prove to be that simple for me.

 

I think mainly due to the fact that some of the looks I had in my head were a little bold in color or a little high in price.  Both of which would cause them to be a little too much for the nursery!

 

From the start I knew I wanted to use the white Jenny Lind spindle crib (exact crib I had as a baby!).

Its a great crib and the size and price made it even better when having to have two!

 

Next came the bedding.  I searched everywhere and ended up falling in love with a set from PBK.  I did end up doing a little tweaking to it and I LOVE it!  Fun patterns, but light enough in color that it doesn't make the room look too busy!  It photographs much brighter than it is in person.

 

I purchased extra sheets and had the original ties removed from bumper and these added. 

 Original ties were very thin and were in same material as bumper.

 

All of the other pieces in the room were just fun finds along the way.  I loved being able to create a lot of the room myself and loved refinishing a lot of the pieces for the room.  I threw in my love for burlap here and there with the curtains and bows hanging the girls monograms.

 

 

 still needing to fill empty frames!

 

 

 still on the hunt for a new light fixture!

 



wreath made by a friend out of the fabric in the girls bedding and coordinating fabrics!

 

I am I really happy with how their nursery turned out.  We still have a handful of little things to do in there to make it complete and I will share those as they happen!!

Just Born

I loved having monthly pictures documenting how Parker changed and grew over his first year, so of course I will be doing the same thing for the girls!!

 

Now I just hope and pray that these months do not fly by too quickly!

 

Morgan & Reese, 1 week old

 we love a grosgrain bow!

We FINALLY got Big Brother to pose for a picture with his sisters!

(too bad he would cooperate when we had the girls newborn pics taken!) Errrr!

Reese Diane and Morgan Kate

Our sweet little blessing made their arrival on June 27, 2013.

 

Reese Diane was born at 7:55 am weighing 6lbs and measuring 18 inches

 

Morgan Kate was born at 7:56 am weighing 5lbs 6oz and measuring 20 inches.

 

We are so blessed with two healthy, strong baby girls!

 

 The first time they put the girls together Reese locked her little leg around Morgans...sweet big sister!

 Daddy and his girls

 So proud!

Big Brother holding one of his sisters for the first time!  Melts my heart!

 

 

Very happy that delivery and hospital stay were both very uneventful.  I prayed for this my entire pregnancy.  So many things can occur with any baby, even more so with twins, so we are so thankful.

 

The girls are now almost 2 weeks old and they have been doing wonderful.

 

Both have a little jaundice (currently sleeping infront of a window!) and we are going tomorrow for another weight check because both lost a little more weight since we left the hospital.  I am supplementing with one ounce of formula with Reese after each feeding.  Fingers crossed for a good visit!

 

Other than that we are just in a snuggling, swaddling, kissing, diaper changing mode around here!!

I could just stare at them all day!  Still cannot believe that they are ours...God is so good!

 

 

Morgan and Reese