Three Months

We have been super busy, but Wednesday I took the girls three month photos. 

Hannah weighed in at 12lbs 3oz 

Sarah Grace weighed in at 10lbs 6oz

Over the course of last month Hannah has learned to smile and coo and giggle. Its adorable and makes me fall even more in love. (If that's possible)

Sarah Grace has been working on head control this month, and has the cutest little grin, she doesn't have a full smile yet, but the grin is adorable!!!

Our Trip to the VA

My dad had to have a procedure done down at the VA hospital down in Florida and he was not allowed to drive himself. So I took the girls and we went drove dad down there. It was my first overnight trip with the girls and they did very well! 

The girls even got to wear their new dresses with fun leggings since hospitals are cold!

After leaving the hospital we stopped by Walmart, where my dad picked up these little outfits for the girls! They will be great for the games at the end of the session when its starting to get cold!

Over all the trip was a success, and I learned about packing for overnight trips!

Two Month Appointment

I took the girls, all by myself to see the doctor for their two month appointment. And good news they are growing big and strong!!!!

Hannah weighed in at 10.4

Sarah Grace weighed in at 8.13

Them waiting on the exam table waiting for the doctor.

Not a Good night

There are good days and there are bad days in life. You never know what is going to come your way. I had a good day, I hung out at my friend Jens all day with the girls. It was relaxing! However I had a not so good night. I was (am) having difficultly sleeping. When this happens my mind starts to wander and goes places it shouldn't. Tonight it went to Sarah Grace. I don't really know how I can explain how I feel, because even when I type it I know that it's wrong and I shouldn't feel that way. And it doesn't make sense and its the way I feel, if it doesn't make sense to me how can it make sense to anyone else? So how do I get myself to sleep. I go pick my little one up out of her crib and I rock her and cry. And regret the fact that its after midnight and I'm still up and the girls will be up in a few short hours. And yet here I am typing! Yup I've lost my mind:)

Football Preparation

Harmon and I are eager for the first home game of the season, we love football and are looking forward to sharing football with our girls! In preparation for the season we ordered the girls dresses from the school bookstore and I custom ordered dresses here locally. Well both dresses came in today. The dresses we ordered from the bookstore are ridiculously large... and the dresses I had done custom came out amazing!!!

Breastfeeding is a Struggle

Breastfeeding has always been extremely important to me. It is so totally better for baby. And I'll be honest when in public I judge people based on whether I see them bottle feeding or breastfeeding. When I found out I was having twins I started reading the books on breastfeeding twins. It is possible! One hour after birth Hannah nursed for 40 straight minutes. It was heaven everything I wanted. Then there was Sarah Grace who wouldn't latch, how wasn't gaining weight, who had jaundice and the pediatrician said oh she's not getting enough fluids for the jaundice to go away you have to supplement her. I have never made progress trying to breastfeed Sarah Grace, I just can't get her to latch. I have successfully breastfeed her once. Sitting in the lactation consultants office.  Hannah on the other hand I've had a lot more success. However I will nurse her for an hour and she will still be hungry and nursing her is accompanied by toe curling pain. So for a while I tried my best I nursed Hannah, feed Sarah Grace and then pumped so Sarah Grace could get at least some breastmilk. This process took almost 2 hours. And I felt like I wasn't doing good enough for either of them and I was exhausted. So I went to pumping pumping pumping. I pumped every two hours and had no where near enough for even one girl :( So I took all kinds of herbal supplements. With minial success. Finally I got my doctor to write me a prescription. I have seen vast improvements. But I still want to breastfeed my babies. And I judge myself, and am hard on myself for not being able to. I am still trying to with Hannah although until today I hadn't brought her to the breast in a few days. Today I actually breastfeed Hannah twice and both times she only took an ounce of supplemental milk afterwards. I'm wondering if now that I have a lot more supple if it's easier for her to get it. My lactation consultant said that since we have never been able to get consistantly good latches it is like Hannah is trying to drink through a bent straw, she is putting up all this work but barely getting any. I took this picture after what I consider a successful nursing session. 

  

Honda Odyssy

Our trip to Waycross was for one day. We did not spend the night. We took enough stuff for the girls for one day and we took a change of clothes for Harmon and myself so that we could change out of our church clothes. We didn't take enough clothes for the whole weekend for him, me or the girls. We didn't take diapers for a whole weekend. We didn't take the dogs or things for the dogs. Needless to say we didn't even have a portion of what we would need for football weekends. And yet our trunk was FULL. It is because this one day trip Harmon realized that we needed a van. I've been trying to tell him this for, well months. We started looking and we narrowed down our choices to the Odyssey and the Sienna. We went and played with both and decided we wanted the Odyssey. But out purchase of a van would and did heavily depend on what we could get for the Camry and what kind of deal we could get on new van. Well we went this past Saturday and the stars aligned we bought a van!!!!

The girls love their new ride!!!