Sick kids

My poor babies....Morgan is on her way to feeling better with the whole UTI thing but she has decided that having a UTI isn't enough and is now sharing her brother's cold. My littlest guy started coughing on Sunday and it has just progressively gotten worse. Most of the time he is still in good spirits but last night (or early this morning about 3:30 am) he started coughing and then he started gagging then he couldn't catch his breath. He was losing it, becoming hysterical. So I rocked him for about an hour (I think, time just runs together in the middle of the night) finally got him settled down and back to sleep. This morning he woke up with a fever. Morgan was already going to the dr so I called to see if we could bring in Carter too. He has an ear infection. Now as many of you have seen, my kiddos don't really look like me. Morgan is starting too but the jury is still out on whether she will have to endure the "You look like your mom." statement for the rest of her life. So I would rather had kiddos that looked like me than ones who got my bad ears and the ability to get many UTIs. Lets keep our fingers crossed that these are flukes and don't become a regular thing.
Morgan's ultrasound was clear but since she is so young her dr wants to have one more test done to make sure that everything is working properly. That will take place on the 29.
I have a feeling that its going to be a long night, Carter is already crying. Why don't we as parents have the ability to snap our fingers and take our children's pain away. That is a super power that I would love to have. Good night all.

The Weekend I Wish Never to Repeat

I feel like I have been very blessed in the sleeping babies department. But this last week was difficult. Morgan was not sleeping good at all. She wasn't wanting to get up and eat, she was just restless. I was having to go in multiple times a night to wrap her back up and give her her paci. Friday night she had her bath and then after eating most of a bottle decided that it was time to puke it all back up. The poor thing. So we got her changed and into bed where again she was restless all night. Both her and Carter got up at 6 and after eating and being up for a while they decided to go back to bed. At 9 Craig went in and got her, she was being a little fussy, and changed her diaper. She had a little cough every once in while, but other than being fussy I didn't really notice anything amiss. We tried to give her a bottle, which she gagged on and puked up some more stuff. I noticed that she felt a little warm to me so I took her temp and it was 101.1. I gave her some tylenol and after about 45 minutes of fussy baby she seemed to be getting hotter. So I went and took her temp again and this time it was 102.8 with tylenol in her. So I called the doctor and she said, "GO to the emergency room."
My mom and dad came over and watched the boys and off we went. After watching(and sitting there helplessly while they poked her and made her cry) the ER doc finally came to tell us that she has an urinary tract infection and they need to admit her to give her meds and keep her on an IV. At first they put her in the NICU but they needed her bed for a little baby and moved her to peds. She finally got to come home on Sunday at 2:30 pm after 3 IVS, numerous other blood draws and fun times in a big cage.
She is doing better now, but the medicine that she is on is making her puke and she gags on it. We go tomorrow for an ultrasound and then we go to the doctor on Thursday. Hopefully we will find out why she got the infection and what to do to treat it so she doesn't get another. I know that they say like mother like daughter but this is one area I hope she is not like me. I will keep this updated when we know more.

Slept through the night

Both Carter and Morgan slept through the night Sunday night. Yeah for me. Hard to believe that the two of them combine sleep better at night than Keagan did. He was 7-8 months before he consistantly did this.
Work is going pretty good. My shingles are doing much better and I think my foot is finally healed up.

What a week....

So I started back to work this week. What a ball of fun I had, haha. I really do enjoy my job and most of the time I enjoy everyone that I work with. ;-) I work with twelve women so we all have our moments. Its just that I could have gladly become a stay at home mommy. I was ready to go back to work with Keagan, this time I was not, but all things must come to an end and my maternity leave was up. So back to work I went.
The babies did great, I was really worried how they were going to do since they were in such a set schedule here at home and they hadn't been anywhere, except to my mom and dad's and Craig's mom and dad's. But lucky for me I have two wonderful babysitters that I love. Thanks Misti and Leighann. Keagan did pretty good but by Thursday he was telling me "Mommy I want to stay at home with you." Break a mommy's heart.
On a positive note, for the last four night the babies have gone to bed between 7-8:30 and have slept until 4-5.
On a negative note...my foot has been bothering me for several months and I finally went to the foot doctor. It has been wrapped up for three weeks now and Thursday I got a cortisone shot in my heal. Felt great!! Not really. On Tuesday I had what I thought were some bites on my right side on my tummy, when I showed them to my mom she thought that they were shingles and so I went to urgent care and she is right. Now I am super worried that I am going to give the babies chicken pox. So everyone, keep your fingers crossed.

Where have 3 months gone?

It boggles my mind that Carter and Morgan are already three months old. Where does time fly? Keagan will be four next month and that amazes me even more. I start back to work on Tuesday. I have mixed emotions about this... I love my job and look forward to doing it but I wouldn't mind at all if I could stay home and take care of all three of my babies. I have enjoyed being home with them more than I did when I had Keagan. But I need to go back to work. I need a bigger car for one thing, having never in a million years envisioning that we would have twins, we thought that the Tahoe would be big enough. ITS NOT!! I really want a suburban. SO that is my goal. A new car by vacation.
Carter and Morgan are doing great. They have both giggled, not a lot but I think that those times are just around the corner. They smile all the time. We are still working on the rolling over part. Carter has done it from his tummy but Morgan is just starting to try to go over. Her problem is she hates being on her tummy. They love watching everything that is going on, especially Keagan.
We finally have a routine done and now its all going to change with the kids going to daycare but things will work themselves out. They aren't quite sleeping through the night yet but its getting close. Its hard with two, when one wakes up and the other seems to still be sleeping you never know if you should let them sleep or just wake them up so that you aren't getting back up in an hour. But most of the time if they eat around 1-12 then they will sleep until 7-9 the next morning if I go give Morgan her paci and flip Carter over onto his tummy, usually around 5-6. That boy loves sleeping on his tummy. If he would learn to flip himself over onto his tummy he could sleep like that all night. All in due time.
On to the next phase of life, wish us luck to get back into the true grove of things.

Giggles

Carter giggled for the 1st time tonight. I think that baby giggles are the best especially when they come from your own child. These two babies amaze me. Carter is a little wiggle bug. They have been sleeping in their own cribs for a couple of weeks now. They made the transition without any problems. The only change that I noticed was that they have been getting up every 3 hours again but I think that will start to change. Morgan doesn't move to much from the spot that you lay her in, but Carter is all over his crib. What amazes me the most is that he can completely turn himself around without unwrapping himself. I think that before all is said and done both of the babies are going to be thumb suckers. I guess only time will tell. Carter is getting closer to rolling over from his back to his tummy. He has been rolling over from his tummy to his back for over a month now. Morgan is content to just lay there. She is so laid back. Tonight I thought she was going over but no go. It is hard for me to believe that they are going to be three months old next week and I am going to go back to work in two weeks. Time flies
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I took Carter and Morgan to the doctor yesterday for their well baby visit. They are both doing great health wise. They both got three shots which were not fun for them or me. Carter and Morgan are both 23 1/2 inches long and Carter weighs 10 lbs 15 oz and Morgan weighs 11 lbs 12 oz. Carter and Morgan spent last night in their own cribs, they slept great even though it was the first night that they didn't sleep together.