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.

Two months ago today...

Two months ago today I was laying in a hospital bed, not really feeling the greatest but completely happy with our new babies. Fast forward to today, I am still completely happy but wouldn't mind having someone to take complete care of me. haha!
Carter and Morgan have grown so much. Morgan is a little bigger than her brother but she is my laid back baby. For the most part she will swing or sit in her bouncy seat and just look around, she really likes to be sitting up. Oh, she has her moments when she wants to be held but not as often as Carter. Morgan is a daddy's girl, she has him wrapped around he little finger. I always knew that it would happen if we ever had a girl and I was right. I would have to say on the other hand that Carter is a mommy's boy.
Then there is Carter, he is a little smaller but he lets you know that he is here. He doesn't really like being by himself, oh he has his moments when he is content to sit and look around or lay on the floor but for the most part he just wants to be held. He especially likes to be snuggled in his blanket and patted on the butt. They are sleeping pretty good through the night, usually up once in the middle of the night. I can't really complain most nights. Sometimes I wonder if one of them would sleep the whole night but I am not quite ready to get them off schedule. My luck, one would wake up and if I didn't feed the other one then in an hour the other one would want to eat.
I think that the hardest part about having twins right now is trying to spend equal time with each one and with Keagan too. Especially when you have one that wants to be held more than the other.
We have been working with Keagan on his letters, he can spell his name and he is really good at tracing lines and his name. Two more months and he is going to be 4. Time sure flies. He loves being a big brother and is starting to come to the realization that the kitties will lay by him if he is nice to them. He still likes to pick them up and carry them around but he is getting better.
All in all, it has been a great two months. I am looking forward to all the months to come. I will post babies stats after our doctor visit in the next couple of days.

Oh, how time flies...

Its hard for me to believe that almost 2 months have already gone by, but on Wednesday the twins will be 2 months old. They have grown so much, Morgan continues to outweigh her brother by at least a pound. I will be taking them to the dr this week for checkups so we will soon know just how big they have gotten. They are starting to be awake more during the day, and some nights they sleep really well. We are still waiting for personalities to emerge. Morgan talks and coos a lot more than Carter, mostly because he is usually crying. They are really starting to smile at you. Baby smiles are so precious. Carter has been rolling over occasionally, from his tummy to his back. Morgan isn't quite there. Keagan loves being a big brother, he is always wanting to hold the babies. He like to try and get them to quiet down when they are fussing, very cute to watch. If it works he will usually say, "They just needed to see their big brother." We are working with Keagan on learning his letters, its going slow but he is getting it. He can trace letters, numbers, and lines really well. I am not sure where the last 4 years have gone but I am proud of the little man Keagan is becoming.

The twins are coming...

Craig and I get to the hospital about 1:00 pm. They get me settled into my room and Dr. Penman comes in to see me and do a quick ultrasound to make sure the babies are still breach and if so we need to do a c-section. Carter was still sitting there instead of being head down so on with the c-section. Dr. Penman informs me that I have preeclampsia and because my blood pressure is so high he is worried that I am going to start having seizures at any minute and starts me on some lovely medicine that makes me feel like I am drunk and really hot. Can things really get worse? Nope, they are about to get better because within the next few hours Craig and I get to meet our amazing twins. Carter is born at 4:43 pm weighing in at 5 lb 13.8 oz and measuring 19 1/2 inches long. Morgan is born one minute later at 4:44 pm weighing in at 5 lb 13 oz, and measuring 20 inches long. I know that is strange that they weighed basically the same thing, especially considering that the ultrasound that Dr. Penman had done the week before Morgan was measuring about 6 1/2 lb. Both babies were healthy and neither one of them needed to go the NICU. I had to stay on the nasty meds until the next day, I pretty much just floated through the day. After three days I got to go home with both babies in tow. I had done my job... I carried those two wonderfully amazing babies until they were big enough to leave the hospital with me.

Countdown to D day

Now as you have read, you know that I am patiently and uncomfortably waiting for Dec 2 to arrive. By this time I have been off work for a couple of weeks and I have been enjoying some time with Keagan before his life changes forever. The week of Thanksgiving rolls around and that Monday was my 29th birthday. Only 2 weeks to go... Tuesday late afternoon I got a migraine headache, felt like someone was trying to nail a nail into my eyebrow of my left eye. Nothing I did helped. The next day I called the dr office and the dr was out delivering a baby so the nurse practioner told me to start taking some Mucinex to hopefully start breaking up my congestion and make my headache go away. So I started that Wednesday night. By this time I am so miserable... I can't hardly stand to be in the light, sounds are making me want to cry and I am now taking meds that aren't doing a dang thing for my headache. Thursday rolls around and we go over to my parents house for Thanksgiving dinner. I am still waiting to the medicine to start working, its not!!! I look and feel like crap, and I just keep thinking that I only have one more week to go. Craig and I go home that night and again I am still waiting for my headache to ease up a little. Craig has to work on Friday, so I wait in bed until Keagan gets up. We head out to the living room and every little noise and the light is making my head want to explode. Now I realize as I lay on the couch that my vision is blurring in and out in my left eye. I decide that I want to go over to my parents house, my grandmother is there and I figure that Keagan can see her again before my parents take her home. I finally decide to call my dr, he isn't very happy to hear that I have such a horrible headache and about the blurry vision. He tells me that I need to go have my blood pressure checked. So my dad drives me up to my mother in law's work and her boss takes it. He is EMT and we were a little shocked by the numbers...185/120. We get back to my parents house and I call Dr. Penman back. He tells me that it is time to have a couple of babies. I call Craig and tell him that he needs to come home and we get the Keagan issue taken care of. My mom and dad kept him until he could go over to Grammy and Popper's to spend the night.