Jay and I have decided to start this blog in order to keep track of our kids’ progress throughout the years, to give them something entertaining (hopefully) to read when they grow up, to keep family and friends in the loop of our daily life and to reach out to anyone who cares what it is like to walk a day or two in our shoes! We hope to keep up with the blog on a regular basis and to entertain you along the way. While we can’t promise anything, we’ll do our best.


DISCLAIMER: nothing in this blog is to upset anyone, it is our thoughts, our interpretation of life and our story… please do not bash us for having an opinion on life!



Monday, January 30, 2012

The First 12 Weeks

Since we are late starting this blog we thought we’d give you the rundown of the last twelve weeks to get you up to speed.

We have been to the doctor several times now with the babies.  They left the hospital weighing close to 5lbs each (Carter being the smallest).  At their first doctor’s appointment Paige weighed in at 7lbs 1oz and Carter came in at 7lbs 2oz, passing his sister up by just one ounce!  Not bad weight gain for twins who are only one month old!  Their next appointment was at two months… Carter weighed in at a whopping 9lbs 13oz… and Paige had to beat him this time with 9lbs 13.5oz!  The doctor was thoroughly impressed with them skipping the 6lb category and the 8lb category all together!  Both babies are now getting “on the curve” with babies the same age as them!  The both fall in the very low percentile range, but for babies who are 4 weeks behind their actual age we are very impressed!  It was nice to see their graph charts… when they were born they weren’t even on the chart and then suddenly they shot straight up and into curve!


They took their shots pretty good, only crying for seconds before calming back down.  It was pitiful to hear Carter cry because he rarely does it, but we were expecting Paige to bawl as soon as the doctor looked at her.  She is a total center of attention, drama queen just like her mommy!  It wasn’t until two days after their shots that I realized I totally forgot to give them Tylenol before hand, poor kids!  At least I’ll be ready next time.  I’ve already put a reminder alarm in my cell phone!

The twins (before they were born I swore I would never call them that) are eating pretty good.  They take between 4-6oz every four hours during the day.  Some people think this is a lot for 12 week babies, but they will freak if they get less!  Paige sleeps through the night now, from about 9pm or so until 6 or 6:30am.  She will occasionally wake up in the night to eat, but not very often.  Carter, on the other hand, still gets up once in the night to eat.  Jay and I have started taking turns on who feeds him because we both work full time jobs and have to get up early.  It is nice to occasionally get a full nights sleep again, but it sucks when it’s your night to sleep and Paige decides she’s hungry… that means we both get up to feed and you lose your night of sleep. For the most part we like this new system.  It’s so much better than what the first ten weeks were like.  I swear we never thought we’d sleep again!  They were both up every four hours to eat… doesn’t seem like a big deal, but it takes 30 to 45 minutes to feed them and change them (each if you are by yourself), then another 15 minutes to get them back in their beds and fast asleep… at this point an hour is gone.  THEN you have to get yourself back to sleep… another ½ gone… giving you approximately 2 ½ hours before they have to get up again.  I remember at the beginning when Jay was working nights for a road widening and I’d do all this myself.  The 2 ½ hour window of sleep back then was only 1 ½… and Noah was up at 6am!  My Lord I was tired!


We have learned that sleep deprivation can be fun!  At first we complained about it.  Now, we find ourselves doing the most humorous things and we find the dumbest things absolutely hysterical!  I can’t tell you how many times my co-workers have to hear me say “man I need some sleep” after the dumbest things flow out of my mouth!  But, we’ll save that for another post!


After the babies were born, we ended up pulling Noah out of daycare and hiring a Nanny!!!  Nanny Dana joined us in the middle of December.  She was home with me for about three or four weeks before I went back to work.  She was totally awesome and I was able to come and go as I pleased.  Looking back I know I should have listened to Jay and used that time to sleep, but I don’t sleep well during the day and things needed to be done!  You’ll probably hear a lot about Nanny Dana as she has become part of our family in a very short amount of time!

Paige and Carter are now 12 weeks old.  Carter started rolling over around 10 weeks and at that time Paige cried if you tried to make her do anything she didn’t want to.  She surprised us though and started rolling completely over (and off her mat) at 11 weeks.  She was so proud of herself that she couldn’t stop smiling, and I even heard her first giggle!

When we first brought the babies home they slept in our room in pack and play.  That lasted about a month and a half before I said they absolutely had to go!  We moved them both into Noah’s crib (he had moved to his twin size bed months before).  Once Carter started rolling at 10 weeks we got a little nervous and had to put up another crib for Paige.  So, yes at 10 weeks they were separated.  I personally think Carter had a harder time of it than Paige.  She slept like a rock and he would fight us when he had to go to bed and he’d fuss for about ½ hour.  He is much better now and we believe he has the same crush on “Beth” the starfish light as Noah once had!

Noah loves the babies as much as any 23 month old could!  If we lay the babies down for tummy time, he is right there showing them how to roll and even “helping” them along!  The other night I found him in Paige’s bouncy seat with her, and we occasionally find him in the bassinet of the pack and play!  He gets bored and a little jealous sometimes with the attention we have to give the babies, but he handles it well.  We feel bad during the week because he doesn’t get out of house much and he is begging to go bye-bye, but try our best to be sure at least one day on the weekend is spent letting Noah do what he wants.  We go as a family, but it’s all about Noah.

Jay finally got his own job site after about six months of “training” on another site.  While he loved working with Grandpa (his dad) on this site, we are very excited about him going it alone!  The site he is currently on is close to completion and his new site is starting all at once.  This makes for very long days for daddy!  He leaves before I do to go to work and doesn’t get home until after 8pm.  We recently had a long talk about our schedules (and by this I mean, I came up with some ideas and now he just has to fall into our routine).  I get home from work and say hi to the babies, and play for a bit.  Then I play with Noah and make sure he’s fed, given a bath if it’s bath night and get him in his pajamas.  Because Nanny Dana has helped us get onto a schedule, the babies don’t eat until around 9pm after I get home giving me more time to spend with Noah.  When Dad gets home we make our dinner and he tries his best to play with Noah, then we try to eat really fast and get the babies fed!  Then the babies go to bed and then Noah goes to bed.  If we can get all of this done before 10pm we are giving high fives!  We use to try to have Noah to bed around 8:30pm, but with two crying babies he couldn’t sleep so we figure it’s better for him to be involved in the last feeding and then be put to bed after the little ones.  He sleeps until 7am or 8am during the week, and till 9am or so on the weekends.

Now that you are all caught up… our posts will probably become a lot shorter!  Thanks for sticking with us through our history!

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