Worst Day of My Life?

I'm back at work this morning and already missing my girls terribly. I've done a lot of crying over the past few days as I prepared to come back to work. I have a feeling the crying will only continue today and probably this entire week. For those of you who have friends, family, or even a spouse to look after your little ones all day, stop and take a moment today and realize how lucky you are.

On a related note, if anyone knows of someone who's looking for a job (nanny), please let me know. We obviously hired someone, but I'd much rather use someone that one of my friends personally knows.

Poor Girls

Mike has decided to turn the girls into Falcons fans. He was appologizing to them as he put them into their new Falcons onesies...

5 Nights, 2 Infants, Guess How Many Trips...

Well, the girls have done AWESOME!!! I mean AWESOME!!! In the past 5 nights, I think I've made 7 trips total down to the nursery. And here's the strange thing...they've ALL been for Kaitlyn. I haven't had to go down for Nicole once. I think Nicole must have spent all of her nights trying to wriggle out of the swaddle, and now that we've taken her out, she can finally just relax and chill. :-) And Kaitlyn is still doing fantastic. Who would have thought only 7 trips? It was only one trip the first night, and that was at 9:45. I hadn't even gone to bed yet, so that was hardly inconvenient. This is great. Let's hope they keep it up.

Now, on the other hand, naps are suffering. It started one week ago, which was before we eliminated the swaddle, so I don't think that's it. I just think they might be getting to the age where they can be up for a bit longer and nap a little bit less. We're going to try a more relaxed napping schedule starting today and see how it goes.

Go Dawgs! Nice win against a no-name team yesterday. Go Bama!!! They had a nice win. And hopefully today...Go Falcons!!!

Wish Me Luck...I'll Need It

Tonight marks a big event in the twins' lives. We're going to bed un-swaddled!!!!!! Ta-Da! Nicole has managed for the past several nights to wiggle out of her swaddle, and she's actually ended up in some pretty interesting positions. This morning, though, wasn't so interesting but instead scary. She had the swaddle blanket almost near her neck, and she had scooted all the way down her 'incline to sleep' thing and turned a 90 degree angle, meaning she was the whole different direction from where I placed her down last night. So, that was the end of the swaddle. After the bedtime bottle tonight, we put both Kaitlyn and Nicole in a sleep sack. We'll see how it goes. I've heard bad things about these first few nights. I should expect to go down and calm them several times over the next few nights until they get used to it. And I say wish me luck because, who are we kidding, Mike's going to work and I'm still on maternity leave. So, it's only fair that I get the crappy nights sleep. I just hope it's only a few nights. And it will be worth it to do it now so that we don't have to deal with this as two working parents. :-)

Goooooooo DAWGS!!!! Sic 'em, woof, woof, woof

It just worked out that they both happened to have their mouth open, but you couldn't ask for a better picture as a Georgia fan. :-)
These pictures are from last week's game. Their first Georgia game ever...we had to get all dressed up in our Georgia onesies and start practicing how to bark. Go Dawgs!!! Hey, maybe those will be our first words?

I Think We're There

They had been sleeping about 10 to 10 1/2 hours a night. This week, it's been closer to 11 hours. Woo Hoo!!! Tuesday and Wednesday morning were the start. We've been getting them to bed around 9:00pm, and they slept until 8:00am. And on Tuesday, we even had to wake them at 8:15 actually, but they were taking Tylenol from the shots. So, I didn't know if that had anything to do with it. Well, we stopped the Tylenol mid to late afternoon on Wednesday, and they still slept until 8am on Thursday morning and this morning. In fact, today I woke them up at 8 to eat so that Mike could see them just before he left for work.

We might be able to get them to sleep even longer than 11 hours, but I'm good with this for now. I like our schedule. If they were to sleep longer, it would mean pushing bedtime up, which would mean Mike wouldn't get to see them as much when he gets home from work. So, I'm happy with this.

And several posts ago, I mentioned trying to get down to 5 bottles. I've done that too. I think we're on week two of that. I just forgot to let you all know, and I know you were dying to find out!!! HA!!! I'm sure most of this isn't interesting anymore. I'll try to keep the pictures coming then so you don't die of boredom when you check the blog. :-)

Doctor Stats and More Pictures

Kaitlyn is now 21 1/2 inches which puts her in the 20th percentile. Her weight was 10-3 which is 45th percentile, so she's catching up on weight. I'd like to see her get a bit taller too though.

Nicole is 22 1/2 inches (1 inch taller than sister) which puts her in the 60th percentile. Go Nicole!!! Her weight is 10-12 and is the 50th percentile. For the longest time, she was about exactly a pound bigger than Kaitlyn, but not anymore.

And we cried when we got our shots, and mommy shed a few tiny tears. Nothing major. We've taken our Tylenol and done just fine over the past two days. No major melt downs, no major fevers, no interruptions in our night time sleeping patterns. (I've been giving them Tylenol every 4-6 hours, even at night I've crept in there and shot some in their mouth, so I don't know if that's why or if they just didn't have bad reactions??? It hasn't been bad at all though. That still doesn't mean that I'm going to be OK for the 4 and 6 month appts when they do this all over again, but maybe my rationale mind will remember this experience and realize it's not that bad.)

Above: Kaitlyn found her thumb. :-)
Below: Nicole

Below: Nicole on left, Kaitlyn on right

Above: Kaitlyn chillin' in the tub.

Below: Nicole looking rather worried in the bath. How strange because both sister and I LOVE bath time. We calm down and relax.