New Accomplishments

Apparently it is time to start freaking out the parents..

Anna has decided to learn to roll over. From her back to her tummy. She's been working on it for a small while and decided that yesterday would be a good day to go for it for real. I was changing Lily's diaper when Lee came into the living room, glanced at the crib (where Anna was) and asked me if I'd noticed Anna. Yup she'd rolled herself over and was holding her head up too. Argh. So I figured that was the end of it. Nope. Today she's been rolling herself over all day long. In fact she's supposed to be going off to dreamland right now but instead she is rolling herself over, getting stuck (she can't make it back over yet) and crying.

Lily for the most part is being kind to us. She's only trying to sit herself up, but not rolling over. YET. But she is fighting her sister back on the rolling.. When Anna tries to roll toward her, Lily kicks out a leg to stop her. Hilarious stuff.

Any bets on if we get any sleep tonight???

Babies in Denim

Don't you just love pictures of babies in denim overalls.. I know that I do..

So here are Miss Lily and Miss Anna (asleep) in their denim overalls that were given to us by a really good friend of ours in Oregon. Thank you Miss Nora.

3 months old

I can barely believe that the girls are officially 3 months old today. It feels unreal to me. Like they've been here forever but yet not.. Still no official schedule for them but I keep plugging away at my efforts to get them there. At least they sleep through the night.

It will all pass eventually

Seems like nothing lately is easy here.. Lots of Ups and Downs.. ok too many downs of late but hopefully things will be looking up soon. I have PPD (post partum depression) and it's kicking my butt in ways that I never knew it could. I hate feeling like this and that my life has been reduced to this so quickly. I want my real life back. I want to be normal again. I want to stop crying all the time. I want to be happy.

12 weeks and growing like weeds

How can it have been 12 weeks since Anna and Lily have come into our lives.. granted they won't officially be 3 months old till the 12th of August but I'm constantly amazed by them everyday.



At their last Ped appt Anna weighed in at 12 lbs and 1 ounce 22 inches and Lily weighed in at 11 lbs 7 ounces 22.25 inches. Holy cow.. in the words of the Pediatrician, they have never met a bottle they didn't like. They also got 3 shots done and got an oral drink. These shots will be repeated at the 4 month and the 6 month appointments. They had no ill effects from the shots at all. Well there was some extra fussiness but that was to be expected. I had some Baby Tylenol on hand so we gave them that to help with the fussies.

Look Who's Smiling Part Two

Lily finally did it....



I'm so proud of her... made me feel much better today...

Two Months old already

No way... how has this happened??? My babies are 2 months old today.. (ok so it's 12:50am on 7/12/08 but it's somewhat official).. I can't believe that it was 8 weeks ago that I was at Mel-Wak for the last time and giving birth to the girls. They have gotten so big over the past 8 weeks.. we now wear 0-3 and 3-6 month clothing depending on what outfit we are wearing and Size One diapers.. we were supposed to go to the Ped on the 10th but the appt got moved to the 24th instead. So i won't have official weights till then.. but I can safely say that they both are weighing in at about 10 lbs each.. (if I believe my scale). They drink bottles with 5oz of formula at least 5 times a day and are starting to be awake more and more lately during the day and sleeping at least 7-8 hrs at night. We are learning head control and trying to do some tummy time when we are awake during the day. Anna has even figured out how to kick the music box that we keep in the crib on by herself in the middle of the night. We still haven't caught Lily's smile on camera, but I keep trying to get it. It would help if she would actually smile for us. She's going to be the serious one. Time for mommy to go to bed. She had a long week.