One Year!

Izz and Liv turned a year yesterday (May 8th)  It has been such an amazing year sometimes hard but most of all amazing.  I realized I never wrote about their birth so I thought I would write about it now.  I went into the hospital mid April because I was having contractions and I had dialated to a 2.  I was started on magnesium to slow down the contractions which worked but I had to be put on immediate bed rest.  Because I couldn't feel my contractions I had to stay in the hospital and have non stress tests everyday.  I spent my birthday, Easter and Mother's day in the hospital.  It was a long month.  I went to labor and deliver 3 different times because I kept going into labor.  So on Saturday May 7th I had a couple of visitors, my cousins and parents.  The L & D nurse came up to do my stress tests about 4:00 and I was having pretty strong contractions every minute.  She called the doctor and the doctor said to check and see if I was dialating and I was dialated to a 6.  The nurse told me that they were taking me down to labor and delivery again to try and stop my contractions.  I called Jase and told him to get to the hospital asap.  They hooked me up to more magnesium and gave me a couple of other things to try and get my contractions to stop.  Finally around 10:30 they stopped and Jase and I tried to get some sleep around 12:00.  (Sleeping on a magnesium dip with two babies being monitored is pretty much impossible)  My doctor came in Sunday morning (Mother's Day) to check on me and I was dialated to a 6 and she told Jase and I that I could stay on L&D until my water broke (she gave me a day before that happened) or we could have a C-Section that morning to get my little girls out.  We chose to have them when everyone was not under stress so about a half hour later I was wheeled into surgery.  I was terrifed!  The got me all prepped and Jase came in when they were ready to start.  We heard Isabelle's little cry first and she sounded like a baby kitten.  Jase stood up to see her and he saw them pull Olivia out.  Isabelle weighed 3 lbs 11 oz and Olivia weighed 3 lbs 4 oz.  They showed me the girls and then rushed them to the NICU.  When I got back to my room both of our families were there.  They had to stabilize the girls before anyone could see them but after what seemed like 3 hours Jase was able to take our families in the NICU.  I couldn't go though until my legs weren't numb.  That was the hardest thing.  I finally got to see my sweet babies around 6:00.  So amazing!!!

And a year later Isabelle weighs 19 lbs 2 oz and Olivia weighs 16 lbs 3 oz.  They have done so well and other than just being a little small for their age there were no long term problems.  We have honestly seen so many blessings this year and we are so grateful for our beautiful daughters.  Happy Birthday Babies!

                                        Playing in a box that one of their presents was shipped in.

                                                    Isabelle and Jase at the Bees game

                                                      Olivia and me at the Bees game

Lately.....

Yes we finally got another crib.  The girls were not sleeping very well because they wanted to roll on top of each other all the time so we went out and got Isabelle a brand new crib.  They have been sleepig much better since then.

We also go high chairs for the girls.  They love them and our dinner time has been so much better since they can sit up to the table with Jase and I and feed themselves some snacks.  They were using bumbos before but poor little Isabelle's legs couldn't fit in there any more. 

Okay.....Before I tell this story you have to promise you won't judge......So a couple of Saturdays ago the girls woke up and I fixed them a bottle but I was so tired I decided to go lay back down and listen for them to be done.  They weren't crawling yet so they really couldn't get that far and I can hear them play with their toys so I thought this shouldn't be a problem....So I laid down but I never heard the girls start playing with their toys.  It was very very quiet out in the living room so I got up and the above picture is what I found....I forgot that I had left a bowl of popcorn on the floor and Isabelle decided to help herself to it.  You can tell by the look on her face that she knew she was caught.  Needless to say I don't go back to bed anymore and I make sure that everything is picked up off the floor.

Isabelle enjoying some spaghetti.  Well...She didn't really like the noodles but she would suck all the sauce off and then spit the noodles out.

Olivia is my really good eater.  She really loves everything especially grown up food.  She loved the spaghetti and she loves to spread her food all over her face while she's eating.