february happenings

kyle turns 35!

my friend and photographer, tammy williams, took pictures of me when i was about 34 weeks pregnant.  she also captured this sweet one of benjamin.  check out her amazing work here.

 happy valentine's to me!  my sweet boys got me tulips and a pedicure....my favorite things!!

benjamin has found a love for motorcross racing

just a check in on my swelling feet/ ankles

valentine's day trip to target...to get me cold med's :(

a little fit because he wanted the candy!

fetal monitoring at the dr's office- had to do this once a week for the last few weeks

a little light saber fun

eva mason davis is born!

visiting eva and benjamin managed to find my mascara...with 4 adults in the room!!

benjamin's first haircut- he did so good!

notice the horrible red marks on his face...he busted the day before and skinned up his face

soooo thrilled that i borrowed kyle's grandmother's handicap sticker for an appointment so i didn't have to walk! i was hitting the miserable phase!

another check in on my horrible swelling

splatter painting a canvas for the nursery

 just a little iphone fun

nursery!

playing outside during the wonderfully mild weather 

Thomas Andrew & Henry Michael

after 38 long weeks we got to meet our sweet baby boys:
Baby A- Thomas Andrew and Baby B- Henry Michael
stats:  Born February 28, 2012; Thomas 7 lbs 3 oz and 20" and Henry 7 lbs 5 oz and 20 1/4"

i would have loved to carry them to 40 weeks and i know i could have (i wasn't even dilated or effaced AT ALL when i delivered) but i was sooooo miserably swollen...i mean bad! and my blood pressure was just starting to rise.  see the following pics for proof!

i am in pain just looking at those pics! (side note: just to give you perspective....i lost 38 pounds in the first 6 days after the twins were born and 50 pounds by 2 weeks! that is A LOT of fluid!) i actually had a dangerously low blood count and had to be given fluid and i think that also caused me to hold on to fluid.

ok so now that those are out of the way....meet our precious baby boys!  (i'll just pick a few out of the hundreds of pictures we took!)- well i need to get on kyle's computer to add more pictures...i have some priceless ones of the big brothers meeting their babies- i'll try to do that asap and another disclaimer....trying to rotate pics and i can't figure it out!

pretty identical looking...we were really shocked that they are identical since i have twin brothers. we kept their hospital bracelets on for 2 weeks until i could tell them apart!  we might do blood work one day to confirm but for now we are pretty darn sure they are identical. :)

also in the hospital before we had names (since it took us 2 days to name them!) thomas was "squares" and henry was "stripes" (nurses labeled their tags in the bassinet) and we always put thomas on left in pics and henry on right unless they have something monogrammed on.  otherwise you can not tell who is who.

best friends! (see kate's post about these precious babies!)

Laurabeth Roseman, Georgia Newberry, Eva Davis, Thomas & Henry

Going home!

i'll add more later...hopefully! :)

life after the twins...

well for all 3 of you who even look at my blog...we are alive!  i have much to post about and finally feel like i might be able to post now that the twinks are 3 months old! WOW...they are getting big :( in some ways 3 months seems like a short time and then in some ways it seems like many lifetimes.

i need to make a list of all the things i want to post about...some include:

benjamin's first haircut
eva mason davis born
twins birth
at home with the twins/ visitors
baby friends and cousins
waco trip
benjamin turns 2
easter
twin monthly pics
samuel turns 5
mother's day
memorial day
blueberry picking
samuel's school stuff
summer stuff/ life at home

ok so that might be a little ambitious but i hope to get a lot of those on the blog soon. :)

in the meantime...a recent pic of my sweet boys