September 30th, 2011

There must be something about having three girls, two and under, that takes up an exorbitant amount of time. It's been 6 months since I've posted anything and yet I feel it was just yesterday that the girls looked as they did in the previous post's pictures. Every so often I have this dream of keeping up on this blog, writing posts and drinking tea while the girls sleep. Alas, that is not to be...at least not a frequent occurence, that's for sure.

I thought I would at least put up some pictures from the twins birthday last week. It is only by God's amazing grace that we have made it a whole year - an unbelievable experience - and we THANK HIM for seeing us through the difficult days! These two have added such joy and blessing to our lives!

Louisa and Amelia

ONE YEAR OLD!

Our Sweet girls!

Birthday Cakes

 Ready for dinner, but not sure about the hats!

Not too sure what this party thing is all about!

We get to do what with those candles?

Thank you LORD for Louisa and Amelia!!!

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Meanwhile, their older sister keeps growing up!!! 

A Big sister with a mischievous grin! 

Thoughtful

 FULL of life!

(Not sure who this other little girl on the left is, but Lydia had a great time playing with her at the wedding of Byron and Rebecca Mosher earlier in September!)

A few recent pictures....

Easter 2011

...and yes, I can hardly believe all the pink myself. :-)

April Pictures

Family.....

 Not much time to write, but here are some pictures from our house lately....

Going on a date with Daddy...

.New adventures in highchairs

Bathtime fun!!

Pretty girl!!!

March-ing along.....

Time is flying...the girls are growing....and the snow keeps falling. Winter is still here, and probably here to stay for a while longer. But - tea, soft music, little footprints and sweet cooing make the cold weather nastiness bearable.

The twins have had quite the run around with sickness....ending up with emergency visits and a five day stay in the hospital. Amelia seemed to have it worse than Louisa, but now Louisa has been going downhill again -  running a fever for the last couple of days and both of them are getting their coughs back. I think we'll be heading back to the doctor as soon as we can get in. Sigh. This RSV virus has been nasty nasty nasty!!! Thankfully, Lydia only had a short bout with it, and recovered quickly. She has been such a help and can now successfully run to the bathroom for "kleenex on a roll" , tear a piece off, bring it to whichever one of us asked for it, wait for its use to be completed and then run it back to the garbage...all the while saying "yuk, yuk". It's amazing just how helpful that is if you've got a babe (or two) in arms. She's also become a great help with unloading the dishwasher, assisting in changing the laundry to the dryer, and fulfilling a general roll of "gopher". She's such a sweetheart and is learning more words slowly...the latest being DIRT and DIRTY. :-) 


We got some updated pictures this week, so I thought I'd post them here....




                                                                Lydia Gayle  - 21 months

                                                                         Louisa Nicole

                                                                          Amelia Ruth

                                                              Double Sweetness.....5 Months

A conversation between sisters....

Here's a clip of the twins "talking"

Louisa is on the Left, Amelia is on the right.

Life is Full!

I've been thinking a lot about getting this blog up and running...mostly for the sake of our family members who don't live here and aren't on Facebook. I'd like to be able to just post short posts to keep a record of things we're doing, cute antics and photos....Here's hoping I'll actually find some time to do it regularly!

So - to start off.......

As most know, our twins were born September 14th - We were blessed with 2 sweet girls, Louisa Nicole and Amelia Ruth.  They were born 7 minutes apart, healthy and weighing 5.14lbs and 5.10lbs, respectively. We were all able to leave the hospital together 2 days later, which was another answered prayer.


Here are just a few pictures of those first days...

Trying to get labour started for real...and...it works!

This was shortly before I was taken to the operating room. I was allowed to labour in a delivery room, but for the actual birth, when I was about 8cm, I was taken to the OR, just as a precaution! Thankfully, everything went well, and I was able to deliver without needing a c-section! 

This is just minutes after they were both born! Tired and HAPPY! :-)

Louisa

Amelia

 

Amelia on the left, Louisa on the right 

                                                                          Going home

First real family picture 

Double duty....a new normal?

These first 4 months have been a blur....and probably the most challenging I have ever experienced. We had no idea just what having twins would be like, and adding in a very active toddler, well, it's just been crazy. 

I'm going to try to add a few pictures at a time and gradually get caught up to where we are today....but naptimes are almost over and I have lots to do while it's quiet.

Beware....

I might just come back to blogging. :-)