three weeks!

Maggie and William are three weeks old today and are eating and sleeping and pooping and growing just like they are supposed to! Kirby has finally warmed up to the babies and will now occasionally ask to hold or help feed them. She has even offered a couple of kisses!

Maggie and William are both sleeping 4 hours stretches during the night and are consistently drinking 3-4 oz of milk. Piggy gooses, right? I, unfortunately, cannot keep up with these hungry kiddos, so they are getting more formula than I would like at this point. The upside, though, is that they are growing like weeds, and we could be more thrilled that they are so healthy. We are blessed beyond words!!

Jim and I have always joked about Kirby not really being Jim's child since we had to do IVF. Of course, we're TOTALLY kidding!! Well, I think we can put any question about that to rest. Any doubt in your mind that Maggie belongs to Jim?

Jim - 3 days old

Maggie's 1st bath - 6 days old

And, any doubt that Kirby and William are related??

Kirby - 11 days old

William - 12 days old

photo shoot

Kirby, William & Maggie got their pictures taken today...Brooke did an awesome job! She put one of the pics on her blog. I just love it and can't wait to see the rest of them!!

http://www.brookeschwabphotography.com/myblog/portraits-1/worth-every-second.html

Kirby Konversations

Kirby has cracked us up the last few days with the random things that come out of her mouth.

- "Holy, holy, holy...cow". Think Sanctus. When she started singing I was so proud that she remembered the song from church, and then she finished it off with cow. Oh, and we were on the way home from Chik-fil-a.

- After taking a bite of a cookie today, she said, "Oh, that's tasty!"

- On the walk to the car after church yesterday, she turned to Jim and said, "Well, that was nice."

- We've been asking her where Uncle Michael, Nana and Papa, and Annie and DonDon live, and she replies, San Marcos, San Tonio, and Beaumont, Texas. Today, we asked her where Kirby lives and she immediately answered, "at my house." We then asked her where Hadley lives (trying to get her to say Houston) and she replied, "at her house!"

- "Hey, Wilyum, wanna see my shoes?" (Thanks, Knockes - she loves the shoes!!)

Oh, and here are pics of Maggie and William!

and then there were 5!

We are home and well on our way to being settled with the new additions to our family! William Miller and Maggie Claire are precious and perfect and healthy - we are so blessed!!

Both babies spent only a few hours in the NICU - truly amazing for itty bitty 36 weekers! Unfortunately none of the pictures I have show just how tiny these babies are! Both weighed 4 lbs 15 oz. William was 17 1/2 inches and Mags was 17 in. They are so little, but they are eating like champs, so I'm sure we'll have some chunky monkeys before we know it!

Right before surgery - for some reason I wasn't at all nervous about surgery or that in a matter of minutes I would have 2 more kids...and I didn't even have drugs yet!!

Daddy and William

Mommy and Maggie

Sweet Kirby is not so sure about her new brother and sister - she won't have much to do with them! While I am certain that siblings will end up being wonderful for Kirby, I sure do feel sorry for her right now. Poor thing is dealing with a huge change to her little world. It must be so hard for a two year old to understand. We celebrated Big Sister Day on Thursday with presents and cupcakes for Big Sister Kirby.

OEMI sent the cutest Burt's Bee's baby care package in a bee hive basket with a teddy bear dressed like a bee. Kirby loved her "hat" and "buzzy bear!" She also found all of the Soothie pacifiers in the twins bassinets. Thank goodness we decided to use a different brand pacifier for Maggie and William!

William and Maggie

As they wheeled us into the elevator, the fact that we were bringing these babies home with us hit me - YIKES!


first day home...

swimmin like a fish

Kirby has had so much fun swimming this summer thanks to Nana, Annie, DonDon and Uncle Michael!! She says, "Look at me - I'm swimmin' like uh fish!"

Twin Update

Just when I thought there was no possible way these babies or I could get any bigger, they did and I did...here's the proof.

All I can say is that they better slow down in the next 10 days or I might literally pop!! I had my last sonogram yesterday, and Maggie, the one that was supposed to have so much trouble growing because of her 2 vessel cord, measured a whole POUND bigger than she did 10 days ago - she is now 4 lbs. 12 oz. I'd say she's doing just fine!! William measured 4 lb. 9 oz. That's 9 lbs 5 oz, people...with 10 days to grow!

While the twins and I were growing this weekend, Jim and Kirby helped Hadley celebrate her 3rd birthday! Kirbs had a blast and ran around for days before the party yelling I wanna pump it up!

Wednesday Photo Shoot

Jim and I headed to the hospital today for a stress test on the babies. I am thrilled to report that they did great! I want nothing more than for these babies to be born healthy and have the easiest transition possible into this world. We are still on track for a 7/10 delivery. I have to admit that I am selfishly disappointed that I have another 2 weeks of pregnancy, though! My blood pressure continues to creep up and up and shoots up by about 30 points when I even sit up, so it's 2 more weeks of bedrest for me and single working fatherhood for Jim!

Since doctors appts are the only time I'm allowed to get up these days, I actually got dressed today so we took the opportunity to take a family and prego pic for the Maggie and William's baby books.


I had to include this pic of Maria and Kirby...we don't know what we'd do with out Maria, one of Kirby's favorite people in the world!!