Two months have passed already!

Well the girls went to the doctor yesterday for their two month appointment and both girls are doing well. Isabel is our little chubber, she weighed in at 8 lbs. 9 oz.; which means she has officially gained 3 lbs since birth! Alexa is not gaining weight quite as quickly, but she is gaining at a rate that the doctors say is just fine! (For those that haven't talked to me about this, I was quite worried that Alexa wasn't "thriving" and that we might have to start supplementing her feedings to try and catch her up!) It turns out, she is just not a big eater! Alexa weighed in at 7 lbs. and 12 oz. Isabel measured 21 1/4 inches in length and Alexa was measured at 21 inches (I don't think they measured correctly on Alexa!) This puts Izzy in the 10th percentile for height and Lexi in the 5th percentile, but...I am not holding a lot of stock in the percentile thing because my girls are preemies so it might take awhile for them to start measuring up to full term babies, and they don't have a separate system for preemies! The biggest message in all of this is that the girls are different, but they are both perfect and doing well!

Here are some pictures from the last week or so, we are loving this parenting thing!


Alexa
This picture cracks me up because both of the girls do this when they are either sleeping or just waking up. They are always watching, spooky!


Alexa
Isabel
The girls are still very different, not only in the way they look but also in the way they act. We are having so much fun having two really great girls!



Jeorgie just loves the girls, she always wants to kiss them and is very concerned when they cry. She has really gotten used to them and is getting used to how things are working around the house these days; except of course when it comes to me!

For those of you who don't know, Jeorgie has always been a really good dog. She never chewed on things that didn't belong to her, and she was pretty much house broken when we got her, a genuinely perfect dog. Well, not so much when it comes to letting me know she is mad at me!

The first week we were home with Isabel, Jeorgie decided to go into my room and chew up my book! Shocked me! Then this past weekend while we were visiting Grandma Q and Papa Bill in PA she decided to look me directly in the eye, crawl onto her pillow and blanket and PEE!! I was so surprised, it took a minute to register what she was doing. I know she meant it directly towards me because she followed me up to bed, we were the only ones there! It was deliberate! Of course, I wanted to believe it wasn't deliberate and these were just two happy (read with sarcastic tone) coincidences. Then last night she made it very clear for me. While my friend Rebecca and her 3 week old son were visiting me and the girls apparently Jeorgie began to feel ignored once again because she decided to walk over to her toy basket (think of a woven hamper with a lid) she knocked the whole thing over, well my sunglasses, some keys, the phone and a few other things were on top. She grabbed my glasses and proceeded to find a corner in the room and destroy them! Man this dog is mad at me! But you can see by the picture she loves the girls and wants to be a part of everything!

Lexi(left) Izzy(right)
Our little angels!

Time flys and we're having fun!

I wanted to again say thank you to Bobbie for coming up and staying so long with us. I know the girls were glad to have their grandma here and Doug and I are really grateful for all the help and support. Thank you also to Jim, for being a great sport during all the time his wife has been away. Our girls are truly loved.




We were also very lucky to have had Doug's Grandparents, Meme and Alex, drive all the way from Melbourne Florida to come see the girls! We were lucky to have them here over Halloween weekend and were able to capture 4 generations together. The visit was nice, but of course was over too soon. We are just so happy they came all this way to spend time with Isabel and Alexa.




This week the girls, Doug and I went on our first outing to Costco. I am sure it is the first of many and it was a site to see. Lets just say Costco isn't a trip I can make with the girls by myself! Come to think of it, there aren't many trips I can take with the girls that require me to bring anything else back with me! I am learning quickly my limits and not to test them! We took a few pictures of the girls in their winter gear that Grandma Q and Grandpa Bill bought them. The girls are still a little small for the outerwear, but there is a lot of cold weather yet to come!





As of Sunday November 2, 2008 Doug and I are officially on our own with the girls for the first time, EVER! It was a little scary at first, thinking of all the help I had and that when Doug left for work on Tuesday I would be alone with my girls all day with no help! I prayed the girls would have a good day, and what do you know we made it through! We actually had a great day, the girls were sleepy all day so there were no simultaneous unhappy moments which made things much easier on me! After almost 8 weeks of help I wondered what the first few days solo would bring. Would the girls notice we were the only ones here now? Would I be able to handle it? Would I curse Doug all day for being away!? I was afraid to find out, so instead decided to introduce the girls to some other changes to try to ease the transition. This week, we have started sleeping in our own room, in the beautiful cribs Grandma Bobbie and Grandpa Jim gave us! The girls are not sleeping through the night in their own beds yet, but they will make it 4 hours or so, and then I usually feed them and they sleep in the boppy's on the couch next to me the rest of the night. If I am lucky, I'll feed them and then get them back to sleep within 1.5 hours and hopefully get another 2.5-3 hours of sleep on the couch. This is a good night. We have also started bathtime to help tucker the little ones out at night, which in turn helps us get 4 hours straight of sleep! So I guess what I am saying is that Doug and I have so far been able to manage the girls sleep and eating schedules together. We are just hoping our great experience as new parents of twins continues.