Chuck D & Mr. T

Scottie and Nell (especially Nell) love looking at the shutters in the living room. They are fascinated by the light coming in.

Having two babies at once is so great and so much fun. I cannot get enough of these babies.

Having two babies at once is so great and so much fun. I cannot get enough of these babies.

I can’t quite put my finger on specifics, but they girls already show distinct personalities. They are both very easy (knock on wood) and engaged. They will track faces already and love looking at everything-particularily the light coming in the blinds. They also really perk up when their brothers are around and they hear their voices. Nell does a good job of holding her head up.

Charlie told his babysitter Meaghan “mommy is going to get a tiny stomach and be tiny again.” At least one person believes that.

Scottie had to spend two nights at Childrens Hospital because she kept spitting up and was unusually sleepy even for a tiny baby. It was so scary with Scottie there (even though the doctors and nurses were amazing) and hard being away from Nell for 2 days. I don’t know if Nell and Scottie felt weird being away from one another but since Scottie and I have come home, I have been trying to hold them together so they can be really close to one another. They seem to love it and usually relax and go to sleep when i have them right next to one another.

Charlie loves to hold his sisters and sing to them. This morning while I was sitting on the sofa holding the babies, Charlie put a hand on each of their heads and sang

I’m very impressed with his lyrics (for the past few months he has been very eager to point out words that rhyme saying “Those words sound the same!”).

Teddy has been very sweet to the babies and wants to kiss them and touch their feet ( I told him babies love having their feet touched so he stops trying to touch the eyes, though we tell the boys “If you want to touch a face, touch your own face.” ). He asks me to put them down sometimes and asks me to sit with him “Sit me, sit me mommy,” but is handling all of this very well.

I cant believe the babies are two weeks old today. I am so in love with them. What could be better than snuggling two babies at once? (Baby Nell in the hat with the yellow ribbon. Scottie next to the Black Dog hat)

Scottie and Nell had a little trouble remembering to breathe on their own. The day we were supposed to leave the hospital this amazing nurse, Christina did a car seat check and Scottie stopped breathing (they had gone down to 4 pounds some ounces so had to have new preemie car seats). They were declared borderline preemies and admitted to the special care nursery at Sibley for a week where they were started on caffeine and put on monitors. I was discharged and the first night at home I cried because it felt so weird to be in the house all alone without any of my four children. They I slept. Each day I would call the nursery the minute I woke up to see how they were doing (they had their own room and a nurse with them all night so even though I was nervous I knew they were getting better attention there than even I could give them). Then MJ would drop me off, I would go up on crutches or in a wheel chair, and spend the day in the nursery, nursing and pumping and holding the babies. Then MJ would pick me up for dinner and take me home. I loved the nurses–they were so helpful to me and so amazing with the girls. They taught me a lot about feeding twins, breathing, cpr etc.