MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and a happy New Year!!!  We have our 2 month check up this Friday, a week delayed from turning two months.  I hope to blog sometime soon about everything.  They are doing great! starting to smile at us and react to certain things....Emma rolled over on her back tonight for the first time even.  Its been a very busy time of year. We hope you all have a wonderful holiday season!!!

1 Month old!

I'm a few days behind, but this past thursday our little girls turned 1 month old! We had our 1 month check up on friday.  Emma, weighs 8lbs 11 oz and Davin weighs 8lbs 8 oz.  Emma is 20 1/2 inches long and Davin is 20. Everything is going great!  We are getting up about every 3-3.5 hours, sometimes 4 in the night to eat.We are letting them tell us when they're hungry. It rarely goes past 4. They are prefect. I didn't know I could love something so much.  That "something" you would do anything for, protect, feed, change, play and love every single day.  We have always said we are "blessed" and God will always take care of us and won't give us more than we can't handle.  I've never felt this statement to be more true.  I feel so blessed every day.  I couldn't have dreamed of a more perfect family.  We are going to travel to Lexington, KY for the holidays to visit my family.  I can't wait for everyone to meet the girls that haven't already.  I'm sure it will take us longer to get there, but we are both family people and want them to always be surrounded by family and want them to know how important it is to grow up around everyone, even if my family is 9 hours away. 
We also took them to their first tailgating experience this weekend for the Arkansas vs Mississippi game in Little Rock.  Amanda mom took the motorhome and it came in so handy since it was cool and windy out.  We ended up selling our tickets to the game. The pictures are a few during their first month.  I love these girls!

             Momma & Emma

Davin

                            Emma

Davin

                         Emma

Davin at her first tailgate

       Emma at her first tailgate

Mommy and Davin

THEY'RE HERE!!!

Our other two Favorite ladies in our life (Moms) holding our two new babies.

Davin is on the left and Emma is on the right.

                             HOME!!
As most of you know we are a house divided.  Being Football season and all, we had to bring one of them home in Arkansas gear and one home in Kentucky gear.





On October 17th at 1:33 and 1:34 pm, Amanda gave birth to our beautiful little baby girls at 37 weeks 3 days.  We were in love from the first look.  I gotta give it to her, she did awesome!  Davin Kate was born first weighing 6 pounds 14 ounces and 19 inches.  Emma Grace was born 1 minute later weighing 7 pounds 3 ounces, also 19 inches.  We got to enjoy time with family soon after the surgery in the recovery room before Davin had to be sweeped off to the NICU.  Apparently she was so excited to see everyone that she took in a huge gulp of amniotic fluid as she made her way our to the surface.  She was admitted for 3 days to the NICU where they had to dry out her little lungs.  She made it back to the room with us Thursday morning, and we came home Friday morning.  Other than that, everything went perfect.  Everyone is doing great and gaining good weight, eating good, and actually they are sleeping really well at night.  We actually have to wake them up every 3 hours and get them awake to feed them.  The past 2 nights we have actually set the alarm, but turn it off and go back to sleep to let them tell us when they are hungry.  Usually Emma stirs first 45 minutes to an hour after the alarm.  We then have a routine of changing, getting the bottle ready and feeding. That way after the bottle, they are so tired they usually just fall back asleep.  They DO NOT like their diaper changed, so that usually wakes them up enough to take the bottle.  It's working perfect right now and could not be happier with how things are going.  We love them.  Everyone says they change and grow up so fast, and boy are they right.  Everyday is a new day full of new faces, surprises and smiles.  We can't wait to see where they are even a week from now.  We are so blessed to have these two sweet girls in our lives.

36 Weeks and ready for these babies!

We hit 36 weeks on Friday!  Amanda has been off work for 2 weeks now and will only have to wait 1 more.  We went to the Dr. on Thursday and we have our C- Section set for Oct. 17th at 12:30ish.  9 days to go.  We have officially begun the countdown.  I know Amanda is miserable, but she won't say it.  Her poor feet and legs are definately someone elses.  You can't tell where her legs end and her feet begin, and you can't even tell she has knees.  We are so ready to see these little girls!  I think they're running out of room, they throw feet and elbows up and I'm pretty sure I've held hands with them for a little moment the other day above the skin.  They are so darn cute.  We are done with the nursery and I hope they like it.  I think it turned out really cute.  It was exactly what I had pictured.

35 Weeks

Today we had our 35 week appointment!!! Can't believe it's getting so close.  Right now we have tentatively set our c-section date for Oct.24th at 11:30.  We are now going every week to the Doctor.  She told Amanda that she shouldn't work anymore and put her on "couch duty at home with your feet up".  Her feet have gone down some, but after today's outing to the Dr. and a few errands, (which she stayed in the car for I might add) they have put on their tree trunkish halloween costume again.  She has been taking it easy at home. In fact, we are going to try and have one last date night with the two of us before the girls get here tomorrow night.  Amanda has also taken up watching game show network, and loves to tell me all about the new shows that are on now a days when I get home from work. Hilarious.  She also hasn't been sleeping good at all shes going to try an ambien, yes ambien. I've heard some crazy stories from my coworkers about sleep walking and night eating with this so I'm anxious to see how she does.  Our next and final ultrasound is in 2 weeks. Cross your fingers those little ladies stay in til then!

33 Weeks and counting

19 Weeks

24 Weeks

33 Weeks

We've made it to 33 weeks folks.  So exciting and can't wait! Amanda hasn't had any contractions yet and is taking it easy.  The feet......well the feet are ginormous puffy.  Shes says they don't hurt at all, just big. She is the most pleasant pregnant person to be around.  She hasn't had any mood swings or melt downs at all.  I know she's miserable, but she won't admit it.  I guess when you've wanted something for so long like we have, you'll love every minute of it.  The babies are now moving about as they wish, usually right when Amanda is trying to fall asleep at night.  I wake on the weekends with a belly snuggled on my back and Davin and Emma kicking me as I wake up.  I love that part about it right now....that and all the ultrasounds we get to have to check for growth since we're having twins.  Speaking of growth, we have some little ham cakes a brewin'.  Emma is the big twin right now at a whopping 5.7 pounds, and Davin is the smaller one at 4.2 pounds.  That's always give or take 12 ounces or so.  Davin is measuring right at our actual due date, which will never happen, and Emma is measuring 34.5 weeks. Emma is in the 76th percentile and Davin is in the 39th.  I love them.  Emma may be the one that makes us have an early c-section, but we'll see.  I thought it would be fun to post some pictures of Amanda throughout the pregnancy when she started getting the "bump" .

28 Weeks

We're getting closer!!!  The pregnancy has really flown by.  It seems like February was yesterday when we found out the test was positive.  The girls are doing great and getting more active every day.  We saw Dr. Weidower last week and she was super excited with how everything was going.  Amanda did her glucose test and passed with flying colors with a number of 94.  She said they don't worry about it unless the number gets over 140.  Davins heartrate was 143 and Emmas was 156. Little Turkeys.  I love them.  I think that may be my favorite part of going to the doctor every two weeks now.  I love it when she whips it out of her pocket and puts a big blob of US jelly on amandas tummy and we get to hear their sweet little hearts beating.  Amazing.  We have another big US this Friday to check on how they're growing.  I can't wait to to see how big they are this time around.  Last appt. they weighed in just over 2 pounds each.  I took some pregnancy pictures of Amanda yesterday afternoon, and even managed to sneak in one of them :)  Can't wait to meet these little ladies!

4D Ultrasound

2 weeks ago we went to baby views on highway 10 for our "fun" ultrasound.  All of them have been fun just getting to see these sweet girls, but this one was over the top fun.  The lady who did it was super nice and tried to get as many shots as she could. It's amazing how you can make out everything.  For the longest time baby B was crowding baby A by putting her feet in the way of her face, and then she moved really quickly to be able to get just a few shots of her.  I guess you could say baby A (Emma) stole the show, and Davin was just really chill.  Shes already trying to crowd her sister. I love them. I can't wait to see them.

24 Weeks

So....This past Friday we made it to our 24 week mark. A huge milestone in our pregnancy.  Our little girls can now survive life outside of the womb.  As much as we want to see them, we will wait a few more months until they are bigger and stronger.  Our next big marker will be 30 weeks. Until then, Amanda is taking it easy, resting when she gets home, putting her feet up.  Her ankles are starting to get a wee bit puffy in the evenings when she gets home, mostly do to getting bigger and the dang arkansas heat.  She is doing a water aerobics class called aqua moms on mondays and wednesdays over at baptist hospital and is really enjoying it.

Last Thursday we went to our OBGYN Doc and got to hear our girls heartbeats again. Baby A was in the 150's and baby B was in the 140's.  We are actually starting to go every 2 weeks to her now so she can keep an eye on everything.  We have an appt. this Wednesday with BabyViews in little rock for our 4D ultrasound. We can't wait!  Then, we get to turn around and see the babies again the next day for another formal ultrasound to check and see how they're growing.

We have officially decided on the names I do believe.  We have gone with Davin Kate and Emma Grace. Davin Kate is a mixture of our Dads names. Both of our dads are named David, and now that amandas dad passed away it's really important that we incorporate that into one of our kids names.  The middle name, Kate, is short for my middle name of Katherine.  My mom and dad always called me Kate or Katy growing up.  Emma was for my great aunt Emma on my dads side, and Grace, for my great grandmother Gracie on my moms side. 

Almost 22 weeks!

Well.....This Friday we will be 22 weeks! The time has flown by. Amanda has been doing great and getting bigger in the belly region. lol. Over the past 2 weeks I've really been able to feel them move with Amanda. They sure are squirmy little bucket heads.  The other night I laid my head on her belly and Baby B kicked me on the cheek. What a sweetheart ;)  It's amazing to me how fast they develop and are able to do things inside the womb. They're wombmates. ha.  We're going to Lexington this weekend to visit my family and spend time for the fourth. We're really looking forward to it and will probably be our last trip there until the girls are here.  The picture with this post was taken last sunday night. 21 weeks 2 days.

19 Weeks! and......2 GIRLS!!!!

We are having twin girls!!! How cool is that? Sisters. Best Friends for life. We are way excited and so blessed.  I can't wait to spoil all my girls  ;)  We had our formal ultrasound on friday which showed us that we are having 2 girls! The tech that did the US was super nice and very knowledgeable. She showed us everything! We counted fingers and toes and saw the four chambers of both hearts and listened to them.  Baby B, she was the bigger one with a heartbeat of 153 and weighing 11 ounces.  Baby A, her heartbeat was 144 and she weighed in at a whopping 10 ounces.  These babies are almost a pound a piece! Hard to believe!  Now we can start referring to them as baby girls.  I'm pretty sure B girl was waving at her momma in the womb, then she started sucking her thumb again.

17 Weeks 5 Days

This picture was taken last Friday, which would put Amanda at 17 weeks exactly.

Also, our cribs came in and we decided that we wanted to room blue, pink and green. I was busy over the holiday weekend. 

Almost 18 weeks!

Man, everything has just flown by.  We saw our doctor again and went to our friend Becca for an ultrasound.  They were so much more active this time around and actually looked like babies. Little people. 2 more. A family. Ours.  I love them so much already!  Becca said she would put money on one of them being a girl so now we can refer to one of them as our sweet little girl.  The other one, wanted to sit indian style and play duck duck goose the whole time. That naughty little turkey.  We're going to go see Becca again this Friday to see if we can tell what baby B is. Amanda will be 18 weeks then so a better chance of telling.

This has been an incredible journey and the most difficult stuff I've ever gone through.  Almost 3 years ago, we were on our way back from the beach in SC with a plan to start trying for our family in September.  We saved, and saved and saved for that moment.  That moment came, and went, and came again, and went.....finally last June at the beach we found out that we were pregnant only to get home and have the reality hit us like a brick.  It was a chemical pregnancy.  Soon after in August our lives were turned upside down with another positive pregnancy! First Appt. went well with a flicker only to go in on the 8 week appt and find out that flicker was no more.  D&C and 3 months later, we were given the all clear to try again.  First 2 tries after, nothing.  Finally February was the month.  Amanda had to go to work with me due to the blizzard we were having at that time.  She arrived at the office at her shceduled appt. time to find out our "specimen" had not arrived yet and was on a truck somewhere in Little Rock.  2 hours later and 2 hours after her scheduled IUI, it arrived.  Must have been our lucky day and time. Two ovulated eggs and two weeks later we got a positive. Two weeks after that, twins on ultrasound.

We Love you 2 already and can't wait to see you on ultrasound again!

For the YouTube links from our visit with Becca follow this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwDxKjLO-o4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEebV6DmVkw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-FdtWek_8Y&feature=related

12 Week Appt.

Well............We went to the Dr this past Monday and it went really well.....Baby B is the wiggle worm while Baby A was alot more chill.  It was so amazing to see them move around.  Some days I still don't believe it.  Were so ready to be parents! I did manage to shoot a little video of the little guys at the ultrasound. You can find it on youtube at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9YzkgQr2dg

We don't go back to the Dr. until May 23, but time seems to be flying by so that should be here in no time.:)

Our first Appt. with the OBGYN

So, Monday we had our first appt. with our OBGYN and everything went really good.  We are going to Dr. Amy Weidower and just love her.  We had our second ultrasound and saw our little pumkpins for the second time. Man, they have grown so much over the past 2 weeks.  The hearts beating on the screen were just amazing to me.  We were there for 2 hours and of course had lots of questions and she talked to us about everything.  She told us she would for sure do a c-section at 38 weeks, if amanda can make it that far. That would put us at around Oct.24th for an expected delivery date, for the time being. I know we will both be taken good care of at Baptist.  I've got my favorite nurses, crna's, and anesthesia doc all on board for the delivery, so that makes me feel a little less anxious about the delivery. Just a little bit.  Amanda has been feeling pretty good lately, just really tired. As soon as she walks in the door it's on the couch and resting for a bit first thing, then up and around do things.  Overall, we are both so excited! Here are a few pics from Monday!

We're Pregnant with Twins!!

After 2.5 years of trying to conceive, it has happened! We're so happy and can't wait to see where life takes us and how we're going to grow with not one, but two little ones. We had our first ultrasound last monday at the fertility clinic and he went ahead and released us to our obgyn doc.  We see Dr. Weidower next monday.  We saw the heartbeats and he measured them and they are up to snuff! I've fallen in love already with them.  Baby B is the bigger one of the two measuring 0.627 cm and a heartbeat of 117 BPM. Baby A is 0.532 cm and the heartbeat is 115.  He said that at 6 weeks, they like the heartbeats to be above the 100 mark and we were 6 wks 3 days.  He said that the size and beats were great for our gestational age. Here are the first of many pictures to come.

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