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.