4 months!

Well.....our sweet little girls are four months old. They are changing so much every. Single. Day. They're starting to notice each other more and more everyday too! It's so cute to watch them look over at each other and get the biggest smile or grin on their faces. We've all been sick of course and day care is going really well. Miss Brittany and Anna take excellent care of our sweeties and we are so thankful to have them every day. We had our four month check up and shots yesterday.. Boooooo. Davin however has blown her sister out of the water as far as weight goes. You would never think she was the one in the nicu. She weighs 15.2 pounds and is 23.5 inches long. Emma weighed in at 14.1 and 24 inches long. We started rice cereal this week. Emma has the spoon thing down, davin not so much. These babies are amazing. Each day I'm so thankful and blessed to have them in my life. Can't wait to watch them grow... Well.. Maybe I can, not so fast though.

3 Months

Our sweet little ladies turned 3 months old this week. Man, they are changing so much, so fast. We had to take them in the the doctor earlier this month because they were having trouble with spit up issues, turns out, it's reflux. She put them on Zantac and they're good to go. While we were there they did weigh them. Emma weighed in at 12.6 and Davin weighed in at 12.5. She said they were growing great! We have gotten into a true routine of bath time,bottle time, book time and bed. We noticed that the nights we gave them a bath they slept 7 to 8 hours. So we made it a night time thing and it stuck and they do fantastic with it.

I love these girls. Their smiles are so contagious. They are in constant motion and occasionally they look up at me and I get a little watery in the eye area. They know how to really get into your emotions:) I am loving every minute of being a momma. Tonight we heard Emma really chuckle for the first time and I'm so glad nana got to hear it as we were face timing. We FaceTime my mom and dad every day when we get in from daycare and the girls really like it;)

Here are a few of my favorite pictures over the past few months.

happy new year!

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.