Passport Day!

The girls are now just over three weeks old. I’m not sure where the time has gone. Each day goes by about the same right now, so aren’t even sure what day it is sometimes. Do we have an appointment today? Should we go to the store? Is the store closed today? What time is it?

Névé and Siena are doing fantastic. At their two week appointment the girls both gained about a half a pound and 1.5 cm in length. They both have two kidneys in perfect working order and their hips are growing just how they should be. These are all things the Germans check for in a first appointment, as we are going to the German doctors. We are also following the immunizations from the Germans, so the girls will get their first shots in two weeks.

I’m sure you can see in the pictures Nate posts, the girls are growing like crazy and have slightly different facial features. Their faces have filled out much more and they are getting more expressions and little personalities each day. They keep us pretty entertained. There isn’t a day we don’t laugh at something they do.

Today, we are going to get the girls their first legal US documents. Passports. It is funny to think that our kids will have passport pictures taken at 3 weeks to last them until they are 5. They must have passports before they can get US birth certificates or social security numbers. Funny, huh?

Passport time. Pictures in their pictures dresses to follow.


Névé's photo looks similar to this.


Siena was a bit more patient, or sleepy.

Feed Break

Good morning! Er, it’s almost morning now. We’re now keeping a little bit of a different schedule now since the girls arrived. It’s now the time from the first ‘nap’ to the first pump/feeding, then we’ll go back to sleep around midnight and repeat in about 2 hours. Nate and I have been sleeping with the girls at night, each with one on the couch or chair. It works well to keep them sleeping for about 3 hours each time, and leaving me pretty functional, but it is early…

I am feeling really good after the arrival of the girls on Tuesday of last week. They are only 5 days old today, hard to believe, as it now feels to have been longer. I have more ‘time’ during the day that I’m home, more or less due to the fact that I’ve always worked, so being home just feels different. The time we do have goes by on a much different schedule, so it doesn’t feel like a long Sunday if we are just around the house.

We went to the doctor today to get Siena checked for her slight jaundice. The second child of twins seems to have this more as the bruising that can happen as she slides into place during birth. The midwives wait for the first to be born and then try to hold/guide to second into place from both sides of my belly so she didn’t turn and go breech, requiring a c-section. Siena did great and had gained 110gm in a day and the jaundice was almost gone. It wasn’t really noticeable in her color. She did almost poop on the doctor, which would have been great, she was not very nice and needed a good slap to the face.

Well, I suppose I should wake, change, and feed Névé so we can go back to sleep and repeat in about 3 hours. More pictures are always on the way, or you can check our Flickr sites at the right links. Nate is a little ahead of me in that, but I hope to get a few pictures up this week. As for now, I like to think of myself as a feeding machine, or a goat… sounds better than cow to me.


Coming home


Big brother Osu and 'My newborn clothes are WAY too big'

They're Here!

Dawn and I will write up the absolutely amazing experience that was yesterday, 31 January 2012, in the coming days.  Right now, I just wanted to provide a brief update for those that may not be able to see all of the updates on Facebook.  Be assured, all three girls are doing excellent!  Tomorrow, they should be allowed to leave the hospital around 11 am.  However, I also have to find someone to pull the stitches out of my back from last weeks surgery tomorrow, and I'm told it could be a long wait.  Once that is done and the girls are released, however, we'll finally all get to be together in our own house.  I can't wait.  My short visits to the hospital just haven't been enough and I really miss all of the girls.  It's hard not having them here, but going through and processing the pictures I've taken so far puts a huge smile on my face.  Here are a few of those pictures, along with a link to all that I have finished up to this point.  I actually still have quite a few pictures to go through from yesterday, and some that I took today too.  I'll share those as soon as I can!

Dawn with the girls minutes after giving birth

Siena says, "hello"

Névé (L) and Siena (R) at their four hour check-up

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