Our Pictures

Since we've been taking so many pictures and expect to take ALOT more, I've made a picasa album. Just click on this link and or on the link at the right of the blog and it will take you to all of them.

One Month Birthday!

I'm a little late with this posting, but our boys are already one month old! I still can't believe it. It has been so much fun seeing them grow and get chubbier and get to know their personalities.

We call Carter our goof ball. And... the baby with the big head. It just keeps getting bigger! He likes to fake burp for us which is really funny. He's really difficult to burp and seems to know that when we pound on his back, that's what we're waiting for. So, he lets out these fake burps. So cute!

Brandt is our more serious baby. He gets down to business at his feedings, but so much so that sometimes he'll puke up his bottle. We're learning to make him go a bit slower so he'll stop chugging it down and making himself sick. He's our cuddler, though. He loves to cuddle and get cozy after his feedings.

Here are some pictures we've taken over the past week of our little munchkins.

Brandt

Brandt and Carter

Carter and Brandt (it was funny when I took this picture...Brandt kept kicking Carter in the butt and making him SO mad)

Carter's baby butt
Carter
Brandt
Brandt again

Carter

Carter again

Me snuggling with Brandt

The boys hangin out in their pack 'n play

Brandt deep in thought as he sleeps in his bouncy chair

Carter and Brandt having more fun in their pack 'n play

Pics while I was in the hospital

These pictures make me kind of sad. I wish I had been home the first week the boys were home, but at least I'm home now!

Here's my dad and Eric's mom feeding the boys.

Carter and Brandt sleeping in their bed and getting bigger by the minute!
Proud Grandpa with his grandsons-he's finally not the only male in the family!

Here I am in hospital on my birthday. I'm kind of gray and my eyes are so dark. My blood work results weren't good that day, but at least my biopsy results were! This was the day I found out my bone marrow was producing healthy cells, just not much of them! I had an iron transfusion right after this picture was taken because I had absolutely no iron stores in my marrow.

This was taken the day I got home. We were so happy!

Pics from the day the boys were born

Me right after being prepped for surgery and waiting for them to come get me.

Eric and I talking about something really important :)

Here I am with the anesthesiologist, Dr. Carter. During the surgery, we were joking around and told him how he was such a great doctor and we were going to name one of the boys after him. He thought it was pretty funny and told us he tends to have that effect on people.

Eric sending out mass text messages letting people know the boys were going to arrive soon.

Here we are...soon to be parents!

Here we are with my dad and sister, Kaylyn. My family was so excited! It was great they were there the whole time.

Here we are with my mom and sister. I'm so glad my mom was with me the whole day.

Here we go! They wheeled me in and Eric had to wait right outside the OR until I was prepped. He probably thought something was wrong because it took so long-they couldn't get some of the monitors to turn on!

The last belly picture!

The day the boys were delivered, my mom had her camera with her and took my picture while I was waiting for my last ultrasound. Little did I know I was going to meet them later that day! This was when I was 34 6/7 weeks preggo.

Early baby pictures not yet posted

Here are some pictures from when we brought home the babies and their first doctor's appointment. They've been on our other computer and I completely forgot about them!

Me giving Carter his last bottle at the hospital.

Eric buckling Carter in.

Brandt all ready to go home

Donna, one of our favorite NICU nurses with the boys before we left. She was great and really stocked us up with baby stuff when we left.

Eric bringing the babies from the car.

Introducing the boys to their room.

Putting the boys down for the first time.

This is the morning after we brought them home. We all survived the first night!!

Proud Daddy with his boys waiting for the doctor's office to open up. (this might be the last time we're early for anything again!)

After naptime stretch!

Eric and I get a kick out of waking up the boys for their feedings and watching them stretch. We swaddle them tightly since that is what they did in the hospital and, well, they go to sleep easily when they are wrapped up tight like a burrito. It's just so funny, though, to unwrap them and see them stretch.



Here's a video of them stretching. As a disclaimer, I'm not naked in the video! I was still in my shower wrap so my shoulders were bare! :)