Rolling over!

I am super excited to say that Peanut for sure, for real rolled over yesterday. Butter has been doing it since a week or so after coming home from the hospital, but Peanut had not. He did roll over on our bed Monday, but I thought it was a fluke... Maybe not! I will try to get video up soon. My big boys..

3 months old

Another month has come and gone. We had a ton of fun enjoying the boys' first Christmas together. They are all 3 growing like weeds.

Doodle really enjoyed having fun with our Elf on a Shelf "Moo-Moo" and is very sad that he has gone back to the North Pole now that Christmas is over. Doodle also had his first ever Christmas program and he did a very good job of sitting still, singing, and doing his actions.

Peanut and Buttter continue to get bigger and bigger. Peanut has a herniated belly button that is now about the size of a large grape. The doctor says it will go away by the time he is 1 year, otherwise we will have to have a surgery. Butter is a chunky little guy and is very jolly. This month they have both really started smiling, laughing, and cooing to us. Peanut loves to have conversations and Butter is full of smiles.

2 months old!

Ahhh. Finally, a short free moment to update you all on the boys. They are doing great! Yesterday we had our 2 month doctor visit. They both continued to be 21 1/2 inches tall. Peanut is 8lbs 12 oz and Butter is 10lbs 3 oz. Peanut has a herniated belly button, but Dr. Werner says it should correct itself by the time he is one.

We have had a lot of fun firsts this last month. Both boy's have started to smile. It is A.D.O.R.A.B.L.E. So far I have only been able to catch Butter with the camera.

He is awfully adorable

Butter is also able to easily roll from this tummy to his back. He has been able to do this for some time now (the first time was 4 days after coming home from the hospital). I have video of it from October, I will have to find time to share...He is doing an amazing job of holding his head up and can already sit in a Bumbo. Big boy.

Peanut is not quite as advanced, but right on schedule. He can lift his head for shorter periods of time and is not ready to roll over yet. I hope to catch one of his little smiles on camera soon. They light up his whole face and make me melt. He has the sweetest little face.

This is his "I will not smile for the camera" face

Doodle continues to amaze me with how wonderful of a big brother he is. He loves his brothers. We are about to begin a journey into the adventures of Potty Training. Before the last couple of weeks Doodle has shown absolutely no interest in it. He would occasionally sit on the potty and even more occasionally go potty, but nothing consistent and we really had not been pushing it with the changes of the new babies. In the last few weeks he has really began to get grossed out when he goes "poopy" wanting to be changed right away and exclaiming "ewwww. gross... I poopy". He has also shown an actual interest in wearing the Spiderman "big boy" underwear that I bought him months ago. Both last night and today he actually asked to sit on the "big boy potty", he hasn't gone, but wanted to sit there. I think this weekend we will spend some time working on this. I know we would love to have 1 less box of diapers to buy!

Finally, it is CHRISTMAS TIME!! My most favorite time of the year. We have all our decorations up as of last night and I have been playing Christmas music for a week now. I also am happy to report that I am nearly done with my Christmas shopping. I cannot wait for Christmas this year. Doodle is enjoying talks of Santa and I just think it is going to be soooooo fun. We bought an "Elf on a Shelf" who he named "Moo-Moo" and I have been enjoying moving him around. Doodle says to me "Mommy, Moo-Moo moves around, don't touch him he will loose his magic." Oh how I love that sweet little boy.

2 months!

Crazy busy!

I will get to you, Blog, I will!

1 month gone

Its hard to believe my little monkey's are already 1 month old. The last month has been a blur of nursing, diapers, and sweet sweet snuggles. Yesterday we went in for their 1 month appointment. Peanut is weighing 7lbs 8 oz and Butter is weighing 8lbs oz. They both are 21 1/2 inches. Dr. Werner says that they are in the 25th percentile, which is great for twins. He also said that they both look great, which was a relief for mommy and daddy.

One of the most amazing parts of having the twins is watching them interact with each other and watching their older brother interact with them.

All snuggled up

So far the boys have been sleeping in our room. We have a twin pack and play that has a special bassinet on top for twins. At first we were putting the boys in their own bassinet, but the last couple of weeks they have been sharing one and sleeping all cuddled up together. It seems to work out really well for them.

 

1 month old

Love

So far the boys have been relatively good babies. They sleep fairly well at night (as well as can be expected for 2 one month olds), they have taken very well to nursing. We have given them a couple of bottles filled with breast milk so that they can start getting used to them for when I am not around and they both took the bottles like champs and both still easily latched on the breast again at their next feeding (http://www.kellymom.com/ -- great breast feeding resource!). We are blessed, they are both healthy, they do not have colic, and they are just the sweetest little guys in the universe.

Monday, of course, marked their first Halloween. We had so much fun dressing our three guys up as little super hero's.

Sweet little Superman

Na na na na Batman

Spiderman protecting his brothers with his spiderwebs

Doodle is such a great big brother and has really adjusted well. He gives them each the sweetest little kisses and hugs each day before he goes to day care. Last Saturday as we all sat together in my room I overheard him saying "We are all together, Mommy and Daddy and Keith and Brother and other Brother!!!". I cannot wait to watch them all grow together.

The babies are here!!

I have been slacking with this blog, but with good reason. Our sweet little boy's have arrived and I am excited to share their birth story. It is truly unique.

We were scheduled for our induction at 7:00 am on September 30th. I was 38 weeks. The anticipation of the day woke me up at 2:30 am that morning, unable to go back to sleep. I was excited.

My mom came to watch Doodle and arrived at 6:30 am. I ate a quick breakfast, we took a few pictures (us with Doodle, my giant belly) and headed off to the hospital.

38 weeks

When we arrived, we checked in and they began the process of getting everything set up. Dr. Johnson stopped in and checked me. I was about 2cm and 60% effaced, but my cervix was very very soft. By 9:00 am I was ready complete with an IV, a comfy spot in bed, and monitors all over. They started my Pitocin very slowly and planned to increase it every 1/2 hour. We started at 2.

From this point on it was a whole lot of hurry up and wait. The nurse (Sue) came in about every half hour to increase the Pitocin and check my vitals. At 12:30 Dr. Johnson came back to break my water and check me. I was between 3 and 4 cm and about 90% effaced. Nathan and I watched movies, played Monopoly on the iPad and tried to nap, which was easier said than done for me due to the anticipation and the blood pressure cuff. Around 2:30 I got my epidural, mostly because I just wanted it over with, I was more nervous about that and getting the IV than the actual birth of the twins. The day slowly ticked by and eventually the nurses changed shifts. I think our new nurses name was Julie (Im horrible with names, I just happened to know Sue from golf league). We continued to increase the Pitocin every 1/2 hour and around 9 pm my contractions started to be more uncomfortable. As the time went by I began to think there was no way I would be having these babies in September and was beginning to wonder if I would be ending up with a C-Section.

At about 11:00 pm my nurse checked me and I was between 7 and 8 cm. She called in Dr. Johnson who arrived about 10 to 15 minutes later. By then I was at 9 cm. Things really started to go fast. In the next 15 minutes I was transferred to the operating room for delivery. Since I was having twins it was required that I give birth there in case there was a need for an emergency C-Section. I was informed that if baby B flipped after baby A came out I would be put to sleep and they would do a C-Section. We had a team of around 11 people in the room including to OB's. My regular OB to deliver the babies and another, Dr. Kenna who was running and ultra sound machine on my stomach to see what Butter did once Peanut was out. The next thing I knew it was time to push. At 11:41 pm on September 30th, Kyle Jeffery DeLaet was born. He was 6lbs 9oz and 19 1/2 inches long and has tons of black hair.

As we are rejoicing in the birth of our second son, the realization hits that I am not done. Dr. Kenna has been pushing down on my belly to prevent Butter from flipping to Breach. He slowly moves into the birth canal as we joke about how funny it would be if he were born after 12:00 gaining himself not only a different birth day, but also a different birth month. Sure enough at 12:12 am on October 1st, 2011 Kollin Michael DeLaet joined this world. He was 6lbs 11oz and 19 inches long with barely any hair. Both boys were born vaginally, exactly how I had wanted them.

Miracles.

Kyle was born with the umbilical cord tied around his neck and was pretty stressed from birth. Kollin had some trouble breathing the first night so we spent the next 2 days in the NICU. Fortunately a little TLC was all either of them needed and we were all able to come home on schedule. Over a week later we are a little sleep deprived, but IN LOVE! The twins are fraternal, there is no doubt about that, they look very different and are so precious in their own ways.

 

Doodle is a great big brother. He is so excited about the boys. We have been working with him to slow down and not play rough around them, but he is very gentle with them and gives them the sweetest kisses. He wakes up each morning and asks "Where are my brothers". He has also been a huge help. I look forward to watching them all grow together.



36 week appointment

We had our 2nd to last appointment on Friday! Yay! We are getting so excited.. Not only to meet the boys, but to finally reveal their names to all of our friends and family!

I was able to talk with Dr. Johnson a little more on Friday about how it will work on the 30th, assuming we make it that long (I was 1 cm dilated and 60% effaced). This birth sounds like it will be quite a bit different than Doodles regardless of it being a c-section or a vaginal birth. Instead of being in the same room the whole time, I will give birth in an operating room, just in case something should go wrong and I would have to have an emergency c-section. I will have to get my epidural early (which I am fine with, no pain tolerance here) again, in case something happens. As of now Peanut is still vertex (head down) and Butter is transverse. Dr. Johnson is confident that once Peanut is out Butter is favorable to flip head down as well (YIPPEE!!). If he doesn't, we will have to have a c-section with him, which is really my biggest fear, recovering from a vaginal birth with one twin and a c-section with the other...

I was pretty emotional in the appointment, its just crazy to think that we are so close. The thought of them being here chokes me up.

My appointment did reveal that my blood pressure is slowing going up each visit, with it being borderline high this time. I was given instructions to take it very easy this weekend and Dr. Johnson will be monitoring my stress tests closely this week. We will see how it looks tomorrow as my swelling continues to be really bad regardless of the fact that I have not done much of anything this weekend. I am hopeful it will be back down as I only have 8 days of work left.

I purchased Doodle's big brother gift today. We plan to have a present from each of this brother's waiting for him in the hospital room when he comes in to meet his brothers. We got him some match box airplanes so he will get 2 from each brother. My husband and I are also planning a special "Big Brother Day" for him on September 29th (the day before his little brothers come). We are going to do all sorts of his favorite things and just really focus on making him feel special and loved. It should be fun and hopefully a good memory for him when he gets older.