Happy New Year!!! and they are discharging us tomorrow

It will probably take awhile for Jackson and Connor to learn how to properly celebrate New Years but we didn't want our hospital stay to stop them from celebrating their first big holiday.

What big things we expect to see in 2010. As far as we know, they only made it until 10:30 p.m. but we could only imagine what kind of partying was going on in the nursery!! What fun the nurses must have had that night.

We are scheduled to be discharged tomorrow and are totally terrified. We may or may not have asked if we could just pay to stay in the hospital a couple days longer. There was a lot of discussion about having a support system in tact and it really resonated with me that we REALLY didn't have much organized. Obviously, we would have visitors and the sitters were set up once I was returning to work but the day to day taking care of the boys was our responsibility and especially for their mom, who could barely walk until yesterday, it was a daunting task. 

But, for these two cuties, we will figure it out.

And then we became a family....

On December 28, 2009, Jackson Charles was born at 1:57 p.m. and he was followed by his little brother, Connor Patrick, at 1:59 p.m. Jackson weighed in at 6 lbs 14 ounces and Connor had his big brother beat slightly at 7 lbs 12 ounces.

Both boys measured 20 1/5 inches and were finally happy to have enough wiggle room outside of mommy's belly.

Jackson was so happy to meet everyone that he announced his arrival in splashing fashion hosing down the doctors and medical staff. We were so excited to finally meet our babies and figure out how just how much our lives would change..........
 

Our last Christmas as just the two of us.....

Despite a very lazy morning and afternoon that actually including me taking a nap, which NEVER happens, we arrived to celebrate Christmas with the family.   Everybody was in shock that we actually came out to celebrate. 

We had hoped to have 2 additions to celebrate their first holiday but they just aren't ready yet. Maybe New Years?!? or Valentine's Day.  Their 1st Christmas onesies will be returned when I am out of the house again.....

 Sophia holding onto the bump and feeling Baby A and Baby B.

Mary and I on our last Christmas without our babies.

Family.

They're coming soon but not yet....

I went in for a check-up and my blood pressure was slightly elevated.  The doctors had no choice but to send me to the hospital.  Since we were not expecting this as a possibility as nothing had changed (that I could tell), we stopped at the house on the way to the hospital to get our bag.  Again, it was ready but we just didn't think it was time.

Jackson and Connor had other plans and we were sent home but not after hours spent laying in the hospital bed.  I was never a big drinker of water prior to pregnancy with the boys but I was consistently thirsty and one thing that you are not allowed to have in the hospital if there is a chance for delivery is water.  There were several nurses that were rooting for it to by my day and one who wasn't.  I asked her to her to check my bloodpressure whichever way was the "right" way to figure out whether or not I was staying or leaving.  In the end, we were sent home with my itchy and I mean ITCHY stomach.  The pups rash appeared yesterday on my first day of "bed rest" and it is not to be taken lightly especially when your husband takes the only car that you can drive out of fear that you are going to try to go out.  The neighbors took pity on me and got some cream that is working.

Belly pic in case today was the "DAY!"

A tour around Double the Fun's Nursery

Many, many years ago before going through the struggles of infertility, we had discussed that once (not an if) we had children, we wouldn't be finding out the gender. As a result, we've had portions of the Alphabet Soup bedding set from Pottery Barn Kids sitting in our attic once they discontinued it. It matches the gingham and with the help of some winning bids on ebay, we were able to secure everything we needed.

One of the items that we needed to secure was a second valance as two babies do not fit into the small bedroom of the house. This room received a lot of love from Tony and Gina with the paint and hanging and organization.

The rug may be our favorite part of the room.

This crib will soon house Baby A and Baby B. We are so excited to meet you. 

The bookshelf and baskets full of bibs, receiving baskets, toys and bathing supplies.

And, once it is time for Baby A and Baby B to be separated, we are ready with the 2nd crib. 

Some of the wall art. 

Despite the scramble to make this in to a room for 2, we wouldn't have it any other way.  It turned out exactly how we planned and these little people have no idea how excited that their parents are to welcome them home.

Please stay inside for just a little longer

The wintry weather arrived a lot earlier than what I was expecting and we received enough snow to keep us inside and require an actual shovel.   We were so concerned that Baby A and Baby B were ready to meet us.  Good thing that they decided to stay inside for just a little bit longer. At least it happened after my LAST week of work before going on bed rest.  Everybody was on major alert and since we are so close to the hospital, we knew that if need be -- we could have reached the hospital.

We are ready for Christmas babies (if they want to join us)

Since we had no idea when the babies are going to arrive. I was determined to get the house ready in case they decided to join us for Christmas.  After the rush to get everything done with the house, I thought why not add another item to our list.  Michael was adamantly against it but we had the 1st Christmas outfits ready to go.  

In case they are ready, so are we.