Our McDouble!!: October 2011

How did that happen?! Apparently, both Kirk and I are natural bloggers as so much time has passed since our last post. Time has seriously been flying! We are all happy and healthy and HOME! It's hard to even think back to when we were all in the hospital and especially hard to think about when we were discharged with Benny while Josiah was still in the NICU. I still can't talk about it without crying.
Josiah is a champion eater and is super alert...he gives us lots of smiles and laughs a lot in his sleep (melts our hearts!)
Benny is still the smaller of the two, but I wouldn't be surprised if he's caught up with his brother...he's eating ALL the time these days!
I was hoping the blog would be a journal of sorts chronicling our life with our twin boys, but it has proven to be much more difficult for both of us than we thought to get to the computer and keep up with it. Between feeding, burping, changing, rocking, sleeping and finding time for us to do some of those things as well...getting to the computer has taken a backseat. Luckily, i found the blogger iPhone app, so I'm composing this blog while double breast pumping (sorry, TMI) and the boys are having a rare moment of sleeping at the SAME time :-)
Both the boys are getting more and more alert every week and are reacting a lot more to our faces and voices. It is such a blast watching them grow and change...it's amazing.
Our hearts feel like they could just burst with love for these boys, it's seriously amazing being a parent!
I must also say that neither one of us have ever known sleep deprivation on this level before. Sometimes I get nervous thinking, "how can I be THIS tired and still (this is where I stopped cause something came up)...
So a few days later, I'm resuming this post to say that I am determined to be more diligent and keep this blog up to date since for some of our family and friends out of town (and who don't have Facebook), this is our mode of updating them.
We've been blessed to have lots of visitors, and some in particular have been Kirk's mom and grandma all the way from Michigan and Indiana! They stayed with us for a week and were so amazing. Pam can really do circles around anyone I've ever met...her energy is endless. Grandma Shirley is the best baby rocker I've ever seen. We were so sad to see then go as the boys are growing so fast and next time we see them, they will have changed so much. We miss our families so much!
My parents have come and stayed with us several times and lots of our family from up north have made the trek down south as well. It means so much having them come down and meet the boys!
Here's a few pics of the boys over the past few weeks...I know, they're WAY too cute!!