i really don’t. i have so much to say, so many emotions, memories, so much excitement…and the exhaustion. oh, the exhaustion! i forgot how crazy it is. but the best kind of crazy there is!
i know i’m not ready to share the birth story. i need to remember it, write it down, and then share it. it was wonderful. it really was. a dream delivery…to these two precious babies!
i thought for today i’d just share some photos and words.
a quick primer on how to tell the chickies apart:
lucy is WAY bigger. she also has way more/darker hair.
cate’s features are tiny. she is tiny. like a little wee elf!
they both have clefts in their chin and awesome dark hair.
cate on left, lucy claire on right:
cate and j on his couch. he was SO happy to say goodbye to that couch! although it was pretty swank compared to the chairs we have gotten in the past in military hospitals!
this photo cracks me up b/c they look so much alike!
we have been doing lots and lots of practicing of the “double football hold”. i think i’m getting a hang of it, and it makes breast feeding SO SO much easier.
although obviously when i do it their heads go in, not out.
a bit about the bigs meeting the littles…the joy on their faces when they walked int the room made my heart hurt.
it was truly overwhelming. and a testament to God’s love and blessings…pure joy is just so beautiful.
harper especially…it melted my heart. i am so proud of her. she is really, truly over the moon happy to be a big big sister. she takes the job very seriously.
and sadie…well, we’re working on it. in THEORY she is VERY excited. in theory. she wants to touch them, and we are teaching her that “gently touch” is not the same as “poke your sister’s eyes out”.
she’s only two. and at two the world revolves around YOU. she has been the baby her entire life. it’s all she knows.
getting used to anything other than that is hard for her.
she’s thrown some fits…
pouted a bit:
and then in a classic move (perfected in christmas of 2009)…
she tried to lick the baby.
because that’s what sadie does. 🙂
i have no doubt she will survive. but i hate that it is so overwhelming to her right now. so i sneak moments with her…love on her, hold her, whisper her secrets…and wait for her to adjust.
we are all adjusting! and this house is so full of love, i just can’t stop whispering that same old three word prayer over and over…
thank you Lord.
i hope you all had a beautiful, blessed thanksgiving!
xoxo
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