Hospital Pictures - Finally!

The hospital just sent us confirmation on the girls' birth pictures. If you would like to go look at them, here are their access codes:

http://birthprint.com/
209417
209433

I can't believe they were ever that small (and those were actually taken at about 3 weeks. They couldn't do their pictures when they were born becuase they were on IV's, monitors, feeding tubes...)

Four Months

At four and a half months, Brooklyn weighs more than Adriana, but Adriana is longer.

As of January 26, 2009: Brooklyn weighs in at 15 lbs and Adriana is 14 lbs 9 oz.

Both girls have distinct personalities at this point. Adriana is the quiet play by herself and be happy type, Brookly likes to have the attention on her and wants someone to be playing with her always. Both of them love to talk. Adriana will talk and goo and yell. Brooklyn is our little giggler.

One of Brooklyn's favorite things to do is to get dressed. I have no idea why, but this makes her giggle even more. Putting her arms through her clothes is so funny to her!

Adriana loves her little red monkey toy. She carries the monkey everywhere and talks to it.

Brooklyn hates to be buckled in her carseat. Adriana cries at strangers.

Three months

Adriana: 13 lbs, Brooklyn: 13 lbs 1 oz! Brooklyn is Phat! So the "little" sister is now just the "younger" sister!

Brooklyn has been sleeping through the night, about 6-8 hours a night. Adriana still gets up about every 3-4 hours to eat, but with only feeding one, I can usually get back to bed fairly quickly (if she decides she doesn't want to play at 3am!)

Both have discovered they love to look at lights, especailly Christmas lights.

Brooklyn loves to talk, Adriana likes to yell!

Two Months

This was our first family picture together. We took the girls to a studio and had their first "official" pictures done. Both girls are wearing newborn clothes now. Adriana wieghs in at 9 lbs 9 oz and is 21" long. Brooklyn wieghs in at 9 lbs 5.5 oz and is 20.5" long.

One Month

These were taken one day while they were in their crib. Brooklyn was still wearing preemie clothes at this point (she is on the right). I think it is adorable how Adriana is reaching for her nose. It was common for me to tell Brooklyn to "stop eating your sister!"

Adriana: 6 lbs 13 oz, 18.75" long
Brooklyn: 5 lbs 15.5 oz, 18.5" long

Robert put Brooklyn in a basket to see how small she was still at one month.

This was Adriana's first bath at home.

Time spent in the NICU.

Adriana is always on the left and Brooklyn is always on the right. That is how they were labeled Baby A and Baby B in the hospital.

At this point, both girls had their IV's taken out but still had to have feeding tubes in.

Both girls had to be under the lights for jaundice. They had velcro sunglasses to their heads.

What we went through at the hospital.

This was mommy's first time seeing us after we were taken to the NICU by daddy. We had to stay on warming beds.



Then we had to stay in isolete's for awhile to learn to keep our bodies warm.

Our first day in our crib at the hospital together.

In order for us to go home, we had to pass a car seat test. So the nurse strapped us in our car seats with all our monitors on and we had to sit there for an hour! If we had any "episodes" (heart or breathing rates change) then we couldn't go home! Luckily we breathe and beat well!

Birth

"Baby A"
Adriana Elizabeth
Thurs. Sept. 4, 2008, 4 lbs 13 oz, 7:08pm
25 days spent in the NICU

"Baby B"
Brooklyn Nicole
Thurs. Sept. 4, 2008, 4 lbs 2 oz, 7:09pm
23 days spent in the NICU

The Twins Growth

I am going to do a post for each month the girls have grown. I will start with their birth and go to from there. We will soon be doing our 5 months pictures, so hopefully, fingers crossed, I will have all posts updated to that point so the 5 month post should be a breeze.... we'll see....

My previous posts were me trying to learn this whole blogging thing... I will try to post different pictures from the girls' first few months so I don't have repeats (which wouldn't really matter anyway, they are just so darn cute!)

Natalie Grace

Kerry and Todd welcomed a baby girl last Monday. Natalie Grace was 6lbs 2 oz on Monday Jan. 5, 2009 at 3:07pm Eastern time. Big brother Benjamin is thrilled.