Today is Brenna & Karsen's official due date. Thank goodness they are already here and are healthy happy babies! They are becoming more and more alert and respond to mine and Branden's voices. Both of them are quite the eaters. We're now up to 4 ounces at each feeding. Good gracious! I make 42 ounces of formula in the evenings and that gets us through about 1pm the next day. We're starting to learn each of their quirks. Brenna prefers to sleep on her belly. I'm not to excited about that...BUT she sleeps much more sound and for a longer amount of time. She's also not a morning person at all. I gradually wake her up in the morning to eat her 'breakfast'. Now, Karsen on the other hand...sleeps on his back with arms straight up above his head. All boy! HAHA! He loves the morning. I bring both babies to the living room and put them in their play pen after breakfast and he just lays their and looks around.
As we headed into this week, I unfortunately had a set back. Early Sunday morning, I started having horrible pains under my rib cage. I thought it was just gas pressure but a trip to the Emergency Room 6 hours later proved it to be a spasm in my gallbladder. So, Monday morning, Branden and I were at St. Joseph's Hospital AGAIN for me to have my gallbladder removed. While it was a fairly simple procedure, I do have 4 more cuts on my stomach. Talk about a minor set back! Just when I was getting the hang of being a mommy on my own...On the upside, no more pains or having to worry with it coming back :)
My mom, Nana/Nanny, came and stayed with Branden and I Monday night. Poor thing had no idea how rough it is! She was a trooper I must say. She got up with Branden and fed the bambinos at all hours. I laughed when she looked at the clock and realized it was already 2pm and neither one of us had had lunch! HA! None the less, we where so excited to have her help and glad she got to spend time with us!!!
All in all, the Wickel household is doing well! Let's hope there will NOT be a trip to St. Jo's during the month of May!!!
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Time Flies TWICE as fast
I started this blog thinking that I would have SOME time to keep famliy updated on our happenings...Well, little did I know that it would get extremely hectic with twins when we finally got home. So, here's a little update on whats been going on in the past couple weeks.
Twins were born March 21 and we ALL came home March 25. Both babies still had a little jaundice and had to go back to Bryan for blood work the 26th and 27th. THEN a weight check on 28th and 30th. So needless to say, Branden and I are pros at getting ready, packing the entire house (cause let's face it, I still don't know what I need and don't need), driving to Bryan, feeding kiddos in the car and running errands without so much as a whimper from either baby :)
I must say, they are pretty laid back for right now. They both seem to need each other. Brenna seems to be a quite the lovey dovey child and has to touch Karsen in some form or fashion. Whether its a hand on his arm, or a foot in his face, she always touches him. Karsen is seeming to be all "little man". He lays stretched out with arms above head like he's macho man! So stinkin' cute. I find myself staring at them and watching them breathe during the day. It still amazes me that they are Branden and I. Our creator is good!!!
We did hit a rough patch trying to figure out what works best for each baby and realizing that just because they are twins doesn't mean they are going to act the same way. Our routine was a tad off because of all the running we'd been doing but we FINALLY have it down thanks to a summary on babywise by my cousin-in-law, and many other words of wisdom. They bathe around 9pm, eat, swaddle and go 'night-night'. Lord willing they don't wake again until 12:30am.
This week, I decided to brave being on my own with them...It's been nice. I can move around more so than I did the first week home (silly c-section wound! LOL) so it's easier for me to manuver them in and out of bouncy seats, cribs, ect. We're pretty good at our daytime routine. BUT we certainly LOVE when Daddy gets home...Mommy gets to sit out side and take a minute :).
Everyone says parenthood is the best thing ever and you'll love every minute of it. I've decided that is an understatement. Being a parent is so much more than anything I could have ever imagined. You think about the 'best thing ever' before being a parent and wonder, so this is what its like...NOPE, you never truly understand until you hold your babies (or baby) in your arms even when they are crying, fussy, smiling because they're gassy or just sleeping...that oyu appreciate what a gift from God you have.
Twins were born March 21 and we ALL came home March 25. Both babies still had a little jaundice and had to go back to Bryan for blood work the 26th and 27th. THEN a weight check on 28th and 30th. So needless to say, Branden and I are pros at getting ready, packing the entire house (cause let's face it, I still don't know what I need and don't need), driving to Bryan, feeding kiddos in the car and running errands without so much as a whimper from either baby :)
I must say, they are pretty laid back for right now. They both seem to need each other. Brenna seems to be a quite the lovey dovey child and has to touch Karsen in some form or fashion. Whether its a hand on his arm, or a foot in his face, she always touches him. Karsen is seeming to be all "little man". He lays stretched out with arms above head like he's macho man! So stinkin' cute. I find myself staring at them and watching them breathe during the day. It still amazes me that they are Branden and I. Our creator is good!!!
We did hit a rough patch trying to figure out what works best for each baby and realizing that just because they are twins doesn't mean they are going to act the same way. Our routine was a tad off because of all the running we'd been doing but we FINALLY have it down thanks to a summary on babywise by my cousin-in-law, and many other words of wisdom. They bathe around 9pm, eat, swaddle and go 'night-night'. Lord willing they don't wake again until 12:30am.
This week, I decided to brave being on my own with them...It's been nice. I can move around more so than I did the first week home (silly c-section wound! LOL) so it's easier for me to manuver them in and out of bouncy seats, cribs, ect. We're pretty good at our daytime routine. BUT we certainly LOVE when Daddy gets home...Mommy gets to sit out side and take a minute :).
Everyone says parenthood is the best thing ever and you'll love every minute of it. I've decided that is an understatement. Being a parent is so much more than anything I could have ever imagined. You think about the 'best thing ever' before being a parent and wonder, so this is what its like...NOPE, you never truly understand until you hold your babies (or baby) in your arms even when they are crying, fussy, smiling because they're gassy or just sleeping...that oyu appreciate what a gift from God you have.
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