Happy Easter & The Other Too-Ate!

Today we celebrated Easter and Brent's 28th Birthday! Ape came up from Charleston to eat brunch with us. Her birthday was 2 days ago on the 6th. We used to celebrate it together when we were little. I hope everyone had a Happy Easter! We miss you all!

The Big Too-Ate!

I can't believe that I'm 28 years old today! I feel like I've got one foot in the grave but I can't complain because it's the first birthday I've had as a momma and I couldn't ask for anything better than that!

Another Whirlwind of Visitors!

So, my little bro left Tuesday morning and my best friend, Laura (aka Aunt Zippy) came into town on Tuesday. She so far has been the only visitor to make it through a whole night of baby feedings! It was great and Brent got to sleep straight through that first night. Of course, I abused the crap out of him by sleeping through at least one feeding every night for the rest of the week. Anyway, Aunt Zippy was awesome and she was completely great with her niece and nephew. More so, she got me back to my roots a bit by being silly and helping me regain my sanity. It was refreshing as hell! We had fun just hanging out and playing with the kids. She left on Saturday afternoon. I miss her so bad!

Another one of my old friends that I've known since kindergarten came into town on Friday to see the little turdballs. She's a momma herself so she was just a natural at scooping up the babies and burping them or playing with them or whatever. I forget how nice it is to talk to someone who has known me since we were both so little. We both have such funny memories of being dorky little kids and getting into trouble together.

The babies are doing so well! We had a doctor's appointment today for them to get their first HUGE round of shots. Callie weighs 10 lbs. 14 oz. and Wyatt is at 10 lbs. 6 oz. We have dubbed her "Big Bertha" since she is turning into such a beast! Poor little Wyatt is starting to look scrawny compared to the Michelin woman. I keep telling her to pack it on while she can because it's the only time in her life when being obese is precious! She's my little homie!

2006 vs. 2007

Shows you how much we've changed! Hahaha! (It's cute Laura...LAUGH!)

Fun Pictures From This Weekend!

Brandon is leaving tomorrow to go back to Germany. I'm totally sad about it but it was nice to be able to spend time with him. Hopefully, we will be able to con the grandparents into watching the rugrats for a few days so that Brent and I can go visit him in Germany. We had a really great weekend except for the fact that some woman said to me, "Looks like you've got a little one in the oven!" I was mortified and she is lucky I didn't strangle her with my bare hands right then and there! Needless to say, I started running this morning and a strict diet too. I can't believe that she said that to me! I have this lingering embarrassment that I can't seem to shake and now I feel the need to suck in my gut when I'm in public. Pew. Anyway, here are some cute pictures from this weekend...

Fishing with the babies yesterday afternoon!

Uncle Binky and Frank the Tank!

Hooka & Shotguns! Look at my flawless technique!

Brandon and Caroline
Binky and I went cast net fishing last night!

Uncle Binky!

Uncle Binky flew home from Germany last week to meet the kids for the first time. Frank and Brandon share so much family resemblance that I think he could pass Frank off as his own kid. Brandon is moving back to the United States next month and will be stationed at Fort Stewart. I couldn't be happier about that and I'm excited that Caroline and Wyatt will get to spend tons of time with their crazy Uncle Bink!

The twins are doing so well! They had a doctor's appointment last week and Caroline weighed in at 9 lbs. 7 oz. and Wyatt at 9 lbs. 5 oz. They are eating like two fat pigs and I say more power to them! The fatter the better! Wyatt rolled over from his stomach to his back twice today and I was lucky enough to catch it on video! I can't believe how fast these runts are growing!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Please watch this hilarious crackhead leprachaun video! For one, Mobile Alabama is hurting for news. For two, where did these peeps git ther edu-ma-cation? I can't believe these people are for real! I don't know which part is my favorite... the "amateur sketch" or the woman who thinks it's a crackhead who bought some bad stuff and went to live up in a tree! It blows my mind that these peoples' vote counts for just as much as mine! It really makes me want to stick a fork in my eye!

His First Smile Too!

Victory is mine!!!! I told Brent that I was going to kill him if these babies smiled at him first. Lucky me, Wyatt smiled his first real smile at ME the day after Callie did! It was so precious! Brent swears that the kids will be begging hugs from him before me. We'll see! :)


Taking the kids out in public kinda seems like we are part of a freak show. People stare, point, and feel the need to come up and talk to us. We might as well have hot pink mohawks and tattoos all over our faces. It's weird. I sort of experienced the same thing when I was pregnant when a stranger found out I was having twins. It wasn't as bad though since they were under a layer of skin and most people didn't assume that there were two buns in the oven. Now though, we can't hide them and we have to answer the dumbest questions over and over! "Are those twins?" NO! One is ours and the other one we bought at Walmart! "Are they identical?" YES! We just chose to dress one up as a girl and one up as a boy! I guess it's something that Brent and I will have to get used to...

6 Weeks...6 Hours...& Her First Smile!

Yesterday was so great for the babies! I can't believe that they are already six weeks old! It's so sad seeing how fast they grow and how everyday, it seems like I'm saying goodbye to my teeny tiny little peanuts! They are turning into true porkers! Callie slept 6 hours and 14 minutes last night! I was so proud of her! It would have been a great stretch of sleep for me and Brent if the babies were on the same schedule during the night - of course, that would be way too good to be true. This morning I starting playing with Callie and she genuinely smiled at me! It was so cute and melted my heart! I can't wait until she's smiling all the time! (But there I go again...wishing time away.) We took some pictures at bath time today and while I don't think that the kids look anything alike, other people have a hard time figuring out which one is Frank and which one is Callie. The tank is on the left and miss thang is on the right.

Lots-O-Visitors

We had a really busy week with company this past week. Ape came on Sunday to see the kids and we went shopping. Shopping just isn't the same now that I have kids. I shop for kiddie clothes and diapers and other baby crap. Plus, I'm still too fat to buy any cute clothes for myself. Heath came to help out with the babies on Tuesday and Wednesday. She was the best helper ever! She brought dinner and helped me clean and made cookies! I hadn't been able to pal around with her for a REALLY long time and it was just great being able to spend time with her. My parents came on Friday and will be here through Tuesday. We took the kids to visit their great grandmother yesterday... their first real outting! It's been really fun but the days go by so ridiculously fast. By the way, wish me luck... Brent goes out of town on Monday and I'm going to have to feed these runts all by myself during the night. I'm very scared!

Silly Pics of Wy-to-the-Yatt and Callie-fornia

One Day Old...

Today the babies would have been officially one day old if they would have made it to their due date. I feel like we cheated and got to spend an extra month with them by evicting them early. Wyatt had a few issues but damn, it was worth it! I have to fight tears almost every day when I think about how fast they are growing and how I never want them to leave home! Callie had her first dance with her daddy and I just started bawling imagining myself at her wedding and flashing back to that first dance with Brent. I never knew that you could love someone so much!

This week has been a mini vacation for me. Brent's mom came to help out this week and it's been great! I've been able to stock the freezer with some meals that I cooked like spaghetti and other crap so we will have some reprieve from our cereal dinners. Feeding the twins was easier and quicker, finding time to clean the house was nice, getting more sleep than I had in awhile was also nice. I've left the house a couple of times for diaper or formula runs and I can't believe how much I miss the kids even when I'm only gone an hour! Hell, I miss them while they are taking naps!

Brent's Mini-Me

Brent has succeeded in cloning himself! It's almost creepy!

The Tank is Free!

Today, Brent and I made the executive decision to free Frank from his stupid monitor! It's so nice having a baby that is not hooked up to a computer anymore. The monitor just seemed unnecessary and it was rubbing his skin raw where the band went around his chest. It went off randomly and the memory in it finally filled up. We wanted to run over it with the car but decided just to ditch it instead. Frank is much happier since coming out of his shackles!

So our first week with the kids being under one roof was LONG! It was very tough but it wasn't as horrible as I was expecting. However, I also feel like Wyatt has been home with us for at least 2 or 3 weeks. Brent and I have both just been operating in survival mode and floating in and out of consciousness. We eat only to subside the hunger pains - a piece of bread, a chip or two, TONS of cereal... we have both forgotten what sleep is... and peeing before my eyeballs are floating is a luxury I can only dream about! But, like I said before, the turdlettes are cute and maybe even worth it! (Although, they can create some stanky eye-watering smells that would make you assume that I was feeding these kids roadkill!) Nonetheless, we are both so ridiculously in love!

"Consuela Hernandez" and "Frank the Tank"

So the babies were two weeks old yesterday and Wyatt has already outgrown two of his preemie outfits! I can't believe how fast they are growing. I see these kids all day and still sometimes I'll wake one of them up from a nap and notice some little change like an extra layer of fat in their cheeks or something... I feel so torn hoping that they will get big enough to start sleeping through the night and also wishing that they would always stay this small. I know that I said no more kids but I can't bear the thought that this will be my only time to enjoy the newborn stage. I already want another one... is that bad?

Consuela and Frank had their first photo shoot together yesterday! (Grandma named Caroline "Consuela Hernandez" because she is so dark complected and swears she is part Mexican! Wyatt has been dubbed "Frank the Tank" because he's is so thick and stout... We are going to need to make a point to call him Wyatt because we only ever call him Frank!) Also, my mom was nice enough to watch both babies last night so Brent and I could go out to dinner for Valentine's Day. We hadn't even left the neighborhood before both of us were just aching to get back to them. It's weird knowing that only 2 weeks ago, Brent and I were content with spending time together as just the two of us... but last night, we felt like we weren't complete without these booger balls in tow. So weird how life changes that quickly!

Wyatt is Home!

Wyatt came home yesterday from Charleston after 12 days in the NICU and Special Care unit. He had to come home on a monitor for his Bradycardia which is a drop in his heartrate that he was experiencing while he eats. The monitor lets us know when he is having an episode and when the monitor's alarm goes off, we need to check on him quickly and kind of wiggle his body a little bit to get him to snap out of it. It's pretty scary but we have been reassured by so many doctors that his condition is not only very common, but also very manageable. He will be on the monitor anywhere from 2-4 weeks. I wasn't able to go to Charleston with Brent to bring him home because I had to take "girlfriend" to the doctor yesterday to make sure she had gained weight from her last visit. The chick likes to eat because she had put on 5 ounces in 5 days! She my fat girl now and we were just so relieved and proud of her!

The twins haven't really acknowledged each other yet. We have put them together a couple times and they have the same reaction to each other as if we had placed them next to a book or some other inanimate object. I'm not sure if it's just because they are blobs and don't get it yet, or if it's because they are so used to being close to each other that it's as normal as breathing air. Who knows, but Brent and I both look forward to when they show actual recognition towards each other. It's nice having everyone under one roof again - even if it means total sleep deprivation!

Caroline and Wyatt are here!!!!

Caroline Elisabeth and Wyatt Reid were born on January 31st at 2:12 pm and 2:13 pm. I went to the hospital for a non-fetal stress test and ended up having a higher blood pressure than the doctor's were comfortable with. Also, I started pounding out contractions as I was lying there and the doctor just decided that it was best to go ahead and take them right away. It all went so quickly and the next thing I knew I was in the O.R. getting prepped for a c-section. It was creepy feeling so numb knowing that I was getting cut open. I was puking during the operation like it was my job and then we heard crying. It was our little girl and she was 5 lbs. 3 ozs. Our son was born a minute later at 5 lbs. 10 ozs. Both came out crying and seemed to be doing really well. They quickly showed us the babies and took them to the nursery. They were so cute!

Wyatt started to show signs of respiratory distress soon after the delivery. They ended up taking him via helicopter to the NICU in Charleston where he has been ever since. It's been really scary not knowing what was going on with him and being stuck in a hospital in a different city. He was immediately intubated and put on 80% oxygen. Brent went to Charleston that night to be with Wyatt. It was so difficult on both of us being new parents and not even getting to experience that together. But Caroline was doing great and I got to spend a lot of time with her the rest of that day.

Wyatt has come around slowly and steadily for the last 5 days and while he is still in the NICU right now, he is breathing room air without any tubes or support and he took a bottle for the first time last night. Yesterday, I left Caroline at home with Brent's parents and got to go to Charleston to see him for the very first time with Brent and my mom. It was so weird walking into a hospital to meet him and not being able to distinguish which one was him. Brent had already spent alot of time there holding his hand while he fought to breathe. When I saw him, I immediately started seeing all these family resemblances and how much he looked like his sister. He's my chubby cheeked little man. Anyway, when I got there, the nurse let me hold him and although Brent had been there for several days in a row, he had never been able to hold Wyatt because he wasn't strong enough. It was nice knowing that while Wyatt and I had been separated for too long, I was still the first person who ever got to hold him. Brent is going back up to Charleston to be with Wyatt today and we are hoping that he will be able to come home tomorrow.