Go Texas Tech...

Trip and I went with friends to the Tech Baylor game this weekend, it was our first full day away from the babies since they have been home from the hospital.  We had a great time, a full day of the State Fair, Fletchers corny dogs, Shiner Bock beer and football.  What more could you ask for?


Mom and Dad did such a great job with the babies this weekend that Trip has decided to skip the next step, a weekend trial run, and move straight to leaving the babies with them for a week long vacation. Not sure if they are on board with that idea?!

Kelli and I

The girls: Jodi, Kelli, Patia and I

Look at my super cute shoes!  I am so stylish!

I love my G dad...

On Friday night Trip and I went over to visit baby Bennett at Gabe and Shelley's house... I was so shocked to see my husband has been replaced by a dad, he volunteered (actually requested) to hold baby Bennett.  Apparently, once you have a baby you are no longer scared you are going to break someone elses, Go Figure!  I think Quinn is starting to think Bennett is pretty cool, he has nicknamed him Bendo for Bennett Doake, so cute!

Look at my super cuter hair!  Mr. Bennett is going to have
curly hair like his mommy.

Mr. Trip and little Bennett

Linley and Caden finished off their first week with the nanny, we love Doris, she is fantastic!  So thankful we found her, what a blessing.  Our sweet babies are also starting to interact, lots of sweet smiles, cooing and kicking in the morning.  Poor Trip misses their sweet, fun morning time though and catches more of the fussy, hungry night time babies.

Back to work...

Today was my first day back at work and Caden & Linley's first day with the nanny!  Amazingly it was much better than expected, no breakdowns on my part and everyone seemed to do great.  Doris is fantastic, so sweet and great with the kids.  I am so relieved we found her, thanks to God's perfect timing.  It was also really nice to have a full day having adult conversations and not having my entire day revolve around feeding and changing babies... I really enjoyed not participating in my 3 hour cycle of feeding Caden, changing him, feeding Linley, changing her, cleaning up, pumping and then doing it all again.  I did surprisingly well at not running in the other room every time they cried... in fact, I didn't do it once!

Our first walk

Uncle Joe came in town from Philly for the Red River shoot out spent Friday night hanging out with Trip, Caden, Linley and I... how cute are they?

I woke up Saturday morning to see Trip had dressed
Caden and Linley... wonder who they are rooting for?

Just a couple of pictures I wanted to remember... matching birthmarks and Linley's sweet hair line.  She definitely inherited Brittany's calics, no bangs for you!!!

How precious are these little shoes?  They are flower sandals, I got them at a little boutique the morning we kidnapped Shelley for a surprise baby shower.

Just some fun shots...

Milk drunk and drooling

I love my aunt KB

Miss Linley is a little upset but look how stinking cute
she is in her little PJ cap!

Just because...

Miss Linley has had a couple rough nights recently with her acid reflux, unfortunately that also means mommy has had a couple rough nights as well!  I was up last night holding her straight up on my shoulder while she slept until her 2 am feeding... every time I tried to put her down she started screaming.  Poor thing, I can only imagine how bad her little throat burns.  We are trying a couple new things today in hopes that it will help her this evening, mylicon for gas and gripe water for her poor tummy.  Keep her in your prayers!


Just a couple of recent shots of the sweet babies...

"I love smiling in my sleep!"

Linley's feetzies

Linley's foot

Milk Drunk... 

Belated updates... we are 2 1/2 months old now!

Sorry for my terrible delay in updates, we have had a busy couple of weeks and very little sleep!


My aunts, Judi and Patti, came in to visit 2 weekends ago to see the babies.  We had a great time, although I think it might have been a somewhat boring trip for them compared to our previous Dallas girl's weekends.  Not a whole lot you can do with 2 month old twins, they definitely change the itinerary a bit.  We did enjoy our first dinner in a restaurant though, we have a new mexican food restaurant that opened down the street recently.  The babies did great and the food was fantastic!

Patti and Linley

Judi and Caden

We had our 2 month check up last week, the babies are doing fantastic.  So fantastic that the pediatrician choose to chart them on the regular baby growth charts rather than the preemie charts.  Caden and Linley are in the 3% range for their age and considering they were born 2 months early we will take it.  Linley's acid reflux is getting better now that we have her on medication (not quite as many fussy/sleepless nights as before) and she is now 7 lbs 4 oz and 19.5 inches long.  Caden is 8 lbs 10 oz and 21 inches long, he looks huge to me now!  Poor babies had to get their shots, thank goodness Aunt Kristin came to help out as I just know I would have had 2 screaming babies at the same time if not.  They are both progressing as should be expected for full term babies at 2 months with regard to their development.  They are able to hold their heads up for a significant period of time at a 30% - 45% degree incline; Linley is fantastic at it and Caden is doing great although his head is a little heavier as of recently so he can't hold it quite as high as Linley does.  They have now both rolled over, Caden choose to roll over for the first time on the pediatrician's exam table as she was commenting that he should be able to roll over soon... it was quite funny.  Linley rolled over for the first time this morning, twice, although I think it was more because she was pissed about doing tummy time than purposefully rolling over.

Dad and Caden getting ready for the Cowboys game,
tragic they are doing so bad this season!

Tummy time and then a nap...

They love looking at each other!

Look how cute I am in my little outfit, matching socks
and bow!

We had our first major round of sleepless nights this week and mommy was thrown up on twice, spit up on twice and peed on all in a 24 hour period - almost enough to make me want to go back to work but not quite.  Caden spent last Sunday night crying for 4 hours straight, every time I would get him to calm down, Linley would get upset.  So I ended up with a total of 2 hours of sleep for the night since I had to do the 6 am feeding in addition to the 2 am feeding as Trip had an early morning for work.  Monday night was more of the same and then Trip took the 2 am feeding on Tuesday night so between the 2 of us we rounded out those 3 days with roughly 2 - 4 hours of sleep each night.  It was pretty rough, luckily it didn't last too long.  


They spent Thursday and Friday trying to out do one another in the bodily function department.  Thursday of last week Caden had his first projectile vomit, it was all over me, all over him and all over the floor.  Apparently Linley felt left out so at the 2 am feeding that night she decided to join the fun and I ended up bathing her in the bathroom sink in the middle of the night and throwing my clothes in the washing machine.  She then took the liberty of passing Caden up with 2 projectile spit ups on Friday morning and he evened the day out with peeing on me after he got his bath and his brand new clothes on that afternoon.  It was lovely!  I was so happy for Trip to walk in the door that evening and even more happy for Emme's babysitting offer!  Trip and I went to dinner and left her with the twins... I am pretty sure she was extremely happy to see us when we got back as it was dinner time for the babies and they were happy to let her know!

Throw up all over Caden...

All over his face...

All over the floor...

babysitter Emme was really happy to see mommy and
daddy!

Just a couple more pictures to share for fun...

Caden slept like this for 20 minutes on Sunday...

Claire came over to visit with Aunt Kristin

Baby Holden made his appearance on Saturday morning,
he is so precious!  Caden and Linley are going to love
playing with him and baby Bennett!

Baby Holden, Patia and Andy are doing
great.  Let the sleepless nights begin.

Daddy with his sweet babies

Cuddling babies, they were screaming their lungs out
two minutes before... now, they love each other!

Just catching up...

Just a little update, Trip and I had our first week alone with Linley and Caden... WOW this is a full time job!  They did really well, we only had one night that was super tough on us!  It is amazing how much they are growing and how quickly they are doing it!  I never realized how fast they change... they turned 2 months on Monday, so really they are now 0 months old!  It is strange to think that they are 2 months old and still only 6 and 7 lbs... not to mention that they will still go through all of their developmental stages according to their adjusted age rather than their real age for the next year!

Trip and I have finally figure out the evening schedules, I take the middle of the night feeding and he takes the morning feeding; that way we both get at least a full 5 hours of uninterrupted sleep.  I assume this will continue to work well until I go back to work, at that point I am pretty sure we are going to have to reevaluate!  

Hanging out in their play gym

G Dude, Caden, Trip and Linley 

Linley with her sweet bow from Brittney, thanks!

Poppy came over to visit

Trip had a long day, flight to Houston, fantasy draft,
flight home and a snoozer on the couch with Linley

Thank you Jenni for my super cute PJs

PB and J... Jodi and Matt sent us these super cute onesies

Linley was not happy with the photo shoot

How funny is this, she pulled the bow down over her eyes,
light too much?

Always sleeping with her hands up!