A new day has come

Wow, I am wiped out. I never knew one could be so tired. These tiny girls are working us round the clock. I will write about a typical day in the life of us..

We are awaken by what we affectionately call the "grunting goats" letting us know it's time for round 111 of feedings. Jason has the amazing ability to get up and start warming their bottles while it takes me a little effort and finally I'm up and holding one of my little angels. Feedings are never simply feedings with our little ones. Since they are early, they still are working on the whole suck, swallow, breathe technique. Sometimes they forget the breathing part of the whole thing. So we take our time and take lots of breaks to allow them to catch up on breathing. We coach them the whole time, "Breathe." Kayla is on a monitor that beeps louder than a fire alarm if she stops breathing. Luckily it's only gone off a couple times since she's been home. Our poor little Kayla has acid reflux so she has to be held upright for 15 minutes after a feeding or she will be in pain. We are starting her on meds for that.

After feedings we head downstairs and they go to sleep in their bassinets for a couple of hours until the next feedings. That's when mommy and daddy go to work, cleaning all the bottles, nipples, pump parts, etc from the night before and trying to get laundry, housework, our favorite show...Lost, in before they are ready for the next feeding. This is our day, over and over, and at night, we pack up several bottles of breastmilk, head upstairs to our room where their crib is and continue the process all night long. We've discovered the beauty of white noise. I had downloaded womb sounds and sounds of the air conditioner to use as white noise which is soothing to babies, and come to find out, it's also soothing to us. It drowns out the little "grunting goat noises" that would otherwise keep us awake all night long. And they love it too and it puts them right asleep.

They are so precious and we could not be happier or more complete as a family. Such little personalities already. They seem happy here, and they say babies don't smile, but these little girls smile all the time at us. They know they are home.

Kayla weighs 5 pounds 13 ounces and Alaina weighs 5 pounds 10 onces.