Happy Due Date Babies!

Yesterday was our official due date so the girls are now full term! And next week they will be 2 months old. Although it would've been better of course to go longer in the pregnancy with the girls, I think of these last two months with them as our bonus time we've gotten to get to know them. They've grown and changed so much in the time when most people don't get to meet their baby until their due date. Most people, when they hear the girls were in the NICU, say they are sorry we had to endure that, and at first, it was very difficult to see them in the incubators, so small and helpless. But we witnessed two little fighters work so hard to learn to eat, to grow, and get strong enough to come home. We had so many precious moments in that NICU that I will never forget. In it's own way, thier time in the NICU was very special to all of us. I will never forget how I felt riding up the elevator the first time I "met" my babies. I had waited so long for that moment and it was overwhelming. I cried like a baby....and then reached in to touch little Alaina's hand and she squeezed my finger. My little girls.

It was a bit strange to "visit" my babies in the NICU, but we didn't know any different, so, to us, it was normal. It was a joy and I loved our visits with them each night. We were able to hold them and feed them, sing to them, kiss them, everything a normal parent would do. We just had to leave them there and tell them we'd see them tomorrow. It was a second home to us. And then, they were ready to come to their real home and we became a family.