Jake and Abby: One Month Old!

At the end of my pregnancy, Jeff and I had a joke that any time he left me alone, something happened. On August 6, I was in the hospital on bed rest and Jeff was gone for the day, working on the nursery. In the afternoon I texted him to see what he was doing, and he said that he was at Chris and Angela's thinking about having a beer (would have been his first beer since May). I told him that I wasn't feeling good and that he should probably just come to the hospital instead. When you know you know - Jake and Abby were born that night.

Jake was born at 3 pounds, 11 ounces, and is now a chunky 6 pounds, 1 ounce. Abby was born at 3 pounds, 5 ounces, and is now 4 pounds, 10 ounces. They are both out of their preemie clothes and preemie diapers (sniff sniff), Jake because he was completely busting out of them, and Abby because her long arms were too much for the preemie sleepers, and she needs long sleeves because these kids pull their feeding tubes out every...single...day. We keep telling them, learn to eat and they can come out for good! They are doing better at that, having gone from trying 2 bottles a day to trying 4 bottles a day to now getting to try a bottle whenever they are awake when it's time for them to eat on their 3 hour schedule. So, slowly but surely, we are getting closer to being able to bring them home! Their room is almost complete, and since it is going to be by far the best decorated room in our house I'll post some pictures when it's done.

For now, the best part of their one month birthday...a birthday photo shoot! Most of the photos are almost identical, but obviously since they're of our kids we love every single one of them.