Because He Didn't Have Enough To Do......

taking care of me and seven children and some laundry and some meals and helping with nighttime feedings, Daniel took up a few projects for his "vacation."  He hung towels racks and other accessories in our new bathroom.  He spent much time finding and purchasing the right wood for the linen closet he is building in the bathroom.  He learned to make artisan-like bread from the amazingly easy book Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day.  Delicious!!  He also decided that since we don't eat pork and he really wanted a good andouille sausage for gumbo, he'd learn to make it himself.  So he sort of half followed/half invented a way to make ground beef smoked sausage on our grill- that turned out beautifully.  Then he turned it all into gumbo in fresh bread bowls.  He is totally amazing!

Pictures

Welcome Home

Daisy Susannah and Lucy Arwen

Gus, Daisy, Kylie, Elijah, Lucy, Gillen, Jesse

Lucy and Daisy

Born March 23, 2010

Daisy Susannah  6 pounds, 6 ounces  18 1/2 inches

Lucy Arwen   6 pounds, 5 ounces  20 inches

Here They Come!!!

Well, tomorrow morning we finally get to meet the long-awaited, much-prayed-for, deeply-desired Daisy and Lucy.  My mom just gave me tiny, adorable beaded bracelets with their names on them (she made even made them) and that has made it more real than anything else.  Although, it is still not very real.  Not very real at all.  They will be arriving by cesearean and I hope I made the right decision to just schedule instead of going into labor and then having a c-section.   But they weren't turning and they really can't turn now, so it was going to be a c-section one way or the other, anyway.

Here are the last few belly shots.

I'm thinking tonight of the third verse that God gave me when we found out it was twins and we were trying to make all the decisions necessary to have the most natural and safe and healthy experience possible.

  "Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God."  Psalm 84:3

Here is What Happens.....

.....when you take a nap while your kids play in the back yard unsupervised.  They created a mudhole.  Purposely.  The kitchen floor was covered in mud tracks where they had carried water out over and over.  You can't see how covered in mud they are because it had already dried and gotten much lighter.  It's in their ears, even.  And Kylie is wearing, of course, a brand new outfit her Nana just gave her that morning that will not come clean.  The shirt is covered in mud and then she put on a new white sweatshirt and the sleeves of that are completely ruined, too.  That poor girl loves clothes, but immediately stains EVERYTHING.

But hey, they weren't sitting if front of a movie, which is what they usually do when I nap, and they got lots of fresh air!

36 Week Update

36 weeks

I measured 46 weeks pregnant yesterday!!  WOW!  So much for all the people who keep saying how small I look.  The ultrasound tech kept saying, "Bless your heart.  And I really mean that.  You are absolutely stuffed with babies!"

Here is one more shot from yesterday.

35 Weeks

Two weeks ago

And today.

Funny the difference angle makes.  Elijah took the picture today and I think it doesn't show a good comparison to the last one, because of the difference in the way he does it from the way Daniel does it.  But it IS bigger! 

I'm definitely starting to have a hard time waiting because of all the discomfort and the lack of sleep and difficulty just sort of moving around.  I feel like I can't go on and yet I know that I just will. 

And I'm getting so excited to meet them and to hold and nurse them, that makes it hard to wait, too!