Home at last

Hi All - We are all back at home after spending the weekend at my parents. The girls are doing much better than in the past. They still have their breathing/heart rate problems but we are learning ways to handle and even sometimes prevent them. Emily is doing ok, she still grunts a lot and has thrush again.

Ok, so to the real bottom line.......this infant thing is HARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Holy cow, is this really how it's supposed to be? NO sleep ever? Then, when you are awake it's complete chaos? You know that really hard/transitional time when you come home from the hospital? This is our fourth time (Avery home, then Emily home, Avery home again, Emily home again). I feel like we will never get past the "beginning stage" and they are 10 weeks old. Bob and I are used to taking on challenges head on so we thought we could definitely handle it, but this is the hardest thing we have faced (besides the pregnancy). One baby would be hard enough but two is a constant juggling act. I have come to the conclusion that one is going to have to fuss at any given time while I am doing stuff with the other one. Once they are bigger and can hold their own bottle it will free me up to watch them both eat, but for now the feedings are so labor intensive and they each need full attention. Everyone talks about the joy of parenthood, the good are obvious....it's the other stuff that gets covered up. It's definitely revealed now....it's just plain hard and so dramatically changes your life. I thought they would just enhance our life not completely take over. So, kudos to all parents out there.

I promise we will get pictures up, they have changed so much since the last ones online. Thanks to everyone for all the gifts, I promise we are working on the thank you notes.....they are coming! :)

Heather