Another Update

I wanted to post an update on us. We’re doing really well. We got our pictures taken on Saturday and I am going to have so many that I’m not going to know what to do with them all. Anyone who wants pictures let me know!! I’ll be sending them out in our Christmas Cards. In fact I was thinking about getting started on our Christmas Cards. I’m not sure if they are selling them yet but I think I have some from last year still if I can’t find new ones. I really need to find my address book. Who knows where it could be. I’ve loaded some addresses into my address book on the computer but not all of them.

The girls are growing and are now out of their preemie clothes and into the newborn sizes. The 0-3 month clothes are still far too big. As of Friday Erica was 7lbs 9oz and Megan was 7lbs 5oz. They are nothing if not consistent. They have been about 4-6 ounces different all along. We don’t have many newborn outfits. I have 6 regular outfits, 2 Halloween sleepers, and I think 2-3 regular sleepers. It makes for frequent laundering but I just don’t want to buy more newborn outfits knowing how short of a timeframe they have to wear them before they outgrow them. We have tons on 0-3 month clothes so I’m just biding my time.

I’ve given up on breastfeeding. I tried to do both but I wasn’t producing enough milk so I had to supplement with formula which meant that they wouldn’t be hungry soon enough to build up my milk supply so I switched to just breastfeeding one with the idea that I would add the other when I built up enough milk to feed the one. But that didn’t work because I could not put her down, literally I could not put her down for 5 minutes before she cried for more. That just wasn’t fair to Jack and the other baby. I read up on nursing twins and everything I read said that it could take 3 weeks of feeding each baby every half hour or more twenty four hours a day. It sure seemed like that was what was happening with us, only worse and that was just with one of them.

Last night we went bowling. Yes we took everyone. We are surprisingly not tied to our house like you might think we would be with “twinfants”. I think part of it has to do with my having been confined for 3 months before they were born and then not being able to drive for 6 weeks afterwards. I got pretty sick of being home. We have our nifty signs so that people won’t touch the babies. I have to tell you they work really well. I love them. Although we were at McDonald’s letting Jack play on the toys and we had them out of their carriers so we could feed them and some lady who had eight year old twins came and sat down right next to me and touched one of them lightly on the back of her hand. I cringed but I just don’t know how to say “Stay off my kids!” I’m open to suggestions. After she went back to her table she said she had to stay in the sun because she was cold and she thought she might be getting the flu. I was peeved. I thought how stupid can you be? You don’t touch someone’s premature babies when you think you’re getting the flu! She didn’t seem to bright anyway, she wasn’t paying attention to anything that her kids were doing. I doubt she was getting the flu but I think maybe I’ll invest in more baby mittens and keep them in the diaper bag; if someone does touch one of them then I can change the mittens so they don’t get germs in their mouths. Maybe this sounds extreme? You tell me.

Where was I? Oh yeah, bowling. Jack had so much fun bowling. My friend Rachel and her son came which really made Jack’s day and mine too. Most of the people there were people from DH’s workplace. They’re nice but mostly they are guys in their very early 20’s and their girlfriends who are young and immature and not overly friendly-in fact one girlfriend is extremely unfriendly. Which brings about the subject of unfriendly women. I just don’t get it. I have made a point to be friendly to this chick and she just can’t seem to reciprocate. She doesn’t say hello unless I say hello. She NEVER sits down at the same table even if there is plenty of room. Maybe she just doesn’t like me but I don’t understand that either ;). Maybe it’s just that it’s foreign to me. My mom has always taught me through her example to be friendly and open and non-judgmental. It’s like she WANTS to like people so she focuses on what is good about that person and ignores the bad. I think to some point I do the same thing although I don’t think I’m as good at it as she is.

Anyway, I don’t know if I’ve finished a single thought-I go off on tangents so easily. But I don’t feel like rereading this so I’m not going to worry about it! I need to go do something productive, like laundry or mopping or maybe I’ll just go to bed!