It's getting better

As time goes on things are starting to fall into place better. All the children are adjusting well. With my mom and sisters help I am able to steal a few more minutes of sleep during the day, sometimes. The girls are doing fairly well. They have grown a little. They are now over 9lbs. (oh Yeah!!) We are still battling head colds and flues at our house. The girls are still stuffy and we have to suck their noses all the time so they can breath. But nothing too bad has happened yet. ( knock on wood or something else.) Time is short so I'll have to write more later tonight.

First week Down and many to go

This first week has been long. As far as sleep goes, What's that? Good thing I'm young or this would be hard. . . (laughing and crying). I had the crazy idea that since they had been on a schedule for three months that maybe they would keep it. Silly me!! No the moment they left the hospital everything went a muck. The girls were not sleeping, they both wanted to eat at the same time, and the days and nights were mixed up. Which would of been ok , but the other five children still sleep at night and get up during the day. A little stress there. I have to give Chad my wonderful husband a few gold stars. He is so wonderful. He will get up and help me in the night to feed and take care of them, even though he has to work in the morning. ( love ya honey) Everyone in the family was doing so well at not getting sick. I thought we just might make it. No, They all got sick two days before the girls came home. So, needless to say the girls are sick also. Not so sick that they have to go back to the hospital and stay. But sick enough that I took them to the Doctors 3 times and the hospital 2 times. In the first week. Good thing they both are on oxygen. They have really needed it. And, the monitors just keep going off. Everyone seems to sleep through them, but me. I hear them all night. Which is a good thing, but I think that i might be going deaf. We went to the doctors to get all their shots so that they won't get sick, hehe, and to make sure they were not really really sick. Then at the hospital there is a suction clinic that I can take them to help keep their airways clear from their little colds. Which is really nice because then we don't have to go back and stay in the hospital because they are sick. We did have a little RSV scare, but the test was negative. (sigh of relief)
Now taking the girls anywhere is quit the chore. As you walk out the door you have, two small oxygen tanks, two monitors, and two big car seats, with 8 lbs babies in them. Well on most of my outings I had to travel alone, chad had to stay with the other five. Oh what fun we had trying to get to and from. I really need to start lifting weights so i don't die. And connected to all the equipment is wires and tubes. Needless to say, just standing still, let alone walking somewhere the wires and tubes tangled and then we would have to disconnect everything to seperate them. One time I couldn't get them seperated when going out to the car so i just had to put all the equipment in and both babies in one side and then climb in and put them in their seats. And i was alone and it was rain/snowing. I got my work out that day. And while all this fun adventures of so many fun outings, yeah right, my sisters wedding events were taking place. I did not make it to anything of hers on time that whole week, except for the wedding. We made it on time because i got up at 4 so we could leave by 7, which still didn't happen. We just made it to the temple on time. ( happy dance)
I have to say THANK YOU to all that helped take care of my girls. Jade and Sofira had to miss out on all the excitment. Thank You Sharik family, the Hansen family, Juna, Haley and Mom for going the extra mile and helping us out. Gold stars for everyone.

WERE HOME!!!!!

Saturday they had us stay in at the hospital and take care of the girls all ourselves, Then Sunday morning they said we could take them home. WOOT, So here we are living it up and partying with our baby girls at home. Ok ok I wish I could say it was like that actually its been quite a challenge keeping up with them. When we went in on saturday we brought a bunch of stuff with us thinking we would have 24 hrs to spend just doing nothing. Yeah we didn't get to any of it nor did we get any sleep. We had a rude awakening at how much work two babies were gonna be as compared to just one. We would just get Jade all settled down and we would think we would have a little time to do whatever and Sofira would start stirring, then when we got Sofira all settled down a few minutes later Jade would start stirring. After about 5 or 6 cycles of this we started asking ourselves now wait a minute when are we supposed to have time to sleep?  Thus why I'm writing this now instead of 2 days ago.  Were starting to get the hang of things but its been a struggle working through it. I'm just grateful Grandma is here too help because when I go to work Beth really needs her help.

So the girls came home on Oxygen and Monitors. The monitors are really annoying beeping all the time at us mostly because they keep coming undone or the leads fell off. There is only one volume to the monitors and that is Fire Alarm Loud. So this is what adds to our struggle we get both girls down but then the monitors start fussing at us as well. Jade likes to go into a deep sleep where she doesn't breath as good and so her monitor goes off frequently when she gets like that.  We have two big tanks of Oxygen with really long tubes so we can carry the girls wherever throughout the house.

All in all its fun to have them home but definitely a struggle that were getting used too.