1st Birthday Wishes

 Double the giggles,

goodies and sweets,

TWO times the wishes,

surprises and treats...

A pair of bright grins

from the time it begins-

It's TWICE as much fun

when a birthday's for twins!

Baby Rush,

You stole my heart from the moment I saw you. Not at all what I expected a boy to be, you are loving, patient & quite. Only for you will I continue to wake up at 4:30 am to see you smile you toothy grin.

 Miss Nixon,

Never have I met a person, grown or child, that has a better sense of who they are. You burst into the world with complete understanding of what you want and how to get it! You are strong willed and determined. You are also very funny and protective of those & what you love. Typical Leo you are turning out to be.

 Happy 1st Birthday

Rush Beckett & Nixon Elizabeth!

Five months old

These pictures were taken on the twins actual five month birthday (January 7th) and I just now getting around to write this post. I have actually already written it twice but it was some how not saved. I wrote  it while getting my hair colored for the first time since October! Which turned out to be the worst hair color EVER and I spent another 4 hour hair apt doing color correction. If you live in Austin this will make since my hair was not so much yellow rose but a whole lot landing strip.

On to my FIVE MONTH old cuties! The time is flying by my little nuggets!

Rush Beckett

- first off you are so sweet! You just love for people to talk to you and you smile and coo back

-you are wearing 6 month clothes

-size 2 pampers

-you just started solids this last week ( a week & a half behind your sister)

-your not a fan of rice cereal but you love pears

-your drinking 6-8oz bottles

- you got the beginnings of your first tooth! Bottom right. So far teething has not been to ruff. There was two nigh you were fussy and had to sleep with me

-you can roll back to tummy and tummy to back

-you start out sleeping on your tummy but always wake up on your back

-you have found your thumb and are sucking it a little

-your favorite person is mommy. you love to listen to me talk and you pat my face

-you are the king of drool and spit up ! wow you bro thru a lot of outfits and bibs! 

Nixon Elizabeth 

-Hello my tiny diva

-you are on average 2 lbs smaller than your brother

-you have been an awesome sleeper! 8pm to 7am most nights for the last few weeks (but you don't really nap during the day)

-your favorite person is your big sister

-your wearing 3 months clothes 

-your wearing size 1 pampers

-you started solids over a week ago and you love to eat! You have loved everything you have eaten

-you eat about 6oz per bottle

-you sleep JUST like your big sister. You have to have your face snuggled into something. 

-You love action. You want to be able to see everything that is going on around you

-your fine motor skills are very advanced. you can grab objects and switch them from hand to hand. 

-you can roll tummy to bad and back to tummy

-you sleep on your tummy all night

-you smile big, laugh big and scream big

-your very ticklish 

We go thru:

 about 300 diapers per month

10 23.4 oz tubs of Enfamil Gentlease per month

14 to 16 bottles per day

caffeine ... bottomless

Double fisting

Many things have a new meaning, this is most defiantly one of them

3 months old!

My little wee ones are three months old! Pictured here getting some love from big sister.
We are getting into a routine, a little. The days are still crazy but our night are getting better and everyone is getting a little more sleep. Rush is still my sweet tempered chunky monkey & Nixon is still a tiny pixy with a big personality.
I describe my days as being constant. I'm constantly doing something! Someone constantly needs something! I must make at least 50 trips up and down the stairs each day. My booty better be looking good by spring! I'v lost the 50 pounds I gained and 4 extra and yes I'm very excited about it! BUT and it's a big but... my skin! How do you get your skin to not look like an elephant ear?

Two Months

Where oh where does the time go? For me it's consumed in diapers, bottles, boobs, laundry and personal assistant to a very busy 4 year old!

So I'm late posting the Twins 2 month pictures and update but these days I'm lucky to get it done at all so I'm going to cut myself a little slack.

On with the cuteness ...

What's cooking: Both Rush and Nixon eat on average every 3 hours around the clock. They take turns nursing every other feeding now since each baby eats at least 4oz per feeding so we have a little alternating breast/formula thing going on.
Who's Sleeping: The longest either baby has slept is 3 1/2 hours at a stretch
Fashion: My little Pixie Nixon is still wearing Newborn size but Big boy Rush has moves on to 0-3 months size.
Personality: We have smiles, Nixon first then about a week later Rush. Nixon is doing a lot of coos when you talk to her and she is very reactive to her big sister! Rush loves a lot of eye contact and is starting to coo a little but is much more into studying the world around him. When Nix was fussing the other day I looked at Rush and said "that's your twin" he actually gave me a laugh out loud. I swear he was thinking don't look at me mom!

Willis

Ah the fun things I do while sleep deprived!

36 weeks

We are getting close!

I am having contractions but nothing consistent.  The Dr. put them on the monitor to make sure know one was in any distress during contractions. The two red numbers are the babies heart rated and the green is monitoring contractions. 

We also did a sonogram/ growth scan

Baby A Boy: 5 lb 12 oz

Baby B Girl: 6 lb 4 oz

My personal goal for the babies was to let them get over 5lb in the womb no matter what I had to do. We made it there little babies, we made it! And with minimal destruction to my body. 

Mommy total weight gain: 42 lb

I would say this has been a great pregnant, exceptional for a multiple pregnancy. I knew the day would come when I would get uncomfortable and it has arrived. Waking is painful, my skin is VERY stretched (i keep this bad boy so oiled it shines lie an antique car)and just a walk upstairs makes me need a nap! 

But it won't be long now and I would be lying if I said I was not a nervous wreck! 

I'm a little uneasy to post a uncovered belly picture but I wanna look back and remember this time and have it documented in my blog book. After all I did vow to embrace the belly.

I'm spending the weekend on bed rest, YUCK, but this belly is so heavy it's about all I feel like doing. So here is to trashy novels ( 50 shades book 3) and trash TV (real housewives of NYC)

learning to embrace the belly

When I was pregnant with Miss C I did not embrace the bump. I think there were a few reasons but mostly I never looked pregnant I just looked bloated. From about 30 weeks on I kinda looked pregnant. I took very few pictures of the bump and really regret it. I guess I did not fully realize how special being pregnant is.

This pregnancy I have looked obviously pregnant since 20 weeks. I have looked and felt pregnant for a really long time! This go round I'm constantly being stopped and talked to about my bump by strangers,  kids and dogs. I must have a funny smell or something because they all feel the need to sniff and crawl all over me! Seriously my neighbors dog comes to my house and sits on my porch till I let her in. She even came and found me at the pool one day. Crazy but it's better to be big and pregnant than look maybe pregnant.

One thing that is different this go round is that I still have a four year to keep up with. I NEVER thought I would have on a bikini with this belly but hey I had Miss C to take to the pool what else could I do. One day as I was trying my best to be discreet and keep the bump under the water a little boy of no more than 3 came swimming up to of course examine the belly. He asked the normal questions, "Do you have a baby in there?" "when will they come out?" and my favorite "it's really big!" Then he rubbed my belly and said...
"You know my mommy's tummy was broken so she borrowed one to have me." I told him I'm so glad she found one to borrow because he is a sweet boy and I'm glad he found his way here"

I'm not much for the mushy stuff but it was just what I needed to hear. I'm sure coming from a mother I would have listened but coming from this sweet faced little boy I HEARD what he had to say. I think of him as the going is getting tuff, the belly is no longer cute and I'm uncomfortable most all the time.
The belly is a privilege not a right.
Each pain is a baby learning to stretch their limbs and each stretch mark is a pound my babies gained in order to survive in the outside world. Is it easy? No, but thanks to that little boy at the pool I sure am grateful I have been given the opportunity to bring my babies into the world.

So on that note I give you the Bikini bump!

This was taken at 30 weeks the day the little boy talked to me at the pool

Love is in the details

31 Weeks! 

Here were a few very special moments

Miss C surprised us with some very special gifts for her new brother and sister. It took every thing in me not to cry when she gave them to me and Mrs Melissa read them. 

 One of the Hostess DeLea, Amber and Angela

 Love these kids! 

It would not be a baby shower with the measuring of the bump

 (as bad as I did not want to know how big around I am!) to spice things up they also measured Mr. T

Mommy at 31 weeks: 40"

Daddy at 31 weeks: 42"

" Mommy give me that wine!" 

 My oldest dearest friend Chuck bet he never thought he would be attending his 2nd baby shower! 

Oh how I love Bow heads

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|this tree. Everyone put their thumb print and signed by their names

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