The Girls' Birthday

What a wild and crazy week and a half! Which means this will be a wild and crazy post {read: long...i don't want to forget anything!}

Everything started Wednesday morning, Feb 20th (37 1/2 weeks). I had a routine NST scheduled with Dr. Peters, our Perinatologist that morning. Everything looked great with their heart beats, so we went to the next room for the quick sonogram to check position, fluid, blood flow, etc. The tech commented on how amazed she was with all the fluid in there for the girls and how wonderful everything looked. My doctor came in and said the exact same thing. He was so pleased with how wonderful everything looked. Then he asked when my c-section was scheduled. When he found out it wasn't for another 8 days, he started getting a little huffy and claimed that isn't what he recommends, even with them being so healthy. The type of twins I was carrying was the 2nd highest risk type and he didn't plan on taking any risks. He started throwing out things that "could" happen to the girls if we waited that long and it scared me to death. I couldn't think of anything but those horrible words he uttered for the next several hours....

Fortunately, I had an Ob appointment already scheduled for that afternoon. My mom insisted on taking me since Michael was at work and she knew I was a little on edge. We expressed our concerns to the doctor and she completely agreed that we shouldn't wait any longer. That, with my slightly elevated blood pressure that afternoon (139/91) warranted her suggestion of sending me to the hospital to be monitored...and most likely would suggest delivering the girls that night or the next morning!!!  

Whoa nelly!! today!!? Thank goodness my mom was there...this is when it started getting real...

We called and sent texts out to all of our family letting them know what was going on, but to not rush up here or get too excited because it could still be the next day...

We went straight to the hospital around 3:30 and everything happened SO SO fast. I hadn't even finished answering the nurse's questions before the on-call doctor told me she wanted to deliver the girls tonight! And probably in about an hour. Holy smokes! 

A second round of calls and texts went out that said come NOW...it's happening soon!!!

Michael got to the hospital around this time and we got a chance to freak out together :)

There were doctors and nurses in and out of the room strapping bracelets on my arm, taking vials upon vials of blood, letting me know the process of the c-section, etc...My brain was spinning

In the middle of the whirlwind, I realized  my camera was sitting in my car. In the garage. All the pictures of the girls I had planned in my head weren't going to happen :(   So iPhone pictures it is...

Fortunately, there was another lady waiting for the OR before me, so that gave all of our family an extra hour to get to the hospital.

      

My time finally came. I couldn't stop shaking. Uncontrollable shaking.  
I was SO nervous!

(how attractive are we!?) 

 

They took me back to prep me while Michael stayed in the room with the family. They laid me down after the spinal block. If you remember, I can't lay on my back for more than a few minutes without passing out. And I did. Maybe twice; can't really remember. The room was spinning. I was sweating. I could over hear them preforming the tool count while I was looking  over my shoulder waiting for Michael to appear.

He came and everything was better. Then we waited....for what seemed like an hour. Michael stood up and watched most of the c-section and I got the play by play from behind the curtain. All of a sudden everyone at the same time commented on all the fluid in their sacs and just couldn't believe how much there was. :)

Finally, they pulled out Baby A, Emily, at 6:53 PM. I couldn't hear a single noise from her. I was frantically asking if she was ok through streams of tears. Everyone assured me she was, but I couldn't believe them until I heard her sweet whimper with my own ears. The most perfect little whimper!

A minute later, Baby B, Madelynn, was born at 6:54 PM! Again, the most perfect little whimper filled the air. 

They were the most beautiful baby girls I had ever seen :)

   

Michael went with the girls to the nursery while they finished up with me. 

{my doctor delivered the placenta and apparently, it was enormous! I have no clue how big it was or how big it's supposed to be, but They were all amazed. She said it almost wrapped around my whole uterus! ha! Another reason the girls were so big and healthy.  ;)  }

          

Emily was 6 lbs 7oz and 19 inches long

Madelynn was 5 lbs 12oz and 18.75 inches long

and both got a 9/9 APGAR score :)

The girls were passed around and everyone got a chance to love on our little angels :)

Michael and I just love holding and cuddling each little girl admiring each perfectly formed tiny body part. 

God is so good! He kept our girls safe and healthy and we are so thankful for these blessings. We're so undeserving, but so thankful to be their parents and take on the responsibility of growing the girls into strong Christian ladies that chase after the Lord.

{stay tuned for more of our little ladies}

3 years old!!

I can't belive we have a 3 year old!! Bryson has brought us so much joy and laughter and we are so so thankful for our little man.

 

It was hard not being able to be with him all day on his birthday this year. We usually get out of school early enough that we're already on Christmas Break, but not this year :( So Michael got to have all the birthday fun with him Friday morning.

 

He woke up to Michael singing Happy Birthday to him, but he was summoned to stop immediately because "you can only sing happy birthday if you have a cake with free candles with fire one top"

 

So he changed into school clothes and found his special birthday donut that his Elf had started to eat :)

 

He had a fun birthday celebration/Christmas party at school and was so excited to tell all his friends he was 3!

 

After Michael got home, Bryson had a couple little gifts to open. We gave him our gifts at his party a while back, but thought he definitely needed something special to open!

 

 

Then, we headed over to dinner at Gatti Town. It's a pizza restaurant/game place kind of like Chuck E Cheese, but they have a really fun miniature bowling alley, carousel, and a swinging pirate ship.

 

He is really really into playing all the arcade games right now (and I'm pretty sure he won't grow out of that for quite a while!)

 

With all his tickets, he chose to buy a "hulongous pink baseball bat". Michael pushed for the red one, but he was set on pink ;)

 

The other big milestone was that the PaciFairy was going to come on his 3rd birthday to take all of his pacis to the babies. We've talked about it A LOT so he wasn't thrown off guard. He never ever took a paci until after his 1st birthday and then he was hooked. We nixed it during the day when he turned 2, so for the last year he's only had it at naptime and night time (or we let him have it if he was sick or had to make sure sure he was calm--like at friend's houses at night for a party or something).

He knew it was coming, we knew it was coming, but no one was really thrilled about it. I fully expected a full on fit Friday night.

 

We found a box, rounded up all the pacis and wrote a note and drew a picture for the fairy. He left it right outside his bedroom door and we went in for our normal bedtime routine. He asked for it a couple times, but nothing too bad. In the next 30 minutes, he had to get up to "go to the bathroom" twice (I'm pretty sure it was to make sure the box was still there) but then fell asleep peacefully!!  Hooray!!

 

 

 

The next morning, he woke up to his "big boy present" that the PaciFairy left for him. He LOVED it!! It's a walking, talking, light up robot and he thought it was the greatest thing ever!!

 

 

He couldn't wait for Daddy to wake up to show him his new gift!!

 

 

I put him down again tonight without a paci. He asked for it once, but then fell asleep peacefully within 5 minutes. Success!!

 

I'm sure there will be some rough days without it in the future, but for now it's a thing of the past! :)

 

Happy Birthday to our big three year old!!

 

interview with a 3yr old

Q: what is your name?

A: John Bryson Fant B-R-Y-S-O-N 

Q: what animal do you like?

A: elephants and giraffe. Only those. And not a raccoon. 

Q: what is your favorite color?

A: (looks down at his green shirt) green 

Q: where do you like to go?

A: to the zoo and home and Tom Fum 

Q: what do you like to play?

A: toys at home

Q: what do you like to do outside?

A: play soccer ball and baseball 

Q: what do you like to do inside?

A: build a zoo

Q: what do you like to wear?

A: basketball pants and a soccer shirt. And a baseball shirt and baseball shoes

Q: what's your favorite book?

A: cick cack moo (Click Clack Moo Cows That Type)

Q: what is your favorite show?
A: Mike a Knight and Team Umizoomi and Dora and a Christmas movie

Q: what is your favorite song?

A: Jesus Loves Me, then he started singing ABCs in Spanish

Q: what do you like to do with daddy?

A: sing a song with him, make a pizza and put it in the oven and cook it 

Q: what do you like to do with mommy?

A: be silly and play games in my room

 

Q: what are you going to do with Emily and Madelynn?

A: play basketball with them

 

Q: do you know about anybody from the bible?

A: baby Jesus and Noah with the boat like Papa’s 

Q: what do you do when you are three?

A: the paci fairy comes and takes all the pacis and gives them to al the babies

Q: where do you sleep?

A: um, in my big boy bed because I’m a boy 

Q: what food do you most like to eat?

A: candy! Mommy, I need some candy right now!  (later, I got a real answer) yogurt, and hamburgers with cheese, and banilla ice cream, and gummies, and French fries with loooooots of ketchup!   

Q: what do you like to drink?

A: water and milk and cranberry juice and lemonaide and juice bags 

Q: who are your teachers?

A: Miss Alicia and Miss Laura, they are at my gool 

Q: can you count?

A: yes mommy. (then counted to 26) (he can also count to 16 in Spanish) 

Q: who are your friends?

A: Anderson and Emily and Madelynn 

Q: who is in your family?

A: Mommy and Daddy and Elf 

Q: what do you want to do when you get bigger?

A:um, I not know 

Q: what makes you happy?

A: playing with fwends 

Q: what makes you sad?

A: when Anderson takes my crown off my head I got gwumpy at him

 

Q: are you happy to be three?

A: yeah. Mommy, I need to watch a free (three) show with buzz and woody because I'm free

Happy Birthday Big 3 year old!!

Bryson's 3rd Birthday

I can't believe my baby boy is big enough to be having his 3rd birthday.

 

He has been the light of our lives and brings so much joy and laughter to our days. I am constantly amazed by our little man with a huge heart and personality.

 

I couldn't possibly do a big party at the house this year like I had the past 2 years, so we opted for something easy. Truth be told, I hadn't even planed anything until about 2 weeks before. (bad mommy moment). SO, we headed to Chuck E Cheese last Saturday! I knew Bryson would go cray-zee over the idea.

 

Guys, I was SO not on top of my game here. I mean like, we had no reservations, I ordered the cake 3 days prior and sent out invitations with only a weeks notice.

 

But, somehow, it turned out pretty great!! He loved every second of it and we had a great turn out of family and friends to celebrate the little man. :)

 

 

I took him to pick out his cake. He skipped over every character cake in the book, and ONLY wanted a "Texas Ranger baseball cake with 3 candles with fire on top". Those are even the exact words he told the baker when we ordered it :)

 

Once we got to Chuck E Cheese, all he cared about was running around to go play games and telling everyone it was his birthday party and he was three.

 

We tried for pictures, but he had NO interest in that at all!

 

 

 

All he wanted to do was play games...a lot of games! :)

 

 

He put in his own birthday candles and beamed when we sang happy birthday!

 

 

He loved opening all the gifts. He did so great, opening all the gifts and telling everyone thank you!

He got to dance The Cupid Shuffle with Chuckee and all the kids and then got showered with tons of tickets to pick up :)

 

 

Then it was off to play more games;) Someone mentioned how well Bryson was going to sleep that night and I agreed, but also said Grandma is going to crash as soon as she gets home too! They were glued at the hip running around playing games all afternoon! :)

 

 We had such a fun day celebrating Bryson's (early) birthday!!