Two Weeks Old Already!

Today marks the two week anniversary of the birth of our babies! I keep telling Harper and Lily how easy they are making this for us! Reports continue to be very positive and uplifting. Harper is now weighting 2.1 and Lily is 2.6! Both babies are feeding on breast milk every three hours. Wednesday night they got baths and little tiny bows in their hair. Nick got to hold Lily and I held Harper. Today when we went for our afternoon visit both girls were wide awake and their eyes were wide open looking all around. They are beginning to look very much alike as Harper catches up to Lily's size. They are fraternal twins however we have been told that a very small percentage of fraternal twins can actually appear identical. We are continuing to pray for the girls but as I said this is really becoming so much easier than I would have every expected... we are rejoicing and giving thanks to God for how smooth their stay in the NICU is going and how peaceful we can rest at night knowing that the nurses and doctors are incredible at their jobs and so loving to all the babies. Tonight we expect more Kangaroo Care!

Grandma and Grandpa M. went with us to Storkland today to register Harper and Lily for gifts. They bought us the cutsie white wooden letters to spell out their names above their cribs. The nursery is really coming together and pictures will be posted soon. It is so nice to walk in and look around at all of the gifts that people have given and visualize what it will be like when they are home.

Here are a few recent photos:

(the nasal cannula's are just there to help concentrate the oxygen that each baby receives while breathing room air and the tape you see on their arms is called the "pick lines" which means that there is a tiny IV that is secured in their arms by this thin tape so that they don't have to keep sticking the girls which means they are comfortable :)

Sweet Harper


Precious Lily


Daddy and Lily


Mommy and Harper