One month

This post is for my twin girls!

It  had been an interesting pregnancy, birth and whole month of life with the girls.  I can say we were hoping for a boy.  Well I was hoping for a boy for Ethan.  I know how much it would mean for him to have a boy, but we were graced with 2 girls.  Once we got here to Florida we went to Morton to get started with insurance and the what nots.  Once in the hospital they put the belly monitor on and of course it was all over they had to keep moving the belt to keep up with the heart beat.  With the nurse and mid-wife trying to figure an exact due date and joking with Ethan about there being more then one baby.  We went down stairs to get our sonogram.  We went in laughing about the nurse/mid-wife joking of more then one and told the tec.  She asked as she put the machine to work how many heart beats they got.  We told her one.  She asked are you sure.  I looked at Ethan and said well no not really I mean they only got one.  She said well there are definitely 2.  I could feel the color in my face drain and looked at Ethan and his shocked face.  Well we never saw twins in our future that's for sure.  Well we werent exactly shocked but surprised.  

After that we had a sonogram every week and a doctors appointment every other week.  As time passed us,  I got more exhausted and my belly grew.  I felt so useless.  I had the hardest time rolling from one side to the other.  I had to pick my belly up and push it over to the otherside, my body would move but not my belly!  The girls were all over my belly.  There wasnt one permanent position.  If one wasnt breech the other was at one point both heads were down.  As it ended both were breech.  I went to the hospital 3 times by the 3rd visit is when we ended up having the girls.  Funny that the 3rd time going I was grumps I kept telling Ethan...I hate this coming here again to spend a few sleepless uncomfortable hours pushed and poked to be sent home again.  I am soo ready to be done with this!!

As much as I was ready to have them Im glad they kept cooking I wished even that they had kept cooking a little longer.  It was interesting and an overwhelming experience having a c-section.  I definitely felt like I had had a baby for the first time.  I was ready I had read up googled and researched what would take place and how things would be afterwards.  But noting prepares you for the moments being pushed down to the operating room and not really knowing whats happening.

Both girls were in the NICU for 5 days.  I was there for 4.  Although im pretty sure I could have been released much sooner.  We still do not know if they are identical.  I hope I remember to ask the Dr when we go in again on the 9th.  But I can definitely tell the difference.  I am surprised how much they look like me when Clara looks so much like her daddy.  They have such a Hailey face.  I look forward to seeing them grow and to see how closely they look to Hailey.

They are both doing wonderful.  I am still a paranoid mess with them and there feedings.  We have had some issues with Skyler not being able to breathe.  I was finally able to understand that Skyler is not only spitting up her formula out of her mouth but her nose which is blocking her air ways  (something that I will definitely mention to her Dr)  But she is doing better each day.  They of course can go longer stretches of not eating during the day.  But we are slowly making our way to the night time...So maybe soon ill be getting more sleep at night.  Its not so easy trying to keep two awake during the day!  They take turns being the first to alert me during the night.  One seems like she can keep sleeping and the other seems like I forgot to feed her! 

Life with twins!  I know that I was given these girls for a very special reason.  I also think its Gods way of making me be more out going/friendly to strangers/family/friends..because lets face it when people see twins they stop to talk to you or want to look at them!

Thus the start

Well everyone (just about) has a blog and my sister has told me I needed one!  So HERE IT IS!  I can already tell it will take me a few posts to get the hang of this Blogger thing,  But if Stacey can figure it out so can this lady!

Where to really begin.  I have had lots of thoughts of posts and didnt start one.  We have been living in Florida now for almost 4 months now.  Why did we move?  Well one of the biggest reasons is rent in Midland was getting to high and we needed a bigger place then the little 2 bedroom place we rented.   For us to get a bigger place...meant me to work again.  Which may have ended up for no reason paying for child care plus we were expecting again (twins).  The other biggest thing was all of my family had moved out of Midland.  I could not possible imagine living in the towns they lived in.  Plus I know that my Hubs missed FL.  Well Im not sure he missed FL but he sure missed his family and friends here.  I figured that my charming living in Midland for 2 years I can try FL out and who is to say that FL is our permanent home.  Plus I needed to move away from my Glenn family.  Mostly my ex husband.  I cant say that anything was terrible from him and his family.  I just had an internal battle that I had a hard time move past living there.

Life here has been wonderful.  I have meet many new people and many people we call family here.  We have had lots of blessing brought our way moving here.  Lots of love and help with the arrival of our girls.  Many goals and milestones reached.  Clara is walking/running repeating words we say.  Hailey and Ryu have grown love many people here.  Ryu included has grown to have a special bond with Ethan.  It was a hard time adjust to his dad leaving us and not being around (his defense is knowing if he or we needed him he was only a phone call away)  These days Ryu has started to call Ethan Dad.  He still calls him Ethan but it is mostly Dad these days.  Ethan has always been dad to Hailey.  I didnt ask the kids to call him that.  I simple told them who he was.  This is Ethan, he is your step dad.  This means he going to be a dad to you too.  Tomorrow the twins will be 4 weeks old!  We have had some problems with Skyler.  She has had some trouble with breathing but I feel like each day is an improvement!

There are definitely somethings FL doesnt have for me that Texas does.  Its pretty impossible to find a fountain Barq's root beer here ( A&W)(yuck).  I miss my Husband stopping by Jacks to get one a root beer before coming home from work.  I miss my Texas heat, the fall, winter, and spring.  I miss the big roads (here the roads are so narrow!)  I miss my sisters.  I miss the way the rain smelt after/before it rained there.  Florida has a lot of wonderful things here too.  Of course the water is a plus.  Beaches, rivers, lakes its everywhere.  There is one thing that  I have a love for here.  It reminds me of a place Ruthie would have found and taken us girls too.  A place that has homemade ice cream.  Its half vanilla half orange ( orange part is from the oranges that grow here).  Speaking of which I definitely see a stop there in the future!  I havent yet but I can see us going to the sponge docks.  That also reminds me of something Ruthie would have taken us too.  There is a lot of reminders of California here (which is where us Hughes girls spent the summer every year of our life!)  I have also found my new found love of water.  I am sorry Dasani you have been replaced.  Zephyrhills.  Yes by Zephyrhills.  I can drink like 10 bottles of these waters to 1 of dasani.  Mostly it reminds me of a taste of when I was little.  Playing outside and drinking out of the water hose.  Sadly since I cant get Barqs it has been replaced my Zephyrhills.  Either that or me a cold starbucks frap.

Ok so HERE IT IS!  My first blog.  Many more to come of the life as a Huchton =)