Well I decided to bring out the camera and try a little photo shoot with the girls. I found that I was taking lots of videos of the girls and sending them to Jackie that we kind of stopped taking pictures of them. Well.. no more!! Here’s our pajama pictures..
Well I am just getting to it today but Samantha is rolling over now. She rolled over 3 times yesterday, twice so far today. Safe to say it wasn’t a one time thing. Here is the video from roll over number 3.
Just thought I would update on their 3rd month of existence. They are both doing real well. We just took them to JCPenney’s to get their pictures taken this weekend as well as took them to a Birthday Party for one of our friend’s daughters. Most recent accomplishments include, sleeping 10+ hours every night for the last 2 weeks. Samantha is constantly trying to sit up. She cannot make it on her own, we still have to help, but if she is leaning back at all, she is trying to sit up. I swear both of them are trying to repeat after me. It started with them repeating “ooo’s” and “ahhh’s” and they are now saying “hello”. Well trying to. I’ll see if I can get some video of it.. totally cute. Samantha loves to sit up and stand up, with assistance of course and Alexis loves to lay on the floor and kick her feet. Her cries are totally cute too.. She yells.. not cries. Looks like I have to get some videos up here. In the mean time, here’s some photos.
Well the girls are almost 3 months old now and boy are they getting big. I have a little time right now while the girls are sleeping, I figured I would make a quick post and share some pictures. The girls have been very good to daddy so far in his first week as a stay at home dad. We spend a lot of time on the play mat and under the play gym. We go for walks around the subdivision all the time and the girls really enjoy it. The girls are also sleeping very well, easily we get 5.5 – 6 hours continuous sleep per night. We have also been surprised with a couple 7, 8, and 9 hours sleeps. We have decided to not care for them both at the same time at night. Meaning, when one wakes up, we let the other one sleep if she is still sleeping. We will not wake her up just for a feeding. Opposite schedules during the night.. actually works a little bit better. Well, enough with the boring stuff, here are the photos.
Well it is almost officially official. I have put in my 2 week notice at my employer because I have decided to take a temporary swing in my profession. After much consideration, planning, testing and trialing, We have decided it was time to work for myself. Work from home. Be my own boss. My new profession is labeled “Stay at home Dad”. Its not a new idea, we had always kind of talked about it, but it wasn’t until we started looking at our baby books and our development books were we 100% sold on the idea. Once we started putting all the pieces together, the benefit of a stay at home parent outweighed that of the “extra cash” we would have if I continued to work. Our decisions we have made thus far for out little girls have never just been, what is “easier”, we keep choosing what we feel is “better” and we feel like this is what is best.
Now, I can’t say I am not scared. I am leaving an ever evolving profession in the IT Industry and wonder what its going to be like when I attempt to reenter the field in a few years. I really loved what I do, and I am currently doing what I have always said I wanted to do. It was with a great company only 7 miles from my house. We just started to get into many things which really excited me. But I love my girls and my family so much more and I couldn’t be more excited to start this new venture as a stay at home Dad. .
So June 18th 2010, I will become a stay at home Dad!!!
No real news to share on the girls so I thought I would update everyone on how we are doing. Things are going well. I went back to work Tuesday this last week and Jackie has been home with the girls. Her mother has been coming over daily to help her out. These girls are a handful but are really well behaved. They really don’t cry at all, unless they are hungry. They are starting to sleep for about 2.5 – 3 hours at a time now so that is giving us just a little bit more rest. We are noticing they are staying awake after feedings now so we have put together their little play gym. So far they really just lay on the ground. They don’t play with the gym at all but that will come soon I am sure.
Here are a couple fun facts:
Samantha now weighs 7lbs and Alexis is now 5lbs 10oz
Samantha lost her pacifier the other day. After a few attempts of grabbing it with her mouth, she took her hand, grabbed it and placed it in her mouth.
Michael Jackson’s song “Come Together” quiets them down when they are fussy.
We noticed this last week that Samantha has kind of pointed elf like ears and Alexis is already showing a receding hair line.
So they say that it’s good for twins to sleep together in the same crib because they are used to being together in the womb for 9 months. Well, it seems like our twins have had enough sleeping next to each other. Last night we fed the two of them until they were finally content and yet they still would not go to sleep. We thought maybe they wanted the sound machine with the sound of the ocean on—didn’t work. Maybe they wanted us to keep their lamp on—didn’t work. Maybe they want to sleep in separate cribs—and within 2 minutes they were out cold. Who knew? All they wanted was a little space.
Posted by Daniel | Posted in Alexis, Daniel, Family, Friends, Jackie, Samantha | Posted on 04-12-2010
It’s funny, I started this post on the blog as the Week 1 update, however considering how little sleep we have gotten and all the other things we have needed to do, it is now the week 2 update. So far we are having fun with the girls. We have given them their first bath, done a little baby photo shoot(for the birth announcements we will soon find time to send out). I take them for little walks around the yard in anticipation for our first “real” walk with Jackie once the doctor officially takes her off of bed rest. There really isn’t a lot of excitement other than that. They eat, they sleep and they poop a lot. and when they aren’t doing that, we are talking with them and trying to bond with them. I think right now they are confused as to what is day time and what is night time because they sleep very well during the day, and not really at all at night. Hopefully we can figure that out soon as I got to head back to work in a couple more weeks here. No other real updates to talk about yet. Next doctors visit for the girls is tomorrow, we get to see how much weight we have gained. I wanted to thank everyone who has come over to help out, be it bringing us dinner(Bobbie), making us dinner(Mom), doing our grocery shopping(Ron) and coming over to give us a little break so we can sleep during the day(Mr. and Mrs. Tober), we appreciate it.
Well we had our girls today. Everything went well.
The stats are:
Alexis Marie Frei:
4lbs 8oz.
17 inches long
12.5 inch head
Born at 1:06 pm 3/30/2010
Samantha Lee Frei:
5lbs 8oz.
18.5 inches long
12.75 inch head
Born at 1:08 pm 3/30/2010
Tomorrow at 10am we are scheduled to go to the hospital and have our twin girls Samantha Lee and Alexis Marie. I can hardly believe that the time has finally come to meet those sweet little babies that I’ve been carrying for the past 37 weeks and 2 days. 7 weeks and 2 days ago, my doctor placed me on bed rest due to Edema (swelling of the body, mainly in the extremities and face). Thank goodness she did because I began to see the swelling go down as I spent my days in my la-z-boy recliner with my feet up watching what became my regular routine of daytime shows. Usually I’d catch the oldies but goodies real early in the morning like Saved By The Bell and Fresh Prince of Bel Air before Ellen came on at 10am. From there I’d normally surf around until Jeopardy! or Family Feud came on. It became really difficult to get around about 2-3 weeks ago but thankfully I had my Mom, my Dad, my sister Carolyn, my best friend Bobbi, and my father-in-law Ron to occasionally come visit me during the day whether it was to bring me lunch, help with the housework, or just keep me company so I wouldn’t be alone all day. Of course Dan came home on his lunch break from time to time as well to bring me food and check on me as well but mostly tried to leave work sparingly because of all the time he took away from work to go to almost every doctor’s appointment I had. He wanted to make sure that the babies and I were OK and always had questions for the doctor asking how he can help make me more comfortable, what signs of labor he should look for, and any other details I may not have thought of at the time. Dan has been a blessing through this whole pregnancy. I’d sit in my chair and ask him to get me water, chocolate milk, bake me a cake or cookies, whatever I wanted, then on top of that he would clean the house, do the dishes, take out the trash, feed the cats, clean the cats’ litter box, and still find the time to sit with me and cheer me up when I’m bored or feeling nervous about the birth of the girls. But tomorrow, Tuesday, March 30, 2010, right around this time 10:15am Dan and I could be looking at two perfect little angels from heaven that will be here to join our family and enrich our lives forever. We both can hardly wait…