6 months old

Today our babies are 6 months old. Where has the time gone? Remember these pictures?

Evan

Charlotte

Ellie

And here they are today

Ellie

Evan
Charlotte
This past week we had a big change in the house.

No More Monitors!

The babies have been on an apnea/heart monitors since they came home. The monitor were worn to detect any abnormal heartbeats or if they babies were holding their breath while sleeping. The babies are so excited to not have anything connected to them. They have had something connected to them since birth. It is weird for us too. The monitors were a reassurance as the babies slept at night. Now instead of looking at their monitors for the blinking lights Jenn feels of their chest for movement. It is also weird to pick up a baby in the mornings with nothing connected. Here are the last shots of the monitors before we got rid of them. Good-bye monitors.

Ellie

Charlotte


Evan
P.S. The babies do sleep in clothes, we just wanted to show the monitors.


Mom & her babies

What an adventure the first 6 months have been. The early days of worrying over our sick little babies and now where an abnormal day is a baby pooping twice or a little spit up. It is and can be challenging and we do get overwhelmed at times, but we know that God has given us this responsibility for a reason and we will do our best not to let Him down. Darius Rucker (now country and formally with Hootie and the Blowfish) has a song out that sums up everyday "It won't be like this for long". I hear it often on my way back and forth from work and think of all the memories so far and all the one's to come. Click here to hear the song & see the video:

http://www.cmt.com/videos/darius-rucker/336930/it-wont-be-like-this-for-long.jhtml

I wonder what the next 6 months will be like?