Showing posts with label our girlies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label our girlies. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

upside down

I'm in love with this picture- and not just because I happen to not look bloated in it and both girlies have their eyes open. :)  For some reason it comforts me to look at it. It makes me feel like maybe I can have it all still...someday. Right now I've entered into this new world- motherhood. It's wonderful. The highest calling... I'm excited about it, but I also feel some loss of identity. I'm still a wife, right? Still a couple in love? I'm still Katie, right? Even if I can't be so carefree (no fancy free trips or random late night movies...), even if I'm completely uninterested in cooking anything, and have spent every day inside our house wearing milk stained clothes...
I see a picture like this and I think, it's all going to be worth it. I mean it's already worth it, I love these little girls and they're so sweet, but THIS IS SO HARD.
People like to say marriage is an adjustment, and after having babies I decided I don't agree. Marriage is as much as an adjustment as making a new best friend, it's cake. But having a baby, let alone 2 babies, has completely rocked my world.  I don't even think I can call it a life adjustment, I feel like my life got thrown upside down, died, and now I have this new life I need to get used to.
I need 2 of me to take care of both of them. I miss the hospital where I had people caring for me constantly while I cared for the babies. I could feed them and hold them, then send them to the nursery to sleep when I was tired. There were no dishes, no laundry, no meals to think about. People brought me my food, helped me to the bathroom, and checked on me constantly. I miss it... I still want to be babied as I get used to this role and recover physically and emotionally, but instead I have to care for these 2 helpless babies day and night. Brad has helped how he can, but he is tired and has been busy as well. I'm scared to be on my own, the little people outnumber me and I feel like there's no way I can win... heaven help me.

Saturday, March 5, 2011

weighty issues

1 week old weigh in

Aren't our girls the cutest little things ever?
but...this week on campus the biggest loser is...me! Having lost a total of 29 lbs so far. :) Sure, Lyla lost 10% of her weight in the hospital, but luckily 29 lbs is more than 10% of my weight. I really want to fatten these girls up, and if it helps me take off the baby weight, thats just an added benefit!
This week at their 1 week appointment with Dr. Jed June weighed a whopping 4 lbs 7 oz and Lyla 4 lbs 13 oz. Their weight is coming back up, I'm hoping they'll both be over 5 lbs for their 2 week appointment. (make all these demanding feedings worth it!) They are just so tiny, I can't believe it. I want them to get some chub so bad. We were expecting 7 lb babies according to ultrasounds at our doctor's office... 



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