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| Lukers meets Ashton |
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| A family photo! Grandma Marsha picked out the babies' wedding outfits. Cute, huh? :) |
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| The girls! Minus Allie and Kate who were busy helping out! |
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| Congratulations Lara! |
It's been a crazy month! Last weekend we packed up the babes and headed north of Spokane for the wedding of a dear friend and college roommate. Dan and Lara's wedding was a blast! I was blessed to get to live with some pretty wonderful girls during college and it was so fun to be together for a reunion and to have everyone meet Luke and Amelia. The babies honestly did really well (they slept through the whole wedding ... I was afraid they'd start screaming, but they behaved :) ) and they both love to be around people so they had a great time! The trip itself was hard on Scott and I. It's just an incredible amount of work to travel with two babies under 6 months (or over 6 months for that matter!) and they got really off schedule after sleeping for 8 hrs in the car each way. So that meant not nearly enough sleep for us (I don't function so well on 3 hrs/night!) The sleep thing has been, by far, been the hardest part about raising twins, but I'll save that for another post! I'm really thankful we were able to celebrate Dan and Lara's new marriage and it was well worth the sleep deprivation :)
The helmet ... At Luke's two month check-up the pediatrician noticed the left side of his head was getting a bit flat. we spent the next 3 months trying to get him to lay on the right side of his head. We re-positioned him constantly and made sure that toys and interesting things/people were on his right. But his head kept getting more lopsided and his ears started to become uneven. So, it was time for the helmet! He really doesn't seem to mind it too much which I'm thankful for. The only things that I don't like are that it's harder to snuggle with him. I didn't realize how much I kissed his little head until there was a cold piece of plastic in the way! And also it's getting hot out (some days anyway) so he gets overheated easily and super sweaty ... poor love! Hopefully he'll only need it for three months. And then when he's a teenager he can't blame us for his uneven head :)
This week I started work. I have mixed emotions about it but overall I'm thankful for my job. I really like what I'm doing right now. I'm working 1 or 2 days/week as a discharge nurse which means that I help educate families to take care of their kiddo at home. Teaching them how to care for IV lines, feeding tubes, new medications, etc. I help the floor nurses get that patients out the door on the day of discharge (doing paperwork, etc.) and I call families after they go home to check on them and answer questions. It's a good fit for me because it includes all of my favorite parts about being a nurse. It was hard to leave the babies but they're in the best possible hands (Scott and my mom!) and honestly it felt like a bit of a break to be doing something else. I actually got to sit down for 20 minutes and eat lunch! That rarely happens here unless they both nap at the same time which is definitely a rare occasion. The hardest part right now about working is just the logistics of working out scheduling. We decided not to do daycare and thankfully that's an option for us because Scott works 3-4 shifts/week which means that I can work on days he's home and my mom can fill in too (thanks mom!) so that Scott and I can have at least two days a week off together. A good friend of ours works as a nanny so she'll be with the babes a bit as well (thanks Ally!). We'll see how it goes!
And one more picture ...
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| Yes, Dad picked out the helmet, can you tell?! |
