2 months old!!!

 

We are 2 months old!! 

We BOTH:

-love being at home

-love tummy time on daddy

 -have beautiful eyes

 -are still trying to figure out that we sleep at night

-are super cuddly

-love going on walks and being in the car

-are growing daily and becoming stronger

-love being super cute!

 

Lyla:

6 lbs 3 1/2 oz

19 inches

Lyla...

-is doing really well with her oxygen (hopefully will be off of it in one week)

-loves to pull on her cannula even when it is painful

-can still wear preemie pants

-is very content and happy 99% of the time

 -loves to be held and stare in to your soul

Kendal:

7 lbs. 11 oz.

20 1/2 inches

Kendal...

-has longer eyelashes than her mommy

-lets it be known when she is mad

-loves to be in the moby wrap (be held while walking around)

 -is filling out the newborn clothes

-loves the swing

Everything is going really well at home! The girls are growing and starting to establish a routine. We had their 2 month appointment yesterday and they got their first round of immunizations--which they both hated (and so did mommy). We go in next week to check Lyla's oxygen saturation and if she is doing well we will hopefully be taking her off the oxygen. Then she will get off her caffeine, then have the monitors for another few weeks. We are excited to have the oxygen gone--she looks so different, and much more like Kendal, without the cannula on her face. Both girls are doing well in terms of weight, length, and head circumference considering they were 31 weekers. The doctor's office gave us a printout of their stats and they have graphs that show you where they are based on being 2 months old--it doesn't do adjusted age. Technically the girls are newborns, but also 2 months old--if that makes sense. Compared to 2 month old babies, that weren't premature, the girls are super tiny. Kendal is in the 1% for her stats and Lyla is in the .05%. But, if you look at newborns on the graph, they are both about in the 25%, which is still small, but good!

Here are some more pictures since we have been home:

 Kendal after her first bath at home--in the cute robe Nana and Grandpa gave them!

Lyla getting a bath

 Tummy time!

 We went on a walk all the way from our apartment to BYU--the girls slept the entire way and were totally worn out!

 It was super hot and sunny--no signs of rain when we left for the walk. 2 blocks away from being back at home it started pouring! The girls had no idea--thanks to their canopies!

 In other fabulous news:

Leigh got accepted in to the BYU Business School!!!! It is a huge accomplishment. BYU is hard to get in to, but the Business School is even harder to get in to. I am so proud of him!

WELCOME HOME! :)

 Did you know we were home with the girls?! 

A lot has happened since we last posted on here--the closer we got to coming home, the more often we were at the hospital and the more exhausting our lives became. I am getting way less sleep now that they are home, but I have way more energy because life isn't as stressful and I am just so incredibly grateful to have them home.

The weekend of the 4th, Gammy, PaPa and Uncle Austin came to visit. It was pretty uneventful and we had to let the girls sleep a lot so they would eat well. But, they all had a chance to hold one of the girls. :)

After they left the following week went by so fast and the girls all of a sudden took off on breastfeeding. It was fabulous. We decided to have them top off with a bottle after breastfeeding in order for us to come home faster. The girls needed only one day of being topped off with the bottle and then they did much better breastfeeding the days following. We stayed over night at the hospital Thursday and Friday night and we were discharged Saturday morning! Both girls are on some medications and we are giving them at least two bottles of day with my breastmilk that has been fortified with some formula for preemies (makes it like a protein shake for babies). Lyla is on oxygen so we got set up with a monitor that checks her heart and respiratory rate and an oxygen tank. She has to wear a belt around her chest with two wires coming from it that hooks up to the monitor. It kind of sucks for her, but isn't as bulky as I anticipated. 

Since being home we spend our days sleeping, eating, pooping, and watching lots of Netflix. We have been doing tons of dishwashing with all the bottles and lots of laundry because the girls spit up a lot. The first couple nights were rough sleepwise, but I think we are getting a system and routine down. The girls, thankfully, have been staying on pretty much the same schedule with eating. We went to their first doctor's appointment today and they both look good. It seems that they have both gained weight (we won't know for sure until next week when we go back because they use a different scale than the hospital). The doctor said they both sounded good, and we got the go ahead to lower Lyla's oxygen! She just needs to be lowered one more time and go off of her caffeine, then we can hopefully take her off the oxygen. Then she will have her monitor for another couple weeks, then it will be done for good! We are hoping in the next 4-6 weeks we will be tube-monitor-wires-free! We go back on Tuesday of next week to get weights checked again, oxygen levels checked, and our first round of vaccines. 

We love love LOVE having the girls home. We get to cuddle with them all day and stare at their beautiful faces whenever we want. They are definitely letting their voice be heard around our home and becoming little princesses. :) 

 Gammy and Lyla

 Daddy and his girls

 PaPa and Lyla

 Kendal and Uncle Austin

 Kendal ALL ready to go home!

 Kendal in her car seat

 Lyla in her car seat! We didn't get any good pictures of Lyla in her cute outfit--she was hungry and we waited until the last moment to get her dressed and ready to go

 The girls, at home in their cradle taking a little nap!

 Kendal smile :)

Lyla with Gammy