PICS

Since I know you all really only check this blog now for picture updates, here are a few from yesterday (Thanks Denise)!

Growing and growing and growing...

I know that I'm probably the only mother out there who wants their babies to get fat. LOL. Kamryn is achieving this goal...I was shocked at how chunky her thighs are getting right now...and I love it. LOL. Kayla is also starting to get a little meat on her bones now which is so wonderful. We used to be able to see her ribs and now it's getting a little harder to see them. Her color is also improving too. Kayla has finally hit the 8lb mark!! I was so happy to hear that. Kamryn is slowing down on her growth, I think she's waiting for Kayla. She's 11.5 lbs and I think it's all in her cheeks and thighs. Will post more pictures soon (when I get a free hand)!

Sorry it's been so long!!

I just realized that I hadn't updated our blog in several days and I know there are several of you K&K fans out there dying to know what is going on! Well, the girls are wiping mommy and daddy out! We even have help and we're exhausted! The girls turned FOUR MONTHS OLD this past weekend and I couldn't believe that much time has already passed! Especially for little Kayla who has only been home a couple of weeks. The girls are doing FANTASTIC and I got to enjoy my first Mother's Day ever with the most beautiful girls in the world (yes, I'm biased)!

Kamryn had a check up today with the pulmonologist and he has decided that she no longer needs to be on the Apnea monitor!! Woohoo!! Now of course, that's a different story for mommy who takes comfort in knowing that the alarm will go off if she does stop breathing so for my own sanity, I'm going to keep it on at night for another month until I think she is all clear. She hasn't gained a lot of weight the last couple of weeks and her eating has slowed down, so I plan to talk to the Dr about it tomorrow when she goes in for her four month immunizations. She now weighs 11 lbs, 7 oz and is 23 inches long!!!

Kayla is doing great and I've decided to postpone her surgery yet again. Yes, I'm crazy, but I just can't put her through a surgery unless I am convinced to the bone that she needs it. She has been steadily gaining weight since she has been home and she is eating much better than she did a few weeks ago. She still has some really bad episodes of reflux which are very difficult for her and us to deal with, but as long as she is still gaining weight and still eating, I can handle the periods of screaming and discomfort if it will avoid her having to have surgery. As of Friday, she weighed 7 lbs, 8 oz and was 20 1/4 inches long! She'll get another weight check tomorrow, so I'm hoping she continues to thrive!

Surgery scheduled...

Well, we have rescheduled Kayla's GJ tube surgery to next Thursday (May 14). It was originally scheduled for tomorrow, but I wasn't very comfortable with the surgeon that was planning to do it. I'm sure he would have done fine, but I really liked the original surgeon who was scheduled to do the procedure a few weeks ago. So I called my preferred surgeon today and asked her to do the surgery but in order for her to do it, we had to move it out a week. It's going to be a really hard week for Kayla waiting, but my hope is that this will give her more time to "grow" out of the reflux some more and hopefully not need the surgery at all. She is so uncomfortable that it breaks my heart and it is very tiring holding her all the time to keep her calm so she doesn't reflux.

I wanted to take a minute to thank my TWO nannies for all of their help with our girls. Denise, who is our "day nanny" has the toughest job by far...I don't know how she does it. I get exhausted after an hour! She is so wonderful with the girls and has so much patience! She truly is a GOD SEND!! Brandi takes the night shift and helps take care of Kayla during the night so Kiko and I can get a few hours of sleep each night. Poor Brandi works during the day as a nanny for another family (with 5 children!!!!) and then she works all night for us...this is only temporary though as we're in the process of looking for a live-in nanny/au pair to help us for a few months. I wouldn't be sane if it weren't for both of these women and I really appreciate EVERYTHING they do to help our family out!!

Just some more pics :)

Here are some pictures of our little angels :)...ok...can you tell who is who? And can you tell who might be the "alpha" female?? LOL! And yes, they are IDENTICAL twins, but they look so different with Kayla being so much smaller than Kamryn (poor baby). We are heading towards having her get the surgery on Thursday so we can get her growing!! Unless I chicken out again...It's so hard making this decision...ugh!!

Yo-Yo...

Well Kayla continues to keep us guessing!! Just when I was convinced we would have to do the GJ tube surgery, she started eating like a champ...I'd never seen her eat so well! And it showed, at yesterday's Dr's appointment, she had gained 4 oz in 4 days which is fantastic! She's also grown 1/4". Then she hit a wall...not literally...but last night and this morning she would not eat very well. The feedings were back to the usual screaming and arching, refluxing up into her nose so she couldn't breathe. Poor thing was really stressing me out (and herself). It was really hard holding her upright for hours on end so she could breathe and be calm. So now I don't know what to do about the surgery. Part of me wants to go ahead with it because I truly think it will help her grow and gain weight, which is what she desperately needs right now to outgrow this reflux. The other part of me doesn't want to subject her to the surgery if it isn't absolutely necessary (i.e. she starts losing weight and not eating completely). My fear is that she will learn to hate the bottle because it causes so much pain and we'll really have problems. At least if we did the surgery now (while she still is ok with the bottle), we can continue to feed her by mouth and only use the tube at night or when she can't finish her minimum required feeding.

Kamryn is doing great, just gaining weight and being a pretty happy baby. She's so good right now because with all of Kayla's fussy episodes, Kamryn is usually pretty content sitting in a bouncy seat watching mommy walk around trying to calm Kayla down. Every once in a while she will start sympathy crying and then it's a real trick to calm them both down. I think she may be getting sick though...she's started coughing lately and sounding congested. I'm trying to get her into the doctor this week to make sure she doesn't have an ear infection or something. She was pretty cranky last night and didn't sleep very well, so hopefully it's something simple.

I took some great pics of the girls playing yesterday but I haven't had the time to upload them yet...hopefully I will get to them tonight!

Maybe??

Kayla is doing better this afternoon eating...still pretty uncomfortable afterwards though with her reflux though. I'm going to keep trying my hardest though until I just can't do it anymore. Each day is a rollercoaster feeding her and I'm just praying that it will get better and she will gain weight and grow so she doesn't have to do the surgery. Here are some pics from "playtime"...we didn't get them together today because when one is awake the other is usually asleep for some reason...lol.

The first two are Kayla :)