Please help!

Many, if not all of you, have heard of the March of Dimes, but do you really know what they do?? This is a wonderful organization "dedicated to improving the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature births and infant mortality". It was not until my daughters were born 8.5 weeks premature and spent nearly four months in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit that I truly understood the importance of the March of Dimes. Without those donations, my children might not be with us today. I was unable to walk in last year's March of Dimes Walk for Babies as one of my girls was still in the NICU and one was home and too young to go out. WE WILL BE WALKING THIS YEAR AND EVERY YEAR AFTER. Our friends have created a team and they are walking in HONOR OF KAYLA AND KAMRYN and we each have individual goals to reach. There is a link to the right of this post for my personal walk site and goals, please click on this link and make a donation if you can...any little bit helps!! There is no minimum donation requirement! The walk is at the end of April so I need to get moving on this! Please feel free to forward the link on to your friends and family as well!! The website address is http://www.marchforbabies.org/KayKam. Here are some pictures from when the girls were first born so you can see how frail and fragile they once were! Thank you!

Holding Kamryn's hand right after birth...

Kayla's weigh-in...yes, that is only 2lbs, 6 oz!!

Working on their tan...

My sick baby, Kayla...who endured more needles, tests, medicines than anybody should!

Thank you again for any donations you can spare for this wonderful organization!!

Video and pics

I wanted to upload a few cute pics and video of the girls. Ignore my talking in the video, just focus on them. LOL. They are getting so BIG!!! Kamryn's Bling (new earrings)! Daddy reading to the girls! Kamryn trying to ride Scooby!

Crawling Babies!!

Remember when I wrote earlier that Kamryn wasn't wanting to crawl or pull up much?!?! Yeah...scratch that. LOL. She is everywhere! I think she started the day ECI came over and hasn't stopped. It's so much fun with them being so much more mobile and also more stressful...especially when they are off in different directions! We converted my office into their playroom which is a blessing! We can plop them in there, we know they are safe and they have a blast going from one toy to the next. They love to "walk" with their little walker toys and will giggle and laugh at each other as they go across the room. Kayla is trying to let go of things as she is standing and can stand for a few seconds before falling so I think she will be the first walker, but Kamryn is usually right there with her. I think Kam is just more timid than Kayla so she's more conservative in her movements...but when she sees Kayla zipping around and doing things, she usually gets over her fears (especially with some motivational ga-ga's from Kayla)! I'll try to get some pics posted of them zooming around soon! Hard to catch them in the same place though!

Just some cute pics!

Kamryn sleeping in her new BIG GIRL car seat!


The girls checking out the happenings in the neighborhood!


Kayla eating her first Chop Suey!


Kamryn eating her first Chop Suey!

March of Dimes March for Babies!

Kiko and I have joined up with our friends to walk with a team in the March of Dimes March for Babies Fundraiser!!! Our team is dedicated to Kayla and Kamryn!! Since our little girls were born prematurely by 8.5 weeks, we have a very special place in our heart for this event now more than ever. Without the March of Dimes, many premature babies wouldn't have the chances that they have now. Please consider donating to our team! My personal goal that I've given myself is $1500...though I know that we can do much better than that!! The walk will take place April 25 at the University of Houston Robertson Stadium. Kiko, myself AND the WONDER TWINS will be there!! We hope that you can join us!! And if you can't and would like to make a donation to this wonderful cause, please click the link to the right of this blog and it will send you to the website! NO DONATION IS TOO SMALL!!! EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPS!!!

Thank you so much!!!

First Year Checkup!

Today was the girls 1 year checkup with their pediatrician and it was both stressful and wonderful!! The girls are weighing in at 20 lbs and "almost 17 lbs"! Kamryn can now ride forward facing in a big girls car seat!! Kayla has a little longer to go till she can switch...but now they can face each other when they are riding :). They got their immunization shots and some blood drawn too which was not fun for either of us. Kamryn is not feeling well...I think her molars are starting to come in and really bugging her. She was up most of the night and very whiney...which she never is...so I'm hoping some Motrin will help her out tonight. The doctor was so pleased with their progress...she said Kamryn still has a "big head" so we're going to keep watching it and if she doesn't meet her developmental milestones in 3 months and her head continues to be large (90th percentile) she will order some more tests and a consult with a neurologist just to be sure. We have monthly visits from ECI (Early Childhood Intervention) and they should be by this week to check out her development some too. She's not really wanting to crawl or pull up which is a little worrisome since Kayla is all over the place...but she's trying. It's so cute to watch them crawl around the house...Kayla is so fast, but she will stop and wait for Kamryn to catch up to her and they both giggle while they do it! I can almost see Kayla encouraging Kamryn when she does this...she'll circle around Kam while waiting for her and they both smile and laugh. It just warms my heart to watch these two beautiful girls!!

HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY!!!

Today was our baby girls first birthday!! I can't believe it's been a year already! I only cried once! LOL. They had a great day today with a lot of friends and family sharing the day with us!! We had a LADYBUG theme for the party and the girls were so cute in their little matching "ladybug" dresses and "ladybug" cakes! **Note to mommy...black and red icing makes for VERY messy babies!!!!** Here are a few pictures...sorry they are dark :(.