Put up your hands!

Apparently this is normal, but it still cracks me up every time I see either of the babies sleeping with their hands in the air.  Sometimes it looks like Adella is waiting for her nails to dry!

Charlie and Adella

Most of you have already seen these pictures on facebook, but I jut got my digital copies and wanted to make sure they were recorded here!  I don't think I'll ever get tired of looking at these photos!  I just love them!

It Happens

That's right.  Poop.  It happens. And with newborns it happens A LOT!  And unfortunately we are already experiencing our fair share of blowouts which means poop on clothes.    Fortunately my sister in law recommended an AMAZING product to get rid of those tough stains.  So in case any of my mommy friends haven't discovered this for themselves I wanted to share.
Its called Fels Naptha.  You can get it at Walmart in the Laundry aisle and its only 97 cents!  This is seriously good stuff - it even got out stains that had already made it through the washer and dryer!

Mom

My mom left today. S-A-D, SAD!   Seriously, I cried on the way home after dropping her off.  Not a reaction I anticipated.  I haven't done that since they dropped me off for college.   There is just something about becoming a M-O-M, MOM, yourself that just makes you appreciate your mom so much more.  Am I right?  I'm sure this must happen to every other mom out there.   Maybe its because my mom has been here for two weeks doing just about everything for me, and before that Adam's mom was here for two weeks doing just about everything for me.  That means, for the last month I haven't cooked or cleaned.   That includes breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, and all!  I've had full breakfasts every morning, whatever I wanted (I may or may not have consumed more bacon in the last month than I have in the last year).   I haven't vacuumed or mopped, or emptied the dishwasher or done more than a handful of dishes.   I hadn't cleaned a bottle and only changed about half the diapers that needed changing everyday (OK, probably more like 1/3 when you count in Adam's share at night!).   So pretty much Mom's are the best and I just hope I can be just as great as both of Adam and I's Mom's.  We've been pretty blessed!   And I know our little ones will be blessed to have two awesome Grandma's (and Grandpa's) as well.

I LOVE YOU MOM!

1 month

Here they are at one month!  I almost forgot to take these pictures and wanted to get them while we had some natural light coming in the house still, so these aren't the best and the babies weren't the most willing subjects because they were hungry, but at least we can see how big they are!  We also had their 1 month checkup today and everything is going just great!

February 28th 2012

Adella - 8 lbs 1 oz, 21 1/2 inches long, 14 1/2 inch head

Charlie - 7 lbs 7 oz, 21 1/4 inches long, 14 1/2 inch head