Milestones

I went into today thinking it was going to be one of the roughest days of my life.  Being so far away from my little angels for the first time, even if it’s only a 35 minute drive.  Luckily through most the day I was keeping myself occupied while it lingered in the back of my mind that as soon as Austin got home we could leave and go see the babes.

I got a call in the middle of the day from the practitioner on the NICU floor evaluating the twins.  She let me know that at 3am Oakley was wide awake from the morphine and they had decided to take her off the oscillator and put her on the CPAP and in fact she was doing so well they only had it turned to setting 7 (10 needing the most help).  She said Kenzington is still on the CPAP but needing a little more help than her sister with her setting being a 9.  We were still happy to hear that they both no longer have the tubes in their mouths and are gradually getting better.  She then let me know that around 2pm they would be doing the echos to check to see if the PDA treatment was successful and if they needed to give them their 3rd dose or not.

Today is our 2 yr anniversary and neither of us planned anything.  When it was time for us to leave I mentioned we should grab some food as an “anniversary dinner” before we went to see the girls.  Our place of choice?  Kneaders, conveniently located right across the street from the Hospital! =D

After a nice relaxing eat and a few laughs at how silly we were for making this our Anniversary dinner spot.  We headed over to the hospital.
Once we got up to the NICU floor we were greeted by the nurse who had been with them the night before.  She was thrilled to see us and tell us the news of the twins day.
Instantly she started chirping “Mom gets to hold her girls today!”–My jaw dropped and I was in awe simply replying “Shut up”.  Wide eyed and smile from ear to ear I made her repeat her self.
It was true today Austin and I were going to get to hold our girls for the first time.  What an amazing anniversary gift!

Before we could get to snugglin’ they needed a diaper change and guess who got to do it! US! 🙂  Silly when you get all excited to change a baby’s diaper right?

Luckily it was just a wet one and nothing too serious.  It was great watching Austin with Kenzington as he proceeded to ask the nurse, “How do I wipe this?  I’ve only changed boy diapers”.  <3

Then came the best part.  Since they were still on CPAPS we were only able to hold the one so I took Oakley and Austin took Kenzington—