Here is a picture taken today of the girls in their new skirts. It's getting harder to tell these two apart.

Baby Blessing for Holland and Grace

2 month pictures

Here are some pics from their 8 week 'photo shoot'. The first two are Holland and the next two are Grace.

8 Weeks old!

Grace & Holland are 8 weeks old now! Great Grandpa and Grandma Darger are back from Utah so we went to visit them.

These pictures were so funny because Grace kept licking the side of Hollands head but I never could get a picture of it.

Double trouble

Here are just a few recent pictures of the girls. They are gaining weight and doing great!

What we've been doing...

The girls are 3 weeks old now. Grace is in the Green and Holland is wearing the Hot pink. Oh, we are so clever! Grace is doing her 'O' face.

Getting their nails painted red & pink so we can tell them apart.

We are teaching them to hold their pacifiers in because they fall out every 2 seconds.

The Grandmas. Good thing there are 2 babies.

Pictures and the story...

Here are some fun pics we took of the girls. Grace is in the pink onesie and Holland is in the white.

Here is the story for those who want to hear it. At my last appointment on Thurs the 18th my Dr. decided to induce me that Monday because one of the babies was about a pound smaller than the other. I would be 37 weeks along and it was more beneficial to get the babies out and get the little runt growing.

So I went to the hospital at 5 am Monday June 22nd. They started me on pitocin at about 6:30 and I was dialated 2 cm. I got my epidural at 10:30 and the Dr. came to check me at 1:30. He said I was barely dialated 4 cm then he broke my water and left. At 3:30 the nusre came in to check me and I was dialated 10 cm! They called the Dr. and I pushed through about 3 contractions with the nurse. When the Dr got there I pushed through 3 more contractions and out popped Grace at 3:57 pm. She had the cord wrapped around her neck 2 times but it wasn't tight and it had just happened during the delivery so she was fine. The second baby was breach so the Dr reach in and pulled her out by her feet. So Holland was born at 3:59 pm.

Brett and I went home from the hospital on Wednesday but the girls stayed a little longer to learn to eat better and gain some weight. Grace came home on Thursday and Holland came home on Friday.

After looking at the placenta the Dr guessed that they are faternal but he sent it to the lab anyway. A few days later they called and told me that the result came back and they are identical! We think they look pretty different but it's probably because Grace has a an extra pound of fat on her. They are close to the same length and head size, Holland is just a skinny little thing.

The girls are such good babies but we still aren't getting much sleep because each feeding takes twice as long with two.