London is Coming Home!!!

We have great news...London gets to come home on Wednesday!!!

If all goes well (she continues to eat all of her bottles), we will have a new baby keeping us awake all night long in just a few days. She passed her carseat test today, 4 pounds 4 1/2 ounces is totally adorable all snuggled up in a carseat.

She is also eating 40 cc's every 3 hours, she just has to keep it up. Tomorrow night we are scheduled to "room-in" with her at the hospital, just like we would after having a term baby. Then I actually get to prance out of the hospital with her.

Can you believe how much she has grown?!?!?!?!?

This is her new "big girl" bed...I decorated it :-)

For Halloween London was a Ghost!

She is so cute after her baths!

She loves to be naked!

If only feeding her was as easy as it looks!

This was her carseat challenge today!

London's First Bath

So, bathing a 2 pound 14 ounce baby was not exactly an easy task. Her nurse taught me how to do it last night, but I am a little scared. I freaked out because they had to take all of her leads off of her in order to do it, and I was completely convinced that she was going to BRADY (when her brain forgets to tell her heart to continue to beat), and she was going to SAT (her oxygen saturation drops below 85%)...see you learn something on my blog :-) But she didn't, and it went as smooth as pie!!!

So...Daddy held her oxygen by her face, and Mommy got to listen to the wonderful nurse, so that next time I can do it all on my own!

It was Daddy's turn to hold her last night and she was wide awake and making lots of fun faces for him!!!

New London Pictures

I know that some of you know of our recent news, but for the few of you who do not know...

On October 4th I went into labor around 1 in the morning. I was sound asleep and thought that I had wet my pants since I had such a weak bladder during pregnancy, then it happened again around 2:30, and again around 4:30 only then did I realize that my water had broken. We rushed to the hospital, and they tried everything to stop my labor, but with no luck London Helene and Ryder James were born at 12:08 and 12:09 pm.

London was born first weighing in at 2 lbs 6 oz and Ryder second at 2 lbs 9 oz.Ryder left us on October 5th at 11:45, after only 34 short hours, and London is still in the NICU at Saint Mary's.

Ryder's services were on Tuesday, and were absolutely beautiful, and we feel so blessed that he was in our lives for even such a short time. I was blessed to give him what he needed to progress on, and he will be forever loved and missed everytime I see another little boy. London is our strength through this all, and we get to see him grow inside of her everyday.

Please keep her in your prayers, and we pray she will be home with us in only 8 more weeks. Here are a few pictures of my little angel!!

An Opinion Needed

So...we have been going back and forth on names since before our children were even conceived.

Our little man has been Ryder James since last October I think....but our precious little one has been everything from Brooklyn, to Maizie. I was settled with Maizie Marguerite (Marguerite after my dear grandmother that passed away on Christmas Eve), but then only to find out Maize is a derivative of Marguerite...so now we were naming our child the same name...plus I wasn't sure if Maizie would make a suitable CEO :-)

So I then decided and was set on Bristol Maize...then Sarah Palin comes out of the blue with a daughter whose name is Bristol...

So my question that I pose to you is...do we go with Bristol, or should I start back at square one? I love the name, and it isn't that Bristol Palin is pregnant at 17...it is the simple fact....

WILL IT BECOME POPULAR LIKE CHELSEA DID WHEN THE CLINTON'S WERE IN OFFICE?

Baby Shower

First and foremost....thank you again EVERYONE for coming, and overwhelming me with the amount of presents that I received. I still go into the babies room waiting for it all to disappear because I feel as though I am dreaming.


Debbie did such a beautiful job hosting the shower, in fact I burst into tears when I walked in and saw how much work she went to for the babies and myself. The entire nursery floor is stacked about halfway up the wall with gifts, not to mention each of the babies bed are full of tiny little accessories.


Would you believe that I received Juicy Couture snowsuits...does Debbie know me or what ;-)

Jon took so many pictures that it is so hard to post them all, so I will post a few and when I can figure out how to do a slideshow I will showcase some more.


I am so blessed to have such a wonderful family as well. My other Mom and Dad (Brian's parents) as well as my sister-in-law traveled all the way from Park City to spend the weekend with us, my sister flew in from San Diego, and my mom and dad made the trek to Reno after only 4 weeks post full hip replacement surgery. Jennifer and Elle Ray made the trip over the mountain from Discovery Bay, what amazing friends we have!! My shower would not have been the same without the love and the support from my family and friends, we love them so much, and are so thankful that they made the unselfish trip and traveled hours just for a few hours of fun! We love you guys!!!!!!

So...I will work on a slideshow and showcase all of the goofiness and fun that we had! Thanks again everyone for making this day so special!!!

22 Week

Are you ready for a belly picture? I can't actually believe that I am posting this, but everyone is dying to see what twins looks like inside of me....so here I am 2 weeks ago.

Carmel

We had such a wonderful time in Carmel!! We stayed with our dear friends from San Fransisco, thanks Patrick and Cyd!!! We came crashing in with our three children into their beautiful home that had ocean views and only blocks from Ocean Avenue.

We decided to take off and go on a whale watching excursion, in the freezing cold, so Brian and I actually had to buy one of those awful tourists fleeces in order to be able to bear the cold. The tour guide said it was an epic day, and they had never seen that many whales and dolphins on a trip. There was also a large sign stating that if you were pregnant you were not allowed on the boat, so I zipped up my tourist fleece and went anyways.

The wind was so strong that we were all worn out by the time we returned to land again. The boys were definitely showing it!

We had a beautiful sunset walk on the beach with Cyd, Patrick, and their adorable dog Louie.Forrest is too cool to play in the water with the kids...oh well! I guess he's just growing up :-(

On our way home we stopped at this fantastic restaurant that overlooked the ocean for breakfast. What a great fast trip!!!