Yesterday we made two visits to the NICU: our usual daytime visit and then an impromptu late night visit b/c we missed them. They've been letting us unhook one or both of the babies from their monitor briefly so the whole family can relax in one room. Ryan and I each were holding a twin late last night in our respective rocking chairs and it was great to be a little family--it felt almost normal.
We are also working on buying a car for our expanded family. Ryan drives a nice sized car (impala) that will easily hold two babies in their carseats, but since we also have our two boston terriers we need something that doesn't involve putting the dogs in the trunk . We made another visit to the dreaded babies R us to buy some essentials, including our two carseats (the ones they'll graduate to after they grow out of the infant carrier seats). We went round and round the store withour car overflowing and since I look about 5 months pregnant people probably thought we were going a little overborad a little too early :). The girls are slowly improving on their feeds. Little Lydia is ahead of her chubbier sister and will likely go home first (this is common with twins in the NICU)--maybe even before next weekend. We've been giving Grace pep talks to promote a little healthy sibling rivalry, but she seems to be o.k. with her older sister (by two minutes) taking the lead. The pics: (Top to bottom) Grace getting her bath, Lydia looking overwhelmed at feat of taking the entire bottle, me with the girls at our late night visit.