I love this picture of Asher!

Nana with babies

2 weeks old today already!

The babies are 2 weeks old today and had another ck up with the Dr. He said they look great and are both gaining weight. I can't believe it's been 2 weeks already. Now they won't have to go back until they are two months old! Mommy and daddy are doing good, just trying to get sleep when we can. My mom is still here helping (TONS!) and she leaves this weekend and then Brad's mom comes for a week. The time is getting closer to be on my own when Brad is at work and that thought is a little scary for me, so keep us in your prayers! Right now all I have time to do in a day is feed them and sleep it seems. Here are a few more pictures we took today before they went to the Dr. Ash was wide awake, but Lilly was a sleepy head.

Sleeping beauty

Asher after a long hard day of eating and sleeping...

Lilly found her fingers!

Asher found his thumb...

pictures of the babies!!!!!

I don't have time right now to write a blog...but for those of you checking our blog page, I'm sure you are dying to see pictures of the babies! So here are a few. I will write a blog a little later...all is well with mommy and the babies...we are doing wonderful, but tired of course!

Amy

LAST belly pic....and today's Dr. appt. update

Well folks , this is it! My very last belly pic (thank goodness). I was really not even wanting to take this one because who wants their picture taken when you feel this miserable! Just got back from the Dr. and here is the latest...babies look good with Lilly weighing approx. 5.8 and Asher a whopping 6.2! So the time has come...what we have all been waiting for!!! I am scheduled for a c-section (the Dr. said tentatively, but believe me, it's happening!) next Thurs. Jan. 11th. He is putting me on a steriod medication for 3 days to boost the babies lung developement then we go back in next Wed. morning to double check that it's still ago for Thursday. I couldn't have been happier to hear such news!! There is just no explaining how ready I am and the Dr. could for sure tell! He said 36 weeks will be fine for the twins, our goal was 37 weeks, but he said with the help from the steriods, waiting until the 37th week won't make that much of a difference. It's a balance of wanting the very best for the twins, which we do beyond anything else and knowing that I really am to the point where I can hardly move anymore. Brad and I are both so excited and overwhelmed at the same time, just knowing we'll see their precious faces next week! I wonder if they will look anything like I have tried to picture. Well, we'll talk to everyone soon! Keep us in your prayers!! Love to you all!

Amy

Thoughts from a Dad.

As 2007 opens up, I feel compelled to write a blog on my thoughts of impending parenthood! “Impending” sounds so foreboding doesn’t it? Tonight I was sitting next to Amy watching little bumps and bulges push from her stomach. Eventually I placed my hand on it, as I am usually drawn to do when I see the babies kicking around in there. For eight months now I have “watched” them grow via ultrasound and Amy’s ever-expanding tummy…I feel so close to them already. I know their names even now, before they do. Although there is still much mystery in the waiting, I feel as if I know everything about them. I wonder if they know my voice. Amy and I have read a few books now that recommend reading and singing to your un-born babies…so I have been reading and talking to them and yes occasionally singing a round of “Tomorrow” (from Annie) hoping…longing…for them to know my voice once they come into this great big world. So maybe they will recognize my voice as something familiar, comforting and someday know it as the voice of their father. It has struck me, how very much this must be like our own Heavenly Father’s thoughts toward us. He has known us before we were in our mother’s womb. YOU are known. There are 3,000,000,000 letters in the DNA code in every cell of your body. And no one's DNA is the same. That means that God has created you uniquely and “knows you uniquely”. There is no one like you and there will never be anyone just like you. Now here’s the mind blowing thing: the God of the universe, creator of all things who knows everything about you, has one desire…to be known by YOU. He is that still small voice you hear…longing to be known. -Brad