I just have a quick moment to jump on and announce that on Sunday my girls will be ONE YEAR OLD!!!!! The weather is the same as it was last year, unseasonably gorgeous, and tonite when I took a bath with girls, their birth was as clear as if it was yesterday. (they were born in our bathtub). Our biggest challenge was DD1, and although she still remains the most challenging part of our parenting, I am floored by her ability to adapt from being an "only child" for 3 1/2 years to a lovely older sibling. Lovely, that is minus the pinching and pulling and hitting, etc.
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I feel like I am getting my body back, and even parts of my life. It was a tough year in so many ways, but I feel so blessed to have been so well supported and loved by so many friends and family as we welcomed Serena and Sierra into the world and into our little family.
I delight in the way the girls interact with eachother, and with their older sister. Watching the twins first greet eachother in the morning is priceless. It's two old friends seeing eachother and delighting in the fact that they are together yet again, and laugh and smile about it.
I find such joy in my older daughter's ability to get the attention she needs, especially when strangers begin to ogle over the twins, and she asks them, "Well, what about me????" How she will cozy right up to another mama at the library for a story to be read to her, flashing big smiles at me across the room.
The twins have really completed my family for me, and I feel so fortunate and blessed to have been given a chance to birth these babies in a gentle, peaceful way, to breastfeed exclusively and to still accomodate them in the family bed. (of course at just tonite I was considering trying someone in the pack and play, and hoping that DD1 will soon choose to sleep in her own bed as she has made it a nightly ritual to wet the bed). DD1's birth had not gone the way we wanted it to, and breastfeeding her was an exhausting struggle. The twins helped heal some of the hurt from that. Even though the girls having come together has been really tough at times, I am grateful beyond belief.
To all you mamas out there still waiting to bring your little ones into the world, I'm here to tell you that you will make it through the births, and the first 3 months, and even the first year!!!!
Happy birthday, Serena and Sierra!!!!
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I feel like I am getting my body back, and even parts of my life. It was a tough year in so many ways, but I feel so blessed to have been so well supported and loved by so many friends and family as we welcomed Serena and Sierra into the world and into our little family.
I delight in the way the girls interact with eachother, and with their older sister. Watching the twins first greet eachother in the morning is priceless. It's two old friends seeing eachother and delighting in the fact that they are together yet again, and laugh and smile about it.
I find such joy in my older daughter's ability to get the attention she needs, especially when strangers begin to ogle over the twins, and she asks them, "Well, what about me????" How she will cozy right up to another mama at the library for a story to be read to her, flashing big smiles at me across the room.
The twins have really completed my family for me, and I feel so fortunate and blessed to have been given a chance to birth these babies in a gentle, peaceful way, to breastfeed exclusively and to still accomodate them in the family bed. (of course at just tonite I was considering trying someone in the pack and play, and hoping that DD1 will soon choose to sleep in her own bed as she has made it a nightly ritual to wet the bed). DD1's birth had not gone the way we wanted it to, and breastfeeding her was an exhausting struggle. The twins helped heal some of the hurt from that. Even though the girls having come together has been really tough at times, I am grateful beyond belief.
To all you mamas out there still waiting to bring your little ones into the world, I'm here to tell you that you will make it through the births, and the first 3 months, and even the first year!!!!
Happy birthday, Serena and Sierra!!!!
