2 Months old- Look How We've Grown

Yesterday Hope and Grace turned two months old in the NICU. It is amazing how much these girls have grown in such a short amount of time. While the past 63 days have seemed like an eternity for Mom and Dad, when thinking globally, it is such a short amount of time.


Grace's first photo, being weighed at 2 pounds even moments after her birth on 4/11/08.






4 pound 1 ounce Grace on 6/11/08. She is looking mighty cute if I do say so myself, and her face is now way bigger than her "nook."








Two moths old and Gracie is still as feisty as can be!









Hope in her isolette hooked up to her ET tube at 2 pounds 5 ounces on 4/11/08






Hope rang in her two month birthday on 6/11/08 with literally nothing aside from her monitor attached to her. She is breathing wonderfully all by herself. She weighs in at 4 pounds 10 ounces and is now nippling 5 our of her 8 feedings.





Today I got to bottle feed both girls and they both did fabulously, nippling both of their feedings. This put a smile on Dad's face bigger than the Brewers taking 2/3 against the Astros. FYI, all of the nurses (and most doctors) know me in the NICU as the "Brewers Fan Dad." If you click on the pic, you can see Hope suckling her empty bottle. She really seems to enjoy her feedings.










For some reason, writing this post and thinking about the amazing progress our girls have made thus far got the Laverne and Shirley theme song stuck in my head (ok, Jeni and I are suckers for old '80's sitcoms). Enjoy- for some reason this opening makes me think of the countless blessings that are to come with twin daughters.