More smiles for Mama!

Kaleiah is perfecting her smile by practicing :) Today when I was talking to her, she gave me about a dozen smiles and every time, my heart raced and felt like it was going to pop out of my chest! It's such an incredible feeling when you are talking to your baby and she lights up and smiles because she is starting to recognize you! It's so awesome. Kaden has only smiled a few times and I haven't been able to capture it yet! Enjoy the pix, they are soooooooo cute!

Christmas part 2

Christmas day is always spent at my parents in the morning and then Randy's parents in the afternoon. This year was the first time that we had every single child and grand child there all together at my parents. Inevitably someone is always missing so this year was extra special. There are 6 of us kids and we have 8 kids between us that have them. Also, my grandma was out from Iowa, we only see her every few years. It was a wonderful Christmas, not because of the presents but because of family. Because that's one of the things it's about. Here are some pictures from my parents Christmas, unfortunately we forgot to take any at Randy's parents :(

Christmas part 1

Every year Randy's family celebrates Christmas on Christmas eve in L.A at his grandparents house. We have not been able to go for the past 4 or 5 years because Randy works on Christmas eve. So this year they moved it to the 21st so that we could go and the babies could meet their Great Grandparents, great Aunt and Great Uncle for the first time!
It's quite a task to get the babies fed, changed and get everything packed up as well as try to find time for ourselves to get dressed but for something like this, we wouldn't miss it. Family is of the utmost important to us and even though the drive was far and the babies are still so young, we don't see that side of the family but a few times a year. It was so neat to see them with their great grand parents :)

Babies' first Christmas

Here are some cute pix we took for fun!

Smiles!

Today my baby girl smiled and it was the cutest thing ever!!!! I was able to get a video of another smile but it wasn't as big as the first! I can't wait until they smile all the time! They are 11 weeks and 1 day (Developmentally they are only about 6 weeks old so they are going to be behind on things for the first year bc they are preemies.) Along with starting to smile they are starting to try and hold their neck up. It's very cute. We are looking fwd to when they start sleeping longer than 3-4 hours at a time! That should be soon too.

Christmas Time

The babies are doing great. Kaden weighs 8.12 and Kaleiah weighs 8.4.



We got our first family Christmas tree last week!