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The Glenn twins: month one

Goodness gracious!!! What a month it was! Between our 4 night hospital stay, Thomas being in NICU for 6 more nights, trying to finish renovations and move in our new house, and you know.... Adjusting to life with TWINS and going from 1 child to 3.... I would say this qualifies as one of the busiest months of our life! But, without a doubt, also the best. Every day brings new challenges but we embrace them whole heartedly. We are so thankful for these boys and this wild, chaotic, loving life we have been blessed with.

The boys are doing great. We had a doctors appointment on Monday August 4 and Graham weighed in at 5 lb 14 oz and big boy Thomas weighed in at 7 lb 4 oz. (they will be five weeks on Tuesday August 5).  

The boys are doing so good at night (with a hiccup here and there) and go straight back to sleep after feedings. For that I am very thankful. They have given me a couple of five hour stretches but generally can only go about 4 hours at night in between feedings. Which is fine right now since we can all sleep late:-) Thank goodness for a toddler who will sleep til at least 8:30 most mornings.

Thomas is generally the more laid back baby. He does have his fussy moments as well but he's much better at self soothing than his brother and sleeps a lot more. However, at night time (between the hours of 8 and 10 pm...) Thomas is the fussiest...it's funny, sleeps the day away and Graham cries more during daylight and then at night Thomas gets it in gear!

Graham is a tad more high maintenance (no love lost little G... You are still perfect to us!) poor thing has the reflux/ spit up issues, has clogged tear ducts, and is a bit fussier. He just doesn't self soothe that well and needs a paci or someone's arms to help him:-) I'm completely okay with that. We don't give either of them a paci at night though and I'm so thankful they can sleep without. I can't even imagine having to constantly pop a paci back in for TWO babies all night long. 

I haven't started a strict schedule yet... For the most part they eat every three hours during the day ( sometimes sooner)  and they still sleep a lot right now. I'm hoping to get them on a "schedule" of eating and napping by the 8 week mark. I will follow moms on call again, worked great with Collins so I'm hoping it does again. 

We are so thankful for these boys. Here's some photos from our one month photo shoot:






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  1. Ashley @ The Houston HouseAugust 14, 2014 at 11:25 AM

    How sweet are they?! To me, one looks like Mikey and one looks like you! That's too funny!

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