New Siggy and Update.

Carinna from HotGraphix made me this beautiful new siggy! I love it.... the girls rarely smile for pictures so when they were didI knew I had to get a siggy made of the pics!

The girls are doing great and I just want to give a great big fat apology for not updating this more!

Madeleine is trying her very hardest to walk! She has pulled herself up now on a few occasions and is totally proud of herself. I am yet to get a picture of her standing but I'm working on it! I'm always so proud to watch her when she does I forget to run for the camera!

Corah is crawling now which I am also VERY proud of. There was a time when I thought she would struggle to sit up on her own before a year.. so she is doing great. She still goes to her physiotherapist, but its doing great. They're doing some things in water now as well as massaging and things and she says Corah shouldn't have to go anymore past 18 months, when she should be caught up with her sister.

The girls have started babbling. I love it when they talk to me.. they have the cutest babbles. Madeleines favorite is "abuu" and Corahs is "puuuf" followed by a ton of spit deposited in my direction!

I am just a very proud Mommy!

Mommy

..is terrible at updating this thing!

Corah and Madeleine want Mommys attention all the time and don't want to let her update all her lovely friends about their daily lives!

Mommy misses Daddy lots and lots.

Oh yeah Mommy is gonna go crazy soon!

Messy babies.

They love their food!

Grocery shopping.

It seems to me these days that grocery shopping takes at least twice as long as it did before the twins!

This is not just down to the fact we have to buy certain things for two new family members... although that does contribute!

By the time I get there it's longer than usual. Strapping two babies into their carseats who very often don't want to go or sit in their carseats. Trying to leave one sitting somewhere where they will not roll off and kill themselves while I strap the other one into their seat.

Then we leave. It's no longer than 5 minutes to our nearest Walmart but at times it can feel like a million miles when one (or worse, both) of the girls are not happy about this latest venture to the supermarket.

When we arrive, I start the searching around for carts. Double carts are few and far between around this place.. so finally when I get one flagged down, I get both girls strapped on. There should be one seat at the front and another at the back.. not beside each other. Having the girls so close to each other is a deadly combination, only leading to punches being thrown from one to the other!

So we get moving. I am starting to get pretty flustered at this time... these days there is of course no time to make out a list. Those days are long gone! I run round as fast as I can.. trying to keep one eye on both girls and the other on the lane infront, making sure I am not banging into any unsuspecting passers by. My third eye is of course there to look for the things we need and pick it up without knocking the whole row over!

We endure the usual question time while out, taking us a good 15mins each day. Yep they're twins, they're both mine. Two girls (they're not boys in drag I promise), No they don't have matching names, Yep they were a big surprise to us. No we didn't have to have IVF, there is not a history of twins in the family, I do have my hands full... and of course.. no they are not identical!

By this time I am getting severly fed up. I usually grab a few things and run for it.. looking for the desk with the shortest possible queue. By this time one of the girls may have fallen asleep on the other.. or one screaming with hunger, or screaming with tiredness as they cannot sleep in the uncomfortable carts!

After we arrive back in the car.. I endure the difficult task of getting the groceries and kids back in the car. Back to normality... for a while anyway!

Oh the difficulty of some seemingly "everyday" chores.

Mommy Day.

Happy Mothers Day to all my fellow Mommy bloggers :) If you're a lurker.. Mommy or not.. I'd love to get to know you better. Leave me a comment at the end.. I love meeting new people and getting the motivation to keep going and post more often about my munchkins!

We had a lovely day. My Mom and Dad now up from Texas again to stay with us for a week - she was here yesterday we had a lovely day. I felt super bad though because my little sisters are down in Texas staying with my elder sister and they weren't with Mommy yesterday! But hopefully she had a nice enough day with me and her grandbabies.

It was great. I got a lovely spa trip from the girls (gramee) and also a DOUBLE JOGGER STROLLER! I am so stoked about it. It hasn't arrived yet.. but Chase bought it and ordered it and is very annoyed it hasnt showed up! It is so sweet of him to think of me here while he is away!

It is an instep stroller.. like the one below. I think anyway!



Here are a few pictures of the day. C & M are teething LIKE CRAZY.. hence them chewing on everything in sight! But I love my little bald babies.




Mothers Day has been a time of immense reflection for me. Though last year I was heavily pregnant and felt like a mother.. I had no idea what I was in for! The surge of different emotions has been intense and at times so exhausting and difficult. I feel like I am "coming out the other side" now... a better, stronger person, a MOTHER. Of course I will face a lot more difficult times as I go along my journey with the girls, but hopefully now I am learning how to cope with those things, how to overcome any hurdles we may have.

The Lord has blessed me with two beautiful baby girls, and I realise that now... he didn't give me more than I could handle, like I thought at the start.. he has given me the two greatest gifts in the whole world, and I couldn't thank or praise him enough for it.

Best friends.

I feel the picture says it all.
I am so blessed!

Giggle gurts.

OK.. first off, sorry about the last post! I thought I had uploaded pictures but they didn't come out when it posted, so hopefully I'll have better luck this time round!

My girls LOVE to laugh. They giggle at everything these days! Usually me acting like a complete and utter nutter to get them to laugh for pictures. They even laugh at each other, it's so cute.

If Madeleine will start to laugh, Corah will hear her laughing and sometimes laugh along with her! Or vice versa except it's usually Madeleine that starts off the laughter! I love it, of course I end up laughing too, we are just a houseful of laughter at the moment!

Anyway, here is a lovely laughter picture for you all, of my little piggies. Thanks to Lorna and Ryan for sending over these outfits a while ago - it's taken me until now to put them on the girls but I LOVE them. They look so cute as little piggies!

Sorry it's so big, I had to use tinypic to post it as the uploader tool here seems no longer to be working for me and I'm scared to resize it manually here as most of the time I distort it terribly! Thanks for understand!

Chase - We have been in touch and he's doing fine. Thanks to everyone for your continued thoughts and prayers :)

Amy

My lil 4lbers...

... are now average weight and height :O

They are all in the 43rd percentile for everything except for Corah's weight (17.1lbs) which is down in the high 20s.. but still...

from off the scale they have grown so much! Little weeds they are.. :)

Sharing a few pictures from a few weeks ago, I have quite a few new to get updated but I'm just gonna start from the beginning!

I'M BACK!

OK... I will post more later but lets just say darn computer problems (when is this beast ever NOT causing me problems.. I swear it hates me!) but $200 down and we are back in action :)

TWINmania.

Is it just me who seems to think everyone is having twins these days?

Especially celebs... I can't wait to see how Angelina Jolie does with twins. I don't know how she manages it already, I have an awful lot of respect for her even if I don't particulary think what she is doing is totally right. Man it must be difficult with 4 YOUNG kids and now twins on the way. I know how I felt during my pregnant with the girls, hopefully she's not having it too bad.

J-Lo is another who just had twins. I saw their pictures and they were nice but I mean.. who looks and does stuff like that 4 weeks after having twins?! Brought it back to me what I was like that.. times of permanently hanging around in the NICU and then when they got home trying to do anything just to get myself together!

Marcia Cross is another who had twins, though they are over a year now I think? They were born while I was still pregnant with my two... as did Dennis Quaid and Patrick Dempsey.

The celeb world is going crazy with twins. I would say it is fertility drugs that a lot of them are on.... surely the odds aren't that great?!

Clever girl.

Look at Miss Madeleine and her new trick of sitting up. She's been at it for a few weeks but this is the first time I got a picture of her! Her sister just looks and laughs at her!



Corah is getting to be a pro at getting every last bit out of the bottle. My girl loves her milk!


So there is your update on new tricks!

Amy

Girls love Gramee.

So I thought I should comment a bit on the Texas trip! It was so great to see everyone again and thanks to everyone that came out to see us the girls loved all the attention they got!

It was so great for the girls to see Gramee again. She is really their favorite... but shh make sure you don't tell Grampa!

Both girls enjoyed special bath treatments from Gramee. Here is Corah with her 2nd favorite girl (after Mommy of course!)



and here's Madeleine not wanting to miss out on any of the fun!


The girls miss Gramee lots already and can't wait to see her again in May if not before! We love you Gramee!

The girls love their gansta friends.

Over on the "McLurkers" thread on July 07 babycenter, we got this siggy made of the kids all with their gansta names. I think it's too cute to pass up on! These are all C & M 's cyber friends! We love y'all!

and just to all of you on the August board, my bumblebee girls, I miss you! I need to get on more often I know I promise I will try and check in with you sometime but I hope you are all good! My lil leos too haven't been on there so often recently, it's just so difficult with 8 month old monsters to be looking after!

But this is just a special shout out to my friends on bbc, love you girls! Ok now I'm reallly sad.

Just to make this into a proper blog, the girls are good. They are getting more like monsters everyday! I love having Claire here to help with them though, they love her and they love the attention!

Amy

He's gone :(

Chase left yesterday morning. I'm surprisingly ok about it so far, I know I miss him but I have to say the girls here are so great and so strong I know I can't... be.. not strong.

We took advantage of the nice weather on Friday afternoon to take some pics.


Daddy definitely dressed up for the occasion in his.. "beer is better than women because.." t-shit. Oh always the charmer Chase.

As you can see Corah and Madeleine weren't in the best mood for pictures, but at least they didn't cry! We got a few nice shots and they'll be nice to look back on. Our last family picture for a while!

Amy xo

Enjoying these last few days together.

So weird to think soon I won't have Chase beside me anymore :( At least not in the literal sense. But I know he will still be there, that he'll be thinking of us all and will miss the girls like crazy!




This makes me cry every time. I listened to this video every day while Chase was in Iraq and it made me feel better, warm inside knowing he was there. I know this time he isn't going there but this video still means a lot to me and I thought it would be nice to share!

Enjoy!

Stupid computer.

Aw man. More computer issues. I don't know what was wrong with it this time but it just wouldn't switch on. We tried everything but it just decided it wasn't going to switch on. Took it in to the shop and within about an hour they rang us back saying it was fixed. After we had already waited like a week to see if it would fix itself! It just takes huffs with me every so often I think.

Anyway the girls are great. They are growing like weeds I don't think their Easter dresses are going to fix them, but I'm not upset about an excuse to take pics of them in their dresses early! I got a few great shots, so hard to get ones of them both smiling!

How cute are they?!

Chase is leaving so soon. I'm starting to freak out about it all, I know we have managed it before and it isn't for as long this time. But 3 months without him is still a long time, especially when we have two babies who are getting more mobile by the day! That really freaks me out. But I know it must be done and it's part of his job and who we are as a family. I support him 100% in it and I know it is right for us, and we can get through it all. Please keep us in your prayers at the moment however, they always help!

Amy xx

We Love Our Daddy.

Ok... so most of you know Chase is leaving again for another deployment next month. I am aware of the fact this is a public blog and therefore will not be posting any information about dates or locations, if you're interested (within reason and I know you or follow your blog or whatever), you can catch me at amy.green82@yahoo.com


Here is Daddy and his princess Madeleine! My two bald heads! Oh how we will all miss him. I guess that's what you have to deal with being married to a military man. People ask me all the time how I do it. It is nearly a common as the "how do you do it with twins?" question. With the twins I did not choose to have twins, I guess you could say I chose to be a military wife. But I love my life and would do anything for Chase.

I support and respect him 100% in what he wants to do. This is what he wants to do and being a marine family really isn't that bad. I love the people and living on base, the houses might not be the "best", but there are so many other people in the same circumstances near by, there are all ammenities within the base.

I have met so many other strong woman through this. I will miss him terribly, and I am upset that he will miss 3 months of the girls' lives, but I will be sure to update him with pics and I know it is what he has to do.

Please pray for us! Thank youu, Amy xo

PS - I will be up in Texas from 15th - 22nd March so if you are interested in meeting up and I haven't already contacted you (may have forgotten), please email me!

My little fighter.

After having Corah at her physio on Friday, I just wanted to reflect on her. How much of a fighter she is, she truly is amazing. Every new little thing EITHER of the girls does amazes me, but the things that Corah came through I don't think I truly appreciated until I look back now and realize how great she came through them all.


This was her barely a day old. She had trouble breathing, after having placenta previa affect her placenta, IUGR and cord problems. She was 4lb 8oz, though perfect. She spent over 3 weeks in the NICU, while her sister was at home with us for most of those.

That part for me was the hardest. Harder than any part of the pregnancy, having one baby at home and the other at hospital. I longer for them to be together, but obviously Corah couldn't come home and Madeleine couldn't come to the hospital.

But she did return home. Ever since then she has been doing great. She was 3 weeks of growing behind her sister but she just loves copying her and beating her to the milestones. LOL. She won't learn to sit up / crawl / walk as fast as Madeleine will, but she will cross that when she needs to. Her neck is still problematic but we hope it will not have any long term effects for her. You would not recognize that little fragile, sick looking baby today. She is a happy, healthy 7 month old, as are both our girls.

Here is a new picture for me to show off, they just love being naked!


Maddie is always quite the expert at looking straight into the camera, Corah not so much!

Amy xx

Honey I'm Home!

We are home. Wow what a time. I can truly say it was one of the most amazing vacations. Not so much that is was long or even that it was NYC, just the time for Chase and I together. I think it was a very spiritual and just, joining experience. I guess you never realize what you have let go off in your love life till you take a step back and look at it?

It is certainly true I had just been taking life so fast since the twins. Everything happened at once: deployment, pregnancy, TWINS, the big move.... I've just forgotten to relax, and look back at things and realize how blessed I am. I have a fantastic husband and two beautiful daughters.

On the topic of the girls, I missed them so much. We were only away from them for 4 days, but in those days they seem to have grown so much even then. I love my babies!

I arrived home today to find this sitting waiting on the table for me:

Oh yeah! Chase bought it to me for Valentines Day. I know I am a complete dunce but I hope with a bit of practise someday I will master it. He was so kind to me. He bought me the most beautiful ring which he gave to me in New York for our wedding anniversary too. It is truly gorgeous, I love this guy. So weird to think over two years have passed since our wedding day, but times really does fly.

Ok that's enough for now, but we had a fantastic trip, a great experience. Hope you are all well!

Amy x

Hey from New York!

I love this place... I have am having an amazing time, and a fantastic time with my sweeetie. I'm just reflecting how we've been married 2 years now. Our lives have changed so much in the last year, but I love him with all of my heart and personally I think we make a pretty good team!

Although I do miss my babies and can't wait to see them again! But I am having a fantastic and beautiful, romantic time!

Amy