Babies On Board On Everywhere!

So, I'm gonna post about the labor and delivery very soon, but first just a quick post with too many pictures!

Also, I'm on day two of being a mom of four all by myself and just had to write about it really quick so that if things go south, I'll know I did it for a while and it was great!  And that sounds totally crazy, but the babies are only 2.5 weeks old, all they do is sleep and eat and be super cute, so the last two days by myself I have managed to have a normal(ish) life and feel really great about it!  It's amazing how having kids can make the smallest accomplishments seem incredibly major!  

(Also, maybe I've chilled out a lot, but going from two to four has so far been WAY easier that going from one to two for me.  Who knew!  Maybe what I needed to relax was to be outnumbered. Like, I have no choice but to just make it work now, so that's what's gonna happen.  No need to freak out about it, freaking out will not help a lick!  Life's a tricky little game!)

In the past two days I have SUCESSFULLY gotten all four kids up and dressed and fed, gotten Addie to school, nursed two kids in tandem about twenty times, fed two toddlers about eight meals, took my youngest three to Target and got everything on my list, read Hop On Pop about a billion times to Tula, gave two baths, took two showers, baked cookies, ate about double what my lover eats (which is a major feat as the guy is a human eating machine)(yay nursing appetite!), took all four to a friend's house for a play date, did three loads of laundry, put away endless amounts of dishes, and managed to read two whole chapters of my book! Uninterrupted!  (That's because it was at midnight when everyone was asleep but still!  Books!)

That may seem like a silly list to be happy about, but I am so happy about it I don't care about people thinking it's silly because clearly they don't know what being happy means!  Happiness is enjoying the little teeny things you accomplish in a day!  Happiness is snuggling two tiny babies at once!  Happiness is watching the father of your children love his kids so much he immediately smiles the minute he sees them, even if they are throwing his iPad into the trash can for fun!  Happiness is being able to have a four minute conversation with your best friend before your one and a half year old demands your attention by putting the Windex bottle in her mouth!  

Happiness is the chaos of getting four kids into a car all by yourself, and having no one be crying by the time it takes you to close their door and get into the driver's seat.  That my friends is pure joy.

And I am so blessed.

Sorry for the sap, I can't help it.  Hormones.

My heart with this picture.  Exploding.

While my mom was here she made everyone hats!

Give the woman a glass of wine and she'll make anything!

Sisters holding hands, because they're darling.

Nap time boys.  So sweet.

I get a lot of company on the couch.  

Holding both with one arm so I can pour wine with the other.

Relaxing with Dad.  

Sisters holding brothers!

How I spend a huge part of the day.  I love it so much.  When they're eighteen I'm gonna be holding them to my neck like that and they're gonna be all, "Ugh Mom!  Stop I can't breathe! You're embarrassing us." And I'm gonna be all, "LET ME LOVE YOU!"

First family picture of all six.  

So in love with all of them I want to puke.  

I mean, really.

Ridiculous.

They're Here!

Introducing. . .

Luke Worley Amidon

(6lbs 15oz, 20 in, 3:37pm 1/9/15)

AND

Henry Briggs Amidon

(6lbs 9oz, 21.5 in, 3:45pm 1/9/15)

So much more later, about the delivery because that - THAT - my friends is quite a story.  And something I will be repeating to the boys any time they try to quilt trip me into something.  Oh ho ho little boys, you can't have that toy because of that one time you made Mommy give birth to you IN A HALLWAY.  Oh yeah.  There's a lot to tell.

But for now I'm too busy loving these little guys right now.  Oh and nursing.  Lots of nursing. (At the same time!)  

I could not be more happy, or thrilled or in love with these little guys!  They are ridiculous, and perfect, and darling.  And we are so blessed.

Amazing, wonderful Dad and his boys.

This picture kills me.  Right in the heart.

Henry being awake and skeptical.  But also edible.

Luke awake!  Working on his karate chop.  Equally edible.

Babies!  Luke on the left Henry on the right.  They're not identical, which is totally obvious to me but some people are having trouble because their cuteness is blinding.  

I understand.

Right after the double nurse, I do the double burp.  Good thing I have long arms.

Right after I saw this picture is when I realized I have four kids.  FOUR!  

How did that happen?

How can my heart even be handling this right now.  I am such a sappy lovey mess right now its crazy.

Ugh.  So much love.

37 Weeks!

THIRTY SEVEN!  That means full term people.  Full term for one baby, let alone twins!

I'm pretty much a machine.  I just hold things in forever.  At this point I feel like I'll always be pregnant.  Like the boys will be teenagers and I'll just be reading math problems to them through my belly and taking my gigantic body to prom and swaying with them next to all the cute kids I think they should be dating.  That won't be weird, or creepy or anything.

37 Weeks!  

Also, turns out I have Strep B which is something they only test you for when you're pregnant, and anyone can have it, and it's a very swabby on your private areas test.  I didn't have it with the girls, but now I have everything.  I have that, I have twins, I have itchy skin, I have a constantly stuffed up nose, I have the most uncomfortable sleeping positions in the world because baby b loves to stick his head right where I'm trying to lay, and then baby a gets the hiccups, and then Josh starts snoring, and then Boris comes to my side to whine for me to help him into bed despite the fact he's perfectly capable of jumping up by himself, then Addie quietly says through the monitor "Mom!  I have to go pee pees in the poooooooottttttttyyyyyy!" and then Tula wakes up and starts yelling for her dolls, "DOWLS.  Night night!" 

And then!  Then I got PUPPPS.  Which is not as cute as it sounds.  It's a pregnancy rash.  Yay!  It's insanely itchy and the good news is it can spread to your arms, legs, back and torso!  AND it takes about a week after having the babies to go away.  Unless you're super lucky and then it stays with you the whole time you're post-partum-ing which is like, FOREVER.

But honestly, I don't really care.  I'll take it all as long as the babies come out healthy and happy!  Really.  I'll stay like this for another month if they need me to.  The less time we all have to spend in the hospital the better.  I would be beyond thrilled if I could hold them right away and take them home with me when I went home!  That's the scariest part for me I think, not being able to hold them right away.  Tula and Addie came right onto my chest before the cord was cut and stayed there for at least the first hour.  Until I was forced to pee by the nurses who kept threatening to catheter me if I didn't pee.  

Oh, but I won't have to wait a month.  I'm scheduled to be induced on the 12th if it hasn't happened by then!  WHAT! 

I can't imagine that will happen, but I guess you never know.  These boys are already mamas boys for sure.  (I LOVE IT)

On a different note, I've been working on a cross stitch thing for their room which I finally finished a few weeks ago!

It's a ship!  And it took FOREVER.  Cross stitch is time consuming yo.

Here's a professional photo of what it'll look like in good lighting and on a frame.

I love everything this girl designs.  

Also, my girls. Because.