updating and the babies!

I have been a little busy lately so i am going to do alot of posts all in one long one!

Kyles Birthday

First it was Kyles birthday on March 28th and i already wrote a little about it but i took this really cute picture of Grace! Grandma Leavitt gave Kyle a really cool sprinkler and it came in this box so they cut Grace some eye and arm holes and she thought it was the coolest thing! She had it for awhile but then one day she woke up and it was no where to be found ( i got sick of tripping over it!!)!

The Fair

We love the fair at this house, ok well me and Grace love it, kyle not so much! I was huge pregnant and kinda on bed rest so we only went up on Thursday for dinner and to see all the animals and so Grace could ride the pony's! Kyle had to push me in a wheel chair everywhere but he didnt mind everyone staring at us he just would push me threw the crowd of people, i have a wonderful husband!! Grace LOVED the horse, fancy she was riding, i defiantly think we need to buy her a horse, i dont know where we would put it but me and her both would love it!!
Easter

The easter bunny came a day early at our house, i think he was secretly hoping that the babies would come on easter, no such luck!!! Grace was so much fun, she loved looking for the easter eggs that were hid, She wanted us to keep hiding them from her all day! The easter bunny brought her some big bubbles that kept us all entertained for pretty much the whole day! The weather was rainy all day, i think thats the first time ever that it has rained this late in april!! We also went down to Great Grandma and Grandpa Leavitts house for a little esster egg hunt and grace just ran everywhere in the rain having all kinds of fun!!
The babies

Monday morning was just like every other monday for the past month, we woke up dropped Grace off for the day then went for all the doctor appointments! Of course they tell us nothing has changed and my doctor was convinced that he was going to start me the next monday! I pretty much gave up hope that these babies were going to come out on there own! So we went shopping and did all the usual stuff came home and waited!! I couldnt fall asleep so i had the tv on and then at 10:30ish i started to get a few pains every now and then, like every monday i thought i had walked to much! So i got my 16 oz of water laid on my left side and they didnt go away, so i got into the bath tub to try and make my back pain go away! You would think by now i would know i was i labor but i didnt!! So after a hour and a half i decided to go wake kyle up, we decided that if i was in pain that we should at least drive the hour to get checked out!! We got all of our bags and threw grace in the truck and were off and out of our house by 12:00!! I was in to much pain to really see how fast kyle was going but we made it from our house to the hospital in 1 hour!! I had called them and told them i was coming and to call my doctor! The ride there is kinda a blur of pain i was just hoping to make it to the hospital and get the epidural in before the babies came! We got there and they got me right back there and she checked me and i was at a 9! She told me not to move so my water wouldnt break and before we knew it they had my IV in the epidural going and both doctors there talking to me! after only about 15 minutes of being there it started to calm down and everything was going good then my water EXPLODED!! They checked me again and there was a head and a foot coming out the same time so they decided they were going to have to do a C-section! They take me back to the OR and start getting everything ready, i wasnt all the way numb so they gave me 10 minutes and more medicine, thank goodness it worked so i didnt have to be knocked out! Before i knew it they had little Addison out and walked by then about 15 seconds later Alaynna was out!! They were both crying and it was a wonderful sound to hear, I was pretty out of it so i dont really remember much of anything for awhile after that!!
Addison had to stay in the NICU for 6 hours with forced air so her lungs would fully open and they both were a little jaundice! We only were in the hospital from Tuesday to Thursday but we had to come home with the Bili beds for the girls then turn around and go back to St. George on Friday to check and see if we had to use the beds anymore and thank goodness we only had to have them for one night!!
They are getting big and are such good babies, all they do is sleep so im trying to enjoy that while it lasts! Grace LOVES them and is always giving them kisses and trying to help me as much as possible!! Our little family of 3 grew over night to our big family of 5 and we couldnt be happier!!

Alaynna Merri Leavitt Born 3:46 AM and weighed 5 lbs 3 oz (pink bow)
Addison Nancy Leavitt Born 3:45 AM and weighed 6 lbs 3 oz

Alaynna looks alot like Grace did but she doesnt have as much hair as Grace! Addison came out with black hair, Kyle had dark hair when he was born and it went blond so we will see if it turns blond on us! They love to be touching when they sleep and sleep so much sounder when they are wrapped up together!!

I hope to get some more pictures of them but this has took me like 3 days to just put this much up so slowly i will!!
If i havent texted or called you back dont think that it is just you, i have my phone turned off most of the time just in case i fall asleep!!

I went and had a ultra sound, stress test and a check up today! Everything looks really great, especially the babies!! Baby B is still flipped head up but they say that ok as long as Baby A stays head down! Baby B weights a HUGE 5 lbs 9 oz and Baby A weights 5 lbs 6 oz, I have HUGE babies!! They say if i can make it to 35 weeks, this saturday, the babies will probably get to come home with me after only staying for 3 days!!! I really hope that is what happens but we will see! As of right now i am still only a 3 and nothing has changed, I still have 12 days before they will start me and with the way things are going i might make it! If i havent had them by saturday i can do what i want and no more bed rest so on saturday you may see me out trying to run with my 11 pounds of just baby!!

34 weeks

Since this is my scrapbook/journal I am trying to keep it updated as much as possible! So this post will be a little boring and there wont be any pictures, I have my camera in my bag ready to go!!

We had kyles birthday on Sunday, my family came over and cooked his favorite breakfast, stuffed french toast! Then we had his family come down and kyle got to cook them hamburgers, i was no help with anything this year so i guess ill have to make him something really good next year!

My poor Grace woke up last Thursday with a horrible cough so i rushed her to the doctor to get her on a antibiotic just in case the twins came but the doctor told me that it was just allergy's.
So after Thursday to Sunday of only getting worst and running a fever i decided i would just make Dr. Chamberlain look at her when i had my appointment on Monday. I didn't get to take her to see the doctor so Nancy took her for me and got her on a antibiotic and she is feeling so much better now, thank goodness!

Monday we woke up to do the normal Monday thing, NST at 10 and Dr. Chamberlain at 1:30, but it didn't work out that way this Monday!
I got to my NST, oh how boring those are, both the babies looked good and the water in the sacks were good, but i was having contractions pretty regularly, (I thought they were braxton hicks). So off to labor and delivery they ship me, i got hooked up to the monitors, had 3 tests done and had to be checked, the funnest thing of being pregnant. After all of this they decided i was dilated to a 2 and was in preterm labor. They gave me a shot to try and stop the labor and that did nothing but make me shake! After talking to the doctor and running around not telling me much of what was going on, they move me to my own room and told me to get comfortable. They started to give me pills that were suppose to stop the labor but all they did was speed it up! The doctor came in and told me i would be there at least till they could stop my labor or till the girls were born! Kyle had to take my poor sick Grace home then rushed back to the hospital to spend the night there with me! All day Monday the contractions were there and so they just watched me and told me to wait, and that's what we did. Tuesday morning they checked me and i was to a 3+ and having contractions one right after the other every two minutes, so they stopped the pills and decided to just let me go and see what happened. They let me off the monitor and my IV to shower and go for a little walk and told me that in 14 to 16 hours the babies would be here. After my shower and walk they had all the doctors come talk to me and the nurse tell us about the NICU, i was scared to death because she told us the babies could be there for 2 to 4 weeks and that's a long time. we got everything signed and were just waiting for the babies to tell us when they were coming. After about a hour the contractions slowed and slowly left to one about every 15 minutes and continued on like that till now! Tuesday was a very long day of waiting to see if something was going to happen and putting up with a crazy nurse who reminded me alot of Hitler! I was very stressed cause i wanted to keep them in as long as i could but i did not want to sit in the hospital with a IV and the monitor hooked up to me waiting. So we waited and waited and nothing more happened so Wednesday they checked me and i was still at a 3+, they did a ultra sound and finally told me what was going on!
Something, we are still not sure what put, me into labor, then both the babies decided that they were going to try and move into the birth canal at the same time. When my uterus would contract, instead of doing it above the babies to push them out the were going below the babies and pushing them higher. If the contractions would have kept going they would have had to do a emergency C-section. They said the pills must have slowed my labor down enough to relax there little home in my belly and give the babies some room so baby B flipped head up. It is still ok and i can still have them normal it will just be a little harder with "B" head up!
After 47 hours sitting with all the cords hooked up to me, a IV, a horrible bed, having to ask to go to the bathroom, and nothing to do but wait, they let me go home. I am now on bed rest but i would take that any day instead of being in the hospital. I go back Monday to see all the doctors and to see if everything is still going good, hopefully they will not be keeping me this time!
If i can just make it till the end of next week when i will be close to 35 weeks the babies will be good and not have to spend to much time in the NICU. I am feeling really good, i just don't get off the couch much and that's really hard for me, but when i start to go crazy i just think back to the hospital and I'd much rather be on my couch! Hopefully Monday they tell me i can do a little more, but if they don't i only have to sit around and be lazy for about another week.

This will probably be my last post till the girls are here, i think i am ready, i am just hoping that the girls are both ready too! I hope that this post just isn't rambling, i have no brain left!