Babies Birthday

The twins were born via c-section. I carried them 37 weeks and 5 days which is considered full term for twins. Both were healthy and neither had to spend more than a few hours in the NICU. Hailee is on the left and weighed in at a whopping 5 lbs 1oz and was 18 inches long. Atticus was slightly bigger at 5 lbs 15 oz and 18 1/4 inches. He was so excited to finally get to this world that he promptly peed all over the nurse and the operating room floor.

As you can imagine Thane was also pretty excited about these babies finally coming. Above he is holding his first born child (at least I think this is Atticus, its kinda hard to tell) while the doctors work on his sister.

This is me holding my babies for the first time. It was over two hours after they were born that I finally got to see them. Something about blood sugars being too low and doing more tests... all I know is I wasn't very happy with the medical staff. Yes, I am aware that I look terrible in this picture but it's an important part of the story. Besides, how would you look after carrying two babies for nearly 38 weeks, gaining 60 pounds, having surgery and then given about 5 different drugs? Needless to say I was a little out of it and very sleepy.
Here is Thane with both of his new babes. Don't worry, he eventually lost the deer in the headlights look and even the dark circles under his eyes after a few weeks.
I think this is one of my favorite pictures. I took this while we were still in the hospital. Apparently daddy was tired but didn't want to let go of the babies long enough to take a nap.