happy friday!

fiona (left) sabrina (right)

have a great weekend everyone!

we definitely will because sabrina & fiona started going about 4 hours between feedings this week instead of 3. this means more sleep for us! YAY!

p.s. my niece emma calls the girls zebra & princess onah. how cute is that?!

my twin girls are cuter than yours

you probably just want to look at pictures, that's fine. i do that a lot too :)

but let me first say:

dal and i LOVE our babies so much!

bri and fifi are growing a lot! they don't fit in their preemie outfits anymore and are outgrowing some of their newborn sized clothes also!

they love their binkies! it's a good thing too, because sometimes that is the only way we can tell them apart!

so far, all the baby things we have are shared by both girls. except for 2 things: their binkies (fiona green, sabrina blue), and their swaddle blankets (fiona's is green, sabrina's has monkeys). this is so that we can tell them apart in the middle of the night (when we are too tired to think clearly).

they are pretty much on the same schedule (yay!) and are eating every 3 hours or so. dallin and i are hoping that increases to 4 or 5 soon so we can get more sleep at night. suggestions anyone???

we can't tell them apart by their crying yet. but we can sometimes guess who it is based on who we fed last...

they love taking baths! they just don't like the trips to and from the tub. it's COLD!

they love their swing, their bouncers, snuggling, eating and staring

oh, and did i mention that we LOVE them? cuz we do!!!

now for the pictures:

the first few weeks and halloween

life is definitely different now!

but in the best possible way.

these two girls are so beautiful and sweet that i don't even mind only sleeping for 1-2 hour stretches at night. i don't think any other people could make me feel that way.

they have stolen our hearts completely!

i think the 2 most common phrases at our home these days are:

i love our girls so much!

they are just so cute!

sabrina & fiona had their 2 week check-ups last wednesday and are doing wonderfully!

they both met and passed their birth weights by 3 oz. sabrina weighed 6 lbs. and was in the 3rd percentile for her weight and fiona weighed 6 lbs. 6 oz. and was in the 5th percentile. SO TINY!

i'll get onto the pictures now(there are a lot. but give me a break, they are cute!):

TWINNERS:

in their matching preemie outfilts (sabrina left, fiona right):

resting (fiona left, sabrina right):

just hanging out together. for not being identical, they sure look alike, don't they? (fiona left, sabrina right):

SABRINA:

october baby:

just hanging out with dad!:

just a regular sort of nap:

FIONA:

october baby:

snuggles with dad (and spit up too! dal went through 3 shirts that day, courtesy of fiona!):

just hangin' out in the baby sling:

HALLOWEEN:

we had a pretty chill halloween this year.

saturday night we made this delicious pumpkin chili, and this delicious pumpkin pie dip, hung out with grandma karen and grandpa dave, and had about 4 trick-or-treaters come to our door.

on sunday, we had a halloween party at grandma dianne's and grandpa wayne's house. lots of kids, lots of noise, lots of food. and the girls were the center of attention (of course)!

introducing...

SABRINA & FIONA BARKER

Born October 13, 2010

I'm sure most of you don't want to know all the details of everything, so I'll keep this short. (If, however, you want to know more, let me know, I wrote everything down and can send it to you.)

On Wednesday morning, during our doctor's appointment, my doctor accidentally broke my water which resulted in us going straight down to Labor and Delivery. After about 12 hours of labor, I was completely dilated and ready to bring these girls into the world! As a precautionary measure, all twins are delivered in an operating room in case an emergency C-section is needed, but luckily that didn't happen.

At 9:47 p.m., Sabrina Barker was born! She weighed in at 5 lbs. 13 oz. and was 18 3/4 inches long. And at 10:07 p.m., Fiona Barker was born! She weighed in at 6 lbs. 3 oz. and was 19 1/2 inches long. Both babies were perfectly healthy and beautiful! Dallin cut the cord for both of them.

I think I must have had a very unusual labor experience, because I was expecting it to be REALLY, REALLY awful and it REALLY wasn't! Granted, after the epidural I couldn't feel anything, but even with that, given what everyone had told me, I was expecting the whole thing to be a lot harder, and much more painful.

All in all, it was really an amazing experience! I can't believe that Dallin and I are parents now! To TWO beautiful baby girls! It is such a wonderful blessing to have Sabrina & Fiona in our family!

WE LOVE THEM SO MUCH!

Sabrina:

Fiona:

Daddy & Sabrina:

1st Family Picture:

Loves from Daddy:

Fiona (left), Sabrina (right):

Fiona (left), Sabrina (right):

Matching hats:

Sabrina (right), Fiona (left):

Sabrina (right), Fiona (left):

Sabrina (right), Fiona (left):

i'm grateful

for THIS:

because on MAY 1st, 2009, THIS happened:

and now THESE GIRLS:

can be with us FOREVER!

man, i love this kid!

but how could you not, with a face like this?

dallin has to be the most patient person in the world (besides maybe my parents...), because putting up with me is not an easy thing!

but he does it.

and he does it marvelously!

so here's to you husband:

thanks for putting up with me waking you up 18 times a night

thanks for working so hard in school and at work

thanks for doing the dishes because my belly doesn't fit in front of the sink very well

thanks for putting up with awkward side hugs sometimes because front hugs don't work very well these days

thanks for all the kisses (good morning, goodbye, just because, hello, goodnight, just because, just because, etc.)

thanks for telling me you love me several times a day

and thanks for always making me laugh (see above pictures as proof. again, don't you just love that face?!)

love, wife

36 weeks

isn't this the cutest load of laundry you've ever seen?

and here is a picture of the nursery:

we decided to go with just one crib for now, everything we read says they can share a crib for the first little bit and that a lot of times, they will actually sleep better when they do. my mom made these quilts on the wall and i absolutely LOVE them! aren't they beautiful?

now we're just in countdown mode until the girls get here.

on sunday, we were at my parent's house watching conference and i noticed that my contractions seemed to get pretty regular. after counting for 3 hours and having them be between 4-7 minutes apart, my dad and dallin gave me a blessing and we decided to head to the hospital. baby a is sitting VERY low. so low that the doctor and nurse seemed surprised that i wasn't dilated more. but after monitoring my contractions and checking my progress for about 3 hours, they sent us home because i wasn't progressing at all. i've still been having pretty regular contractions, every 3-7 minutes when i take the time to count them, but they haven't been painful, so we're just waiting until something new happens. i have a doctor's appointment tomorrow morning, so i'm hoping to show a little more progression then. however, we realize that i may still not be progressing and that there is a possibility we'll have to wait until around 37 or 38 weeks before they will schedule an induction.

at my ultrasound last friday, they estimated baby a to be weighing about 5 lbs. 6 oz. and baby b to be weighing about 5 lbs. 12 oz. obviously this is just an estimate, but it's encouraging to see them at a nice healthy weight! the doctors say that their heart rates are beautiful, that the babies are doing well, and they seem surprised to see me in such good shape still (no swelling, good blood pressure, still walking, etc.), so hopefully this good streak continues!

dallin and i are so anxious for these babies to join us! we love them so much already and we are just dying to meet them! we'll let everyone know as soon as they arrive!