Good grief. Holy cow. Leaping lizards. Great day. Oh my word. WOW. For heaven's sake. Sweet Moses. Those are just a few phrases that describe the day here yesterday. Jon was gone pretty much all day yesterday, it being Sunday and all and by the time he did get home about 8:15 p.m. I cannot recall a time in recent past that I was happier to see him then I was at that moment last night. James was pretty good all day. I take that back, he was a SAINT compared to his little sister! The only time he really made any noise was when he got hungry. The rest of his day was spent either sleeping or staring at the Christmas tree with a blank look on his face. Audrey, on the other hand, screamed bloody murder if I got out of her sight for a second. And sleep? Ha! She decided to take 10 minute cat naps every couple hours or so instead of a nice, long nap like a good little girl. And she only wanted to be held. No swing, no bouncy seat, no crib. Nothing. Just dear, sweet, precious mama. By the time the sun went down, she just wasn't happy period. It didn't matter if I was holding her or not she just wanted to cry. James eventually got cranked up and by the time Jon got home I was rocking them both as fast as I could. But the whole reason for this story is this: about 5 minutes before Jon walked in the door Audrey was screaming so loud and so viciously she literally passed out. I promise. One minute she was howling and the next sound asleep. I about passed out my self wanting to laugh but I didn't dare. She has been fine ever since! Excuse my looks but you try taking care of 2 varmits ALL DAY LONG and you'll look like this too!Nonie and Grandaddy bought them reindeer antlers for Christmas and James seemed to like his pretty good!

I am obsessed with my children's feet! But who can blame me seeing how utterly adorable they are! We TRIED to take a picture for our Christmas card today but uh, it was alot easier when it was just me and Jon! I figured it would be easy since they have always done so good at other "photo shoots"! Not so today. We got a few okay ones but I don't think I am gonna use any that I have put on the blog. We are gonna try again tomorrow, maybe. And uhm, for those of you (and you know who you are) who made fun and laughed at me for saying I was gonna have James in a suit every sunday, eat your heart out!

This is pretty much how it went the whole time in front of the tree, as you can see in the picture below this one, the pappies were the only thing that would satisfy them and you can't take a good picture with pappies in your mouth, especially James' big, nasty one!

Excuse this one. I am only somewhat computer/blog literate!
We had a b-day party for my Uncle Frank's 70th b-day tuesday night and they wanted a picture of all the brothers that were there (fyi-this is not all of them) and nobody noticed that a blonde, curly headed little girl had snuck in! That is Hannah Grace and doesn't she look mischevious? Some would say a look she gets from me but.................
We went to the doctor Wednesday and da-da-da-dum: James weighs 8.4 and Bit Bit weighs 7.13
We were so proud. I guess those little clumps of formula in the bottom of her bottle didn't bother her weight gain one bit! The doctor was proud and said they were taking off like lightning!

Okay here are a few things I have learned over the past month and a half:
1. Never by all that Wal-Mart has of a certain kind of bottle and 10 extra nipples because you have twins and they both eat 8 times a day, until you know that your children are gonna be able to suck on them with out pooping out after 1/2 ounce.
2.Do not buy 8 NUK pacifiers, open and sterilize them because that is what both your niece and nephew used until you know that your children will like them. They both gag on the nuks and now I have 8 pappies that no one will use. Any NUK users out there?
3.Don't buy the biggest can, most expensive formula that Wal-Mart offers until you are sure that it wont cause your children to stay up all night and all day moaning and groaning.
4. Don't buy 1,000 premie diapers because you just know it will take months for your children to grow out of them.
Hey, I know you live and you learn. But honestly living and learning for two at once is getting ridiculously expensive!

The pictures below are of when the kids (and adults) came to visit us in Macon. I honestly don't know who had more fun. The grandparents and aunts who got to see their precious babies in the hospital or these wild indians at the Ronald McDonald House!
We love dong! (aka uncle jon)

Well, he is not a wild indian! Not yet any way! Yes, he is lifting his head up on his own!

Do I spy two dimples!
Poor Audrey had a tough night last night. She was so restless. She probably only slept about 1 hour between 3 and 8:30 which is not like her. I thought she was just working on a poop but she got that out this morning and is still restless. Hollering out, grunting, twisting around. It is very pittiful. I have a feeling mama is gonna be holding someone an awful lot today!

Her Nanny B bought them both Christmas pj's when they were in the hospital and I just knew they would never grow into them! But they have and these are Audrey's. She looks like a little candy cane!

Okay, they finally did it. They finally tag teamed me to the point of no return! Today has been an interesting day! Lots of times they both get hungry at the same time and starting going nuts. I usually have the bouncy seats to turn to, but not today! This morning James threw up all over his so I decided to wash the pads on both of them. I new it was dicey but it had to be done.

When Jon and Will got back from church I ran up to the store to get me a few much needed Dr. Peppers and it was exciting to get of the house on such a pretty day, even if only for a few minutes. When I got back, our land lords daughter called and said she needed to stop by and get the key to the house next door. Jon and Will were fixing to leave as Lynn pulled up to go to the beach to surf for a while. Something I planned for Jon to get out of the house and have a REAL break. Aren't I sweet?! Anyway, I had James in my arms and was outside talking to Lynn after the boys left. Audrey started crying and once I realized she had reached the point of no return I told Lynn I had to go. So I came in and put James down to change Audrey's diaper. Of course he started screaming. I changed Audrey and put her down to change James who never stops crying when you change his diaper. As expected, Audrey let me know what she thought of that! It was well pass their time to eat so I put them on the floor in the living room to fix their bottles. Note, they are still screaming. Like I said I usually can put one of them in their seats and bounce it with my foot while I feed the other and that keeps them satisfied till their turn. Did I mention I couldn't do that this time?

I was at the point of hysteria because I knew there was no help in site for hours. So I somewhat calmly asked the Lord to help me. PLEASE. I immediatly thought about something Nelda had said about balancing one on my knee while feeding them both at the same time. Something I have never had to do. Not only because I always have their seats available ( have I mentioned that yet?) but because I am always afraid that their heads wont be held up right in the correct position and they will choke to death. Well, I had no choice today. So I looked around and saw the boppy that never gets used. I grabed it and put James inside of it. He looked comfortable enough (still screaming though) and put Audrey across my lap and shoved the bottles into their mouths. Instant peace! Poor bit-bit had tears streaming down her face. Even though I had to let them gulp it down, let some if it stream out the sides of their mouths and only be burped once, I did it. They got fed and they didn't choke to death! Hooray for me! I feel as if I could climb Mt. Everest right now. But I wont because they have to eat again in and hour and a half! Maybe the pads will be dry by then!

Yes, this is gross but I had to show what happens when you have to burp two babies at once and are sitting on the floor with 1 burp rag and have it under the child who usually throws up and of course, they switch it up on you. This is courtesy of Ms. Audrey!

We had a good day yesterday. Just hung out and watched everybody sleep. That is pretty much the norm for us around here. Audrey is starting to be more awake during the day than James is and James now shakes is right leg like a puppy dog when he is eating! Last night I had them sleeping on the floor in the living room with us while we ate supper.This is the pittiful primpimg face she makes sometimes. Mostly in her sleep. Must be a bad dream or something?!I snapped this this morning. This is the result of me being to tired to get up and feed my children at 5 am so I put them in the bed with me with the hopes of them sleeping longer and it worked! We slept until 8:30! Sweet sleep, especially with these two angels! Of course all the medical people out there today would probably turn me into child services for letting them sleep this close. But man, sometimes you just gotta do what ya gotta do!!! And as a side note to the blog I posted the other day about why are my children crying. I just want everyone to know that I wrote that in fun. I don't really believe that my children will turn out to be serial killers or gothic or cleptomaniacs. But as every mother does, I worry that I wont be a good enough parent to them. And I don't constantly live in the fear that my children have some sort of awful diease or have RSV. If I really thought that, would I be telling all of you or taking them to the doctor? I felt like this needed to be cleared up because there were only a handful of you who actually got my humor. I have received quite a few calls from family memebers (mostly men by the way) who were actually afraid I was not doing well. Even my own husband said it was the most pitiful thing he had ever read. Come on! I am doing great. I love my children and am so happy to be their mother. I am not going over the edge or suffering from post-pardom depression. Seriously, those things cross every mother's mind, especially new mothers. But I don't live in the fear of them actually coming true. So for the record let me say again, I AM DOING GREAT! I AM NOT IN TROUBLE NOR DO I REALLY BELIEVE I AM RAISING HARD CRIMINALS!!!! Love you all and thanks for all the comments. Next time I try to be funny I will certainly clarify that that is what I am doing!! HA-HA! :)

Last night James would not go to sleep. We thought we were gonna have about an hour of quiet to our selves and watch a little t.v. but he had different plans. He wasn't fussy, just WIDE AWAKE!! I guess he just wanted to be with his parents. He loves us so much!

He hates the process of getting into and out of the bathtub but he LOVES to be in the water. I guess this apple didn't fall far from the tree! For those of you who don't know, his daddy his obsessed with all things having to do with water! And look, mama really does exist!

One day I will try to get a better shot of this childs head so maybe you can see what I mean when I say his head is identical to his PaPaw's. The hair line, the way his fuzz parts (PaPaw doesn't have fuzz though!) and his forehead. It is really cute!

Thanks for all the comments you guys. I was glad to see everyone could see my humor. I just needed a little comic relief and Jon wasn't around to help me out.

For those of you who have blogs that I know of, I try to comment on them but for some reason this computer will only let me do it like 1 in every 100 times that I try. I can't even comment on my own blog. So Amber, wish we could be there in January, we were looking forward to it but definitly in May. Can't wait to see ya'll and maybe I can get an appointment with the ever so talented Mrs. Ferrell to have some pictures taken? You are so amazing. Seriously I am always blown away at the pictures of the girls that you take. We got your Christmas card and Jon thought it was some advertisement from Sears or something when he first looked at it!

And Ol'Mama, what happened? You haven't been first in like 3 or 4 days? You aint loosen your touch, are you? :)