Photos from week one

I really wanna make this post better... organize/edit the pictures, make collages, write captions, add stories... but I really wanna sleep too. Like a fat kid wants cake.
So in all it's disorganizedness - I present our first week home, in pictures:

 

Ok, I lied. A few words:

Big hugemungous thankyou to my mom. These photos do not show even a fraction of the fun and helpful things she did while here. She created "activity bins" for Brianna. There are 8 of them, organized and labeled, each with all the supplies needed for projects like finger painting, watercoloring, sticker pictures, playdough, etc. Mom read to Brianna endlessly. She took her to parks and to the beach. She helped her eat healthy meals. She did her hair and got her dressed everyday. She took her on nature walks and shopping trips. She put up with all her tantrums and 2-yr-old demands with perfect patience and none of that typical grandparent-spoiling junk. My mom really should teach the Love & Logic parenting program courses.

When she wasn't with Brianna, she was holding babies, changing diapers, bringing me water and food, helping me cope with all the pain I was in those first few days, taking pictures, doing errands for me...
I owe her more than I could ever repay. 

I realize a few of the photos do need explanation. The one with Brianna crying next to the Bumbo by Brian's legs: She was upset because Brian put the baby in the Bumbo, when SHE wanted to do it. Add that to her list of irrational tantrum causes. The photos with the big blue boppy pillow - that's my special EZ-2-Nurse Twins pillow. Lovelovelove it. Anyone who ever has twins must own one. I'd get this before buying diapers or clothes or baby shampoo. The other brightly colored boppy in several photo was given to me by our sweet Alabamian neighbor Debra. I use that for nursing just one, but mostly for the babes to nap on. Another photo has Bennett being held up next to a figure underneath a white blanket. That's Brianna. She was playing peekabo with him. Very sweet. Photo of me on the computer (our new eMac desktop - I really like it!) - it was the first time Brian saw me carrying the babies in a sling and multitasking. He thought it was the coolest thing ever and wanted a picture. I look annoyed - I'm not. Just trying to get the delivery-day post done  (been working on it foreevvvvveerrr... in small increments... like everything else I try to get done these days!)   The plantains:  mom made those for us.  A-MAZ-ING.  Bathtub photo of Brianna:  I know, not twin related. But I still have to remember my firstborn, right? I thought she looked cute playing with her tub toys. The two photos with Courtney wearing a zillion headbands and bows:  Brianna's having fun with her baby sister. Too much fun. We have to monitor her closely and explain the importance of allowing the baby breathing room.
















































































I'd like to say week one was fun... but I'm mostly just glad it's DONE.