Rob & Kris' Family Blog

When they first came home, Ty and Bella weren't gaining weight. We had a couple of appointments with the Dr to see what was going on--but finally figured it out at a movie. Kris and I went to see a movie, and took the twins. We had the nipples from the hospital (to use with premixed formula) rather than their regular bottles. We had been spending 30+ minutes for each 1-2 oz feeding. Using these nipples, we got 2 oz in each of them in about 5 minutes.

So, we replaced the bottles and surprised the doctor. When we took Ty back in, he had gained 20 oz in the previous 9 days (as compared to net -3 oz in the prior 2 weeks). Who knew that kids would be so picky about their bottles...

So the twins finally arrived this morning. Izzie came at 02:08 and weighed 5 pounds, 13 ounces and was 19.25 inches. Ty came at 02:09 (yes they were cut out rather than pushed out) and weighed 5 pounds, 15 ounces and was 18 inches--so he is short and stubby. If you look at the jowels in the picture and the wrinkly head, he looks much like his Grandpa Tolman. Hopefully the link works for everyone so you can see the album posted on my Facebook page.

We are planning to bless them the Sunday after Christmas.

At our appointment last week, we found out that we are having a boy and a girl. That's pretty exciting because it means that the boys will continue to outnumber the girls in our house.

Kris has a name picked out already for the girl, and told me I could name the boy--as long as I picked the name she already chose for him. Hmmmmm...

Anyone who has visited Kris' blog, will know that we are expecting. It is interesting how things never go as planned. Our license plate currently reads 8ISENUF. We did that because 8 was our magic number. However, Kris had prayed that if God wanted us to have more than 8, they all needed to come now because she didn't want to be pregnant again.

God, being the gracious Father that He is, complied with her request. We are expecting twins sometime in November. We planned for November (assuming a normal pregnancy) because Tiff told us that November was the only month that someone from Dad's family didn't have a birthday. Twins are considered full-term 3 weeks early than singles, so hopefully we make it to November. Otherwise, the twins may share Tiff's birthday :)

I am just trying to get this started. Hopefully, we can make it work and get the family using it...