What has happened! 5.5 months

So my last post was 2 days before I had my girls! Crazy as it may be it is so true. They are almost 6 months old. They have been in out of the hospital for about 5 months. OH yes I had baby girls. My husband and I both thought that we were going to be having at least 1 boy..... LOL!! that didn't happen now did it because we have 2 very beautiful girls.
The 22 and 23 days at the hospital were very difficult. I was and still am amazed at how things went while they were there. We did not expect them to come home until August 5 my due date. The girls surprised the doctors and nurses. I had to be one of the happiest people when I was told that my girls could come home. I was expecting Courtney (baby B) to come home first and Wynnona (baby A) to come home a week or so later.

Above pictures are of Wynnona at the hospital she was 2lbs 11ozs. Below pictures are of Courtney she was 3lbs 8 oz

To be able to come home the girls had 3 requirements

1. Breath on their own.  - they passed this one in a week
2. Hold temperature and have continuous weight gain - it took 2 to 2 and 1/2 weeks to accomplish this one.
3. Feed all feedings from a nipple - let it be a bottle or breast. This is the one that I thought that was going to take the girls a while to get. Once Courtney got a bottle she really didn't want to let it go - she was a slow eater but she could eat once given the chance. Wynnona was taken off of the continuous feed on Friday and went to a bottle and did great. She just CHOWED down. It was almost as if she was starving. She was out on Monday!

Courtney was discharged to our custody on Sunday July 1st and Wynnona was discharged on Monday July 2nd. When we left the hospital at 1pm ish to head home I asked Rick so when do you want to leave - meaning that that was our week to go fishing/camping every year the rest of the family had left on Friday. Rick was pretty pissed off that he could not go because I was traveling between the hospital and home and he had 2 little baby girls in the hospital. After I asked him he just looked at me like what are you talking about..... I knew he wanted to go and had been up to something the night before. He had packed up almost everything that we needed and was ready to leave. We got home I showered and got the girls ready (packed up what clothing I had all of which was too big) and we left on our fishing trip.
By the time we headed home I was ready to start life at home with the new additions to the family.

The girls have changed my life drastically. I love them so much it is insane. We have had a rough road to get to where we are now but the girls are doing amazing and surprise me every day. At 4 months old they could roll over from being on their stomach to their backs. they are sucking on their thumbs and they are happy most of the time. It took Wynnona longer to realize that things were not as bad as she thought she has finally started to smile most of the time and is not crying most of the time. Courtney is just as happy as happy can be. She tend to squeal when she is happy and has a  high pitched cry. She is also a slobbery mess. Courtney wants to start crawling she knows that she wants to move but doesn't know how to do it quite yet. Wynnona wants to walk, she wants to stand all the time. I have started to put both of them in the walker and the johnny jump up. They love it. they can look around.

Yes my life is so different. I don't do much of anything anymore. I am a stay at home mom for sure. There is no way that I could work and enjoy my girls the way that I do. Some days I think that working would be so much easier than dealing with my girls, especially when they are fussy.
Motherhood is not what I expected it to be. It is at least 10 times harder. Sleep deprivation is only part of it. I will try and keep you updated on how things are going from here on out. But that all depends on how the girls do and how tired I am. I will also try and get you updated pics of the girls.