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Just a Little Peek of the Twins

Here is a little taste of the twins. I will post more pictures and the story of how it all went down (for those who would like to know). But for now, here are a couple pictures. They are in separate warmers in the NICU, so We haven't had a chance to take any pictures of them side by side. I am hoping we can today.

Presley Kaye Martin: 3 lbs 14 oz. 16 inches long.



Reese Antionette Martin: 3 lbs 6 oz. 16 1/2 inches long.

It's been a crazy couple of weeks!!

The last couple of weeks have been a bit of a roller coaster ride for us! Two weeks ago I went into labor and delivery for regular monitoring. While I was there, I went into pre-term labor and I was having contractions every minute and a half. They gave me a shot to stop the contractions and gave me another shot of Beta Methazone for the babies' lungs. I was admitted to the hospital and ended up having a 5 day stay on constant monitoring. Baby A was having some issues with her heart rate dipping after contractions, so they wanted to watch her really close. We weren't sure for a while what day, or if I would even be able to go home at all. Luckily, I was able to go home. They put me on modifiel bed rest, which wasn't too bad since I could be up and a bout for a couple of hours at a time. It was a huge sigh of relief to be able to get out of that uncomfortablke hospital bed and be with my family. I sure missed my kids while I was chained to that bed!

I went in for a growth scan ultrasound with my specialist on Thursday, and we discovered that the babies had not grown at all over the past two weeks. In fact, it showed that they had lost weight (this is unlikely. The scans get less acurate the further along you get), but the definately didn't do ANY growing. They came in at a whopping 3lbs 7 oz (3lbs 8 oz two weeks prior), and 3lbs 4 oz (3 lbs 7 oz two weeks prior). That definately made me nervous. They talked about admitting me again, but in the end decided to let me go home on strict bedrest (I can only be up for 30 minutes every 6 hours), and increased the amount of appointments (just in case the 3 appointments a week I already had wasn't enough). They also moved my induction date up a week from July 25th to july 19th. That is just 9 DAYS AWAY!!! I will be 36 weeks, and we are just hoping that and of my appointments between now and then go smoothly. If not, then these girls just might be making an early debut.

So basically, we have been through a gammat of emotions, and are trying to prepare for the worst, and hope for the best. The good news is that we are at a point that the babies would be okay, but it is just a matter of how long their stay would be in the NICU. I am hoping we can make it the full 10 days, adn by some small miracle bring our beautiful babies home with us.

Riley's Birthday Bash

We did a "craft carnival" birthday for Riley this year. It was so much fun. I asked her if she wanted to know what we were doing for her birthday, or if she wanted it to be a surprise. She wanted it to be a surprise. She said, "birthdays are all about surprises, Mom!" They got to paint bird houses, decorate t-shirts, make jewelry, decorate cupcakes, and we also did face painting. Every moment was full, and the kids had a blast! Best of all, Riley had a blast!




They party was a girl party, but we did have one little guy attend. It made us crack up that he and Kam very quickly ended up in the sandbox. Boys will be boys!

Backyard T-Ball

Jace and I got Riley her own bat and tee, since she just started T-ball (pics to come...CUTEST thing EVER!). So we went outside to try it out. They did really well hitting the ball. Kam was the funniest! He was so excited to try and hit the ball. I must say, he was almost as good as the girls (The bat is a bit heavy for someone only a year and a half old). Even when the girls were done playing, Kam stayed to play for a while. He would hit the ball, then pick it right back up and put it on the tee by himself. We are talking hours of entertainment for this little guy! Riley loved it too, She is excited to practice with her Daddy!

Just a side note: Kam DOES in fact own pants! Just in case you were wondering:)

6 Years Old!

Riley turned 6 on June 7th. She is ALWAYS excited for her birthday, and wants to make sure everyone knows it is her big day. On her actual birthday (it was a tuesday), we just had cake and icecream, and we let her open the present that we got for her, as well as the one that Grandma Kaye got for her. It was low-key, but she was still excited about the whole thing. Yes, I did buy the cake. Life is busy, and energy is low at times, so I took the easy way out this time. Riley didn't seem to mind.

Baby A

At my doctors appointment, a week and a half ago, we had an ultrasound (as usual), but this time while we were waiting for the doc, The ultrasound tech did a 4D ultrasound. Baby B was shy, and wouldn't let us see her sweet face, but we got this one of Baby A (Of course, her nose isn't that big). I remember having 4D ultrasounds with Riley and being worried that she would have a big nose. Of course, that was not the case, and she was absoulutely georgous! It sure makes us super excited to see the real thing! I mean, seriously, look at those sweet little lips!! Oh man, modern technology is AMAZING!

Sandbox

About a week ago, Jace and I built a sandbox for the kids. Here is a picture of Payton and Kambell enjoying the new addition. The kids LOVE it! They pretty much live in the sandbox. Kam especially loves it. Boys just need to dig! I will have more pics to post, as well as some of our other project (bricking under the back porch) as soon as we finish it. It is taking a lot longer than we had hoped. For now, this is all I have uploaded to the computer. I just figured that you are probably tired of seeing the same post for weeks. More to come soon.

28 Week photoshoot

Here are some pics from yesterdays photoshoot. These are my faves from the shoot.

Bring on the warm weather!

Since yesterday was SUCH a beautiful day, the kids wanted to get outside and play in the water. They had so much fun, and it just made us excited for lazy summer days!







And of course, an afternoon outside would not be complete without a little bit of mudd!

Bedtime Stories

Payton was telling Jace the story of Rapunzel (with a little help). It starts out sideways (I always forget to turn my phone sideways when I record videos), but I realized it pretty quickly and turned it around.

Swimming

This is just a short clip of Payton at swimming lessons.

Yay for Riley!

Just wanted to write this down for the "record." Riley had her first spelling test last week (it was actually for a spell-a-thon fundraiser), and she got 100%!!!!! That's right a whopping 25/25! I was so proud of her! I was even more proud of her because, honeslty, we hadn't worked on the words with her like we should have. She is an amazing little girl. I just love her!

More dancing videos for you viewing pleasure!

Here are a couple of videos of the rugrats during one of their dancing marathons. My favorite is how Kam is trying so hard to copy Riley's every move. Too funny!

Budding Artists

My girls love to paint (or anything creative, for that matter). So when thier cousin Ava was over this week for a sleepover, they asked if they could paint. I got them all set up in the garage, and they got to work on their masterpieces. They turned out lovely, and they had a blast doing it.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

The first thing Riley said to me this morning was, "Happy St. Patrick's day, Mommy!" She was super concerned about making sure everyone was wearing green today. She didn't want anyone to get pinched:)She drew this picture in school. This leprechaun named O'Riley(she got a big kick out of that) visited their classroom before they got to school and made a huge mess, and left green footprints all over their classroom. She insisted that the picture of O'Riley was in our picture as well.

18 Weeks 4 Days

What a difference a month makes! I am posting another belly pic at the request of family and friends. Sorry if you get sick of them. This is a picture of me TODAY, so it is as current as it gets!

Snoozing

Kam is a busy boy. This is pretty much the only time he holds still. I went in to wake him up yesterday to go meet some friends at the park for lunch, and he just looked so sweet.