The Big Arrival

Late morning of June 15, 2015 Tyler and I climbed into the car and headed down to the hospital to welcome our new boys to our family.  This delivery was much different from my other two in many ways.  We arrived at the hospital for a scheduled C-section around 9:30 am.  It was strange to walk into the hospital for delivery without having any contractions and knowing that in just a few short hours we would be holding our little boys in our arms.  Let me just say that answering all the nurses questions and filling out paperwork is way easier when you are not trying to do it all between contractions.   I was a little nervous about the C-section, something I had never experienced before, but thankfully we had lots of good advice from friends and family, who have had a C-section before (or multiple ones), and lots of friends and family praying for us and the babies.

By 12:30 we were meeting our boys, Donovan and Paul for the first time.  What a joy it was to finally see them and be able to hold and cuddle them.  My favorite part of the whole C-section experience was the fact that I was not one bit tired after delivery and could just enjoy visiting with family and cuddling the babies.

They are healthy and happy new borns and were known in the hospital as the "big twins".  Donovan weighing in at 8.7lbs and Paul at 6.7lbs.  

Already we see how different they are from each other and yet how much they love to be together.  In the hospital we found them holding hands and their favorite place to nap is next to each other in the basinet.

We were all able to come home from the hospital a day early and Neal and Gwen have been such great older siblings.

Neal loves to hold and rock his new brothers and Gwen is always coming over and kissing their heads and eager to help out when they need to be burped.  

Life has been busy here with the addition of two little ones but over all the transition to a family of six has been rather smooth.  Much of that smooth transition is due to the wonderful help we have had for the last month from both of our moms (thank you so much Gigi and Grandma).  Soon we will be back to real life (on our own) and we will find a new routine and a new normal but are loving this crazy busy season of life.