The Sims Twins

19months! Starting potting training...fun, fun..

2011-02-02T18:12:00.001-08:00

Caroline is ready for potty training... panties on her head thanks to Daddy!
Caroline, put on one pair of panties, and is trying the other pair

She gave up trying to put them on her bottom and is now putting them on like a shirt!
Chloe has panties on her head thanks to her daddy!

Chloe is putting on her 2nd pair of panties!

18 months Christmas!

2011-02-02T18:00:00.000-08:00

Caroline helping Daddy open gifts!
Girls taking all the ornaments off the tree... and breaking them!

Chloe opening her new movie!

Caroline, really likes her movie, she's keeping it out of reach!

Caroline in red and Chloe in stripes!

Wow, ok I'm really behind on postings... sorry! The girls had a great Christmas, although they did get sick afterwards! At their 18m check up Chloe weighed 22lbs and 5 ozs and Caroline weighed 19 lbs and 5 ozs. They didn't seem to grow as much, but I think they were too wiggly and were measured wrong, bc it said Chloe didn't grow and Caroline was talker than Chloe which is not the case. Chloe is about 1 1/2 inches taller than Caroline! Here are some pics of them!

17 months! Full Speed Ahead~!

2010-12-01T06:26:00.000-08:00

Yes, it looks like Caroline is jumping here, but she is just running to me while I try to take her picture! They just have so much crazy energy! Chloe is running too and bouncing her hair straight in the air!

Took girls in yesterday for cough and runny nose, dr said not contagious unless they get a high fever (then bring them back in) no fever just low grade temp bc of all the teeth they are cutting at once! Super painful!

At dr with clothes on Caroline weighed 19.7 which is probably just 19 even hopefully! Chloe weighed 22.7, so yes they are gaining weight, but not a lot and Chloe just a little growth spurt and is a little taller, Caroline is still shorter, but not by much! Go on Dec 13th for girls 18th month appt!

Girls fav thing to do is go outside and play, but today and yesterday it was TOO windy and TOO cold so the are in house tearing up everything they can get their hands on, and that is a lot these days! Girls especially Caroline loves to look outside at her Dogs or Doggie as she loves to say. Still not saying too many new words, but Chloe is for sure saying whole bunch of things, but WE HAVE NO IDEA what she is SAYING! Then she will look at you and shake her head up and down like you got that right!

Chloe loves to take you buy they hand or finger and pull you around to show you what she wants you to do for her or just lead you around the house like we are going on a walk outside! Silly, Silly little girls!

Costume Pics!

2010-11-01T11:31:00.001-07:00

The Lady Bug kissing the Bee! So cute~! Cute Caroline Bee!
Happy Chloe Lady Bug!

Caroline's I don't want to be a flower melt down!

16months-talking some!

2010-10-30T11:18:00.000-07:00

Caroline loves to play and scribble w/ her pen Chloe doesn't want her picture taken!
Chloe sitting pretty for her picture!

Caroline said, "I think I might be in trouble"

Hi Everyone!

The girls skills are improving and they are growing, but not at alot. Chloe is almost 2 inches taller than Caroline now, but Caroline is the one talking and saying all kinds of things! Chloe now weights 21 lbs yea and Caroline is up to 18.5 lbs. They are just tiny little tots!

Caroline's favorite new words:

kitty
doggie- Chloe can say too!
ducky
Katie- for cousin Katie
yoggie (for her yogart)
nana (both can say)
dora (they both love Dora the Explorer)
Cinny - for their aunt Cindy
dink- for drink
Gimme- Chloe's favorite word
uh-oh- Caroline's fav word, she throws stuff down just to say it

15 months

2010-09-04T10:08:00.000-07:00

HI Everyone!

The girls have been busy! They can climb on the couch all by their onesies, throw away their own diapers. They love to open the trash can an throw stuff away! Chloe loves to dance!!!! Caroline loves to play by herself, doesn't like it when her sister likes to get everything she has! Here are some cute pics of them!

Chloe eating her banana!

Girls after their bath running around the house in just their towels!Caroline in her daddy's boots!Chloe in her daddy's boots!Caroline eating her banana wearing her 1 shoe! It's too big, but she loves to wear it!

14 months

2010-08-17T14:02:00.000-07:00

Chloe is tickling Elmo and Caroline is playing with Wonder something! Fun toys Cindy and Bill brought by on their way to FL.
Now Caroline is going for Elmo, so cute!

Caroline in her cute outfit Auntie Sara got her!

Chloe wearing an outfit from Auntie Sara too!

The girls are everywhere! There isn't much they can't get into now! They are walking, running, and climbing on everything!

Here they are destroying the pantry, they've pulled everything out of place, there wasn't any room left so Chloe sat on Caroline's lap and Caroline is trying to get out!

just pics!

2010-07-19T14:14:00.001-07:00

13 months pics!

2010-07-19T14:02:00.000-07:00

Ok, so we've been a little busy! Both girls are walking, Caroline a little steadier than Chloe, but both having fun! Here are some pics from our Vacation to Arkansas! This is Caroline! Hot day and she can barely see over the top of the little kid swing! She was having fun though! Her she is again, had enough of swinging, time to walk on the fun rocks with Granny! Next one is Family pic minus Caroline since she was walking away!

Last, but not least! Chloe all by herself having fun in the swing too!

PARTY PICS!!!

2010-06-07T07:18:00.000-07:00

Our 1st Birthday!!!

2010-06-07T07:04:00.000-07:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHLOE AND CAROLINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The girls had their 1st Birthday Party this past Saturday, even though today is their actual Birthday! They had a lot of fun and were pretty worn out from all the excitement! Caroline took her 1st steps, 3 of them, and I squealed so loud she plopped down and starting crying! Since then she is only taken a few! She is so much quicker crawling, she just gets tired of the standing and taking and step and dropping, now she just drops and crawls. Chloe can take one step and is working on it. THEY love to walk with their lawnmower walkers though and can go full out with no Stopping!!!

Learning to WALK!!!

2010-05-27T13:26:00.000-07:00

Caroline just loves her walker toy! She goes full speed ahead until she falls down our runs into a wall. Chloe likes it most of the time and is learning to be almost as quick as Caroline! Aunt Allie went and got us another one at her Walmart since the one here never seems to have anything and as you can tell in our pics below we don't always like to share. Here are some other cute pictures of them!

11 months!!!

2010-05-08T10:44:00.000-07:00

CHLOE AND CAROLINE SO CUTE! It's amazing in 1 more month they will be 1 year old! This is the picture I took of them for their Birthday Party invites, which will be going out in about a week when I get them back in the mail! The girls over the past week have really hit some great milestones! They both:

Have 2 front teeth growing in finally for about 3+weeks now

the teeth started us to finally pick up things and feed ourselves! YEA!

Chloe this last week joined Caroline in being able to bend up and down to stand instead of just falling on her butt, or screaming until I rescued her from the standing position

We PULL up everywhere

We can climb stairs

Climb on top of diaper boxes

Stand up for a few seconds unattended

Take steps if you help us by holding our hands

Starting to wean ourselves from bottles and learn to drink from sippy cups some

We get into EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chloe still has her helmet, and gets a rescan on the 19th to see where she's at and how long she may have to wear it. Chloe 3 weeks ago at Dr. weighted 19lbs, and Caroline little move more lost weight and only weighed 15lbs and 6ozs, dropping 2 ozs. Hopefully for their 1 year she will make it to 16 whole lbs! You can for sure see that they are fraternal twins now! They are so so different! They are at the clingy mommy stage already, FUN, FUN! Hopefully my next entry will be "We can Walk."

10 months = two times the trouble

2010-04-15T15:10:00.000-07:00

Okay, here we are standing, bc we are pulling up on everything! Yes, especially Caroline! She just loves to stand!

Chloe of course is just more and more curious about everything, but it is usually Caroline leading the plan for whatever trouble they want to get into!

Today it was getting into the pantry that I didn't close all the way, they peeled the dry skins off the onions and started chewing on the sweet potatoes, at least they are now starting to put things in their mouths, even if they still can't feed themselves. I think they just like for me to do it! Crazy girls! They will feed themselves big things, but small things they just put in their hands for safe keeping and never really make it into their mouths!

Chloe, being Chloe! She doesn't seem to mind her helmet as much this week! Last week was pretty bad!

And here is Caroline being Caroline, bouncing up and down on her knees trying to figure out how to stand without help and see if she can walk.

I call the girls my little turkey's bc they just seem to wander around in different directions and get into everything!

Here they are on Easter in their pretty Easter Dresses!

9 1/2 months

2010-03-30T11:47:00.000-07:00

Caroline and Chloe crawling to get in my lap as I try to take their picture. Chloe is so much like her mommy, just can't seem to keep her eyes open for a picture.

How cute are we? Adorable as usual! Wow we both can get into so much trouble now that we are both crawling and moving at the speed of light! Things we can do:

:)say momma and dada really well
:)pull up and move a long the edge of things
:)take a few steps if you hold our hands
:)climb the stairs...yikes
;)learning to feed ourselves...messy, messy
and tons of other things I'm sure I'm forgetting!

Chloe looks so cute here in her hat her Aunt JoDee got her. We are about to go get her helmet fitted so I'm trying to make her see something on her head is not such a bad thing!

Chloe is such a good crawler now and is almost just as quick as Caroline! It's just amazing how quickly they pick up on something. On the 22nd I took the girls for their 9month appt. The good thing was no shots this time.

Chloe weighed 17 and 1/2 lbs and was 27.5inches long. 25% still for here weight and 50% for height! Yea

Caroline weighed 15 and 1/2 lbs only gained 4ozs bc she moves so much she just can't stay still! She is 27 inches long, only .5 shorter than Chloe. That makes Caroline in the 5% for weight if you move her back a month if not she's not even on the chart and 50% like sister girl for height!Super cute Caroline tries out the purple hat too, she decided she didn't want to wear the pink because it doesn't match her outfit. I wonder where she got that from? Smart little fashion queen already!

Here is Chloe just back from our helmet fitting! She still looks so cute to me! Robert is now calling her CRASH bc she has always kind of banged into things and now with this helmet she is going to think she is invisible, not a good thing! So far she doesn't really mind it on, just doesn't care for the putting on and taking off!

9 months! Here comes TROUBLE: crawling

2010-03-11T10:44:00.000-08:00

Caroline and Chloe at 9 months! Caroline just has trouble written all over her face and Chloe has her time to close my eyes b/c the camera made a flash look on. Poor girl she is going to be just like mom, no picture with her eyes open!

Well it happened last week. Caroline had been taking just a few little crawls then splat..., then last Thursday she just took off..........................boy are we in trouble now, she's into everything! Chloe on the other hand is still just taking a few little crawls, crawling backward, getting on her hands and knees rocking back and forth, but mainly just moving all around then sitting herself up to get into trouble. Yesterday I videoed her getting next to the diaper box and taking out all the diapers. I asked her to put them back in and showed her how and she actually started to put them back in, but by diaper #2 she decided it was time to find something new to do, like roll and play in all the diapers throwing them all about! Caroline just crawls past her to her new adventure, Chloe doesn't seem tempted to follow her though, she must think great, finally that girl is out of my way and I can do what I want w/o her in the way taking my toys. Chloe finally realized a few weeks ago what was happening and now it's her mission to take all Caroline's toys and boy is she good at it! Caroline gives up easily though and is on to her new thing, unless we both want to play with the music mirror at the same time, sharing always starts out well until Chloe wants to play with all of them at the same time. She push Caroline to the side and goes to town pushing all the musical instruments at the same time. Caroline either starts to cry or just crawls away . Here are the cuties all dressed up in some summer duds they never got to wear LY b/c they stayed small. Yes, Caroline is 9m, but that is a 3-6month she has on and Chloe a 6-9month. Most of Chloe's stuff is 9m or even 12 month, Caroline could still wear 3-6 in waist, but it's all way too short, so 9m it is just a Little big in the waist. Thank God mommy knows how to take in things! Good news on Chloe's helmet, next week we go for a fitting, so much trouble with finding out if insurance was going to cover....long story that boils down to people not doing their job.

Pictures!

2010-02-26T07:17:00.000-08:00

Caroline and Chloe! Chloe's hair is growing, Caroline still has her mohawk!

This is how we share...well not for long!

Here is us at the Butterfly exibit at the Museum with Aunt Allie and Gramdma Susan.

8 months

2010-02-25T15:08:00.000-08:00

WOW, it seems I start that way each time. The girls just keep growing and growing. On Feb 7th my friend JoDee had her baby boy Carson, what a cutie! He was 6lbs 10ozs and when I went to see him he seemed so small to me, and both the girls were more than 1lb small than him to start with. God is amazing! At eight month both the girls can:

sit by themselves
push themselves to a sitting position
scoot to any location they like
get up on hands and knees and rock back and forth and take a one leg crawl and then crash to the ground! They are so close to crawling
no teeth yet
they can say mommy when they are crying to be held and daddy sometimes too
they can stand for a few seconds by themselves
can pull up almost to knees on furniture
can stand by themselves for a few seconds if holding onto something

At 8 months the girls weigh: Chloe 16lbs 14ozs and Caroline 15lbs and 4ozs. Still smaller than most 8 month olds, but on the charts! YEA! I will post some pictures soon!

Wanting to Crawl!

2010-01-24T17:44:00.000-08:00

CAROLINE AND HER AMAZING PUSH UP!
CHLOE, JUST LIKE MOMMY CAN'T KEEP HER EYES OPEN FOR A PICTURE

HOW CUTE ARE WE?

ADORABLE

The girls are moving all around! It's just crazy, if you turn your back for more than 1 minute they will be in a completely different spot and you have to stop and ask yourself, "did they crawl and I missed it ?" NO is the answer, but they are doing everything but crawling. Most impressive right now is Caroline and her FULL push up, if she could just pull in her knees she would be unstoppable. This child is super strong, what a little gymnast she is. And Chloe is just super curious, it's like she's analyzing each little thing, she was playing with Robert's watch on his wrist and then she saw the hairs and started to pull them, it was SO funny, well I thought it was funny!

SUPER CUTE CAROLINE

7 Months

2010-01-11T09:47:00.000-08:00

Caroline and Chloe! Chloe is trying to talk to me in this pic and has her mouth open. She is so silly! Wow, I can't believe it another month has gone by and just in the last 2 weeks the girls motor skills have taken another huge leap. They can both sit up by themselves although busy body Caroline can only stand to sit there for about 1 minute before she needs to be moving into a new position to find a new toy. Caroline loves to roll next to Chloe when she is just playing with her hands minding her own business and take out her Binky, Chloe being the good girl she is just looks at Caroline, like OK if you want that one I will find yours and turns over and finds Caroline's. They favorite toys right now are a set of drums Granny got them and this strange spherical shaped toy with too much going on, but they love them bc they make noise. (To the left is what it looks like when they eat food. They are wearing the super cute outfits Auntie Sara got them, that say Peanut Butter (Caroline) and Jelly (Chloe)) They have mastered the rolling around to get where they want to go, and if you don't watch them they will have rolled completely to the other side of the room some where. They look like the little mermaid when the push up on their arms, then they get the butt going, but no crawling yet, Caroline loves if you will let her stand up. She can get herself out of her bumbo chair by standing up and throwing herself over the back. She is going be trouble! They love to laugh and take off their socks, outfits with feet in them are so nice for mom, bc I don't have to worry about finding socks or the girls getting next to each other and taking off sisters socks. In the pic Chloe has on the pink hat which doesn't last long bc as soon as she gets next to Caroline, Caroline grabs it and takes it off. Girls had another cold when the weather really dipped below freezing here, so I took them to the Dr on the 2nd and Chloe weighed in at 16lbs and Caroline at 13lbs 12 ozs, which I thought was good for her not feeling so well and eating a little less for the past few days. We had Chloe's head Dr. follow up apt and she will be going this week to get fitted for a helmet, once fitted it will be adjusted each week for about 6-8 weeks and then every 2 weeks and she will wear it for about 3 months. Here head and face are a lot better since we've been doing her neck therapy, but I'm really happy the Dr wants to make sure she will look like a perfect pretty little girl soon!

Chloe in her hat playing with her favorite ball!

Our 1st Christmas

2009-12-26T09:16:00.000-08:00

Cute Santa Chloe and little Elf Caroline! These were their Christmas Eve outfits that Granny got them that say " Who needs Santa when I have Grandma" And boy is that right. The girls now have tons of toys to fill up there new play room! We videoed them unwrapping all their gifts and they were more fascinated with the paper and bows than the actual gifts, but I know soon they will like the gifts too. I will up load more pictures later this week when have our Internet hooked up at our new house! We moved in this past weekend still unpacking up so exciting to be in a new home of our own again! Still praying for our house in Dallas to sell.

6 months~

2009-12-18T04:09:00.001-08:00

WOW! Every week it seems they learn to do something new and fun. This week Caroline will sit in my lap and push down with her legs to stand up, she wants to skip crawling and go straight to walking, but she can't figure out why she can stand up with help, but not walk, she gets really mad and starts growling. It's so funny. Chloe and Caroline are both trying crawl, pushing up and moving all over the place but not crawling. They both love to lay on their tummy's and kick their legs up and down like drums on the floor. Chloe is still a lot bigger than Caroline, but Caroline thinks she is bigger and pushes her sister around. Chloe just wants to be next to Caroline and try to talk to her. They both talk baby talk constantly and make so much noise. Chloe had been doing really well with her neck exercises and her head is looking so much better. We go back on the 5th to see if she will need a helmet or not. We are praying no and that her head will just keep improving the more she moves around. Today we go for their 6m shots and this weekend we are finally moving into our new house! YEA! Unfortunately we still have our house in Dallas, praying that it will sell really soon! I'm not sure how much the girls weigh, but we will find out today and I will post next week once our Internet is hooked up at our new house. If I had to guess I would say Chloe weighs 15 lbs+ and Caroline like 13 and 1/2 lbs. Caroline is just a mover and exercises all her weight off. She only takes 15min naps during the day and wakes smiling and kicking ready to see what trouble she can get herself into. Chloe loves to nap most of the time and will nap for usually 30mins+ in between each of her feedings, but Caroline wants me to be her legs and take her around to see new things. The girls shirts say " Daddy says I was a great idea" that's b/c daddy gets to go to work everyday and not see what a stinker you two really are.

5 months happy girls!

2009-11-14T09:40:00.000-08:00

OK, not the best pic b/c it's from my phone! Forgot to bring the camera with me. But, look at the happy cute little girls! The girls are rolling over like crazy! On top of each other and everything!~ Chloe is on the left and Caroline in the right, but in this picture is a little easier to see who is who! Caroline is grabbing her toes all the time and likes to pull off her socks! Caroline's favorite game to play is airplane! She loves to fly and laughs the whole time! Chloe is now my special child, she has to go to the head Dr to have her flat head looked at this next week before Thanksgiving! YOU can see her flat left side of her head from this pic! The little stinker must have slept on that side of her head the last 3 months inside when she was head down because you can prop on the right side of her head and then 10 minutes later she will start screaming in her sleep until she is on the other side again and then instantly falls back asleep! Bad, Bad Chloe! Girls both want to crawl really bad, but they can't figure out how to make their tummies move! They both pull on the blankets to move, and raise up their butts, but they can't move on their tummies, but they roll all around and can end up all over by floor by moving! THAT's all for now!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

2009-11-01T09:09:00.000-08:00

Our First Halloween! Mommy had 3 outfits to change us into, but we didn't really care for the wardrobe changes. So Chloe got to be a kitty and Caroline a little ghost even though they each had the same outfit to wear, and another little outfit from Aunt Remica that said, "I love my Mummy" with a little mummy on it. Oh well, to much fun. All the excitement made Chloe sleep all night for 10 hours, but not I want to play constantly and talk Caroline, she woke up to eat at 2am and then again at 6am, but she talked from 2:30, (whe she finished her bottle), to 3:43 when she finally fell back to sleep again. So did mummy get any sleep? NO!

Little Ghost Caroline

KITTY CAT CHLOE

Wow, time flies!

2009-10-31T14:25:00.000-07:00

Chloe smiling big..... with Caroline's legs in the background....

Caroline sitting up pretty checking it all out.

I can't believe the girls will be 5 months in just another week! Lots has changed..............1st we've moved to the Houston area! Yes, that's correct. We have our house for sell in Dallas and we've found a new house south west of Houston in Rosenberg. You all know Robert doesn't like to live in the "city," and we had to find a house with a big back yard for the dogs. Those are few and far between. Since we moved the girls were a little late getting their 4 month shots and check up.

Today is Halloween and yesterday at their Dr. appt. Chloe weighed 13 lbs and 1o ozs and Caroline 11 lbs and 10 ozs. They are steady holding their 2 lb difference.
Rolling over is their new thing. Caroline rolled over 3 weeks ago and Chloe this last week. Caroline can roll from tummy to back and back to tummy. Chloe thinks back to tummy is the only way to go b/c when she gets to her tummy she just smiles and sits there with her head up for a while. Then after a few minutes she starts screaming and she is saying ok people come get me and turn me back over I already did one trick.

Tomorrow I will update with their cute Halloween outfits since they have 3 each there will be a lot more pictures to come.

3 months already!

2009-09-15T19:17:00.000-07:00

The girls are growing and getting prettier by the day! Here are their latest pics! 2+ weeks ago the girls went to the dr. for their 1st little colds. They weighed in at: Chloe 11 lbs and 1 oz and Caroline 8 lbs and 14 ozs. I'm sure by now Chloe is closer to 11 1/2 and Caroline 9 1/2. They are doing better and sleeping more at night! Thank you Jesus! But, as they are getting bigger they are wanting to play more, eat more and test out their lungs more! They are just super needy little girls and they are already jealous of the other sister getting to eat 1st or being picked up 1st. It's just amazing how they already are noticing these things! Here Chloe is swinging her arm around and bangs Caroline on the head. "Ouch" Caroline says, "You just wait, I'll get you back." And so it begins.....

2 months!

2009-08-18T12:20:00.001-07:00

Hello Everyone!

Well I'm still just super busy with the girls! This last Friday they had their 2 months checkup and shots! Surprisingly theydid well, just really sleepy all day afterwards which was kind of nice. Chloe didn't like them, but was quite after a few minutes. Caroline cried more about having her legs held down than getting stuck with the needle! Chloe weighed in at 10 lbs and 3 ozs at 23 inches and Caroline at 8 lbs and 1 oz doubling her birth weight! and measured in at 22 1/4th inches. Here if a pic of Chloe and Caroline on this Saturday. We took the girls to our Sunday school class end of summer party. Of course the girls were a hit and it was nice for everyone else to was to play with and hold them!

Baby's 1st 4th!

2009-07-08T14:31:00.000-07:00

Hello Everyone,

Here is a pic of the girls 1st 4th! Wow, it's crazy here at my house. Little sleep and back to back feedings are really getting to me! Girls had another check up and Chloe is up to 7lbs and 8 ozs as of Monday and Caroline is up to 5lbs a nd 10 ozs. WOW, Chloe just feels like a chunky baby, and Caroline just feels so much lighter, but they are both doing well. It's the parents that are going crazy. This is my 1st week at the house with the girls by myself. This is one of the 1st times I've been able do something without the other girls deciding she would like to eat now. I pretty much feed the girls back to back every 2 to 3 hours! I hurry to shower, don't dry hair, maybe put a little makeup on, feed one then the other, that sometimes takes only 1 hour, but not usually, then change the diaper again, burp really good, set Caroline up to help with her reflux. Maybe try to sleep at least an hour between until noon. Next break I eat, next break I wash bottles for the middle of the night feeding so it doesn't take 2 hours, next break I wash some clothes, next break I get to the blog or something else that needs to be done, next break I get dinner ready, next break I try to spend time with Robert, then I feed again ,sleep for and 1 hour, get up all night doing it all over again with maybe 3 hours of sleep in between. Anyway enough about the life I don't have. My children just aren't big enough yet to attempt feeding at the same time. Would work if I had 4 hands!

Anyway, if you call and I don't answer you now know what I'm doing! Now the know that twins are double trouble. Having one right now would seem like a vacation.

Girls Home now!

2009-06-24T15:13:00.000-07:00

Hi Everyone!

The girls finally got to come home from the NICU this Sunday! Perfect Father's Day gift for Robert! 1st Dr. Appt today. Chloe is up to 6 lbs and 4 ozs and Caroline is 4 lbs and 10zs. It's like feeding time at the zoo at my house, so if you call we are just feeding the girls, sorry! Remica took this great pic!

Update on the Girlies!

2009-06-11T08:47:00.001-07:00

This is Sara, updating for Barbara.

Things are going well for the Sims family. Barbara is expected to get released today! The girls won't be home for a few days still, but at least Barbara (and Robert) can sleep in their own bed for the first time in a while.

Chloe is now completely off oxygen and both girls are working at feeding from the bottle and/or breastfeeding. They actually both still have feeding tubes, because they are so small that the action of eating burns more calories than they are gaining from the food. (Oh, that we would all lose weight by eating).

They'll come home when their doctor thinks they are big enough and when they're able to eat without the feeding tubes. Keep your fingers crossed and say your prayers that this is sooner rather than later!

On to the note that you've all been waiting for. They are, of course, EXTREMELY cute! Here is some pictorial evidence.

Caroline working on a bottle

Barbara coaxing Caroline to eat

Caroline

Chloe being fed by her daddy

Daddy and Chloe

Caroline aka "Robert Jr."

Caroline, again

Chloe, "Baby Barbara"

One more of Chloe and Daddy

WELCOME - Little Miss Chloe and Little Miss Caroline!

2009-06-08T16:13:00.000-07:00

This is Remica updating the blog for Barb. I know that you are all anxious to see the girls - well, let me tell you they are just BEAUTIFUL!!!! I saw Momma, Daddy, and the girls today and everyone is doing great. Barbara looks AWESOME for just having twins! The girls were born yesterday afternoon by c-section at 2:35 and 2:36. Chloe was the first born, then soon after came Caroline. Caroline is the smaller of the two and is doing well. She is feeding off of her momma very well to me so little bitty. Chloe is on oxygen and a feeding tube. They are going to try to give her a bottle this afternoon, then try to let Barb feed her tomorrow. Little Miss Chloe loved her paci today, so I don't think she is going to have any problems when it comes to feeding! Here are some stats and pictures. More to come later.

Miss Chloe Jane Sims
June 7, 2009
5 lbs 4 oz
? inches
2:35 p.m.

Miss Caroline Jean Sims
June 7, 2009
4 lbs
17 .5 inches
2:36 p.m.

35 week pic

2009-06-04T06:37:00.001-07:00

Ok, this was really hard to post this pic b/c I really don't want people to see how HUGE my belly is, but b/c is just so freakish I figured I should share! It's a good thing my body has put on extra weight or I would probably fall over. Went to Dr. again this morning and Caroline I know for sure is going to be the red head,b/c she is transverse again instead of being head down, she is really doing to give me heart problems. I need her to move back to head down. Chloe has been head down on her side minding her own business for 3 months now. No, not Caroline, she is trying out every possible position each week! Keep praying that I can make thru this week and next to 37 weeks. I'm just really tired and I hurt everywhere and it feels like my tummy may just open up for them to come out thru what use to be my belly button.

Growing Girls!

2009-06-01T11:23:00.000-07:00

HI Everyone!
Today was measuring day! Chloe is now 5lbs and 5 ozs she gained a whole pound and 2 ozs, and Caroline is now 4lbs and 2 ozs she gained almost a whole pound, 14 ozs. I'm so excited they are growing more with just sitting with my feet up! Hopefully we will make it 2 more weeks for them to get to 6 and 1/2 and 5 and 1/2. That would be really exciting, and it would be 37 weeks, even more exciting for twins! Grow baby girls Grow!

Chloe and Caroline's Room

2009-05-22T12:13:00.000-07:00

The girls room is, for the most part, done~! Just need to separate more clothes and get them into the right size baskets. We have so many clothes for the girls it's crazy! And since I like things perfectly organized, the closet will need to be reorganized to make all the little baskets of clothes fit! All the cute dresses are hanging, but all the little knit clothes and onesies are being folded into baskets, one for each girl since they have so many matching outfits. I'm thinking that they will look nothing alike at this point, so the same outfits may be the only thing they have in common. On Monday Chloe measured 4lbs 3ozs and Caroline 3lbs 5 ozs, by 37 weeks they should be 6 and 5, that's what I'm hoping anyway. Not sure if we will make it much past that since twins avg 35.4 weeks for delivery. Next week is 34 weeks. Right now staying home has really helped the swelling, by mostly just keeping the feet up and mind reading. Robert put together my glider last night, and now the room feels so much smaller! Having 2 cribs really does take up a lot of space. But, now I can sit in my glider and sort and organize without having to stand. Can't wait for the girls to get here!

Bed Rest/ 2 vs 1

2009-05-19T13:25:00.000-07:00

OK, so it's been almost 2 full months since I've last updated! As you can see from the pic, I've been busy growing 2 little baby girls and of course working! Today is my second day on bed rest, which as you can probably tell from the yucky swelling in the pic I really needed. This is a picture of me and my friend Rachel. She is having her cute baby girl the same time we will be having the girls, and yes, their is a HUGE difference as you can tell from having 1 to having 2. If you can only imagine all the questions I would get from people while I'm out or just even walking thru Nordstrom to get to my office. Robert and I were as Sam's about 2 weeks ago, and he was shocked how many people stopped and wanted to comment or ask about the size of my stomach! At the check out was a lady, with only 3 weeks to go, when she found out I was having twins the strange look disappeared from her face. When we left he asked if this happened to me all the time. I said yes! And it really getting worse!
Pro's of bed rest: NO WORK, less swelling due to having feet up, able to update blog, reading books, and taking naps! Going to Dr/Drs 3 times a week is now an outing.
Cons' of bed rest: No work, yes, I am one of those control freaks that happened to love my job for the most part. Had to give my crackberry to my interim, and I don't get to see my friends who I share an office area with. Yesterday my 1st day at home, it was 9:20 and I was thinking, I bet Lexi and Jackie are going to the ebar to have coffee and I'm here at my house wishing I was going too!
Ok, enough of that, I will work on posting pics of the girls room, and more pics from my showers this week!

Chloe + Caroline womb pics!

2009-03-24T14:45:00.000-07:00

So, today we went back to the specialist and had the girls measured as usual! 1st Pic is of Caroline, and 2nd pic is of Chloe!

Chloe is 1lb and 9 oz (6 oz gain), and Caroline really caught up at 1lb 7 (8 oz gain)

Grow, babies grow, Mommy loves you!

More Shower Pics

2009-03-24T14:40:00.000-07:00

somewhat of a belly pic

Shower Pics

2009-03-24T14:32:00.001-07:00

This Sat, my friends had the best shower for me! It was so nice to see everyone! Thank you to all of you for throwing such a great shower with fabulous food and my new favorite: cake!

6 months belly!

2009-03-20T19:12:00.001-07:00

Hello everyone that has been bugging me to post a belly picture,

As you can see, I am huge. Therefore, there will not be a post for another month. Enjoy!

Love, Barbara

p.s. Though there won't be belly pictures, there will be more pictures to come.

2 Girls!!!

2009-02-09T15:40:00.000-08:00

Hello Everyone,
Yes, you read that correctly!2 little girls, Chloe and Caroline!
Go back in 2 weeks!

Belly getting Bigger! Much Bigger!

2009-02-06T17:14:00.000-08:00

Ok, this is for all of you that are just dying to see how HUGE my stomach is getting. I'm having to put my hands under my chest because my stomach curves out so much, so quickly! I feel like it is growing an inch each week, and my poor belly button feels like it is going to rip right out, not much more it can take before needs to make a decision on what it's going to do, flat or out! Anyway, that's all for now. Go to see the specialist on Monday, hopefully to find out what they are! Robert just loves taking these pictures!

Babies 1st Pics

2009-01-21T18:07:00.000-08:00

Here are the little cuties. Not the best pic, but one is on his/her back and the other is leaning over and hugging his/her brother/sister, at least that's what I like to think. Robert thinks they are already fighting in the womb, not a chance, right? Anyway, with 2 it's hard to get the both of them in the same pic, plus they were moving around a lot. One was waving it's little arm at one point!

Belly Picture!~

2009-01-21T17:43:00.000-08:00

OK, so here it is, a pic of my all of a sudden in the last 2 weeks BIG tummy. No, I'm not sticking it out, wish I was, there is just 2 cute little babies in there. Robert made me pull the shirt tight across my tummy so everyone could get the full effect. We went to the Dr. yesterday, hoping they may be able to tell us something of what the 2 cuties would be, but not till next time. The good news is from here on out we get to go see the specialist at the hospital for the special sonograms before we come to see our Dr. (There are some perks of having twins, free special sonograms where you can see everything about the babies!) Don't be surprised if you don't see weekly belly pics, being this big at only 4 months is very daunting!

Shocked!!!

2009-01-10T10:36:00.000-08:00

Hello Everyone,
Robert has been wanting kids since the day we were married. Actually, he started this whole need for kids when we started dating to tell the truth. This last year I finally gave into all the "when are we going to have kids" questions from Robert and promised him I would stop taking the pills at the end of July, thinking that we would not be pregnant for at least 6 months plus since all my other friends it took at least that long. Well as life would have it it took only 4 months. Our first trip to the Dr., he said, "well you are definitely pregnant", printed out a little pic with a dot on it. Then as I made it to the counter to do more paper work, he came over and joked that next time we came in we would get to find out how many we were having. With all the seriousness I would muster I looked him right in the eyes and asked him if there was anything on the pic to indicated there could be more than one. He said, on I'm just joking with you. What a good sense of humor he has I told myself, but not FUNNY. Then on our next visit he is checking my heart, and tells the nurse that my heart is strong enough to carry 3 babies, but we've never had 3 babies before have we. Then time for the tummy exam, he gets really quiet and says there's the 2nd one. A feeling of deep fear comes over me, he must just be joking again. HaHa. Then I look at the screen and see several things floating around in there. I ask the Dr. to make sure there are just 2. Those other things were there yoke sacks. Then the next thing I can think to say is, I hate you to Robert. Then, the Dr explains that twins are all on the mom and what her body does. Bla, Bla, Bla, not what I wanted to hear. And Robert is over there just Laughing, he thinks this is great! And is over the moon excited. Robert says the Dr left because I looked more than just a little upset. At the time I guess, shocked, upset, what in the world just happened here was on my face. I was just getting use to the idea that we would have A baby, but 2! WOW, now that's a blessing. Robert reminds me later that I would always joke about having twins because I don't like the idea of being pregnant, the fatness, the thought of having stretch marks, and not being in control of what is happening to my body, all, not on my to do list. So, since Robert wanted kids of his OWN, I use to think how great it would be to have twins to get it all knocked out in one shot. Apparently God took me seriously on that one, and here we are, pregnant with Twins!