I had my unofficial fathers day last year when jen was 6 months pregnant, but this is the real deal. Lifes so much different now with 2 kids, but I wouldnt change it. Its great being a dad. Taxing at times, but we survived the lack of sleep, and we’ve come to live with the fact we have next to no personal time now, but every time you look at Hailey or Tyler, you realize that its all worth it. They’re great kids, and its so fun watching them grow. They’re all smiles most of the time, and just feed off you or each other. You smile, they smile. You make a funny noise, they have to make a funny noise, etc.

For my first fathers day the kids got me some candy (they know me SO well already), oh yeah, and a new Sirius receiver for the car! Now that I’m back to driving alot it’ll be nice having that again. I miss it. Tyler must have picked it out. I’ve taught that kid well! (thanks Jen

Well my fathers day begins. 7am and Tylers already telling me he wants out of the crib. Thanks again for the gift kids. Mommy and I love you

Daddy

havent posted in a month. figured I’d throw out an update on how we’re doing.

its been nice around here the past month since the weather is breaking. the kids really love it outside in the fresh air, and we love it too since they sleep like rocks after a day outside. I’ve been taking them for walks just about every day I can. normally anywhere from 4-6 miles at a time, and we’ve been all over town too. their heads just crane everywhere looking at all the houses, cars, and people. we get so many stares around town. not many people have seen a guy pushing a stroller of 2 kids I suppose? but it helps me to slim up a bit, and it gets them fresh air, so its a win-win. Jen and I even walked them over to grandmas house last week to say hi.

we’ve been busy the past few weeks too. trying to get the house in order after a LONG winter. spring cleaning, and getting stuff ready for the town garage sale. last year there was 120+ houses involved in it.

other than that, not much going on. just enjoying the weather a bit and doing some work around the house. landscaping, working on the deck, etc. keeps us busy.

kids are 8 months now and getting BIG. both of them are well over 20# now and getting to be a handful. they love playing on the floor rolling around from one wall to another, and meeting in the middle to handfight w/ each other for a bit. Hailey is starting to ‘talk’ She’s been saying ‘daaa da’ for the past week now.

everyone that sees us walking around town w/ them has something to say about them. its like they’ve never seen twins before. but, everyone is nice. they always drive slowly around them as we’re rolling around town, or wave, or smile. I’m really glad we moved out this way, such nice people. Just wish it was a bit closer to shopping/groceries.

back to babying. 

Tyler was sitting on the couch w/ daddy watching baseball and he was getting asny. I gave him the remote to play with thinking what harm could it do.

I look back up on the comcast guide to see he is *ONE* click away from ordering Bent Over and Juicy 2. I’m going to assume that was NOT a cooking show!

me: !!!! 

I snatched the remote away just in time. Try explaining that one to a comcast rep on the phone. Um yeah, can you cancel that charge, my 7 month old ordered it. WHOOPS.

He’s starting young. Gonna have to keep an eye on that one!

Thanks for being such a great wife & an awesome mom. Its nice to know somebody always has my back and would do anything for our family.

Love you with all my heart!

Daddy

I guess its been about 3 weeks since our last post. I told myself too ‘once the kids get here I’ll post more’, but at least I’ve been better and broke out the video camera to catch some of these moments with them.

problem with that is, with two kids, timewise its hard to keep up with everything. its past midnight now, and that seems about the time to get this done. everyone is fast asleep minus me, couldnt sleep. my schedule is all jacked up since being REALLY sick friday night. my sleep and eating is all outta whack. but anyways, back to my point.

Wait, did I have a point? I ramble toooooo much. ok, so, point is, kids are doing GREAT. they’re about 4 1/2 months now, and growing like mad. they’re both about 15# now, and healthy as can be. not even a sniffle yet outta them. if I could say there was 1 problem, they are fart MACHINES!

But in all seriousness,  they’re great. We even saw today that Tyler has teeth starting to break through. his 2 front bottom teeth are starting to appear. Doesnt seem to be bothering him much just yet. Both kids have found out that they can make a *LOT* of noise now. Both are testing their lungs and screeching as loud as they can. They love to see it give us a raise, and we end up going ‘awwwwwww Hailey, Tyler, what are u doing?’ and then they give a huge smile.

The age they’re at right now is amazing. they can smile, grab their toys, give hugs (sorta), sit-up, rollover, bark… wait, scratch that, minus bark. They seem to recognize sights & sounds very well now, and react to them accordingly. Loud noises scare them, soothing voices make them smile, etc.

Other than that, all is the same with us.  Just waiting for the weather to break so Hailey & Tyler can meet their new friends since two of our neighbors had kids in the past 3 months too. 1 boy and 1 girl so they’ll each have at least 1 new friend!

Jen and I are doing well too, just a handfull trying to keep up on looking after monkey 1 & 2. They wear us, and just think, they havent even started crawling yet, OUCH

I just wanted to say thank you to my husband for being such a wonderful father!! I know times are hard for you right now and I am sure you are ready to take off your super dad hat…..and get back to work! but I just wanted you to know that I love you very much and appreciate everything you are doing for our family right now! The three of you are my inspiration and make me get through the day! So keeping it short and sweet I love you and our kids more than anything and I am blessed to be able to come home to you every day!

hugs & kisses,

mommy

p.s. to all the husbands and fathers who read this…even though we might be naggy sometimes….. your still our HERO!

So we’re 5 1/2 weeks into being parents, and it amazes you just how fast you pickup on things your kids like and dislike.

Both kids hate baths, but love their head shampoo’d and a towel around them. Both kids hate laying on their stomach but love laying across daddy’s stomach. Both kids love their feet massaged by mommy.

One Jen found out this week is, both kids love….. Barney the purple dinosaur? I guess Jen turned on Sprout Tv for them (kids channel) as they were laying down after a bottle yesterday. They were both facing away from the tv, but when the heard the music that they’re singing on that show, they BOTH turned their heads towards it. And today Jen had it on for them again, both kids, content. Then she turns it down so they can nap, walks away, WAHHHHHHHHHHHH Tyler starts singing. Turns it up a bit, *content again*. So there you have it, the Compton kids like Barney, so our big tv w/ full surround all ready for sports is now a dual purpose tv as a baby-calmer.

Oh, did I forget to mention that both kids also like to keep mommy and daddy up at all crazy hours of the night/morning? almost forgot that one as I nodded off…

Jen got to come home from gallbladder surgery sunday night. She’s still in a lot of discomfort, but VERY happy to be home w/ the kids again

She missed them, they missed mommy. Jen went to the dr today and he said she’s doing ok, but it will be a few weeks till most of the pain/cramping subsides. But she’s DEFINITELY a trooper, and me and the kids are glad she’s home and doing good.

Love you mommy

Dad, Hailey, & Tyler

the past 3+ weeks has been about taking care of the babies, this week its about taking care of mommy. Jen has been having some internal pains that we kinda contributed to her insides returning to their pre-baby spots, but come Thursday night, her discomfort was bad enough for a trip to the E.R. The doctors there ran blood work and utrasounds and came up with….. gallstones. Interesting. After reading more about it and talking with the doctors about it, it seems that pregnancy can trigger the gallbladder to not clear out like its supposed to. And the stones trying to be passed was what was giving her the discomfort.

Jen had a dr appt friday am and her dr said back to the hospital she goes. So we’re here, and they wanted 2 procedures for her. One to check out the bile ducts, and the other actual gallbladder removal. Procedure 1 just finished and her dr was very happy w/ the results and how it went, really encouraging. Tomorrow is the gallbladder surgery. Jen seemed to be more worried about the first procedure since 2 family members had gallbladder removal w/ no issues. Now that her procedure is done, and our comfort in her dr tomorrow with having done THOUSANDS of gallbladder removals, she will hopefully be on the road to full recovery, and back to no sleep with the kids at home

Thanks grandma and grandpa for all your help and for watching the kids while we’re here!!!

Jen & Mike

So the monkeys have been home with us for just about two weeks now. Its been both the most amazing and at the same time most physically taxing time for Jen and I in a long time.

As we try to get them on a schedule, they do good, then bad. It seems like they’ll be fine for a day, then the next 2 days they’ll be on complete opposite schedules. Even one of them keeps w/ a 3.5-4 hour feeding schedule, the other will decide at about 2 hours that they’re STARVING, like we’ve never fed them before.

We’ve yet to have them sleep through the night. They have no problem sleeping through the day though, so we try to get stuff done in the afternoon when they’re sleeping. But come nighttime, its seems like during/after their overnight feeding they wanna partttttttttttttttttttttttttttty. If they eat at 1am, they’ll be up and fussy till 3. I think I was up till almost 6am yesterday with Tyler. You cant get mad at him either. He’s such a cute kid. Hailey does the same to us too. She’ll be fine for days, and then 1 night she’ll pick to have a meltdown, and I mean MELTDOWN. Screaming to the point that she’ll almost be out of breath. It gets to you, but they just want to be held most of the time.

We’re getting used to them. They’re getting used to us. We know what they need and when they need it. Guess that’s what being a parent of newborns is all about.

Hailey seems to almost have doubled in weight (well not literally, but you can really tell she’s putting on the weight) Tyler is gaining too, but not at the same rate as her. That poor kid too, his sister got all the good stuff even when they weren’t born yet.

He’s probably going to not know his name either. It seems we have about 10 nicknames for him already. Bubba, Bubs, Squeaker, Popeye, Lil Brother, Ty, and probably 4 or 5 other ones that escape me at the moment. Most popular one is Bubs though. Hailey has her share too. Lil Momma, Big Sister, Chunky, etc

Ah well. Back to baby’in

Mike & Jen