Whew!

I am so excited to have 5 minutes to spare before my bedtime! I still have laundry to be done, dishes to be put up, etc. but it can wait. I miss all my blogger friends. I confess... I have not been reading your blogs people, but it is not because I don't want to. For example, my hubby is standing behind looking over my shoulder waiting for the computer. I have been on it now 2 minutes:) Granted, he is trying to research a few cars before an auction tomorrow. Have I mentioned how awesome he is??? No really, he isn't even standing there anymore... I really do think that he is:)

Update on us: ( and then tomorrow, I promise, maybe I will catch up on you guys!)
Henry and Charlie are great, gaining weight inspite of nursing woes. Hopefully that will improve in the next few days because right now my life consists of what the lactation gurus call triple feeding... nurse, feed them a supplement (45 minutes) and THEN pump for 15 minutes. It occured to me that this was insane to attempt!!! I mean, I should not even be driving right now I am so tired. :) So, I tried just pumping while they take their bottles in the middle of the night so I could get back to bed within 30 minutes. Genius! Then I was telling my friend of the triple feeding nightmare that was going on during the day. " oh, I am not sure I can handle this much longer... my kids need me, my husband needs me, my teeth need me (to be brushed, ya know?) " She says, "Why don't you so the pumping while bottle feeding routine during the day also, until they are strong enough to nurse and get enough milk from that alone?" Why don't I? Well, I will tell you why I don't... because that would be TOO SIMPLE!!!! So, thanks to my dear smart, well rested friend... life has gotten easier over the past few days. Hence the blogging...

Okay, the ramble has gone on long enough and my 5 minutes are up. Off to laundry, dishes and maybe a bowl of cereal with Blanch, Dorothy, Rose, and Sophia. I have been loving me some Golden Girls and Multi-Grain cheerios every night. Thanks DVR!!

Our Boys Are Here

Henry on the left... Charlie on the right.

Charlie

Big brother and little brothers!

Hey there! Here are a few pics of our beautiful baby boys! They arrived on July 10th at 1:16p.m. and 1:18p.m. Henry Davis Smith weighed 6lbs 1 oz. and Charles "Charlie" Rhymer Smith weighed 5lbs 1 oz. We are all doing really well. We are delighted to have them here and even in these sleepless days and nights... we are so thankful and already in love with these two! They are so sweet.  

Also, tomorrow is my oldest 6th birthday! 6 years years ago about this time (10:00 pm) I started having my first labor contractions ever. I was 1 week overdue and I still wasn't sure I was really in labor. About an hour later... I was sure! I had never felt any pain like it before! But, I was so excited to be meeting our first little one that I did not care about the pain. I think it is interesting that 6 years later... here we are sitting up with our TWIN newborns!  5 boys in 6 years... how amazing! I would not change anything about it.

Happy Birthday Jackson!

Happy Fourth!

The dad took the boys (except for the two in utero!) to the July 4th celebration in our town. I love living in a smaller community. It was right down the road from our house, so I could actually see the fireworks from the window. It was really cool. I know the boys had an awesome time! D.S. (2 yrs. old) kept calling the fireworks rain. "that rain daddy? that rain??" He finally learned that they were fireworks. The first thing he said the next morning... "too loud, momma, pirechorks too loud..." Thanks Ardria for sending these pics. I missed you guys!!!

Typical boys! They found a snail and just knew I wanted it to keep on my dresser. Finally, I talked them into leaving it outside. I felt sortof defenseless being confined to my chair outside. Thank goodness it was only a snail. Then, yesterday, their cousins came over to visit. We had a house full of 5 boys. I kept watching them, thinking, this is what I will have in a few short years. I love it! They were very into killing flies that had gotten into the house. Then, as they were leaving, my oldest says to my sister-in-law, " I tell you what I am going to do... I am going to kill a fly for yall and put it in a piece of paper and then send it to you so that way you can have a dead fly." He was so serious. I told her, don't worry, we won't let him mail you ANY dead animals or insects. Hilarious!!!

Funny story...

I was talking to my 4 year old while his brother were outside. We had a rare few minutes of one-on-one time. Here is the conversation we had...
me: Who made you?
K: God
me: Do you know how much He loves you?
K: How much?
me: A LOT
Me: What did Jesus do while He was on this earth?
K: healed people and died on the cross

then a long pause and while I was waiting to hear what else he would say... he says,
"Mommy.... but why did Jesus get hammered??"

I busted out laughing for some reason... I tried not too, but he was so serious. I love his innocence. The phrase getting hammered to him means getting hammered ( as in nailed to the cross) I regained my composure and we talked some more about it. But, I was still laughing later as went outside to play. I love having kids!

One big momma

To all you wonderful people who keep telling me that I am not fat, etc, etc... I know you are mistaken, but keep it coming!!! Isn't this a sweet moment though?? If I could crop out my face:) And this is one of the better looking pics of me these days!

Other than my growing bigger everyday... everything is the same with the babies here on the outside. 35 weeks and 3 days... woohooo! Every night before I go to bed I think, " I wonder if tonight will be the night." Here is my thought process pretty much every night.... I wonder if tonight I will go into labor... I did just have one contraction...I forgot to pack my bag..again...oh, and I forgot to write down the number of my in case I go into labor in the middle of the night friend. ( I lost her number when we bought a new phone)... and we don't have the co-sleeper (bassinet) set up...there goes another contraction.... at least I had a shower...Did I shave???... oh wait, I didn't shave because I can't reach past my knees...I hope that we have enough gas in our car...Tomorrow I am going to... 

The next thing I know, it is like 2 am and Jason is elbowing me, waking me up to tell me I am snoring. GOOD TO KNOW WHILE I AM SLEEPING!!!  I really think between that and the bathroom trips I am up at least 4-5 times a night. God is preparing me for when these babies get here. I can hardly wait!!! yeeeeeeeee

The Screwtape Letters

I am reading C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters. It is messing with my mind! I would never have picked it out, but Jason got it to read and I have read all the Amish books we checked out... so I had to try something new. Do you ever notice how if you do something a lot during the day, then you dream about it at night. How annoying! I jsut want to sleep without dreaming about Amish people or Mr. Wormwood and Screwtape.

Seriously, the book was hard to get into, everything is reversed because it basically is a bunch of letters (fictional of course) written between 2 devils. It makes you look at how you think of things and do things in a new light. It kind of gives you an insight into all kinds of silly traps we humans tend to fall into.

Am I boring you yet?