Just a few of my faves...

DIANA

LILLY

NEW PICS IN THE GALLERY!

Auntie K comes to visit!

We had a great and busy weekend! Thursday we had a surprise visitor, KELLY, who was supp'd to come up on Fri. but her flight got diverted to Indy so we had her for an extra night! Lilly and Di think Auntie K is the funniest person they have ever met. I caught Lilly, Diana, Thomas and Lila scheming a way to move her back to Indiana. I think the words "kidnap" and "Darwin" were mentioned. Hmmm...? Friday night we hosted the 1st cook-out of the year, and despite the rain, it was a great success! Then a few of our favorite ppl came to visit us on Sat. - Tom, Cindy, Andy, Thomas and Lila. Thomas LOVED our mulch and could have played in it all day, everyday, for the rest of his life. The girls especially love when Tom and Cindy come b/c they know they will get extra stroller time! Later that day we had more of our favorite visitors - Randy, Beth, Kate, Anna and Meredith! They each wanted a piece of the girls and Anna was especially nurturing - she would pat Diana very gently every time she cried. Those 3 girls are just about the cutest things around. Matt left for a business trip today so this will be the first night I have alone with the girls (but THANKFULLY our night nanny will be covering the overnight shift!) Just my luck that for the 1st time ever, Diana seems to be over her finicky eating and random crying fits...but now Lilly seems to have picked it up! I guess that's the FUN part of having twins!! :)

We hate BOB!

To see how much the girls love their new jogging stroller, click here! (and put music on pause for full effect!) Luckily my memory card was full and only recorded a few seconds of this!

Mary Beth and Brian's wedding!

We headed to Columbus this past weekend for Mary Beth and Brian's wedding! Matt and I managed to conquer 6 hrs. of driving + many 3am and 5am feedings + several babysitters + bridesmaid and groomsman duties + many MANY ppl wanting to hold the girls + 2 late nights + several drinks each. The girls did GREAT the whole weekend and even today (the dreaded Monday after) don't seem to have any after-effects of the crazy weekend despite a schedule that was much different from the norm! But more importantly, the weekend was so much fun and all of the wedding festivities went by flawlessly (well, except for the absent band, the tire tracks on Mary Beth's dress, the bustle that never bustled and Carol's sprained ankle!) Mary Beth looked STUNNING! I hope to post pics soon! CONGRATULATIONS MARY BETH AND BRIAN!

Life is loaded with irony...

So here is my 1st post! I actually started this blog after we found out I was pregnant back in July, but it got sidetracked for multiple reasons; however, here was my 1st post and pic on that blog...

"My husband Matt and I are expectant parents of identical twin girls! We both come from large families with lots of cousins, nieces and nephews (and our very own beloved goldendoodle), but this will bring a whole new dimension to our lives - and we are THRILLED about it! I am due March 5 and hope to greet these little girls as close to that date as possible. Enjoy following along on our journey to parenthood - hopefully it will be a very boring one!"

The irony of seeing that I once thought my journey to parenthood would be 'boring' almost makes me fall to the floor in laughter. Boring I think not...there was 13 weeks of agonizing morning sickness, weekly appts. with our MFM (our baby specialist), several medical scares (incl. baby B having a single umbilical cord, a specialist from Riley having to perform an echocardiogram on both babies, and the constant concern of twin to twin transfusion looming in our minds), modified bedrest for many months, hospitalized bedrest for a week, restricted bedrest at home with monitors that controlled my every-10-minute contractions, 12 lbs of babies in my belly, and finally a regular check-up w/my OB that led her to say, "you are having babies today." I was 36 weeks and 4 days along. But the obvious missing piece of my 'boring' journey was the death of my dad on Dec. 8 and 2 1/2 weeks later on Dec. 26, the death of my mom...both to cancer...2 months before I delivered my baby girls. Lillian (Lilly) Jane was named after my dad, Larry Jerome, and my mother-in-law, Carol Jane. Diana Madelyn was named after my mom, Dianne Magdalene. (Sidenote: my mom did have a wish that I NOT use her middle name Magdalene because she hated it! So we changed it to Madelyn. It's a good thing Grandma Burger will never read this blog!) Miraculously, Lilly and Diana were healthy beautiful angels that brought our family great joy at a time of great sadness. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't wish my parents could have met them, but there also isn't a day that goes by that I am not thankful that these girls are healthy and thriving. I can't wait until they are old enough one day and I can tell them what true miracles they are. :)

And so it seems our lives have not become any less boring today...let me present a recap of our afternoon here at the Bajorek household...the girls' 2 month check-up with the pediatrician was at 3:45pm (according to our calendar which was recorded by Matt - keep that in mind as I proceed), so after a quick double-feeding, double diaper change, and 2 kids in the carseats, Matt comes home right as I receive a call from the pediatrician that our appt. was actually at 2:45...and we were late. She was not kind, but in the end after asking me 3 times how long it will take for us to get there, she said if we hurried we could still come in. So we load up the girls and Matt searches for the keys. And searches for the keys. And searches for the keys. No keys. Anywhere. Matt blames me, I blame Matt. So after a 10 minute search w/no success, I call the pediatrician's office and tell her that apparently we won't make it in time b/c we can't find our keys and according to her threat, we had to be there in 15 min. So we have to reschedule. And their next open date is....May 17...one month away. Are you kidding me? There is not ONE open spot in the next MONTH for our premature newborn twins?! Apparently not. Am I allowed to say 'pissed' on a blog? So I get in Matt's car, leave the girls in Matt's capable hands, and head to the grocery store until I realized I had no money, so instead I go to the nearest church parking lot and take in a HUGE deep breath. Feeling much better, I go home, get the girls in the stroller and head out the door. I can tell Matt's still looking for the keys. But we don't speak to each other - the "Burger pout" is on full display. When I get back from our stroll, there is a tow truck in our driveway towing away my car. Huh? Apparently lost keys = tow truck? Dumbfounded, but whatever...Matt and I still don't speak and I don't ask him why the heck he decided to call a tow truck. I decide to search for keys, and what do you know, there they are, on the table, in the kitchen, steps away from where we usually keep them, so I throw them (gently of course) across the table so Matt sees them, although still unable to speak. However, now our car is at the Infiniti dealership and our rescheduled 2-month pediatrician appt. is now our 3-month appt. Meanwhile the girls were fussy throughout all of this. After I found the keys I went upstairs, 5 minutes later Matt came upstairs, and we both started laughing so hard we couldn't stop. If only we had the appt. time right. Oh the joys of parenthood!!