Thanksgiving 2007

We had a nice day with the babies at Travis' Mom's house here in San Carlos. It was sort of nice to be local and not deal with any traffic at all. But...we did have to pack it up just for the day!
Boy - with babies - there is a lot of stuff to haul around!




We have been introducing solid food to the babies for a couple of weeks now. Teagan loves it - Wyatt is not so sure. So I decided on Thanksgiving it would be the perfect day to give them sweet potatoes. I wanted to make sure they got their own little Thanksgiving feast!



Teagan and Wyatt have really started to notice one another in the last two weeks. They will sit there and stare at each other waiting for the other one to smile. Then once one smiles - they will smile back. They are really just bonding ya know?!


These are some of my favorite outfits for the babies. You should know - later that day - Teagan took full advantage of her saying and had a massive blow out. I guess I asked for it by putting her in the outfit!




This is Teagan in the middle of what we call Baby Olympics. She is doing the "Door Bouncer". She can sit in this thing for at least 20 minutes. Just dangling...drooling...and chewing on it.



This is Wyatt just hanging out and being Wyatt. He is so much fun when he smiles because he smiles with everything - his whole body smiles. He looks more and more like Travis every day...but Wyatt is quickly getting more hair than Travis!

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

Love you.

21 Weeks - Five Months - Today

Well - we made it. We are now into the fifth month. Whew. Things are going really well - honestly - we are now into somewhat of a routine that is working. I am finally relieved that I know what each day holds. I have routine and predictability. Wahoo! In the world of twins: you gotta love routine.

Our days have pretty much followed the same schedule for the last few weeks:
6:45 AM Wyatt is awake
7:00 AM Teagan gets woken up
7:15 AM Babies eat...Mommy makes coffee...babies play after eating
9:00 AM Babies go down for their first nap of the day
9:45 AM Babies wake up
10:00 AM Babies eat for the second time
Baby Olympics
11:45 or Noon Babies go down for their second nap
12:45 PM Babies Wake up
1:00 PM Babies eat again!
2:30 or so Babies go down for another quick nap
3:30 Babies wake up
4:00 Babies eat for the fourth time
More Playing
5:00 Last nap of the day - this one is quick
5:30 PM Wake up and the nighttime ritual begins
Bath
Jammies
Nightime Bottle
6:30 - 7:00 PM BEDTIME

So everyday, this is what we do.

Teagan is doing great. The little girl is a champion sleeper and eater! She is sleeping at least 11 - 12 hours at night and does her naps during the day. She eats a ton during the day - usually 7 oz. a feeding. She sucks on her fingers constantly as she has begun teething. I swear she tries her best to get both her fists in her mouth at the same time! She has also found her thumb and often times at night and for her naps we find her sucking her thumb. Really cute.

Wyatt is such a happy little baby now that we have gotten his reflux under control. He smiles all the time - and when he smiles he smiles with his whole body. It is so cute. He has also starting rolling over. This is really cute during the day - but not so fun at 2:00 o'clock in the morning when he rolls over from his tummy to his back and wakes up in a panic because he doesn't know how to sleep on his back. Yes - our babies are tummy sleepers now. :-) Wyatt can almost make it through the night. He wakes up around 3 AM to eat and then goes right back to sleep. We also decided to get his birthmark on his nose treated with a laser treatment from the dermatologist so that is starting to fade a little bit too. Mostly though - Wyatt is such a "mini-me" form of Travis that it is a little crazy.

Here are our latest pictures.

We hope everyone has a nice Thanksgiving and enjoys the time off.

Love - Travis and Susan

16 Weeks.....Whew!

Hi Everyone,

Can't believe it has been six weeks since I last posted. The days just go by in a blur for me...The only way that I know it is actually a new day - and that they year is progressing - is the changing weather. It is so nice to see a change of weather. I know - I know. Most people hate the rain - but it is a welcome change for me!

So we actually are settling into some kind of routine these days. Our days usually start around 6 or 7 am. Wyatt is usally up first to eat then Teagan (that girl is a sleeper!) Generally they eat - then hang out and do "Baby Olympics" (details below) then go down for an 45 minute to an hour nap. Get up - do the whole thing over again until around 7:00 pm when they go down for the night. Well, Teagan goes down, Wyatt usally gets back up to hang out with Mom and Dad one more time.

Our routine everyday is a term Travis coined called Baby Olympics. We rotate the kids on various different things in the house. We have the following events:

Crib Mobile

Crib Mirror

Bumbo Chairs

Baby Einstein on TV (yes I put my kids in front of the TV at four months....Bad Mom!)

Bouncy Chair

Floor Mat

Tummy Time

Swing

Each baby excels at different events. Teagan loves to watch Baby Einstein in her bumbo chair - Wyatt hates Tummy Time but loves his bee mobile in his crib. So whenever they are in an event and they start to get cranky - we try a different event! Moving along in Baby Olympics! :-)

They just had their four month check up and everyone is doing great! Teagan is now 25 inches long and weighs 15 pounds 3 ounces. Wyatt is 24 inches long and weighs 13 pounds 1 ounce. Both babies got a clean bill of health and are developmentally where they need to be.

It has been so exciting over the last six weeks to see them grow and turn into little beings. They have both started smiling back at us - they both have started to "coo" and talk to us. It is so neat to see them react to us. Now the race is on....I keep repeating to them "Mommy" and Travis keeps repeating "Dad Da". We will see who says what first.

Wyatt got diagnosed with acid reflux when he was just 9 or 10 weeks old. So it has been a challenge dealing with that and his feeding. But it looks like we finally got that under control and he has been such a happy baby in the last two weeks. He now eats every three hours with his sister - which means we are down to about 12 or 13 feedings a day instead of the 20 that we used to be at. Gives mommy a little more time during the day to eat, go to the bathroom, brush my teeth, etc. What a relief.

We took a couple of outings in September and October. We went to my parents ranch for the weekend. That was nice. Then we did the annual trip with our friends (MC Weekend) to Russian River. That was pure caos - with six kids under the age of 6 and our two babies - but we had a good time. Hey - we are getting out - going places - trying to remain social. We can't go completely suburbia on everyone can we?!

Well, we didn't get any donations for our night nanny. So we are having to let her go. Come November we will be on our own. Which is OK. Teagan is a champion sleeper and Wyatt is starting to do longer stretches himself. So we will be OK. It is just sad....sniff....sniff.... Kidding. We will be OK without our wonderful Nanny Christa - but she will be missed.

As always. We are here. If you are local - feel free to drop by!

Warmly,

Susan and Travis

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

10 Weeks

OK - OK - So it has been a month since we last posted! Geesh. I can't believe how fast time goes. Things are crazy busy...in fact it doesn't seem like a month has gone by to us - seems like a week or so since I last posted! :-)

At this point in our lives, we are sort of wondering what we did to ourselves. LOL

We used to go out to dinner with friends, go fun places on the weekends, hang out in the backyard on warm summer nights and drink beers with the dogs. Now we often wonder: Are the dogs still there? Are our friends going to remember us when we are ready to be social again? Will we remember how to drink beer casually on a warm summer night?! OK - maybe that last one was a dumb question. But you get the point.

The babies had their two month check up last week where they got their first round of immunizations. On a positive note they are both 100% healthy. We always appreciate a clean bill of health. The Dr. said whatever we are doing is working. Wyatt did not like the shots at all. He had a fever for a day and a half and was super cranky. We gave them Tylenol and that made Teagan sleep for 8 hours that night. :-) We like that. Can we use that every night?!

Teagan now weighs 11 pounds 12 ounces and is in the 75% for weight. She is definitely on track with singleton babies. She is such a little chunk. All belly that girl. She has little fat rolls on her legs and arms. She smiles at us all the time and has started to "coo" at Mommy and Daddy. So fun. She even rolled over from her tummy to her back with Daddy during one of her "Tummy Time" sessions.

Wyatt is still our little man. He is weighing 9 pounds 5 ounces which is more in line with twin growth. Considering he came home from the hospital weighing less than a pound of suger - we are pleased with his growth. Wyatt has also started to smile, but a little less often. He is proving to be quite the serious little baby. So when you get a Wyatt smile - consider yourself lucky!

We went out to dinner the other night at Stanford shopping center. Outdoor seating with the big 'ol double stroller. It was pretty funny. But the kids were great and slept the entire meal. First meal out with the babies - check.

We also went on our first big outing last weekend. A friend of Travis' has a photography studio in Santa Rosa. So we packed up the babies and went to the studio to take photographs. It was a long day - we didn't get home till 7:30 pm. But we had a good day and got some great shots.

Oh - I didn't get any takers on the accepting donations offer to keep the night nanny. Don't worry - the polls are still open - we are still accepting donations - call now. I can check with my accountant to see if it is tax deductable.


Love,
The Goodrich Foursome

Monday, August 6, 2007

6 Weeks Today

OK - OK - so it has been harder than I thought to update our blog - we have been a little busy these days! We are surviving - but it has been a haze - and the days seem to run into one another....

Things have been great and both babies are doing really well. The ultimate test is gaining weight - if both babies are gaining weight - you know you are doing a good job! Teagan is now just over 9 lbs and Wyatt is just over 7 lbs. Wyatt has some catching up to do - as his sister is quite hungry since she got home. :-) But he is doing great considering he came home from the hospital at 4 lbs 6 oz and is now over 7 lbs five weeks later. Today they are officially 6 weeks old. Whew. I can't believe it. In some ways it seems like such a long time - and in other ways it seems like just yesterday that I went into the hospital.

We are amazed at how much trash our household now produces. Our trash can is full every week - to the brim. We go through at least 25 diapers a day. We go through about 20 bottles a day. We do about a load of laundry once a day - just for the babies. We go through at least two outfits a day for each baby - that is at least 4 outfits a day. We empty the Diaper Genie about every day and half. We can't even go two days on the diaper genie - it gets too full! eekkk...

Travis and I have a competition going: we compete to see who gets the poopiest diaper. We compare them by counting how many wipes it takes to clean the babies bottom. So it is normally a two or three wipe poopy diaper. But the other day Travis won the gold medal when he changed Teagan at 2:00 am in the morning - he got a 15 wipe diaper. Let me spare you the details but just say this: we were so surprised that so much could come out of such a little baby!

We have also invented the extreme sport of "Burping". We compete to see who can get the most or the loudest burps out of the baby we are burping. Teagan can really let out some truck driver level burps! But Wyatt is defintely the loudest baby - he makes noises no matter what he is doing. He constantly grunts and groans while he is sleeping - very cute during the day - not so much at night when you are listening to him on the monitor though!

Our day is pretty much the same - no matter what day it is. We are on a three hour feed cycle. We start about 6:00 am with the morning feed. Travis usually takes this feed - and lets me sleep till he gets them down around 7:30 am. It takes about 1/2 hour to feed each baby - change them - burp them - and get them down. Then you start in with the other baby. So a complete cycle takes about two hours. Then you have about an hour (if all goes well) to yourself until it starts all over again. So I take over for the 9:00 am feeds until he gets home - then we trade off for the rest of the night. Monday/Wednesday and Saturdays are bath nights. That is the entertainment for the evenings. Travis left this morning and said: "I will see you for bath night." Fun right? We used to go out to dinner with friends - now we have bath nights! :-)

We do have help - my Mom comes on Wednesdays and my mother in law comes on Tuesday and Thursday and any other day we need her. Which lately has been often! We also hired a night nanny three nights a week. She comes at 10 pm and leaves at 6 am. She is our saving grace. We get no sleep the nights she isn't here and sleep the nights she is here. So at least we are sleeping three nights a week - that helps. I am accepting donations to keep the night nanny past 8 weeks...!

Life with a newborn (or two) as many of you know is quite challenging. You just want them to be sleeping, quiet and full because that means they are content. And a content baby (or two) means the household is peaceful. This is what we strive for - but doesn't always happen. :-) We understand that in a couple of weeks they may start smiling - which I am sure will make it all worth it. We can't wait for that. We also can't wait until they start going to a 4 or 5 hour feed cycle. That will be super nice. Maybe I will be able to get a little more done throughout the day besides just feeding and diapering?

For now - the current "look Daddy" event is when they hold their heads up on their own for a few seconds and look around. Exciting stuff right?! It is the coolest thing though - to see your baby start to do things they couldn't do before - and know that they are starting to turn into little beings. Little people - not just do-dads as I call 'em.

OK - well - I have to go get ready for the 3pm feed cycle. I will try to update more often and post pictures more often. But in the meantime - enjoy. And if you are local - feel free to drop by and hold a baby!

Susan

Monday, July 16, 2007

THE BAND IS BACK TOGETHER!

7/16/07 was homecoming for the Goodrich family. Teagan came home, joining her little brother Wyatt, which has made a new mother and father very happy!

Teagan has kicked any signs of prematurity and is a healthy little girl, weighing in at 6 lbs. 9 ounces. Her brother Wyatt is doing everything he can to catch up and is up to 4 lbs. 15 ounces and gaining every day.

This is the first picture of them together....Mommy waited a very long time - and sometimes not so patiently - to see this picture. Now it all seems real. Seeing them together in their crib makes us realize why we endured all that we did - to make our dream come true.

Let the mayhem begin!! :-) We hear we will go through around 30 diapers a day - 28 bottles a day - and a least one load of laundry a day. So we will let you know if that actually happens - or if it is all an urban "twin" myth.

Love,
The Goodrich's

PS. We know - we know. We are trying to get them on a schedule!! :-)

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

They are here!

As the proud parents of two adorable little newborn babies - we would like to take a moment to share with you - the arrival of:

Teagan May Goodrich
6 Lbs
18 1/2 Inches
Born June 25, 2007 @ 8:18 am

Wyatt Clinton Goodrich
4 Lbs 12 Oz
18 Inches
Born June 25, 2007 @ 8:19 am

The babies were delivered via c-section at Sequoia Hospital here in San Carlos. Both babies are doing great. Wyatt was called a "Hearty Lad" by his Irish nurse in the hospital - and we think that suits him perfectly because although he is l ittle - he is hearty. He is perfectly healthy and was able to "room in" during the hospital stay which meant he was with us in our room the entire time. Although we saw the dreaded "Mir conium" diaper - the nurses all changed those! :-) But don't fret - lots of diaper changing going on now!

Teagn was born first as Baby A. I was so relieved to hear her wailing once they got her out. It finally became a little more real for us at that point that yes, in fact, we were actually becoming parents. Teagan was born very healthy - but her lungs were not yet ready to be out in the real world just yet. She was way too comfortable in the womb thank you very much! I can hear her now! :-) As a result she is spending some time down at Lucille Packard Children's Hospital in their nursery while she continues to develop. We go visit her every day. We are not sure when she will be home - but when she does get home - Betty bar the door because she is a feisty one!

Life since we got home on Friday has been nothing short of hectic. Duh right? But we are coping and taking it day by day right now - one feeding and diaper change at a time.

We love you,

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