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