Another week in the life

It has been a fairly normal week with the exception of my first Fathers Day. The girls continue to progress, learn new things and get cuter. They also occasionally still try to kill us also though. Reagan has a tooth about to poke through and that makes her a bit grumpy every now and then. Riley is very close to crawling and holding her own bottle. They sleep through the night about 1-2 times a week and the other days they still get up anywhere from 2-4am for a bottle. Reagan is babbling all the time. I have no idea what she is saying but she thinks it is very important. Riley can be made to laugh with funny faces and voices at almost anytime. Reagan often looks at Riley and starts laughing for no reason. Riley must be a very funny girl, or at least sissy thinks so. Every week holds something new. I hope this weeks newness is a good nights sleep. And so it continues.

Welcome home

I just returned from a 3 day trip to Chicago. I was busy the whole time I was gone but sure did find time to miss all my girls. At first I was not sure if I was going to make it to Chicago at all. We took off Wednesday at 7:30 and at about 7:50 the captain said that we were returning to Pittsburgh with a mechanical problem, something about the landing gear not retracting. He said that there were no safety concerns though. As we were landing there were fire trucks on the runway waiting for us and a firefighter got on the plane when we got to the gate. We never did find out what happened but we were stuck at the Pittsburgh Airport until 4:30 that afternoon. When I got home today the girls acted like I was never gone but at least Andrea and Booboo were excited to see me. Andrea and the dog were sick while I was gone but between the two of them they took good care of the girls. I took this video of Reagan talking to Booboo when I got home. I am looking forward to my first Fathers Day.

6 month birthday

Yesterday was the girls 6 month birthday. Grandma Gregg put together cupcakes, presents and gift bags for the other neighborhood kids and of course we had to sing to them. I can not believe that it has been six months since Andrea and I sat in the waiting room at Magee waiting to be called in to the Operating Room to meet Reagan and Riley. Since then they have tried to kill us through sleep deprivation hundreds of times. I estimate we have gone through about 2200 diapers, over 6000 baby wipes and made about 2400 bottles. They have been kissed and hugged thousands of times and only sent us to the brink of a mental meltdown a few times. Andrea and I have worked as a team throughout the process and as I knew would be the case she is the best mother ever. They both now can roll over and laugh and giggle constantly. They think that momma is hysterical and Andrea has turned into a "baby whisperer". Sometimes she can just sense what they need while I am baffled as to what the cause of the current implosion is. I am looking forward to seeing what the next 6 months has for us. I am sure there will be many more meltdowns, sleepless nights and super stinky diapers to change but I sure am having fun.

Sunday morning wrestling match

Buy 2 get 1

We go through what seems like a ridiculous amount of diapers, butt wipes and formula. So, when we saw last week that Babies R Us was having a buy 2 get 1 free on the formula we use Andrea hit the road to stock up. Unfortunately she found only 3 on the shelves at the Cranberry store and our intention was to by 3-4 cases not 3 containers. They are $16 each and as I said we go through lots. As I was about to accept defeat she had an idea. She called Toys R Us and they had a bunch and said they would honor the Toys R Us discount. So this picture is not of a store room at some warehouse it is our basement. I just hope they get used before the expiration date.