Today July 1, 2010 marks a milestone for the "little kids", they officially got thier very last bottle tonight. We have continued with a toddler formula once a day, in a bottle, before bed and I bought a bunch at Target when it was on sale this last spring, and today I made the last 3 bottles. They have been accustomed to pulling out thier own bean bag to lay on when drinking thier bottle and as happy as I was to have them say bye bye bottle and then throw them away it was bitter sweet because now that means they are getting a little bigger and really are not babies any more.
In the begining we had volunteers come out to help feed the babies, Mom - Fri every 3 hours starting at 9AM until the 6PM feeding. But we had times when there were not any voluteers and we got creative.
Sometimes Alexis would help!!
We would make up a days worth of bottles and go through 21 bottles a day. 8 feedings, those middle of the night feedings were crazy.
We would go through alot of formula in a week. It would get up to 1 big can every day, these were small cans and the preemie formula was quite expensive, but this is what we had to use to make sure they would get all of the nutrients they needed.
We got really good at propping bottles and feeding while entertaining the big kids. :)
I was up with the over night feeding and Don would do the 9PM and 12AM feeds and I would be up at 3AM to start my day. I would do the 3AM and 6AM feed alone and then every Mon-Fri at 9AM Sue C would arrive and we would have folks come out at 12PM, 3PM & 6PM. from Novemeber 2008 - April 2009, I really LOVE each and every person that came out.
Here they are at 11 months old (if you correct for prematuraty they were only 8 months old). They were doing so well holding those bottles.
Here they are today enjoying that very last bottle. They each pulled out a bean bag and enjoyed thier last bottle. When they were done I said to them "Say bye bye bottle" and Bridgette waved and said "bye bye baba". And I threw the bottle away. :)
In 2 months and 4 days they will be 2 years old, where did the time go?????
These are pictures from her first game, and briefly she was kicking the ball so excitedly down the field, no one was trying to get the ball from her as I was yelling "kick it the other way". Well she has that figured out now. Wish I had the video camera going, what a fun moment to remember.
Below she is on defense, you'll notice that she did not have her soccer socks on in most of these pictures, well we could not find them when we left the house. But thankfully Daddy came to the rescue and made a pit stop at Target on his way to the game, can you believe they had pictures after the first game??
