2012 Holidays Part 1

We were lucky enough to be able to spend the holidays with our families in Utah. We went up to St. George for Thanksgiving and spent the holiday with my family. We had the big dinner at my parents house with my parents, all my siblings, and nieces & nephews. My brother Nick announced that him and his wife Morgan are expecting their first baby! I am excited for Emma and Adelyn to have more cousins to play with on the Wilson side. Emma and Adelyn are grandchild # 5&6 on the wilson side and # 20&21 on Andrew's side of the family. Baby boy wilson is due to make HIS arrival the middle of July. Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures of the girls first Thanksgiving. They were 5 1/2 months. After Thanksgiving Andrew had 2 weeks of Finals so I stayed in St. George with Emma and Addie so I could get some help with the babies while Andrew went back to Vegas to finish up his semester. A few days after Thanksgiving my Grandma passed away so I took the girls up to northern Utah for her funeral with my parents. It was a beautiful funeral. My dad and two of his sisters sang a song for their mom. 

Excuse the poor quality. My Dad playing the quitar & singing and his two sisters singing. 

Since the girls are preemies I was terrified of them getting sick. I am sure I offended some people this past winter and I am sorry if I offended you but I had to do what I had to do to keep my girls as healthy as possible. After spending the first month of their lives in the NICU I was determined to not end up there again. I am so happy to say that I made it through the winter with the girls catching only a few minor colds and a few ear aches. Before Andrew finished finals the girls both caught a cold. Emma seemed to get over it alright, but Addie had a hard time with it. Having sick babies is such a guessing game. I was scared of waiting too long before having the girls checked out when they were sick, but I didn't want to be the panicked mom who goes to the ER every time her kid sneezes. I ended up taking Adelyn to the ER in St. George one weekend because she had a bad cold and I was worried about her ears and breathing. Here are some pictures from her first trip to the ER.

Hiding in the clean car seat while waiting in the waiting room

Waiting for the Doctor. Of course she starts acting better right before the Dr. shows up.

Grandma Wilson cuddling her two little sick girls

This is the first time Emma fell asleep without being cuddled or swaddled. She was sick and so tired. She fell asleep in the middle of playing with her zebra toy. 

Handing out in their bouncers. They loved to sit like this and just look at each other. So cute!

The ER visit turned out to be ok. Adelyn only had a cold and fluid in her ears... Oh the guessing games of sick babies. Once Andrew finished finals he came back up to St. George. We packed up all of our stuff and the two girls and we drove up to Salt Lake to spend a few weeks with Andrews family.

We met their new cousin Sara. She was born in November and Emma (on the left) & Addie (on the right) are 5 months older than her. My poor little girls are so little!

Adelyn fell asleep on Andrews lap. This was one of the first times she fell asleep not swaddled. I love these two so much!

The girls were 6 months and not mobile yet. I could set them down anywhere and they would be there when I got back. I was super surprised one day when I set Adelyn in her car seat while I ran upstairs real quick to grab my bag and when I got back I found her like this! This was the end of being able to take my eyes off of the girls for a second. I leave them alone for one minute and they roll out of things and roll around the ground to where they want to go.

She's mobile!... well kind of.

Look at those blue eyes! Little miss Adelyn eating some rice

Playing with Daddy

Well this is a long enough post. To be continued.