Often my son Ethan likes to watch northway church videos.. Message intro videos, music .. he just loves music and he can’t get enough. he straps on his guitar pulls up is mic and sings and strums along.. often he will play the same song over and over again… which actually makes me crazy sometimes.. But his song for today was “Run” by hillsong.. it’s one we’ve sung often at northway church the past few months.. but it’s one of my favorite song we do.
Every time i hear it or sing it, i’m reminded that God meets us where we are.. that He had us on His mind before creation and that He conquered the grave to bring us freedom.. not the kind of freedom that may first pop in our mind “national freedom, the great outdoors freedom, or not being in prison freedom.. But the freedom from what “really” holds us down.. (pride, selfishness, hate, jealousy)…. sin.
I can’t believe it’s been a week ! it’s only seemed like a couple days since we brought Joshua and Micah home. Most likely because we have a task of some sort to do every moment. Feeding, burping, changing, washing, cleaning the babies.. and then trying to show as much attention as possible to Ella and Ethan. the kids are still trying to grow accustom to the boys being home and them taking up so much of their world… Ella has been good for the most part. Ethan has had some good bouts of jealous behavior but it’s only narmal.
Their appetites have been changing drastically over the past few days. we’ve up’d their quantity a bit because they were waking up 45 minutes before feeding time screaming for some food !!!
It’s still feels so awesome to get up at night and feed them (even if it’s the 3am feeding) But i can definitely say, i can’t remember the last time i was more tired then i am right now.
The days are flying by. Joshua and Micah are really loving being home. they are eating like crazy.. but the burping thing is a little tricky. they have 3 hour feedings throught the night. 9pm, 12an, 3am, 6am… right now we are trying to get their feeding length to no more than 30 minutes.. but sometimes it’s stretching to an hour because one or both of the boys are being burp stuborn.
it’s been a very tiring day.. but i’m already looking forward to to the next feeding time. they are so cute.
Today flew by !! holy cow ! the boys are doing great. April and i are doing… Zzzz Zzzz Zzzz …
Okay so sleep is not our friend right now. But i know that every time we get up to feed them it’s the best thing in the world. All that we went through to bring these guys into the world and home constantly rushes through my mind when i look at them… So i’m off the chug down some more coffee and feed one of my guys !!
Joshua and Micah !
I have failed as a dad already.. i have no idea which one this is..
We had our second awesome night with our twins Joshua and Micah. They are doing so well and you would never know they were preemies ! the 5 weeks with them at Albany med is already fading from my memory as this new great season has begun. Even the 3 to 4 hours of sleep a night is okay
It’s actually happening…
Joshua and Micah are coming home today ! we are heading down the the hospital in an hour to pick them up! After 5 weeks in the hospital, we will finally be bring them home!
Haven’t posted one of these in a long time.. but i wanted to get this one out there. Two weeks ago Dave Straight(guitar) and Jake Dunkelbarger(drums) hit a home run with bases loaded ! Great job guys !
After an interesting week.. both boys are doing a little better. Joshua is pulling ahead of Micah again. feeding better, breathing well. There is still a chance that Joshua may come home this week. Praying all stays on the up !
Our daughter saw the baby’s for the first time on Saturday.. she absolutely loves them !
Yesterday was probably one of the more difficult days we’ve had over the past few weeks.. it seem whenever we get good news.. some disappointment follows close behind..
The Boys have been doing very week this week.. they had such a good day on Thursday the there was talk of them coming home in a few days..
With this great news, we arrived at the hospital very happy and uplifted… but when we got there we were told that both boys were having a rough day. .. everything from feeding to breathing.. we hadn’t been that discouraged in weeks. I really want my boys to keep moving forward without some of these major leaps back every week.
