Honeymoon phase

 Sam and Will are one week old today.  They are in that wonderful phase right now before they make themselves heard.  Sleep, sleep, sleep, eat, poop, sleep, sleep, sleep, repeat.  They went to the doctor yesterday and both are gaining weight and only a couple ounces shy of their birth weights.  Things are falling into place and going incredibly well right now.  We are just waiting for that 3 week-ish mark when they will start to say "Hey, I'm here now, pay attention to me, hold me, feed me, let me pee on you more than once a day."

Pretty much what the guys do all day (and night - thankfully) long.

 They both seem quite mild mannered and don't make nearly as many noises as Lilli did at their age.  We had to move her from our room at 10 days old into her own crib because she was so loud.  The doctor said boys are just lower maintenance than girls.  I don't know if he was joking or not, so we'll just have to see.  But if that is true, I will be pleased. 

Baby Will says "Please mom, I don't have time for this."

 As of the past several days we are accumulating about 5-6 hours of sleep a night.  With Lilli at daycare for a few weeks, this is enough to run on.  I actually feel a lot like I did the last month of the pregnancy because I doubt I was getting more than 6 hours of sleep, and it was also interrupted, probably even more so.  The only hard part now is chasing or playing with Lilli when she is at home with a body that is totally crapped out.  But I get stronger everyday and am so happy to be moving around!

Baby Sam just as content as he could be.  Full belly, happy boy.

 We spent part of Memorial Day at my brother and sister-in-law's house.  Lilli's cousins give her a lot of attention because she is the only girl in the family that is still little and close by.  For sixteen year old boys (identical twins) they are so cute with her.  They kind of beg for her attention.  We've concluded of late that Lilli is very coy with males.  She acts as if she wants nothing to do with them, whining "Nooooo" when they want to hold her.  All the while she has this sneaky little smirk on her face, so you know she's just playing with them and hoping for a reaction - which she of course gets.  I think she is very smart, beyond knowing her letters, I think she has an instinct about people and is psychologically manipulative beyond her years.  Can't wait until she's 16.  Maybe she will use her powers for good and be very discriminatory when it comes to male attention.  A mother of a beautiful girl can only hope...

We love Aunt Kathy's purple flowers.

Kicking around her cousins' soccer ball.  We like the looks of this!

Duck and Duck's new source of nourishment sleeping on a bed of flowers.  Genius.

And the purple bow is also a constant - can't get her to wear any other color.

Life is good right now.  Not that is wasn't before.  We may be in the honeymoon phase or we may not, we shall see very soon.  One can always hope that they have the best babies in the world.  Could I be pushing my luck to get two of them and a super great toddler?