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KeAnne delivered two beautiful twin baby boys on May 5th. We are so excited! Here is what Pete said in a recent email update:
Friday, May 08, 2009

Well here we are, some 4 days into this little adventure called parenting. Its been a little crazy trying to get everything figured out, as well as get ourselves back on track.

KeAnne will be discharged tomorrow morning, she is healing rapidly, and has very little pain considering the hole they cut into her. She is in excellent spirits, and is very happy to be a mom. She has been trying to feed the boys, but they may still be a little premature to master the whole “suck, swallow and breathe” thing just yet.

The boys are doing very good. They have steadily been increasing their feedings, and decreasing the amount of i.v. fluids they get. They have been receiving photo-therapy for the last couple of days to help control jaundice.

Cooper is taking the increased feedings and photo-therapy a little bit better than his big brother, and if all goes according to the doctors plans, Cooper may be off IV fluids completely by tomorrow. He should also be out from under the lights by the end of today.

Andrew is slowly responding to the photo therapy, but he has been on a lighted blanket, rather than under a spotlight, which seems to me to be the reason he is lagging a little behind. He is also a little behind on the amount they give him at feedings, as he has been a little slower to process his meals. The doctors have reassured us that there is NO reason for concern, which is a huge relief.

There are some new photos here as well.

The weekend looks busy with travels back and forth to and from the hospital, so I will send another update sometime the first of next week.

Pete

We had a great time in St. George with Grandpa Craig and Grandma Robyn! The weather was great, we spent tons of time outside in the pool, golfing, and hiking. Erik got to play his first real round of golf at Coral Canyon. He is still super excited about driving the cart, and his super cool ball marker Grandpa gave him! Henry didn’t shave for weeks in preparation for our outing to Pirate Pete’s, as you can see in the picture below. We love to be in the desert. I hope we can get Dan & Beth down sometime soon, it would be great fun to take Skulls and the TJ exploring into the Arizona strip. We love to be with Grandma and Grandpa!

The resemblance is uncanny!

These two photos weren’t taken recently, but I thought they were priceless and had to share. Aargh, shiver me timbers!

We had a great Christmas, we hope you did too! We continued our annual tradition/goal of having a fire every night in December. Nanny took Erik to see the Nutcracker for the very first time, which he liked almost as much as Indiana Jones, and Mo and Nanny got their Christmas gooses early at the Neil Diamond concert! Here are some previously un-released photos. The first is Henry performing at his Christmas program, and in the second we are showing of our fake teeth stocking stuffers!

Henry turned 4 this past November! This is a picture of him and his “best girl” Afton at his Chuck E. Cheese party. He told us the other day that he was going to marry his best girl Afton, but she punched him at recess, so now its over!

It has been a while since I sent out any news stories or updates, but I was just categorizing and organizing our photo libraries and thought I would blast out a couple posts. This past Halloween we had the Jedi Master Obi Wan Kenobi, and Superman over for dinner. It was a blast! Erik was a very serious and disciplined Jedi. Henry? Well, we couldn’t get Henry to stop flexing!