Our Babies - What We Never Want To Forget

In my previous post, I said I didn't know when I'd blog again.  I found something I wanted to blog about. 

A lot of people use their blogs to document little things they want to remember about their children.  I had the same intentions. 

Although we only had a few short hours with our babies, there is so much we want to remember about them.

• First and foremost, they were fighters!  They were so strong.  The neonatologist and doctor didn't think they'd survive birth, or if they did, didn't think they could be intubated, but they did and were!
• Chandler's APGAR score was a 7, Paisley's was a 6.  More testament to how strong they were!
• They were born 4 minutes apart, at 3:06 and 3:10, with strong Chandler showing Paisley the way.
• The NICU brought in a nurse named Christine to take care of Paisley the first night.  Christine told me when I first went to the NICU that Paisley liked to keep her legs curled up, and was a sassy girl, with at one point, having her ankle on her opposite knee.  Paisley made it difficult for Christine to measure her length. 
• Dusty got to reach in and touch Chandler the first time he saw him.  Chandler curled his little fingers around Dusty's finger.
• Dusty has this weird space between his big toe and his other toes.  Our children have that same space.  Dusty says he feels sorry for them.  I told him I had no idea that would be hereditary.
• I got to see Paisley before I left the operating room, I remember thinking she was so tiny and so red.
• When Paisley was born, she tried to cry.
• Paisley has my nose and lips.
• Paisley has Dusty's long fingers.
• Chandler is a bigger version of Paisley, but with a slightly different nose.  More like Dusty's. 
• Chandler has his daddy's feet...they make Paisley's look so tiny.
• Chandler has his daddy's strong arms and big hands.  We have a picture of Chandler and Paisley that we took, and in it, Chandler's arm is outside of his blanket, and his shoulder and arm look so strong, and just like Dusty's.
• Chandler's head looks just like my dad's. 
• The neonatologist told us that Paisley was the smallest baby they'd had born alive at the hospital, and probably one of the smallest across the country.
• Paisley's forehead is shaped just like Dusty's.
• Chandler loved laying with his arms up by his head, just like Dusty.
• They look so much a like.  Dusty and I were so tickled at how alike they look.  My mom and Dusty visited the babies before I was able to go.  Mom came back and told me how much the babies looked alike.  It made us all so happy. 

Dusty and I think our babies are absolutely beautiful.  Dusty said to me that we make beautiful babies.  We had only a few short hours here, on Earth, with our babies.  We held them, we talked to them, we loved them so very much.  We prayed they would be miracles, that they would continue to be miracles, but God has a different plan.  We miss them so much. 

Our babies are our whole world, all of our happiness.  What we lived for.  All of our love.