A Firefighter's Wife

My sweet Isla,
It’s been 5 months since you entered our lives. These past 5 months have gone by so fast. I can’t believe you’re almost half a year old.
My love, you’ve grown so much this month. You started rolling from your tummy to your back. In fact, you roll over pretty fast, especially since you’re [...]

When the girls were a few weeks old, they started holding hands.  They’d often hold hand when I would tandem feed them, and it was the cutest thing I’ve ever seen.  And I’m a sucker for it.
Every single time they hold hands, I gasp and go on and on about how cute it is.  As [...]

Today, the girls finally rolled over. Within minutes of each other.
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a horrible mom when it comes to tummy time.  None of my kids seem to really like it and just end up crying.  Des would cry and cry, and then just fall asleep.  The girls would usually [...]

Lovely Isla,
You’re 4 months old!  I can’t believe it.  You’ve grown so much this past month and your dad and I are so amazed by you.
One of the things we’ve so enjoyed this month is watching your personality emerge.  And Isla, my sweet girl, you have lots of personality.  You are such a happy girl, [...]

When I found out I was pregnant with twins, I became obsessed with figuring out how I could breastfeed them – preferably at the same time.  Every single person I met who had twins, knew twins, or just liked talking about twins was put through a massive amount of questions about breastfeeding twins.  And almost [...]