Only A Kiss

Last Thursday Eli and Ellie caught the bug being passed amongst our children. The bug caused a high fever and sores in their throat, which was not strep throat, it lasts 2-3 days. After their naps on Thursday both babies were running fevers, Eli 104.2 and Ellie 102.3, they were miserable. I gave both of them some Advil and waited for the temps to come down. Ellie managed much better than Eli. I could not get his fever to go much below 102 so he sat on the couch and litterally did not move. His eyes would move but he would not. No hand movement or legs just sat there looking really, really sad. At one point I layed him down and Ellie came over and laid next to him. I thought it was so cute that she went to comfort him I got out the camera and started recording. What you will see is the ONLY time he smiled from 4pm until 9pm when he finally fell asleep on my lap. Keep in mind also that just before this video Ellie started holding his hand only to take his finger and then bite it! That is why he has a few tears in his eyes, but she made up for it later.

 I hope you enjoy witnessing the twin bond. It is a wonderful thing to watch grow and deepen.

We are very blessed to be raising twins.



Took a Time Out Today

This morning after I had put our 3 older children on the bus and the Twins woke up for the morning and had their breakfast I sat back and just enjoyed the hours of the morning with them. I am very thankful that I did. I was able to witness some pretty special moments of twin bonding between Eli and Ellie.

To start off the morning they showed me just  how much they love each other. There we were just sitting and playing on floor and I was just enjoying the moment and drinking in how special each of them are and they stood up and started hugging each other! Eli was even giving Ellie kisses! This went on for at least 2 minutes. They would hug let go look at each other a giggle a little then hug again, until finally Eli was done and pushed Ellie away. To me that was such a special moment. Through out the morning they would play often apart but one would always get and check on what the other was doing. Usually they just turned around and went back to what they were doing but, it was like they were checking up on each just to see if they were OK.

One day not that long ago I was taking another moment to take in the uniqueness of each of the twins and I asked them, "Which one of you decided you just couldn't do this on your own and asked for a partner to take on the world with?" Well Eli started the hugging and from the first ultrasound at 6 weeks he always measured a day farther along than Ellie. I have decided Eli needed a hand to hold and I am ever grateful that God saw fit to give him a hand to hold.

Today showed me that in the busyness of life it is important to stop and hit pause. The world is just spinning so fast for everyone that the little things get lost. Today I found a few of those things watching our twins. I hope anyone reading this takes a moment and hits pause today to just take in the world around them and enjoy the beauty we pass by everyday without thought.