Sadie and Langdon's early arrival :)

I apologize for being so bad about updating the blog but we've been a little busy :)

Some of you may have heard this story. For those of you haven't I'll try and tell you about

the early arrival of our sweet little girls. It is amazing to me that it's has only been

a little over a week and a half.

I woke up in the middle of the night with the worst headache I'd ever had and got sick to my stomach on top of that. Then on St. Patrick's day morning I thought I would just stay in bed and try to sleep it off. I soon realized that was not in the cards. Faye (John's mom) was coming over to take Diggy to the groomers for me and I'd told her on the phone how bad I was feeling. She called Melissa and asked if she thought it might be a good idea to have my blood pressure checked. They both agreed that would be a smart so Faye brought over her handy dandy blood pressure cuff and we soon realized that my numbers were sky high. I called Glen Meade (my ob/gyn office) and the nurse said they would definitely need to see me. After what felt like an hour ride of misery to the Dr's office (got sick on the way) we were soon talking with Dr. Pierson and all I remember hearing is "you are heading to the hospital" and

"if we do have to go ahead and deliver".
This is when the tears started and then of course, the nerves. When the Dr. left the room Faye said "Well I have something to tell you...Ann is in town right now. She was just going to surprise you with a visit and just got in town a few minutes ago". That's when the floodgates truly opened. Ann and I have been best friends since we were 12 years old and she has always taken care of me and always been a huge part of my life so to hear those words just gave me the warmest sense of comfort. I called her cell and as soon as she answered I said "Well Annie...you might just want to head straight to the hospital". Poor nurse Ann, who spends most of her life in the hospital, drove over four hours to head straight to another hospital and work some more. I hope the fact that her best friend was the patient made it a little more tolerable :)
I remember first arriving at the hospital, when they were admitting me, giving me my lovely hospital gown, sticking me with my first IV and I remember Ann taking her socks off and giving them to me because I was cold. See...always taking care of me :) Much that happened after this is a bit blurry to me. With my symptoms they did discover that I was Pre-eclamptic. I suppose I had to copy my sisters because Kristie, Sonya and Melissa all experienced this as well with their pregnancies. After four IV sticks, the dreadful magnesium sulfate and that oh so fun catheter I feel certain I wasn't Ann's favorite patient. After a basically miserable and sleepless night the Dr's determined that I would be delivering by caesarean section that morning.
I was scared but so lucky to have all of my loved ones praying for me and supporting me and when they wheeled me away to the O.R. I did cry but I knew that I was that much closer to meeting our Sadie and Langdon. It was March 18th and at 10:34 and 10:35 the best things to have ever happened to us arrived. I cannot tell you how very lucky and blessed we feel that they are here now and there is much more to this story but for now I have to leave it. I've got some sweet angels in the NICU that are waiting for their mommy and daddy to come visit!

Until next time...

xoxo!