Today is Rebekah and Kerri's 5th birthday!
Pink Girl(Rebekah) and Purple Girl (Kerri) - that is how everyone tells them apart.
All of their friends came to their first birthday party and they had a fabulous time. It was fun to see the gifts open to reveal -
*1 pink Little Pony and 1 purple Little Pony
*Identical Web kin Kittens - one wearing a purple sash and the other a pink sash
*pink and purple flip flops
*pink and purple purses
*1 pink sun dress and 1 purple sun dress
*1 pink bag full of Polly Pockets and 1 purple bag full of Polly Pockets
*pink and purple crowns and wands
It's a good thing that their intended colors are their favorite colors - hee hee.
Happy Birthday to my identical, precious, squishy, beautiful, fabulous, blessings from a loving Heavenly Father, princess ladybugs.
Five years and 6 months ago at our 9 week doctor appointment (WA state), I found out that I had mono mono (m&m) ladybugs growing in my tummy. I already knew that I was carrying twins (a mom knows), but I had no idea what mono mono was. That day, our simple life turned into a whirlwind of doctor appointments, bed rest, prayers and lots of love from family and friends.
I have a really cool picture of the two cords tangled up right above my sliced open belly, but the kids deemed it too bloody to post. Darn.
Rebekah and Kerri decided to join the outside world six weeks early due to my restricted cleaning habits that I chose to ignore.
Too make a loooong story short....
The two girls ended up in two different hospitals due to complications. Rebekah (whose c-pap blew a hole in her lung and had to be moved to a higher NICU unit) and I got a powerful staph infection (MRSA) which had to be treated with intravenous antibiotics. I had an IV in my arm for 6 weeks and had treatments twice a day, in addition to two shots of heparin a day into my belly for blood clots. Those hurt!
Kerri came home 9 days before Rebekah.
Makayla had a birthday party.
Rebekah healed and came home 4 weeks and 1 day after our big day and was reunited with Kerri.
A pink bracelet was slipped over Rebekah's hand and a purple one over Kerri's. There was no way to mix the two up - but just in case, a quick check on permanent hospital war wounds always clears up any doubt.
So happy together and inseparable the last five years.
4 comments:
Haven't checked blogs in a while so I'm way behind on my commenting, but your girls are beautiful. I remember well when they were born. Your craftiness is fabulous, so is your organization. And where can your kids possibly have inherited such a love for reading.....?
I could not stop smiling while watching the slide show. I had no idea how rare and precious they really are!
Yolanda,
Fun to find you in blogland too. Your kids are darling! Looks like you are doing well. That's neat that you have a Makayla too.
Yolanda what a fun post. They are darling girls. When you first moved here and I visited you, I could not believe how identical they were. I could not tell them apart at all. Even their hair grew exactly the same. I am noticing a little difference in their personalities now when I see them in primary. They are definitley worth all the bed rest, worries and work.
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