New Season..

Thanks everyone for your sweet notes and messages around email, facebook, phone calls and texts.  I really wanted you to know how much I love hearing from you and having my Mom or Hubs read the messages to me.  I feel so loved by everyone.

Please don't feel hurt or ignored if it takes me a little while to respond to all the love I've been receiving.  I am just having a little hiatus from internet so that I can rest when I find the time.  (I'd rather be reading facebook and updating my blog but I better listen to my Mother and "take care of myself".)

I am humbled by your kind words and praises for our daughters.

Here are some fun facts to "tide you over" until I can give a full report and the birth story....

**Annalie's name is from the last half of my name "joANNA" and the last half of my mother's name "lesLIE"... Eleanor is my maternal Grandmother's name.  Maribelle originally came from my Grandpa Icenogle.  His Grandma's name was Isabella and he suggested we use that for our daughters.  Hubs liked the "belle" portion of her name but wanted something different.  Through him just thinking through different names he discovered Maribelle and we fell insta-in-love with her name.  Eunice is my paternal Grandmother's name.
**if we do nicknames we're going to call Maribelle "belle" and Annalie "lie lie" (pronounced lee lee)
**we're feeding on a 3 hour schedule and it takes us about an hour and a half to an hour and 45 minutes to complete one feeding.  We feed them at the same time or "tandem nursing".
**when the girls are sleeping they almost always turn their heads and face each other.  This is consistent with when they were in the womb because they almost always had their heads together.

Love you all.
Now! I am off to take a nap! :)