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Hello everyone. I am having trouble sending this picture from my logix email. I know you have all been asking for a current picture, one without tubes and in our home. Well the time is here. You can't tell they are home but there definitely aren't any tubes!!! This picture was taken on Jan 23, 2007. They were 7 weeks old. As of Friday Jan 19, 2007 Mac was 6lb 13oz and Joshua was 6lb 10oz. We go back to the Doctor tomorrow for our weekly weigh in. They should both definitely be 7lbs by now. Joshua still has his monitor, but you can't see it. They probably won't tell us to get rid of that until Feb 9th. But we can't wait for them to tell us that. The adorable hats they are wearing were made by my close friend Lindsay (Harris) Crawford. We can tell the difference with their right ears, but it still helps others to have the hats.

They boys are still being bottle fed. They latch on but won't suck more than a couple times. I think they are just too lazy. We are praying that they start to nurse soon. Since they don't nurse I feed one, then another, and then pump after that for the next feeding. So one feeding session with both boys lasts 1 hour. This gets tiring. If I can get them to nurse, I can nurse them at the same time for 20-30 minutes and be done. They are also having a terrible time with gas and I think some reflux. We are going to discuss the gas issue tomorrow at the doctors office.

I hope you all enjoy the picture and hopefully we can get Abigail to sit and take a photo with them. Last weekend she didn't want to be in the photo.

Thanks again for your prayers.