One week birthday

It's been a big 48 hours... yesterday was the baby's one week birthday... and today they're 30 weeks! Or, as the doctors put it, they celebrated their 8th day of life :) And the 30 weeks is their gestation... because they were so early, they still keep tabs on the babies based on what day/week it would be if they were still in the womb. I can't believe Olivia, George, and Samuel have been here an entire week!! We love them so much!

All babies had a good day... lots of changes all the time. But this post is all about their 1-week photo shoot! Olivia, George, and Samuel worked the camera :) The nurses were awesome - helping us along the way and sharing in our enthusiasm - and even insisted that George and Olivia could have their incubators open while we took the photos. They also gave us some great ideas for documenting growth - two of which were with a toy and a wedding ring. We took both ideas and ran with them. The babies were very tolerant of us... they must love us too :)

This is just a reference point for how big their animals are :) That's BB's hand...

Samuel and his turtle - sweet pea!

Samuel with DB's wedding ring around his wrist

Samuel with momma's and daddy's fingers

Olivia with her octopus - my friend Brooke found the animals, and she thought the octopus looked the most feminine :)

Olivia with DB's wedding ring (she's not sure what to think of all this :))

Olivia with momma and daddy (DB has the gloves on because the ring has to be sterilized for each baby)

George with his crab - no, not because he's crabby :)

George with DB's wedding ring - stretching out as usual

George with momma and daddy - checking out the world one eye at a time :)

George all cuddly - I just couldn't resist!