A Year

A year - everyone says it - “I can’t believe it has been a year”. Our children mark the passage of time so clearly. Each day brings new learnings and discoveries. Some days go exactly as you planned and others aren’t even close! I would say this year was filled more with the latter. We have had a great year and are so blessed with three healthy children. From the moment we found out we were having twins we have had a non-stop chain of events..... first the morning/afternoon sickness the two babies created for several months and rendered me useless and increased Dalby’s graham cracker consumption exponentionally in those months as we snacked together, to at 30 weeks pregnant completely gutting our kitchen down to the studs(even replacing a water damaged wall and seeing our crawl space as additional floor support was put into place), to delivering the babies at 38 weeks and 4 days(39 weeks), to having ENORMOUS twins that were literally the “talk” of the hospital, to coming home and having our parents unpack our kitchen and move the refridgerator and microwave out of the living room and back into the kitchen, to the unwavering support of family and friends from extended stays to numerous meals, to the potty training of our 2.5 year old while nursing the babies, to counting the feedings and pumpings until we could sleep again, to Ryan traveling weekly and studying so hard, to my second surgery of 2010 and not being able to lift the kids for 6 weeks(!!!!), to our 14 hour multi-stop drives to Michigan, to transitioning to being all alone with all three kids all the time, to loving watching each child grow and change, to looking back and saying this has been the longest and shortest year of our lives and to looking forward and hoping we can take every moment in......

Charlie

Quinn

A picture of Marin Dalby Luttenton at 12 months old