I've been busy cz the babies have been sick for the past few days.. no sleep for me.. Yousef is so congested he barely sleeps at night.. poor little guy..

This kinda reminded me of the first 2 weeks we arrived to jordan.. we all got sick..
Hammam was here then.. he stayed in jordan for only a couple of weeks.. it was fun but we were all so tired.. and sick..

we were constantly going back and forth between my parents and his parents house..  but at least the babies got to meet the family:) everyone was so excited to meet them..

First night 

First day.. at the breakfast table

How cute is she!

With baba

Playing with Laith

Getting ready to go out:)

With Grandpa..

At Asma's House

Cutest baby ever:)

Sorry I haven't posted anything in few days but I've been extremely busy.. Will write and post some pics tomorrow inshallah..
Love u all:)

Chocolate favors

Well.. i guess i totally forgot about mentioning the chocolate favors my mom did for my precious babies.. i bet it took her forever to do them for us.. but she definitely knows how much we appreciate all she did.. love u:) mwaaaaa

Hammam took few photos of the chocolates we had in the states..

Aren't they adorable?? i know they r :)

The Chocolate favors stand we had in Jordan

The Flight to Jordan..

As i mentioned before.. the flight to jordan was crazy... it took us 4 days to pack everything for the kids.. we took everything with us.. not planning on buying anything from Jordan.. So we bought clothes up to 9 months for Selina and up to 18 months for Yousef..

It took us forever to pack but we did manage to fit everything without having to pay $200 for a new bag..

The first flight to France was 8 hours.. Luckily we had bassinets.. So we were able to put the twins in them so they can sleep for few hours.. they took one feeding during the flight..

We had to stay in france for 2 hours waiting for the next flight to Jordan.. We had lunch.. gave the babies a feeding and headed back to the plane..

The second plane sucked.. The seats were small.. we had the last seats in the plane.. near the bathroom and we didn't have anywhere to put the babies in, so we had to carry them throughout the entire flight.. 5 more hours and we arrived... finally.. so tired..

Carrying the babies through the airport was a whole new issue.. they didn't give us the stroller.. so our backs and shoulders hurt for a week after we arrived..

At the airport

airplane taking off.. poor Yousef crying:(

2nd plane (france to jordan)

Hammam and Yousef

Airport in Jordan ( Carrying Selina)

but finally we arrived...

Halloween...

OH yeah.. we wanted so bad to get the twins costumes..
at first i wanted to buy a fairy costume for Selina but that won't work with yousef and i didn't find a small size for the itty bitty girl..
Then i found some onesies for woody and jessie in the disney store.. hammam didn't like them...

So, in the end, we put some halloween pj's on the twins and thats it.. but they still looked cute.. what can i say.. they r my babies:) love 'em to death

The happiest baby on the block

oh yes.. Dr harvey Karp.. God bless u:)

So I met this young lady one day at the mall that came over and told me to watch this dvd ( The happiest baby on the block).. The best advise anyone ever gave me..

She asked me do u sleep? sarcastic question i figured!! i just laughed..
she said " trust me and watch the dvd"

We did and it did wonders..
we didn't use it for naps, but we used it and still r through the night...
its all about the 5 S's...

As my mom always says" alla yirda 3laik ya harvey ya iben im harvey"

The milk problem....

Oh boy!!! how many types and brands of milk did we use... its crazy...
From the very start, the babies got hooked on the small ready made Similac advance bottles... everything was great until we ran out of the bottles the hospital gave us..We got the Similac powder that worked with Selina for quite a While but yousef was having fussiness and gas.. so we switched him to Similac Sensitive that didn't work of course...  So we switched to enfamil ( people said it was better ).. We started with Enfamil Newborn that worked for a while.. then to Enfamil Infant (that didn't work at all).. then to Enfamil Gentlease (with partially decided proteins)  he got a little better.. then we switched to Enfamil AR ( he got like 90% better but constipated... so we decided to mix Enfamil AR with Gentlease to get the best results....

8 different types.. and thats Yousef... and with that he was taking lansoprazole twice a day for reflux..

Selina on the other hand was worrying us.. her symptoms started right after Yousef got better.. she was eatingSimilac advance powder without any problems.. but all of a sudden she refused milk... we switched bottles ( got evenflow, Avent, Medela, Playtex, Nuk and ended up using tommy tippee) but that didn't end the issue.. she still got reflux.. so we gave her lanzoprazole  and she still didn't get better.. gave her the same sequence of milk products we gave yousef but still we didn't get good results.. The doctor told us that similar for spit up is good so we got her that and we mixed it with Similac advance to avoid constipation.. She got like 20% better but then she started to vomit with every feeding.. that started to worry us a lot..

THe doctor asked then for an upper GI with was the worst experience ever.. she cried a lot.. poor baby... they said that she got pyloric spasm... the medicine they decided to give her has a side effect of parkinson in the future so we decided not to give it to her... So we switched her to Similac Alimentum(Hypoallergenic).. she got better.. al7amdulillah.. she still hates milk but at least she takes it when i feed it to her.. refuses to eat with anyone else..


thats 8 +2 (10 different types for Selina) and 6 different types of bottles