(Slightly Underdone) Meatloaves Have Arrived!!!1!

I'm sure there's a funnier, classier way to announce this, but I just don't have the time, energy, or emotional reserve to whip up a beautiful, sentimental post right now.

Let's just say that on October 5, 2011, two slightly underdone meatloaves were brought into this world via c-section because one of the meatloaves was refusing to cook.

Simon Wallace was born at 7:08 pm weighing 3 lbs 9 oz
Isaac Ward was born just two minutes later weighing 3 lbs 1 oz

Both are doing wonderfully, despite their early entrance. Although they're in the NICU, they're both making progress, have no problems to speak of, and are anticipated to come home within the next few weeks.

I'm a happy, albeit sore, mamma bear right now.
It's hard running back and forth from the NICU twice a day and breast pumping every 3 hours 'round the clock. Especially when one's internal organs were recently sliced and diced and restitched back together again.
At some point, I'll tell you all the nitty gritty details about the past week. Remind me to tell you how Brian's porn fantasy almost came to life (if the nurse hadn't been an overweight, chatty, 60-year-old grandmother of two). And remind me to tell you what it's like to experience the constipative effects of narcotics when one has abdominal stitches.
Oh, I'll tell you all about it, and the 300 other ways that one completely loses their dignity when going through the birthing process. By the end of that post, you'll probably have laughed, cried, vomited, cried some more, eaten a sandwich, and then vomited that sandwich up again.

But that's for another time.
For now, let's just say that my newly expanded household is rocking my world in all the right ways.
It's wonderful, and exciting, and terrifying, and everything else motherhood is supposed to be.

Welcome, Simon and Isaac.
There have never been two children more loved, fought for, or wanted in the whole wide world.
It's an honor to be your Mommy :-)