A year of memories

. . .game day lunches with Myers at the hospital cafeteria after seeing you. . .I wish my head was "Rooooowwwwnnnd". . . the #@*#$ oxygen meter and it's ^>%#@ beeping. . . rocking sweet jaundice glasses . . .driving your Flintstones cars everywhere, til you were exhausted . . . You don't know it yet, but you love sports. . .Mom getting to hold both of you for the first time and dad simply melting. . .Shawna getting a lesson from Zoey on how to properly put a diaper on. . .Addison renaming Avery, VeVe. . .Dad saying "We're not having babies tonight" on September 14th . . . Zoey singing Michael Jackson songs (with a little help from Dad). . . Dad watching lots of bowl games with you as his Paternity leave was during the college bowl season. . .Getting your ears pierced at a Tattoo shop by this dude . . .Spending your first couple of months living in vibrating Bouncy chairs. . . the perfect army crawl by Zoey. . .Photo Shoots. . . Playing dress-up with Avery and Zoey . . . milk management. . . IVs in arms and heads. . . Daddy learning the proper massage technique from the "Massage Specialist" in the NICU, then over-doing the Spa by giving the girls the massages and then painting their tiny finger nails with a Sharpie. . .Easter Dresses . . ."Where's VeVe?" - "There she is!" . . . Bozy, ZoBo, Big Z, Bozy Bozied, OhhE and her sister AJ, V, VeVe, Vree . . .The DirecTV guy meeting Zoey and asking her age, then later when introduced to her twin sister, asking "How old is this one" . . . Happy Hour Sonic Slushies during nap time . . . Avery's low raspy giggle that lasted only a couple of weeks . . .Meeting a completely different person when the oxygen came off . . .Acid freaking Reflux is terrible. . . Working behind the scenes to get good photos. . . Aunt Stacey completely taking care of the girls' reading needs . . . Swimming lessons and Zoey kicking and propelling and surpassing the rest of her class to beyond exhaustion . . . Dancing, lots and lots of dancing that Avery nearly falls over her hips are moving so fast . . . couch time between dinner and bed time . . . Puma driving shoes compliments of Memaw and Papa . . . Kangaroo care . . . the whole family contracting MRSA, yuck! . . . first Christmas presents, the rocking horse and Fritz, the rocking frog . . . Avery's serious case of Man anxiety . . .