More Nursery Pics!

I finally buckled down on the nursery. I had today and yesterday off and so I spent a good amount of time sanding and painting!  I got the second coat in the dark blue and masked the ceiling an sanded down the middle stripe and got the first layer of sand in!

Painting the first wall 

I'm so excited!  Looks like it'll need one more final coat and then ALL THE PAINTING WILL BE DONE!!  

Oh wait. ... No it won't. We still have to paint clouds in the ceiling... But that should be fun painting right??

Belly shots

Not a lot going on right now. 

Wife was mildly sick today. I had made a run to Walgreens and picked up Unasom (the kind with doxalamine) yesterday so when the zofran wasn't working she was able to take that and it actually worked!!  However she took it with Benadryl (the OTHER Unasom option) so she was unconscious most of the day. It was ok, I was at work. 

But, as promised! Belly shots!

Pic on the left is around June 24th or so and then July 13th. So about 4 full weeks or a month on the left (basically not pregnant) and just at the  beginning of 8 weeks on the right. 

Not technically showing yet, but already noticing changes!  Oh an she has been complaining for about 2 weeks that her breasts are INCREDIBLY sore, but I did notice a few days ago that they are starting to get bigger. (Sorry, no pictures!) 

Hello Morning Sickness!

So Thursday was Wife's first experience with morning sickness... Oh boy!

We had a plan to go sailing with some coworkers and watch "the Tall Ships" come sail into a local port.  We had been looking forward to it for about two weeks and we actually came home 1 day early in order to go.  Thursday morning she woke up extremely nauseated.  We postponed as late as we could (shove off was 11 am) but soon in was clear she wasn't going to be feeling better any time soon, plus, we decided that it probably wasn't a good idea to be sick on a boat before you even take off!

Her morning sickness lasted most of the day and she never managed to eat much but at least she never threw up.

She convinced me to go on without her and I did have fun, although I got burned so bad I am a bit of an uncomfortable crispy critter right now :(

Thankfully yesterday she was feeling well enough to go to class and by last night she was full of energy and actually cooked!  She has been so exhausted for the past month with all the progesterone shots and the amount of energy she had last night was ridiculous! I think her ADD is coming back hard core lol!  I just hope her energy stays because she has been feeling really awful.

We already had some prescription nausea medication at home but on my way home I picked up mints and Unasom.  Hopefully she won't be needing them, but with twins, I imagine it is only going to get worse!

Celebration!!

To celebrate the long awaited news of TWINS!! And also, to get a well deserved break. We are going camping!!  Three days of nothing but us and the dogs and nature. ... And rain. ... There is ALWAYS rain when the two of us go camping. Wife never did camping, or dirty outdoorsie things until we got together. And EVERY time I have taken her camping it has rained, an not just a little. I'm not sure j am going to get her to go camping many more times if it doesn't dry up! Hehe. She claims to be enjoying it though!

See you soon!

US today!!

So we had our very first US last week! We were very very excited, of course. When they started the ultrasound we right away saw a nice big GS or gestational sac. Which basically looks like a black circle. Almost right away we notice something else! There was another, less clearly defined circle that was not completely 'filled up'. There was no heart beat in either one (too early) so we had a very stressful week of waiting to have another ultrasound today to see if we have one (or two!!) heart beats.

We are currently waiting in the examination room waiting for the doctor.

...

OMG!! He's here!!

OMFG!  There's two black sac!! That's two babies!!  OMG!! They both have heartbeats!!  Omg!! It's twins!!🙀🙀😆😆😍😍😍😍😍

Omg!  I was so happy!  We had gotten this idea that we were going to have twins and now we are going to!!

They both measure the same. 6w2d which is very close to our dates of 6w4d. 

Twins!

Nursery!!!

We're painting the nursery!!!

Yesterday Wife and I both had the day off so we started painting the nursery!!  So very exciting!  I don't want to jinx anything but we are both nesting so very badly!!

This is how it looks today after it dries. 

Clearly we missed a few spots...

But hopefully after work or tomorrow we can get more work done on it!

Anxiously waiting. Still.

So Monday was our US appointment where we got to see our baby(ies). Our bHcg levels have been through the roof and getting bigger every day!  This was very exciting to us as, Wife especially, we really want twins!  We have quite a few friends with twins, and also, we want a big family and this is a lot of work and very expensive and I think we see twins as BOOM!  Instant family!

We waited for what seemed like forever, and was, in fact, 9 minutes. For the doctor and then we got the US!! There was one beautiful gestational sac (baby home) AND one slightly less developed gestational sac!  It was too early to see babies, too early for heart beats. When we asked about the second sac, the doc said "well it may have implanted a day or two later".  He said he was "cautiously optimistic". We might have twins!  Of course, what this meant was, no firm answers. We have to come back the following Monday (three more days now). By that time we should see heartbeat(s) and if we have one or two, then we'll finally know!

The black teardrop-shaped thing is gestational sac #1. The less clear bubble below it, that looks half-full, is the sac-in-question. 

I unfortunately had to break the news to Wife about what the other option was: if the second baby had not implanted a few days later. Since our big big numbers indicated twins and we saw a second, ill-formed sac, if we have another US on Monday and there are not 2 heartbeats. It means the second fetus got 'reabsorbed'. Like what a miscarriage would be, only there isn't a miscarriage if you still have one baby. 😞