Karate chop!!

I know I haven't been posting like I should. But know that everyone knows I have more ppl to talk to than just myself. 

But!!! Whit felt them kick. For sure. Today!!! A ton actually!  We were racing around in the airport in Baltimore after getting off a plane and she was pushing on her uterus and got kicked back!  And then the three of them poked each other for a while before everyone calmed down. 

And some pics from earlier in the week

Two heads are better than one!!

Wow!!

It has apparently been 3 weeks since I have posted anything!!

Well no news has definitely been good news. 

We've had 3 OB appointments since my last post!!  2 with the IVF doc and one today with our regular oB/GYN!

I'm going to skip ahead to today. 

We went to the OB and had a little tiny bed side ultrasound where we got to see the babies again!  One of the babies had the hiccups which was ADORABLE!!  It looked like a Mexican jumping bean in human form! Lol!

Then I went to work and Wife came with me. We have an ultrasound machine there and we went about 45 min early so we got to play around. Then, the ultrasound tech at work offered to ultrasound her with the good ultrasound. We have sooo many good videos this time. The printers suck so we didn't really get any good pics tho. 

Apparently I cannot post video, so these will have to do for now!

It looks like 2 girls!!!

Long week/Long post!!

So much has happened in the past week!  I probably could/should have kept a day by day journal but we were so busy I'll have to summarize here. 

Last Monday we had our 8 1/2 week US and everything is right on track. The babies are growing like they should and their placentas, cords, and heartbeats look fantastic!  We both had to go to work immediately after. After work we both went to Babies R Us and geeked out at all the baby stuff.   We purchased a handful of things in order to 'break the news' to my parents. 

I had ordered online already a plaque that says 'Grandparents of Twins live here'

I had also already ordered a book that is double sided and is a children's story about what grandparents 'do best'

We then picked up a frame at Babies R Us that says 'Two Peas in a Pod' and put an Ultrasound pic of the twins in it. 

We then also bought two sets of baby booties. White, unisex. 

And then we put it all in a box with each gift separated with a layer I tissue paper and this picture on top. 

Tuesday we shipped the box to my parents. 

All day Wednesday I kept having mini waves of panic hit me when I would remember I just shipped that box to my parents. 

Thursday we want over to Sister's house for a barbecue after work. My parents apparently got the box earlier that afternoon because my father had texted me to ask if it was a Christmas present to be out away! Hahaha!  Eventually Wife and I got in the same place and Parents called and they were ECSTATIC which made me very happy. 

We had planned on going to a local IKEA, on Saturday. Unfortunately by 'local' I mean 1hour45min away. Saturday Wife got hit with one of the worst bouts of nausea she has had and actually threw up for only the second time in three years. So... We postponed IKEA in favor of snuggling in bed. 

Sunday we did make it to IKEA.  Wife was only able to stay in the store about 45 minutes. But that was long enough on the show room to pick out a crib and a dresser to use as a changing table. We also got to look at and discuss a couple of things I wanted to register for.   The IKEA show room was on the second floor and it was so big and had so many people in it the the floor would bounce like a suspension bridge and it was making her sick.   It then took me about 2 hours to fetch all the furniture (pushing two carts) and check out!  That place Is AWESOME!  But also, a zoo...

That evening I was so excited that I wanted to put the cris together right away. Each crib took less than 30 minutes to put together and was super easy!  We then decided the way we would announce to the world we were pregnant was to post a pic of a crib on FB!  Boy are our friends funny. I think it's a mixture of us being witty and most people never expecting us to have kids. 

"We wanted to know what everyone thinks of how we are furnishing the newly remodeled room..."

My favorite responses:

"Are your dogs in a crib, or am I just that tired?"

"Looks like a crib..."

So then after a few hours we posted:

"So, they were buy-one-get-one. What do you think we should do with the second one?"

Even better responses:

"Wait, you getting a baby????"

"Ummmm FILL IT!!!!"

"The babies are bogo? Or the cribs?"

My all time favorite response, I see today was deleted by the poster, aww, it said

"Donate it to a women and children's shelter, or a non-profit daycare"

!!!?  I'm telling you some if our friends just could comprehend that we might actually be having children!!  Several are still assuming we are adopting!

The next few days have been awesome at work. Yesterday people actually cheered and hugged me and have me congratulations when I came in!

Anxiously awaiting the next 4 days until we can have another US. Then I plan in posting those pics on FB and see if that confuses or clears up the situation haha!!

Twin Gummi bears!!

We had out 8w4d US on Monday!  The twins look 'perfect' according to the doc. Good placement of placentas and the umbilical cords. The babies each have two arms and two legs. They sort of look like Gummi bears because they are more like arm and leg nubbins. 

One of the Gummi bear children. You can see the gestational sac!

Other Gummi child. 

Both are measuring right at dates and both have had strong heart beats, this time and last time. 

We mailed our announcement box toy parents. I think thy are supposed to get it today... I am so nervous!!

Got myself to the hardware store and finally picked out some really cool baseboards. They are vinyl, so the nice thing is that the kids probably can't wreck it and it will stand up to brig hit by strollers and toys and all that. It is very thick which I needed because the old baseboards were double boards. I did double baseboards in the hall and I'm not even done yet so I do NOT want to do that again!

Hopefully those will be finished by the weekend. I'm about 1/2 done right now. 

Probably wont have much work getting done today, going to have a pool barbecue at Sister's house this afternoon after work!  

The nursery is all painted!!

I am VERY happy to say that the nursery is all painted!! 

Don't get me wrong, there is PLENTY left to do, but the painting is done, the drop clothes are up, and it looks like a room again!!

Today I was quite lazy and took FOREVER to get out of bed. I headed to Michaels to see what options were available to help in the 'cloud painting' department.  Wife got this great idea in her head that she wanted clouds on the ceiling. We had picked up some glitter from the paint department that is supposed o go in paint to make it sparkle. We decided to use the sample container of blue sky paint that was too light, to make the clouds. I picked up a couple different sponges at Michaels and headed home. 

I mixed the two sky blues together and used the round sponge to make these clouds of various random shapes and sizes. 

I then used the light blue and a mixture of the light blue and the left-over sampler of the light sand color to accent and make shadows and highlights using a natural sponge. 

Masking came down and touched up the edges. 

Soon I hope to do the baseboards and then we can start looking at furniture!!

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!)