28 Weeks

Well, there is no picture this week b/c I have been too busy outside playing and enjoying this gorgeous weather while I can. Last week on Wednesday our low was -4 and yesterday the high was 83!!!!! This girl is loving the weather this week. I have taken the kids to the park to ride their bikes after school the last two days and it's been great. My poor white legs have gotten to absorb some sun!!!! :)

I had my 28 wk. appointment yesterday and everything looked good. Hannah is measuring right @ 28 1/2 weeks and Brady is measuring about a week ahead. That's pretty much right on track for where they have been for the last 2 months or so. I go next Wednesday for another big sonogram to check on their weights and hopefully we'll be able to get a decent look @ their sweet faces. I'm curious to see how different they look from the last time.

Overall I am feeling good. Just tired all the time, but it's made a big difference to only work 2 days a week. This week I started working on their bumper pads. I haven't made as much progress as I wanted to, but progress is better than nothing @ all. I'm hoping this weekend I'll make quite a bit of progress.

On Sunday, I took the kids and one of J's friends to go see Gnomeo and Juliet. It was cute and they all loved it. A fun way to spend a Sunday afternoon for me, and it gave their parents all an opportunity to move furniture without them in the way.

I guess that's all for this week. I promise to have a picture to post for 29 weeks and I'll try and be good about posting the sono pictures next week. (depends on how distracted I am being excited about our girls weekend next weekend!!!!)

27 Weeks

27 Weeks

I definitely think that this picture is a much more accurate depiction of the belly than last week's picture. A huge praise this week is that my back pain has gotten SO much better, and I've figured out the pressure point to press when it does start hurting that brings almost instant relief.

It's been a crazy week weather wise. We are once again experiencing frigid temps!! The temp dropped 10 degrees in less than an hour this morning while I was at the laundry mat. Add single digit temps and our crazy panhandle winds together and you can only imagine how cold it is. They weren't even letting the kids out of the school today until their parent was at the front of the line to pick them up b/c the wind was so bad. The kids were disappointed b/c we were going to go to Amarillo today and make a V-Day gift for their parents, so we went to The Cake Company and got cookies instead. I'm secretly hoping that they cancel school tomorrow so that I don't have to get out in the weather.

It's been a productive couple of days around here. I am finally almost totally caught up with laundry. I have 2 more loads to do and then I am done. Thanks to a busted valve on our washer that turned the garage into an ice skating rink, Billy got the garage almost totally cleaned out on Saturday. My mom and sister came over today and we finished emptying out dressers and moving clothes into all of the new furniture and we got the babies' closet cleaned out. We sorted through a bunch of the clothes that my cousin gave me for the babies and I purged and got rid of a ton of stuff. I am trying really hard to be less of a pack rat these days. We just don't have the room for it anymore around here. I have a little bit of tweaking to do and then I think I will have our baby registries done. Registering for everything on Saturday made me super excited for our shower to see all the fun things that the babies get.

Tonight I have Bible study and then I am going to brave Wal-Mart for the necessities since I wasn't paying attention to the weather and didn't know until this morning it was supposed to get cold! Teach me to not turn the TV on!!! Guess I should go finish up the last little bit of my Bible study before I go so I don't look like a goofball during discussion time. No doctor's appointments this week. I go back next Wednesday and hopefully Billy gets to go with me. This will be his first time to see them in person since we found out what we were having back @ 15 weeks!

26 Weeks

How Far Along: 26 weeks
Size of Babies: Both are about 2 pounds with Brady being slightly bigger than Hannah
Wt. Gain/Loss: I have gained 9 pounds from my pre-pregnancy weight, but I lost 22 in the first trimester so I'm making progress
Clothes: Still in lots of non-maternity shirts and dresses, but definitely maternity pants...this week it's been lots of sweats b/c it's been so dang cold!!
Gender: A boy and a girl
Movement: They are all over the place!! 4 am is usually their most active time of the day which makes me a little nervous for after they get here!!
What I Miss: Having energy...sleeping for more than 2-3 hours straight @ a time.
Sleep: yeah...on that subject...My body is definitely in preparation mode for after the babies get here I am pretty sure b/c I only sleep 2-3 hours @ a time and then I'm awake for who knows how long. Sometimes I can just get up and go to the bathroom and go back to bed and fall asleep fairly quickly, and then other times, I am awake for 2-3 hours before I fall back asleep.
Symptoms: swelling in my hands and feet and just being tired...
Cravings/Dislikes: Chips and Hot Sauce, HUDS Cherry Limeades and chocolate cupcakes w/ icing and sprinkles
Best Moment: Having my doctor telling me that things are going much better than his normal twin pregnancies usually do and that the babies both looked great and had grown quite a bit in the last 2 weeks.

I was excited when I went to the doctor yesterday and I had gained 4 pounds. (Pretty darn proud of myself actually!!) He said that both babies looked good and that he was really pleased with how things are progressing. He did, however, limit me to only working 2 days a week just because we are SOOOOO busy @ work right now. RSV is bad this year and we've been really busy, so most nights I am only my feet the majority of the night. For right now I am going to keep doing my Thur/Fri schedule and drop Sundays, but I may have to split those days up eventually. Thankfully I have learned from others struggles and have stuff in place to cover all the days that I am going to miss. Most importantly, thank heavens that Billy got a raise this year!! That is going to be such a lifesaver for us!!

To sum up this week I have one word...COLD!!!!! I don't remember it ever having been this cold up here. We haven't reached double digit temps since Monday and we've been below zero by several degrees every night. The depressing part is that we have nothing to show for all the coldness...no ice, no snow, no nothing!!! Thankfully minus having to pick up the kids from school and my doctor's appointment yesterday I have been able to stay holed up @ home where it's been nice and warm.

Yesterday was National Signing Day, and in our house, that's a BIG deal. Billy is finally going to be home for a whole weekend without anything on his plate. (minus working on the honey-do list that has been growing since December...) We start spring football Feb. 15, so the break is a short one for him, but that means that off season starts earlier this year, which will be nice for us. That way if and when I do go on bed rest, he will have a little more freedom to come home during the day if I need him to, and he won't be having to work as many late nights. I'm excited!!!! Hopefully we can get started on the nursery soon. I am getting anxious to get started and see everything come together. I have this picture in my head...just hope it turns out that way once we start putting it all together!!! :) I am headed to the post office today to mail their blankets to my MIL so that she can quilt them and I ordered the forms for their bumper pads the other day, so hopefully those come in quickly and we can get started on those.

These are their blankets that my mom made for them. Can't wait to have precious babies to wrap up in them. The walls in their room are going to be the lime green above the chair rail and then the below the chair rail it will be black and all the furniture is white. I can't wait to see it all put together!!

I go back to the doctor in 2 weeks and then it sounds like he's going to make me come in once a week after that. Which is just fine with me b/c that means I get to take a peek @ my sweet babies every week instead of just every other week. :) Hopefully we'll keep getting good reports and sail through the next 12 weeks!!!!