baby shower

our friends sheila, gina and michelle (l-r in pic below) threw us a fabulous couples shower saturday night. it was so great to see everyone and thank you all so much for the wonderful gifts! the food and decor (b&w) was absolutely amazing and the venue as well (thanks jim!)

thank goodness for the plasma tv since there was quite the football match on and then of course to accommodate the karaoke machine as the night progressed! upon waking yesterday morning, jason informed me there the football game of the century was on that night (ut/tx tech), so how terrible did we feel being in tx and all! regardless, it worked out just great, so thanks to all the men who sacrificed their night to be with us! :)

26 weeks

we went for an ultrasound this week and it was so good to see the little ones! it had been about 5 weeks since the last ultrasound and so it always makes me nervous going into it...you just don't know what's going on in there each and everyday!!

anyways...i'm happy to report that everything's looking good. based on their calculations, he is now 1 lb 14 oz and she is 1 lb 12 oz. that puts them in the 50th and 42nd percentile respectively. they are no longer yin and yang, but rather both head down. apparently still plenty of time for them to change again, but definitely would be ideal if they decided to stay in these positions!

other than that...we've got the dresser and change table ordered, i found the fabric for the crib skirts and window treatments and work is ongoing around the house.

i guess the only other big baby prep we did is purchase a twin friendly vehicle....jason's new car! it took a while, but we both really like it. jason's a little distraught and i think suffering from separation anxiety from his truck, but i hope once the two little ones in the back seat, it will all be a thing of the past! ( let's hope so anyways) :)

nursery progress finally!

we've been back in our house now a week and it's amazing how behind we feel as far as baby prep goes...they're going to be here before we know it! we've finally ordered our nursery furniture and i've got the plan forward for the bedding and window treatments. i've decided to go with a black and white nursery, but black and white baby stuff is really hard to come by. my boss's wife is going to be making the bedskirts and window treatments and we're going to go with the bumper and swivel glider from pottery barn kids. (see below)







other than that, as far as pregnancy goes, i'm definitely starting to feel a lot of movement inside my belly...it's really quite amazing! and jason felt his first kick just this past weekend, so that was exciting! we go in next week for an ultrasound, so hopefully everything checks out okay.

we actually just changed doctor's last month because we were not terribly impressed with the hospital my original doctor was affiliated with. not that jason and i have unreasonably high expectations, but the hospital did not even come close to giving us a warm and fuzzy. thankfully though, we got a great recommendation for another doctor who is affiliated with woman's hospital here. we've only met with her once, but we were both very impressed. and to top that off, we did the new hospital tour this past weekend and it was soooo much better...definitely glad we made the change!



here's a belly pic from last week...24wks.

ike aftermath

i do have pics to post, but unfortunately have not had the time nor the resources to do so. jason and i are still without power, but once we get back up and running, i promise i'll get them posted!

thankfully though, mr. and mrs. lawless are letting us bunk up with them until our power comes back. given the circumstances, we're really quite fortunate the only thing we lost was power. there are tons of houses in our neighborood that have trees going right through them.

we spent 5 days in vegas last week visiting my mom and had a great time there. nice to get away from all the chaos in houston and did lots of eating, gambling and baby shopping! :)

as far as babies go, we went for our detailed 20-wk ultrasound a couple of weeks ago and everything is looking good! baby a was 14 oz and baby b was 13 oz, so they're pretty much growing at the same rate. he is head down on my right side and she is breech on the left, so they're pretty much positioned like yin and yang at the moment. i tell you what though...my belly has grown substantially these past few weeks! i can't imagine what i'm going to look like at the end of this!

happy??? a belly pic for you!!

i don't think i can handle anymore harrassment, so here you are...a pic of my big belly...20 weeks and counting! to be honest, i don't think the picture does it much justice...it's much bigger in person!

and just in case you were still interested in my face (and/or jason's), it was jason's birthday yesterday, so we were out celebrating his last birthday as a free man!

the unveiling of the sexes...

so...we went yesterday for our gender confirmation appointment and we are happy to report that we are having a boy and girl!! we are ecstatic!!

it was quite funny actually the way it happened. they were running about thirty minutes late, and my bladder was about to burst from drinking all the water they need you to for the ultrasound! so keep in mind, we knew that we had at least one boy going into this. as soon as i laid down, i mean, not even five seconds had passed and she said, "well, baby a is definitely a girl!" it took jason and i probably a good minute to register what she said, but once it did, we were thrilled! and then just to be sure, she moved onto baby b and sure enough, there was our boy!

they both measure right about 10 cm right now and baby a's heartbeat was 156 and baby b's 140. it's amazing how they are growing so quickly!

the other really funny thing this time around was that their movements were night and day from two weeks ago. last time, baby a (little girl) was moving nonstop - squirming, kicking, rolling around, but baby b (little boy) barely moved. he just sat there chilling the entire time. the ultrasound tech even tried to poke and prod him, but to no avail. jason and i were actually a little concerned something was wrong with baby b. but yesterday, roles were completely reversed. baby a was just resting peacefully, while baby b was all over the place! so that definitley gave us some comfort.

our latest pics ( you can click on the images to enlarge if you wish)...

this is baby a...our little girl!

not sure if you can make out the bottom pic, but this was the proof that she was indeed a girl!

and here we have baby b...our baby boy!
for the bottom pic, if you can imagine he was sitting on top of a glass table and you were looking up from below, you're looking at his little bum and legs.








so there you have it...a boy and a girl! let the planning begin!

news for you...

so now the blog has been set up, but unfortunately i haven't made too much headway on it.

so the news for the past month?!

jason and i are expecting! and...not just one baby, but two! i am currently at 16 weeks and our due date is january 24th. this is the due date for a regular 40-wk pregnancy, but with twins it is 37 weeks. so...that just means little "a" and "b" may very well be here by the end of the year!

we went in for some testing a couple of weeks ago and just for fun we also did what they call a "jack and jill" test (aka gender determination). we just got the results back and what they can tell us so far is that we have a boy in the mix! question now is...one boy or two?!! we go back at the end of this week for a confirmation ultrasound, so hopefully if all goes well, we'll know for sure!

meet baby a and baby b...