happy turkey day!!

happy thanksgiving everyone!! so much has happened it seems in the past couple of weeks. perhaps it's easiest to just list one by one...

• dawn came to visit from australia - she came and stayed with us for a few days and it was so great to see her. she looks fabulous and is getting married in australia next november! it was a short visit, but we managed to cram quite a bit in which was good fun!

• work threw me an amazing baby shower last friday, the 21st - i love my co-workers...everyone is so sweet and generous. not only did they spoil us rotten with presents (our mdx had both rows of seats down and it was filled to the brim!), but they wanted to start a little library for the twins, so books out the wazoo...such a fun idea! i'll post pictures as soon as i get them.


• kitchen and bath remodel - not sure this is the most brilliant idea that jason and i have had to date, but we've just begun some work on the house. we've been wanting to do this for quite some time, but finally just got everything finalized. we're having the tile, countertops and backsplash in the kitchen replaced and then the counters, shower and tub area done in the master bath. they're supposed to be done by the 15th of december, so let's hope they meet their deliverable and these babies don't come early!!


• 32 week appt - we went for a checkup yesterday and the dr. swaim has officially told me that i am to quit exercising and to take it easy...ouch! :( my cervix has thinned, although still completely closed, but she does not want to take any chances. she hasn't put me on bedrest, but just wants me to take it easy. we go back next friday to take a test which can tell us if i will deliver in the next two weeks (fetal fibronectin)...that will be interesting! let's just hope they don't decide to come before then! otherwise, i still feel great, so this no exercise and taking it easy bit is going to be tough! 32 week belly pic...

other than that, we made our annual trip to the renaissance festival last week, went to see our friends allison and sean who just had their sweet baby cate a few weeks ago which definitely made our babies upcoming arrivals that much more real and supermom kristyna just delivered leighton last week! babies everywhere...so exciting, but so scary at the same time!! and last but not least, janice just got in from the uk last night, so had dinner with her last night and will be fun catching up with her through sunday.

sorry to blab for so long, but lots of updates! btw...a lot of you aren't so much fun not guessing an arrival date! (although i know you're reading these posts!)

follow up appt

sorry it's taken so long to give you an update, but went back for the follow up ultrasound last week and thankfully everything was just fine. the fluid in either sac was just about equal, so apparently it was just a one-off the previous week...false alarm.

30 weeks

we went for an ultrasound and a doctor's appt thursday and friday and we're right on track. both are still head down...yay!! he is 3 lbs 5 oz, 53rd percentile and heart rate of 144. She is 3 lbs 3 oz, 47th percentile and heart rate of 155. apparently, he's got quite a large head and long legs - just like his dad! it blows my mind that collectively i've got 6.5 lbs of baby in my belly right now!! so if you're questioning the accuracy of the weight, so was i...what i was told is that at this point in time, they believe the margin of error is only 10-15%. but as they get bigger that margin does increase.

the one minor concern they had was that there was a little more fluid in his sac than hers, so i need to go back for a follow up ultrasound next week. she thought that might indicate that i had gestational diabetes, but my glucose test came back negative so that's not the case...thankfully! or she did say it could very well be a one-off, so hopefully she can confirm that next week!
i'll keep you posted...

pick a date??!!

anyone care to hazard a guess as to when these kids will enter this world? just for kicks, how about picking a date and we'll just have some fun with it. almost daily, someone thinks it's going to be this day or that, so i thought why not capture it here?
perhaps there's an easier way to this, but the only way i know how would be to enter it into the comments section.

okay...so these are the "facts:"
my true due date is jan 24th.
full term for twins is 37 weeks, so that puts us at jan 3rd.
i'm at 30 wks now, so you call it...anytime between now and then!??

28 week belly

officially 28 lbs and counting...

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) :)