27 weeks and D's favorites

 D LOVES this pink dress. obsessed. she wants to wear it every day and even refuses to take it off when she goes to bed. there has been a few (BIG) tantrums over this dress when i try to take it off. So the other day she found her dress up necklaces and wanted her pink dress of course. so i let her wear get it and put it on and she said "take pictures mommy!" so i had to get my camera out and take thousands of pictures. Maybe this is a sign i could actually maybe get good pictures of her? oh wait, im on bed rest. can't do that. LAME!

 

She's pretty darn cute if i do say so myself!

So while at home and trying to stay down most of the day - painting has become one of D's favorite things to do. (along with play dough.) I feel bad because i can't really go take her outside to play. One i cant chase after her. I could go take her just outside that door right there and sit and watch her play - but thats where everyone likes to smoke... ALL.. Day. Ewe.

Luckily Kaylee picks her up for an hour -2 a day to play with Miss Ayla. And when Tom is done student teaching in 2 weeks he can take her in the mornings before he does baseball (he's head coaching summer ball for a select team of high school students.)

 

And today marks 27 weeks pregnant. Seems crazy. I havent been having many contractions so i moved home on thursday night while everyone went camping. I was doing fine going up and down stairs so i figured id be ok here. Last night i started to have some contractions (more then usual for the past few weeks) and i blame it on dehydration since i hadnt had like anything to drink all day- and they stopped by the time i went to sleep so my goal is to keep drinking lots of water and hopefully thats it. Im praying its not the stairs. 

here is a shot of one of the babies (either baby A's bum or B's head..?) poking out. You can tell my stmach is getting lots of new stretchmarks. But these boys LOVE to move and poke and roll around. I have never been so amazed to see how much i can see them from the outside. I saw D occasionally but wow. i see them daily!

 

anyways - babies weigh about 2 lbs and are size of a head of cauliflower. that is huge!

comparing..

 I noticed new stretch marks this morning, so i figured id take a picture on iphoto- wow! then i went back and looked at my last pregnancy pic with D... yeah im already getting that big! Wow.

26 weeks

Today I went in to my high risk ob for another appointment. We got a cervical check (which my cervix has shortened since last visit 2 weeks ago but is still closed, whew!) and we got to see baby boys again! That is definitely one perk to being high risk. so many ultrasounds! This time baby B flipped from having his head on my right side to having his head on my left - while baby A is more head down and to the right - like they are on bunk beds.

anyways - i guess they really are wanting to suck - cause baby A was sucking his toes while baby B was trying to suck on his hands. So cute. Glad she got us pictures.

I also had my glucose test - yuck. First of all - the drink wasn't that bad, but drinking it in under 10 minutes with nothing in my stomach made me feel a little sick. But it made me feel like i was drinking flat orange soda. 

And i passed. Thank goodness!

here are some pics!

ALSO! in case you didn't hear - i won the crib bedding set from Carousel Designs from the contest on Babycenter.com - it came in the mail today! So excited. Its a 4 piece set that retails to almost $400! its insane! I remember seeing THIS set online for the contest and thought - oh man i so wish i could have that, would go perfect with the color scheme.

so when i got the email - i almost wet myself - seriously. out of 1000's of enteries i won!? this is the 3rd online giveaway ive won in the past few years. pretty awesome if i do say so myself!

(now if only they would give me everything in that room!)

I go back in 2 more weeks for another u/s etc --- 

still on level 2 bedrest - said to keep doing what ive been doing since my contractions have slowed down to 0-3 a day in the past 2 weeks.

And we're sad that this happened now - cause as we speak the whole family is headed to Ukiah (eastern Oregon) to go camping for Memorial Day Weekend - so sad we're missing it.

but it will be nice to be just us 3 together all weekend at our apartment. Lots of relaxing!

Wanna See the Boys!?

First off - in case you didnt see - i did a 24 week post below this post with belly pics, etc....

I just came home to our house for the night so i was able to scan the u/s pics we got yesterday!

here they are!

 (its crazy you can already see their face, and its not even a 3d u/s)

 (can you see that his leg is right infront of his face? he must be VERY squished in there!)

(Twin B (left) is waving to Twin A - who's head is on the right)

24 Weeks

Yesterday I had my 24 week appointment with the high risk OB. I knew I was getting a cervical length u/s to make sure my contractions weren't shortening my cervix and they weren't. my cervix actually was longer than in the hospital so thats good news. Also i haven't been having too many contractions. Only 4-6 a day since getting home and yesterday i only had 2 (which were due to full bladder). I asked if my bladder had anything to do with it or being constipated since it seemed like thats when they would come, and he said yes contractions through out the day can be caused by the pressure of the bladder but not cause contractions that would cause labor. So im hoping just the bladder is the thing thats triggering it. We go in in 2 weeks to check again and see how my contractions are and we will see. 

We also were able to get another growth u/s done and see the boys and how they were growing. We didnt know we were going to get one this visit so that was nice! I didn't realize how big they were until the u/s tech was going from the bottom of my belly to the top with one baby. We also didnt realize how close the two were until we saw this picture of them looking at each other. Im not going to lie. Totally got teary eyed! It was just too cute!

Also in 2 weeks I get to do that glucose test. Yuck. I never had to do it with Dulany so it's my first time. And so not looking forward to it.

alright here are 24 week pictures!

baby boys looking at each other

24 week belly shots. (and please excuse the bad pics from photobooth on the computer! haha i dont have a camera here!)

yesterday before my dr's appointment. D had to be in the picture as well. Excuse the no make up look!

and for fun, and my records - 24 week update on pregnancy:

How Far Along Are You: 24 Weeks

Total Weight Gain: up 8 lbs from pre pregnancy weight and 21 lbs from my lowest weight this pregnancy with losing the first 13.

How Big are Your Babies? Size of an Ear of CORN - we actually got their weights. 1lb8oz and 1lb10oz and about a foot long.

Maternity Clothes: yes for sure. Even G's -  my tummy is definitenly getting bigger!

Stretch Marks: not any new ones and surprisingly my old ones are pretty faded.

Sleep: im so congested, sleep is hard. and im starting the "have to pee every few hours"

Best Moment This Week: seeing the boys this week on another u/s and seeing how close they are (see pic above!)

Movements: ohhh yeah. they are dancing and movin and groovin!

Food Cravings: cherry pepsi - AHH this will be the death of me. I was doing so well not drinking it until now!

Food Aversions: mmm ... not anything i can think of at the moment. Tried to do spaghetti one night and couldnt. so maybe still that.

Labor Signs: Yup - was admitted to the hospital this past weekend (5/3-5/6) for pre-term contractions. NOT fun! and scary. Now on bed rest

Belly Button in or out?: its starting to disappear.

Miss Anything?: yes. not being able to go take D out to play or run to the store.

What I'm Looking Foward To: getting off bed rest!

bedrest...

in case you didn't hear...

wednesday night i was watching a movie with tom when i was laying flat on my back on the couch. i started to feel some braxton hicks. But i realized they were happening one right after the other. I read that if you get more then 4 an hour - to call your dr. so i laid on my side and drank a bottle of water and then i went to bed. I woke up feeling fine but had a feeling i needed to call my dr to make sure. She said if they went away, just keep watching out for them and she would call me back. well not an hour later i started to get them again. and they kept coming back to back and a nurse called right after it happened and she said it would probably be best to come in and get monitored.
so i dropped D off with Kaylee and leslie and figured it was probably nothing and drove myself 30 minutes to my dr's office and got hooked up. Well - they kept coming. they werent painful, just uncomfortable. They checked my cervix and it was a little soft and only fingertip dilated (less than a 1). they told me that i needed to go to St. Vincent's hospital and id probably be looking at at LEAST an over night stay and would get something to stop the contractions.
i had a little meltdown.
1. tom wasnt with me (but i called him and met him there)
2. i left D thinking i would be back in 2 hours and didn't get to really say goodbye or leave stuff with kaylee and leslie for a long term stay.
3. would i go into labor?

Well i arrived and tom met me there and and i was hooked up and the contractions started to hurt a little bit -and they were coming every 2-4 minutes. They hooked me up to an IV and got me fluids, and magnesium which is quite powerful stuff. I had never felt so drugged up in my life. Well the contractions started slowing down - spreading further apart and then after being on it for around 36 hours they took it off. Along with the monitor that caught contractions.

well not two hours later i felt one... and then another one... and another one - 15 minutes apart. Then they were coming back a few minutes apart and my back was killling me and they were more painful. They checked my cervix and no change - thank goodness. They told me to take a quick QUICK shower and then gave me oxicodine (i cant spell that!) to help with the pain and i was able to rest and they started to go away. This morning i only had a few contractions through out the night and they said that can be normal with a twin pregnancy as long asi t wasnt more than 4 an hour or back to back contractions.

so im finally home, but will now have to be on bedrest for 12 weeks (until 35 weeks). I really dont know how ill handle it but it could be a whole lot worse. I've moved in with tom's parents for now because I can't go up and down stairs all day to use the bathroom (our apartment) and will have help from kaylee during the day. Im so thankful that we have family nearby to help. Otherwise i don't know what I would do.

Im grateful my boys are safe too. theyve been movin and groovin and kicking a ton. They just need to stay in for a little while longer (ok a lot longer!)

Thanks for all those who prayed and fasted for us as well. it means a lot!

heres to being 23 weeks and having 12 more weeks of bedrest.

rant.

my child is driving me bonkers today (ok for the last few days). She is definitely turning 3 next month. 3 is definitely going to be harder then 2 - just like everyone has said. I don't even know what "terrible two's" are because she was a pretty good kid. Now i just hear whining and tantrums and "mommy, you make me sad" because i dont give in to what she wants....

sigh....this + double the hormones = a few meltdowns.

this morning was probably the toughest. From waking up to having accidents in her clothes to getting upset because she couldn't sit in the chair with pee in it, to not wanting cereal for breakfast to cousin ayla can't come to the park with us... etc.... im not in the mood.

im tempted to have yet another "movie" day..... i figured I cleaned on monday, yesterday i did 2 weeks worth of laundry - today i can just to not do anything and let my child's brain rot while she watches hours of Sprout and Disney movies. Sigh....

i WILL take her to the park today since its the only day it wont rain this week.. thank you Oregon. Its MAY! 50 degrees with no sun is not what i call Spring. But i will manage.

the end. thank goodness for the blog to let me vent with out annoying my sister and husband by going on and on! hhaha

here is a picture of D on monday after she threw a few tantrums. They wore her out.

let's hear it for the boys!

(cant help but sing the song from footloose with that title...!)

first of all - when did it become MAY!? yikes! these past couple of months have gone by so fast and this pregnancy is flying by. And next month my baby girl will be turning 3!

anyways, back to my post! - we have no idea where we will be living when these boys make their arrival... we dont know if we'll still be in oregon, if we'll be in another state - no idea.... therefor i can't really "Nest" and decorate a room for them.

pinterest is also of the devil. Makes me so jealous that i dont have the money or a room to make into a nursery for these boys - and they are ADORABLE rooms.

so i came up with a color scheme for the room (and there is a possibility of D sharing a room with them, how that will work i dont know!) - which will be Yellow, Gray, White and Black since we have all white and black furniture. Since we can't paint? (and we will be renting) - make canvas art. I totally stole this idea from pinterest and my sis in law leslie - she was making really nice ones for friends for their wedding and i thought duh- canvas are pretty cheap at walmart, along with the paint... so thats what i figured i would do to help my "nesting"

i did these so far , and if D does end up sharing a room ihave a few ideas of girly canvas' i can paint for her side of the room. (and the first picture with the canvas on the right - i totally messed up so i was fixing it and therefor the THE in it is missing when i took it..) im not really loving the first two i did, but i do LOVE the "you are my sunshine" blocks i did.

Im also contemplating painting some furniture this summer when Tom isn't so busy to make the room come more together.  I saw THIS blog and fell in love with a. the yellow crib. b. the bedding and im super jealous her mom was able to make it for her.... anyone know how to sew and want to make some custom bedding for me?!?! hahhaha oh how i wish i could sew now!

alright. time to keep daydreaming of when we have a permanent house and i can actually plan!

My Little Chef

D got a giftcard from my parents for Easter - we were trying to find something she would like and found this little Chef outfit that came with an apron, hat, spatula, spoon, oven mit and hot pad. It was pretty darn cute!
So the next day she opened it and demanded to make cookies. Crap. no chocolate chips. So i made a special trip to the store and we made homemade cookies in my kitchen aid - (i never make homemade cookies, im a bag of cookie mix + 1 egg and water type of cookie girl).
she loved it. But she got mad once i scooped the cookie dough onto the sheet.
She thinks that you're just supposed to eat the cookie dough... haha.

Here she is helping mommy out!

4 Years down..

(ok this is impressive. ive hd a new post like every day! - so make sure to catch up on all the posts below!)

Eternity to go!

Tom and I celebrated our 4 year anniversary yesterday. It was kind of a bummer since he has student/teacher conferences from 12 - 8 pm yesterday. But he was able to be with us in the morning and we went out to breakfast as a family. That NEVER happens. He has been so busy with school, student teaching and coaching the high school freshman baseball team that we never see him. So when he got home i had his favorite meal made and made sure the apartment was clean. Boy - i was exhausted after that. Whew. Tom then went and rented the new mission impossible.. not bad.

anyways - i was kind of scrounging around trying to figure out what to get tom for our anniversary ( we arent big gift givers  but he actually got me something this year and i wanted to get him/make him something). I f ound this idea on pinterest - and although mine is not nearly as good as the one i saw (they sell it on etsy for $70!) i figure its pretty good for what i had and i didnt even have to pay anything since i had everything at home.

here it is.

It has the lyrics to "our song" if i can even call it that. Its one of toms favorite - its Brad Paisley's "She's Everything" in the tree - and then our initials in the hearts hanging from the branches. 

Its crazy to look back at the last 4 years - it seems longer then that.. but 4 years is a pretty long time! Tom has given me Dulany and now 2 little boys on the way - and i couldn't be happier! (ok maybe if we could get some job offers for the fall ; )  hahaha. He's such a hard worker and thats one of the things i love most about him! I wont get super mushy in this post... but wanted to share that we made it 4 years and still going strong!

heres pictures to reminisce - 

Love you Tom - Happy 4 Years!

i need a full length mirror

its sad that i have to use photobooth on the mac to see what my stomach looks like! haha. we have one mirror and it i can see shoulders and up. Its weird to see my reflection anywhere else and realize how big i am. I was walking around the outlets with tom this weekend and had a tight shirt on and saw i was getting big and i kept looking at myself. i probably look conceded. Oh well.

so tonight i was rubbing some bio oil on because well... my stomach is already getting tight. Esp above my belly button since one baby sits way up high there. I hope my belly grows a little lower since i have some extra room under my belly button but im up up up...

i decided to actually share. I really want to document it more for me. Im not one to hide anything, and i dont even care about all my stretch marks - whether they are from this pregnancy or D's - i dont know! so here is the BARE belly bump! - (and if you look closely, you can see my belly button trying to poke out... im a little scared i wont have a belly button by the end of this pregnancy)

can you believe 21 weeks im this big? and baby boys are size of carrots.

ps. a family in our ward just had their twin boys today. Just saw a picture of them... and it made me and tom really excited!

Our Christmas Present

ok - this is only 4 months late... BUT - this is how we told tom's family we were pregnant. I found out reaaally early and was taking test after test seeing a faint line. It was a week before christmas and i was "due" for you know what on christmas eve. I even waited to tell Tom because i really wanted to put the pee stick that said " pregnant" i was saving to put in a huge box for him to open..

but stupid me left a test out and he saw it... but it was still a surprise!

I don't really care about sharing personal stuff too much, but it took us a year to get pregnant so it was a perfect christmas gift.

Anyways -we decided to tell his parents this way. We took a picture of our family - this...

and then added a "PREGO" spaghetti sauce. They didnt get it. so heres the video, its pretty funny!

tacky? hope not!

ok i really hope this doesnt come off as tacky....

just a little note! if anyone knows anyone who is done having kids and had boy clothes they are wanting to give away - will you let me know!? We wanted to ask just in case anyone was throwing anything our or giving it to goodwill. We would be glad to take them or even offer to pay something. we are a "buy gently used" kind of family - (craigslist is our best friend!)

after trying to shop this weekend and only getting a few outfits - i got a little stressed out and figured i would ask anyways. Why not? Again, hope its not too tacky!

Thanks!

on a side note. this picture is from Easter - i thought it was too cute. and she was SO tired.

20 weeks

20 weeks today - Whew. I feel huge. and its only half way there!

How Far Along Are You: 20 Weeks

Total Weight Gain: still down 3 lbs. Lost 13, gained 10 back!

How Big are Your Babies? Size of Bananas! weighs about 10 1/2 ounces now. He's also around 6 1/2 inches long from head to bottom and about 10 inches from head to heel.

Maternity Clothes: Yes! at least for pants. Tops im still wearing old ones, and probably stretching them out bad!

Stretch Marks: uh yes, still have them from last time!

Sleep: better now that i have my amazing maternity pillow!

Best Moment This Week: Finding out the genders (2 boys!) and knowing they are safe and healthy.

Movements: Most definitely. Lots more now, not definite kicks from the outside, but definitely on the inside. More from baby A

Food Cravings: uh...slurpees? ive had about 6 of them in the past week. haha

Food Aversions: still spaghetti.. always will be spaghetti. yuck!

Labor Signs: nope, thank goodness

Belly Button in or out?: Half way out...

Miss Anything?: maybe not peeing as much!

What I'm Looking Foward To: Moving and getting the kids room all set up... and seeing if they all fit! haha

Double Trouble is right!

Thats Right! 2 Boys!

I Figured there was at least one boy in there. Baby A is so squirmy and i feel him move all the time i knew it was a boy. During the u/s he was all over the place. He's on my left side head down.

Baby B was a surprise and was a boy as well. I thought he was going to be a she. But i was surprised! Tom is one lucky dad. 2 boys for the price of one! He was worried they were both girls. Baby B is actually right near my liver WAY up high and sideways. thats why above my belly button is always so tight and i don't feel him move that much.

we're really excited, but totally stumped on names. We had names for boy/girl, girl/girl, but not boy/boy! At least we have some time to think about it.

now i just want to get shopping for baby boy clothes!

tom just wants to get some jordans for them (shoes).... seriously..

(ps in the profile of baby B - you can see baby A's bum in the picture, guess he didn't want to feel left out!)