28 Week Appointment

I had my 28 week appointment last week and both babies are still doing great!  Lizzi is measuring 2 pounds 9 ounces and Liam is 2 pounds 12 ounces.  I go back next week for my 30 week appointment and imagine I will be going weely after that.  My goal is still to keep the babies cooking until at least 34 weeks.  I am still trying to work until after Christmas which would put me at 32 weeks.  I have been feeling pretty good except for struggling to get comfortable at night.  Maybe it's the body's way of getting me used to only sleeping for an hour or two at a time.

Here is our sweet baby girl Lizzi!!!!  We finally got a picture of her pretty face!!!  <3

 This one is a little hard to see but it's both babies' hearts.  The large circles are their chests, the small dark circles with the arrows pointing toward them are their hearts.

 This sonogram is of the top of Liam's head....he already has some hair growing!!  It is labeled on the left hand side of the picture and its the fuzzy white line.  The sonographer said that 28 weeks is the earliest they see hair starting to grow so he may have a head-full by the time he's born (and explain all this heart burn!). 

 Another artist's rendering of fraternal twins at 28 weeks.....getting big!!  I'm wondering where all my organs are now?

Festival of Trees

We took a little trip to the festival of trees so Tori could tell Santa what she wanted for Christmas.  She LOVED all the trees, especially the huge tree covered with candy :)

 She had to ride the train twice.....and cried both times when we dragger her away!

 She did great with Santa this year!  She told him she wanted a horsey for Christmas and gave him a big hug.

 She hugged and kissed the little gingerbread baby cut out while we waited in line to buy their famous cookies!

 Yum!  The best part! :)

A Few Pictures

We headed to the park today to take a few fall pictures before it got too icky outside and before I get too big to want to have pictures taken.   Tori was very tired but she did great, and said "cheese!" almost every pose we asked her to do.  Thanks Jeff for taking them for us!

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween from Mario and Princess Peach!!

 Tori had a great time trick-or-treating!  Brian would pick her up so she could reach the door bell, she would ring it and say trick-or-treat (which sounded like Chuck-e-Cheese) and then say thank you at each house.  She kept telling us she was having so much fun :)  We took her through a neighbor's haunted house they do in their back yard each year and and loved that too! 

 We ran into a little Mario and he got SO excited to see the "real" Mario and to see Princess Peach.  It was so cute!

We had a fun night and Tori came home with lots of candy.  She's getting so big and each holiday just gets more fun!!

Six Months Down!

Well we've made it to 24 weeks!  It is a little comforting to know that if the twins were born at this point that they would have a chance of surviving but they definitely still have a long way to cook before they're ready.  All three of us are still doing well, no complications yet.  I'm now going to the doctor every other week for closer monitoring and growth scans.  The babies are getting cramped already and we still have at least 10 weeks to go.  William is measuring 1 pound 10 ounces and Elizabeth is 1 pound 8 ounces.  They are still in the same positions, with William low and head down with his feet on the upper right side of my stomach kicking his sister in the head (see sonogram picture).  Lizzi is lying horizontal across the top of my stomach with her head on the right top and her tush on the left top.  Her feet are down by her brother's head kicking him in the head and back.  :)  No wonder I usually feel them both moving at the same time....they're waking eachother up each time.

Sonogram picture is Liam's leg on top and Lizzi's head.  You can see how thin the membrane is between them, its the thin white line under his leg.

24 Week Belly....getting big!!



I love these pictures :)  Here's a drawing of fraternal twins at 24 weeks.  Look at how big those babies are!  This pregnancy is going so fast, I can't believe we only have a few months left!

Crafty Mommy Weekend

Ok, so yes I'm very behind on posting.....but hello, we're not only getting ready for one new baby but two new babies! So any way, one of the many reasons why I haven't posted in a while is I've gotten into craft project mode! We asked Brian's brother, Scott, to draw some monkeys that match our nursery bedding on the walls of the babies' room. We're completely done painting the three monkeys and just need some finishing touches before I post pictures of the twin's nursery. So biggest project is done! yay! The next project I started was to start making some hair bows and hair clips for Tori's bangs that are growing out and some for baby Elizabeth. They're so much fun to make! The type I enjoy the most are the flower clippies but I am trying to work more with the boutique bows, so maybe those will become less frustrating and more fun as I get better at making them.  Here are a few...

 So after making several hair clips I started to realize that I have no where to store them..... and so another craft project began!  I made each girl a hair bow holder!  The only thing still missing on them is I want Brian to get some small hooks the next time he's at the hardware store to put at the bottom of each holder for headbands and pony tail holders.  Very easy project and each holder only cost about $5 to make!  Feel free to ask if you want the super easy directions!  These were the first clips that I made....Tori's holder is filling up fast!

My favorite bow so far....Cardinals baseball :)

The last project of the weekend.... the twin's nursery letters!  They're finally done also!  We let Tori paint Liam's letters all by herself then we just went over them to make the brush strokes a little nicer.  She loves crafts, especially painting, so she did a great job making the letters blue.  Can't wait to get them on the walls and go shopping for the final pieces for their room. 

I tried to use this project to talk to her more about having a baby brother and sister but she still doesn't seem to understand what's going to happen in a few months.  She will tell me that the bottles and baby clothes are for the babies but doesn't seem to understand that we're actually bringing two home soon.... boy will that be a shock for her!  She loves to be our big helper so we're hoping that by having her help do everything with the twins that she won't become jealous and that she will fall into the big sister role easily but I guess we'll just have to wait and see!  Only 11 weeks until my goal (per the ob) of 34 weeks!

So they were wrong....it's a BOY!

So we went to the Doctor for my 20-week sonogram and had an hour scheduled for the anatomical ultrasound of both babies.  Brian took the morning off work since he has missed many of the sonograms.  The sonogram tech was checking baby A from head to toe and when we got the "goods" SHE HAD GROWN BOY PARTS!!!  The tech knew we had been told we were having two girls so she checked from several different angles and showed us about 10 views all of which were conclusively BOY!  Brian was SO excited when she told us that the first sonogram was wrong!  We don't even mind that we've done some shopping and the nursery is almost finished!  Brian is so excited to be getting his boy :) We're also very happy that both babies are very healthy, everything looks perfect with them, and that my body seems to be handling the twin pregnancy well.  No talk of bed rest yet!  The doctor said it may become a reality the closer I get to 30 weeks but for now I can continue with any activity that I am comfortable with including continuing to work.  I have been worried about being forced to leave work earlier than planned but we're still hoping I will make it to mid December.  We were also very happy that both babies are measuring big for their gestational age.  Our boy is estimated at 12 ounces and laying head down and our girl is at 14 ounces (almost a week ahead!) and laying vertex across my diaphragm.  We couldn't have been happier with the appointment!  Now we just have to figure out how we're going to work some blue into the nursery and do some shopping for baby boy clothes!!  :)