Niiiiice Baby!

Ellie meets her cousin Josiah! She calls him "Niiice beeebeee" and "Baby Bink?" cause she wants us to give him his binkie!

Ellie

Here are some pics. Ellie and her daddy! She loves him so much! Usually I put her to bed, but last night (when these were taken), I went to take her from Kip to rock her and read a book, and she said "Bye Bye" to me! Ugh! Such a daddy's girl!
Then the second one is of me and my three kids! Enjoy ugh!

Half way there TWINS!

 Well if you didn't know yet, you know now. We are having TWINS! Ellie is now 21 months old and can't wait to be a big sister. Ah who am I kidding, she has NO idea her life is going to change next year! Since twins deliver between 37-40 weeks I'm technically half way at 19weeks 2days. I can't believe it's already half over! I need to get a hustle on! 

We went to the OB today for an ultrasound and an appointment. While we were waiting in the office, I saw another girl, who happened to be 37 weeks pregnant with...TWINS. I totally saw my future flash before my eyes. She said she has  7 & 5 year old boys, and a 2 year old girl, with twin girls on the way. WHAT!?! She's going to be WAY busier than I! So there's hope for me yet!

Twin A (top video) and Twin B's heart beats. Twin A 130 Twin B 128. They are always the same or within a couple beats of each other. Our OB says he thinks they are both boys based on their heart rates. Well he also said that with Ellie based on her HR. Then the last few weeks it went up and he said "I think it's a girl" in the delivery room, and there she came! So we will see! 

It is week 19 day 2. And the twins are measuring exactly on track! That's so great! We had our long ultrasound today to measure all of the anatomy of each baby. Everything they could see today, was great. They didn't see anything alarming. We have to go back to have the hearts measured and examined only because the babies are still so small. Baby A=10oz Baby B=11oz So in 4 weeks when they are a pound at least we will go back and get a better look at the heart. 

We did NOT find out gender and will remain on "Team Green" until the bitter end. Last time with Ellie it was such a magical moment hearing them announce her entrance into this world. We want that again! There are so few surprises in life and that has to be the best one of our lives. Why not have two more! 

Baby A Profile

Baby B Profile

This is baby A's lap. As if we were looking down.

Here is a video of both babies. Baby B is on the left. Face up, you can see the heart beating. Baby A is on the right, you can see the top of Baby A's head and a hand.

A lot has happened in the last year!

Weeks 8-13

OK seriously my body is changing. How does she know? Here's how I know:



1. You're in the DRs office and you see woman after woman waddle past with an unbearable grimmace on her face...and this lady her name is: Christie's future. I swear Kip paid them each $5 to walk by just to entice panic!



2. As a stomach sleeper it rocks your world the night you go to bed and realize that sleeping on your stomach directly is no longer a possibility. So you sleep on it inadvertently and then a week later not at all...sleepy time is now no so much sleepy time anymore...evil preparations for parenthood. Shouldn't I be storing up zzzz s not using the spare I have?



3. You order a huge dinner because you're starving, you eat three bites and something (someone ;) ) inside says to you "if you eat one more bite you WILL be sick, I promise!"



4. Things are not where they should be. This used to be back there and that used to be higher and those used to be smaller and less pancake looking...this can not end well for my parts.



5. I fit into those pants yesterday...



While all these things (and more) are changing, evolving, rotating, and migrating I'm so grateful that they are. We couldn't be more happy with a baby on the way! We have started some of the preparations for bringing a baby home and becoming parents. Everyone tells me that pregnancy goes by fast and I hope that I'm as prepared as I can be by the time Minibuns comes!



Today is July 1, 2010 and I am 13w 5d and feeling great. I feel different and there are moments when I don't feel like I'm me anymore. Moments where I coudl burst into tears because I'm confused about who I've become. Then I realize that a) I'm a mass of hormones. So while this crying and hysteria are totally unreasonable, it's completely justifiable. b) I'm no longer living for me. c) the person being put into that cute little onsie will be totally worth all my discomfort and stranger-like feelings with my own body.



For those of you who don't know yet, we will NOT be finding out the gender of our baby. Well eventually we will, but not prior to birth. SO all of you who are asking to just have one quick peek when we turn our backs or one quick word with our DR, the answer is no. We don't want to know, but when we do know, we want to be the first (or second and third after the DR) to know! Sorry to dissapoint!

Ultrasound #2 8 Weeks 6 Days May 28th 2010

Our little baby at 8weeks and 6days. Measuring one day advanced at 9weeks 0days. Although I'm still determined to deliver ON my due date! (@ 1:11am!)

The day that made it all worth it...

We can't believe it but we are finally having a baby! Here's how we found out.

I went in for my blood draw on Friday April 23, 2010 @ 8:30am. Usually they call us around 3pm for results. I went home. I was watching TV and considering taking a nap since the waiting was torture. So I was about to get comfortable and fall asleep and the phone rang, I looked and it was the REs office...but it was only 10:55. This is a little early...
I usually make them leave a message but I didn't I answered it, which I normally don't because Kip wants us to be together when we find out. So I answered and I said "Hi I know what you're going to tell me but don't' tell me because Kip's not here and he wants us to be together." (Imagine that as one word, because that is how it came out). I got sick to my stomach...I was so nervous. I told them I would call them back. Nurse N was very understanding and said that she would take my call when I called. (Also very unusual). I call Kip (10:56) I told him they called and he said "well I guess I can come home before class then and we can call them" I got really quiet. Kip says "Or I could come now if you want" I say "yes come now, I can't wait." Kip comes home and his normal 5-20 minute commute was 12 minutes. WE hung up at 11 and he was home by 11:12. I was totally writhing in pain, my stomach hurt so bad due to nerves. I barely said hi before I started dialing...
Those were the longest two rings ever...then the longest 20 seconds of hold time. (Which in hold time is nothing!) Nurse N gets on the phone and asks if we are together and we said yes and she said "well...YOU'RE PREGNANT" I said "Shut up" she giggled and said "I'm serious!" So then I lost it, wailing I was crying so hard. All that work worth it. In an instant, all my hope, restored. Kip was welling up and had PERMAGRIN! (yes that is a real word). We kind of heard her instructions to continue meds and stop other things and carry on with life this way but not that etc...it was a blur. After that announcement you can't really expect us to hear you anymore!
So when we got off the phone we hugged and cried and I think Kip was about to do cartwheels in our bedroom and I giggled at him he was so giddy! We called Janeen right away because we knew we wanted to tell my parents in person and dad was at work so we wanted to wait until they were together. When we finally got a hold of Janeen she screamed so loud she was so excited! She was screaming and Carl she said was smiling for us! That was a fun moment. We were on cloud nine.
Later that night we went over to my parents. My sister (who knew none of this was going on until this moment) was there. We walked in and my mom is trying to show me all this stuff she bought at Macys and I'm like seriously you need to HUSH, because Kip was giving my dad a gift we had bought him. It was a Barnes and Noble bag and my dad opened it up and it was cigars. He looked at Kip and was like "cigars" with a question mark on his face. Kip said (barely loud enough for my mom to hear) "yeah you'll need those in nine months to hand out in the waiting room" INSTANTLY my mom was crying hysterically. I know you know the kind of crying, where you can't catch your breath you are like stutter crying? That was her. My sister is like "I'm royally confused" but she was excited. So then we filled her in on the experience up until that point and she was like OK I get it now!

We aren't telling the "world" until I am 12 weeks. That will be June 20th. So if you are reading this and it is after June 20th and I'm still pregnant feel free to tell the world!

We are so thrilled that we finally crossed the finish line. And now we can't wait until I graduate from the RE to a regular OBGYN. We are just excited and blessed and still I think a little shocked that we actually made it to this point. The REs office has a tree on the wall, and you get to sign it when you have a baby. I can't wait to sign that thing! The tree, that used to be the wall of "look what I did that you can't do" staring at me every time I sat and waited in the waiting room. I can be a part of the "other side" now and I can't wait. Also Kip and I were talking about how our baby will get to be on one of the bragging walls they have there, the millions of baby pictures. Every time we would leave I would stare because those babies were conceived how mine would be. And it gave me a little bit of hope knowing that.

We are pregnant. Hallelujah!