update on 'us' girls!

25 Weeks!

Through all the pain and constant activity I still can't believe there are two in there sometimes! We're going to have two babies at the same time and we just can't believe it! They're 13 1/2 inches long and weigh about 2 pounds each. As for me?...I had another 10 pound month!!

**Get this: in our last ultrasound they printed up about 15 pictures for us and as we were looking at them we found something pretty remarkable! I'm not kidding. Our two girls are completely different. Baby A has my exact same toes. We were laughing so hard we couldn't hardly talk. Her big toe is uh...not small and her limbs are shorter and more round. Baby B takes 100% after her daddy. She has long toes and skinny feet. Her bones in her arms and legs are slender and much longer than A's. Their profiles kill me they're so different! It will be so fun and interesting to see how it all turns out when they arrive. See if we were right or not. Isn't that neat?!!

**I need to have everything ready by mid November, the Doc says, just in case I'm ready to go....I'm running out of time here folks! How exciting!! We're still trying to figure out what to name our daughters! ALSO- Anyone, by chance, know of a good nanny??

21 Weeks!

looking much smaller than above

Here I am needing to pee more than ever! I couldn't get into our car because Shane kept locking the doors on me....
........I WOULD have made it to the bathroom, BUT then I sneezed once I got in the car!!! haha. Shane was dying and I couldn't keep from laughing either which just made my bladder NOT want to cooperate even more. Slightly peeing my pants was definitely worth the memory!!

......where does the time go?!!

Our precious baby A's profile- she's getting so big! Baby B must have been having a bad hair day because she was NOT going to let us take her picture...

We had our 24 week check up with the Perinatologist at Utah Valley again yesterday. I get so excited for these appts I can hardly stand it. I also get so nervous that I about made myself sick on the drive over. (So many things can go wrong, and only you moms with twins our there know exactly what I'm talking about.) Results are: Mommy isn't doing great but the girls are- and that's all I honestly care about!!! The best part about the appt was the news of them growing at the exact same speed. They actualy weigh the very same amount and measuring three days ahead of schedule. I couldn't be more thankful. Baby A's placenta has completely moved up and out of the way of my cervix. Although she likes to sit extremely low still.

The only thing cooler than feeling one baby kick is feeling two! I woke up around three last night and stayed up watching my stomach. It's incredible- I love feeling them and because there are two in there I've been feeling them longer than singleton pregnancies. It's not that they're bigger it's just that they have less room so I feel them earlier. This is something I've really really enjoyed.

The Doctor told me a womens uterus at 24 weeks is at their belly button or just above it. Mine is all the way up to the middle of my ribs. Which explains soooo much pain I've been having. Baby B has really bruised the right side of my ribs. She likes to nestle her head up in there. As time goes on we hope she doesn't break one of them. I don't usually complain but this sometimes makes me want to scream which is rare because I know I can handle alot. I loved my appt, every minute of it! Next week I see Dr. Judd- hopefully my red blood cells are getting more oxygen now considering that nasty liquid med I have to take to compensate for it :) tastes like blood. Ewww- I'm laughing as I type because I made Shane try it one time and that was one priceless face!