Week 39

38 Weeks + 5 Days

Both babies looked good in yesterday's ultrasound. (Well, they were both really blurry, but the ultrasound tech said they looked good. I'm glad she can tell the difference between bellies and heads and behinds, because at this point we sure couldn't.) Baby A is estimated to be 7 pounds and Baby B is 7 pounds, 7 ounces. Uff-da! We're very thankful to not have to worry about having preemies. They're doing a ton of squirming around; I'm amazed they still find room to do so. Perhaps that explains the massive stretch marks on my belly.

All worth it.

With my recent return to almost non-stop TV watching in order to lie on my side as much as possible, I thought I would throw a recommendation out there. Little People, Big World is a reality show on TLC that I've thoroughly enjoyed watching over the years. It's about a family who lives in Oregon. The parents and one of their sons are little people, while their three other kids are average sized. The past eight or so episodes have followed their travels through Europe. The footage has been amazing and has made me a little less desperate to get out of dodge and do some traveling. I'm not sure if you can find full episodes online, but with our cable package, it's one of the shows which can be viewed "on-demand".

Week 38 + 3 Days

Howdy All!

No babies yet. We went to the doctor today. Still not much progress. These boys must really love giving Eric time to play golf, because they don't seem to be in any hurry to make their appearance. As early as twins can arrive, we are not complaining. I head back to the doctor's office tomorrow for an ultrasound. We haven't had one since early/mid March, so the doctor thought it would be good to get another one to do a check on the little guys. I'm especially curious to find out how much they weigh. My friend Sandy's prediction is 6 +/- 1.5 pounds. Gotta love the precision of Statistics.

I finally accomplished something. (Besides renewing my black belt in TV-watching.) I finished sewing a bag I started for Kelsey in August! I almost finished it in time for David and Kelsey's visit at Christmas, but needed one more day to get it done. Today was finally the day.

Happy Birthday, Kelsey! (7 months later. Gulp.)

Week 38

Well, I have to admit, I'm not sure I ever pictured us getting to Week 38. One of the teachers at school had twins last year. Her due date was one day away from ours and she had her twins on April 3rd. I guess I figured that would be a pretty good estimate for when ours would arrive. Two weeks later...

I head back in to the doctor on Monday, so we'll see what she thinks.

We have such generous friends. (THANK YOU!!!)

Lately we received this jumbo jet shape sorter (among other great gifts) from Kalle, Tony, and Emerson. Kalle also copied a bunch of Emerson's favorite lullabies and songs onto a bunch of CDs.

A box full of goodies also arrived from Ben, Colette, and Janina today. Too many to feature all of them, but a few highlights include outfits for hanging out with Eric:

and business attire in case they need to make a presentation to corporate:

Last night we ate dinner out at The Perfect Landing restaurant at Centennial Airport. It's on the southeast side of the metro and has beautiful views of the mountains. Centennial Airport is used mainly for smaller planes, private planes, and helicopters.

Amateur Photography Experimentation

Eric gave me a couple of photography books for my birthday, so this afternoon I started reading through them. I haven't made it very far, but I did figure out how to change to black and white mode.

And somehow managed to turn Eric into The Flash.



Heading back to the doctor tomorrow. We'll see if these babies are making any progress, but it sure seems like they are liking snuggling too much to make an appearance. In the mean time, I am thoroughly enjoying spending all this time with Eric. The longest we've ever spent together is two weeks (that's also the longest we've been apart- it stunk.) We're about to break a record...

Week 37

I forgot the Week 36 picture in the last post:

As comparison, Week 37 (taken yesterday):

(I don't see much change any more. Once you're huge, you're huge?)

More progress in the nursery.
Eric put up some airplane and cloud wall stick-ons:



We've added a glider rocker and side table:

The dresser is ready with books (notice the airplane book ends) and picture frames:


Jeani picked up a couple of pack-n-plays at her church's consignment sale. We got a heck of a deal. The nice thing about these is that they can sit in our living room so that we have a changing table on the main floor. We'll keep one and the other one will go to my parents' house.


And finally... a shout-out to Julie and Amanda (go to 0:41 seconds):

Week 36

No progress this past week. BP was 112/78 (nice and low during spring break). Fundal height 44cm. Baby A- 136 bpm; Baby B- 140 bpm.
I went on official leave this week. It's been really weird to not be at school, but I was to the point where it was getting really difficult to make it through a full day of teaching. I've been sleeping about 10 hours each night and quite often can sleep for a couple of hours in the afternoon. I'm trying to store it up as much as possible; I hear I'll be lacking sleep soon enough.

On Saturday, I went over to cousin John and Jeani's house. I enjoyed the chance to see Kent and Debi again. They surprised me with a birthday cake and presents which I thought was really nice.


Not much room for Jacob; he had to hang out on the bump:

Yesterday my parents arrived into town; they closed on their house today. Eric worked on installing the car seats in his Jeep and putting together the stroller frame that the baby carriers snap into.


We finished the evening with a nice birthday dinner.



A view of my feet:

Just wondering when the babies will make their appearance...