My Cookie Monster

Okay, I haven't posted pictures in awhile and these are a tad bit old but they are still cute. They're of my little cookie monster. He's been saying cookie (or "cook") for awhile now. He even tries to go into the cupboard to get them. Little monkey. Well, he doesn't get them often, but when he does, he sure makes a mess!

As for me, yes, I'm still sick! Blech! It's okay though. At least I have a reason. Jake has sympathy sickness. He did with Elijah too. He says it's worse this time. I guess it's the twins.

Ultrasound News

Ok, so I've not been able to blog my incredible news and I'm just dying! We had our ultrasound Thursday. When we went in Jake told the tech he just wanted to know what it was...a lima bean or kidney bean. We found out it's both! We are expecting TWINS!!! We are thrilled! The kind of crazy thing is that I was expecting it. Is that weird? In fact, I asked a girl I work with who has twins if she knew that she had twins before her ultrasound. She had said she was washing dishes before the US and the thought popped in her head, what if it's 2 babies? I told her I was wondering if I was going to have twins. Why? A few things. I've had numerous dreams about twins, I've been much more sick with this pregnancy, and for some reason or other I just felt like there are two kiddos in there. I'm glad to find out that there are as I'm already showing and have been since 7 weeks (I know it's the 2nd baby but seriously).
So how did the ultrasound go? Well, pretty much I was thinking to myself "when she puts this wand on my belly I'm going to see 2 sacks. Well, not quite. We saw the one little lima bean and then the tech moved the wand around and it looked like the same image but I wasn't really sure if it was 2 babies or just a different angle. Then she asked me why we were doing an early ultrasound. I told her for dates because I had been having a lot of issues. That pretty much made me feel like I was right in the first place. So she asked me if I could read ultrasounds enough to know what I was looking at. I was like...twins! I thought Jake would fall off his chair he was so excited. She said yes, she just had to do a lot of looking b/c she wanted to be sure there wasn't 3 babies. Wow! They are fraternal and not sharing anything which is WAY good from a NICU nurses perspective. They were measuring 8 5/7 weeks and 8 4/7 weeks (which by dates is 8 5/7 weeks so that's good). Everything looks great. Now I can't wait for my next OB appointment. I have SO many questions. I see the bad aspect of twins so I want to be sure I know exactly how to care for myself so I don't have to be at work to visit my babies. I want to take them home with me. And to be quite frank I really like my OB so I don't want to go to a special perinatologist if I don't have to. From what I've been reading online so far, most natural twins have no complications at all (especially fraternal)...it's when you have twins from fertility treatments.
I think it's amazing that the Lord has chosen me to be able to carry two little miracles. What a blessing! So many people have been supportive! I really have only had one negative response of "oh, I'm so sorry" Hey, not me. I'm just going to need some prayer to get me through the pregnancy and crazy hectic months to follow!

Our Little Stinker

The older that Elijah gets, the more I realize that kids say and do the darndest things. I have to say that while they are cute, they are also little stinkers. Case in point: Elijah has a book called "What's wrong little Pookie?" It's a very cute book by Sandra Boynton. We love all her books. Anyway. The book starts with the little animal, Pookie, being sad and his mom trying to figure out what's wrong. Basically she asks him questions and he says no or that's silly to everything. Well, I read the book to him last night and then let him take it to bed with him. I woke up this morning to hear him saying "awbosjtklj? No. Sabogidfjj? No. LSkdjfkj juice? no." I realized that he was "reading" his book. He understood the concept of the mama asking questions and the baby saying no. How cute? Later in the day we had a quick visit with some friends (who have kids, and more importantly, kids toys) and Jake said it was time to go. Elijah looked at him and said "bye!". Jake said that no, they were both going, and they would go to Papa and GaGa's house. He proceded to say, of course, "bye". Little stinker.
Now I can only imagine how the new baby is going to rock his world. He now "knows" that a baby is in Mama's belly. We ask him where Mama's baby is and he comes over to my belly and lifts up my shirt. We ask him to kiss the baby and he kisses my belly. Way cute but I'm sure 4 days after she (or he) is born he will be pointing back at my belly to say "put it back where it came from!" We'll see!
All for now!

Birthday Celebrations

I am hours away from celebrating my 30th birthday. I just want to say how appreciative I am of my Mom not only carrying me for 9 months (or just shy of) and spending hours in pain and agony to bring me into this world, but also for all of the love, care, and concern that she has given to me these 30 years. Of course, I thank my Dad too, but being a Mommy and not a Daddy I don't know exactly how he felt through the whole experience. I now think that birthdays should be for the Mommy's :)

That being said, I have been blessed with the one thing that I have been hoping and praying for nearly a year to receive...the wonderful privilege to yet again become a Mommy to ANOTHER BABY! Yes, after much crying and praying to the Lord, He has answered and I am a little over 6 weeks pregnant. SOOO, the end of September Elijah will no longer be our one and only. My first OB appointment was today and so far everything looks good so we decided that we can spill the beans. They have changed some of their policies around and so now everyone gets an early ultrasound to be sure of dates so one day soon we will get to see our new little jellybean.

A little off the subject I have been craving an old family comfort food...pasties. My Grandma's family is from Cornwall England and that's something that the miners used to take to work to eat. Well, near work there is a place called Cornish Pasty Co. They sell pasties and I just had to try them. There are a lot of places that sell pasties out here because of the copper mines but so far none has been close to the real McCoy. Well, I finally have found the real deal. When I ordered the waitress told me I wouldn't be disappointed and she was right. Steak, potatoes, onion, and rutabaga in a yummy crust...just like Grandmas. If you don't know what a pasty is you can check it out at www.cornishpastyco.com.

Well, I better go. I'm still 29 and holding right now...I better relish it. Just kidding. I'll be 29 forever!