Uh oh!

This week we had a meeting at church and I found out the "very jealous" Elijah. I was in the nursery and there was an 8 month old that was a little crankie and just wanted to be held. She was just tired. Well, twice as she was starting to fall asleep in my arms Elijah came up and hit her. Just flat out walked up to her and hit her in the arm. Of course he got in trouble for it and I tried redirecting him to play with his friend but I could tell he was not happy. Well, she finally fell asleep and I put her down in the pack n play. Elijah came up to it pushed in on the netting and started yelling "UP BABY!" Of course she woke up crying and he got this smirk on his face. You have GOT to be kidding me! I got her back to sleep and he did it again (unto which she did NOT fall asleep again.) I was not a happy mommy! He has never done that before, however, I have never had to give the majority of my attention to another baby as he usually is the youngest in the nursery. Now I need to figure out how to best transition not only 1 baby but 2. Yikes!

Ultrasound Pictures- Finally!

11 weeks 5 days. This is Baby B. This one was not shy this time.

11 weeks 5 days- This is Baby A. More timid.

8 weeks 5 days. Meet Kidney Bean and Lima Bean. This is what they call the twin peaks. You can see the separation between each of the sacks. This is good.

These are actually pictures of pictures so they're not as good as the "real" deal but best I could do. Scanning just doesn't come out the best.

It's been a couple weeks. I'll be 14 weeks tomorrow and I'm starting to feel better. Still a little nauseated, especially when I need to eat but it's usually tolerable. Still tired, especially working but not as bad as before. I most definitely am in my preggo clothes now. Everyone at work has given me 6 more weeks to go buy preggo scrubs. Guess it's a good thing scrubs are more on the loose fitting side.

Elijah is doing great. He is a handful for sure. He has a mind of his own and likes "NO" "I don't want to" and "Mine". When we discipline him or say no to him he says "Mama Go" if Daddy says it, "Daddy Go" if Mama says it and "GaGa go" if both of us say it. Basically he doesn't want us anymore and wants to "go" to the other person. Little stinker. He is very independent and wants to help out with things. Yesterday I was washing dishes and I felt a little person between my legs pushing his step stool and saying "scooze" to get up to the sink and help me. Of course he got water all over but he really wanted to help. He is no longer in his high chair and has a big boy booster seat. Of course when we sit down for dinner Jake and my plate look more appetizing than his, forget that it's the same thing. He still LOVES planes, trains and automobiles. He enjoys when we see the train on the way to church. He keeps saying choo choo. He's so cute. I just can't imagine our life without him!

Another Viewing of Our Babies!

First of all, Elijah is doing much better..thankfully! He has passed a cold to me but it's okay, I can deal with it.

Today I had a busy day. Doctor appointment, ultrasound, work. The Dr. appointment went well. We heard BOTH heartbeats and they sounded good! Then I headed to get my ultrasound. Again everything looks great. I wish I had more than just the little pictures they give you. I will try to scan it and see if I can post them somehow. Baby A was shy but Baby B was showing off and kicking and waving. They are 5.1 and 5.2 cms now. Wow. They're growing! Another US in a month. We'll see a lot more then.

Pictures are of Elijah being a grumpy sourpuss when we made blonde brownies for GaGa's birthday. He did enjoy licking the batter though. If you can't tell he got it EVERYWHERE! The other picture is of him watering our plants. Don't mind the weeds in the background. We've had so much rain that we have grass now. We broke down and paid someone to spray for us. Hopefully that will keep us from having to pay a fine. Anyway. The final picture is a self photo of me at 11 weeks. As you can see I am most definitely showing. I am however pacified at the fact that though I am much bigger than I was with Elijah at this time at least I have TWO babies to show for it. I have only gained a pound through the first trimester but I have felt so sick I'm sure I will catch up once all the "night" sickness goes away. I am starting to get hungrier and wake up in the middle of the night and have to eat a granola bar or something and a big glass of water (which doesn't help with the getting up for other reasons in the middle of the night).

Well, I gotta go. Time to start work!

Misc. Updates

We have a sad little man in our house right now. He is sick with a bad ear infection and WOW is he cranky. I don't think I have seen him this sick since he had hand, foot and mouth almost a year ago. We kept him in our room on Thursday night and he would wake up and just cry and we couldn't do anything to comfort him. He had a 103.6 fever that Tylenol and Ibuprofen didn't keep down for long. Thankfully we were able to get into the doctor and get some medicine. He did not like the doctor at all! Especially since his ear was so sensitive and the dr had to look in it. He LOVED the sucker he got afterwards though and even became a little more talkative. I think the meds are starting to work because he is starting to play for longer periods of time again. Poor little man. It's terrible when your kids are sick! To think I may have 3 of them at once...I can't think about that anymore...I'm already imagining ripping my hair out!

I went for my second OB appointment Thursday morning (first one since we found out the twin news). I felt a little bad because I think I surprised my OB a little. He came in and asked if I was starting to be less fatigued and sick. When I said, no, not really, he said oh, you're 10 5/7 so it should go away soon. Then he proceded to say we should be able to hear the heartbeat today. My response was, heartbeatS hopefully. My response was a look of, oh no, she's having twins, and did I know this? Apparently, though my ultrasound was sent to their office, it was incorrectly filed and so he had glanced at it and knew that one of his patients was having twins, he just didn't know it was me. He then tried to find my report in the abyss of memory in his computer to no avail. They ended up having to get the report refaxed. To my disappointment we did not listen to heartbeats because he said even though you can hear a singleton heartbeat now, twins often hide and he didn't want us to hear one and not the other and then get worried something was wrong. Instead I get to have another ultrasound this week and come back to the office next Thursday. He did give me all the what to expects for twin pregnancy and the frequency of office visits, ultrasounds, and then later, non-stress tests and biophysical profiles. It made me exhausted thinking about it...especially knowing that I have to drive 45 minutes there and back for each appointment in the middle of 115 degree weather all while being (probably) the size of a boat, or at the least a very large Cadillac. I feel like I will already know the little peanuts with the frequency of ultrasounds we will have..once a month until 32 weeks then more than likely weekly. Wow.
Anywho. I better get going.

Song Bird

We have a song bird named Elijah at our house. He randomly sings songs with us picking bits and pieces of what he is saying. And of course the tune is one we have never heard before either. It's kind of like in the movie Elf where Buddy does a singing telegram for his dad. "I'm singing. I'm here and I'm SIIINGGING. ...You're my Dad....I Love You, I Love You, I Love You!" You get the picture, right? I have to admit it's way cuter coming from a little munchkin then a grown up Elf.

All else is well. Same old, same old. Get up, eat breakfast before I pass out, wash the breakfast dishes, lay on the couch b/c I'm already tired (hey, it's a lot of work pouring cereal and putting the bowls in the dishwasher..not to mention I'm growing TWO babies!). Today I cleaned 2 bathrooms before I felt worn out and sick. WOOHOO! I am a little bit nervous because I'm afraid by the time I start to get a little energy I'll be too big to do anything. Of course there is a lot of things to get done and decisions to be made in the next 20-25 weeks and I'm really trying to just relax and rely on God to guide me. It's hard when the pregnancy is so unknown. I could be fine, I could be sick, who knows? I can't really worry about it now, right?

Anywho. Next Drs visit is Thursday. Oh, have I got a lot of questions for him! Hopefully everything measures okay. I am definitely showing though I don't think I've gained any weight.

Later!