Week 19

Today I'm writing from a particularly sleepy state. I slept for 8 hours, but I'm just STILL tired! I know what you're thinking..."just wait, you don't know what tired is, you poor little first time mom" 

You're right, but I'm still tired, so there.

I'm feeling a little complainy, but I really have nothing to complain about. We drove home from a very relaxing time in Phoenix in our new MINIVAN. I'm telling you, it is the way to go! Baby or not! It's so roomy and such a smooth ride. I'm 6 feet tall and pregnant and I could stretch out in the front seat. It was glorious!

So, our babies are about 6 inches long now each (like a zucchini!) they are definitely on their way to making me really uncomfortable. There's some major pressure goin' on that makes it hard to do normal things. The other day I felt a sneeze coming on and I yelled "oh no! I'm gonna sneeze!" Tim ran over, not knowing what to do and tried to help by holding my legs in place, but when I let it out it made my stomach cramp like CRAZY and I yelled "OOWWWWIIEEE, OW OW OW"

It's like what little abs existed are now stretched to capacity and are unable to  protect my insides whatsoever from any outside force, whether it be sneezing or trying to sit up wrong.

Woah, when I was typing just now, I sneezed while typing "sneezing." 

I'm ok.

We're almost to 20 weeks now which is crazy cuz that means I'm 5 months pregnant! That's like, real life pregnant. 

If I thought my pants didn't fit before...oh man, good luck finding a rubber band long enough to hold the fly together now!

I watched a video of a baby moving around in someone's belly on YouTube. Man, that was a bad idea. It is CRAZY looking! Don't look it up if you want to sleep at night. It's called "baby moving and grooving in utero" 

That's right, not movin' and groovin' like it should be. 

It's STILL crazy to me that I'm actually growing children inside of my body. It's still unreal that there are 2! I am not sure when it'll become real, but so far it's just like I'm more fat and tired.

I started to think of funny things to do at a baby shower. I called my sister Summy to ask if she had ideas. She had already come up with a Pinterest board and a list of funny things to do. I knew she was the best person for the job! I'm thinking everybody has to dress like twins with someone else and eat double cheeseburgers. It's easy and something I already love doing. We'll see how it turns out! 

I've started nesting too. I didn't think it was real, but I have already purged almost everything I own that is unnecessary, and even some necessary things have been switched out for new ones. I think it'll kick into high gear after the baby shower when i actually have baby things to put out. 

We're getting very excited over here! Maybe I should set up a calendar for guesses on their birthday. The person who gets it right gets to bring us dinner after they're born! 

That's all for now! If you have any burning questions, you can comment and I'll try to answer them! Otherwise, until next week! 

 

Weeks 17-18

I'm in Arizona! 

Tim is here too. My brother in law just got married, but any excuse to get out of the northwest in February, AMIRIGHT?

It's so nice hanging out in the sun and having my mother in law feed me until I can't eat anymore. The first thing she says when I wake up is "time to feed those babies, how do you like your eggs?"

Well, maybe she says good morning first.

I love it.

So, I know this shouldn't be news by now but I'm getting bigger everyday, like not a little bigger but NOTICEABLY bigger. 

I'm so glad I'm past the "is she fat or pregnant" stage. Now I can wear maternity pants without guilt (like I ever did) and wear things that are tighter on my belly without being self conscious.

MY LOVELY BABY BUMP, checkitout

The babies are the size of a sweet potato each now, and have little eyelashes and fingernails and stuff. They don't move much, but I just figure they're kinda squished in there. I feel them sometimes like right when I wake up, because since I sleep on my side they're in a different position in the morning, all sticking up on one side.

I've been a little sicker the last few days. When I eat I immediately feel THANKSGIVING full and need to lay down or lean wayyy back to digest...for a while. I missed all the dancing at the wedding because of my stomach, but eh...who wants to dance to all their favorite songs anyway :'(

Can't wait til I'm really big though so I can dance and look insane. 

We're coming up on our appointment to find out the genders. We can't wait! Not so much to buy blue or pink things (boring) but to be able to pick names. We have so many in the running, and it'll be nice to know what to expect! I go back and forth what I think they are, but the man on the airplane next to me said "it's 2 girls" and then his wife leaned over and said "he hasn't been wrong yet"

We'll see sir. We'll see.

I automatically thought it was one of each, but lately I've had an inkling it's 2 boys. No real reason. 

It'll probably be triplets all of a sudden and really throw us off, because of course that'd happened to us.

It's been nice to see family and just rest and eat. Seeing my sister Steph has been great, mostly because she suggests cool names like "gibbles" pronounced like "jibbles" but with a g of course.

Also, another friend suggested the names "Magellen and Tesla." Those names are perfect I think. For girls. 

We are definitely on an adventure here in Norrisland, and I can't wait to see how it progresses! I feel pretty good, and I'm hoping it keeps up!

Until next week.

 

Week 16

I wrote my WHOLE post and then it deleted. I'm so annoyed! Maybe I'll just post a picture of myself and go eat a cookie. No, I'll just re write it and hope I remember it all. 

Anyway, here's a picture of me a few minutes ago when i was happy.

So I know I'm not showing too much, but those little dill pickles are definitely in there and making my belly hard and round. Before I could kinda squish myself into pants, but now it's like trying to put a size 4 on a size 8 statue. 

I have graduated into my maternity leggings and dresses, actually who am I kidding, I bought maternity leggings back in November and never looked back. It's never too soon to dress in maternity clothing, AMIRIGHT? No muffin top. (Although the top is the best part of the muffin)

We went to an OB last week and saw our little buddies moving around! They're so alive and active! Right now they're head toe, so one keeps getting kicked in the head. Well, baby, get used to it. Your brother or sister will probably never stop doing that. At least, when no one is looking so you can't prove it.

It doesn't feel real sometimes, because I can't feel them moving yet. I should any day now, but maybe I should be thankful for this time pre-insidepunching. They're going to be making me extremely uncomfortable in the next few months. I guess I can wait. 

Oh also my feet are swelling a little, it's pretty cute. My feet didn't fit in my shoes after the Super Bowl party. Maybe I sat around and ate too hard. 

I like to say that I have 3 brains now, although that would make you think I could remember words I need on a regular basis like "envelope" or "balance." Those words would come in handy working at a bank as a teller, but somehow they escape me. Every. Time.

"Thanks for coming in, here's your amountofmoneyinyouraccount, would you like a paperthingthatholdsmoney?"

All in all, with the body changes, brain farts and slight sickness, I am very fortunate to have these little twinkles coming! I can't wait to hug them and put them in matching outfits and watch Tim be their dad. How does one girl get so much favor? I'm so thankful. 

Until next week! (reporting from Arizona!)