Our week.

Abby decided she needed a dress too after I made the baby sized one in the previous post. Well, she absolutely LOVES it! I made it last night and she wanted to wear it "to bed, then to school on Friday, the to church..." Eh, it may need to be washed sometime in between that, but she said "don't worry I wont wear it Saturday and you can wash it... I will remind you!" Thanks Abs.


I changed up the style of the sleeve a little, instead of putting elastic in I let it be. I think I like it...

This is the only pose I got... she said it was too cold outside...

She took it off to play outside;) Where she found "the first butterfly of spring!!!! And look, it is a Monarch butterfly, my favorite kind of butterfly!" I don't know if she killed it or not... it was pretty chill and just hung out on her finger for a while... but it did flutter it's wings every now and then, so maybe not??

Then there was Jack. He has had a rough week. First he burnt his eye on the rice cooker. Seriously kid?! There is an inch of hot and he managed to land right on it! Then two days later he was in the bathroom and jumped near the tub and, well, you can see the result. If this kid doesn't have a scratch or a bruise he must have stayed in bed that day. I swear it is something everyday with him!!

Ben had to go "emergency drill" at a coal mine on Saturday, from 5 am to 10 pm. He found out the night before he was to leave... He ended going back up on Monday too, this was taken I think on Saturday. It isn't the best picture of him (sorry, Ben:) But I think it is funny you can see where his visor and glasses were. He had on a special mask, but I dont think it did much good.

Anyway, that was our week, how was yours?

sewing goodness.

Well, I wont admit how long it took me from start to finish... lets just say it should have been about ten minutes, but turned into... days... Mostly because I have so much other crap to do when I have the energy that sewing has been pushed waaaay back on my list:(




My mother-in-law let me raid her awesome stash of scraps a few weeks ago. *happy dance* She had a "jelly roll" she used for a baby quilt and had some strips left. (to those non-quilters/sewers, a jelly roll is a bunch of coordinating 2 inch by 44 inch strips) So I have a bunch left over from the one on the left... sounds like more bibs to me! *notice the bib in the first picture is different from the second picture, and I have enough for at least two more:)

Because it just looks so much cuter with a baby attached.

I bought this awesome pattern from Leila and Ben. This size is 7-10 months... should have been 6-9 but I may have muffed the copying of the pattern a bit... okay, I did. Oh well, still cute. And it is in Abby's size too, so she will get one someday. I have made my own pattern like this but it was a pain to figure out the dimensions, hence the buying since it runs from 3 months to ... I think size 8. So... if one of the twins would like to be a girl, I am prepared, hahaha.

And I have a bunch of ideas of how to modify it to make it look different. yay! Hopefully I'll get more energy soon;)

Nope.

Today was not the day to find out. I figured it would be too early, but a girl can hope, right?

Well I found out I need to see a Maternal Fetal Medicine specialist, which basically does an indepth ultrasound. Measurements, anatomy, etc. So that is scheduled for next week!

I heard the heart beats for the first time today. So neat! And in order to get accurate heart beats in twins they do an u/s. Which I am of course not against a chance to see them;) He said in the begining he does the heart beat in an u/s because then he can tell he is getting two seperate ones and not the same kid twice.

He aslo said they like to deliver twins at 38 weeks... which makes it July 5... and Abby is born on the 4th... I am not thrilled about that, maybe they can come a bit earlier? :) Oh well, I will take them whenever they come! He says the risk of problems after 38 weeks is just to high, so at least I wont be over! Think positive, right?

Vote!

I am *hoping* the doctor will let me find out the genders tomorrow... maybe, maybe not... And that all depends on if the little nuggets decide to cooperate. Anywho, just for fun vote in my poll on the side bar!!

Oh, Abby.

So, Abby is really good at making messes in her room. I am really good about fighting with her to clean it until I just get mad and do it myself. The latest battle has gone on, oh for probably two weeks. Don't judge me, I have still been feeling crappy;), not that I think you are judging me. My house isn't perfectly clean-ever. Anyways, back to our battle. So I left the house for about 45 minutes today and told Abby she needed to make it clean enough for me to tell a difference. Oh boy. I came home to this:


This ^^ is the entire contents of her closet, thrown into the middle of the room. The closet is what I wanted her to clean, by the way. So I get home and she BEGS me to help clean it.




See? Nice and clean. Well, I finally got so fed up with it I went in and emptied out 2 overflowing garbage cans. Mind you, we still use Ben's metal garbage can that is a 30 gallon one. Ugly, but it does it's job. So let's just say it should be A LOT easier for her to clean her room. Am I the only one who fights with their kids about this? I am open for advice;)

mad skills.

So forever Jack has refused to draw on his own. People, trains, animals you name it, someone else did it for him... and he would throw a tantrum if you didn't do it for him- immediately! But recently he has been drawing circles, and slowly adding features until...

He calls it his happy face. I love the little legs minus the body:)

Uh, are you SURE?!

Yeah, that was my reaction. I went to the doctor Thursday afternoon and was impressed they did an u/s that early. I had never been in that soon (insurance reasons), I guess this dr does them on all his first visits. It was the usual, doc was running 45 minutes behind... contemplated leaving... (ok, no I didn't but I imagined just leaving) Anyways, Ben wasn't there, because I thought it was just a routine checkup.

So he starts to do the u/s and slides it from one side to the other, to the other, to the other, to the other, etc. By this time I think I see what he sees. Then he put it right in the middle and said "here is baby a, here is baby b." What?!?!?! "so... there's TWO of them in there??" I was so in shock I didn't know what to say... didn't know what questions to ask... btw, I have about a million now! He said baby a is measuring 13w3d and baby b is measuring 13w4d. They are in two sacs with two seperate placentas, I am told that is the prefered way. So everything is good as of today!!

This is 13w2d

I was frustrated in the begining because I had put on 15 pounds! Then I was sooo sick I lost 7. I was thinking, how much will I be putting on if I gained that much already, this was before I knew about the extra one in there, so now I am not as worried.

The funny thing is, I always had a feeling it was twins. I was in bed the night before my appointment and I was so excited, I felt the baby move! I stayed still for a few minutes and it kept happening, then I felt it on the other side and decided it just must have been gas. nope! Baby A is VERY active at night, Baby B is more active in the afternoon. But once one starts they both do.

I am told I am past the scary part for twins. Well, luckily I didn't know there was a scary part! I am just taki png it one day at a time, trying not to get stressed about the risks like them being born early, or having to have a csection, and I am sure there are many more but if you know them don't tell me! :) Here's to a healthy and lengthy pregnancy! Can't wait to see what they are!! I have my feeling, but we will see!