Anyone remember me testing a vest pattern for an etsy seller? ( don't worry, I don't expect anyone to keep up on my borderline obsessive sewing habbit... okay, maybe not borderline, haha). Well, she has now finalized the pattern and put my pic on her blog and when selling the pattern! That's because Jack is such a stud, haha.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/62300480/pint-size-professor-vest-reversible-pdf

http://littlelizardking.blogspot.com/2011/02/pint-sized-professor-vest-pattern.html


Still waiting to see if she uses Abs picture on her ruffle dress:)

Halfway there!!!

I am at least halfway through this pregnancy! I hit 19 weeks today, and since he will induce at 38 weeks that means I am halfsies, if not more! ... hopefully just half, let them cook as long as possible!! My belly was this big with the other two around six months... so yeah, I am gonna be huge! Kinda nervous about the shirt situation, though I probably wont leave the house towards the end and just wear a tent size shirt... or a mumu;)



I have hit the point where it is impossible to get a good night sleep... The last week or so I just toss and turn, the second I find a comfy position I have to go pee, or I wake up every hour with an aching belly. Slept on the recliner last night and that helped, but I would rather be in my nice warm bed.

I must officially look pregnant now... Strangers have begun asking me, though I tend not to say twins or when I am due because people have really dumb reactions to that for the most part. Like "oh you will have your hands full" or "My aunt's best friends sister's brother-in-law had twins" or "July will be so hot!" or my favorite I have gotten so far... (this was around 16 weeks before I really had a bump... and I had on a bulky jacket) "I knew it was twins! You are big already!" ... That one came from a realative, luckily we were in a church or I probably would have knocked him out... or had a few choice words for him. Ben was mad at me on Sunday because 2 different ladies in the ward were hinting at me being pregnant but I didn't say anything about it. One eventually just asked me, the other didn't. He said they were probably just trying to not hurt my feelings in case I wasn't, but oh well. I like to see people squirm... and I didn't feel like getting into it that day.

Twin pregnancy is so different than a singleton, at least for me. The first tri was horrible and the second isn't much better, I still am getting nausea every other day or so and I am exhausted all the time... (could be my lack of sleep at night, although I have been the whole pregnancy) They say every symptom is multiplied with twins and I believe it! With my previous two pregnancies I was never sick and only tired in the third tri.

Well, that is my pregnancy update!! Until the two stinkers cooperate and show us the goods... haha

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;)