36 weeks and waiting patiently

This past Wednesday marked the 36th week of this pregnancy! It is so crazy to think that I have spent so much time willing the babies to stay inside and grow, and now I am cautiously willing them to make their way out!

Our last measurements on them was approximately 2 weeks ago and there was a combined 10lbs of baby in there! Both of them estimated to be around 5 lbs.

Last week Baby B(girl) decided to do a little flip flop and was breech. This totally shocked me, first that I didn't feel a 5 lb. baby move, and second that a 5 lb baby was able to completely switch positions while sharing space with another 5 lb baby!
So...last weekend was spent doing multiple stretching exercise/yoga poses to encourage her to return to a "head down" position. I'm not sure it was due to the exercises/yoga poses but she did indeed reposition herself to being head down, and do believe I felt the second flip and it wasn't pleasant, I actually contemplated if the discomfort I was having at the time was the beginnings of labor!

I'm really glad that spring is here...it does feel like it has been a long winter!

And....I cannot forget to mention the 2010 Big East Champion Mountaineer Basketball team! How exciting was that???? Last year Chad and I went to NYC and watched the Big East Tournament which was a blast, but for obvious reasons were unable to attend this year! Let me tell you, if those come down to the wire, nail biting games didn't send me into labor....nothing will! Here's hoping for 6 more wins so that my babies can say they were born days before WVU won it's first National Championship!

A few pics below of my belly @ 36 weeks..




A little blurry but a pic of Wells and the BE Championship trophy!!!!

Week 14

Okay...I am failing at posting on Wednesdays and it is fitting better in my schedule to do a posting on Sunday evenings, so maybe I will just start doing them on Sunday evenings!!!

Week 14 nothing interesting to note!!! The Book tells me that the babies could be up to 4 inches long now and they may weigh an ounce!!! It also tells me that I may need to be wearing maternity clothes by now, and I don't have to WoooHooooo! I am sure my day is coming, but I am going to try my best to find some stylish ones!!!! Since I don't have much to new news I am going to post a few pics of me and my belly or as Chad says non existent belly! Believe me you may not see it but I know there is a change!!!

This Pic is the before pic taken the morning after I found out I was pregnant! I was about 4 weeks.


This pic was taken this week, so I was 14 weeks and some change!


Enough about pregnancy I want to post some of my latest knitting projects!!! Over the past year and a half I have learned to knit and I LOVE IT!!! My Mom taught me and I just can't get enough! I have mostly made baby hats and booties because a lot of our friends were pregnant at the time and I love getting handmade gifts so I thought I would give some! I have also made some scarves, hats for myself and Chad, dishrags, and a baby blanket or two. So here are a few pics!

Baby hat and booties that were for our friend's son Porter!





And my newest adventure in knitting socks! This is my first sock ever and I am knitting it's mate presently, they are going to be a Christmas gift!!!


I hope you enjoy, and I am going to try to post on Wednesdays but if it doesn't workout Sunday evenings may be my new blogging time!

Have a great week, Missi

First Pics

This post has duel meaning...it will display the first pictures on my blog and also the first pictures of our babies! I hope this turns out right...it is all an experiment (this blog and having two babies...LOL)!

This is the very first pic we saw of both of them that let us know that there was indeed two!!! 9/28/09

This is Baby A on a formal ultrasound on 10/2/09

And we can't forget Baby B 10/2/09!


So how did we take the news that we are going to have twins??? I will be perfectly honest I think I was in shock! At first all I could do was laugh...I think to keep from crying! In my opinion Chad handled it much better than I did, at least on the outside! For two days I literally felt like I was living someone else's life and that this wasn't really happening to us! Not that I was not happy or excited...I was just scared, scratch that VERY SCARED! Scared for the babies health, scared for my health, and scared of basically the unknown and what is to come! After saying "What are we going to do?" to Chad more times than I can count, I finally took his advice, which was "We are just going to do it!" End of story. So here are a few of our thoughts that are keeping us sane....

1.We don't know what it is like to have one child...so two is going to be our normal. I figure that one would be a little less crazy, but our crazy is going to be two!!!

2.There are many problems that can occur during pregnancy that no one can explain why they happen to certain people. Twin pregnancies can up your chances per se for complications, but I am healthy and have no pre-existing conditions that enhance the likely hood of complications so this is good and I am thinking positively!

3.This goes along with thinking positively....I read a quote the other day that said "What you think about you bring about"...so after reading that I have decided that for the next 30+ weeks when it comes to this pregnancy I am a patient first and a nurse second....so I trying to block all my scary, unpleasant, sad labor and delivery experiences from my mind and just remember the good ones and when I actually think about it good experiences far out weighed the bad

The way I plan to work this blog is to do a weekly baby post maybe a pic of them if I have a new one, maybe just an update, or may a pic of my expanding self! I will try to do this on Wednesdays as that is the day of the week that I call my change day, or in other words the day on which I move into the next week of my pregnancy! Mixed in I hope to have posts on my knitting and maybe I will throw a few posts in about Chad and the big buck he thinks he is going to kill this year!