37 Weeks!

I went to the doctor for my 27 Week Check-Up yesterday. I go every two weeks, so, normally, there isn't anything to write about. Yesterday was a bit different!

First, the doctor measures my belly (this is never fun), I am 27 weeks pregnant, however, my belly measures 37 weeks! Yay twins! They have lots of room in there. I am afraid to hear what my belly will actually measure at 37 weeks. One of my friends with twins measured 50 weeks when she was at 37 weeks, I am sure this will be lovely!

Second, we had the c-section conversation. I've always known that with twins I have a higher risk for having a c-section. One of the babies has been positioned correctly for 26 weeks....so I thought maybe I wouldn't have to have the c-section at all. But, last week sometime, she turned around, and now both babies are breech. The doctor says she'll continue to monitor their positions, however, this late in the pregnancy, it's unlikely that they will both turn. So, c-section it is! The best thing I see is that I get paid another 2 weeks for my maternity leave, so, it's not all bad!

Right now, the babies are a combined 5 lbs! Keep praying for healthy babies, our goal is at least 5.5 lbs each, more if we can make it! That's 11 lbs of baby! We'll have more updates on the babies coming over the next few weeks!

Our 10 Minute Car Ride

My family was in town for my first baby shower this weekend and Jason and I had the privilege of driving my niece, Ella, and oldest nephew, Will, to dinner. Ella and Will requested to ride with us, so, rather than take their car seats out of my mom's car and into our car, it was easier for Jason to just drive my mom's car. When we're in the car with Will and Ella, there is never a shortage of conversation, here are some of the highlights from our drive:

----------Conversation #1----------

Me: I hate that my mom's car makes that beeping noise when you back up.
Will: Did you say "hate"?
Me: No
Will: But I heard you.
(Oh great, now I've used the word "hate" and lied about it! What kind of parent will I be??)
Me: I probably should have said "I would prefer if Grammie's car didn't make that noise"
Will: OK (He seemed content with this answer...phew!)
Ella chimes in: It doesn't beep this much when Grammie drives it.

----------Conversation #2----------

Will (out of no where): Sometimes, when your nose is stuffy, you can put water in a teapot and pour it in your nose, then, you will feel better.
Me: Will, what make you think of that?
Will: I don't know.

I'm assuming that Will has never actually used a Neti pot, but, he seems to be well versed in how it operates!

We love our conversations with Ella & Will, they are so much fun! I can't wait until it's our two kids in the backseat engaging us in conversation! Hopefully by then, I will have learned not to use the word "hate".

I Scared the Bajeezes Out of Amy Last Night

Like Amy does every night, she woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. As she slowly got out of bed (this is a lot of effort for a woman pregnant with twins), Amy heard me move on my side of the bed. Her getting out of bed must have woken me up and I realized I needed to go the bathroom. (I drank a lot of water after my late basketball game.) Not noticing Amy was no longer next to me, I quietly made my way to the bathroom so I would not wake her. I must have been only a couple seconds behind Amy because right as she was flipping the bathroom light on, I accidentally touched her back trying to open the door.

I have never seen someone so scared in my life. She let out an airy "uh, uh, uh" scream and violently shook her arms around her face as if she was a T-Rex trying to swat a fly away from her face. This went on for several seconds...long after she realized it was me who touched her.

I felt so bad and was worried she was going to have a heart attack or go into labor. Amy said the incident definitely woke the twins up.

Thankfully, everything is okay and there was no lasting trauma. :) Now, we find the event humorous. It made me thing of my friend, Jeff, who loves scaring his wife, Shawna. Jeff would have been proud of me for this scare. Let's see him top this one!

Googling "Ghetto HEB"

Every once in awhile, I like to see how people got to our site. My favorite is to see what people searched for that lead them here. For example, when you Google for "Perinatologist Dallas" (without quotes), we show up on the first or second page.

Well, when I checked this time, I noticed that someone found our site by searching for "Ghetto HEB." I thought that was pretty funny. Amy calls our (soon to be former) HEB Ghetto all the time. (Though I do think a "ghetto HEB" is way better than most any other grocery store.)

So Long, U-Verse

One thing I am going to miss about our old house was AT&T U-Verse (cable, DVR, and internet) since it is not available (yet) at our new house. U-Verse has worked great and is at least a hundred times better than Time Warner cable. Last night was suppose to be the night where Amy and I cleared off the DVR. However, when we tried to do so, nothing would work. I rebooted everything several times with no luck. We can't see any recordings nor can we even watch live television on our main TV! I think the U-Verse knew I was leaving it and was trying to make the breakup easier.

We Are Now Renters...

After a couple hiccups, Amy and I closed on the house we are selling today. We will close on the house we are buying next week. We were much more worried about this closing than we are about the one next week. The buyer's realtor has been very unpleasant to work with (and that is putting it nicely).

As a little closing treat, Kary (one of our awesome realtors) brought Amy and I four cupcakes from one of their favorite bakery's.


As you can see from this picture, two of them (the chocolate and vanilla ones) didn't last very long. Trust me...there were four in there when Kary gave them to us a couple hours ago. These other two might make it to tomorrow.

Fathers Day

Fathers day was an extra special event this year....not only did we get to celebrate with my Dad, this is the first year we got to honor Jason as a father too! He hasn't changed his first diaper yet, or sung his first baby to sleep, but, I have no doubt he'll be an excellent father! If his skills as an uncle are any indication (he's way more popular with Ella, Will & Cal than I am) then I think he'll get the hang of this fathering thing fairly easily. My mom got the perfect fathers day gift for Jason. First, a gift card to Rudy's. You can't go wrong when you give him the gift of meat. Plus, she bought these cute little outfits! I love them! Can't wait to take a picture of Jason & his two kids in these outfits!

Happy (belated) Father's Day Jason! You're children will be blessed to have you as a daddy!

This Old House -- Part 2

I left out a few rooms the first time I blogged about our current home. I'd like to tell you it's because we just didn't have the pictures, but honestly, we didn't take the pictures because the bed wasn't made and some of these rooms were already full of boxes. We cleaned up the rooms just enough to snap a few pictures of some of the other places in our house. Here they are...

Here is our green bedroom with our dark brown furniture.

Our Green bedroom with a view of our backyard:

This is our office with our vacation picture wall. We also keep a large green chair in this room but it was covered in boxes at the time this picture was taken.

You might be wondering why we have a picture of a shower shared. The reason is my sweet husband spent hours in here one day scrubbing, cleaning and using his new Dremel to take some of the grout & caulk out. You see, the folks who lived in the house before us decided that they would caulk over the mildew in the bathroom so the caulk would look good for a few weeks.....problem was, the mildew eventually peaked through! No matter how many times we scrubbed it, we couldn't get the shower to look clean. So, Jason used his power tools to take care of the situation! Now, we have a pristine, white shower! Thanks babe!

Here are some of the super cute mirrors I mentioned earlier. This is our master bathroom.
Here is our other bathroom with its own cute mirror. This bathroom had two doors so you could enter or leave from multiple directions. This actually caused some issues over the years. People would sometimes go into the bathroom and only shut one of the two doors. After a few awkward moments (Mike, you know what I'm talking about), we started telling people "shut both doors" whenever they used our bathroom. Every bathroom in our new house only has one door.