Happy Birthday Dad!

Just wanted to say Happy Birthday to my dad!! Brian and I took him to lunch at Cadillac Bar in Houston...all 5 of us enjoyed the great food. Love you dad thanks so much for everything you do!

Image Descriptions

Check out the pictures below to see what's inside that BIG belly!!!!!!!!

Image 1: 4D face shot of baby B its really hard to see on here though, sorry. She is turned almost face down and her arm is in front of her face. You can kind of make out the nose and arm.

Image 2:

4D Ultrasound of Baby A's face. If you look close you can see she has her mouth open, her little nose, and her eyes are closed. Looks like shes snoozin to me!! Good girl...sleeping like a champ already.
Image 3: Profile of Baby A

25 Week Ultrasound in 4D!!!

25 Week Appointment

The girls looked great!!! They are closer in weight than our last visit which is wonderful news. One baby is coming in at 1.5 and the other at 1.7 lbs. They both looked very content and happy...posing for pictures, stretching, and sucking their thumbs!!! Dr. Faro got one 4D picture and she looked precious! I'll post a few later today. Thanks for your continuous prayers.... Hope you all have a wonderful day!

Baby Registries

Brian and I have registered for the twins at:

www.walmart.com

www.target.com

Nat GEO Identical Twin Movie

St. Philomena

This was a prayer given to us by my Grandma's best friend, Mrs. Betty. St. Philomena has a beautiful story if you feel like reading more about her. She is known to be especially powerful in cases involving expectant mothers, children, real estate, money, and help for the sick. This prayer is powerful! Enjoy!

22 Weeks Old

This is the best profile picture we've gotten! She looks like a cutie to me! The picture of Baby B above it is actually at 20 weeks and it shows her (right eye) retina. Amazing! It also looks to us like shes making the rock & roll symbol with her right hand.. right on baby!!!!

A Host for My babies

Definition of Host: The animal or plant on which or in which another organism lives

This entire pregnancy I've described myself as feeling like a host for these two lives inside of me. I've felt it without much thought. I feel like my life has been taken over, my nutrients zapped. There is a whole list of things I can't do: drink, waste energy, eat too much seafood, get on a roller coaster, jump, lift, take really hot baths, drink too much coffee, etc... Then there are the things I have to do: get plenty of rest, eat right, take vitamins every night, go see my Dr. all the time, monitor my body and how its feeling, etc. So from the moments of finding out I was pregnant I have felt like a lot of my lifestyle choices came to a giant halt for the soul reason of trying to do my part in producing healthy living organisms...or cute little babies. This feeling for me came naturally. 

It brings to mind abortion and one of the main arguments for it... "It's a woman's body she should do what she thinks is best" ... in my mind they need to restate that by saying... "It's a woman's body she should do what she wants" because to me in a matter of abortion there is no denying the fact that something else, another being, is living and growing inside of you. The "choice" comes in when deciding weather to host those living beings or not. Unfortunately, since the little tiny humans can't talk, they can't scream and fight for their life. That's why we have to! Brian and I have been given a gift, we have the ability to chronicle (as have you though our pictures) the growth of the twin girls from 8 weeks of life. It has been amazing so far. Life does not begin when these babies come into the world at 9 months. Please!!! I read a story online of a baby that was delivered and lived at 21 weeks of age. Not common of course but it still happened! 

Life begins when their heart starts beating and we were able to hear our girls hearts at 8 weeks. 

Some Clothes For the Girls!!

I'm very into the color peach right now!!! The outfits at the top are from http://www.nurtureplace.com/ and my favorite below....the pants and funky hat....are from my beloved Etsy!!!! http://www.etsy.com/

Hello Again!!!

My quote for today found by my best friend Beka, thanx girl!! 

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

This quote could not explain any better the transition I've been going through of leaving a reasonably "happy go lucky life style" behind to being married with children and all the responsibility that's coming along with it. I know that I will find my new self, my new life, and it will be great and better than before, but I definitely have a sense that I am leaving my old life behind.

Hey everyone.. So Its been quite some time since I've posted anything juicy for you guys to read or look at. Brian is scanning new pictures of the girls today and I will get those on here pronto! So I am 23 weeks now and a lot has happened since my 16 week posting. 

Around 18 weeks I had some pretty bad growing pains down my left side. I was pretty much in bed for a week and half and couldn't really move around too much. Thank goodness icy hot patches did the trick plus I'm sure the massage I got helped as well. Plus I spent a lot of time in the pool. I've become such an advocate of swimming and pregnancy. If I had a pool, I'd be teaching pregnancy water aerobics now. With all this extra weight I'm toting around the weightless feeling is awesome. So I'm sure that helped too.. Other than the weight gain my poor body is having to deal with, physically I've been feeling pretty good. Except of course that its getting harder to bend over or get out of bed.  Ugh!

As for emotionally, I have my ups and downs, which is true for any pregnant girl so I won't dwell. Feel free to ask Brian how thats been when you see him...  

The babies had their 22 week appointment last week with the perinatal Dr. (a high risk baby Dr.). She did a level 2 ultra sound to see how the girls were developing. It went very well! Their brains, bones, and bodies look great! I know you all are still praying and I have to sincerely ask that you keep it up as the next 10 weeks will be the most closely watched of the whole pregnancy. At our 22 week appt. Baby B was showing to be 1 week behind Baby A in size (or 4 oz.) In the world of twins the Dr. assured us, as has Dr. Faro, that this is perfectly normal. There is no indication at this time of TTS. We are in the clear, so far. Please pray that they both continue to grow at equal, or at least close, to equal rates. If everything continues on the current course we'll be having these babies sometime around December 14th. We haven't scheduled a date yet... 

So thats the update on all of us for now. I'll write more often. I feel like I'm finally coming out of a fog. We have been working hard to organize our house to get it ready for the nursery and the babies. I've also made a few purchases for the girls, I'll post some pix for you to check out. I'm done with our registries and I'll post links to those too... :) 

Thanks for keeping up with this blog even though I've been lagging....Just remember my excuse I only have for about 3 more months...I'M PREGNANT!!!