An A+ and 3 stars!

At Monday's 24 week appointment the girls and I received an A+ and 3 stars...

The A+ was for me, from the ultra sound tech...before and after looking at the girls she had to take pictures of me...at the end, as she was walking us to the appointment room, she said "you get an A+"!

The nurse and nurse practitioner were impressed!

Then the doctor came in and said our little girls are doing wonderfully...they get 3 stars he said.

Baby A weighs 1 pound 11 ounces, B weighs 1 pound 15 ounces, both have heart beats in the 150 and both are thriving...

Um, are they growing too fast or too slow I asked him...

He looked at me sort of weird and said no of course not, they are right on schedule.

You see, on that day I was 24 weeks and 4 days pregnant...but both girls measured at 25 weeks and 2 days...so I was just slightly worried.

Dr. Key said they are growing like singeltons which is a blessing because so often one twin steals from the other...I wonder if my twin and I did that?!

It's always a relief to know things are going well...and they still are...but towards the end of the appointment he gave me a slight scare...

He told me that I would be having contractions...WHAT? I thought to myself...4 in one hour is ok he said, but if I have 4 the hour following that I need to be seen immediately...

Um, that scared me.  Confused me.  Frightened me.  I came home and sat in the recliner bathed in fear...bed and sleep could not come fast enough.  I needed something to take my mind off of this.

After talking with my sisters and then scouring the Mayo Clinic pregnancy book I realized I was just fine.  Deep breath.  It's still slightly confusing but I have learned it is normal...and that real contractions and the ones I have now (if i'm having them?) are very different...not that I know, my sources tell me that though!

So onward...today we are 25 weeks and 1 day pregnant!  I like getting to cross a day off the calendar!

Vacation

We went on vacation.  For 2 weeks.  We returned last Tuesday.

It was a wonderful time...relaxing, memory filled, family filled, friend filled, trips to the beach filled, latte filled, baby shower filled, play filled...

It was hard to come back.  We suffered the vacation let down...you know, when you have such a great time you feel really bummed having to go back to reality? 

Yeah, that.  But here we are, swimming in the midst of reality. 

I have lots of pictures to share with you.  In time.  I can't find my card reader for my camera to put them on the computer...

Which reminds me, in the next 3 months I have mounds and mounds of organizing to do.  Seriously.  It's overwhelming. But I have not freaked out yet!  That's a good sign.  I expected the freaking out to start as we walked in the door late Tuesday night.

I think it's because I'm very tired.  Oh so tired.

In the meantime, I have to pack us yet again...it seems too soon to pack again, but our churches are having church at a campground tomorrow morning...it's reserved overnight for anyone who wants to camp out.  We were going to skip that part...I really don't feel like sleeping on the ground in a tent...

But yesterday some parishioners called us to invite us to camp with them...they have room in their camper for us...

Back on the road again.

The cleaning and organizing can wait, at least until tomorrow.

Stressful morning...

Our morning has been full of stress...

All because of a tooth.  Ugh!  The root canal tooth.

I scheduled the appointment for the end of August, when we get home from vacation.

But yesterday it started hurting.  It started stressing me out.  As much as I don't want this root canal, as bad as it scares me for the babies, I don't want to be in tooth pain and have to take some sort of meds for that or for it to make me stressed...

I called the dentist and they can't get me in til next Wednesday...we're supposed to leave on vacation Tuesday. 

I could cry, I am crying.  I don't know what to do. 

I'm waiting to see if their is a Monday cancellation.  Shouldn't they just fit me in since I'm in pain?

When Joel returns from a meeting we're gonna decide...cut vacation a day short to have the appointment on Wednesday?  Ask our dentist for another specialist referral who can get me in earlier? 

I hate everything about this...:(

Laughter

Seeing our girls on Monday at the ultra sound was fun!

They made us laugh...they made the tech laugh, maybe even more than us.

Baby A moved a lot, she is really hard to get a profile picture of because she doesn't stay still.  Or she flips upside down...like several times while looking at her.

Baby B is way more chill.  Way more chill...

The tech was so excited  when she was able to capture a "lazy boy" shot of Baby B...it's her kicked back, looking like she is sitting in a lazy boy chair.  We all laughed at that one...it will go in the picture frame for sure!

We have feet pictures of both girls, profile pics, one of them together...Baby B's body, Baby A's head...she took this one because as time goes on they will be too big to have pictures of them together.

We see them again in a month!  In the meantime, we're waiting for kicks, lots of kicks!  

Sleeping

I told Gretchen that sleeping was a problem for me...I mentioned how uncomfortable I was...

Her response:  we have to have you rested, we have to treat this...

Um, well, let me tell you the rest:

She said Dr. Key would tell me to take Valerian root to help with sleep.  Or I can take one benadryl.

Bottom line, they want me sleeping well at night.  They want me taking naps if possible during the day.  I need rest.

So, we bought some of the root...Gretchen warned us that is smells like really dirty gym socks...but she also assured us that once swallowed I would no longer smell that awful smell.

Have you ever taken this stuff?

I think it works.  But imagine the worst thing you ever, I mean ever, smelled...this root smells like 100 times worse than that...

It's like really dirty gym socks mixed with the worst thing you have ever smelled.

The first night I took 1 pill and almost chocked it back up, it was awful.  The bottle says to take 5 pills at a time...um, no thank you.  Last night I decided to take another one...

This time, Joel opened the bottle, I had water in my hand, he pulled a pill out and set it on my tounge, I didn't breath...as I swallowed he held a tropical smelling candle up to my nose...once the pill was down I buried my nose in the candle...

Icky smell plus tropical smell was better than just icky smell!  But the icky smell lingered....we had to wash our hands and put the bottle way away from us!

The plus is that the past 2 nights I have had much more restful sleep!  

Sheep farmer

Our doctor is a sheep farmer! 

On Monday we had our 20 week ultra sound and check up.  We knew we were having the check up with Gretchen, the P.A.  But we had a different nurse this time...she told us Ronnie was on vacation so she was just filling in for her...

During the appointment with Gretchen she told us Dr. Key was at the fair that day showing his sheep...  Ronnie was with him taking pictures! 

It made us want to stop by the fair to see the sheep.

But it was 90+ degrees out and I just didn't really want to walk around in the heat nor did I want to smell fair live stock barns!

We went to Starbucks instead.  They have air conditioner and iced drinks!