Our Christmas Present

ok - this is only 4 months late... BUT - this is how we told tom's family we were pregnant. I found out reaaally early and was taking test after test seeing a faint line. It was a week before christmas and i was "due" for you know what on christmas eve. I even waited to tell Tom because i really wanted to put the pee stick that said " pregnant" i was saving to put in a huge box for him to open..

but stupid me left a test out and he saw it... but it was still a surprise!

I don't really care about sharing personal stuff too much, but it took us a year to get pregnant so it was a perfect christmas gift.

Anyways -we decided to tell his parents this way. We took a picture of our family - this...

and then added a "PREGO" spaghetti sauce. They didnt get it. so heres the video, its pretty funny!

tacky? hope not!

ok i really hope this doesnt come off as tacky....

just a little note! if anyone knows anyone who is done having kids and had boy clothes they are wanting to give away - will you let me know!? We wanted to ask just in case anyone was throwing anything our or giving it to goodwill. We would be glad to take them or even offer to pay something. we are a "buy gently used" kind of family - (craigslist is our best friend!)

after trying to shop this weekend and only getting a few outfits - i got a little stressed out and figured i would ask anyways. Why not? Again, hope its not too tacky!

Thanks!

on a side note. this picture is from Easter - i thought it was too cute. and she was SO tired.

20 weeks

20 weeks today - Whew. I feel huge. and its only half way there!

How Far Along Are You: 20 Weeks

Total Weight Gain: still down 3 lbs. Lost 13, gained 10 back!

How Big are Your Babies? Size of Bananas! weighs about 10 1/2 ounces now. He's also around 6 1/2 inches long from head to bottom and about 10 inches from head to heel.

Maternity Clothes: Yes! at least for pants. Tops im still wearing old ones, and probably stretching them out bad!

Stretch Marks: uh yes, still have them from last time!

Sleep: better now that i have my amazing maternity pillow!

Best Moment This Week: Finding out the genders (2 boys!) and knowing they are safe and healthy.

Movements: Most definitely. Lots more now, not definite kicks from the outside, but definitely on the inside. More from baby A

Food Cravings: uh...slurpees? ive had about 6 of them in the past week. haha

Food Aversions: still spaghetti.. always will be spaghetti. yuck!

Labor Signs: nope, thank goodness

Belly Button in or out?: Half way out...

Miss Anything?: maybe not peeing as much!

What I'm Looking Foward To: Moving and getting the kids room all set up... and seeing if they all fit! haha

Double Trouble is right!

Thats Right! 2 Boys!

I Figured there was at least one boy in there. Baby A is so squirmy and i feel him move all the time i knew it was a boy. During the u/s he was all over the place. He's on my left side head down.

Baby B was a surprise and was a boy as well. I thought he was going to be a she. But i was surprised! Tom is one lucky dad. 2 boys for the price of one! He was worried they were both girls. Baby B is actually right near my liver WAY up high and sideways. thats why above my belly button is always so tight and i don't feel him move that much.

we're really excited, but totally stumped on names. We had names for boy/girl, girl/girl, but not boy/boy! At least we have some time to think about it.

now i just want to get shopping for baby boy clothes!

tom just wants to get some jordans for them (shoes).... seriously..

(ps in the profile of baby B - you can see baby A's bum in the picture, guess he didn't want to feel left out!)

Love Story Giveaway

my friend lauren who has a fabulous food blog is having a giveaway - a cannon camera - WOO! who wouldnt like that?? And its such a cute giveaway too - all you gotta do is write your Love Story! Im not sure if ours is the best, but its definitely entertaining, so i definitely entered to win!
you can too at this link -
http://www.laurenslatest.com/our-love-story-a-giveaway/

tomorrow is the big day

we have our anatomy scan, U/S tomorrow morning - bright and early at 7am. Im usually SOOO excited and can hardly wait but for some reason ive had it in my head that they are what i want them to be and that could be a bad thing.

obviously ill be happy with whatever, but ever since Dulany has been saying "baby brother and baby sister" i can't help but thinking there is a boy and girl in there. (hey, ive got a 50% chance of that result!)

we'll find out tomorrow morning - or at least we hope. The midwife i saw a month ago said the u/s tech usually always was able to find genders, even with twins.

we also might do a gender reveal tomorrow night with tom's family (wish my family was here!) so we can be surprised with everyone else as well.

therefore results might not be shared until Thursday!

so add your vote to the poll over on the right and we'll find out tomorrow.

Happy Easter

Even though the forcast called for rain all day - we got a gorgeous sunny warm day! Happy Easter to us! Yesterday i took some pictures of Dulany in her new Easter dress and shoes. She was so excited to put it on and threw a FIT when i had to take it off and save it for today for church.

Happy Easter to everyone!

(i had so many pics i wanted to choose from, so I made two 'cards')

Pictures from our Trip

ok. i just spent quite awhile trying to figure out this new slide show thing (since the one i used to use closed!) and finally got them done.

these ones are from DC where we met up with Jason, Bonnie (Tom's sister) and her two kiddos. D is obsessed with her cousin adam (he's 4 but they are close!). She would wake up a week later saying "I want cousin adam!" - even on the airplane home last night she said "adam come too?" poor girl. Hopefully oen day we wont be seperated by 3000 miles! D even had her first sleep over at a hotel. Jason and Bonnie were staying there and cousin adam wanted her to stay over and swim and eat icecream. I hear it went pretty well. It also gave tom and i the chance to go see the Hunger Games in the middle of the night! THanks bonnie and jason for watching her!

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and here's pictures from my sisters house in pittsburgh. Cousin E and D had a blast together. Theyre only 2 1/2 months apart and the weather was gorgeous so we spent a lot of time outside. First time wearing shorts since last summer. We also got to meet Baby Lucy - she is adorable!! here are pictures of them having so much fun!

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i sitll have a few pictures from my parents house ill have to post later! We made it back safely and after a long day of traveling, i am exhausted!

now on to getting D to sleep in her own bed after sleeping with me for 2 weeks, and restart potty training - she did awesome traveling to Pittsburgh but once we got down to DC and were on the go non stop- she stopped telling me when she wanted to go and didnt even want to try. So i figured we would get back to it when we got home. oh and now endless laundry to do and lots of grocery shopping.

i missed my hubby too. So glad to be home with him again!

oh and i missed my pregnancy pillow. i was so glad to sleep with it again. hahaha.

Pitt/DC trip

so i uploaded TONS of pictures from this past week of being in Pittsburgh and DC - since i dont want to upload them all to here on a slide show i figured i would send the link from my facebook page. (click link)

you should be able to see them - but if you can't let me know!

All my bags are packed...

im SOOO ready to go!

today has finally come. we get to fly cross country and see my family! the last time we saw them it was Christmas of 2010- that was a LONG time ago!

Im so excited for 1. warm weather - its been so warm out there, and sunshine.

we get to meet this little girl - my sisters baby girl born in Feb. -

excited to to see (and for D to play with her cousin) E! This is the last time they were together (look how little they are!)

and we get to go here!!! we go here!

we got lucky and the weather has been so good we get to see cherry blossoms! we are also planning to meet up with Jason, Bonnie, cousin Adam and Niccolie while in DC! so excited they could come down and play. We plan to go to the zoo and the "dinosaur museum" as D calls it - aka the natural history museum.

We get to stay with Toms cousin and Emily who i grew up with (who are married!) down in Northern VA where i grew up. I havent been back there in like 3 years! So excited to go see my old house and get some YUMMY food!

We leave this afternoon and get into Pittsburgh late tonight, get to see my dad for a few hours tomorrow. Stay in Pittsburgh till friday when we go down to DC/NoVA so we can visit friends/family and tom has a job fair/interview there as well.

then we'll head up to Huntingdon, PA where my parents live and ill get to spend a week there

toms coming home early - which means ill be flying solo with D for the first time. Wish me luck!

i promise lots of pictures when we get back!!

starting every 4 weeks..

every 4 weeks, im going to post a pregnancy picture. i know i post one like every week but today i actually got ready so you get to see my face, i know you really wanted to... haha

so this is the beginning of the pregnancy pictures..



this is how big i was with D at 16 weeks:

16 weeks.

today marks 16 weeks in this pregnancy. Kind of weird, its going by pretty fast.
the babies are size of Avocados and I had an appointment today and they were able to find 2 different heartbeats on the Doppler. They obviously moved next to each other instead of side by side and they were right below my belly button. That was also nice, I'm hoping ill be able to feel them more in the next few weeks.

April 10th we'll have our anatomy u/s and we'll be able to find out what we're having!

update:She did IT!

.... she went poop on the potty... granted she was kind of standing over the potty cause she couldnt sit down so half of it fell on the floor next do it cause she got so excited to look at it..

BUT i am SOOOO happy!


and if you have no idea what im talking about, look at my post below from earlier today!

hormonal

...why did i chose to potty train D while pregnant?
Ah....
its been 2 weeks now and things are going great.

yesterday was just a rough day. Lesson learned - she gets NO more slurpees. She hasnt had one in so long, and since it was like a spring day outside we got one. Nope, never again. I have piles of undies mounting on the stairs to take over to grandmas to wash...

potty training AND a toddler who's becoming rebellious with double the hormones = nightmare. my poor poor husband when he comes home.

also - if any moms who have suggestions about pooping in the potty. D used to be fine with pooping in the potty. now not so much to the point that she holds it in...

any advice?

thanks in advance!

and for your viewing pleasure. mommy was trying to take pictures of herself with her belly (15 weeks, babies are size of apples!) --- D wanted to do the same. so here she is posing with her "babies"

PT- Day 3

yesterday went pretty good. minus D HATES underwear. hates them.

i finally got her to put them on yesterday morning because they were "valentine" underwear with hearts. well that lasted 30 minutes and she just peed in them. She definitely doesn't have the concept of undies. So i tried to get her to put a new pair on with hearts again and no way, she refused so i gave her some time. Would she put them on for the rest of the day? no, she fought and fought so i didnt want to force it.

Even grandma couldnt even get them on that girl... which she usually does everything for grandma.

i think im getting more stressed about this than i should be because everyone says "whatever you do dont go back to putting a diaper on her" -- but today i think i might have to so we can take a quick trip to walmart so she can pick out her own (EXPENSIVE - why the heck is kids underwear so darn expensive?) undies - is it horrible i hope she picks out the boy kind cause im getting sick of dora/princess for girls?

on a good note. i was upstairs in the shower when tom was home for a few hours and D came up to see what i was doing and started to pee and i quickly put her on the big potty and she went up there for the first tie (she was too scared to before, so im glad we got that out of the way!)

so over all -
pee = 11x on the potty
peed in undies = 1x
no pooping...