And Babies Make...5

I feel like these past 2 weeks have gone by so fast and have been so busy! And I can't explain how crazy tired I am too...I guess that's what happens when you work a full time job, teach guards, take care of a 8 yr old and hubby, not to mention currently pregnant!! My body is working overtime and it's sure time for a break!! Since the last time I blogged, the babies have grown and so has mom!! That's right, my stomach has popped out!! I woke up on Saturday morning about 2 weeks ago and I had this stomach and I feel like it just keeps getting bigger...I know, I know I'm caring twins so I will show earlier, but I was not ready for this!! When I went to the doctor 2 Monday's ago, they said my uterus was the size of at least 10-12 weeks...I was only barely 8 weeks along at the time!! Which explained why my stomach popped out. I now can't button any of my work pants and my "fat" jeans that I used to have to wear a belt with or they'd fall off,

Apparently the babies wanted to check out the hospital they were going to be born in...so we did! Heres what happened...unfortunately on Tuesday when I got home from work, I became extremely ill. I haven't been able to keep anything down since then, including water! I was getting very weak and nothing was helping. So, we decided to head down to urgent care...when we got there they were only going to give me meds to help the nausea but we were concerned about not keeping fluids down and they couldn't get me on an iv with fluids...they would have had to transfer me if the meds didn't work. We just decided to head to the hospital so that I could for sure get some fluids in me. We arrived at the hospital with a very busy waiting room :o( After waiting for a while and gave blood and urine samples...we got a room! I had to be given 2 bags of fluid and the best nausea medicine in the world!! During my IV a doctor came and took me to get an ultra-sound of the babies...just to

These babies have taken over my appetite! And pretty much everything that I eat makes me feel nauseous. Here are the major no no's... * Pizza---who doesn't like pizza, that's right we don't!! * Orange Juice---way too rough on the stomach * Saltine Crackers---I thought these were suppose to help but not with us! * Gatorade---just don't like it! * Strawberry Nutri Grain bars---not so good! * Sprite---This is suppose to help w/ the sickness but it makes it worse * Veggies & Ranch---I was able to eat these for one day and that was it * Mexican Food---THAT'S RIGHT! IT'S MY FAVORITE AND THE BABIES HATE IT! :o( Hopefully I can eat these after I'm further along because I really would like to eat with feeling sick!

We went to visit the doctor on Tuesday to check up on the babies and both are doing great! We got to hear their heartbeats as well... Baby A's heartbeat was at 138 and Baby B's was at 152....any thoughts on the gender?! I don't know yet but I had a dream before I found out I was pregnant that I was having twin boys! My friend says 2 boys and my father-in-law says it's boys too...we'll see! Rob's hoping that one of them is a boy, but his chances are very slim with having 6 sisters and only 1 brother!

Baby A is on the right at the bottom and Baby B is on the left at the top

Our good friends Mark & Sarah and Rhonda gave us our very first baby gifts! We got a Babies R Us giftcard, a picture frame for the ultra-sound pictures, bella band, tummy butter & my favorite baby lotion! Thanks guys, we really appreciate it and we will get great use out of all of these...especially the tummy butter, hahaha!

I am not joking when I say...Yes, we are having twins! I saw and heard the heartbeats myself!! It was absolutely shocking but absolutely amazing all at the same time! Here's how the dr.'s visit went: Our appointment was Tuesday, February 3rd, at 9am...of course they were running late, what doctor is on time? Anyways, after waiting forever in the room, the doctor and his nurse came in to take a look at our baby...so we thought "our baby"...First thing he said "Well there's 2 sacks there"---I'm pretty sure my heart stopped for a couple seconds. So he took a look at the first sack, we'll call it Baby "A"...and there we saw it, the heartbeat! Even though it was still really early we were able to hear the heartbeat...which was amazing! After measuring and checking out Baby "A", he told us we were 6 weeks and 1 day along. Now, it was on to the 2nd sack, and as he got closer and closer, I saw the fluttering and my eyes got huge, my m