15 months

Wyatt is now 15 months old. We took him today for his check-up and he is doing great He now weighs 26 lbs 6oz and is 34in long He is doing great developmentally and he now has his 13th tooth coming in….his mouth is loaded with teeth He is so smart too—not that I’m biased or anything---he doesn’t say a whole lot of words yet, but he knows everything that we say and knows where everything is and he knows everything that he is NOT supposed to do, but he loves doing it anyway Here are some recent pics of our little man…..and yes, we know he needs a haircut…it’s on our LONG list of things to do…..

Just look at that face…..we get that ALOT

We took him to Puzzles Fun Dome a couple weeks ago and he loved playing in all the inflatables there…..and he even played some basketball with Daddy’s help

Wheeeeee

If we ever need to find the pans to fix dinner…just have to check all of Wyatt’s hiding spots

Big boy

Pregnancy Update

Time has really flown by fast since the last update at 24 weeks! We are now 29 wks and 4 days. Here are the current belly pics

And here, for comparison, is the last picture of me with Wyatt right before we left for the hospital at 38 weeks

At our 26 week appt we got to see the girls again They were both doing great! Baby A is vertex-head down- and Baby B is breech. Baby A weighed 1lb 15oz and Baby B weighed 2lbs 5oz. With them being opposite now they are kicking each other in the head! It was so weird to see each of their feet up around each others head. The membrane separating them is still intact and it still appears that there is one large placenta…..which means nothing really, b/c even fraternal twins can have their placentas fused….still have to wait until they’re born to know for sure. The doctor said that due to their position I will most likely end up having a C-section—BOO!
Not that I don’t want to avoid damage “down there”, but I’m not looking forward to having my abdomen sliced open It’s all still officially up in the air, but that’s most likely what will end up happening.

Here is Baby A’s face

Here is Baby B’s face with Baby A’s abdomen right at Baby B’s chin

Here is Baby B’s profile with Baby A’s abdomen on the right

We just had our 29 week appt this week and got to hear their heartbeats…still beating strong

The doc asked if I was having any contractions…..yes, as usual. Then asked how many an hour…..well, when I ‘m up working alot –especially since I had been on call the week before- I had been having around 6-7 an hour when I was really busy/stressed…..SO, that was the WRONG thing to tell the doctor. So she then examines me and yep, 1cm dilated already. She then says that I have to return the next day, 24hrs after being examined, to have a fetal fibronectin test done…..she said if it comes back negative then all is good and I just need to change my work hours/schedule----hahaha yeah right ….she has no idea what I have gone through recently with my director…..that would soooo not go over well…….but then she said if it comes back positive, then I’m in the hospital on steroids then strict bedrest. Well, luckily, it came back NEGATIVE! So, about adjusting my work schedule…..we’ll see….not the easiest in this boys club. I’m just hoping my next call week that I have to take doesn’t put me on bedrest!

So for now, we are still doing well…..growing every day I take it easy when I can and do what I can to avoid having to make up too much more time at the end of residency. We go back in 2 weeks now and will have another ultrasound to measure the babies growth. We can’t wait to see them again!

24 weeks

Here's the belly shot update at 24 weeks:

So far the pregnancy is going really well. I can feel the girls moving a LOT!! And AJ can too :) I am already outgrowing my maternity clothes that I had from when I was pregnant with Wyatt! At our 24week appt (which I'm now in the 6month) they said I was measuring 8 months for a singleton pregnancy.....haha!! I feel it!! At this appt I had to do the glucose screening....hopefully blood work comes back fine! No ultrasound this time, but we will at the next one....can't wait to see them again!! We talked a little more about delivery and the doc said full term with twins is about 36 weeks and that we should be fine if we deliver around 35-36weeks (which we are hoping for!) As far as whether we will have a c-section or not is still up in the air....it all depends on my health and the twins health and their position when it comes time. But they did say that I would deliver in an operating room no matter what just in case.

I keep praying that me and the girls stay healthy.....this is a lot different than a singleton pregnancy!

Christmas 2010

Better late than never :)

Wyatt running around Christmas Eve after church

Looking to see if he could see Santa :)

Christmas morning....Santa came!!!

His little reindeer pjs with his name on the butt!! :)

He had a great time opening his gifts!

And this is AJ's gift wrapping job ;) (yes, that's a storage bin with duck tape!)

Wyatt's gift to his Daddy...he made it at the Paint Spot here in town. It looks totally different now that its been 'fired'....I kinda procrastinated taking Wyatt there to do it and they said it would take about 9 days to do the 'firing' process so they let me take it home unfinished to give as a gift and then we took it back and finished it....so what looks pink here is actually bright red, etc.....AJ loved it!

Daddy was so proud getting Wyatt his first Basketball goal! Pretty sure this thing will get a lot of use!

He has a way to go yet to using it by himself though :)

He loved his Spiderman ball pit! It only came with like 15 balls so we bought a bag of 100 more....you can imagine how much fun we have picking those up every night!! Oh well...he loves it!

Granny came over that morning too!

Granny got him a tent with a tunnel!! Oh so many more places to hide! (And Nala loves it too!)

Wyatt's gift to Granny....it says:

Grandma....Hold me a little longer..rock me a little more. Tell me another story (you've only told me four) Let me sleep on your shoulder...I love your happy smile...I'll always love you Grandma.....So stay with me awhile. You mean the world to me....Love, Wyatt

He's such a thoughtful grandson!! He loves her so much!

An easier way????

To anyone who reads this blog.....
Is there a better way to upload pictures? When I do it I can only upload about 5 at a time and half the time I try it says page error and makes me go back and try to download again (big reason I haven't updated recently) and when I download the pics they show up in reverse order that i picked them, so i have to pick the pics that i want to be first on the blog last (and pick the last pics i want on the blog first).....does any of this make sense???
I hope someone can help me.....this is such a pain!!

Belly update

So ever since we found out we were pregnant again I knew I was getting bigger faster than I did with Wyatt, but I just chalked it up to it being the 2nd pregnancy b/c you always read that b/c you've already been stretched out that the belly pops out faster. Then we found out we were having twins and then I knew I was in trouble:>

Here I am at 20 weeks and 2 days

And here I was at 19 weeks 3 days with Wyatt

And here I was at 29 weeks 3 days with Wyatt.....looks scaringly similar to my 20 week picture....yikes :> BTW, I had a great tan when I was prego with Wyatt....man I miss that color :>