19 week belly pic

i hate taking pics in scrubs.... i always look so frumpy.

How far along? 19 weeks, 4 days
Total weight gain/loss: i've broke even! finally back up to 132... i hope it keeps going up!

Stretch marks? not yet, but starting to get itchy.
Sleep: ugh... miserable. rolling over is such a pain, and having to roll over the snoogle to get to the bathroom twice a night is a chore.

Best moment this week: getting more and more stranger comments on my belly.

Movement: apparently the babies like jewish music. i shot a jewish wedding last night, and the reception was very loud with a 7pc brass band playing classic jewish music, singing in hebrew, etc (picture my big fat greek wedding).... these two were dancing the horah along with the wedding guests. i got home at 113o last night, and they were still active at 1am, keeping me from falling asleep.
Food cravings: sausage biscuits and chocolate milk... there is a little mom-and-pop gas station across the street from work that serves breakfast every day... the owner's mother does all the cooking. so each morning i stop in for a sausage biscuit and a pint of kleinpeter chocolate milk. breakfast of champions!

Labor signs: tons of braxton-hicks, but nothing significant.

What I miss: i hate to say it, but wearing clothes that don't look like maternity clothes. i was so eager to start wearing them that now it's getting old. i see girls my age in cute little strapless dresses, heels, etc. and i get jealous.

What I’m looking forward to: getting the nursery cleaned out.... week 2 of whip-cracking has not made jeff budge yet. =(
Weekly wisdom: nothing new to add.

Milestones: not really a milestone, but jeff told me i was a pretty mommy last night. that's the first time he's used that word. =)

19 weeks: mangoes!

these weeks are flying by! at least they are something a little more cute and appetizing this week. =)

and am i the only one that saw this and immediately thought of Chris Kattan on SNL wearing a beret? "You can't-a have-a de Mango!"

18 week belly pics

How far along? 18 weeks, 3 days

Total weight gain/loss: – 1 pound.... the gap is closing!
Stretch marks? not yet, but starting to get itchy.

Sleep: the snoogle is back in my good graces. my hips and lower back have been bugging me, and it's so much easier to sleep with it now than without it.

Best moment this week: getting more and more stranger comments on my belly. =)
Movement: good lord - what a difference a week makes. i can kind of tell which way they are facing based on where i'm feeling thumps. if i feel them to the outsides of my belly, i know they are facing outward, away from each other. this past thursday night, it felt like a bag of microwave popcorn going off right underneath my belly button, so i'm assuming they were facing each other and dukin' it out.

Food cravings: jello!

What I miss: getting up off the couch and out of bed easily. it's still habit for me to just bend at the waist and get up, but now i have to roll to the side.

What I’m looking forward to: getting bedding and furniture. well, first i have to crack the whip and make Jeff move the stuff from the baby's room into the attic.

Weekly wisdom: it's not really wisdom to me, just a random fact i was told at my multiples class last week. according to the nurses teaching the class, the goal weight gain for a twin pregnancy at 20 weeks is 20 pounds. i seriously doubt i'm going to pack on 21 pounds in the next week and a half.
Milestones: Jeff is starting to get a little more touchy-feely with the belly now. earlier today he was sticking his finger in my belly button (something i've always hated) and he told me he was scratching them behind the ear. lovely, apparently now i'm having puppies.

18 weeks..... halfway there!

this week they're sweet potatoes!

Your babies have become amazingly mobile (at least compared to you), passing the hours yawning, hiccuping, rolling, twisting, kicking, punching, sucking and swallowing. And, babies are finally big enough that you'll be able to feel these movements soon.

(and i don't know about you, but i've never seen a hairy sweet potato before.)

my new project.... tiny blankies!

i love to crochet, but can't follow a pattern to save my life. all i can do is double crochet row after row after row after (monotonous) row and make squares... or rectangles.... that i call blankets and scarves. =)

anyways, right before i found out i was pregnant, michael's had 50% off of all their yarns, so i picked out four different types to make little baby blankets. these are two of the finished products! they're just big enough to swaddle a newborn, and will probably be outgrown quickly, but they are so soft and cuddly.

i'm thinking of scaling these down and in my down time starting on a few teeny preemie sized blankets to donate to our local l&d hospital here in town. when my niece was in the nicu, the nurses covered her with a little knitted blanket that my sister was able to take home. i thought it was such a sweet gesture, and they are so easy to make, it would be a nice gesture to provide these to parents of nicu babies. =)

17 week belly pic.... i am getting brave.

yes, i am actually going to post a pic of my pasty white swollen belly - but i'll include a nice modest clothed one too. ignore the wonky color difference (cameraphone):

i can't believe all that belly is hiding under this shirt.

How far along? 17 weeks, 4 days
Total weight gain/loss: – 2 pounds
Maternity clothes? i'm modeling one of my new outfits above.

Stretch marks? not yet.
Sleep: the middle of the night peeing is at its peak (i hope), so pretty restless.

Best moment this week: getting my peapod necklace! mine has two peas.

Movement: a few little nudges each day, mostly from 2pm until dinnertime.
Food cravings: strawberry crepes, again.
Gender: we finally know! Sadie June & Jeffry Ryan.
What I miss: being able to wear a tee shirt and keep it from riding up in the front.
What I’m looking forward to: shopping for boy/girl stuff
Weekly wisdom: nothing new to add.

Milestones: actually feeling more frequent pokes instead of rolls.

long day.... but productive

i have survived my first trip into babies-r-us hell. i went and registered the twinks today at both target and babies-r-us, and it thoroughly exhausted me.

baby registering is not the same as wedding registering, especially when you've got twins to register for. with wedding registry, you get the cool little scan gun, and can basically just walk around and scan whatever you like. not so much with babies - because i am an impartial mommy-to-be, i was constantly backtracking.... did i scan both boy and girl towels? pacifiers? onesies? i had to make sure both jeffry and sadie were equally represented. =)