25 weeks and 2 days

We have made it another week! Yay! Our next goal is 32 weeks. I can't believe that's less than 7 weeks away! Thankfully we're all hanging in there and continuing to grow and do well. I had to put away yet another pair of maternity pants this week. They were pure torture I tell you. I'm now down to one pair again so I think I might have to make a trip to the store again. My maternity shirts are also starting to dwindle. That's okay, though. I love this bump and its constant growth is reassurance that these babies are growing too. :-)

This past week has been a challenge. I stayed home from work on Monday because I just felt like I had hit a wall when I woke up. I've been playing catch up all week. My energy level has just been low this week, but I'm pretty sure that I can blame this on the numerous sleepless nights I had last week. The babies have been moving around a lot all day long. I keep wondering if that has anything to do with my energy level. I LOVE feeling them move so I'll take the low energy as long as they keep moving and grooving in there! But, I would greatly appreciate it if Miss Paige would stay out of my ribs. :-)

My baby shower last Sunday was wonderful! I had such a great time and I got a lot of great stuff for the babies. Thank you Christi and Becky for all your hard work! My shower was amazing!! :-) My best friend and her husband are driving in tomorrow to throw us our couple's shower tomorrow night. I'm so excited!!! It's at one of our favorite restaurants, Escala.nte's. Yum!! I'll try to post pics from both showers soon. I hope you all have a great weekend!!

24 Weeks and 2 Days

I am 24 weeks and 2 days! Yay! I was so excited to finally reach the viability stage for these babies. Now, we of course do not want these little ones making an appearance ANY time soon, but it's just nice to know that we made it to our first milestone. :-)

I had an appointment with my OB on Wednesday. She said that everything looked great and I'm now measuring at 30 weeks! She's letting me have one more 4 week appointment and then I'll start seeing her every 2 weeks. God has truly blessed me with such a wonderful, healthy pregnancy so far and I am loving every minute of this pregnancy. As we were sitting in the waiting room on Wednesday Paige started kicking a lot. Chris put his hand on my belly to feel and she let loose with the biggest kick I had felt! She pretty much kicked his hand off my belly! It was so neat to feel and I love that Chris got to experience that.

Last nigth I was laying on the couch and our cat, Charlie, came to cuddle with me. He layed down to where he was facing me and his back feet were up against the bottom of my belly where Logan is. All of a sudden Logan started kicking Charlie's feet! Charlie lifted his head, kinda looked around and started twitching his feet and pushing back. Then Logan would kick him again and Charlie would twitch and push back again. They went on like this for several minutes. It was so funny! Poor Charlie has no idea that this is just the beginning of the torture that he will endure from these babies! Ha!

My first baby shower is this weekend! I'm so excited!!! I thought I might never get to experience my own baby shower so it feels surreal to think that I'll be attending my own shower and not someone else's. My bosses threw me a wonderful shower at work this past week. It was so nice and so much fun! They really went above and beyond and I am so grateful for their generosity. :-) I hope everyone has a wonerful weekend! I'll post pics of my shower after Sunday!

Amazing Weekend

We had a great weekend! It started off on Saturday with our maternity photo shoot. We decided to take them now for several reasons: we don't know if I'll get put on bed rest at some point, we don't know if these babies might decide to come early, and I didn't want to take pictures and be really huge and swollen. We had so much fun at our shoot! It almost got rained out but thankfully the downpour held off for us. Kristy Owens is an AMAZING photographer who just happens to attend our church! We found each other through the blog world last year and she has been so sweet to follow along on our journey and pray for us. I was so excited that we could have someone who had followed our journey take these special pictures for us. We will treasure these pictures forever. You can take a sneak peek at some of our photos by clicking here. If you don't mind we would love for you to please leave a comment on the blog post. If we get 10 comments we get a free 8x10!! Help us out!

The funny thing about Saturday is that it started off TERRIBLY. For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to get my eyebrows waxed the day of the photo shoot. BIG mistake. The pregnancy hormones have apparently made my skin extra sensitive. The wax ended up burning my skin and my eyebrow area turned bright pink and became swollen. Fantastic! Next I headed off to have my hair cut and fixed for the photos. I went to a salon that I hadn't been to in several years because I didn't want to drive all over town to get my hair done and then have my makeup done. So I went to the mall and this became mistake #2. The haircut itself was fine, but she didn't fix my hair. I could have done a better job at home by myself. I was so upset and angry. I left the salon and immediately called Chris. I then became the pregnant woman standing in the middle of the mall crying on the phone. Oh yes, I did. I ended the primping by going to the MA.C makeup counter in Ma.cy's to have my makeup done. Thankfully this turned out great. Whew! If it hadn't I don't know what I would have done. :-) It all ended up being perfect in the end but my doctor probably wouldn't have been happy about my stress level or blood pressure while all of this was going on.

Now onto Sunday. We had a great time at church, followed by a yummy lunch at Pappasit.os and then we ended at our maternity tour at our hospital. Our tour was awesome. We were the only couple having multiples so the nurse told us to stick around after the tour was over and she would take us up to the NICU and show us around. That one on one time with her was awesome. She was able to give us so much information and answered all of our questions. She was so nice too! She spent almost an hour with us up there and we just couldn't thank her enough. Thanks again, Lisa!

Last but not least, we had our second appointment with the specialist this morning. We were so excited to see our sweet babies again! Logan was pretty cooperative with allowing them to get his measurements but then got stubborn when she tried to get some 4D pics. Our precious little Paige was just a little toot from the get go. She was apparently enjoying her beauty sleep and did NOT want to participate today. She just curled her little self up in a ball, face down and would not move. I think she's going to be stubborn like her mommy. Yikes! The doctor said that they both look perfect and we will go back again in 3 weeks. Both babies are weighing about 1 lb 7 oz now. Yay! Here are some photos from today.

Paige's profile

Logan's profile

Randomness

This is going to be a post of pure random thoughts, but at least it's a post, right? :-) First off I'll be 23 weeks tomorrow. Woohoo! Our changing table should be delivered tomorrow. I can't wait. We already have the cribs put up in the nursery and we have the chair and ottoman. The changing table is the last piece of furniture we'll be putting in there. The bedding should hopefully be here by the end of the month. We really can't decide on paint colors or any other decorations until it gets here. We also have both car seats and the stroller will be here on Thursday. Yay! It's still so strange to walk into that room and know that it's for our babies. Such an amazing thing!

In more randomness, I have something funny to share. Any of you pregos out there or anyone who is already a mom can probably relate. I sneezed really hard two times in a row tonight and it made me pee on myself. Lol!!! I was laughing so hard that I was crying. Chris was laughing too. It was only a little bit, but it was still funny. :-)

I ordered a few different clothing items for the babies. A few of these are things that I had seen before I was pregnant and I just couldn't wait to buy them one day for our child/ren. I'll leave you with some photos of these precious items!

I LOVE this! This is for Paige to wear next year during college football season. You can't see it but her name is embroidered on the bottom left corner of the dress. Too cute!

I couldn't resist! I found these on Et.sy

Aren't these adorable little onesies?! I ordered them from Fai.th Ba.by

22 Weeks

I'm 22 weeks today! This pregnancy is really flying by. I'm so excited to meet these little ones, but I just don't want to miss a minute of this amazing time. I am enjoying pregnancy so much. A few posts back someone commented and asked if we had names that we were sharing for the twins. The answer is YES! Their names will be Logan Michael and Paige Elise. Everyone always seems to have an opinion about the names you choose for your baby/babies when pregnant, but Chris and I love their names and that's just really all that matters. :-)

Things are still progressing well. The belly continues to grow and I'm starting to feel them a little bit more. Our next appointment isn't until July 19th so I don't have any new photos or updates to share just yet. Our dog has discovered my baby belly. She will come up and nuzzle my belly with her head. It's really cute! Paige and Logan are going to love their doggy!

Not much else has changed (other than the size of the bump) since my last post. I'm still craving watermelon, lemonade and ice cold water. I could eat a whole watermelon every single day! I can't get enough of it! My weight gain so far is about 13 pounds. I have a feeling that it's going to really start picking up over the next couple of weeks. That's ok with me. I love having my baby bump!

Here are my belly pics from the last couple of weeks.

22 weeks

21 weeks

20 weeks