Jeez it's been over year, can you say slacker!!

Well let's see since my last post over a year ago, the twins have been born, Piper turned 3 and on Sunday we got a new puppy!!  On Monday, April 8th, 2013 we were blessed to welcome our 2 beautiful babies into the world.  Baby A, my little Charlotte Ruth was born at 4:27pm after only 4 hours in labor and Baby B, Owen William was born 4 minutes later at 4:31pm.  Charlotte was 5lb 7oz and 17 1/2 inches long and Owen weighted 5lb 8oz and was 19 1/2 inches long.  I delivered the twins in the operating room in case an emergency c-section needed to be done, but I was able to deliver both babies after they turned off my epidural without too much trouble, way more pushing than with Piper but way better than having surgery!  Charlotte and Owen are now 6 months old and Owen weighs 16lb and is 26 inches long and Charlotte weighs 15lb 4oz and is 25 inches long!  They are both healthy and beautiful and amazing!  Piper is 3 and half and sassy, she has an attitude and is just full of it, she also has an answer for everything and quite the sense of humor, I just love talking to her, it's always an adventure!  And last but not least on Sunday we become parents to yet another "baby" when we brought home Honeybee, as Piper has named her, she's a Yellow Lab, German Shorthair pointer mix, she's cute and seems to be a good puppy!  I'm sure time with Piper may change that!  LOL

 my little man <3 p="">

 Charlie girl, aka sassy pants jr. <3 p="">

 Piper at the Pumpkin Farm Sunday night

our new addition Honeybee

Finally a scheduled appointment!!

On Tuesday, October 22nd, Kurt, my mom and I went for my scheduled ultrasound.  We were so excited for another chance to see the babies.  The ultrasound was a pre-screening to check the babies for Down's Syndrome.  The babies didn't show any markers in the ultrasound, not that it matters they are my babies and I love them anyway!!  But I am glad to know that things are looking good and that baby A and baby B are healthy and developing normally.  The babies were very wiggly and it took the ultrasound tech quite a few minutes to get a good picture of them!!  The babies are measuring at about 12 weeks 2 days, which means on Sunday they will be 13 weeks!!  We got back to the dr in 2 weeks for a regular appointment and probably every 2 weeks after that, with the possibility of ultrasounds once a month.  I'm relieved to know that the doctors will be keeping a close eye on me and the babies!  Here are our 4th set of ultrasound pictures of baby A and baby B!

Another scare!!

On Wednesday, September 17th, I woke up to pee and get ready for work and to my horror, there was a small streak of blood!  Of course I went from perfectly calm to crazy, raving lunatic in 2 seconds.  So after waiting almost 3 hours for my doctor's office to open, the nurse on the phone assured me that everything would be fine and to come in at 1 pm!  Yeah! just  what I wanted to hear more waiting!  Well after spending the whole morning on pins and needles waiting for my appointment, the ultrasound showed the best thing, 2 tiny, wiggling babies, with very strong heartbeats!  They couldn't find a reason for the spotting and the babies are fine, I swear I'm going to have gray hair by the time they arrive!  The  only perk for having the crap scared out of me yet again was another beautiful sonogram picture of Baby A and Baby B!!

Not sure what's happening in there?!

On Thursday, September 27th, we headed back to the drs. for an unexpected trip, because I had no idea what the weird, contraction like spasms were that were happening to my stomach.  The pregnancy has already been so different from my first and I think the fact that there are 2 babies in there is kind of freaking me out!  After our 2nd ultrasound confirmed that in fact both babies were still there, wiggling around and had good, strong heartbeats, that we got to hear out loud, we could breathe a little easier!  This time we could see little tiny heads and bodies!  The fact that we were going to have 2 babies is starting to sink in a little more!  After the ultrasound the dr. told me that it was good that I called and it's ok to be paranoid and that everything look good and everything was fine.  The slightly bitchy nurse however was not as nice and told me  it was probably just my ligaments stretching and that I was going to get BIG, FAST!  Thank you very much!
Here are baby A and baby B's second round of photos!