Photos from my family shower- 2/19/2011

I wanted to put up some photos from my first baby shower- it was a lot of fun.  Thank you Aunt Marcy, Jenny, Mom and Joanna for everything you did and thanks all for the wonderful gifts!  These babies have a lot of people taking care of them already.  I am looking forward to the next shower in a week with some friends:)  I also put at the bottom my belly photo from 28 weeks since I had not posted it.

I wish you could see the 3 diaper cakes behind me better that we got, they were soooooo cute.  One of Jason's cousins Lauren made her first one and it was really good and we got 2 others from Jason's Aunt Wanda.

The cake was really yummy!!!!

Jason's grandma made both of the quilts below, the babies are going to love these and they match the jungle theme

above is the girls bedding from my mom

Above is one of the bibs that my step-mom stitched

Above was a gift from my cousin Cameron who is an endodontist and his Wife Haley who is in med school

28 week belly photo

28 weeks and the beginning of the 3rd trimester

Today is the start of the 3rd trimester, things are going by quickly!  So I'm not going to post a belly picture today so it can be a surprise for those that will be here this weekend for the family shower, I did take a picture today so I can put it up later.  I am very much looking forward to seeing everyone and for my aunt and cousin to fly in tomorrow night as well. 

Last Thursday we had an ultrasound and found out the boy's estimated weight is 2 lbs 7 oz and the girl is estimated at 2 lbs 8 oz.  They are doing great!  That means I already have 5 lbs of babies in there.  The dr. said I am doing well and will go back at 2 weeks so next Thursday now, I won't have a full ultrasound at that appt.  I also took my glucose test, this is where they look for gestational diabetes (pregnancy diabetes).  I got the results and found out my number is 138 and they are only concerned over 140, I asked if I should be concerned with the number so close and they said the Dr. felt the number was fine.  I was very happy to hear this.

Below are some pictures of the work in progress in the nursery

More photos to come after the shower this weekend.

26 weeks today

Below is my 26 week belly, I am having a hard time imagining what I will look like when I deliver but my dr keeps telling me this is extremely normal for twins

The babies are definately moving around a lot now, I feel them often.  I feel them kicking most at night when I am just resting on the couch.  We had a Dr. appt last Thursday but they did not take any pictures of the babies or measure the babies they just did an ultrasound to measure the cervix which helps them see the chance of preterm labor.  They had said if my number got to 2.5 I would have restricted activity but luckily the average was just under 3 so she said I could go on with my normal activity still and everything was looking good.  We had our first small scare last friday but everything was perfectly normal, I had contractiions which this was my first time to have them and they were fairly frequent so I called the on call Dr. and they asked me to come to the hospital, they hooked me up to see the contractions and did a few tests and they felt like everything looked fine and that it was just normal contractions like braxton hicks- we were very thankful to be headed home, these babies need a lot more time before delivery. 

Saturday Jason and his parents worked on beginning to get the baby room ready by painting.  His mom has been really creative on ideas for us to do the room and we are thankful to have her sending us pictures and looking at colors with us.  The room is going to be jungle theme, they are going to do a chair rail trim towards the middle and painted the bottom an orange color and the top a tan color.  Below are a few pictures of the progress so far, they are going to put up the trim this weekend and the new blinds.  We get the furniture hopefully the end of February so it will be fun to see it all come together.

I will put more pictures up of the room after the trim is up this weekend!