Pregnancy: Week 22

I feel like my belly hasn't been growing as rapidly as it did there for a few weeks earlier but looking at pictures, it looks like it's keeping at a steady pace! Nothing too wild and crazy happened this week. Probably the most exciting thing was when Jesse and I saw my belly move! I was laying on the couch and Jesse was determined to watch my belly until it moved. It took all of about 10 seconds before we saw a spot move twice! haha. So weird!

Pregnancy seriously does strange things to your body. It is such a disproportionate distribution of weight that my balance isn't great, it's nearly a chore already to roll over in bed (I can hardly wait to see if I can even move towards the end!), and I've already reached the point where I have to lean over to see my toes! It still catches me off guard when I catch a view of myself sideways in the mirror. It just looks so funny! But I still love it and wouldn't change it for anything.

Jesse is the sweetest husband and is constantly taking care of me. He rubs my feet, lower back, upper back, and calves, he makes me dinner/any meal really when I'm too lazy or tired to cook, reminds me to take my prenatals and all the other pills they're having me take (I get a handful every day. 1 prenatal, 3 calcium pills, 1 iron pill, and of course a stool softener because of all the other pills! it's ridiculous!), he loves feeling the babies move and I'm always grabbing his hand when they start wiggling so he can feel them as much as possible. I am so lucky to be married to him. Our relationship really has blossomed even more with the impending arrival of our babies. I tell him over and over again that I wouldn't want to have twins with anyone else, and that is the truth. He is a gem!

I feel like my belly looks fake here! haha. I'm telling you, so weird! :)

Pregnancy: Week 21

A little bit last week and increasingly so, I have a pain that is causing me a bit of grief. I think it is rib related and it hurts in the front and on my mid/upper back. I talked to a chiropractor family friend and he said that there's not a whole lot that can be done with ribs during pregnancy because you can't lay belly down on the table for an adjustment. I'm sure it will resolve on its own eventually but it's not very pleasant at the moment in certain positions. It really doesn't even bother me unless I am sitting in one spot for awhile, such as on an airplane or driving in the car. Guess I'll just have to keep moving all the time!

I still sleep pretty well and can make it through the night with minimal wake-ups. Every now and then I'll wake up with a leg cramp or just because my body panics and thinks I'm going to miss my alarm for work but I'm still loving that I don't have to get up and go to the bathroom every 10 minutes in the middle of the night. Yay Hurray for second trimester! 

Pregnancy is seriously FLYING by. I feel so busy with work that I don't think I have enough time to just enjoy being pregnant which makes me sad. I'm extremely grateful I'm still able to work for the time being but at the same time I'd love to be home making things for the boys and getting their room set up. I still have lots to prepare before these babies get here so I need to start making a little more time for crafting and cleaning because I KNOW I'm not going to have any time once they arrive!

Here is the pain in my rib.

Pregnancy: Week 20

This week the boys made their second journey on an airplane in their very short existence to welcome home Uncle Brad from Korea! They must like plane rides because they sure start to wiggle! Their movements are getting bigger and bigger which is so fun to feel! Sometimes I jump a little though when they start twisting, flipping, punching, or something great big. Jesse nearly has a heart attack every time I jump because he thinks something is wrong.

Gus and Budsy are starting to perform a little more and other people are able to feel them move around. While I was in St. George my family would sit around with their hands on my belly and wait for the boys to wiggle. It is seriously the best thing being able to share this pregnancy with Jesse and our families whenever we can. I love it when others can feel them moving around.

While we were in St. George we were lucky enough to go to a Piano Guys concert! (If you don't know who they are you need to check out their videos here: http://thepianoguys.com/) It was an amazing concert and I pretty much decided that our boys need to play the piano and cello so they can be awesome like these guys. I also think the babies love music because they were "dancing" the entire concert. (I guess they could hate it with similar wiggling results, but I'm going to assume it is love.)

I also had a chance to talk to my aunt who has identical twin boys and we discovered that her due date was April 24th and she delivered at 38 weeks on April 10th which are the exact dates I've been given for our babies! If we seriously have our babies on April 10th just like her boys that would be crazy! I guess it would sure make it easy to remember!

All in all I'm still feeling really good. Sometimes I wake up a little sore from sleeping weird I guess but I can't complain too much. I'm still absolutely loving this stage of pregnancy!

I look a little tired! haha I'm sure I probably was. We had some rather busy days in St. George.

Pregnancy: Week 19

Week 19 was spent with Jesse's parents in town which is always a treat. We had our big check-out-the-babies-and-make-sure-they-have-ten-fingers-and-toes-and-all-other-parts ultrasound which we of course had his parents come to. It was so much fun for all of us! The ultrasound tech did very in depth looks at the babies and we saw arms, legs, hands, feet, toes, fingers, upper lips, brains, four chambered hearts, all their little organs, and watched them wiggle around. It truly is amazing watching them on these ultrasounds. Their movements are getting more and more baby-like instead of just little twitches here and there. They stretch out their legs, put their hands behind their heads and just look like real live babies!!!

I don't believe I have mentioned on here yet, but they have nicknames: Budsy and Gus. (Jesse tried to nickname them Pooter and Donut but I put my foot down on that idea!) Gus seems to be a lot more wiggly than Budsy and he also loves to lay straight out and arch his back. Budsy likes to lay out as well but he at least seems to curl up once in awhile and he just seems a little more mellow. Guess we'll see how accurate that is when they come!

Everything is still going perfectly with no signs of twin-to-twin transfusion so we are feeling very blessed with that. We still can't believe we're going to have two little babies coming to our house!!!