May 15th-21st

J's in yellow this week (L); D's in green

(5/15)  Hehehe ~ I was reading a book to J and he kept closing it and making the 'all done' noise. 

Boys had a good day.  I came home early because Kathy needed to leave, and got to spend a sunny afternoon hanging out with them. 

Dad made the boys some apple sauce and pear sauce yesterday.  J loves it, but D just gags.  Guess the fruit bat isn't ready for new textures yet. 


(5/16) Tooth number 4 for J popped through today!  He has 2 tops and 2 bottoms now.

Today was lovely!  Once again, I had no commitments so was able to catch up on laundry (diapers), do some cleaning, read my book, and spend hours playing with the little guys. Bliss!

(5/17)  Little stinker J did not want to sleep last night. When I went up to feed D, he woke up too, which isn't usual. He would look at me, half-smile, then lay his head down and sob into the bed and then repeat. It was hard not to laugh at him being so dramatic. He woke up a number of times after that and flailed about instead of just letting us resettle him. And he kept reaching for and banging on D, waking him up too. Argh!

Today is their day with their dad.  I'm sure he'll get them to take great naps to make up for last night's antics.

Dad says J might have a 5th tooth coming in?  Yikes!

Dad says the baby trap he set was effective ;)

(5/18) I can see what looks like the very tip of J's 5th tooth.  D better hurry up, he's stuck at 2.

The boys had a good day with Kathy.  They ate a lot and took good naps.  They're so easy at this age.

(5/19) Hooray!!! C is home!  I left early to run and then had to clean C's preschool as part of our co-op duties.  Nanan was here watching the little guys until Dad brought C.  She makes me laugh ~ she said she fed the babies some "gross squash" and that it didn't taste very good.  Wonder why she was eating it?


(5/20) J was so distracted with C being back that he kept smiling at him all throughout breakfast.  He normally is a very serious eater, so this was pretty funny.

We had a pretty uneventful day.  Didn't have to go anywhere or do a whole lot.  My kind of weekend!

(5/21) Monday, Monday... la-lah-la-lah-la.  Boys are with their Dad today and C is in preschool.   Back to routine.

Pineapples!

(9/6) All 3 boys made jam with Dad yesterday.  I peeled the peaches, and the little boys apparently thought they were helping with all that kicking!

(9/7) NST today: Baby B was my sleeper this time.  I'll take 1.5 hrs over 5 any day though!  Today's RN is a runner, so we had lots to talk about.

(9/8)

Close enough to 33 wks!

(9/9) 33 weeks!  BabyCenter has this to say about this week:

This week your baby weighs a little over 4 pounds (heft a pineapple) and has passed the 17-inch mark. He's rapidly losing that wrinkled, alien look and his skeleton is hardening. The bones in his skull aren't fused together, which allows them to move and slightly overlap, thus making it easier for him to fit through the birth canal. (The pressure on the head during birth is so intense that many babies are born with a conehead-like appearance.) These bones don't entirely fuse until early adulthood, so they can grow as his brain and other tissue expands during infancy and childhood.  See what your baby looks like this week.

Prenatal visit:  All good and we now have birthdays!  We will meet the boys October 14th (well, unless they arrive earlier).  Can't wait!

Jicamas!

(8/28) Went to a pre-season hockey game today and my belly would jump whenever the airhorn would sound for a goal. LOL!  Got some post-baby hockey gear too (thanks, Cat!!) and can't wait for the season to start up!  Unless you boys arrive early, I should still be pregnant for the home opener on 9/24.   I did only get *3* tickets, so stay put, okay?

(8/31) Seriously? September starts tomorrow? 

Non-Stress Test (NST): Once again, this proved to be a stressful event for me.  I got light-headed during the test (from being too far on my back) and one of the babies' heart rates dipped too low for comfort, so I was sent to ultrasound for a biophysical.  Since I haven't had an ultrasound in a while, they checked up on growth too.  Baby A is weighing in at 3lbs 14oz and B is 4lbs even.  I forget what their lengths were, but both are in the 79th percentile.  C was 7lbs 10oz at birth, so combined, I'm now carrying more baby weight than I did with C, and there's still more growing to be done!   

The boys were working on breathing when we peeked in, and they are currently breech.  Not that it matters much, since we'll be going with a c-section.   Fluid level, heart rates, etc were all great. Heh, sounds like I went in for an oil change. The sonographer has twin boys, and an older son too.  Pretty cool!

Prenatal: Just a quick hello to the Dr since I was on the monitor downstairs pretty much all morning.  All told, I was at the hospital for 5 hrs.  Wee!

Looking down at 2 heads; 31wks5days

(9/2) 32 weeks!

BabyCenter has this to say about this week:

By now, your baby weighs 3.75 pounds (pick up a large jicama) and is about 16.7 inches long, taking up a lot of space in your uterus. You're gaining about a pound a week and roughly half of that goes right to your baby. In fact, she'll gain a third to half of her birth weight during the next 7 weeks as she fattens up for survival outside the womb. She now has toenails, fingernails, and real hair (or at least respectable peach fuzz). Her skin is becoming soft and smooth as she plumps up in preparation for birth. See what your baby looks like this week. (Or see what fraternal twins look like in the womb this week.)

9/1; close enough to 32 wks