I have several things to discuss...

1. VEINS! What is up with all the blue veins in my belly? I look like a road map! No one ever told me that my skin would become see through and that every vein and artery in my body would show through! What is up with this?!?

2. For some reason I have this strange feeling that July 10th will be the day that I deliver. So today while I was looking at the calendar I counted how many weeks it was until July 10th and it is only 15 more!!!!! YAY!!! Although, it would be nice to have only 15 weeks left....how cool would it be to have them on July 4th? That way their birthday would always be a celebration.....so maybe I should pray for July 4th!

3. I rode a motorcycle yesterday! Well, not on the street obviously, but I got on the back of one with Ryan and we drove about 15 MPH down his parents driveway and back. The worst thing about this is that I have always been against street bikes, but now I am DYING for Ryan to get one! I think we might go to the Harley dealership this week sometime to go check them out.

4. I ordered new carpet for the dining room and nursery yesterday. Hopefully by the end of the week we will have new carpet installed. Although we just built this house 2 years ago, Claire(our beagle) had decided that the area around our dining room table is "grass". She has peed all over it and it is ruined. I also started looking at the room that will be the nursery and it isn't much better. So my next project is to buy some gates so that Claire isn't allowed in those rooms anymore!

5. I turned 20 weeks yesterday. Here is the newest picture of my belly. I hate it because I am so fat and white, but HEY--what can ya do?!? After seeing how white I am, I have decided that I am going to start tanning. *YES, don't panic-you can tan while you are pregnant. It doesn't go past your skin layer and its completely safe for the babies...I just have to have help getting out of the bed because I have no waist these days and I can't bend!!!!*

Oh My Aching Back

This week I have gotten so uncomfortable. I can't breathe, I can't lay down, my back hurts, my sides hurt, I can walk across a room and become winded! I haven't had a good night's sleep in days. If I lay on my stomach and finally get comfortable, one of the babies will kick and I feel like I am suffocating her, so I turn over and become uncomfortable again! I just turned 5 months(20 weeks) today. As close as 3 1/2 months sounds....it also seems like a lifetime away! Hopefully the second half of this pregnancy will go as quickly as the first half did! To date, I have gained 21 pounds. The doctor said in order to have more of a chance to go "full term" I should gain 24 pounds by my 24th week. Looks like I better slow down on the bean burritos!

my "innie" is becoming an "outie"

So I went shopping yesterday to find some new clothes to wear. I am in the dressing room checking my (big) self out in the mirror, when I see this little dot through my shirt. I can't help but start laughing at the fact that my belly button is beginning to turn inside out! I have always heard that it is possible, but NEVER did I think it would actually happen to me!!

Kicks

In the wee hours of March 17th I think I felt my first kick. I was just over 18 weeks. I couldn't feel it inside me, but if my hand was on my stomach I could feel a little thump! The next morning, I was able to feel them without putting my hand on my stomach. They woke me up at 6AM for 2 days in a row! It makes it feel so much more REAL now.....I actually have 2 little humans in my belly!

Dresses, shoes and bows galore!!

March 17-18th my mom and I took a trip to San Marcos to go shopping. MY OH MY, did we spend some money! They have their wardrobe for their first 18 months pretty much taken care of! We even found the dresses that will be perfect for their 1st birthday party! We bought them of course and are planning to do the color scheme for the party based off the colors in their dresses! It will be amazing, I just know it!

Weiners or Hot Dog Buns?

At 16 weeks I took matters into my own hands and went to Ultraview Imaging to see if we could see what the sexes of the babies were. Dr. Greve was holding his ground on not letting me know until I was 20 weeks.....but I couldn't wait any longer. I HAD TO FIND OUT!!! I had a feeling they would both be boys, but we were actually hoping for a boy and a girl. Keep in mind I was still coming out of the morning sickness and headache stage, so I swore I would never have kids again...one of each would be ideal! Boy was I wrong! They were both girls....GIRLS! Ryan is going to be out numbered so bad! But shopping will be so much fun!

Could they be Dwarfs?

February 21, 2009: So everyone I have bumped into keeps saying, "you are so small to be having twins"...."you are so tiny". So I just started wondering.....could they be dwarfs? Maybe the reason my belly isn't getting so big is because they are so tiny?!? What if they are born and they are only 10 inches long? I cried to Ryan about it. That was really my first hormonal emotional pregnant lady episode. He laughed at me and told me that they were normal size. The next morning I woke up and I felt fine....like my crazy dwarf fears never even happened!