THE SURPRISE OF OUR LIVES . .




NEED I SAY MORE!?

OK. So you know I'm going to anyway! Yes, that's right! You saw right! You ARE seeing double!
Twinners!! So unexpected! Well, I guess most things like this are.
We are 3 & 1/2 mo. along so its too early to know what they are yet, but that'll be coming in about 5 more weeks or so. The top photo is a 4D image of the twins & the bottom is 2D with baby "B"s head on the left & baby "A"s body on the right.
We are still in shock somewhat as we let it all sink in & what this news really means.
I first found out last Thursday at a routine checkup to listen to the heart beat & do a quick ultrasound to see how the baby is growing. When we listened to the heartbeat, there was ONE, very strong little heart going (so I thought, & could hear). Then when the ultrasound began the nurse said, "There's your baby !
Oh, wait! There's both your babies!
My heart froze & I began to cry as I looked up at the huge flat screen above me, to sure enough see two little bodies! I felt so shocked, overwhelmed, & stunned that I couldn't help but cry thinking, is this for real!? The first question I asked was, "how come I only heard one heart beat"? And the nurse said that you only would hear one because they beat together.
So after the nurse left to bring in another specialist nurse who works with multiples, I tried my best to compose myself & focus on what was going on at the moment, which was difficult to do. My nurse said, "you know, I almost said something that you might be since you were measuring a little big for your size." Both nurses were so sweet & made it so much fun for me to relax & get to see these two little babies move, & wiggle, & dance around in 4D on this huge screen before me. The nurse had fun taking lots of different shots of them after getting measurements on them. They weigh about 3 ounces right now. Baby "A" is a teensy bit bigger than baby "B" & they are fraternal twins meaning they are in their own separate membranes which is a very good thing.
As Jace was in training/seminar classes for work all day, he was not reachable, so I decided I'd come up with a fun way to tell him the news. After my appointment, I quickly went over to my friend Christie's house to pick up Cole, showed her the pictures & got some cute ideas on how to tell Jace. I had to run over to "A Las Wal Mart" for groceries anyway, so I picked up two matching yellow fleece blankets to be put on the bed next to the strip of ultrasound pictures later that evening. So after dinner I got it all set up, got the video camera, & came into the family room where Jace was hanging out with Cole & said, "Hey Jace, I've got something really cool I saw earlier today that I want to show you!" So he followed me into the room, saw the blankets & later said that, "right when I saw those - I knew!" He dropped to his knees at the end of the bed, covered his mouth with one hand & just stared at & studied the pictures for a few minutes. He definitely didn't see that coming! He was sad to have not been there for the whole experience, but will definitely be there for the next ultrasound! We didn't plan on Jace coming along on this visit since we just thought it would be a routine check up. I think we'll do different in the future, because even though the twins aren't even born yet, we are planning on at least one more for us or whatever the Lord asks of us. I know your already saying your nuts & oh just wait & see. Well, I didn't say how far out the next one would be, which could be quite a ways out, but like I said, whatever we are suppose do - we'll do!
All in all, he's excited, I'm excited, along with still having feelings of surrealness & amazement that Heavenly Father would entrust us with two of his little spirits at once. Cole's still pretty much oblivious to the fact that we're even having a baby period, but we are certainly going to do all we can to prepare him to be an awesome big brother! They will be 2 1/2 years apart by the time they are born.
The original due date is September 28th, but we are pretty positive that it'll be moved up by a couple of weeks at least. We shall see what they say when we go back to the Dr.'s in 3 weeks for another check up & to run tests for any possible diseases or defects which they normally do with twins.
Our biggest prayer now is that they develop normally & are born healthy & strong.
And if anyone has any good suggestions for baby names boy or girl, that would be great, because I was having trouble coming up with one & now we get to come up with two.
I am doing great & feeling good, Jace has still been able to focus on work with a lot of effort I'm sure, & Cole is enjoying being Cole & learning & growing everyday. And now its busy time trying to get done with urgency any & all projects on the house that I/we possibly can before I get too big! And we'll keep everyone posted with pics as we progress along this crazy, amazing journey!!