Baby Faces

Twin A @ 28 weeks

In the 2nd pic, baby A is making a face bcuz I was rolled over to my side on my left to try & get a clear shot of baby B & boy does he hate it! Cuz he's getting sat on by his brother. :)

In the 3rd pic, Baby A's face and arm/fist are to the left of the pic & baby B's feet, toes, & legs are all in Baby A's face! :0
Getting crowded in there! No wonder why baby A hates it when I'm on my left side - He's getting kicked in the face.

And here's Twin B @ 28 weeks

The technician tried & tried to get a good shot of his face, but as you can see he was
all balled up with his knee in his face. So you get to see the back of his head, ear, shoulder, & knee! I guess he's a little camera shy. :)

7 Months

or 28 1/2 Wks.

If I made it to my due date (Sept. 14) I'd have almost exactly 2 mo. & 1 wk. left to go!
Some days lately though, I don't see how I'll make it that far!
Everything checks out great from my last wks. doctors appt.
Twin A, on my left, weighed 2 lbs. 10 oz. & Twin B, on my right, weighted 2 lbs. 4 oz.
with strong heart beats & busy bodies! Its nuts! - to think that each of them needs to
still more than double in weight before the end! Yikes, they are already starting to feel heavy! I'm gonna be huge!
I call the twin on my left the Spaz because he always seems to have soo much energy & I'm not sure about the one on my right because his placenta is in the front of my stomach so I can't feel a whole lot of movement on his side, but I def. still know he's there!
I've been so extremely blessed to have been able to go & go & go & do as much
as I have thus far, but my body is def. really starting to slow down.
Which is really, really hard for me to accept; but I know its needed.
Only because I can't fight the truth of my body telling me that I need to desperately,
& my husband telling me that he has seen me go down hill rapidly these last 4
days or so with me getting severe braxton hicks sometimes in the evenings. Jace keeps saying, almost like my new motto, "Take it slow & still get some things
done, or push too hard & be forced on bed rest where you can't get anything done."
You can tell my body that (sometimes), but try telling my head that! I still try to fight it because I'm starting to stress with all that I still want/need to get done before the twins come, especially knowing that from this point on, its not uncommon for twins to come early because your body feels so full & ready (If I were prego w/ one, I'm measuring 33 wks., so my body is physically 5wks ahead of what I really am).
But I've got a wonderful husband who has so willingly offered to do all the grocery shopping from now on, the dishes, the laundry ( I can still fold 'em though!) and anything that would be strenuous to me around the house.
Now is a time for me to focus on things like, potty training Cole, resting my body with extra sleep, journaling (which I'm terrible at), reading material on the twins to be prepared for them, & teaching my son as much as I can while I can still have my full focus on him.
This amazing ride has flown by so fast, yet at the same time hard to believe that 2 more months are still to go!

Still Alive . . .

Yes, we are still alive! We've been blowing & going this past month with traveling, family in town, projects, & ward events, but are now staying put getting ready for the twinners. Just over 2 months to go max before they are here! Yikes! times is flying! Plenty of posts are soon coming everybody! The twins are still doing well & growing my belly fast! Still feeling pretty good, just get tired a lot quicker these days & am slowing down a little bit, but still doing pretty darn good!

Swinging Buds



After the library story time ea. week, if the weather is great, 3 of us moms (Mary, Christie, & I) take our little boys (David, Brendan, & Cole) to play at the park. The absolute favorite are the swings! Since there are more boys than baby swings, this is what we came up with! A photographer came by with some of his students looking for some fun shots & found our Siamese twins kicken back in the swings, eating crackers.

My 6 pic . . .

Here's the 6th picture in my 6th folder.


This was in April of 2006 ( b4 any kiddos) on our trip to Texas
to visit our friends the Broughs (pre-kiddos) & the Gosneys came down too(dating @ the time, almost engaged, & married now). We spent an afternoon going through really awesome small town shops. We had a blast! Back when Jace called me "Brownie" since I'd recently dyed my hair a light brown, which was darker than I'd ever done before & had fun with it.

I was tagged by my sister-in-law Hillary, so the 6 people I tag are . . .
Breanna G., Julie B., Sharon G., Mary S., Sandra S., & Chelsey H.
Have fun!

The Results Are In!!!

So here we goooo!




We have 2 little Cowboys on the way!!

A little smile on Baby A's face in the 1st pic & the 2nd & 3rd show each twins "apple stem". :)


So the winners of the Gender Guessing Poll Are . . . .

Hillary Stapley (Our sister-in-law)
&
Eric Graham (Our Brother-in-law)

Sorry, everybody else, better luck next time.



The top 2 in this slides are of Baby B - (the best shots they could get) & a pretty
good one of Baby A facing Baby B's back side

They are healthy & strong & are just under 1 lb. ea. right now. We are grateful that
they've got their fingers & toes & everything else in between in place.
Just this week I'm starting to really feel them being busy bumping around in there.
It was so amazing to watch them dance around so much during the ultrasound
- busy, busy boys!!




Our 1st "Family" Pic with everybody

We are pretty excited! Even though we didn't get our girl this time, it's all
good cuz we know we're not done yet.
Cole's gonna be such a great big brother to his little brothers, he's gonna love
having 2 new playmates in the future.

Now to just figure out 2 great boy names! Hmmm . . .?

My Sweet Birthday Boy . . .



HAPPY 2ND BIRTHDAY COLE !!!
WE LOVE YOU LOTS!!

Cole turned officially 2 yrs. old on Sunday, May 3rd & we celebrated the day before with some friends at our house with a Birthday BBQ. Other than the weather being a little cool & wet, it was a lot of fun! Cole enjoyed eating lots of "coooookies" & playing with his friends. It was a little dramatic
opening gifts when any of the other kids would touch his new cars or trucks, so we just opened a few & saved the rest for his actual bday. When we opened those Sunday morning, Cole started to really get the hang of it & thought that every bag or box had cars in the them; it was so cute.

Pictures coming soon!

A little bit about our little monster . . .

He loves to be chased & is very, very fast!

He loves fishes, cars, trucks, & water

He is great at giving hugs & kisses

He's very smart at figuring out how things work

He gives the best "welcome homes" to daddy that any kid could give with such excitement every time!

He likes to find & play with ladybugs

He Loves nursery! (hooray!)

He loves "cooookies"

He loves to eat shredded cheese (can't be slices, gotta be shredded)

He loves dogs

He loves the swings at the park & would swing all day if we'd let him

He is fearless, fun loving, & so cute

He has the best laugh & giggle around

He is our "Coco"