Ladies

Had another ultrasound yesterday! It's pretty cramped in there, but somehow Rightie (B) was able to turn around and she's head down now too. Proof positive here of their two melons smashed next to each other.

And here's Righties face, right below where it says face...can you see it?
And here is Lefties face...she is upside down, her chin is right under where it says face. She is facing my back, so it was harder to get a good shot.
Aren't they cute?

So Leftie (A) is 2lb 11oz and Rightie (B) is 2lb 12oz. They both gained 1lb in 1 month on the money. Neat! (According to the ever knowing babycenter.com, at 29 weeks one baby is around 2.5 pounds, so the girls are right on track.) And so Leftie turned herself around which is causing me much turmoil up top with her feet! She doesn't kick them that much, but they are jammed up where feet should not be if you ask me! Otherwise we're all doing okay! I'm tired always, as usual, and feel like a lumbering moose! I go to the doc friday so may have some more updates then!

Stretch Armstrong

I feel like stretch armstrong, except it's not my appendages that are stretching, it's my belly skin and I don't know how much further it'll go!

28 weeks with the girls (taken this morning)

28 weeks with Jake (6/07)

All I need is my nuk and my Wiggles guitar.

I got mom's blue eyes and chocolate addiction...beyond that, I'm all dad.
We were at Hobby Lobby today and saw some stellar shamrocks! So of course we had to have a shamrock shake to celebrate!

So as of right now, Jake's been screaming for about a hour. I guess someone doesn't want to nap? Too much shamrock shake? Oh dear.

At his 18 month check up, he weighed 24 pounds (50th percentile) and was 34 inches high (90th percentile). Meaning, he's a bean pole! He wears pretty much all 24 month clothes already...can squeak into a few 18 month things - t-shirts, a few pants. Everything else is perfect. Clean bill of health I guess! And me too. I go for another ultrasound next week and doc appt. Last week, I was in and only gained 1lb in 2 weeks. Wow.

That's all I got for now. Oh yes...only 10 weeks to go!

Holy crap

I'm sorry, but that's all I can say when I look at myself. I feel and look like a whale.

26 weeks with the girls...

26 weeks with Jake

I'm a wiiilllddd and crazzzzyyyy dude!!!
Foggy from being in the bathroom...I rock a punk style. But my hair is growing out quit nice!

And then for lunch we had grilled cheese, fried taters and M&M's! I's a happy boy! With MORE teeth coming in. Ouch.
That is all! I have no exciting news.

Moons over Mi-uterus (and you thought I was going to say Mi-ami)

Had ultrasound # something or other on wednesday (25 weeks 1 day). The official stats: Leftie (A, my left) is 1lb 10oz and measured at 25 weeks 2 days. Rightie (B, my right) is 1lb 12oz and measured at 24 weeks 6 days. So that is excellent that their growth is so close. Remember, no worries until there is a 20% difference. That means one is stealing from the other and most likely delivery day. So their positions: Leftie is head down still, kind-of at an angel across my whole stomach. Poor Rightie on the other hand...her head is up in my ribs (poor me right there) and is in a very crunched fetal position where she is almost kissing her knees. So that means her butt is smack dab in Leftie's face. I hope she doesn't stink like her brother! Teehee! And their heart rates were both at 143 I think. And I was at the doc today...my weight is up there, but I'm having a brain fart at what it was last time. I'm either 2lbs or 7lbs heavier in two weeks. I'm going to go with the 2 pounds thank you very much. The doc did say I popped out.

Here are some pics. They're legs are kind-of tangled together, the tech had a hard time following who was who!

Rightie - weird face shot (never looks the same in the still photos) and her arm. I think it's her arm...it could very well be her leg.

Rightie's hand - the middle thing, you can see the bones.

Leftie's face - bizarre. At the right of the picture you can see the two halves of her brain...freaky!

Leftie's butt! Which is butt up so that and her feet push out on me.

and me. 25 weeks. I of course just noticed those nasty marks in the picture. I can not see them myself. I haven't looked that close in the mirror so I don't know if I can even see them that way. I thought that side was a little sore.

Well, look how cute and tiny I was at 25 weeks with Jake. Hrumph. At least there isn't much difference in the back end. :)

And Mr. Smiley himself...yes, he is smiling for the camera...he has turned into a cheese ball. And his hair is growing out nicely! haha! He can climb up on toilets now and pretty much whatever else he wants to. T-R-O-U-B-L-E.

Back to the doc in 2 weeks! They must love me. Oh, and I was the only special one in that office having twins right now, but a newbie popped up today!

Quickly

I am tired. But I am getting this done! The girls room is painted! Well, almost...all that is left is Greg's work of painting the trim (white) and then it's complete. Then we can fill it up!

Here we are mid-stripping of wall paper. The picture does not do the purple justice. It was hideous and probably caused nightmares.

Here are Jenny and I, I think silly from the smell? Haha! Just plain silly. I was so excited when we got finished. Cindy also helped a lot! I had great helpers! I was also excited about my $1 mini roller and tray, what can I say!

Here's a sample of the finished product! The orange and yellow are from the fish stuff that Jake currently has in his room. He is going to become dinosaur boy. It's bright, but very cheery and happy! Random stripes around the room.


And here we are at 24 weeks.


Okay, good night.

22 weeks and at least 3 Teeth

Mr. Smiley pants has at least 3 teeth coming in yet. I think I see the pokings of another one too, so we'll see. He's been normal for the most part, but sometimes a little whiney. Aren't you glad you can't remember teething?



And here are me and the girls at 22 weeks.
And here are me and Jake at 22 weeks...yeah, I don't think you can tell me I look the same anymore. Nice try.

20+ weeks

I got a pic this morning. Tomorrow is 21 weeks.


And to compare and contrast...here is 21 weeks last round!

Teeth and babies

Today we found out a bazillion things about baby A & B. Like for instance, they have all 5 fingers and toes on each appendage...the 4 chambers of the hearts are there...all the girl parts are there...YES TWO GIRLS!!!

Miss A (Leftie)

Miss B (Rightie)

(The left and right is if you were me.)

Jake report: I hope it's teeth and not just a tooth. Jake rung in 2009 with a nice 103 fever. That lasted off and on for a few days followed by another few days of crankiness and out-of-character-ness. Last night (the 5th) he finally played with some toys and acted more normal. This morning he was up to his old tricks again. So far I only felt one tooth...so maybe he was fighting off a little bug too.

Not much else going on. Holidays were great and tiring. It was awesome the whole Roedl clan was around. And everyone was accounted for at the Sutton's too. It was nice. I will hopefully get some time to post pictures soon!

I like bananas, but normally in my face and not in my hair!

Ma was taking out the garbage, I was falling all around the yard and somehow missed Porter's piles even! Then I hung out on my slide for awhile...

Thanksgiving! The only photo I took. Ryan checking out the goods in the fridge. Brett making some gravy (or what I like to call doing what he does best) and Diann his faithful assistant!
It just started snowing about a hour ago here while the rest of the state has been pounded all day. It is starting to stick to the grass!

Oh wait. Here's a couple more. Monday night I went to the ghetto dentist. It was in Racine and I was a little scared. I was able to take a shot of the chair and part of the scenery in the handy mirror right in front of me. Ghetto. But I think my teeth are clean...maybe.
And here we are the other day at Woodman's. Jake fell asleep on the way there, so he just laid in the cart and we surrounded him with food, which is probably what he dreams about anyway!
And our latest trickery...

Fixed

Here I am getting my hair fixed by Ann! Whew. She rocked. I even got TWO suckers! I was a mess, but I behaved.
I want more suckers!!!!At The Wilderness this past weekend. I had a very important call to make. Many important calls to make. I was a busy dude.Back at Gramma and Grampa's. They told me and mom to leave on Sunday, but mom was too lazy. So we woke up Monday morning, and WHOAH, SNOW!!!!It's so cool!!!
Gramma is watching out the window. Get 'yer butt out here Gramma!!!I fell down a lot and didn't have boots, but I didn't mind one bit!
Before Mom and I left, we went to Crystal Creek Dairy House/Cheese House for some lunch. I have found my new love, Chocolate shakes. Oggghhhhh...mmmm....and I love the sound of the blender!
That's about all lately. Heading to BD today after Greg is done with work and I am prepared to eat like a queen all weekend. I can't wait.

If anyone needs a Christmas idea for Jake, the original Big Wheel is on sale at Target this weekend!

Okay, Jake is napping, I think I'll try to catch a nap too! I am packed, Jake is not totally packed, Porter is packed. Nigh-night.

Misadventures!

So alright, Greg "tried" to cut Jake's hair. He did not follow instructions, but it was going okay...until...buzzz...oops.

The before shot...notice here there already is something suspicious looking going on with the bangs. Yeah...Daddy tried to cut those too a couple weeks ago.

The during shot...Wasn't too happy about the whole thing...he KNEW something was wrong!

Yelling at Daddy... "YOU'RE FIRED!!!" The remnants.
Back to being happy since I can run around in my diaper and shut the door and flush the toilet and play with the heater and...

So I was going to let it grow for a few days and take him to a pro to get this straightened out. Hopefully you won't even notice the fashion mishap.

We got a new boiler this past week. Not by choice, by another misadventure. We had someone come in to do a "check up" and well, it failed. But, hopefully all the money we save with mr. efficiency as opposed to mr. dinosaur will be great!

Here's the old hunk 'o junk (see all the brown rusty looking spots? That's where the carbon was leaking out.)

And the new and improved beauty.

Ew, you know what's gross? Cold Hot cocoa. Blach!

Well, that's it for now, the monster has awoke! Oh yeah, why am I home? I'm "temporarily" laid off until January. Guess I will have time to make cookies and fudge. Whew! :)

Later gang!

Dreams

For some reason you have crazy dreams when you're pregnant. Hormones? Humans living inside you? I dunno the technical reason, but I hear it all the time. I had another one last night and thought I better start keeping track of them. And anyone else's I may hear along the way.

"I and someone else (I can't remember who it was, it may have been Cindy, except a black Cindy maybe) went to a plastic surgery place to get consultations on boob jobs. So I'm sitting in the little room in the little gown and the doc walks in and she's like oh yeah, I see, without even looking at 'em. And then all of the sudden 5 other people walk in and start getting down to business and I'm like, but I'm pregnant, I'm pregnant! and all of the sudden they're putting me under with a gas mask and I'm mumbling the babies, the babies...and I actually am awake the whole time they're "lifting and tightening", but my eyes are closed. and whoola, like 5 minutes later I walk out all bandaged up and with new boobs. As well as black Cindy! we were freaked out and saying, but we just wanted a consult! and walked out with our new boobs."

And from Lisa we have:
"last night we went to visit the girl that I stole Joe from (who?) and she had his baby and wanted him to give it up and the baby's name is Ronnie Ron and he already had buck teeth and was as small as a lizard and we were ready to leave and we couldn't find the baby cuz he is so small and Megan was helping!"

Ahhh, such fun times!

They started replacing our boiler yesterday! The old dinosaur is gone and in it's place is a midget. We have been living with 4 space heaters (the nice kind and nicely supplied by the heating guys) that Jake loves to turn on and off. They light up ya know! Luckily it's been a little warm out for the time of year and hasn't been too terrible. Last weekend got a little rough on sunday after a couple days of high 30's. Yeah, I know, we have a fireplace...but did we get it inspected and cleaned and tuck pointed at all? Noooo. If only we planned ahead better. Ha!

I'll get some more pictures posted this weekend after the computer room is warmed up!

Couple Video's

Baby Zombie Eats Cookie



Grandma's cookies are so yummy, we eat them while we sleep! Sorry it's a little long, but it goes quick...it's only a minute and a half of your life sheesh!


Greg is the one driving. Eyes on the road buster!

Formal Introduction

Jake is pleased to present his new siblings...Baby A and Baby B! (click on photo to make it larger!)

Double Trouble

Well my friends and family...I think you've all heard but I will confirm it now!

Jake is going to be a big brother...twice! Yes'sir, we're expecting twins this May. So those of you who loved watching my belly grow last time will have another lovely show! It will be interesting to see how much bigger it gets!

I went for my first appointment on monday and had a little ultrasound. Luckily Greg was not there, 'cause he may have fainted, I almost did. Here is the conversation:

Doc to nurse: Connie can you go around the other side? Nurse Connie moves around, he flips the screen around...
Doc: see here, see it there?
Me: Ummm...ohhh, yeah...awww, you can see everything (arms, legs, head)
Doc: Now see here? as he flips the doo-hickey
Me: Huh...wait, what? Are you shi**ing me?!?!?!?! Oh sorry. as I start crying...
Me some more: oh my god there's two of them? Greg has to get another job. No wonder why I've been so hungry. Call me Angelina Jolie! (to which the nurse replied, oh that twit, she's all stick thin again.)
Then the doc went on to talk about multiples and risks and everyone turns out okay. Also that I'm pretty high risk with multiples (I can't get over the word multiples) and my heart shaped uterus. Plus with my placenta previa last time, who knows with that, it's so random they can't really say if it'll show up again or a percentage of recurrence. So anywho, he said I will be pretty sick of them (good thing I love everyone there! My Doc. My hospital.) and I'll have oodles of ultrasounds and also at 18 weeks he'll send me to Froedert Hospital for a special one (forgot the docs name.) Then went on with the normal do's and don'ts and extras for having multiples. I can keep exercising (teehee!) but if I was going to a gym at 26 weeks he'd tell me to knock it off. Luckily I will not have that problem. I was pretty zoned out during this so I may have glossed over a few things!

So I am officially 10 weeks and 3 days. Both babies measured right on schedule. Due date is May 26th, but due to the repeat c-section it will be scheduled one-week prior...but with multiples, may be earlier than that. We will all just have to wait and see!

I have the ultrasound pics, need to scan it better then the p.o.s. thing we have at work. Boy was I spoiled at Savannah Blue! :)