Hey Everyone,
Things are going good. Dan started his second semester of nursing school. Gracie is still growing, can you believe it? She's a head taller than most kids her age. It's not like her Dad is 6'4". :) I don't want to be one of those braggy moms but she is so stinking smart. It's getting harder and harder to trick her or distract her from certain things. This is her picture that she drew all by herself the other day. Its Dan, me and her. I'm on the right. It was funny when she was drawing me she was talking while she was doing it. She said, "Okay mom, here's your head, here's you chin, here is your other chin." Then after she was done drawing me she said, "Your picture is kinda ugly mom." I'll admit, she is a total daddy's girl. Without fail, every morning, the first words out of her mouth are, "Where's my Daddy." Not, "Hi mom, or did you sleep good?" :) She is such a hoot! Her vocabulary cracks me up too. She talks so much. Whenever we go thru Taco Bell, she has to roll down her window and order her own food and repeat everything that Dan or me orders. She is Little Miss Independent for sure.
My pregnancy is still going okay. I have an appt. with the specialist next week and I'm hoping that they will be able to find out what I'm having. My guess is a boy and a girl. We've had lots of different ultra sounds from my Dr. and a couple from the E.R. Every sonographer has said the same thing about baby A or the baby that is on bottom. Hardly any of them can get a good picture because the baby will not hold still long enough. Baby A's heartbeat has always been in the 160's and Baby B is always in the 140's. I'm going off of that old wives tale that says that 150-160 is a girl. 130-140 is a boy. Gracie was 160's so I think I'm going to get another active little girl and a mellow little mommy's boy. :) I'll be 17 weeks at my next appt and I hope they'll be able to see. This last weekend was kinda hard. I started having contractions and what felt like labor. I didn't remember really any of that with Gracie so we went into the E.R. when it got really bad on Sunday. Fortunately the babies are okay but I've been put on bed rest for I don't know how long. Probably 4 or 5 months. My doctor called me a couple days after I was in the E.R. and I told him that Dan had pretty much demanded that I do not get out of bed and my Dr. said that I have a smart husband. As much as I want to deny that I'm not okay, I have to realize that I'm not the best at carrying babies. I went into premature labor with Gracie and she was born 6 weeks early. I've had two miscarriages and now I'm trying to carry twins. My Dr. jokes that I'm just too fragile. :) I think I'm pretty tough when it comes to certain things but not carrying babies. It's kinda depressing being in bed all day long except to go to the bathroom or shower. I try to keep a good perspective that it is only 5 months of life that I'm missing and its better to have healthy babies than sick ones. Here's a picture of my growing belly. I turned it black and white because I have absolutely no color in my face. :)Hopefully I can go longer than a few days without being sick. Cross your fingers! The babies are getting bigger everyday and are so active, its fun to feel them move all around.
