18.5 Weeks

I have a feeling the pregnancy is going to drag on and on.  It has only been three weeks since we found out we'd be having twins.  That's it!  Just 3 weeks!  It seriously feels like it's been forever.  Maybe it's dragged cause there's been so much going on during that time frame?  I dunno.  All I know is I'd like it for time to speed up and feel normal again.  Bleh.

Next ultrasound is a week from today.  I'm going to try and see if they'll take a picture of both of the babies heads together so I can actually prove there's more than one baby in there.

We bought car seats this past week.  I happened to be near a Babies R Us with my mom while she was in town, so we stopped in and they let me test out a bunch of them in my car.  Ended up going with the one I really wanted, but probably wasn't going to get because it was way more expensive than the Graco candidate.  But there was an awesome sale on one of the Chicco designs in the style of car seat I needed, and you get an extra 10% off when you have to buy multiples of stuff (woot?), so I got the Chiccos for the same price I would have gotten the Graco for.  I like'em.

Now my mind is focused on breast pumps.  I really, really, REALLY want to be able to breastfeed this time around.  With Nettie, I could only do so for the first few months (maybe till she was 4 months old?) cause stupid birth control pills sabotaged me.  Not doing that again.  But yeah, breast pump.  Me and Stephanie are planning on going to the Kids Exchange thing this week at the Fair Grounds, so maybe I'll find something I want there... but I've got my heart set on the new Avent pump.  Haven't talked to Tucker too much about getting one yet.  Maybe I can convince someone to gift it to us?

OH ALSO!  Circumcision.  I'm kind of torn on this issue.  It's not covered by Medicaid (which is what we have currently for the pregnancy), so we'd have to pay out of pocket for it to be done.  As far as I can tell with all the research I've done, there is no medical difference for circumcised or uncircumcised boys, like cleanliness or whatever.  It's purely a cosmetic thing.  Which I mean.. only 60% of American baby boys are circumcised nowadays apparently, so it wouldn't be weird for them in the locker room later on...  Ugh... boy parts.  I think I'm fine not having it done.  Both because I don't like the idea of my poor little ones possibly being in extreme pain and also because I don't want to fork out an extra couple hundred dollars if we don't have to.  Tucker has remained silent on the issue so far.  Anyone have any opinion or.. something.. on the subject?

Lol at the post, by the way.  Breast pumps and circumcision.  Oh goodness... 

Suprise :)

So we got quite the shock yesterday when we went in for our first ultrasound yesterday.  We were just hoping for a normal, healthy baby (girl would have been nice too) but was told that we've got TWO normal, healthy babies growing right now.  Identical.  Oh... and boys.

INSANE.

I'm still not sure if the whole thing is real, but seeing the two of them squirming around inside yesterday is a hard thing to forget.  It's amazing how much this surprise has changed how we're having to think about things.  I'm still not entirely sure how it will all work out (or if I will ever have sleep again), but as long as both of them get here healthy and everything continues to go smooth, I won't complain.  Or well.. I'll keep my complaining to a minimum.  Ok, so probably not, but I won't go complaining publicly.  That's the best I can do.

It's really funny; on our trip this past week with Tucker's family, he and I talked about how many kids we actually wanted to end up having.  I honestly wasn't sure how well I was going to handle two munchkins running around, cause while Nettie is a sweetheart, she still doesn't listen very well and can be a handful.  So we decided we probably would be done with this "set" of kids for 3-4 years and then see if we wanted to do another couple later on.  Welp... that's certainly changed now, haha!

But I'm not going into this twins thing completely inexperienced.  For a couple months earlier this year (just before I found out I was pregnant actually) I was babysitting twin boys whose parents are both in Tucker's lab working on their degrees.  Guess Heavenly Father knew Nettie and I needed a little time to prepare for our additions to our family.

I still stop every few minutes and think about the fact that there's two babies inside me rather than just one, and I can't help but shake my head, just completely stunned.

Guess we better actually start getting together a list of names of the boys, all we had come up with was the name we wanted for our next girl cause we (or at least I) was so set on having a little sister for Nettie, haha!  This is what I get for trying to will that situation into existence.