28 weeks and counting

This week marks number 28 and therefore another visit to the doctor with an ultrasound. Sheesh are we ever packing on the weight this month! I have crossed the 20 lb. mark myself, but thankfully almost 3 pounds of that gain was baby! Yay kiddos! Another bit of good news is that Baby B moved and now both babies are head down. This makes a natural delivery more promising. So not a lot of news today, but the news we got is worth celebrating. I now see the doctor every 2 weeks, with ultrasounds every 4 weeks. Time is going fast and I can hardly believe we are already in our 3rd trimester. Soon enough our babes will be here and you can all find out what they are! :) Thanks for checking in!

25 weeks and counting

On Wednesday I had another appointment with my doctor. Ultrasounds come at every appointment now as normal protocol for twins, so that's kind-of fun. :) The babies look good and are good size for where they should be at this point. A is 1 lb. 13 oz. (47%ile) and B is 1 lb. 11 oz. (33%ile). They moved positions since last time, A is head down, feet up on my right side. B is head on my left, feet on my right....kind-of laying right under my diaphragm. Doctor said that if one stays head down, we will plan to deliver normally. If the lower one turns breech, they will schedule a c-section. April still seems so far away, but I know it will be here before we know it. We are currently working on Mason's big boy room so we can move him and then make final preparations to the nursery. I'm anxious to get that project completed. We are also in the process of shopping for a mini van. There is a lot out there, just praying God will make it clear which one is the right one.

SURPRISE!

On December 1, we went to the doctor for our routine 20 week ultrasound. We were completely shocked to learn we were having TWINS! We are thankful that both babies are healthy and looking good. We feel blessed, overwhelmed and excited all at the same time. :) From here on out, we get an ultrasound at each appointment to make sure they are growing as they should and we eagerly anticipate their arrival mid-April. God is good!

Our Camping Debut

Tony, Mason and I spent the last week camping with my family in Grand Haven. Thanks to our very generous neighbors we were able to stay in a beautiful trailer, which made the week so much easier. The week was hot with some rain, but mostly sunshine. We enjoyed a great week of making memories and topped it all off by celebrating Mason's birthday on Friday. Here are a few pictures of our time away...

One of his many wonderful gifts from generous family!

All of the August birthdays: Cole (8), Mason (2), Tara (2), Taryn (17), Grace (10) and Ellie (8). Six SUPER reasons to celebrate!

Throughout the day Mason cried whenever someone sang "Happy Birthday" to him. For some reason he was cool with it when it really mattered. :)

Mason loved the sand/mud at the beach. He was content to dig and play for hours. Just don't ask him to go in the lake! Grace played so nice with him, it was fun to see.

The clippers somehow found their way to the campground and now all the guys have matching hair cuts. The guys are all smiling...I can't say all the wives were. :)

Mason and Tara spent a LOT of time playing together this week. It was fun to see the play and explore this new thing called camping. (Here they are under the table laughing at the noise dominoes make when they hit the poles. Delightful!)

Monday morning we had a thunderstorm that left the Shoobridge's pop-up in a bit of trouble. They joined us in our trailer and we were all lazy together while we waited for the rain to stop. :)

Mason isn't too sure about the whole campfire thing.

The only two 'guy' cousins, Cole was a good pal for Mason to chill with.

God is so Good

Here are Tony & Mason on a boat ride over the 4th of July. Mason was sick, so he wasn't all that thrilled with it.

1st Summer Playdate

There are three other teachers from my school that had babies within 4 days of Mason and another one came about 3 weeks later. It has be a lot of fun for us to compare notes and stories over the last 2 years as we were all pregnant together and gave birth within a week and all had newborns together. Today we got together with them all for a play date. The kiddos are all turning two at the end of the summer. It was so much fun to see them all play and relate to one another. This was our best attempt to get a shot of them all together (Mason is recovering from a brief fit, and Cameron needed to be by mom in order to get the shot.) :)
L to R: Andrew 8/15/08, Mason 8/13/08, Liza 8/10/08, Addisyn 9/10?/08 and Cameron 8/12/08