This is a very special Mother’s Day for me. Not to celebrate another one for myself, but to welcome the joys of mommy hood to a very beautiful person! This is Carly & I. I haven’t introduced her on here yet, but I think on a holiday like this, it’s perfect! Those sweet twin babies everyone has been praying for and keeping up with… this is their mommy♥

Carly and her husband Gavin came to CA a few weeks ago to visit and attend one of the many check ups we’ve had at the Reproductive Endocrinologist’s office. It was something special for all of us because they finally had the chance to be here for an appointment, and the doctor also confirmed two perfect little heartbeats of two cute little growing babies! I talk all the time about how blessed we’ve been to find each other. But really, we have been in so many ways. We love Carly and Gavin and can’t wait for them to meet their little ones in person!!

My little guy & Gavin playing at Santa Monica Beach. I think it was less than a minute later that Bradley was soaked head to toe.

We had our last checkup with our RE today. It was a little bitter sweet. He is such a great doctor and I’m so thankful that Carly found him! He had the patience to put up with me and was so easy to talk to. A huge thing for me because I ask a lot of questions! Our update for today is the babies are both doing wonderful! They’re growing rapidly and on time with the GS age, both have beautiful heartbeats, long legs and cute toes! The US tech even showed me the face of baby B (right side) in 3D and his/her profile is so adorable! Baby A was jumping around from what I thought looked like hiccups. Baby B was pretty wiggly too, but Baby A takes the cake for wiggles!

So far I’m feeling pretty great. I’ve had a day or two where I’ve just felt blah, but for the most part I feel really good. I’m more tired than usually, that’s normal. And I’m feeling my hips/pubic bridge expand and stretch. It’s happening early because of the progesterone & estrogen. I went on a hunt to find my favorite prenatal support pillow and that’s helped a ton. We also got the okay to stop progesterone & estrogen patches altogether! Woot! Maybe that will help to alleviate the pubic bone pains a little… and maybe the mood swings for my family!

We just got home a little bit ago, so I’m happy to find myself in my pajamas. We’re ready to enjoy a relaxing movie night.

Happy Mothers day Carly! This is just the first of many!

Abigail broke my heart tonight. After I thought everyone was asleep, I heard her whimpering and crying in her room. I called her name and she came running teary eyed and red-faced obviously upset about something. “I’m so sad, I have no friends and girl buddies!” It was the most pitiful thing ever! I cried with her because I kind of know what she means. All my friends have lives, kids, work, we’re all busy so getting together is all too rare. Or, they live way too far for weekday drop in visits. I understand that need to be around people like you just to talk about whatever, hangout. We all need that in our lives!

She has one more year after this summer until she starts Kindergarten, when I know she’ll make tons of friends, and we plan on getting her into some sort of dance class this year. So the opportunity for her to build life long buddies is just around the corner. Unfortunately, none of our friends have little girls, they’re all boys! And we don’t see her cousins often enough either.

Just hearing my baby say that she’s lonely tore me to pieces. My sweet girl, you’ll have no trouble finding friends soon. Your personality and ability to love the way you do will make you a very special friend, I know it♥

I’m so excited and tired! Today was a long and very exciting day for all of us. We signed the first of many contracts on our first home! It’s taken years of hard work and saving to finally get here but so very worth it. So many times we almost gave up this dream probably for lack of patience. It’s going to be another 5 months before escrow closes, but we are on our way!

Our new home<3

You have to sing that ^^ to the tune of Whistle While You Work!

As of yesterday, we are exactly 8 weeks pregnant with twins! We have another confirmation of heartbeats and measurements in about a week and 2 days. Mommy & Daddy will be here for that, yay!

You know the waddle most pregnant women get when they’re pretty far along? I’ve always thought it was from the weight of the big-o-belly and baby she’s carrying. For me, it was around 25-30 weeks when my waddle got bad. Well, guess what, it’s not the weight of the baby that does it. It’s a special hormone your body produces when you’re pregnant called relaxin. It releases in your body to help relax your pelvic area to allow for a much easier birthing experience for both mom and baby. Like I mentioned, it happens for most in the later part of pregnancy.

Well! The last two weeks I’ve felt some stretching going on in my pelvic area. It’s nothing bad, just that I can feel a difference in they way I normally feel compared to now. I recognized the feeling immediately. I just thought it was strange that I would start the waddling already! I did some online searching to see if there was a reason I would feel this earlier and it turns out it’s pretty common for IVF patients to experience this earlier with the aid of Progesterone. WHEW! So my hips and pelvic areas are taking care of business a little early

Also, when I laid down for bed last night, I was able to feel the top of my uterus. That was a first! I didn’t quite expect to feel anything just yet, maybe it’s earlier because of twins? I’m new at this stuff! Whole new world and experiences here.

So just a little note, if you see me waddling you know why now

We had a pretty interesting night tonight. It’s been a long week this week! So glad it’s Friday! Tonight we went out to do something special for Bradley. David and I talked a long time ago and decided that Bradley could have his first gun when he was 6. Well, he’s 6 now and has been non-stop reminding us. We’re huge gun-safety teaching parents, so we’ve put huge thought into this, don’t worry! It was pretty special to watch David and Bradley decide which was best to start with. We’re hoping that in maybe 4-5 years from now he can graduate to a hunting rifle for hunting with daddy.

For now, this is Bradley, David and their new Remington Blackmagic .177 air rifle. I see a trip out to the shooting range happening soon for them! (Poor David is tired from work<3 We keep him busy!)

Oooh boy. Here we go!