Nursery Beginnings

Well things over here are starting to get a little crazy. We've got somewhere between 12 and 15 weeks before these babies get here (hopefully no less), and there are so many things to do from registering to the nursery to, um, getting ready to birth-and-then-actually-care-for TWO BABIES.  That last one still boggles my mind...  But, we ARE making progress in the nursery, even if we do have a looooooong way to go before it's "ready":

• Paint... this weekend, hopefully!
• Buy things (changing table, rug, new mattresses)
• Hang things (art, pictures, shelves, curtains)
• Make things (art, bedding, mobile)

BUT, we've got a few things together so far and I wanted to share just a few of the details since it won't all be put together for a while...

Please don't get too excited about the framed initials... These will go above their cribs (yes, we're doing two cribs), but the actual letters in the frames may change. Their names are in no way set in stone, I was just anxious to see what it would look like. I'm pretty sure these guys won't officially have names until after they're born.

And look! These boys have a ton of stuff already! Shoes, books, cute hats with ears, a rubber ducky, and SO, SO many clothes.

As if we don't have enough projects going on in the nursery, there are some interesting developments happening across the hall as well:

You may recognize this as our second floor bathroom, if you caught this post last spring. Looks a little different, eh?  Needless to say, there's lots going on at our house these days!

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Shock

Originally written on 10.20.2011

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Anyone else totally remember that commercial? Yeah, well I can't stop watching it.

We had our 7 week ultrasound earlier, and the technician gave us the shock of our lives:

Two babies. Two little, squishy blobs on the screen. Two flickering heartbeats. And the sight of THESE two (above, the twins) made THIS two (us, the parents) absolutely melt.

Hence, why I have been watching the above commercial non-stop.

I'm still on the inside of 24 hours since getting the news, and I'm still in quite a bit of shock. There are many things that make me go "Ahh! How are we going to do this?!" See: working, traveling, sleeping, breastfeeding, cloth diapering, paying for college, going anywhere, doing anything, etc etc...

But then there's also the fact that it's going to be amazing. And so much fun.



See also, a million other hilarious and adorable twin videos on YouTube.

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fifteen weeks.

thirteen weeks.

Even before I got pregnant, I knew I really wanted to document those 40 weeks somehow through journaling/pictures. Found this idea here. I'm going to try to do this every couple of weeks or so.

Oh, and check out the other pictures we've taken so far: here.

Two Beautiful Lines

Do you remember how when we were travelling a bunch last year, this blog was mainly centered around documenting those adventures? And then we bought a house, and all of our posts suddenly were about those projects? Well, now we have a new project :) And since we are officially "out" now, I can share a few posts that were written months ago!

Originally written on 10.11.2011

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Ten days ago, we found out I am pregnant.

I've had ten days for this wonderful news to sink in and I'm still somewhat in shock. Or maybe I'm just holding my breath. I'm finding the first trimester to be very terrifying. I should be almost 6 weeks along now, but I'm in that limbo stage where I haven't started feeling pregnant yet. I don't really have many symptoms, definitely no morning sickness at this point. And, I haven't seen our baby yet, since an ultrasound isn't usually don't for a few more weeks. So, the only thing I have to go by is this picture above. I'm putting my faith in this one little plastic pee stick. Ok, more like five plastic pee sticks...

At some point, I'm going to exhale and be overwhelmed with joy. Right now, it all feels too good to be true.