18 Week Ultrasound

Well, we had our 18 week ultrasound yesterday. And.... WE HAVE ONE BOY AND ONE GIRL!!!! I just want everyone to know that I WAS RIGHT! Haha, I have been wrong with both of my other pregnancies, so it's nice not to be wrong again.

Here is our little girl in profile.

Here is our baby boy in profile.

Here is a 3-D image of the two of them together. Or rather Baby Boy and Baby Girl facing backwards (she wouldn't turn around for this part.)

Here is our baby boy in 3-D profile. We tries to get one like this for our baby girl, but she was NOT being cooperative (sounds like she might have the same personality as her sisters)

The babies are looking great. They are both measuring on schedule. They are also both breech, but they are still so small and have plenty of time to flip (hopefully). At one point in the ultrasound they were facing each other and kicking and punching like mad. It looked like just a tangle of limbs, haha. Thanks to everyone for your love and support. Now, baby names...

Ultrasound Pictures 11 1/2 weeks

We had an ultrasound this week and I was so nervous. At my last ultrasound the Dr. couldn't get a picture of both babies together, and I was worried that maybe he had just gotten the same baby twice! My worries were unfounded though. There are definitely two babies there! Seeing them moving around and kicking each other in the head made it so much more real for me. I'm starting to get really excited.
Both of the babies are measuring a few days big, but that's good. The ultrasound tech still wasn't for sure if they are fraternal yet. The tech could only find one of the two key indicators of fraternal twins. We may never know for sure. She also couldn't tell if there is one placenta or two. I'll have more ultrasounds and things may be clearer then. Here are some pictures of the babies. Baby A was moving a lot during this part and we couldn't get great shots, but enjoy anyway!

We're Expecting More

A complete suprise today. I went in to the dr to have my first ultrasound and he found TWO BABIES. I am still in shock. There is no history of twins in my family, I guess there is a first for everything. From what the doctor could see, the babies look to be fraternal. We are going to have another ultrasound in two weeks to make sure everything looks good. I'll keep everyone posted!

We're Expecting!

I think most everyone knows already, but for those of you who don't, we're expecting baby #3! I put a little widget on the blog so everyone can see how things are going. I haven'e had my first appointment yet, but I will post the ultrasound pictures when I get them. We are super excited to add another beautiful baby to our family.

Lucy's First Birthday

 My tiny baby is getting so big! Lucy turned one on November 20th and we had a big party with all of our friends. She had a lot of fun just watching all of the other kids running around. She is so wonderful.

Lucy went crazy for her cake. Not crazy like throwing it everywhere, but crazy like she had never eaten before. She was really controlled and just kept shovelling through it. I think she would have kept on going all night if we had let her.

We took the cake away after a little while. This is what's left of a two-layer chocolate cake after we finally took it away from Lucy.

Catching Up

I really don't have much in the way of excuses for not posting in a while. I suppose I was busy, and it was the holiday season, and I was out-of-town, but none of those reasons are very good. So I am going to do some catching up on my blogging starting with Lucy's first birthday.
It may take a couple of days for me to get all caught up, but just be a little patient and I will reward you with some awesome pictures of my beautiful daughters.

Halloween

I found my camera just in time for Halloween (thank goodness) so I got some pictures of our costumes. I took Cloe and Lucy on Friday to a couple of businesses during the day to do some trick-or-treating. Cloe dressed as a fairy princess with no wings. She was pretty adamant about it. I tried to explan to her that fairies have to have wings or they wouldn't be fairies, but she wouldn't have any of it. Oh well. I just put a bear snowsuit on lucy which is the same one that I put on Cloe at that age. They look so much alike!!

                                                                 Cloe 13 1/2 months

                                                                 Lucy 11 1/2 months

We went to our ward party/trunk-or-treat as a family that night. We went as Blue Man Group. I thought it was a clever idea, but I was surprised to have so many people as us what we were and then not know who Blue Man Group is when we told them. Weird Alaskans.

Me and the Girls

The Family.

(Ok, I promise my double chin isn't that bad. The liquid latex paint we used made my neck stick together and I couldn't move it.)

Of course Blue Men have blue feet!