And the belly grows!

I am having so much fun with this preggo belly. It amazes me how quickly it is growing, however when I have an ultrasound and see both babies crammed in there I think I should be bigger than I am. I'm sure I will be rather large before this is all said and done so I am going to enjoy this stage while I can! Sickness is now over. I am just so happy! I even managed to gain 5 pounds up until now which is a minor miracle since food was not really my friend. However, I think I may have gained all 5 last Thursday! Seriously. I was loving my nausea free Thanksgiving! The concept of some degree of weight gain being a good thing is just so odd....but good I guess b/c I don't think it can be avoided in a pregnancy huh!? I sure do enjoy the occasional jug of whole chocolate milk or the extra large slice of pie that I am eating "for the babies!" I really do feel like a new person now that I am not in a constant state of blah! I have been having pretty frequent bad headaches and some heartburn, however that's pretty much all. I do feel like I am having symptoms very very early but maybe it's because there are 2 babies?? I don't really know. But nothing too bad at all. The picture to the right is from our big family photo shoot and she snapped a few of me and Lance. This may be the first picture of us preggo! ;)

We find out the gender next Friday December 7th, and will officially find out with some friends and family the next day! I am SO excited. I actually went in yesterday at 16 weeks and she did an ultrasound and I asked her if she would write the genders down on a piece of paper and seal it for me (I brought supplies just in case) she said of course and after finding one babies gender pretty quickly she searched for another 5-8 minutes and couldn't tell the gender of the other one. She refused to write anything down because she didn't want to be wrong. I was hoping for a little assurance that we would have genders to tell next week, so I am keeping my fingers crossed that our modest little baby shows it's stuff next week so we don't have the worlds most disappointing gender reveal party! ;)

When I saw them yesterday it was amazing how much they have grown and how close together they are now. I frequently feel a baby kick in the same spot all the time and yesterday we saw that one baby has the placenta behind it and the other right in front of it. I think that's why I can only feel one baby so far. But we got a good shot of both. One was bouncing all around and we could hardly get a good pic. The other was just chilling with it's little hands by it's face and would occasionally move an arm. It looks like we may have one hyper baby and one chill baby. Nothing similar to their parents I know! But it is getting kind of wild how much is going on in my stomach with two babies and two placentas and the cords and all that. Its hard to know what you are even looking at sometimes. But they are cute and looking great so far. Lance will go with me to our big anatomy scan next week and I am looking forward to that. I actually get those every 4 weeks since it is twins and they are keeping such a close eye on me! It's all just so much fun!

Enjoy some "bump" pics. Its pretty undeniable at this point!

12 weeks

13 weeks

14 weeks

15 weeks

Babies at 16 weeks! (L) profile (R) straight shot :) 

Ok that's all for now, not much else to report. Happy Tuesday!