26 1/2 weeks pregnant with the girls (long post warning)

Tuesday I will be 27 weeks pregnant with our little girls. It's pretty hard to believe. I feel like the first trimester crept along so slowly and now the weeks have been flying by. In just 10 short weeks these girls could be born perfectly healthy. I pray every night now for my body to be able to hold them in until they are 100% ready to be here.

I do fear that things are about to get a bit difficult. Pregnancy is starting to be really hard on my body. I am working about 4 hours a day, sometimes more, sometimes less and it is hard. My feet hurt so bad and I have reached a point of swelling that never goes away. It just fluctuates from scary looking to regular swollen looking! I have found that standing for long periods of time really hurts my feet. I have also developed some serious pain in the joints in my hands and when I wake up I usually have to run both hands under cold water for a while to get my fingers moving. It is related to fluid on the nerves in my wrists and I will be ready to get rid of that once these little munchkins are born!

Sleeping has gotten pretty hard too. Turning from side to side each night is hard. My belly feels so heavy! I usually wake up about 3 hours after going to bed with such awful heartburn that I usually switch over to the couch to finish up the night. Lance and I call it the "heartburn alarm". The heartburn has gotten better though. For a while anytime I would lay down after eating I would almost instantly throw up and would have to literally sit up for hours waiting to be able to lay down without getting sick. That seems to be subsiding a bit. Yay!

I have also seemed to get past my migraines!!! I am so thankful and praising God for this!! I feel like I have had some serious symptoms but I am thankful God has allowed them to be spread out! It has been hitting in waves and not all at once.

I noticed one tiny stretch mark and am waiting to wake up one day and see like a million. However, Iam super swollen, have already gained over 30 pounds and I have come to the conclusion that this is an unstoppable force that I can't control so I'm just going with it! Lance and I spend a lot of time laughing at my sausage feet/ankles, our living room turned bedroom and my ever changing belly. Which consists of the remains of a belly button piercing that is staring to look a bit scary!

 For the most part I hear from people how small I look for twins. It's funny because I feel HUGE and am measuring much bigger than 26 weeks! I know one day I am just going to pop out to an enormous size! :) We had our monthly visit with the specialist and Nora was weighing in at 2.3 pounds and Zoe was 2.1 pounds. She laughed, said they were big babies and then looked at me and said, "well, your long waisted hopefully that will help." The tech said they were growing like singletons and were in the 55% and 70% for size. Little Zoe seems to be pretty average size all around and her sister seems to be a little chunker! It was funny to watch the measurements and see the gestational age creep up to 29 weeks at 26 weeks pregnant! It kind of scares me that I will be carrying around lots of baby soon, but I am also very very thankful they are both growing well!!

 One of the best parts has been watching Lance morph into this girl daddy! He is soooo happy we are having girls. He used to say he wanted a son and is now 100% on the girl train. He stops me in stores to point out clothes and will just randomly tell me how happy he is that these babies are girls. The other night we were laying in bed and he just started telling me how happy he is that our babies are girls. I mentioned to him that I would be willing to talk/pray about changing our gender preference for our adoption if he wanted to and he would have none of that! He quickly said no and that Jane was our daughter. Don't try to take away Lances baby girls!! ;) It's been quite the experience so far, but such a miracle!! We are getting sooooo excited and cannot believe these little girls will be here so soon! We have so much to be thankful for. It's still very surreal. I will update with pictures soon. I dropped my phone in the toilet, not even my own toiler...yuck...and it is currently buried in a bowl of rice. We are crossing our fingers it dries out! But until then, no pics. Happy weekend friends!!