20 week photo shoot

At week 20, a family friend offered to take photos. He is an incredible photographer and offered to take them and we wouldn't have to pay for the shoot, just if we wanted to buy photos. What a blessing! He and his wife have twins, a boy and a girl, so I think that helped motivate him. Either way, here are a few of the photos. We are hoping to do another shoot in March, and then will do a few shoots with the babies when they get here.

Eighteen more weeks until full-term. We can hardly wait to hold our son and daughter and see their precious faces.

Hungry as a Hippo

Well I think it is safe to say my appetite is in full force. I have been waking up in the middle of the night with hunger pains so try to find something in kitchen that is quick and simple but it rarely fills my tummy. Fruit is usually to acidic for me to eat that early, so i try to do something with carbs, but it takes so long to eat and I am so tired.

Then for lunch today, I ate an entire box of mac and cheese. I have never done that. I rarely can eat half a box even, so to eat an entire one? Yikes! I really need to find a way to eat healthier but health food just is not my thing.

Also have felt really tired lately. You are suppose to have more energy during your second trimester. My firt trimester I didn't feel that tired...mainly just sick, but the past two weeks I have been really exhausted and wanting to just sleep all day. not sure if it is just due to lack of oxygen thanks to the congestion and all, or if it is because I am not sleeping well at nights since I can't get comfortable.

Spent some more time today cleaning things up and getting stuff ready for the nursery. Hung baby clothes on pink and blue hangers and emptied out a few more areas i the closet. Not sure what to do with all the stuff we have or where to put it...guess we will figure it out before the twins arrive.

We are planning to wait until April to order furniture or the main baby stuff. That will allow us a few months (hopefully) to set everything up and we really don't need it before then.

Alright, back to the couch to lay down for a quick snooze before finishing laundry.

Kyle Felt the Kick

Finally last night, after several minutes of kicking, Kyle put his hand on my tummy and felt one of the babies kick. It made him nervous and his response was cute. Hopefully he will enjoying them kicking more in the future.

I think I can tell which baby is kicking when, for the most part. The baby boy is on the bottom, girl is on the top. So when the kicking is REALLY low I assume it is the boy. And when it is higher up like by my bellybutton, I feel like it's probably girl.

We are still working on baby names. We are pretty sure we are going to name our daughter McKenna, and for the boy we have had such a large list of names it has been a bit trickier. This week we are leaning toward Keaton. We feel like both of those are strong names, so we are excited about that.

Feeling very blessed today. We are so excited to be parents. Less than 19 weeks left until we get to meet them.

Kicking on the Outside

What an incredible feeling. Was laying on the couch with my right side hurting really bad from ligament pain and my hand resting on my side and BAM...a kick, then another, then another... I was so excited I told Kyle to come over and feel the kicking but he thought I was kidding and that the babies weren't really feeling, or that I couldn't actually feel it on the outside. By the time he came over, the kicking was done.

The babies have been moving around a lot more lately and have only felt it on the outside a few other times since the other day but what a joy to feel them moving around. We are so blessed. We are going to be parents.

charlie horse

I have had a charlie horse in my left leg since yesterday morning and it is not going away. Can hardly walk on it. ouch! Will be upping the water intake today to see if more hydration will help.

Also, ligament pain now in right side too. Was so sharp yesterday could not move. Not sure what really will help that...suggestions?

belly growing

Belly keeps getting bigger and I worry how my skin will stretch. Starting to get stretch marks on my chest and have been using Bio Oil for the past week or so. Hoping that will help in the long run as the cocoa butter lotion wasn't doing much more than making me smell like chocolate. Enjoying having a belly though, and not having to suck in.

*Purple shirt is 18 weeks. Blue shirt and black and white photo is 19 weeks.

Baby pics

Here are a couple of the ultra sound pics. The two pics that are side views are of Baby B-the girl. The other two pics are of the boy...well, one is of his back/spine, the other is of his leg and bottom and you can supposedly see he is a boy in that picture and then the head on that picture though is of his sister.

Kyle and I are probably going to pay to have the 3d pics done in March. We realise we will be meeting our babies shortly there after, and insurance doesn't pay for the 3d ultra sound, but the one last week was so fun and exciting i can't imagine how exciting seeing the twins in 3d would be.