Pregnancy Photoshoot

My girlfriend has a photography business and she put together a pregnancy photoshoot for us. The pictures came out great. Here is a little teaser (there are so many more...but just a tease for now)

By Jillian Spencer Photography

Baby Pool

The further we get into this pregnancy the more often I say to Jon, so...when do you think they are going to be born? I probably ask him this same question, or a question extremly similar to this three times a day. He's gotta be sick of it by now :o

Well a couple of days ago I told him we should have a baby pool. I went online and found this website...so please play...it's fun...for me at least :) Gotta keep mama happy some how :).

http://www.expectnet.com/games/RonnevikTwins

Belly Shots

As I have mentioned before I am not too big into taking pictures. I use to LOVE being in pictures...but since my jaw surgery I have shyed away. There aren't that many pictures of my preggo belly because of this reason...I figured I should post a few any way.

This us over Thanksgiving...let's see that means I was 22 weeks pregnant.

This is sometime in December. I don't remember when... sorry :(

Lots of Updates

So it's been alomst a month since my last post so I'm sure I have A LOT to share..... Let's see...where to start....

I should start by telling you (which most of you probably know) Jon gave me a present to tell me the sex of the babies.... He wrote a beautiful letter to the babies and gave me (them) shirts and bibs to tell me what we are having.



Look closely....can you see what the letter says?

Squint those eyes....

The shirts and bibs had little motorcycles on them...

We are so excited to be having little baby boys! Of course we would be happy either way...but we always said we hoped we would have a boy first. We are having TWO! YEAH :)

Ultrasound Pictures

Friday we had our 20 week ultrasound. It was so much fun. At this one the babies were measured from head to toe. Every single body part was measured. The arms, hands, feet, legs, brains, etc. It was extremely long and exhausting! I know, I know, what is soo tiring about laying on a bed for 2 hours. Well I'll tell you, first, the fact that I HAD to stare at the screen instead of close my eyes (I felt like I wasn't allowed to turn my head or my babies would be mad at me), second, the position. My tail bone and lower back were killing me. Not that I'm complaining !!! but the lady said because I was so thin I needed to basically sit with a huge arch in my back ... one good thing she said she didn't have to push nearly as hard as she normally would. I was grateful for that! Enough about me...lets move on to the babes.

Baby A was 13 ounces. Baby B was 14 ounces. All of their lengths were perfect. They were wiggling like crazy the entire time. The technician was laughing because the babies were bouncing her during the scan.

Baby A

Baby B

Baby A (4D)

Baby B (4D)

Baby A (this is our favorite picture!) In this picture you can see Baby As face and arm (elbow by face). The foot that you see by Baby As chin is actually Baby Bs foot and the leg up by the face is Baby Bs leg. When they
showed us the 4D it was in real time. We got to see Baby B kick Baby A in
the face...over an over and over..She rewound for us :) :) TOO FUNNY!

Baby B sleeping...apparently restlessly since himer was kicking Baby A in the face.

Someones foot :)

Did We or Didn't We?

More sex talk...

Yesterdays appointment went so fast. The last two we had with this place it felt like we were at the movies. Anyway onto what you really want to know...NO...we did not find out the sex of the babies. We did get two pretty cute pictures though

Here is a 4D picture of Baby A. He/She had his/her feet and hands covering his/her face. You can't really see his/her hands but you can see the super cute little feet.

Here is a picture of Baby B. FINALLY!! This is the first time we were able to get a picture of Baby B. Every other ultrasound we've had they haven't printed the pictures because he/she has been a jumping bean and the pictures haven't been clear enough to print. Look at him/her all snuggled up.

We have another ultrasound in two weeks. The next one will actually be two hours long. They will measure all of the body parts and fun stuff like that. Keep you posted :)

SEX!

...Oh come on...get your mind out of the gutter... I'm not talking about that kind of sex :P

So, today we have another ultrasound. We LOVE that we get to have soooo many ultrasounds. It is so amazing to see these little stinkers moving about and see how they change so quickly.

Let's talk about sex now. I told Jon that I don't want to know if we are having boys or girls. This is always something that I wanted to wait for until the baby (now babies) are born. This has Jon going nuts. He has known since the first time we talked about having a family (8yrs ago) that I would want to wait to find out their sex.

Well, he never thought I was serious. You see I am soooo incredibly impatient. If somebody knows something I don't know...it drives me insane. The second Jon tells me he got me a present I don't stop bothering him until he gives it to me. I mean come on now, we finish opening Christmas presents and I say, what did you get me for my birthday? Half the time he doesn't wait the 4 days till my birthday before letting me open it. I think part of my impatience is fed from my amazing husband. He will d anything to make and keep me happy. If he says we are going to do something special tomorrow and I can’t find out until then...he normally gives in before tomorrow and tells me what it is...because I am a nuisance!

I haven't wavered about this. Being the good wife that I am I did tell him that he could find out what we are having (I don’t want him to..because I would probably ask him everyday what they are). He said there is no way that he could hold that secret in. He said that he would most likely tell me before I even asked him. I, of course want to know, but I still want to wait until B-day. Every time we go to an ultrasound Jon asks if we can find out what they are. Every time he wears me down just a little bit…don’t tell him I said so :)

I think it bothers Jon not because he really wants to know (I mean he does), but I think it’s more the fact that I’m not being a terd about finding out. It does bother me that the doctors and the ultrasound techs know, but they don’t live with me…..

Last time we had an ultrasound, he said, if we find out we could go shopping for the babies…he thought my love for shopping would change my mind. It didn’t. This morning, I asked Jon if we could go to the baby store after the appointment. He said you know my stipulation. I said, Jon whether they are boys or girls they still need cribs and a changing table.

Check in later for some new pictures of the stinkers ... and maybe some sex news :)

Sick...

No, don't worry, I'm not sick. However, being a first grade teacher puts me next to little germ infested gremlins all day long. My school nurse has been amazing. She calls me up in my classroom daily to tell me new illnesses in our school. Just this week I have had 2 out with Strep and 2 out with 'flu' like symptoms...(not including the dozens that are out in other classes and grades) and it's only Wednesday.
Here is my dilema...Swine Flu shot...should I or should I not??? I already got my Seasonal Flu shot (I have been getting it for 3 years so was just conmfortable going ahead and doing it again.) Anyway, back the the H1N1 shot, so many people tell me I must...and so many tell me DO NOT. Carrying twins already puts me in the 'high risk' category. Getting sick for any pregnant person would be bad...and H1N1 is hitting a lot of pregnant ladies and causing problems. OF course I am also thinking, is the vaccine itself going to cause a problem...

...scary.....?????????????????????? what to do, what to do

Baby Bump

Well I thought I would share some baby bump pictures. When we first found out we were expecting we decided we were going to take baby bump pictures weekly. Well not wanting to smile for the camera makes it hard to take weekly pictures. Don't laugh at my fake smile...I can't wait to feel like I can smile for real again...I know, I know...get over it and just smile.





Six weeks



Eight weeks

Now...18 weeks.

New To This World

Seeing as a lot of my friends and family have blogs, I thought I should venture that way. Knowing me, I will not keep it up to date.

Seeing as there is a lot going in our lives I thought it would be fun to share with everyone.

The biggest news is that Jon and I are expecting our first family addition. We are going to get two new members to our family sometime in March. Yup, that's right...if you need confirmation...we are (I am) pregnant with twins. We never thought that we would wait so long before starting a family, I guess since we did it was about time for an instant family. We are so excited about the upcoming adventures we will be experiencing and can't wait to share them with you.

Baby A is on the left. Baby B on the right. Baby B is always a jumping bean during ultrasounds...so his or her pictures haven't come out too great yet. Can't wait to get a clear one of Baby B.

The next big news (big for us anyway) is that we have been renovating our kitchen. We started Labor Day weekend and have been working EVERY day since. When we moved into our house 2 1/2 years ago we did some 'inexpensive' updates...we decided it was time to get rid of out advacodo green kitchen appliance.

I find it very funny that this is the only picture I have of our kitchen. This was during our inspection before we bought the house...but it will do