Spelling

I was just checking my email and Elliot was on the floor "Spelling her name." She was coloring on little strips of paper and saying random letters. When I looked down she said "D" and it REALLY looked like the letter "D" on her paper. Check out the video and tell me if I'm crazy!

Zoo Day

Today Elliot and I went to Tucson to go to the zoo with Beth, Lola, and Chip. (Wes is in FL hanging out with the family for the weekend. They got to fly there for some training. He hasn't been there since December, so everyone, esp. our nephews we're super glad to spend a day and a half with him!) I didn't take too many pic's, but there are a few below.


Two buddies walking around the zoo

















Elliot and Lola watching all the other kids have fun in the water area (which they weren't going in!)


















Near the lions...looking kinda serious & then with the Galapogos turtles.

15 weeks

It's crazy how quickly these weeks are passing now. I think I've felt good for almost a week now--so that's been wonderful! I feel like a new person! Elliot and I have been getting out, going to parks, and having fun with our friends. We love sitting in the driveway and playing with chalk in the afternoons. What a difference a few days can make! whew!

These little one's are really starting to move around. Yesterday I felt one for probably 1/2 an hr just wiggling around. Then, when I was going to bed I felt it again--and this time I started feeling the other baby moving on the other side!!! WOAH!!! It was the first time I've noticed there are DEFINITELY TWO BABIES IN THERE!! I obviously knew it from the ultrasounds, but how miraculous to actually feel both and know 100% that they are in there. It's so crazy. Eating lunch today one of them kept moving around right below my belly button. I'm really hoping we'll be able to see them moving on the outside in the next 3 weeks so Wes can feel them before we leave for our month-long trip to FL. We'll see. They sure are active so far.

Nanny's Sunshine

Elliot's Nanny (Wes' mom) sent her a picture frame in the mail today and Elliot was SOOO excited. Candy sings "You Are My Sunshine" to Elliot and after they left Elliot kept singing, "I'm Nanny's Sunshine." The frame has a button Elliot can push and hear her Nanny sing to her. She has pushed it about 100 times in 20 minutes. I'm afraid the batteries might go dead after just one night. Anyways, here's a little video of her with her new frame.

Dry Skin

Elliot has this little patch of dry skin next to her mouth. I made the mistake of telling her about it and she insisted she needed a bandaid on it! Totally cracked me up. At first, she pulled out this HUGE bandage, probably 2x3 inches, and was begging for it. It would have covered her entire face! :-)

Felt Baby Move!

I felt some baby movement for the first time today! Just over 14 weeks now. It was FABULOUS!! Exactly how I remembered it feeling with Elliot. I laid down to take a little rest and then felt this flutter in my lower abdomen. I thought it was a baby, then realized I definiltey didn't have gas--so it was! YAH! I'm so excited. It totally made my day! I can't wait for it to happen again :-)

Ballerina and Baby Stuff

I feel like the Blogging Queen lately! haha. So much to share. Elliot decided to go through her closet today and found her Elmo slippers and this Tutu! She's so excited about both of them :-)

Also, the other day I bought the first thing for the babies! I'm totally NOT into dressing my children alike, but I couldn't buy pink or blue since we don't know the sexes. So, here's a picture of my first purchase: 2 adorable, white, organic cotton layettes! Ahh, I just can't wait to see the babes in them.

13+ weeks

I had an appt. with a new doc. today. Minus the rediculous wait (I was there for 2 hrs. and spent about 1o min. with the doc.) it went pretty well. After over an hr. they called me back to do an ultrasound. The nurse that did it was super nice and seemed intrigued with two! It truly is fascinating to see both of them. She spent more time doing the ultrasound than anyone I've had so far! It was so cool to see. The picture to the LEFT is both babies heads along with one hand! I love it!

I may be changing my guess on the sexes though! 1 heartrate was 162 and the other 163. Elliot's was ALWAYS in the 150's-160's. I'm scared! haha. What if it's 2 girls? Or, maybe all my babies just have high heartrates regardless of their sex. Oh, the wanting to know.

Doc. said if I was just having one baby he'd say my uterus was around 15 weeks (2 week bigger than I actually am!) Guess that means I'm definitely growing. Also, I've gained back 3 of the 7 lbs. I lost...so that is good. Progress I guess. This doc. still says I must deliver in the Operating Room and pretty much implied to me that I will be continuously monitored. Just not sure I can find a way around that. He did, however, say he'd deliver "B" breech if necessary, so that was promising. We'll see.

Here's some pic's:




BABY B (head is on the right side with arms up by the face. long oval is body and you can't really see the legs):

BABY A (head is on the left. all the bright white is bone. You can see the eye sockets and facial skeleton. Hands up by the head)

Our Girl

Elliot was being hilarious tonight after dinner asking us if we could see her "Hot Biscuits?" (that's her butt!) Of course we could since she was stark naked! :-) Then she started singing and stuff so we caught some on video.

Just now, we were playing in the playroom and she found this toy from an old cereal box and said, "This is junk Mama." I replied with, "yah." Then, Elliot said, "Is this cool junk I play with?" I thought it was so funny. I don't recall ever calling that specific toy "junk." She also just got done tearing apart the lego robot Daddy built a few days ago. She named it Johnson! I have no idea where she ever heard that name. She wants to name our babies Doggy and can actually think of a name for a toy.

Okay, one more thing: this morning Elliot was eating breakfast and said, "John does this." and moved her spoon to her mouth in a certain position. I said, "John? Who is John?" Then smarty-pants said "John is Papa's name!" She has talked about him feeding her cereal milk a certain way a few months ago...but I've never heard her refer to him as John! So funny!

Happenings....

Well, I've made it to 13 weeks now and still start the morning off with a nice vomit!  Man, I sure thought this would be over by now.  Maybe by 14 weeks?!  haha.

Elliot is pretty into Jesus and God right now.  They go hand-in-hand.  "Jesus and God made the crescent moon, Mommy."  She tells me stuff like this all the time.  (I figure it's a little over her head to tell her God made the world, then Jesus was born of Emmaculate conception, Christ crucified, Trinity, etc. :-)  So, the other morning I was getting sick and I hear this sweet little voice say, "Mommy, Jesus and God made your puke, Mommy!"  It was so funny and sweet.  All I could say was, "Thank you."  

She's also really into her body and figuring it out.  She gets really excited when she finds a new vein these days.  It's super funny how thrilled she is with her veins.  One morning we were sitting around and she points to her butt and says, "I got a hole there, why I got a hole?"  Hilarious!   A few week ago we were at the doctor and I was at the counter filling out papers while she was sitting in a chair and proceeded to talk about "GINA's" real loud!  I tried to get her to quite down, but everyone already knew what she was talking about.  Well, plenty more stories like that...but I'm sure you don't want to hear them all.

Not much else going on around here.  I am starting to feel a bit better in general.   We've been going out a lot more and spending afternoons outside with popsicles, chalk, bubbles, and neighborhood friends.  Wes has been working like crazy so that kinda stinks.  We sure are excited to end our Army life in April!  :-)  Not sure how we'll be feeding 5 mouths, but we have faith it'll all work out.

On a little political side note: I MUST have some serious crazy hormones because I got a little chocked up watching John McCain's speech tonight.  The last few times I've seen him on T.V. all I can look at is his arms and how there's something not quite right with them.  When he was telling his whole POW story, it was just heart-wrenching.  Man, he's been through a lot.  Okay, vote for who you want...I just thought it was a neat speech and a pretty spectacular life he's had! :-)