Wow...

I haven't written in ages, so it will be tough to sum up what has happened with our little family since I last wrote. 

My pregnancy is over, and it was not as bad as I had anticipated.  We have two babies.  They are a lot of fun.  They are now 10 months old.  Mallory is the independent one, and Kaitlyn is definitely the "high maintenance" one.  They are both adorable, and melt my heart daily. 

Mallory has a "viral infection" at the moment and has spent the last week "hopped up" on Tylenol and Motrin.  She is slowly getting better.  Getting up 3 times a night to administer medicine is not settling well with me, but I guess this is what mommy-hood is all about. 

Kaitlyn has recently discovered that she can "buzz" her consonants and instead of saying "da-da," it is "dbbba-dbbba."  She smiles a lot and loves to snuggle with mommy, and also loves her daddy. 

Girls

Brett and I are having girls.  They will be identical, contrary to previous analysis.  Hooray. 

Their names shall be Kaitlyn Elyse and Mallory Anne. 

They will be smart, funny and attractive--all the things their parents are not. 

Please pray for us all.  I no longer have a belly button...where there was once a pit is now just a funny twist of skin completely level with the rest of my belly...  I sense that bigger changes than me getting really fat are soon to follow. 

Maternity clothes?

Those things are expensive.  How can people gouge a pregnant woman?  I mean, come on.  And NOBODY ever has a sale on pregnant clothes.  Nobody. 

Does anybody know of anyone wanting to get rid of any maternity clothes?  If so, I would be eternally grateful.  I am starting to get fat, and my pants don't fit anymore.   

Powerful

Last night I woke up about about 4:00am to find that our power had gone out.  The streetlights were off, making it (of course) pitch black, so I stumbled around the house, half asleep, looking for a flashlight so I could set the alarm on my cell phone so I wouldn't be late for work.  That took about 15 minutes.  The power stayed off until about 6:00am.

Then, as I lay in bed trying to go back to sleep, I felt my babies kick for the first time.  It was weird and not what I thought it would be like, but I woke Brett up and told him.  I don't know if he understood what I was saying.  I'll tell him later today.  ; ) 

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. 

Floating

So, apparently, babies float around.  Last night, when I went to bed, they were nestled safely and snugly in between my hip bones, down low, where they have been and I thought they would stay.  This morning, when I woke up, they were chilling out right under my belly button.  They moved like 5 inches!  It was weird. 

Then, of course, they made me a little sick to my stomach when they settled back in because organs and everything had to be shifted around.  And Heather thinks that she has some hooligans in class...I have some plotting my demise right now in their secret twin language...