Logan's rice story-as requested

I would really love for this blog to be fairly interactive. So if there are questions or things you would like me to mention please add a comment and I'll try to address it.

So, here's Logan's rice story. Let me start by saying Logan is something else. I love him to pieces, but there is no predicting what that child will say or think.

So yesterday after the ultrasound I pick Logan up from his friends' house. He gets in the car and casually asks, "how many?"
I tell him that there's two again.
He proceeds to ask "how big are they?"
I say about the size of rice, maybe a tiny bit bigger.
He then asks "so can we cut you open and eat them?"
I tell him that they are not really rice, they are babies the size of rice.
He tells me "well if they (S & S) only want 1 we can always eat the other one, they're bite sized."

I assured him that we will not be eating either of the babies. But I guess it's nice to know we always could if we changed our minds. Oh yeah, I love how cavalier he is about 'cutting open' his mom!!

So I was a little worried about sharing this story with the babies' parents, but I've been assured that it's a funny story and they are not really worried about my childs' sanity.

Kids, you just NEVER know what's going on in their little minds (and sometimes you don't really want to know)!!!

These two belong to me

When my daughter saw that I could figure out how to put up pictures (thanks Betsey), she asked for me to put up one of her. She probably didn't mean with her brother though.

These are my 2 on the 4th of July, 2008. Logan is 9 and Ciera is 11. Their Aunt was able to get 1 picture of the two of them together.

Although I plan to use this blog as a chronicle of our pregnancy. I will also chronicle the other things happening in my life at that time. If you don't want to read about my kids, feel free to skip over them (I'll never know). And likewise if you're using this blog to keep track of what my family is doing feel free to skip over the pregnancy updates (S & S will never know). There will surely be no hemorrhoid talk in my family updates :)

Babies' first pictures in the womb

Here are the ultrasound pictures from yesterday, July 30, 2008. They are 7weeks 6 days in these pictures.

Picture 1 is Baby A (closer to my cervix and would be the first to come out if we were having a vaginal birth).

Picture 2 is both Baby A and Baby B (A is the top baby).

Picture 3 is Baby B (much further up in my uterus and is sure to be the cause of my inability to breathe after going up my stairs).

Life is over as we know it!

Today is the first day of the rest of my life! I've actually started a blog! I'm sure there are many that would say I'm not really the blogging type, but I really want to try and do something different for this second twin pregnancy.

That's right! S & S and their twins P & L are expecting twins in late February!! We all couldn't be more excited! We are 8 weeks today, so it's a perfect time to start. We had our first 'official' ultrasound yesterday and found 2 beautiful heartbeats at 163bpm for both of them. Baby A is measuring a little smaller than baby B, but hopefully that's just his mother's genes. We are hopeful that at our next scan they will both be measuring closer to the same.

Just a little background without getting super mushy, I carried as a gestational surrogate for S & S 2 years ago. Their boy/girl twins will be 2 on August 25, 2008. It was an amazing experience and we are all so excited to do this again, together. They have grown into a wonderful family and our such amazing parents. It's been such a pleasure to watch their babies grow into toddlers!

As for this pregnancy we transferred two flawless, expanded blasts on June 24, 2008. On July 3 our first beta came back with a rather large positive number. We suspected twins, but you never can tell without a scan. I've felt remarkably good and full of energy. I wasn't sure if this was due to the increased fruits and vegetables (as well as delicious whole grain carbs) that I'd been consuming or if it's because we're on Summer break and we've been sleeping until 9 or 11. Yesterday I had to wake at 7 for the ultrasound and I was definitely dragging by last night, even after a nap! I guess that proves the odd sleeping hours are what have been keeping me sane! We have 2 more weeks and then we go back to being at school at 8! Fortunately I can climb back in bed after dropping the kids off at school.

I hope to use this blog to record the pregnancy, every little detail! So if you don't want to hear about the constipation or the hemorrhoids than I suggest you DO NOT bookmark this particular blog :). Feel free to comment and leave questions. We all appreciate the support we will need to get through a 2nd twin pregnancy.