Final Four!

  Well here we are 1 day shy of 32 weeks.  I cannot believe how fast this has went!  Technically in like 3-6 weeks we will have our little girls here at home with us ( I hope ), and life as we know it will never be the same.  Which to me is a good thing.  I am ready for the challenge, I have been saying that parenting twins must really bring out the true character of the people who are parenting them.  I first must say that I am just in awe at how amazing Dallas has been through this entire journey.  He never once complains about the never ending "to do list before babies come," and he just happily gets me a tea in the morning and if I need it, helps me out of bed.  Just an amazing dad in waiting.  One of the moments that I look forward to the most is just seeing him holding our little babies and that look of love I know he will have when he sees his little girls for the first time.  Must remember pictures!
  So to bring you all up to speed on what is going on; we are going to be 32 weeks tomorrow, I have been counting this pregnancy in weeks of 4 so that means we are basically on our last 4 weeks... the home stretch!  YAY!  I had an ultra sound on the 12th and the babies were looking really good!  They are both about 4 pounds each already, so I think that my body must grow babies really efficiently!  I was just glad to hear that, although I know that just because they are a good weight doesn't mean that they are ready to join this world yet... I am happy for them to stay put for awhile yet.  The ultra sound tech said that the babies move so much that he had a hard time taking pictures of them... he said that its good that they were "bad" babies, movement is a good thing.  Yesterday I had my last appointment with my OB, I am being switched to a different one because mine is going on holidays!  But he says that the next doc will take good care of us too!  I will miss my South African doctor with baseball mitt hands, he calls me deary and sweet.  The appointment went well, its incredible how fast and how much the body changes in a few short weeks though!  I went from just having an abundance of energy and being able to do almost everything without much trouble and now I have swollen feet that are like the Elephant Man, my gums are not quite as swollen as my feet but close and I have lovely carpel tunnel in my right hand.  I guess when you consider what I could have I am really lucky!  So I will take it and know that it is just the hormones surging through my small frame.  I also stood on the scale and could not believe my eyes!  I weighed a whopping 198 pounds, but the doc said that 7-8 of that is the water that I am retaining in my legs and feet... so that made me feel better, kind of.  The babes heart rates are good, they are like little champs in there!  At this rate he figures they will be be over 6 pounds when they are born!  That was my goal!  Good 6 pounders!  
  I have to say that even though there has been some discomfort over the last couple weeks or so, it is not unbearable.  You have to have the rain before you can have the rainbows right!  I am just everyday thankful that our little babies are healthy and that I am too!  I am thankful for a supportive husband, family and friends.  I think that when you surround yourself with positivity that it easily rubs off on you. I have learned in the last month that EVERYONE will give you unsolicited advice about EVERYTHING and it is just my choice to take it or leave it.  I have to admit that sometimes it brings me down when people get all up in my business, but I know they mean well.  That being said I have been given some really wonderful insight to raising twins!  I guess that when it boils down to it we all have a different experience, its like you can never have the same exact feeling ever two times.  No matter how hard you try the experience will never be the same as someone else's and it will never match an experience you have had. 
  I hope that you are all enjoying this weather we are having, enjoy the rain too!


xoxo
Jesse and Babies