3-24-11
Today was a big day! I am now 32 weeks pregnant! That is the average gestation for triplets! The first time I met with Dr. W I asked him how long he thought I could carry the babies and he said "Well are you average or above average?" I told him "I would like to think I am above average!" I guess I am!
I didn't have a doctors appointment this week because he was out of town so I don't have much of an update to give. I still feel pretty good. My stomach is growing by the second! My sleep is a little messed up right now! I've gotten on a very bad schedule. I stay up late and then sleep late! I'm going to try to change that tonight though! The babies have a little party in my stomach every night! It's crazy. They all kick and move around from about 11-3am. Maybe longer than that but usually I can fall asleep by then. I hope they figure out the difference between night and day before they get here!
It's Brandon's turn to take care of me so I'm hoping we can see a few movies and maybe go out to eat this weekend. Coco and Layla are here too! They are on bed rest with me! haha Thank goodness for Sex and the City reruns.
PS-Happy first birthday Madeline! I can't wait to see pics from your party!
Monday, March 28, 2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Twins.
The older we get the more people say we look like twins. That's a huge compliment for me because Caroline is six years younger! I definitely don't mind looking like a 22 year old! When we worked at the liquor store together all of our customers said we looked like twins. They would get us confused constantly. Yesterday Sarah and Stevie stopped by for a visit and Stevie looked at us and then asked Sarah "umm, why are there two Shelli's?" It was pretty funny. We should have taken a picture because we did look exactly alike, Pony Tails, glasses, and basically pj's! Sarah and Stevie, thanks for visiting! Come back soon!
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Oh how I miss....
In no particular order...
My dogs
The beach
My house
My friends
My hubby and date nights
Baseball games
Sonic Happy Hour-Diet Cokes to be exact
Driving
Fayetteville
Booze
I also miss bending at the waist, sleeping on my stomach, and walking without getting winded but of course this will all be worth it once my three little babies are here!
Yesterday Brandon told me that the babies must really love me because they don't want to leave my tummy! Then today I told him about the new bathing suits I bought the babies and he said "well I'll never get to see them wear them if you keep incubating them" I think I'll start saying that... "When am I due??? Well I'll be incubating my babies for about three more weeks" Someone is getting a little impatient! He's also convinced they are going to be born on his birthday. He even tells people that's my due date. I guess we will see! He is not going to be a happy camper if I'm still pregnant after April 1st! Haha
My dogs
The beach
My house
My friends
My hubby and date nights
Baseball games
Sonic Happy Hour-Diet Cokes to be exact
Driving
Fayetteville
Booze
I also miss bending at the waist, sleeping on my stomach, and walking without getting winded but of course this will all be worth it once my three little babies are here!
Yesterday Brandon told me that the babies must really love me because they don't want to leave my tummy! Then today I told him about the new bathing suits I bought the babies and he said "well I'll never get to see them wear them if you keep incubating them" I think I'll start saying that... "When am I due??? Well I'll be incubating my babies for about three more weeks" Someone is getting a little impatient! He's also convinced they are going to be born on his birthday. He even tells people that's my due date. I guess we will see! He is not going to be a happy camper if I'm still pregnant after April 1st! Haha
My first trip to UAMS
Leigh Bowen sent Brandon this picture tonight. We decided to play a little trick on him! I think we really scared him! He immediately started calling me but my phone was on silent. He called my mom after that and she assured him I was okay and that he would be the first person we called if I had to go to the hospital. I was actually just at UAMS for a little tour. Leigh and Baylon were nice enough to show me around the labor and delivery area. I definitely feel more prepared! Thanks for the tour Leigh!
Adventures at JC Penny
I was starting to really go crazy in the apartment on Saturday so Caroline, my mom, and I went out to lunch. It was such a pretty day! We sat outside at Tazikis. i think the sun gave me a little boost of energy. I really felt good so I decided to run some errands after lunch. Our first stop was JC Penny to look for pajamas I can wear in the hospital. My mom dropped me off at the door and I headed in with Caroline. I guess there was a special sale that day because the place was packed! I started looking at a dress and a worker walked up to me and said "You look like you are going to have that baby any day" I said "actually it's babies, and yes I am going to have triplets any day" she said "oh my gosh I can't believe that. I've got to go tell Karen about you! You need to come to the lingerie section so I can show her your stomach" I told her I was actually headed that way in a little bit and she ran off to tell "Karen" about the girl with the gigantic stomach. About that time I started feeling bad. Not really bad but it's like I completely run out of energy. It's a very wierd feeling. I tried to describe it to Caroline and the best way I could describe it is I start feeling like you would feel if you sat in a hot tub for too long. It's like I'm completely drained and it usually hits me all at once. One second I'm fine and the next I have to sit down. Well, I had to sit down and there was no where to sit sooo I made a little seat on one of the displays. I basically just sat on a stack of jeans on a table. No one seemed to notice. A worker offered to get me the JC Penny community wheel chair but someone else was using it!! We had to call my mom and have her bring the car around to pick us up! My big day of shopping only lasted about ten minutes. Poor Karen in the lingerie department never got to see the girl with the gigantic stomach!
From now on I think I will be shopping in a wheel chair! I will be sure to take lots of pictures!
From now on I think I will be shopping in a wheel chair! I will be sure to take lots of pictures!
Monday, March 21, 2011
The Recliner Debate
Brandon hates the chairs in our living room. I love them! See, aren't they neat? He thinks we should replace every chair in our house with a recliner.
I knew I wanted a glider in the babies nursery. I wanted a neat modern glider. Like these...
That's not what I ended up with though! My mom didn't think these would be practical. A baby store was going out of business and they told me they would give me a great deal on a glider. So I picked the biggest one they had! I knew I would need a lot of room for three babies!!! The biggest glider also happened to be a recliner. A huge brown recliner. B was pumped. He picked it up and immediately put it in the middle of our living room right in front of the tv. Of course it looked completely out of place. It took up half the room. He was in heaven for about two months.
Once I found out I had to move to LR I had about week to get the nursery together. I had nothing done! It was just an empty room. So....I had to call in reinforcement and ask a decorator friend for help! B happened to walk in one day when we were discussing fabric to recover the glider in. He threw an all out temper tantrum! ha He thought it was ridiculous to recover the chair especially since the new color was turquoise. He also thought it was crazy to move it to the nursery! It was like he was losing his best friend. He then informed us he was going to just go buy his own recliner for the living room (probably off Craigs List-He is obsessed) and he left. Chris then turned to me and said, "If you didn't want a recliner in your house you shouldn't have married a straight boy from Dumas." So true...
The glider is now a very pretty color of turquoise and I love it! Thank you so much Donald! I can't wait to see it in person and I can't wait to rock the babies in it! I am so lucky Brandon's dad can recover furniture! I think I've recovered everything in my house at least once! I probably drive him crazy!
The new and improved glider/recliner. I have a cute pillow to go in the seat too!
I knew I wanted a glider in the babies nursery. I wanted a neat modern glider. Like these...
That's not what I ended up with though! My mom didn't think these would be practical. A baby store was going out of business and they told me they would give me a great deal on a glider. So I picked the biggest one they had! I knew I would need a lot of room for three babies!!! The biggest glider also happened to be a recliner. A huge brown recliner. B was pumped. He picked it up and immediately put it in the middle of our living room right in front of the tv. Of course it looked completely out of place. It took up half the room. He was in heaven for about two months.
Once I found out I had to move to LR I had about week to get the nursery together. I had nothing done! It was just an empty room. So....I had to call in reinforcement and ask a decorator friend for help! B happened to walk in one day when we were discussing fabric to recover the glider in. He threw an all out temper tantrum! ha He thought it was ridiculous to recover the chair especially since the new color was turquoise. He also thought it was crazy to move it to the nursery! It was like he was losing his best friend. He then informed us he was going to just go buy his own recliner for the living room (probably off Craigs List-He is obsessed) and he left. Chris then turned to me and said, "If you didn't want a recliner in your house you shouldn't have married a straight boy from Dumas." So true...
The glider is now a very pretty color of turquoise and I love it! Thank you so much Donald! I can't wait to see it in person and I can't wait to rock the babies in it! I am so lucky Brandon's dad can recover furniture! I think I've recovered everything in my house at least once! I probably drive him crazy!
The new and improved glider/recliner. I have a cute pillow to go in the seat too!
Thursday, March 17, 2011
31 Weeks!!!
One more week down and five more to go!!! I had an appointment at 8 this am. I was of course thirty minutes late. I have a feeling I will never be on time for anything again. I had an ultrasound and all of the babies looked great! The ultrasound was a jumbled mess of body parts! There were arms, legs, and heads everywhere! It didn't help that the babies were all moving around the whole time. The poor ultrasound girl had a cheat sheet that told her where the babies were in the past but they have all moved around! Ava is still the lowest but now her head is touching Brook's head. Knox is still on my right side but he has flipped. Now I know why I have felt so much movement lately. I hope they stay that way so when they are delivered I will know which boy is which. She was able to get a pic of Knox. It was still very hard to see his face. I think Brook's arm was in his face. He has such chubby cheeks!! I can't wait to kiss them. I've told Dr. Wendall numerous times I want chubby babies and every time he tells me that isn't going to happen! I'm keeping my fingers crossed!
How cute is he????
He said the babies look great and he really thinks if I have them early it will be because my body just can't handle it anymore and I will just go into labor. So far I haven't had any contractions at all and I'm still not that uncomfortable. How is this possible??? I can even still sleep! My mom called me the other day and said "are you having trouble breathing? You sound out of breath" I of course said "nope, I'm fine" Five minutes later I hear Brandon on the phone and he was saying "no, she's just a mouth breather now...That's how she always sounds" I guess she didn't believe me! haha I have no clue if I've dilated at all though. I haven't been checked since before I left Fayetteville which was at 27 weeks. He doesn't seem to think I have so I really hope he's right! He compared something about my pregnancy to sand, I can't even remember what it was. I think he had the beach on the brain because before I left he casually mentioned he is going to be out of town next week for Spring Break!!! I of course said, "What in the world am I going to do if I go into labor" he said "Just don't". So everyone keep your fingers crossed that I have a very uneventful week! For some reason they can never find how much weight I gained! I guess it's not that big of a deal! At this point I would really rather not know! B came home from Wal-Mart last week with Twinkies, Doritoes, Ice Cream Sandwiches, Cheese dip, and a cake. I think those are things he wishes he could be eating! In the ten years we have been together I don't think he has ever seen me eat a Twinkie or an Ice Cream sandwich! haha As you can see from the picture below the babies are growing just fine though!
Ava 30w 5d 3lbs 7oz
Brooks 32w 2d 4lbs 4oz
Knox 30w 4d 3lbs 8oz
I thought Knox was shrinking because he has been closer to Brook's size the entire time but Dr W said not to really even pay attention to these last ultrasounds because they are very inaccurate. I can't wait to see how big they are when they are born!
I got the best news at the end of the appointment! He said I can go back to Fayetteville at 34 weeks! I can't wait! I haven't slept in my own bed in almost a month! I can't wait to be home with our family of 7! I'm glad I like my house because I have a feeling we won't be getting out for a while! The babies can't be around school age kids for at least 4-5 months and very limited contact with adults! I am going to be such a stickler on those rules! I'm not going through all of this to have one of my babies get sick! We will have to have a coming out party for the babies in September! Maybe they can make their debut at a Razorback game! Then we will have to make a trip down south so the babies can meet Alex, Cami, Cori, Stevie, and Tripp!
My dad came to visit today and took Carol and I out to lunch. Carol picked Cracker Barrel. I told her we were going to be the youngest people there by 40 years. It was hilarious. We were the youngest people by 50 years! Carol is probably the smartest person I know but sometimes she amazes me! She said "I had no idea old people like Cracker Barrel?" Really Carol? This is the place that sells rocking chairs on the front porch! My dad also took Coco and Layla home to Brandon. They had worn out their welcome! Thanks for lunch dad!
We did have one disaster today. The cable in the living room quit working! I think I am the only one that thinks this is a huge deal! Ha Hopefully we can get it fixed tomorrow! If not, this is going to be a very long weekend!
How cute is he????
He said the babies look great and he really thinks if I have them early it will be because my body just can't handle it anymore and I will just go into labor. So far I haven't had any contractions at all and I'm still not that uncomfortable. How is this possible??? I can even still sleep! My mom called me the other day and said "are you having trouble breathing? You sound out of breath" I of course said "nope, I'm fine" Five minutes later I hear Brandon on the phone and he was saying "no, she's just a mouth breather now...That's how she always sounds" I guess she didn't believe me! haha I have no clue if I've dilated at all though. I haven't been checked since before I left Fayetteville which was at 27 weeks. He doesn't seem to think I have so I really hope he's right! He compared something about my pregnancy to sand, I can't even remember what it was. I think he had the beach on the brain because before I left he casually mentioned he is going to be out of town next week for Spring Break!!! I of course said, "What in the world am I going to do if I go into labor" he said "Just don't". So everyone keep your fingers crossed that I have a very uneventful week! For some reason they can never find how much weight I gained! I guess it's not that big of a deal! At this point I would really rather not know! B came home from Wal-Mart last week with Twinkies, Doritoes, Ice Cream Sandwiches, Cheese dip, and a cake. I think those are things he wishes he could be eating! In the ten years we have been together I don't think he has ever seen me eat a Twinkie or an Ice Cream sandwich! haha As you can see from the picture below the babies are growing just fine though!
Ava 30w 5d 3lbs 7oz
Brooks 32w 2d 4lbs 4oz
Knox 30w 4d 3lbs 8oz
I thought Knox was shrinking because he has been closer to Brook's size the entire time but Dr W said not to really even pay attention to these last ultrasounds because they are very inaccurate. I can't wait to see how big they are when they are born!
I got the best news at the end of the appointment! He said I can go back to Fayetteville at 34 weeks! I can't wait! I haven't slept in my own bed in almost a month! I can't wait to be home with our family of 7! I'm glad I like my house because I have a feeling we won't be getting out for a while! The babies can't be around school age kids for at least 4-5 months and very limited contact with adults! I am going to be such a stickler on those rules! I'm not going through all of this to have one of my babies get sick! We will have to have a coming out party for the babies in September! Maybe they can make their debut at a Razorback game! Then we will have to make a trip down south so the babies can meet Alex, Cami, Cori, Stevie, and Tripp!
My dad came to visit today and took Carol and I out to lunch. Carol picked Cracker Barrel. I told her we were going to be the youngest people there by 40 years. It was hilarious. We were the youngest people by 50 years! Carol is probably the smartest person I know but sometimes she amazes me! She said "I had no idea old people like Cracker Barrel?" Really Carol? This is the place that sells rocking chairs on the front porch! My dad also took Coco and Layla home to Brandon. They had worn out their welcome! Thanks for lunch dad!
We did have one disaster today. The cable in the living room quit working! I think I am the only one that thinks this is a huge deal! Ha Hopefully we can get it fixed tomorrow! If not, this is going to be a very long weekend!
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