You have been warned

Stay off the sidewalks.. There's an almost new driver in town... His name is Leland and he successfully passed the written test for his Learner's Permit on Friday. I just need to get him driving. Pray for us. lol.

Just some thoughts

Here I am again... posting away since Lee is snoozing away again.. not exactly fair since I have laundry to do and dinner to make and I'd love to take a nap too but someone has to keep this place going. Guess that would be me. He did help with getting the fridge cleaned out and taking out the trash but my gosh how many naps in one day can he take? Maybe he really is being sympathetic to the pregnancy but this is getting old.

I am now 14 weeks and 4 days pregnant as of this post. Things that are happening around here... I'm getting bigger slowly but surely. Lee is too funny these days. Rubbing and kissing my belly whenever he can. For now I'll allow it unless I start to not like it anymore. About a week ago I HAD to wash my size Large Maternity pants and had to basically shove myself into the size Medium ones that I had bought and thought would take me through the pregnancy. HA... they are were so TIGHT it wasn't even funny. The Motherhood/Mimi Maternity store is slowly becoming a place I visit alot when at the mall along with JCPenney or at least JCPenney.com since I feel like the selection within the JCPenney store is not exactly the greatest at the moment. I had to buy Maternity bras last week. There was seriously no room left in my regular bras and I wasn't about to fork over more money to just outgrow them again. I finally got a correct sized maternity dress from JCPenney.com after my first attempt to buy one failed (I got a Medium and needed a Large). I may hit the Motherhood website for a slightly fancier dress for the holidays. I saw one I liked alot and I just bought it. http://www.motherhood.com/Product.asp?ViewSource=browse&Product_Id=03441524&category_Name=Career&Category_Id=1524&MasterCategory_Id=6
Hope it gets here soon in case I need to switch the size.

My next OB appt is the Thursday after Thanksgiving. I wonder what my OB will do or say at this appt. My next Ultrasound isn't till December 12th and it's the one that EVERYONE wants to know about since we will hopefully be able to find out the sexes of the babies. I still have not had much in the way of Morning Sickness. I do have a not so fun Gag-Fest most mornings once I am dressed and am trying to brush my teeth.

I'm almost ready for Christmas.. Cards and return address labels are ordered, address labels for the cards need to be printed along with the annual letter. I bought some cute Christmas paper today. Now if only our home printer would work with us.. I think I need to start a new Christmas Card Address Book. The one I have has tons of cross-outs in it and some letters of the alphabet are creeping onto other pages for the letter before or after. Trying to remember where I got the current one that I am using. Maybe this coming weekend I'll take a look at the Hallmark Store while I'm at the mall and see if I can find one.

Ok time to go.. need to start the laundry or risk both Lee and myself being somewhat naked this week (noone wants that). Making Rice Krispy Treats for Thanksgiving probably Wednesday night. Offering virtual ones to anyone who actually got all the way down here..

Three little letters I didn't want to see

I am officially considered AMA. That's Advanced Maternal Age for those of you who don't know what that means. Ok some of you (hopefully) are scratching your heads thinking " But Cheryl's only 33 and doesn't that start at age 35? How did that happen?"

Well when you are pregnant with more than one baby the additional babies add 3 years to your risk. So in my case I am 33 with the risk of a 36 year old, therefore I am considered AMA.

I hate those little letters..

Some Updates

I guess someone is reading these posts (Hi Jen!)... so I'm updating on Life here...

First up, the computer crashed last weekend.. I don't even want to THINK about all my files that could possibly lost and all my photos.. even the ones of my ultrasounds.. Wah.. Ok I can rescan them in - well once we get the new tower and the scanner to like each other. So far they are not compatible. I'll figure it out eventually.

Secondly, I got to hear the heartbeats at my last OB appt last week. That was fun. So glad that I had gone to an OB appt with Cousin Kathy and her daughter Janelle so I knew what to listen for. Chugga Chugga Choo Choo.

Third, (and this one occured the same day as my last post and I forgot to post about it) I got to see the babies again on Ultrasound. Baby B was up first and did great till we realized that the baby was sleeping.. so nudge nudge, poke poke.. and baby B stirred, rolled over and went back to sleep (hmm just like me already). Baby A though was ready for us... this baby also did well. We got a great photo of Baby A stretching a leg out... our little contortionist.

Wish I could share the pictures and the ones of my belly but until the scanner and the tower get along (ok after I call HP for help) I can't do much.

Sox Win the Series... no sacrifice needed

Back in 2004 when the Red Sox were in the World Series, I got in a car accident and totalled my car. A couple days later the Sox won the Series for the first time since 1918. At the time I joked that I had sacrificed my car to them and helped them win the series.

Well fast forward to 2007, Red Sox are in the Series again and doing rather well. When they won in 4 games I was totally amazed. I hadn't lost anything (like my car) though Lee did lose his job about a week before the Series started. But I don't think that really counts..

Pregnancy Stuff

I have to admit, I am loving being pregnant so far... Ok so the 3 million trips to the bathroom in a day are not all that fun, nor the queasiness that I get if I haven't eaten something in a while. But I'm liking that there is a reason that I weigh close to what I weighed in January 2005 (when I joined Curves). I even don't mind too much that Lee is starting to call me FAT. I'm even starting to get a belly. Heck I'm earning it... and it's not easy to eat for three. Then again I've been told by my OB that I shouldn't eat for Three and that if I'm not hungry that it's ok not to eat.

I do miss being able to do all the stuff that I used to though. Noone will let me lift anything heavier than say 5 or 10 lbs and getting dressed in the morning and staying comfortable can be a challenge. Even working out at Curves (though still fun) is getting challenging.

I can't wait to see the babies again. I am going for an Ultrasound and Bloodwork on Tuesday morning. I might try to do some quick errands too afterwards. We'll see how I feel after the ultrasound. But I'm taking the day off from work. That's a definite.

Ok I can finally tell

I finally was able to talk to the 2 people I needed to tell my news to before anyone else knows.

I AM PREGNANT....

It took a long time to get to this place in my life and quite a few very legal drugs prescribed by my very nice and really great doctors at MGH. My personal doctor at the clinic called us to congratulate us on our achievement and I think that I'll be saving his message for a while..

Lee and I went up to oldest brother's house to tell him and his wife the very good news. They seemed to be happy for us but at the same time concerned about the financial aspects of all this.

Then when we got home I called my brother who lives in Texas to tell him and he was very happy for us also.

Lee's brother happened to have called us tonight and we broke the happy news to him also.. 2 more siblings to go on that side.. one of which we don't have contact information for and the other who is hard to get in contact with. We'll reach them eventually. But the important people know and that's what matters.

Be prepared to be really bored by all my pg related posts to come in the future..