2 Girls!!!

Cuddling babies!

I have to start by saying how ExCiTEd I am about this week! Why you ask? This week I am half way done with my pregnancy!!! I am 18 weeks this week and since I am having twins full term is 36 weeks so I am half way there! WAHOO! I love being pregnant (most of the time) but I can't wait to cuddle my babies!
Andrew and I got to get an ultrasound on Saturday to find out the gender of the babies. Andrew and I were talking on the way over how funny it would be if they were both girls. 1:we already painted 3 walls of the nursery blue. 2:Parenting teenage twin girls... need I say more? 3:We thought they were both boys so if they turned out to be both girls it would be a huge shock. Well we got a good laugh about it on the drive to the ultrasound, but when we got there and found out they ARE both girls I was so shocked! The ultrasound tech was awesome and she had a fun time with us. When she started she told us that we got to have 5 pic's printed, but once we told her we were having twins she said she would print a few extra so we could have pictures of both babies. A few pictures extra turned into 21 pictures printed in 2D and 3D. (She had a ton of fun with us I think). The babies were so active and it was so much fun to see them moving around. Baby A kept punching and kicking the ultrasound probe so it took a while to get a steady sound of her heart. She was very active and we got some great pictures of her. Baby B was also very active. She made us laugh as she sat there and repeatedly kicked her sister (baby A) in the head. They were in the perfect position and both girls were more than happy to show us they were both girls. The ultrasound tech told us she was 100% sure both babies were girls. It was so amazing to see those beautiful babies growing inside me. They seem like best friends already. The position they were in was one on top of the other cuddling. It was so cute!! The picture at the beginning of the post shows them cuddling one on top of the other. The tech also gave us some GREAT news. According to the babies size I am a week ahead of what I thought and what the doctors had said. So now my due date is moving from July 17th to July 10th! I am all for moving up the due date! Since this wasn't a medical ultrasound and just a fun one the tech couldn't officially change my due date, but hopefully the next medical ultrasound will say the same thing and I can officially get my due date bumped up a week. Here are some more fun pictures from the ultrasound.

3D picture of A and B cuddling & sucking their thumbs

This is one of my favorites. Baby A looks like she is smiling :)

Baby B 

Baby A

After we found out they were both girls Andrew and I went to town and had a ton of fun shopping and making things for the girls. We got some lavender paint to paint the last wall of the nursery. 3 of the walls were already painted baby blue/turquoise so we thought some lavender might make it a bit more girly. I really thought one baby was a boy so I didn't even hesitate to start painting the nursery blue, but I guess I jumped the gun a little on that one. Here are some pictures of painting.

Andrew marking his territory :)

I had to join in the fun

Painting!

The blue walls

Lavender Wall

After the painting was done we made some onesies for the girls. Andrew made them while I sewed some blankets and some cute skirts. 

I made these ones!

Andrew Made these. He is such a great Daddy!

One of the blankets I made

The other blanket I made

More onesies Andrew made

Levi Skirts I made form an old pair of jeans

Don't look too close at the sewing, but I had a ton of fun making these!

So that is basically what we have been up to the past week. We are both anxious for the babies to come and we wish it was already June. I am trying to enjoy pregnancy but my out of control emotions, body aches, and fatigue are starting to get old. However, I do feel the babies move now and that is a way cool feeling. I first felt it about a week and a half ago and at first I was thrown off by the feeling. I had felt a lot of new weird things with my changing pregnant body, but this was different and when I realized the fluttering feeling was the feeling I had been waiting for it was amazing! They are getting more and more active, or at least I am feeling it more and more. Today has been their most active day so far and I love feeling them inside me and knowing that they are growing healthy and strong. 
Life outside of baby land? Andrew is in the middle of his second semester of law school. He is doing really well and I am very proud of him! Our schedules are completely opposite right now. Andrew gets out of school around 3 weekdays and I start work around 3. I usually leave for work right before he gets home. We do have nights to spend together and Saturdays after I get off work and all day Sunday so I can't complain. Overall life is good and we are having a lot of fun preparing for the arrival of the two sweet girls.