When God provides

When I got pregnant this time around, I figured we were covered on all the baby stuff.  Caedon will be almost three, done with all the baby stuff, hopefully figuring out potty training.  All that fun stuff.  THEN we found out it was twins and well.....that requires a bit more.  For one thing, we'll need double the diapers so I'd better increase my efforts to stock up on those when they're on sale and I have coupons!  Plus we'll need a double stroller, a second car seat, extra everything.  Thankfully, we bought a new crib when Caedon was born and we still have Melissa's in the garage so we don't need to worry about that.

Several days ago, Brian's aunt sent him an e-mail and asked if we had gotten a double stroller yet.  She saw one on sale that she wanted to get if we didn't have one.  We e-mailed back and told her how much we appreciated it but would she mind giving us the link so I could look at it - I wanted it to be able to hold both infant car seats at the same time AND wanted it to be compatible with the infant seat we used with Caedon.  Do you know that when she e-mailed back and told us which stroller she was looking at, it was the EXACT stroller I had already selected at Target!  Not only that, but it was no longer available in stores or at target.com so I was sure I was going to have to find a different one that met our needs.  But God took care of that for us, through the generous love of family.  I love that.


God is also protecting our sweet babies and we thank you all for your prayers for our little ones.  We know that there are more people praying for them than we can even imagine and we so love that you are all passing on our requests to others so that these babies can be bathed in prayer.

When we went to our perinatologist appointment this week, we got confirmation that Brian IS positive for the little c antigen so that scenario I posted about before - Brian passed little c on to Caedon and, at some point during my pregnancy/delivery with him, his blood mixed with mine and my body created the antibodies against little c - seems like it is exactly what happened.  Even though we know for sure that Brian has little c, we still can't know for sure if he has passed that on to one or both of these babies.  During our sono this week the babies looked great, no problems with anemia for either of them and they are growing right on track, wiggling and looking cute!  We will now visit the peri every two weeks to check on the babies and make sure things are still going well.

ALSO at this visit, the sono tech was able to see the genders of both of the babies!  I so wish I could tell you who these little people are but....I don't know yet!  We had her write the genders on a little card I had made up and she put the card and the sono pics that showed gender in an envelope.  It was mailed off to my wonderful friend, Chara, who will be throwing us a gender reveal party on December 29th.  My kiddos woke up this morning saying, "5 days til Christmas!" and I woke up saying, "9 days til I can call my babies by their names!"  We are so excited to find out their genders with our family and friends here with us.  It will be so much fun....but I'm having such a hard time waiting!

Keep an eye on my Facebook page and this blog because the news will be posted in both places as soon as possible after we have our reveal party! 

Both babies, with their profiles set side-by-side :)

Baby A

Baby B

Growing Up

It's always bittersweet watching my kids hit new milestones and make transitions.  I love watching them learn and grow but I always miss that little bit of "baby" that they lose every time they learn something new. 

Caedon has several transitions to make in the next 5 months before the twins come - getting rid of paci, moving to a toddler bed, moving into Kyler's room and (hopefully!) potty-training.  Yesterday he decided to take care of one of those transitions on his own without any encouragement from Mommy!

Caedon just a few weeks ago, sleeping sweetly with his paci

Yesterday morning when I went to get Caedon from bed, he handed me his pacifier and said, "Throw it away."
I said, "You wanna throw your pacis away?"
Him, "Yeah, put it in the trash."

So he took the two pacifiers he had in his bed and put them right into the trash can.  And then at naptime there were no tears.  He didn't even ask for paci.  He just sang and talked himself to sleep.  At bedtime and again at naptime today he did ask where paci is but I reminded him that he put them in the trash and they're gone now and he didn't fuss about it.  He's still in there right now talking and singing but I'm hoping he'll be asleep within the hour!  

I am just amazed at how easily he made the transition to no paci - and that he did it on his own without prompting!  After the nightmare of a time we had getting Melissa off of her beloved paci, I was not looking forward to it with Caedon.  Relieved mommy over here!

It seems that he turned into a big boy overnight!  Where's my baby go?