Wait... 6 months?

Well the summer has flown by for this teacher/preggo. I spent a lot of it prepping the house for babies and cleaning, but most of it- well I spent that sleeping. I haven't updated since my last appointment, so I will do a quick run through for those of you keeping track.

We had an appt. on July 8. We met with the office's NP because my doctor was out of town. She was so nice(insert touchy feelie). She reviewed my prior blood work and tests with me. Then she prepped me for my next appt. with the dreaded glucose test... We will find out at our appointment tomorrow if I have Gestational Diabetes. Here is hoping for a resounding no. She gave both of our sweet girls an A+ and me one as well. So far, so good.

The grumpy Ultrasound tech seems to be my lot in life. :) However, she was really personable on this visit; Josh says she must be a morning person since our appt was a 8:00 AM. She was able to get the images she needed to complete the anatomy scan, and everything looked right on track.

I haven't been suffering too much in my second trimester. I haven't been as hungry(no room in there), uber tired though if I over exert myself, and getting rounder by the day. I can feel the girls kicking and swimming most of the time now. It is both strange and beautiful. I can't help but smile to myself when they move. It is a real surprise when one is kicking down, and the other is elbowing up.

I am officially 6 months pregnant, which is scary because it all seems in hyper speed. Only 14 short weeks till my girls get here... amazing. :) My family threw us a baby shower this summer. We received so many great gifts, good advice, and lots of love and support. Josh and I both were overwhelmed with it all, so many good people in our lives. There are still somethings we "need", but I am believing that they will trickle in little by little.

We have painted the nursery but haven't really begun to decorate it. I sorted all the gifts, and soon will begin washing tiny clothes. :) We are forging ahead with our plan to breast feed and cloth diaper the girls. I know that this will be an adventurous undertaking. But I am all for adventure.

I feel like this update is a tiny bit random, but my mind is split between babies and school. We go back tomorrow to set up my classroom. I am excited about a new year, but also wary of troubles that may come from working while expecting. I am hoping my strength holds out. I am hoping my memory holds out. I am hoping I can do my best for both my babies, and the ones in my classroom. (More to come on this topic for sure!)

Here is to the last trimester, and the sweet day I'll hold my Ruby and Cadence. I am already singing them lullabies. I can't wait to kiss their noses and toeses. :)

Twinformation:
1. Twin fetuses start playing at 14 weeks!
Examining 3D ultrasound images of five pairs of in-utero twins, a team at the University of Padova, Italy, found that fetuses started deliberately interacting at 14 weeks, reaching out and touching each other through the uterine wall. By 18 weeks, they spent more time stroking each other than themselves, and were equally careful when touching their co-twin's sensitive eye areas. The results are "astonishing," says Jean-Philippe Rivière at Doctissimo. At 14 weeks, "they were already socializing with their sibling in the womb."

2.If you separate identical twins, they still end up similar!
Surveying decades of twin research, George Mason University economist Bryan Caplan found the "most prominent conclusion" to be that "practically everything — health, intelligence, happiness, success, personality, values, interests — is partly genetic." We may latch on to the parenting-centric ideas of "Tiger Mom" Amy Chua, says Helen Rumbelow in The Australian. But the dozens of rigorous studies on separated-at-birth twins is much more persuasive than "Chua's sample of one": As adults, even separated twins are "very similar on almost every count."