The Great Surprise of 2010

If you haven't heard our big news yet, it is that our one baby has now turned into two babies!!!!!

Yes, we are having TWINS and much to Chris's delight they are both BOYS!

My whole pregnancy I have been super sick and I couldn't hold food or water down for most of it. With both of my girls I got pretty sick so we just thought that I was getting worse with each child. When we went in for our 11 week checkup the doctor listened for the heart beat and I guess when she heard one heart beat she just stopped looking. Anyways last week I got sick with the flu and had to go in for another IV because I was getting super dehydrated. The doctor on call decided to to check the heartbeat to make sure the baby was doing OK since I had been so sick. She found it but just keep moving the monitor around my stomach with out saying anything. I didn't think anything of it until she asked if twins run in our family! I immediately said yes and WHY? (my oldest sister has fraternal twins) She then said she thought that she heard two heartbeats and that they were going to do an ultrasound.
As soon as they started the ultrasound I saw both of there heads and I knew it was twins. We are sooooo excited and can't believe that we just doubled our children :)

The best part for me is they said I was a week farther along than they thought and with twins 37 weeks is full term. Which means I get to knock a whole month off of my pregnancy and I am now due at the end of March!


The first picture is looking down on both of their little heads and you can kind of see their arms a little.


Baby A


Baby B


March can't come soon enough :)

Boys Already !?!

I didn't think we had to worry about boys until our girls were teenagers. I think Myla has other plans though. Today she went on her first car ride with a BOY!!! It was with our cute neighbor boy who she calls her 'boyfriend'!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(sorry about the bad photos, but it was too cute not to post)

Outnumbered

Chris and I are soon to be outnumbered by children. Baby #3 is joining our family April 2011!!!

Lost and Found

Oh how we love this little girl, but oh how she loves to lose and scratch her glasses!


Here are a few places we have found her glasses:

In the grass outside (3 times so far)
In the garbage can (twice)
Behind the couch
In the toy box (lost count)
Under beds
In closets
In their case (We thought we had lost them for sure this time because we never thought she would actually put them where they were meant to be put!)

Here are a few things we have caught her doing to her glasses:

desperately trying to make the cat wear them
running over them with her bike on the asphalt
rubbing the lenses on the cement
coloring on them with crayons

If she wasn't so darn cute she would definitely be in a lot of trouble!

I swore I never would

Before I had children I swore that I would never ever ever buy those ugly Velcro shoes with cartoon characters on them.


I guess things change when you watch your little girls faces light up over them :)
(Oh, did I mention they also light up!!! My children are officially in the ugly shoe club!!!)

Ava's New Look

Ava finally got her glasses today!!! We are not sure if she likes them yet. I have found them all over the house, car, and even caught her trying them on her cat.

I know that I may be biased because I am her Mommy, but I think she looks adorable in them!
(she wouldn't look at the camera unless we asked her to show us the toy lizard)



I am so happy that she can finally see! It broke my heart to find out that she could not see very well.
Here is the story of what happened if you don't already know it

Her left eye started to turn inward so we took her to a pediatric eye doctor. He told us that in her left eye(the one that was turning in) she could not see close or far away and her right eye also had some issues. They are going to try the glasses first and if that doesn't correct it then they will try a patch or surgery. I am just so relieved to know that she is seeing better. I hated watching her struggle and rub her little eye trying to make it see right.




We love you Ava Jean and you look beautiful!!!

Summer Fun

July is my most favorite month ever!!! The fourth of July is my favorite holiday and my b-day just so happens to be in this fabulous month. (sorry for the picture overload)

We went up to the Highland Splash Pad for the first time today and the girls loved it!

Ava being Ariel (little mermaid) on the rocks singing

Miss Myla being Ariel on the rocks. She has to have the pose just right and will tell Ava she is not doing it right all the time.

We were invited up to our friends private lake in Salem Canyon. I just brought my little camera so my pictures aren't that great.

We got to take the girls out on a canoe and a pedal boat (Sorry I didn't get any pictures of it)


This isn't a good photo, but I wanted to remember how much Ava loved these swings. If she wasn't already on them then she was bawling for someone to push her on it.


It was so pretty up there

Ava had sand and rocks in places that I didn't think were possible!

I hate that July is already half over. What the heck it just started getting warm and now it is almost over! I am not OK with that!