One Delivery for 6 Kids!

Okay, I'm still a little traumatized by the birth of my WONDERFUL twin boys. It has taken me three weeks to write about it. Maybe I'm weak, but 36 hours of labor and almost 4 hours of pushing really wasn't what I was planning. The best news for me was that I didn't have to have a C-section (I was really close to having one). I'm so thankful to my Heavenly Father for my beautiful baby boys!! When Derek and I were talking about everything later, I told him I shouldn't be surprised that it was difficult because I got 2 babies from one delivery. He corrected me and said we got 6 babies in one delivery! :)

Baby Shower

My dear sweet friends, Amy, Cortney and Lindsey. I'm so very thankful to have so many friends out here in New York. I really amazed at how well we have settled out here. I feel so close to so many people in our ward. Now that I'm not in Young Women's, I miss being able to spend so much time with them, but life must go on! :) They put so much time into my baby shower and it was so kind of them. Lindsey (in purple) is a neo-natal nurse at a hospital here and has given me ALL KINDS of great advice. I think I'll be calling her at 1am in the morning when I need MORE!

Okay, I lied, here's my belly pic. It was taken 3 weeks ago, so imagine me 3 times as big!! Just kidding. If you notice, my face is not in the picture so I can always deny it was me! :) I'm now in my 36th week. My doctor decided to go on vacation so I can't beg him to induce me any earlier. (He already said he would induce me at 38 weeks.) BUT my dear mom has saved my life!! We go up to the elementary school 3 times a day, and this particular school makes you find parking in the neighborhood and walk with the children up to the door. SO, when I am having difficulty walking, my mom does it. She's also a laundry monster! Every piece of laundry that goes into the laundry room soon disappears and is turned into clean laundry!! It's a miracle! :) We're trying to be patient to meet our little twins, but it's difficult when they are movin' around in my belly almost constantly!! :)

Charlie's Honesty

This morning I was getting the kids breakfast and Charlie looked at me and his eyes got very wide as he said, "Mom! Your getting BIG!! You're going to break open our house!!" Don't you love their honesty? Well, I've had some requests for "belly pics" but I don't know if I'll put them on the blog. :) Thank you for your encouragement Rachel and Melinda. Because of you I will at least take some pictures to have for later. :)

The Last Debate

So tonight's debate is happening just a few miles away from us. And if anything too exciting happens, Derek's hospital is going to be the one receiving anyone with injuries. They did a secret service sweep yesterday. BUT if it's like the last debate--that put me to sleep--we won't have any worries.

Derek's Osteopathy Blessings

I'm realizing how blessed I am that Derek does osteopathy. In my fun months of being pregnant, whenever I have back pain or leg pain or swelling feet I ask Derek for his help and he fixes it! Pretty amazing. I've been told I don't walk like a normal pregnant lady (all bent over and stuff) and I know that's because of Derek's treatments. This picture was from the reunion in Arizona where Derek's brothers were in line for a treatment. Because we flew in to AZ, Derek couldn't bring his table and so here's a make-shift table with couch cushions on a coffee table. Since we've been here, I tell people in the ward that Derek will work on them all of the time (it's the least we can do with all the help they have given us), but a lot of the time they don't want to impose. I just know how happy Derek is when he can help others out.

Family Home Screaming :)

I'm at 29 weeks this Friday! My brave doctor invited us to bring our four munchkins in for one of the ultrasounds during my pregnancy. SO, last night for family home evening we went to my appointment. The kids were excited, but soon lost interest when they saw that the "pictures" they would see of the twins were not like normal pictures. It was fun, though and I'm glad we did it. I have to figure out how to put it in the blog, but I have a little video Derek took of part of the ultrasound that includes Joseph asking the doctor to put the ultrasound on a bigger T.V. This is because we were given a hand-me-down big screen T.V. recently--we're in trouble now!!! I found out the twins are 3 pounds already!!! (That's 6 pounds of baby.) This puts them in the 80-90% of normal (single) births!!! OUCH! Thanks to the BIG Whitmer baby genes! I was hoping for a little bit smaller, normal sized babies like Derek has in his family.