I can’t begin to thank each and every one of you for all your thoughts, prayers and advice.  Pregnancy really is an amazing thing!  The closer I get to delivering my two little girls, the more attached I become to them.  I cannot wait to hold them and see what and who they look like.  In fact, I get so excited (or maybe it’s that I am hormonal) I almost cry every time I think of the actual delivery and holding my girls for the first time.

July 13, 2008.  Here is a photo of Tyler Lopez, me and Richard Ortner on my final day anchoring BK (before kids).

The girls are still not due for a couple of weeks, but I have some work to do and with my medical conditions I didn’t want to take any chances.  During our Sunday morning newscast we had some fun with my departure.

These are the names Meteorologist Richard Ortner recommended for my twin girls!  Which ones do you like?

 It may be hard to believe, but we still do not have names for the twins.  I thought my husband and I were getting close, but now we are disagreeing.  He thinks I should pick one and he should pick the other.   But what if I don’t like the name he chooses?  Plus, I keep thinking of  new names that I like.  Ugh….this is not easy.

I guess now that I will not be working for a while I will finally have time to finish the nursery and decide on names!  I think one will be easier than the other.

It is amazing how one day you wake up and look down at your feet (that is if you can see them) and notice your ankles are no longer there.  I am there.  My ankles and feet are swollen.  So swollen that sometimes flip flops are the only shoes I can wear.  How professional for work, right?

The good news is that my hips and sciatic nerve are so much better than they were months ago.  I finally went to a chiropractor (Dr. Michelle Clark) who saved my life. Okay, not literally, but she did fix me up so I could walk. 

And I need to be able to walk, because the countdown to twins is here.  This is week 30.  In August I will be the proud of mother of two beautiful little girls.  That is the good news.  The bad news is that I have no cribs and no changing table.  The nursery is currently my husband’s office, so there is a lot of moving and painting that needs to be done. 

We will do it though!  Plus, the girls won’t care if they are sleeping in a red room (which it is currently) or a taupe colored room (color of the nursery), right? 

Here is my week 30 photo…..notice I do not show the cankles!

I cannot believe I have been pregnant for 28 weeks.  In some ways it seems like it has flown by and in other ways, these past few months have seemed like an eternity. 

Everyone told me one day I would wake up and realize the babies are almost here and feel the overwhelming need to get everything in the house ready for their arrival.  That day has come!

With that being said, I still have done nothing to the nursery (it is still our office–and that means a whole lot of work is still needed). We have not decided upon any names (although we have three names that we like). 

I have registered though!!!  That is a first step, right? 

Week 27

Growing larger day by day. 39 1/2 inches around my waist and 39 centimeters if you are measuring the singleton way (vertically).

Bruce Binns (Channel 7 Satellite Engineer) and Me—–who’s bigger?

Modern technology is amazing and terrifying at the same time.  I don’t think having a baby used to be so complex.  Not only are pregnant women now tested for everything under the sun (which is anxiety at its peak), there are decisions that must be made that never used to exist.   

For example, cord blood banking.   I have to admit, this is something I know NOTHING about, but soon will, as every cord bank has mailed me dozens of pamphlets.

They all say, banking your newborns cord blood can save their lives.  Can it?  It’s not necessarily cheap.  Is it worth the money?

On first glance, my reaction is……Yes, it’s worth it.  You can’t put a price on your child’s life.  But in the back of my head, I still wonder….is cord blood banking the thing to do.  

Wow! I think it is fair to say being a parent is one of the most rewarding gifts anyone can every experience. Thank you all for writing in. I believe this blogging could be pretty fun!

To answer a few of the comments. The girls are fraternal (they have their own sacks). We are shooting for a delivery date in August and hoping to make it as close to 37 weeks as possible (37 weeks is considered full-term for twins).

As far as names are concerned, we have not decided whether we are going to tell people or wait until after they are born. Everyone seems to have their thoughts on this. Although it does seem that most people believe if you tell someone the names to say “the names are ____and ____” instead of saying “we are thinking of ___ and ____”. I guess the theory behind that is that no one would ever tell you they are bad names once you say this is what I am calling my kids.

Here is a photo of me at 22 weeks. Every week we will post a new one to show my growth. Right now I am 37 inches around. If you measure me the way they measure mom’s with one baby I am 33 centimeters (the equivalent to 33 weeks)

 Hello everyone and welcome.  This blogging thing is a whole new experience for me, as is being a parent.  But that is okay, because it means we can all learn together.

For those who do not know, I am pregnant with TWINS!  And we just found out we are having two girls.  Oh, the excitement and horror.  My mom keeps telling me “it’s payback” and I keep telling her my little girls will be angels (even when they become teenagers).

Now that we know the sexes it is time for us to start planning the nursery and picking out names.  I don’t know about other moms, but I think these are the two most stressful things!  There are so many options when it comes to nursery colors and themes.  And talk about names……oh my gosh.  I have two books with over 150,000+ names.  Who has time to look through all that?  Picking a name is not like picking out an outfit.  It is their name for their lifetime!