Thank you for the congratulations! We are honestly thrilled! I told my husband I felt like we had won the lottery. (Chances of twins when they don't run in the family is .04%) He wasn't too sure about my comparison! About three weeks ago we had an appointment. I have them every two weeks and soon every week. This is because these two share a placenta. Sometimes you don't know whether twins will be identical until they are born. In this case we do because they share a placenta. Because of this they have to be monitored carefully. At any point in your pregnancy the blood vessels which connect the umbilical cord and the circulation of the twins can be distributed unevenly. Also one can be receiving nutrition while the other is not. That is the gist Twin Transfusion anyway. But what it means is that I will have tons of awesome 4d sonograms to share and so I decided to share them with friends and family. I think they are amazing!

Anyway, these two are close, really close. So three weeks ago I had an appt. to find out the gender. We weren't going to find out but because girls have faster lung development by three weeks, in this case it was important to know so we could discuss options. So, the two were wrestling but the technician announced that she was pretty sure they are girls! Happy day, an even clan! LG would have sisters and I would have more to call me in my old age.

Then, on Monday I went in again to the perinatologist and they pulled up the screen, this is what they saw.

I couldn't believe it! This brings the ration 5:1 instead of 3:3. The wierd thing is, when I found out they were girls, surprisingly there was a part of me that was sad they weren't boys. I think I am just in general, scared of the day we I know I wont have anymore kids. I think I just got one step closer and it depresses me. Anyway, the clan grows and as my kids say, we will have our own sports teams now. more to come...

4-6, Merry Christmas to me!

I have always loved a two for one! I will share more details but this is what our winter has in store for us! Because our house wasn't crazy enough! I just wrote a long blog with all the details, including gender, but lost it. Now I remember why I don't blog! It takes so much time. I will add more later!
p.s. they do have a membrane in between them, but they do seem to be already butting heads!

I wish I could capture my kids like my friend kel can. Sometimes I don't think I slow down enough to try to get them on film. They are growing so fast! Little Girl, or LG, as she is known in these parts, shuns the camera. While Cowboy Stoney, a nickname he bestowed on himself, loves it!

Dirty Gold - California Sunrise

I have taken quite the hiatus from blogging. This is due to a lot of different factors that are changing in my life, I have started homeschooling, being more realistic about how much time is in a day and how efficient I really am. I will write more about that later. But there is something I have to scream from the rooftops. My nephew that I adore, because they are kind, great examples to my boys, hard workers and sweet as can be, are creating a stir in the music world. I had to share. There music gets us groving and my boys just keep hitting the play button. Read about them hear, scroll down to Before the hype, dirty gold.
http://www.crawdaddy.com/index.php/2010/12/09/before-the-hype-dirty-gold/

pirate day times three....arggghh

We we so thrilled to have a pirate day at school. So thrilled in fact that I sent Scurvy Gums Bobby to school a week early dressed and ready to plunder. My husband took him and five minutes after he left I checked my email that reminded me that in fact pirate day was in a week! Blimey! So I called my husband and told him to turn and grab the child who was running for the classroom and bring him home. My husband dropped the buccaneer at his Nana's which was closer to the school and I met him with the appropriate attire and some wet wipes.
The next Monday We suited up again, and added some dye to his hair to improve the look. This time he went all day. His Nana picked him up because I had a sick baby. When she brought him home, she informed me that in fact pirate day was on Friday. Sink me. This time I needed an apology to go with my wet wipe.

But the third time is the charm and he went looking shipshape and better than ever to retrieve his treasure. Luckily our beloved Mrs. Endicott is his teacher.  And I had another experience notch on my motherhood belt. I am going to be so good at this parenthood thing by the time I am through.

AHOY!

My New Life

In case you weren't feeling grateful today.