10 Weeks 3 Days

I've been kind of lazy about getting on here and posting, we've had some different things going on and I've been tired quite often. Babies and are I are continuing to do well though.

I had been posting pictures of the size of the babies relative to a fruit or vegetable. Then I mistakenly decided to skip ahead and see what further along was related to...my mistake! The idea of cantaloupe and watermelon kind of freaked me out, so there is a new type of picture, which I actually think is more realistic. It is featured as a main item, to the left of my blog posts. I tried to find one that showed twins and talked about them weekly, but that was more difficult than it should have been.

I got a call from the doctor a couple of days ago to inform me that my blood work all came back good, except for results that I'm anemic. Upon further research, it appears that a mother carrying twins rarely goes through pregnancy without being anemic, so really I'm normal. :) I've now added iron pills to my daily round of prenatal vitamins and folic acid pills. I have to take the iron pills in the morning and the first morning was terrible, I felt sick all morning. This morning I took the pill with a glass of orange juice (I read folic acid helps the body absorb the iron) and it really did make quite the difference. I'm hoping now that I'll have some more iron in my body that my fatigue will slowly start to go away and I can get back to a bit normal of routine at home. The poor house has been so neglected, but Brian has been wonderful in taking care of me and the dishes. :)

This weekend we plan to make a BIG trip to Good Will to empty out the crowd of stuff in the basement and we also plan to get the last base cabinet for the kitchen and to order the counter tops. The base cabinet will need to be painted, which should go relatively quickly, since we've become painting pros lately. We'd both really like to see the kitchen at a level of complete by the end of this month. This past weekend we moved the guest bed into the smaller room, which is now the guest room. I'm happy because the bed fits perfectly, the room is already decorated and the bedding actually fits! Slowly we're going to clean the future nursery out entirely (we have a big closet situation to handle!) and then soon we'll get to paint and really decorate for the babies arrival. :)

Brian is almost done with school. Literally only 2 more weeks!!! I know he is ready for it to be over, as am I. :)