Alright, Alright...

I succumbed to the pressure...I finally pulled out the camera. Thought you might like to see my new digs. OK, so they're not so new anymore - I have been in this room for over 3 weeks now. But, for a hospital room, this is a very nice one, so I cannot complain!!

And I was REALLY brave and even took some pictures of myself. So, this is me at 32 weeks. But please excuse my appearance - I have been in the hospital for 3.5 weeks. There is no such thing as looking cute anymore.



And in other news, the boys are still doing great. I had a sonogram yesterday. Grayson is 4 lbs 4 oz and Ethan has caught back up with his brother weighing in at 4 lbs 2 oz! That's right, people, over 8 pounds of baby! And I am starting to feel it, too. I am definitely getting larger (as I am sure you can tell!) , and its getting harder to move. I cannot imagine what another 2 - 4 weeks will bring!

I got nothin...

So, I really don't have any updates, but I thought I should update to let you all know that :) Everything is pretty much the same, which is good news! The boys are doing great. I am still having lots of random contractions, but nothing to be concerned about. The hospital itself isn't so bad, its just the four walls that are getting to me. Basketball is keeping me pretty well entertained (even though all of my brackets are completely messed up!) I have officially started the "Going Home Countdown." This, however, is probably not a good idea since there is no guarantee I will actually get to go home. But a girl can dream, right? IF I do get to go home at 34 weeks, then I have 17 days to go! The only other thing that is really annoying me are the thousands of food commercials during these basketball games. You have no idea how bad I want a pizza right now!!!! Only a few more weeks...

Updates and Observations...

from the weekend:
- I only have to have my finger pricked twice a day now! WOO HOO!
- I don't know how diabetics prick their fingers multiple times every day. I have a new found respect for them.
- I think I have received more shots in the past two weeks than the rest of my life combined, which is saying a lot since we did in vitro.
- Shots do cause bruises. Bad ones.
- Stressful basketball games can cause contractions (only one, but still!)
- When the Bulldogs win a bid to the Big Dance, my husband will also do a dance. Let's hope the Bulldogs Dance is better than Alan's. (Love you, honey!!)
- My dog is afraid of wheelchairs.
- The refrigerator is leaking some strange colored fluid that apparently only Alan and I can see. It has been there for days, and it has not been cleaned up. I thought a hospital was supposed to be ridiculously clean...
- I miss outside.
- Apparently sometimes contractions are brought on the monitors. I swear I dont feel them until they hook me up.
- I am not really sure how I am going to stand being in here for another 3.5 weeks. But I know this is what is best for my children, so I will suck it up.

The Full Moon...

Have you ever heard that things get a little weird at hospitals during a full moon? I had heard it before, but I cant say that I ever really believed it. Until this week. Things have been CRAZY around here. Since I am confined to a hospital bed, I cannot actually confirm that there was a full moon, but the nurses tell me there was. A couple of days ago, things started changing a little. Suddenly, there were people being admitted left and right. It continued right through yesterday - until this hospital was completely full! All the nurses have been running around like crazy, totally stressed out. And I swear my children knew it, too. When they hooked us up to the monitors yesterday, these boys literally RAN from them. They sent three different nurses in here to try and find them, but they wanted nothing to do with it. The monitoring that usually takes 30 minutes took over two hours yesterday. And during all that, I had to change the tributalene cartridge in my pump. It fell apart. Yep, the syringe just broke. All over me. It was the weirdest thing.

We are all still doing really well, I just hope there isn't another full moon before April!

Sonogram

I had a sonogram this morning. The boys are doing great. Grayson is 3 lb 10 oz and is dancing a jig on my bladder :) Ethan is 3 lb 5 oz and actually looked at us today! The specialist wants to add one more shot to my long list of meds, but other than that, no changes. That is good news to me!