What a difference a month makes!

Week of Thanksgiving

Week of Christmas

Looks like I swallowed a 20 pound turkey whole!

Went Shopping...

For crib mattresses-but we didn't bring any home. When you make a purchase at Babies R Us they often give you coupons for 20% off your next purchase, so mom and I each bought something and now have 2 coupons, one for each mattress (sweet deal!)

So what did we buy? Mattress pads and.......

This Play Pen...which if you look it up online it will most likely fall under the category of "play-yard" b/c I supposed after all these years it isn't proper to put your child in a pen? The twins play pen was such a great deal! It was an online purchase returned to the store- original price $209, marked down to $105 and when mom and I were at Babies R Us yesterday there was an additional 33% off bringing the total to $77! Pretty sweet deal if you ask me and the credit card:)

I'm thinking the play pen will be set up in our living room area when the time comes, for now, my car.

Today is the day!

The cribs are going in the room!! Mom and dad are coming over and while the boys assemble the cribs we will go on the hunt for mattresses :)

I have to say I love these cribs even more now that I know my dad took his first trip to IKEA to get them. Poor guy had no idea what to expect when he got there; he said it took no less than 8 people to help him find/'order from the warehouse'/pick-up the cribs. Thank you dad, the babies will be so happy!

Some days the idea of plurals/multiples startles me slightly when it comes to the kidS, cribS, and mattresseS, but I think now that I feel the monsters kicking me and the cribs are going up things are becoming a little more realistic and a little easier to digest.

What I wear

My birthday shoes of course!

So, I still have not broken into the maternity clothes--except for pants...but being that it was my birthday I had to wear something cute :)

a pair of grey leggings

a grey wife beater under a white V-neck Tee

A Navy open sweater from Express

http://www.express.com/catalog/product.jsp?productId=22087

brown boots (so cute!)

Gold multi layered necklace

All in all, outfit was perfect for a 50*+ weather!

Early Birthday Surprise!

The girls room has been painted!!!!!

Mom and Greg worked together and got the girls room painted while I was at work yesterday! I am so excited about the beautiful grey that is now in the nursery.

Greg was so good about keeping this a secret and led me on to believe that he wanted to paint the room coming up soon. So with that in mind, last Friday I went to Home Depot at 9:00 PM after our Christmas party for work. I was hoping I would surprise Greg with the paint, some new brushes, and throw away paint tray. Well, I did surprise him-but I don't think it really mattered :) So, still thinking that Greg was going to paint- I got up at regular time, 6ish, and started moving all of the junk in the babies room to the guest room and tape the edges. Greg stopped me mid taping to have breakfast and then I left to go Christmas shopping.

So fast forward a few days later- I call Greg to see if he wanted me to bring home some lunch on Monday...he said he had some food already and painted part of the room. I got so excited I rushed home to help (calling mom on the way to tell her about my new afternoon plans!)

I got home and could smell some paint and Greg took me upstairs to "finish painting" and told me to close my eyes and he led me into the room and it was AMAZING! the room looked so big and the grey was so pretty I almost didn't realize the ceiling had been painted!!! If you weren't aware, the roof used to be BLACK! and now is beautiful and white!

Mom had her painter come in and paint the room for my birthday/Christmas gift--one of the best ever! I can't wait to post pictures of it--probably this weekend since it is really the only time I am home while it is still light out and we don't have an over head light in there yet.

That's Right...

Think Pink x2!

We went to the doctor's office on the 9th for our 20 week appointment and found out we are expecting 2 girls this spring! We were slightly more than shocked when the technician told us that we had 2 girls on the way....the idea of two girls never crossed my mind as a real possibility for us, we always thought one of each or two boys.

Looking on the bright side, like I told my friend Kim- "We have new shopping partners!" and Greg promptly put a hold on my credit card account :)

How my mom and dad found out about the sexes? I called my dad...

Dad- hello
Me- Hey Dad!
Dad- So, what's it going to be? What news do you have for us today?
Me- Well, do you want to know baby A or Baby B?
Dad-ummm, baby A!
Me- Well, baby A is a.......girl.
Dad- oh yeah, a little girl...and Baby B?
Me- You will have to call mom and find out!
Dad- (laughter) Wait no! B is for Boy- you have to tell me!
Me- I love you, call mom and find out
Dad- (laughter)
Me- *click*

So I called mom afterwards and told her that Baby B was a Girl and that she would have to call dad to find out the other half :) I thought it was pretty funny and I think they did as well. So far most people have been pretty excited about the two girls, which makes it a little easier for us to 'digest'.

Fashion Bedrest

So we all are thinking it, but no one really wants to come out and say it...Morgan, it's time to get some maternity clothes!

Those are probably the worst words anyone could say to me...I mean, I'm happy that the condo is getting bigger, however the clothes that people make accommodate such structures are pretty much awful or if they are decent way to expensive to wear for about 2 months. So what is a girl to do?? Cardigans, tunics, open jackets, maybe a dress or two, and leggings. The only way to go right now.

Greg gave me some of his pajama bottoms that he no longer wears (because they are too big on him) and they fit me just fine..with elastic still left to stretch! I'm not sure if these pants ever did fit Greg now that I think about it.

1:15- Snack time...gotta run