Babies’ room progress
Big progress: the babies’ room is no longer a repository for all the stuff we weren’t really sure where to put during the move! As comfy (and practical! and frugal!) as I thought it might be for the twins to sleep in U-Haul boxes filled with clothes labeled “second string/sentimental”), we’ve cleared out just about everything that isn’t baby-related. I threw caution to the winds and helped Matt paint (don’t worry, I held my breath the whole time).
I think we managed to pick a color that traditionalists will think is inappropriate for boys OR girls (too purple for a boy, too blue for a girl). We like it, though.
We also were lucky enough to secure free delivery from IKEA in the form of Matt’s sister Rachel and her girlfriend Liz, who generously agreed to procure two Hensvik cribs from their local store once we determined that our store would next have them in stock around the time the twins started middle school. Not only did they go to the store, bring them up to Providence, and help us assemble them, but they even gave one to us as their gift. We promised them that once the babies got here we’d figure out which one was their favorite and make sure that one always slept in “their” crib.
There’s much more to be done, of course: other furniture, decorating, and perhaps even some mattresses for the cribs. (I’m not sure about that last one, though — we wouldn’t want the babies to be spoiled.) Still, it’s exciting to see the progress!
Filed under Baby Stuff | Comments (2)24 Weeks
My my, the time does fly. Tomorrow I’ll be 24 weeks pregnant, a milestone because it’s considered the lower limit of viability, although I sincerely hope not to find that out personally. I’ve been feeling mostly good, with the occasional episode of heartburn, breathlessness, or general discomfort — nothing really deserving of major complaint (although I complain to Matt anyway). I have been feeling (and sometimes seeing) plenty of baby movement, which is quite cool if slightly “oh my god there are things living in me ew ew ew ew!”
Up until a couple weeks ago, the move was so fully occupying our time and thoughts that we didn’t pay much attention to the eventual needs of the babies. However, now that my belly is really starting to assert itself, we have realized that there really are going to be twins at the end of this, and maybe it would be better if we had more stuff in the nursery than six paint swatches, a cradle with no mattress, and a rocking chair I bought off the side of the road when I was 22. So we braved Babies R Us to set up a registry (and utterly shocked the cashier with our intention to decorate a baby room without knowing the sex of the babies that would be occupying it — abuse!) and filled in a few other items on myregistry.com, and now we just have to slowly acquire them. We’re also getting some good deals on Craigslist and are the recipients of some very generous hand-me-downs (and the sister of a friend, whom we’ve never even met, pulled a fancy, good-condition double stroller out of the Natick dump for us!), so we’re making some progress.
We also went to our first of four “Marvelous Multiples” classes at the hospital. We didn’t learn much (except that apparently cutting through the umbilical cord takes some muscle), but it was very cool to sit in a room of eight other couples all expecting twins — so nice to feel average! Next week is the hospital tour (yay) and the review of all the awful things that can happen to you and your babies just because you were dumb enough to get knocked up with twins, you high-risk oddballs. I’m bringing my iPod for that part.
Finally, on a totally random note, lots of women talk about how their dreams get really unusually crazy during pregnancy. People on the chat board I frequent detail some truly bizarre ones. I have found the opposite, however: my dreams have become unbelievably tedious. Last night I dreamed that all my clothes had gotten mixed up in this huge pile of everyone’s clothes (I don’t know who “everyone” was), and I spent a long, long stretch of dream time looking for my clothes, folding them, and putting them away. I woke up bored. I think this is my brain preparing me for certain aspects of parenting.
Filed under Pregnancy | Comments (6)Week 20
So, what have all of you been up to? We bought a house, painted it, moved, sold a house, and unpacked. (Well, we started unpacking. I don’t think we can legitimately claim to have unpacked until there are no more cardboard boxes in our living room)
It’s been a bit of whirlwind, is what I’m saying, so we haven’t exactly been right on top of taking or posting pictures. But the pregnancy continues! Here, at last, are the week 20 photos:
In previous weeks, all of the pictures were taken in front of a neutral or scenic background. We thought for this week it might be fun to take the picture against a backdrop that illustrated what our lives were like when the picture was taken. I think this picture conveys “disarray” pretty well, don’t you?
Things are going very well! Rachel’s feeling good, our house is filling up with our belongings and shiny new furniture from IKEA, and we’re starting to make a big list of the baby stuff we’re going to need. In fact, it’s kind of crucial that we make that list soon, because if we think our house is filling up now…
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