My Shower!

Well, one of them. Heidi and Sandy (neighbors and friends) hosted a shower for me on March 2nd. It was so much fun! They did a great job and I got so many nice things. Here are a few pictures from the event.

Sandy, me, Heidi----



The diaper cake that Heidi made. There were 106 diapers in this thing!


Yummy Strawberry cake. It was delicious!



Measuring my gut. I have no idea how long the string was but Angie was the winner (not pictured).


Some of the things all piled up at home. It took me forever to go through it all!

Some twin gear. So cute!

I have another shower scheduled for April 14th at one of my schools. And I believe there will also be one on April 16th at my monthly diagnostician meeting. I can't wait!

The nursery

The nursery has been almost done for quite sometime now. Both sets of grandparents bought a crib and a dresser, which was great! Bubbie then bought a glider because she insisted that I needed one. OK, I really wanted one too. We did a cute farm theme.

Cribs- Notice we did not change the wall paint from how Raegan's nursery was painted. (Raegan has moved into a big girl room!) MAN 2 cribs take up A LOT more space than I would have thought!

Dresser #1- Already full of clothes- all non-matching, newborn and 0-3 months!

Glider- Where the babies will soon be attached to my breast!

And dresser #2- Quickly filling up with all matching outfits, newborn and 0-3 month. Also a drawer full of little socks, booties, bibs, hairbands, all that frilly stuff!

Where might you ask do we put all the exersaucers, bouncers, and swings. Well, I tell you finding space for 2 of everything has been quite the adventure! Right now all is sitting in the nursery and it's a total disaster! Things are EVERYWHERE! I have to move a swing to put more things in the closet. Move a bouncer to get into a dresser. At least once the babies are here I will have a reason to leave things in the living room!

Oh and the names. I made those and am so proud of them. Here are some close-up pictures of them.

An update on daughter #1, formally known as Raegan

She is doing great. Raegan is still in the PreK Pals program in my school district. She loves it and has learned so much. She is now able to write and recognize all letters. She knows all of their sounds. She is starting to read sight words and is really interested in learning. Raegan has also become a great 'Pal' to the special needs students in her classroom. She talks all the time about how wonderful the morning and afternoon friends are doing. She sees old friends (that have moved to more restrictive classrooms) and says hi to them, then reports all of this to me. She is definitely a Johnson as she loves helping other kids.

Here she is at her school rodeo.

And racing at the Rodeo (she says she won because she is so fast but I don't know if this is a fib or not).

Raegan also started soccer again this year. She has been quite the player the last 3 games. She really likes playing and seems to get it. And we all know that she is not a shy child so she is quite aggressive on the soccer field. She has expressed some interest in playing indoor soccer. If I can handle the practices and games once the babies come, I will enroll her in indoor. And eventually we will switch to a club soccer team. Because well, mom isn't happy with rec so far. LOL!

Raegan also continues to do gymnastics and loves it. She isn't afraid of anything, which is wonderful because she tries everything they ask her to do and is usually successful. No back flips or anything like that yet! Why don't I have any pictures of soccer or gymnastics? Who knows. I'll try and get some.

Last thing about Raegan, she is very excited about the babies. She loves to help me pick out clothes for them (good lord we need to stop shopping!). She also likes trying out all the swings, bouncers, and exersaucers by getting her big girl self into all of them. Most of the time I have to get her out. Anyway, here she is practicing for the twins. She will be a great big sister!

Well I haven't posted in awhile....

...so give me some time to catch you all up!

Last time I posted we didn't know what we were having. Girls, boys, girl/boy combo. We now know that we are adding 2 more GIRLS to the Sharer clan. No boys in our future, as I am having my tubes tied when the babies are born.

So for the babies. They are doing well. I'll give you the latest stats from Thursday, March 13th.

Mallory Rose- measuring in the 90th percentile. Breech on my right side. Weighing in at 3lb12oz. Fat, fat girl!

Samantha Kay- measuring in the 30th percentile. Head is good. Femur is good. Stomach is a bit small (19th percentile). They're keeping an eye on it but don't have any worries at this point. Vertex (head down) on my left side and buried in my pelvis. Weighing in at 3lb3oz. Good weight for the small tummy!

As for me, I'm doing great. I have full on cankles and they are lovely!

And the gut. Well the gut keeps expanding at a steady pace. Right now I'm measuring 40 weeks pregnant at only 30 weeks. My body continues to amaze me as my belly button is yet to pop out and I am yet to get any stretchmarks. Please knock on wood for me! Let me post some comparison pictures. Here is the gut at 11 weeks, starting to get out there.

Here I am at 30 weeks. The most recent picture.

As for my cervix (for those of you that care or know about this stuff). It's holding steady at 4.2cm, which is EXCELLENT! I have to say, my body really has held up well with these 2 babies so far. I'm still working without any issues (like my work is hard or something) and I'm still able to pretty much do what I want to. I am cutting back on housework and haven't run any marathons lately. But you get the drift.

NT scan report!

We had the NT scan today to look for signs of Down's Syndrome and the babies passed with flying colors! Both babies had nice, flat necks. They were both measuring a few days ahead and had heartrates of 154 and 155 bpm. Here are the 3D pics. The sonogram was just too cool today! We of course have another sonogram in 2 weeks, that won't be 3D. I'm hoping that the PA will look for little pee-pees or little vaginas. :)

Baby A- (not cooperating well and didn't get great pics)


Baby B (trying to deflect a head-butt from Baby A)


And the 2 babies together-Baby B on left and Baby A's head on right.

Growing!

I haven't posted in awhile so I figured I would update everyone with some pics too. Both babies are doing well. We go for another sonogram on Wednesday and it will be a 4D one. We're hoping to get a peak at the sexes of the babies but it will be pretty early! I'm doing well, feeling great but always tired. Anyway, onto the pics...

7 weeks 1 day



8 weeks 1 day



babies at 8 weeks 4 days (B on left, A on right)



9 weeks 1 day



No 10 week pic for some reason...

11 weeks 1 day



12 weeks 1 day



And updated baby pictures to come on Wednesday! ~~Carrie

TWINS!

What more can I say, we're having TWINS!

Obviously the ultrasound went wonderfully yesterday. Right away they saw both babies. Baby A (or Ethel) is measuring a day ahead and has a heartrate of 130bpm. Baby B (or Fred) is measuring right where he or she should and has a heartrate of 120bpm.

The estimated due date is May 22, 2008. That is 40 weeks and there is NO WAY I'm making it that long! Remember Raegan was a BIG baby. I can't imagine what my body will look like in May!

Anyway, Bryan and I are very excited about the news but rather nervous at the same time. We are not telling Raegan for at least 3 more weeks so please don't let it slip to her!