32 weeks!

I was a little nervous going to this ultrasound/appointment. 32 weeks and 3 days is when the twins were born and my 28 week appointment was showing some small concerns....but to my surprise/relief everything was GREAT! I even lost a pound, how does that happen?! Girlie has finally flipped head down instead of breach which is great, but not great for pictures:( Her head was turned towards my spine so we couldn't get any face pictures this time around, no matter how hard we tried..we even had Grandma T there (which was so exciting and awesome!). She is in the 30th percentile for growth and weighed 4 lbs. 6 oz. I was still measuring a few weeks ahead (35 to be exact).

As I'm writing this I'm actually 33 weeks along but it was right at 32 where the misery of the 3rd trimester started! I'm still nowhere near as big or uncomfortable as I was with the twins believe it or not. For example I can still put my pants on standing up, I can sit and put my own socks on and I haven't had to convert to wearing flip flops 24/7! However I do have extremely bad back pain, I've never had a back pain in my life and now my lower back gets so bad I can hardly move, sit, lay, walk or stand! Luckily my sis in law Angela is a massage therapist and worked on me and that has helped a little, heat helps a little...but that's about it. It's a constant pain that I don't see going away until after this baby comes (hopefully:).

I get heartburn in the evening and especially when I go to lay down in bed. It's getting a bit more challenging to bend over and to hold both twins on my lap. Elizabeth likes to poke my belly button though which has not popped out yet! My feet and hands get swollen easily now which scares me, I'm a bit paranoid about pre eclampsia! The baby is still really active, especially in the evening hours and after I eat a really good meal, like in the picture below, we had just gotten home from our date night where we ate at The Keg (1st real date since before I got pregnant with the twins), and she was doing flips! I'm enjoying this time and enjoying the fact that everything is going normal and great, we are so excited to meet this little girl!

I have to tell a story about this date night. I have been looking forward to it for weeks, knowing my mom was going to be here to watch the kids. I was all ready to go and we were putting the kids down for bed. Elizabeth drank too much whole milk (we are in the middle of transitioning her) and she threw up all over me and the floor!! My date outfit was ruined, which was probably my mistake for putting it on in the first place while the kids were still awake so I had to change. I ended up finding something cuter in my closet and I finished getting all ready to go, I even put jewelery on...oh ya, I was going all out, haha (the standards have been lowered around here, for a while now actually:)!! I walk out and Mark takes one look at me and says..'hey look at you, you like put make up on or something.' Such a man. We had the BEST time though, the food was SO good!! Thanks mom for watching the kids for us!!

Don't go!!!!!!

Please don't go home to Canada today Grandma!!!!! WE MISS YOU ALREADY!!!! This morning right after we woke up and came out to the living room Elizabeth was doing her usual cuddling with me and then just looked up and did the 'where did she go?' thing with her hands! She was definitely wondering where Grandma went! And thanks to Grandpa Little Mark will randomly come up and start playing peek a boo behind his one hand and then laugh, it's so funny! Oh and for the record, Mark says that Elizabeth said Grandma last night during story time (and the Grandma peek a boo book)!!!

Mark did not want Grandma to go! I can't believe you didn't even try to stuff him in your suitcase, haha! He climbed up there all by himself, unfortunately for me this was just the beginning stages of climb and conquer by the twins! They, especially Mark, with Elizabeth following his lead, are trying to climb and stand on things more and more.

Here's example #1 on top of Grandma's suitcases:

And example #2 from this morning on top of my suitcase:

She was so proud of herself for doing this! That was until she started jumping on it and then fell off and hit her head on the sliding glass door:( She was ok but I put it away in the closet right after so that neither one of them could do more climbing and jumping!

Easter 2011: Sunday afternoon

We went over to the farm for Easter lunch and there was soooo much food! The twins loved playing with all the new toys and discovering things around a new big house. I happen to love my in laws, all the aunts, uncles, cousins (and there are a lot)! I love sitting and catching up with them, they are all so sweet and it was sweet of Mark to keep an eye on the kids while I got to sit and visit!

Before the feast:

At the start of the Easter egg hunt:

Way to go Elizabeth! I was a little surprised that they were interested at all in finding eggs, well it didn't last long because they were easily distracted by the swings, grass, trampoline, leaves, you name it and it gets there attention! I love this age!

Mark spotted them on the deck before hitting the grass:

Which is a good thing because once he did he was running free with Daddy and cousin Brian, and playing with grass!

They LOVED the trampoline!

Almost as much as Daddy loves it....

I just love that Little Mark's hair is standing straight up!

After dinner and the Easter egg hunt, it was time to pack up and head in to town to visit Matt and his family and my parents. We didn't get too many pictures, we got another awesome meal (thanks Karrie) and Little Mark and Grandpa T had some fun together!

Check out this video of my dad making him laugh. My dad was covering both eyes and saying peek a boo, so Mark would use one hand to cover one eye and kind of close the other one....he thought it was so much fun! He still does it, just this morning he did it during his diaper change!

Easter 2011: Sunday morning

The Easter bunny left little baskets for the twins this year! They woke up and headed straight for...the stairs, even though the baskets were right in front of them. Stairs will get them every time I guess!

Elizabeth first pulled out a chocolate egg and refused to let it go for the next 10 minutes:

Mark wanted to try on his bumblebee hat (he can make a zzzzzz sound):

Then he discovered Elizabeth's ladybug hat:

And had to try that one on as well, sorry for the blurriness, these two move fast!

Then he showed Daddy his carrot bubbles:

And Elizabeth discovered hers (they LOVE bubbles!):

And her bunny ears stayed on for about 1.7 seconds, but she did put them on herself:

The Easter bunny even remembered to bring us some goodies (way to go Mark!!!), I don't think I ate anything other than chocolate until at least noon!

Then it was time to hurry off to church. Elizabeth was very grumpy because she is teething some bottom molars right now:( She still loved her dress and as soon as we put it on her she picks it up like a little princess and goes walking off! Thank you Grandma T!!

We had to wait until after Church to take the rest of these...

And bribe them with bubbles to hold still! Whenever we play with bubbles they always look at each other and start laughing!

Here is our handsome Mark at 14.5 months:

And our beautiful Elizabeth at 14.5 months: