Playhouse

In December we got bunkbeds for Ethan and Lizzie. We moved Lizzie over to Ethan's room and they will share for awhile and we will put the babies together in Lizzie's old room. In 2 or 3 years we will change the arrangement when and if Ethan is ready to have a room in the basement. Anyways, Jim made a huge fort out of the boxes from the bunkbeds. The kids think it is just the coolest thing. They decorated it with markers and crayons. It even has doors and windows too. Just to explain Lizzie's attire, the kids have taken to wearing Jim's t-shirts to bed instead of their pajamas. They even pick his t-shirts over princess and Lightning McQueen pajamas.

Bedrest and pregnancy update

I am being optimistic and will be happy to announce that as of Wednesday January 9th I have made it to 24 weeks along in our pregnancy. It is a good milestone because it is the age of viability. When you are counting every day it's a big deal :) This means the babies have a 50% chance of survival, they would be hospitalized for a very long time and chances of adverse health conditions are very high. But at least they have a chance of surviving.

Our next target goal will be 28 weeks where they have a 90% chance of surviving but would still have to be in NICU for quite awhile.

Next one will be 32 week and then after that hey why not make it to full term for twins which is 36 weeks :) Actually mine and the doctors goal is just to get me to 32 weeks (March- which is only 8 weeks away!!) and anything after that will just be bonus.

My body has actually felt much better since I have been on bedrest which is good.

I don't think I can count how many time people ask me what I do all day and if I am bored. I have already been on bedrest 3 weeks (since Dec. 13th) and it hasn't been too bad. Most of you probably remember I have done this before with Lizzie. I read a lot, catch up on our photo album , do some church indexing, etc. They kids are usually with me from about 3 oclock on (with a family member here of course) every day which is so nice. They are great company and make the time go by fast. Jim has been an incredibly patient, understanding and helpful husband despite all the roles he is try to do right now. We have also been very blessed with a lot of help from family and friends making it so much easier to get through this.

Christmas

Here is our update for Christmas..... We actually had a really nice Christmas. I stationed myself on the couch for most of the day so I could still be on bedrest but actually be there for Christmas morning.

The kids were very cute Christmas morning and thought it was so cool that Santa ate their cookies and the reindeer ate the carrots they left out. I think Lizzie was most excited about the Princess Scooter she got and her Pinkie Pie My Little Pony.

Ethan was really excited to get the Mouse Trap game that he asked Santa for and has already played it more times than should be counted :)