24 Weeks!

Ok so I haven't posted in a while so thought I'd drop by and give a quick update!

Everything is going great babies are looking good - they are growing FAST and so is their mommy... Madelyn (Baby A) is measuring in at a whopping 1lb 11oz and and Taylor (Baby B) is measuring in at 1lb 9oz so girls are basically about a 5% weight difference which doc thinks is great! Whew! I will see the doc in about 4 more weeks and from there we may start going every two weeks - that is still TBD :) I may try and muster up some prego pics of my tummy... but in the meantime here are some pics of the girls - from 12 - 20 weeks :) their 24 week ultrasounds were no bueno :(

The girls at 12 weeks B - Taylor on the left - A - Madelyn on the right - soo tiny!!

16 weeks - it's confirmed - TWO GIRLS!!!!!!

16 weeks - my beautiful little skeleton babies!

16 weeks - Baby B - Taylor - she's much more photogenic - Madelyn is kind of camera shy :(

 The girls at 20 weeks - growing growing growing!!

20 weeks - Baby B - Taylor in 4D -she LOVEs the camera :) Daddy is in troouble!!!!

I wish we could of gotten some good 24 week pics  - but hopefully at 28 weeks we can get some really good 4D ones!! Ultrasound tech said that is the best time to get 4Ds of twins - so we will see!! The rest of the troop is doing great!! Brad started his new job downtown at Chase Tower and is loving it!! Aidan is in the middle of potty training - ughh - gotta love boys... and I am getting bigger by the day - gained 20lbs already :( doc wants me to gain at least 40 so i am a little half way there... don't think it's going to be too hard for me though :)

That's about it - More to come in 4 weeks!!

And the Trimble Twins Names are...

So after much deliberation and going back and forth we finally have decided on names for our baby girls...

Baby A: Madelyn Elizabeth

Baby B: Taylor Jacquelyn

First names are just names we like and the middle names are after both Brad and I's maternal grandmothers. We incorporated the "Lyn" in both the girls names as Lynn is both mine and my mom's middle name and Brad's Mom's first name!!  Lots of thought went into this and we are SO GLAD TO BE DONE!! On to the next challenge...the nursery!!!

As for Brad and I we are doing wonderful!! Brad recently accepted an offer with Hines (a Real Estate Firm) and will be an Assistant Property Manager at Chase Tower downtown! We are beyond thrilled and I am so so so so so PROUD of him!! His first day is July 5th so wish him luck!!!  It's been an amazing and STRESSFUL past month for us & this promotion for Brad has been a complete blessing from God - guess he knew all along we were going to be OK :) So this does mean we will be staying put for now - no moving to Pearland and Brad will be leaving Lowes - his last day with them is June 30th, it will be bittersweet but we know bigger and better things are on the horizon for us we couldn't be more excited!!!

We have our next doctors appointment next Wednesday, July 29th.  It will be our 20 week appt so another ultrasound so we can see our beautiful baby girls!!! We have come to realize that every doctors appt we get an ultrasound so that is soo totally cool!! How did I get by not seeing Aidan in womb every month?! Anyway, more to come on that and their progress next week!!

And the Trimble Twins are....

GIRLS!!!!  Officially confirmed at our 16 week doctors appt this past Wednesday, June 1st. We are shocked, excited, SCARED (that would be Bradley) and still overwhelmed!!! But needless to say we are all adjusting quite nicely and we are slllloowly getting Aidan on board with the fact that he is going to have two sisters, not brothers - that is still a work in progress! Since they are the same gender well will have to wait until they are born to do the blood tests on them to see if in fact they are identical or not.  I just assumed with my rookie status into twindom that if they were in separate sacks that they would be fraternal but oh no, that is not the case - there are many crazy scenarios with identical twins so we will just have to wait to see what their blood types are.  If they have the same blood type then we will have to do a DNA test.

As I mentioned before both babies are in their owns sacks, each are measuring at exactly 6oz which is wonderful news.  I am eating like a cow and starting to look like one too :( but I just keep telling myself it is all for these beautiful baby girls.  I want them to be big healthy babies when they are born and lucky for them their momma does enjoy eating so it is a win win situation for all three of us! The girls are doing great wiggling all around - Baby A seems to be kind of the fiesty one - she likes to kick here poor twin sister in the head - yes we were witness to this at the ultrasound!! Poor Baby B... we hope this doesn't continue outside the womb!!!  All jokes aside the good news is all of their first trimester screening came back flawless.  They both tested negative for Downs Syndrome and all those other scary chromosomal diseases WHEW!!! So we just continue to monitor their growth and prey for the best!! Our next appoint is July 6th.

As for the rest of the troop we are doing great! We are actively pursuing getting Aidan potty trained now.  We gotta get him out of diapers before these baby girls come!! He is doing great though - we are up to about 2 to 3 times on the potty a day now - we seem to think the naked approach works the best and he's been great about using his little blue potty when we strip him down so we'll see... we have a good 4 months left - which leaves us a good chunk of time too so that helps!! As for Brad, he  received a promotion to work at the Lake Jackson Lowe's location and while this is a wonderful opportunity for him it would require us to move down south - not Lake Jackson but South Houston - probably the Pearland area, which lucky for us we already have great friends down there :)  He is also interviewing with another company, and if he gets this position we could stay put in Cypress, so either way we are very lucky to have two great job oportunities lined up for him - esp in this crappy economy!! Brad and I both knew after the "twin news" that we would have to make some sacrifices in order for us to continue to support our beautiful growing family!! So we will keep you posted as we know more!

I am still trying to figure out how to post pictures/videos on this blogger thing... I am slowly learning so bear with me!!! But here are some pics of Aidan,my precious baby boy, playing in his pool and some other funny ones for blackmail when he's older!!

13 Weeks everything is smooth sailing...

So we've reached the 13 week threshold!!! We are officially in the 2nd tri-mester - whew!!!! Some people say the 2nd trimester doesn't till 14 weeks so I don't know I always thought it was 13 weeks - whatever!! We had another ultrasound and doc visit last week (12 weeks) & babies look great wiggling all around and kicking.  It's still too early to tell  but it looks as though we could possibly have two baby GIRLS on the way!!! We won't know for sure until our 16 week appt - scheduled for June 1st - but that is what it seems to be so here we go!! More surprises to come :) Good news is we got all of our 1st trimester screening results back today and thank GOD all is ok with both babies!!!!! YAY!!!!! I have been worried sick - not sure why guess this whole "twins" thing has completely rocked my core so I am nervous about everything now!!!!!  I am getting more and more excited just scared of the unknown and still wondering how the hell Brad and I are going to pull off taking care of a toddler and 2 newborns!! But I trust that God knows that we can handle this..somehow... someway... you will see that I will be mentioning God a lot in these blogs... I have recently become a very strong believer (I know some of you are reading this are shocked but it's true!) only He has a funny enough sense of humor to give Brad and I twins, let alone twin baby girls if it so happens to be!!! More to come as we progress along.

P.S. Hell has frozen over - we bought a mini van two weeks ago... guess there's no backing out now!!!

Here We GO!

OK so I've never "blogged" before (but always wanted to) and now have good reason! For those of you who know us currently we are a family of 3, Brad, me (Shelby) and our precious 2 1/2 year old son Aidan. At the beginning of this year Brad and I were excited to announce that yes we were pregnant again. We had a doctors appt just to confirm everything on March 31sth and then on April 14th we had our very first ultrasound!! This is were it gets good...at the ultrasound we discovered we're expecting TWINS!! Yes that is correct and our reaction was quite comical.  Brad fell down and started laughing, I started hyperventilating- so needless to say this was VERY unexpected!!! Our doctor is pretty sure that these are fraternal twins although no confirmation's been made at this time. Having Fraternal twins (without any medical intervention) have odds of about 1 out of 90 (basically 1 % chance) so maybe we should go to Vegas before these little guys arrive!?  All kidding aside, after the sudden shock wore off we were able to listen to their heartbeats both are very strong and healthy - they look great, squiggling all around - happy little 9 1/2 week old fetuses! Here are some pics of our precious cargo!

Brad's overjoyed - i don't think I've ever seen him so excited or proud :) He's already looking at minivans online! To be completely honest, it's been an emotional couple days for me (probably from the double dip of hormones coursing through my body :) but I am slowly accepting this exciting news. :) I have to keep reminding myself that this is a true blessing from God, He would never give us something we couldn't handle.  Brad and I know there will be a lot of changes and scarifies that will need to be made but thank god we have some time to cross those bridges as they come.  SO for now we have put all worrying aside and at this point, as with all pregnancies, we just want HEALTHY BABIES!!!! We have our next appt/ultrasound on on May 4th :)

Thanks to all of you that have given us such positive support, god knows we are going to need it :) We will keep you all posted and give you updates as they progress.