Meet the monkeys!

I gots pictures!  I'll only post one because it's the best one and why force a bunch of mediocre blobbies in your faces.

Today I'm 8w6d and everything is looking good.  I graduate from the fertility clinic and move on to the high risk ob with an appointment one week from today.

While we can't say for sure that the bleeding is over, she couldn't find any clots that we could predict bleeding.  Does that make sense?  It still might happen, but we didn't see anything today showing that it will happen.  Ok, that sentence makes more sense.

Both babies are measuring just about right, the heart rates are between 155-160bpm which is perfect.  And the doctor saw them each wiggle (I didn't notice it).  While there are obviously no guarantees, things are looking as good as they can look at the moment.

On the symptom front, damn I'm a lucky bitch.  Pretty much done feeling queasy.  I sometimes feel a little bit of stretching in the abdomen which I love because it means they're growing, and I'm having some lower back ache from time to time, and I'm waking up constantly during the night.  But for the most part, yeah, I'm really lucky.

Ok, I partially wanted to get all this out so that people who don't want ultrasound pictures in their faces might have some text before the pictures show up on screen and I think that's enough.  So here we go!

Baby B is on the left and Baby A is on the right, and both are pretty much hanging upside down.  So we're back to calling them monkeys.

Nursery Decorating

Before

We've accomplished paint in the nursery!  I know it's a little early, but the carpet guy is coming on Dec 13 so it made sense to get the painting done sooner rather than later.

I was going to do what I did in the rest of the house, paint each paneling line separately with both primer and the paint color and then paint the wall in general.  If you don't do something with those damn grooves, they don't get any color and you end up with dark striped lines around your room.

Same basic angle after

But this time I decided to try filling in the lines.  I figured that would mean just dealing with each line once rather than dealing with them for each layer or paint.  I think the final result actually came out a whole lot better.  The walls aren't perfectly flat, but the vertical lines are much less obvious than the rest of the house.  And once that spackling was done, the painting turned out to be much faster than expected.

I also couldn't resist and started putting up the monkey decals we bought.  We're going to need at least one more package of them but we've got plenty of time for that.  Besides, we don't have any furniture yet so we don't really know what parts of the wall will need monkeys and what parts will be hidden.

And K is finally allowing me to add pics of us so hopefully this blog will have a little more in the way of personalities.