August 13, 2008

Our doctor's appointment went really well today. Baby A weighed 2.13 pounds and Baby B weighed 2.14 pounds. The doctors are amazed that they are relatively the same size. Baby B was the "stuck baby" who was much smaller just 12 weeks ago. I am still not having any contractions, but I am sore all over all the time. The doctors are still optimistic that I can make it to the last week of September which will be 36 weeks. However, no matter how optimistic anyone is everything is still one day at a time. I have been told that I need to lay down more, especially on my left side to try to get the babies bigger. I am spending the rest of the week on my left side, so that I can try to go to the Greek festival this weekend.

I have been having so much movement in my belly that you can them kicking each other from the outside. They are both almost head down but more transverse. We were able to get a picture of Baby A yesterday but Baby B would only show us an ear. They were so cute though in the ultrasound snuggling, head to head. At least as much as they can snuggle with a membrane between them.

Today was our 3rd anniversary. It is hard to believe that we have been married for 3 years. It feels like it's been longer, I guess since we have already been through so much together.

We also got some really tragic news today. It was a strange anniversary but the most important thing was that Ty and I and Ryder were together.

My roommate from boarding school was killed in Afghanistan yesterday morning. She was there providing aid to the Afghan people, when her caravan was ambushed by the Taliban. She was 31 years old and will be missed tremendously.
It is tough to deal with something stressful like death when you are pregnant. Already being emotional, it feels a amplified. One of my Grandmother's died while I was pregnant with Ryder and it doesn't matter who it is or if you are prepared for it, you get shocked by it. In this case, Nicole was killed in such a senseless terrible way. The Taliban said that these women aids were spies. They obviously didn't know Nicole. She was no spy. She wasn't sneaky, she did what she believed in. She didn't waste time with things that were frivolous. She was doing something good over there for people that needed it.