Starting to work more on aquiring baby stuffs...

We are slowly starting to accumulate and order stuff for the nursery. Over the weekened I ordered 2 cribs and the mattresses. I'm kind of reluctant to spend too much mostly because I want to hit up the TVMOTC sale at the Barn in October, I'm not going to turn down a bargain. I am also going to be scouring craigs list closer to the time for more items I think.

I might struggle at work this week tho, it's only Tuesday and I feel drained already! Normally by the time the work week starts I'm fairly set till about Wed or Thursday then the tossing and turning at night catches up, this week it's early!

Jagr is working a lot at the moment. Due to some people on vacation, retiring early, and wife's having surgery they are down a lot of their Aces leaving them with few to cover the shifts. It's nice in that it's all money for us but sheesh thinking about the hours he's doing makes me feel tired! I'm almost hopeful at the rate we are going by the time I will have to stop working we will be able to get all the debt paid off and still have a bit left over. That would really help just reduce our monthly payments by over $1,000 which will make a difference. Ok I know I won't be having as much of an income but not having to spend out so much on that, less on gas as well will probably make a world of difference. It's still not going to be easy but life likes to throw out curve balls.

Our first real piece of baby equipment...

Weird is what excites me sometimes these days. We picked up our first real piece of baby equipment yesterday found through Craigslist...a double snap and go stroller! Yay, in really great condition from a family with twins of their own a bargain at $40 brand new they cost $90 so we made a bit of a saving there. I think this is going to be a must during the first few months. Course now we need the car seats to go with it but it's a start...no really it is.

We have picked out a lot of the nursery furniture as well, we are going for cherry wood cribs etc, mostly because our room is white and well yes who wants white on white in a nursery? We will probably order those over the weekend. I need to go out and test chairs on the weekend tho for nursing I think. I don't want anything too small as I'm going to need to be able to handle both babies at once so it needs to be roomie enough for three. Only downer I had was the dresser/changing table is going to cost us more than the cribs! Every review I've seen on the cheaper ones is that they lack durability and they are awful to construct, so we are going to bite the bullet and get a better one with the functionaility we want for now and for the future as we want it to be a dresser as they get older I don't want one that's going to look beaten up before the kids even arrive! The complaints often are that they get damaged just putting them together. I know the furniture is going to get beaten up that's a fact of life with kids...but if we are doing the damage and we are careful imagine what they will look like once the kids get a hold of it and start chewing on the corners?

I do need to figure out the diaper business tho and what we will need in terms of disposal. If we go for a diaper service I will call and get pricings I think, and compare that to the cost of disposables, I will have to find out how I need to handle them for pick up. Bah way to much to think about!

Oh and I'm doing one of the prenatal classes on the weekend lets see if I can make it through without passing out...as most of these are on the weekend I'm wondering just how many I'm going to be going to solo. Ah well we shall try to make sure Jagr makes the really important ones. I'm more concerned he gets to go to the infant care than the one where we learn all about the birthing proceedure. Given that I suspect he's either just going to be trying to ignore most of what is going on during that or passed out it's probably not so useful for him anyway :)

Oh and of course the Dr is now oh and do you have a pediatrican...argh! Too much information I have only just gotten over the shock of being pregnant! Trying to digest all of this and keep a sane head work and go through the process of carrying these two I'm exhausted mentally and physically and I know it's only going to get worse!

A sad day...

We have been doing bits and pieces in order to clear out what was our office and start making it into a nursery for the impending bundles of joy, all the computer equipment that we use has been moved into the living room and set up in the dinning area now it's just a case of tidying up the place and finding homes for some of the stuff in there.

Last night Jagr made a start on things before I got home and moved some of his computer games into the entertainment cabinet in the living room, I will need to find the padlock and chain for the doors before these two start crawling :)

So in inspiration I started working on the bookshelves /sigh. It was brutal, I went through the books on the two shelves in our bedroom discarding things left right and center, anything I had read and was unlikely to read again went into the discard pile. Some of the old books from my childhood into a keep pile. I am keeping most of the reference books but a lot of the computer books need to go at this point. Ah I hate parting with books I really do but at the same time this had to be done we need the space. We are going to be getting plenty of clutter from the kids without adding our own to it. Painful and brutal was the culling...Anne Rice how I shall miss thee, but I'm sorry I don't think your stuff is suitable for children :)

A strange day

Ok today was strange. I had an apointment with the nuerologist this morning that went well. He checked to see if I had had any issues since becoming pregnant as sometimes that can exacerbate the systems of MS but so far so good so he won't need to see me again until I finish breast feeding. The medication I've been taking is more a preventative for long term than anything short term so it's not really necessary that I get back onto it as soon as possible.

The only bad part about today was that overnight my computer at work reset itself so I was unable to log in remotely to check email etc before running off to the Dr's which sucked! Meant by the time I got in I was backed up I hate that!

Ah well such is life I guess at times.

Also I guess small worlds collide turns out his wife uses the same OBGYN. Not a bad recommendation I guess.

Hot weather, pregnant = lack of sleep...

Just could not get enough sleep last night...couldn't get comfy kept tossing and turning and couldn't get the right temperature either. Too cold with the fan on too hot with it off. Had trouble breathing again and hip bothering me a little again. Do I really have another 4 mths to go?! This seems like it's now starting to drag. Oh well I'm just cranky coz I'm tired I think.

Having a hard time concentrating at work this morning and easily distracted, reality is all I want to do is stick my head on my desk and sleep.

Did buy my first baby clothes over the weekend and did some more window shopping at cribs, I haven't really decided on anything yet but hey a little bit here and there doesn't go amiss. I also got stuck into rearranging funiture and computer equipment before I get too big to go anything. The office now is mostly a shell that needs the junk in there sold / thrown out. We will probably want some gates and things to keep the kids out of the kitchen and dinning room areas once they start to crawl around.

Oh yeah and saw Wanted over the weekend with Angelina Jolie. I must admit to enjoying it although the seat could have been a bit more comfy...I fidgeted through most of the movie. I have a liking for Angelina's movies, I'm not sure why but I am drawn to her so I'm a bit biased and tend to like most of the stuff she does even if it's junk.

Blah!

Ok things did not get a whole lot better, boss was needing me to do some stuff like last week that he only told me about yesterday afternoon and he was under the gun, here I am trying to get out a little early so I can get the car into the shop and wondering if it's a good idea to still be driving...

I'm still waiting for my bday card from my husband...it's in the draw at work. I cooked dinner, got a rental car and was just generally stressed, unhappy and bitchy last night. Sorry dear. Bad day at work compounded with all the other crud going on does not make for a happy pregnant wife.

I am not sure if today is going to be much better for that matter either...didn't sleep too well last night kept running over the days events. Was woken up out of a nice finally deep sleep a bit earlier than I needed to be, but oh well...then em oh left for work in the rental forgot my ipod. That wouldn't have been so bad but it took forever to get into work thanks to a 6 car accident on the San Mateo bridge. All the damn idiots pulling over for emergency vehicles then pulling out right behind them only to have another emergency vehicle almost right behind that! Man some people need to pay attention to their mirrors! Then some asshole as cut me off as I was trying to get into the only open lane right at the accident.../mutters. Problem with accidents on the bridge at the high rise portion is it's commute traffic and you have no emergency corridors over that piece so you have to watch for the emergency crews and pull over...some people clearly need to read their handbooks also about tailgating emergency vehicles!

Suckage!

Well so far today has not really gone to plan. On my way to work yesterday I hit what looked like plating debris in the road, at first I didn't think I had done any damage...the tyres were fine, and I did a quick check when I got to work. However, it when I was driving home from work and to work again this morning I kept hearing what sounded like a window left open, and I double checked them all and I know they were closed...so I took another look when I got to work and saw some damage to the bumper and em the lower molding. Not sure how much damage it's done but I can hear a difference when I'm driving. /Sighs not the best way to start my birthday.

Rest of the day has been trying to get my name changed and putting out fires. Did stop by the bank only to find the guy ended up misspelling my last name so I had to call them back again...fortunately they didn't make me go back to the bank and the woman kindly changed it there for me.

Ah well, just one of those days perhaps things will perk up later when we do the cake thing.

Twin Girls

So we had the scan done last week, long tedious thing that it was, but we got to see the hearts, bladders, spines, hands, fingers, toes and the all important sex.

It seems we are expecting girls (so much for mother's instincts I thought they were a boy girl!).

So far everything is fine. I'm still not really gaining any weight (go figure). I look like I'm 6mths pregnant instead of 4 1/2 I don't even want to know what I'll be like when I get to 8 mths!

Only thing they are concerned about at the moment is that the twins don't grow any further apart in size, right now they are both good but they are right at the borderline of that so they will be keeping an eye on things that means another scan in 3 weeks (well 2 now) just to be safe.

Otherwise I'm doing fine, sleeping better this week than last so far (yay!). Eating I'm still trying to be good but not worrying too much about it. Although I do permit myself to enjoy a nice cup of tea now and then. I don't drink that much but the occasional cup I don't think will hurt too much.