Baby update

Just a quick note to say the girls are home after a month long stay in the NICU. We’ll see the pediatrician on Monday and hopefully they’ll still be putting on weight. We’re in the process of adjusting to them and them to us and the house and everything. I’ll try to post with more details of the last month when I get time, and or some sleep so I don’t ramble on like an idiot.

Little Girls

Just a quick update to let everyone know that the twins were born 7-17-09. They are both doing well, and will remain in the NICU for a few weeks. They are breathing on thier own and have started getting milk through the ng tubes along with the TPN and Lipids. The Nurse Practitioner had said we could try to actually breast feed today! We’ll see how that goes!

Picture links!

Ok here are the links as promised. They’ll take you to a picasa web album otherwise it would take me years to upload and post all of these

House Pictures

Last ultrasound Pictures

Babies and Demolition

I’ll start out by saying there will eventually be pictures….or at least links to pictures. I’m sitting in what’s left of the house we bought, typing this out on my cell phone. It’s been pretty much torn down to the studs and is in the process of having new wiring run, and insalation put and dry wall put up. All of this being done by Don’s famliy who I’m pretty sure were Enegizer bunnies in past lives. They are amazing!!!! The pictures will really show what I mean once I get them uploaded. I tell you what though, seeing my hubby covered in drywall dust is kinda hot! I had a lot of reservations about this house but I think once all the work is done its gonna be amazing. Unfortunately for me I haven’t been able to do as much as I would like. Its hard to do much with all the dust and being the size of a Volkswagon.

Speaking of that, the babies are progressing well. I’m about 27-28 weeks. We had to see a perinatalogist a month or so ago and will follow up with him in a few weeks. The baby on my right side has a two vessel cord instesd of three, and the baby on my left has a kidney that is dialated and may be obstructed. Right now there isn’t anything we can do about either condition but watch then. At our last ultrasound in the beginning of June the girls were 1lb 14oz each and in the 60th percentile for growth. We have another appointment on Tuesday the 23 and that will be my glucose intolerance testing and I think another ultrasound so I’ll have more baby news then.

coming soon

I know its been a while, but I hope to have a full post up this weekend to update you guys on whats happening down here, its been crazy! The babies are growing, another doctor visit on Tuesday. We have a house which we and Don’s family are in the process of demo’ing. Lots of stuff.

No news is good news, right?

Which is pretty much why I haven’t updated this blog lately. That and I’ve been sick and or tired… I’m definetly not one of those people who just loves being pregnant.

So to update you on a few things, Don and I are still in the process of buying a house. The underwriting company is taking forever….apparently they are really backed up….yea. So we sit here and wait hoping we are able to close and move before our lease is up on our apartment. The last we heard they were thinking we may be able to close by the end of April. We were supposed to have closed the end of March so we’ll have to wait and see I guess. Now that it’s getting nice out I’m really wishing we had the nice big deck to go out and sit on which is on the back of the house, a little bit  more private than the little patio on the front of our apartment right on the street!

Knitting wise I’ll admit I haven’t been knitting for the babies. I started another lace shawl from the newest edition of Knitty.  After that I’m going to start the baby knitting. I’ve been looking at patterns sure, but I haven’t bought the yarn or cast on for anything yet. One reason is I didn’t want to start anything until I knew what we were having, which we found out on Tuesday.

Start feeling bad for Don now, we having two Girls! Yup poor pappa is gonna be in estrogen hell! I know he really wanted a boy so I do feel kinda bad for him, but I know they’ll both have him wrapped around those little fingers pretty quickly. He told the ultrasound tech “Boys are easier, you only have to worry about one little thing. With girls you have to worry about everyone elses little thing!”  I told him he better go buy his shot gun soon. I can already see him on the front door step, in a chair, with the gun on his lap waiting……

This part will be kind of picture heavy, each picture has a label on it with an arrow so I won’t really write anything with each picture. I’m going to do this as a kind of gallery this time since there are eight pictures. So you’ll have to click on each one to see it.  They start with Girl A which is the little bit bigger of the two and then Girl B.

Suprise!!!

Today Don and I had our first ob appointment and ultrasound. I have felt like crap for over a week so I was looking forward to finally seeing someone. Most of the appointment went as planned until we got to the ultrasound.

don’t know if you can tell in this picture but there are two…….TWO! I just looked at Don and he was just standing there smiling!! LoL. I looked at my doc and said ” Holy Sh*t!” and he and the assistant just laughed at me. They are due September 14! They look like little sea horses!!! I’m still kind of in shock and denial!

In other news…..I finished Mom’s mittens so hopefully I’ll get them in the mail tomorrow. I’ll have to inform her the deal is she has to take a picture wearing them once they get there!

As promised

I said a few days ago I would have pictures of the recently finished product and here they are.

I began knitting the Febuary Lady Sweater before Don and I got married. I finished the yoke and had two or three inches of the lace pattern done when I realized that I had done the shoulder increases wrong. I hooked it up to my ball winder, looked away and started unwinding the sweater. I started it again in October and finished it just after Christmas.

As I said in the last post, while I was in Minnesota visiting my mom she mentioned she wanted a hat, something to keep the snow out of her glasses. I hopped onto Ravelry and began browsing the hat patterns and found the Better Bucket Hat pattern.  I got yarn when I returned to North Carolina in colors to match her coat and knit this up in a matter of a couple days.

Next came Mom’s mittens. She wanted a pair of the convertable type mittens. I’ve never made mittens, or gloves, much less convertable mittens. After navigating a couple confusing area’s of the pattern I have one completed mitten and the next one is cast on. This is the Frankenmitts pattern, with out the color work. Mom just wanted plain black, which was fine with me!

In the mix has also been a bit of spinning, I’m still working on the blue hand dyed BFL that I have been making headway on it. That and I have some new fiber which I’ll get to in a moment. Here is the BFL fiber and the bobbin, which is the second bobbin.  I’m debating trying some Andean plying with this but we’ll see. I’ll have to do some You-tube research.

A gal on Plurk was looking for a skiens of Noro yarn with which to make a blanket. I happened to have to skeins of that particular yarn and we worked out a trade and she let me pick out a batt of fiber from her etsy site!!! A few days later I recieved the most beautiful fiber!!! It’s called Ice Princes and it’s wonderful. Along in the package with the wool was a little sachet of lavender which smells absolutley wonderful! Her etsy site is called Uniquely Yours Design and  can be found at http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5545256. I really suggest you take a look. I can’t wait to get my hands in this stuff, but being a monogomous spinner I have finish the BFL I have started first!!!

My Mom is doing better, there are some big road blocks at the moment, but I don’t want to go into to much detail because she reads this and I’m not sure how much she wants me telling the world! Her surgeon is planning on going back in soon than previously thought which would be good because it would remove the biggest road block but is a bit scary seeing as what happened with the last operation. So thank you all for all the thoughts and prayers, and please keep them coming she still needs them, and I must admit so do I.  This is the situation I was very afraid of when Don and I moved to North Carolina. It is the worst feeling knowing a family member needs you and you are basically powerless to do anything. I’ve been home a few times but it really doesn’t seem like enough. Unfortunatly my wallet demands I work so the option of just staying up there for a longer period of time just isn’t there. She’s by no means alone don’t get me wrong, it’s just daughter’s guilt maybe.

Finished objects, on the needles, and a new addition

Yes I have actually finished a few things, and yes I have started a few more. First off, the Febuary Lady Sweater is finished!!!!!I’ve worn it out in public and yes it fits. I’ll post a picture soon since i’m at work. 

My Mom had asked me if I could make her a hat and a pair of mittens just before I was about to come home after Christmas. So as soon as the sweater was finished I cast on for the Better Bucket hat pattern. Mom wanted a hat that could keep the snow out of her glasses. That took only a few days and I then cast on for the Frankenmitts, a pair of convertable mittens with individual finger holes. This is my first set of mitten/gloves. I’m on to the flap part of the mitten so the first one should be done soon and the second one should knit up pretty quick now that I kind of know what I’m doing.

Our second piece of news is that Don and I are having a baby! I debated posting the news on here, but since I’ve already posted it on Facebook, I figured what the heck. I’m not sure of the due date yet, my  first OB appointment and ultrasound are scheduled for the 28 of January, so I should know more after that.  So I’ll keep you all posted.

I’ll get project pictures posted soon, Promise!

long time yada yada yada

Ok so I’ve neglected the blog I admit it. Things around here have been on and of crazy. After my family headed back home things just kind of leveled out. We started getting adjusted to married life and then all the crazy started. So in a nut shell here is what has happened since my last blog post.  My husband was in a wreck and totalled his truck, my birthday, My mom ended in the hospital and had to go into surgery, Thanksgiving,  Mom continually got worse, had to be transfered to another hospital, go back into emergency surgery and was in the ICU, I flew back home to Minnesota to be there with Mom,  I flew back home after about a week so I could work a bit before christmas, then flew back to Minnesota to spend Christmas with my family while my husband had to stay behind because of work, mom was discharged from the hospital christmas eve day, flew home, and spent New Years at work.

So thats the events of the past couple of months short and sweet. I’ll go into detail as to a few of those later one, but thought I’d give you my form of an excuse for not updating the page. Knitting wise!? hahahaha Still working on the Febuary Lady Sweater, though it’s almost done. I keep tinking wtih it to get it to fit just right.