Week 24

Dear Girls,

What an eventful couple of weeks! I am so blessed to be able to feel you move! This past week we bought a family van. Mama has always wanted a van so I was pumped!

I just got back from your ultrasound. I found out that you are not identical and Mama is excited! I was a bit leary of having identical twins. Your 3D ultrasounds showed us your faces. My heart melted! Zoe, you were a little gymnast with you foot by your face and you reminded me of Kolbe. Molly, you were calm as ever and you remind me of Rocky!

Zoe, We asked Uncle Aaron and Aunt Paulette to be your godparents. Molly, we asked Uncle Bri Bri and Auntie Mar Mar to be yours. I am so thankful that I can rely on them to teach you the ways of our passion, God!

I pray for you daily (and so do your brothers during night prayer). I cannot wait to meet you! Be happy and healthy!

Love,
Mommy

Week 21

Wow! Keeping up with a blog is the last thing I have time for! My graduate school class is a bit demanding and I am POOPED! Here goes...

Dear Babies.... I mean, Dear GIRLS!

Yes, that is right! I said, girls! I am so excited to be able to share my world with some twincesses! Daddy and I found out last Wednesday. At Kolbe's 1st birthday party, we shared the news wiht friends and family. Mama made cupcakes with the letters A and B. Each guest received one. All the A's took a bite and inside was PINK frosting. Then, all the B's took a bite and inside was PINK frosting, again! Auntie Kay Kay and Grammy brought you over some CUTE outfits and I was so excited!

Mama has been exhausted and sick the past couple weeks. The thing that keeps me working so hard in 4th grade and grad school is... YOU! And your brothers, of course. I think I am so tired because you both are growing like weeds! You are both about 11 ounces each and about 10 inches long! Your kicks make me smile. Daddy started to feel them this week, too.

I pray for your safety, happiness, and sanctity everyday and your brothers do, too. Rocky says his prayers every night and prays especially for his "Sistuhs"! I love you both....

Mama

Week 18

Dear Babies,

No picture this week! A little busy with the first full week of school. Mommy and Daddy are so excited for you to get here and a bit apprehensive. You both are about the size of a bell pepper. Your little fingerprints are starting to develop! Oh, I cannot wait to cuddle you both at the same time! Not many people get this opportunity and I am so thankful. The doctor said that we are going to find out your genders in TWO weeks! Yay!

Daddy picked up some Chinese food (wonton soup and crab rangoon...mmm) which I have been thinking a lot about. Mommy has been in a bit of pain recently. I think you should consider being a bit nicer on her... just a thought!

17 Weeks

Dear Babies,

This week brings some pretty exciting things in our family's lives. I had my first day of school today! Mommy loves teaching so much! I am blessed to have found my vocation so early on in life and even more blessed to work at a wonderful school with wonderful friends!

This week also marks your brothers' patron saints' feast days! St. Roch's is August 16th and St. Maximilian Kolbe's is August 14th. Such a big week for us all!

You have been moving around like crazy in there and I am so excited to feel you even more in the coming weeks. You will double your size in the next two weeks and I don't know where you will go!

Daddy is a trooper, running Daddy Daycare and working his job. You are lucky to have such a great example of hard work and sacrifice that you have in your Daddy. You are also lucky to have such wonderful brothers; they are the ones who are making all those car noises all the time.

I love you both with my whole heart. My prayer for you this week is that you find out early on what God wants for you and are always willing to follow HIS will and not your own.

Week 16

Dear Babies,

You are the siz of avacados this week! I love comparing you to fruit because you are so darn sweet! You both have started growing toenails, as well.

Mommy is still always sick and tired. I am trying to keep up a good spirit. Daddy's corny humor and jokes make me smile enough to set me back on track if I get too pitiful.

You guys went on vacation this week to Michigan for Har Har's surprise 60th birthday party. He loves you both so much. He now has 22 grandkids and counting! You are his legacy and he will always protect and take care of you. You also got a new cousin, Keegan. He has been a part of our family for a while but Auntie Kay Kay and Uncle Shawn made it official by adopting him. I hope you learn from their selflessness and unconditional love.

We purchased your car seats and cribs this week. Mommy is such an over organized control freak that we should be ready for you guys next week! lol.

On a personal note, I am so happy with God's plan for our little family... well, not little anymore... Who knew that we would grow at such a rapid rate! I think it is so funny when people ask about Daddy and my having so many kids. But I want you to know the real reason... the love that Daddy and Mommy share wasn't small enough to fit in a small family. We needed to share our love four fold.

Week 15

Dear Babies,

Mommy went to the doctor and they disappointed me by telling me that I had to wait until September for my ultrasound to find out your genders... I am dying! Mama is so excited to find out if your brothers will have more wrestling partners or if is I will have some pretty pink princesses! Ahhh!

This week, you both are the size of an apple! The doctor said that my tummy is measuring 16-18 weeks because you both are SO BIG! Lenny's pulse rate was 145 bpm and Ralph's was 144 bpm. This week, you are beginning to see light. I am told that if Mama shines a light on my belly, you will swim away!

I am praying for your health and sanctity, everyday. Daddy and Mommy are also in the process of looking for a van (we are going to be a six pack as of December). We all love you!

Week 14

Wow, the twins are making me crazy. So much sickness, exhaustion. I realize that I am cooking for two but... WHOA, Nelly! This is insane. I have started feeling Ralph and Lenny (what Matthew affectionately calls them because of them being on the right and left sides :)) move around.

I feel very blessed to have been able to have my nieces and nephews over to my house last night. We made a tarp slip and slide and made sure to use dish soap to increase speed! We had such a great time. I cooked chicken, mac n cheese, and green beans. Cooking for seven kids wasn't all that bad so I am sure that cooking for four will be just fine and dandy... until one of them decides they do not like what I made.

Matthew is, once again, setting the bar extremely high with husbanding... lol. He is trying so hard to deal with my double the hormones. I appreciate him so much. I am starting to get a bit apprehensive about our schedule with the twins. We are already single parents during the week, so I think we will need to really try hard to get in some good 15 minute dates so I don't go crazy. If I wasn't this obsessed with him, I wouldn't care so much! haha.

Anyways, back to the twins. My tummy growing has tapered off. I think I am losing some poundage (because of healthier and smaller meals) in other areas while the babies gain. Ahhhh! I feel so happy to have the twins and be able to burture two children inside of me already! I hate pregnancy so much that this "mother of four under three" should be a cake walk... YEAH RIGHT!