Cute Poem

I LOVE THIS POEM- IT MAKES ME CRY :)

Did you ever think, dear Mother

As the seeds of me you sowed

As you breathed new life inside of me

And slowly watched me grow

In all your dreams about me

When you planned me out so well

When you couldn't wait to have me there

Inside your heart to dwell

Did you ever think that maybeI was planning for you, too

And choosing for my very own

A mother just like you?

A mother who smelled sweet and who

had hands so creamy white

A tender, loving creature

Who would soothe me in the night?

Did you ever think in all those days

While you were coming due

That as you planned a life for me

I sought a life with you?

And now as I lay in your arms

I wonder if you knew

While you were busy making me

I was choosing you!

Happy Easter!!!

Happy Easter Everyone! I hope you all had a great holiday with lots of chocolate :) One of the strange craving I have been having lately has been for a chocolate bunny. Chocolate of any other variety was just not acceptable, it had to be in bunny form! (Weirdo...) Good thing this craving hit at the right time of year, I got 4. These babies are going to be on a sugar high! I also got the most adorable stuffed duck from Tony, he was really cute this year- Thanks Babe :)

So far, my favorite part of being pregnant is being able to eat anything I want ( with the exception of fish and a couple other things)! I have always been the type of person who analyzes every bit of food I put past my lips. Some would call me a work out junkie or a health freak. With my new "pregnant" label all those restrictions have flown out the window. The freedom to go all outand not feel guilty about having a cookie (or 7...) is liberating, I'm a new woman!

The Name Game

I think one of the most fun parts of having children is deciding what you will name them. As a typical girl, I have been thinking of names since I was named myself. We girls never take into consideration that our partner may not like your name plan or, god forbid, have some input of his own. We got through this pretty easily and have settled on 2 sets of names, one for boys and one for girls. If boys, the names are Brayden and Bradlee. For girls we have decided on Kaydence and Kenadi! As you can tell, we don't really go for traditional John and Mary type names.

Middle names have been more of a struggle though. My friend Julie and I went to Starbucks last night (don't worry no coffee for me!) and came up with a few possiblilities:
1) Kaydence Grace
2)Kenadi Reed (it is my mom's maiden name AND it sounds good)
3)Brayden Paul
4)Bradlee James (my dad's name, major brownie points would be scored)

What do you think? Any suggestions?

More Two Love

This being my first blog, already 3 months along, I suppose I should share a little bit on how I came to discover that I would be double-y blessed as a mommy of twins! Being 22 and a full time college student, pregnancy was not in the game plan just yet for me. However, sometimes life throws you a curve (or in my case, 2). Anywho, This past Christmas break my boyfriend Tony got some sort of eerie sixth sense that I was pregnant, or it could have been the fact that I was 2 weeks late, nauseas ever morning, or that my boobs had grown a cup size in about 3 weeks. I still hold that it was a sixth sense... He asked me time and time again to take a test, I assured him however that everything was FINE, this was all COMPLETELY normal...(denial anyone?). I finally caved in and was met with an undeniable "pregnant" reading on my digital home test, pretty hard to deny if you ask me.

Next on the agenda was the task of telling our families...always a fun time for a 22 year old couple let me tell you! My mom and his family took the news great (great is relative given the response we had expected). My dad on the other hand had a little more to say...we need not go down that road as he has seen the light and is coming around wonderfully. After that, we moved on to sharing the good news with friends, needless to say this didn't take long to spread through the grape vine. Thanks to the wonderful networking powers of facebook, and my oblivious little brother's "I'm an uncle" status posting, I hardly had to make one phone call.

So with ourselves prepared, and I do say excited, and family and friends in the know, we ventured to our first pre-natal appointment and ultrasound! Now this was no normal ultrasound like you see in the movies, when you are still in the wee weeks of pregnancy, the ultrasound tool more resembles a giant tampon and is adminstered accordingly (ill spare the details). This was surpries number one of the day...two and three were jsut around the corner. About 3 minutes into the u/s , the first words out of the tech's mouth..."YOU HAVE TWIN BABIES!" After many long long minutes of shock, worry, double, triple and quadruple checking that she was sure..the double excitement set in! The rest is history :)

Walking out of the appointment I received a text from my mom asking, "did you get the pictures?" to which i wittily responded "Yes of both of them". After about 15 minutes of thinking this was some kind of sick joke, she became the proudest, most excited grandmother-of-twins-two-be out there ( yes I would plasce bets on that).