And the twins are..........

We're trading in our dolls, bows, make-up and pearls

for Legos, cars and superheroes!!!

That's right....two Slagle boys are on the way!!

We are incredibly shocked!! I cannot even imagine waiting 4 more months to find out this news because I thought FOR SURE it was two girls (or at least a boy and a girl). I even bought some girl outfits last weekend, but I guess my mother intuition was WAY off!

We had a very detailed ultrasound (took about 20 minutes) on Wednesday because the doctors weren't sure if the twins were each in their own sac or if they were sharing one. There are more complications when twins share a sac or placenta so they wanted to make sure that our twins were in fact diamniotic dichorionic twins. Di-Di twins each have seperate blood supplies from the mother and there is no risk of the babies sharing blood between them and therefore fewer complications.

During the ultrasound the tech found the first baby and said "It's a boy!" (it was obviously a boy!) and I thought...oh...the second one HAS to be a girl. Nope...another boy!! I was shocked, but very excited at the same time! Tears were in my eyes because it was so amazing to see these two tiny babies (weighing only 6 oz.) moving and waving...incredible! I am just happy that we have two healthy baby BOYS! Of course Andrew said "Now I don't have to worry about paying for two weddings" Haha...he would say that!! And he is excited because he can still call them Duncan A and Duncan 1!

I haven't even THOUGHT about boy names! Andrew and I even agreed on one girl name...but I guess we will have to wait to use it now :) I really like family names and older names...but boy names seem really difficult to "bring back in style". Older girl names are cute...like Claire, Ella, and Grace, but some boy names just shouldn't come back....like Lloyd (my grandpa), Lyle (Andrew's dad...sorry Lyle) and Russell (my grandpa). Now we have to come up with TWO boy names!! WOW! I guess you will have to wait and see what we come up with :)

Gender poll--what will our twins be??

It is almost that time....time for us to find out what we are having (besides two babies of course!) HOPEFULLY we can find out at our doctor appointment on Thursday. If not, it will be another four weeks! BOO!

What do you think?

Two girls??

Two boys?
Or one of each?
You can cast your vote on the right side of the blog page. Also, feel free to leave us a comment too....tell us what you picked, maybe some name suggestions, advice, etc. We haven't discussed names at all yet, but right now Andrew is calling them Duncan A and Duncan 1 (he doesn't like calling them A and B haha) He is REALLY pushing for one (or both) to be named Duncan. HELP!

We will make the big announcement as soon as we find out!

Twins: 15 weeks pregnant

How far along: 15 weeks

Size of the babies: 4 inches long…the size of an apple! TWO apples inside me…hard to believe!

Total weight gain/loss: Starting weight was 128 pounds…now I weigh about 138. I gained 10 pounds pretty quickly and haven’t gained much weight over the past three weeks although my stomach is definitely bigger and I am definitely showing!

Cravings: Not really any cravings yet.

Morning sickness: Not so much anymore. I used to be nauseous all day long, but the past few weeks have been really good!

Sleep: Uncomfortable already! I am a tummy sleeper so it has been a rough adjustment. I HATE sleeping on my side and I wake up about 4-5 times/night. Oh yeah...and I usually have to go pee twice a night already.

Other pregnancy symptoms: Sore back, some cramping and headaches.

Baby Movement: Not yet

Favorite maternity clothes: Sweatpants. I had to buy new sweatpants because my old ones are too tight already...didn't know you could outgrow sweatpants :)

Weird dreams: I dreamed the other night that it was triplets instead of twins. Yikes!

Good advice received: Splurge on a comfortable chair for the nursery because you will spend a lot of time in it.

How is pregnancy different than expected? I thought I wouldn't have morning sickness or that I could easily "deal with it".....WRONG! It has been worse than I expected.

Highlight this week: I bought a Doppler (a little handheld device with headphones) from someone for $10 last week…I didn’t know if it would actually work BUT we found BOTH the babies heartbeats this week! It is amazing to hear two different heartbeats and now we can tell exactly where they are in my belly. Pretty amazing!

Other news: We bought our nursery furniture over Labor Day weekend because JCPenneys was having a great sale and I also had a 15% off coupon! The furniture took less than a week to arrive (WOW...that was fast!) so we had to quickly clear out the "nursery" and make room for two cribs, a tall dresser, a long dresser/changing table and a chair. Thanks to my parents for helping us clear out the room and move everything to the basement! Andrew assembled all the furniture and it looks great! I will take some pictures once we get crib mattresses and crib sheets. I am not buying baby bedding because it is sooo expensive (especially x2 babies) and they can't really use half the stuff that comes in those crib sets (the quilt and bumper) so I have opted to make my own bedding. I have one quilt done....one more to go! Good thing I started early....hopefully I will get it all done before the babies arrive! Wish me luck!