Comparisons

So I am feeling huge and uncomfortable and......whiny!  I know I'm carrying twins, but come on, why do I feel so much more uncomfortable than I did with Daci?!  This weekend Rick and I celebrated our anniversary (6 weeks late) with an overnight trip downtown.  We got to stay in the Hyatt Regency with Rick's hotel points he has earned from traveling.  It was such a treat!  We had an amazing room with an awesome view!  I was so excited when we got there.  We headed straight out to dinner at the Grand Lux. We wanted to go to a fun but affordable restaurant that was pretty close to our hotel.  We found the Grand Lux and it was only .4 miles from the hotel.  Totally do-able, right?  Wrong!  We walked there and I did pretty good, I mean I was crampy and tired but I seemed fine.  We had dinner and then started heading back.  We stopped in to Nordstrom to look around and I all of a sudden got extremely light headed, dizzy and nauseous.  I had this horrible pain starting in the front and radiating all the way to my back. I went in the bathroom and sprawled out on the floor, shaking really bad.  Then I started dry heaving.  It was awful!  Every time I stood up the room would start spinning!  After about 30-45 mins of this, I was stable enough to stand up and Rick got us a cab and we went back to the hotel.  I just kept thinking, I am only 22 weeks!  I feel like I did at 40 weeks with Daci!  Well, I have been looking at pictures from the first pregnancy and I think I have figured out why :)  Here is a comparison of the two pregnancies.

On the left is me at 14 weeks with Daci....I still have a flat tummy.  On the right is me at 15 weeks with the twins.  Ah!

 On the left is me at 21 weeks in Italy, on the right me at 19 weeks with the twins.

On the left is me at 35 weeks with Daci, on the right, me at 21 weeks with the twins!  Holy Macaroni! I look like I did when I was about to have Daci and I had already gained 50 lbs by then!  Man alive this could be a long 15 more weeks :)  The doctor said today I will gain another 1-2 lbs a week from here on out, which means I will probably gain 30 more lbs knowing me.  That is not very comforting considering I have already gained 27 lbs.  I just keep thinking, "Maybe it will come off fast this time since I will have NO time to eat once the twins are here!"


Anyway, enough with my pregnancy ranting :)  Here are some precious pictures of my peanuts. These were taken last Thursday at 22 weeks.  They are looking so good!

3D picture of our little boy.  He was folded in half at this visit. Can you see his legs tucked up to his face? :)

3D picture of our little girl. She has her cute little hand up to her eye.

Regular picture of baby boy.  See his leg in front of him? :)

Baby Girl

PS Sorry about the poor quality of the ultrasound pics.  Our scanner isnt working and I can't figure out the best way to take pics of the glossy paper.  If I turn the flash off, it is all blurry.  If I leave it on (like I did this time), some of them get whited out.  The 3d pic of the baby girl for instance, I took that at least 10 times and that was the best I could get.  If any of my camera savvy friends have any advice, I would greatly appreciate it :)


Here are some pics from our anniversary weekend.  I met Rick at his office and got to see it for the first time.  Kinda fun to see where he spends his days :)  This is just one of the Conference Rooms he was set up in that day.

The view from our hotel room

The beautiful buildings of Downtown

My cute hubby and I celebrating our fifth anniversary.  Oh how I love him :)