The party is inside

There's a party inside me. Beyond feet, and toes, hands, fists, and elbows squishing and moving all around, there is a quiet excitement that is beginning to build by the day. I'm realizing as the movements get much stronger and forceful, that these moments are soon to be gone, and the twins will no longer be wrestling inside, they will be in my arms.

What will these little ones look like? What will their personalities be? I sometimes find myself with a nervous tingle inside, realizing that in just a few short weeks, I will be embarking on a whole new world. The world of multiples. Not only multiples, but identical ones.

I got into a conversation the other day with my neighbor who is an identical twin. She told me of a time when she had her blood drawn, and her sister was at school. The sister was squeemish around blood, so they didn't tell her where her twin was going. When she had her blood drawn, her parents received a call saying the sister had fainted in class, at the EXACT time her twin was having her blood drawn.

A girl from my church married an identical twin. The other day at a the soft ball field, I asked her if her husband and his twin truly did have a secret language. She affirmed all I've been reading. Not only do they have their own language, they also both went into the army, and still to this day can't go one day without talking...

So while I am a bit concerned about how our already large family will handle the addition of not one but two more, I can't help but with the anxiousness, also feel honored to watch something so unique and so uncommon take place right under our own roof...one person who was just one person for 8 days, split into two people...

Who started first? I will always wonder that. And what is he going to do that the Lord saw that his destiny would be so great, he needed not just a mother, a father, a sister or even a brother, but an identical brother, bonded together by the same DNA. That fact alone truly is worth the sleepless nights, severe morning sickness, constant uncomfortableness, heartburn and headaches I've endured these last 8 months.

I love you Judah and Zion, and I can't wait to meet you.

Watching you grow will be an art. An art that I am master of, and I will forever study the wonder that is YOU. (both)

PUPPIES

We have beautiful 2 week old puppies for sale! Of course from our champion bloodline Golden, Bridges of Gold. We bred her with a AKC standard black poodle. The results were astounding, absolutely beautiful puppies!

We are starting the price off at $1,200 with a $200 deposit to hold the puppy of choice.

Well I guess my promise to write more has failed again. I need some kind of incentive to write everyday, or I just let that day pass me by, unremembored.

Things are going well, I'm almost 32 weeks with the twins. We have decided on the names Zion Israel and Judah Legend. I would say that I am 85% ready, I still have a few more necessities to get, but for the most part I'm ready. I would like to do some more knitting, which I've been saving for these last few weeks where my energy is low, which it is! Everything I do takes so much more effort. My belly is so large, I find it hard to do laundry, give baths, change diapers, because everything you stand near is belly level.

I went to my Moms for 2 days this week to rest and recoup. It was so nice and peaceful there. No one talking, just the birds, and talk about beautiful weather. I woke up the two mornings I was there to the sun shining bright and the birds singing loudly outside my window.

Yesterday's Dr.s appointment went well, although I've lost another 2 lbs, which they were not to thrilled with, and I'm anemic, so I have to go on a heavy duty iron pill since I have a higher risk of c-section, my blood level cannot be low.

I'm tired today, I've been going non stop lately, but today I have no energy, so the girls have a friend over, the baby is sleeping and the boys are watching veggie tales....and I'm in bed. Its a good day for it, rainy and chilly...all I need is a fire place in my room and it would be perfect.