EMOMS sale (last friday) was great.
- hoped to find matching cribs. there was a set, but even though I was there the moment they opened (because I was volunteering for 4 hours beforehand!) and walked directly to the cribs, a lady took one of the cribs I liked just as I walked up to it. oh well. only one other pair of cribs and... didn't like 'em.
- did find a double snap and go stroller! they had at least 5 there, so I took the $20 one - yay - for 80% off!
- also got a hiking backpack-style baby carrier. they had 10+ different ones there, so blake got to try them all on and see which one fit him best. $100 off the reg price for that, although it's missing the shade, but some reviews (I called mom and had her internet research it for us before we snagged it) didn't like the shade part anyways.
- other things we bought: 2 boppy pillows w/ covers, a bottle warmer, 4 maternity tops, a maternity swim suit (yes!), a diaper bag (never used), 9 girl outfits, 8 gender-neutral outfits, and 22 boy outfits. yah. I did the shopping for the girl outfits and then sent blake to find some boy outfits. he found several packs that were 5 for $1 so... now we have several! they're mostly onesies but hey, we'll need a lot. all in all (including stroller and hiking backpack) we only spent $123 so we're feeling awesome about that. too bad they didn't have cribs or any co-sleepers, those would have been awesome things to snag.
Saturday we spent registering (well, and yoga-ing, birthday party-ing, napping, cleaning etc). We have about 6 different lists of things to register for from other twin moms, so we did a lot of product research to see what (we think) we really need. plus a lot of reading of the book Baby Bargains which has good value/quality/safety recommendations on baby products. Despite the fact that every shower I've ever been to has included someone mentioning the difficulty they had at BabiesRUs, we registered there because there isn't really another baby chain store option. but we also made a universal registry at amazon and listed all the things that are not available at BabiesRUs or that are cheaper elsewhere on the amazon registry!
Sunday was church, a play (Fences at the ACT) with my parents and then... well dinner and then sleep!
Monday was the EMOMs meeting. They had a guest speaker who is a perinatologist (high risk prego doc) at Eastside Maternal and Fetal Medicine. She was really great. Gave us lots of good info on how to eat with twins, delivery stats, and answered tons of questions. plus there were lots of other twin moms (or moms/dads-t0-be) and so we heard lots of real experiences and such. the most amusing part was people talking about trying to get enough protein in their diets and one mom pulled out chicken that she had in a little plastic baggy in her purse. some of the moms were like "wow, that's so great!" and some were like, "ewww, gross, I used to love chicken but now I can't stand it!!"
Tuesday was our appt with Dr. Aryal. Except it ended up being w/ Dr. Lavin. See, way back when, pre-pregnancy, I met with Dr. Chang at UW Medical Center. She's a perinatologist who specializes in moms with lung diseases. She said she could be my OB, or that I could meet with Dr. Aryal who works at Group Health Bellevue (much closer to home and work) because Dr Aryal had studied under her and could escalate my care when appropriate. But then, when I went to make an appt w/ Dr. Aryal, they said she was on maternity leave herself! So I set up an appt with whomever (which ended up being Dr Lavin) and every appt I've asked if Dr. Aryal was back and if I could see her instead. So finally I have an appt with her and then when I get there the check-in person says, well we saw that Dr. Lavin was also free during this time and that you've seen her before, so we switched you! I was like AHAHAAHHAH!!!! but it seemed super awkward to walk back there and avoid Dr Lavin so I said "sure." Not that Dr. Lavin is so bad (I really don't love her, but I think she's a decent doc) but I just wanted to see Dr Aryal finally. oh well, my next appt is also scheduled to be w/ Dr Aryal so perhaps that will work out. Anyways, it ended up being a very short appt - both babies are good and healthy according to the ultrasound so there wasn't much to say.
On Wednesday (see, I told you we've been doing a lot of baby stuff this week!) mom and I went bridesmaid dress shopping so that I'll have something to wear to Jackie and Dave's wedding in late August. Apparently a number of designers make maternity bridesmaids dresses (the wedding will be after I give birth but apparently you still look 5-7 months prego right afterwards so we figured shopping when I was actually 5 months prego would be a good idea) BUT, nobody carries those dresses in the stores. they just say yes, we can order that for you. So, we found a dress (Jackie is letting us pick our dresses) that has an empire waist and lots of gathers in the non-maternity version (which was in both stores we went to) and we just hope the maternity version isn't much different! I can't order the non-maternity version even if I wanted because my waist (ie tummy) size is off the size charts!
and finally, today is 21 weeks. but... it is now past my bedtime, so I think I'll write that post tomorrow. life is good, but quite busy, and seems to require a lot of sleeping these days. but I figure if my body wants to sleep that much, I should probably let it, so...
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz :)
You know, we have 2 activity gyms if you want to borrow them from us when the babies get here. M loved them and they really seemed to help encourage her to grab at things. One is pink and girly and the other is baby einstein and all animals. Just let me know!
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