Proud mama world meet Cameron and corbin

Proud mama world meet Cameron and corbin, originally uploaded by IAxB.

Proud mama world meet Cameron and corbin

Swagger Waggon, here we come, and a minor Freak out!

Well obvious to many people except us! there is no way we are going to fit the whole family comfortably into the Rav4. Fortunately we have a good way out of our lease and will shortly be ordering a Sienna. Swagger Wagon here we come! Hopefully we will have it shortly after the Twins are born. Things are obviously progressing rapidly, we are into the third trimester. The babies are healthy the pregnacy so far has been blessedly uneventful. Other than the fact that at this point my wife is very, very, uncomfortable! Our dining room is rapidly filling up with baby supplies. Nesting has commenced, yet we have no where to nest just yet. This is beginning to be a stress point in our lives. We are attempting to finish out part of our unfinished basement for our 11yr old son to move his room to. He is very excited about this, we are too! Our daughter will move into his old room and the twins will go into her room. Looks great on paper! At this point however we have no progress in the basement. I know it will get done, my Father-in-law is in charge of this project so we are waiting for things to happen around his schedule. I just hope we have time to move and paint everything and set up a crib or two BEFORE the babies get here. cause if the babies get here first, they are going to end up in pack and plays in the living room, cause we can't use the dining room/nursery cause it is full of stuff to go in the babies room upstairs! AAAAAGGGHHH! OK Freak out over! I have faith that things will get done in a timely fashion.....I HOPE!

fun, but not practical!

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On Being Practical

Up until now thanks to my wifes job, we have been able to have a lot of fun with our vehicles. You see, due to her working for a major automotive finance company we get really good deals on new cars from that company. With only two children so far in our life we have had fun with our cars. We have driven Scions for the past 6 years, we belong to a Scion club, and I've modified my 2005 Scion xB out with a lot of fun stuff. My wife has driven 3 different Scions in the last 6 years as well. From the 2 door sport coupe to both the 1st and 2nd gen of the xB. When we made the decision to have another child, we decided that I could keep my xB since I've spent a lot of money on it already, and she would get rid of her xB in favor of a car that could carry two kids and an infant more easily. We settled on a Rav4 with the optional 3rd row seat. The plan was Infant and one child in middle row, Middle schooler in the tiny 3rd row seat by himself. This was our first practical car choice order. It was motivated "how are we going to fit everyone in the car?" not "this is a really cool fun feature I want in my car!" This has been a tough thing for me to deal with. I've always had fun cars. I'm glad I still have my fun car, but on the other hand I feel like I've had to get my first GROWNUP car... Did I mention that the Rav4 is still a really awesome car, but its ordering was totally motivated by practicality, whats the fun of that? More on how twins plus the other four of us will fit in a Rav later.....

20 weeks!

Wow somehow we have reached the 20 week mark! This is very exciting, we get an ultrasound at every visit right now, this is really cool because I get to see my baby boys every 4 weeks! It is fun to see how much they have grown. For the record the boys are now 13oz each! Growing well and looking healthy by all the ultrasound pics. Now since these are not our first kids, we do have some experience with pregnancies. I have noticed that my poor wife has reached that uncomfortable stage much quicker than with either of the previous pregnancies. Of course this stands to reason since there are two babies instead of just one. I found some photos of my wife when she was about 8 months pregnant with our daughter. No I won't post them. She would kill me! But the point is her baby belly not quite the same size it was at 8 months with our daughter, but close, it won't be long. My biggest concern as we prepare for these two little guys has been a worry about how we are going to afford daycare. We both work full time and all our healthcare benefits are through my wifes work. With our income level one of us staying home full time is not an option. What we ended up working out with our bosses, is this, my wife will go into work about a half hour earlier than she is now. I will go in about 3 hours later than I do now. what this will work out is that I will be able to stay home with the babies while she works, and then I will go into work after she gets home, and stay til 10:30 pm instead of 8 pm. I will lose about 10 hours but still maintain full time status. this all works out to costing less money than having to pay a daycare provider for watching the boys. This also gives the advantage of the boys being raised by parents instead of daycare providers.

Week 16 Post

Well we are heading into week 16 of this pregnancy. The babies seem to be growing like crazy! Bridgit was quickly out of her regular clothes and into maternity clothes...You can read about that on her blog. So far we've been fortunate, the pregnancy has been going very well, no major complications. A couple quick things. Bridgit admitted the other day that she has been milking it. Meaning she has been taking advantage of my over concern for her well being. She has had me lifting stuff and moving stuff around from her throne in the living room. Now I've known she has been milking it but because I love her I'm willing to spoil her.. Heck its what I try to do anyway. It was just a small victory to hear her admit she was milking it! Will I keep spoiling her? heck yeah! is it worth it.. Heck yeah, she is after all the mother of my children, and thats good for something. Differences I've noticed so far with this pregnancy, she is tired a lot more! during the first trimester, she literally would fall asleep anywhere, anytime. Since we've entered the next trimester this has improved, but she still fall asleep anywhere and anytime. Tomorrow we have an appointment for an ultra sound! This is exciting, it will be my first time to see the live ultrasound, so far I've only seen the pictures. I can't wait to feel the babies moving. I love to hold Bridgit and hold her belly! Its my way of getting close to the babies!

First picture of the twins

First picture of the twins, originally uploaded by IAxB.

Wow, maybe I'll revive my Blog....

So I discovered that it has been almost 2 years since I've posted on my blog. Well, now my life becomes more interesting. My wonderful wife and I have 2 children, an 11 yr old boy and a 7yr old girl. After 7 years of saying we were done, we decided to have one more child. My wife is now 12.5 weeks pregnant, and this past Thursday we found out we are expecting twins! This is very exciting and very scary at the same time. I have done some looking and discovered that most of the blogs out there by parents are "mommy blogs" Specially the twin related ones. They really focus on the womans point of view and on the things a woman/mom is going through. Well I decided to put a twist on it and try to write one from a guys/dads perspective. We will see how I do, and if there is any interest. So check back as I try to document my wifes pregnancy, and then as we add these two precious little ones to our family. Right now its been fun watching my older two kids react to the news of Mom being pregnant first of all, and then later discovering that they are getting not one but TWO! siblings. This is a planned pregnancy so it was not a surprise to us, but when we sat the kids down to tell them that they were getting a sibling, it was obvious that it was the last thing they expected. In fact when we called them into the living room for a chat, they thought they were in trouble! After making them try to guess, we told our son that we were going to finish the basement and make a room for him down there. He was excited because he has been begging for this for a while. He exclaimed , "awesome, I thought you were going to tell us Mommy was pregnant or something." I said,"your right, Mommy is pregnant!" His jaw about hit the floor, and he went running upstairs. I called him back down and by then it had hit our daughter! She screamed and was very happy and excited. Our son being the grown up 11yr old exclaimed, "thats freaky!" all settled down and they quickly became very excited about the prospect. We overheard our daughter that same night whispering to herself, "my dream came true!" apparently she has been wanting a younger sibbling for some time. Now on Thursday we found out we were having twins, so we quickly told them and showed them the ultrasound pictures. Once again our son kind of freaked out, and our daughter was instantly thrilled. So for the last few days we've been having fun trying to pick out more names, and running through ideas for how we will cope with not one but two babies at the same time.

Christmas has come and gone!

Christmas has come and gone and I haven't updated my blog in a long time. We tried hard to keep our family focused on the real reason we celebrate. Yet our kids still are looking for more. They want more presents and more presents. Both kids got quite large gifts too. Aaron got a new guitar and Lillian got a nintendo DS. They. Were the only gifts they got because of the cost. Still they want more. How so we refocus on Christ. How do we help them remember that Without Christ there would be no reason to celebrate. If Christ had never born there would be no celebration. It is hard to keep that in focus when every where you look it's buy this buy that give me this give me that. No mentionof Christ. It's all about Santa and presents. I actuually had a co worker who was quite upset when I told her we didn't do Santa s At our house. So maybe next year we will work harder to keep more focused in the real reason we celebrate