9 Layers of Becky

Stole from a blog I enjoy! Everyone is "tagged!" I would love to see everyones answers!!

LAYER ONE:
Name: Becky
Birth date: October 29th
Birthplace: Baltimore
Current Location: Baltimore
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Height: 5′8
Righty or Lefty: Righty
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

LAYER TWO:
Your heritage: Polish princess
The shoes you wore today: Dirty brown flipflops
Your weakness: Mexican Food!
Your fears: Taking care of three kids!!!
Your perfect pizza: Plain cheese or bbq chicken pizza
Goal you’d like to achieve: Take care of three kids!!!

LAYER THREE:
Your most overused phrase on AIM: Hmm..no AIM but I am forever saying WTF on email & texts
Your first waking thoughts: My back hurts...
Your best physical feature: My overstretched belly button
What you miss the most: having money to burn and no responsibilities

LAYER FOUR:
Pepsi or Coke: Coke Zero
McDonald’s or Burger King: Neither
Group dates or 1:1 dates: WTF is a date???
Adidas or Nike: I love my Nike shox
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: diet Nestea
Chocolate or vanilla: Vanilla
Cappuccino or coffee: Coffee!!!!!

LAYER FIVE:
Smoke: Nope
Cuss: More than I should
Sing: Not so well, but often
Take a shower everyday: Honestly I have been on an every other day schedule lately (stinky I know).
Do you think you’ve been in love: Yes
Want to go to college: Not again
Liked high school: Parts of it!
Want to get married: Not again
Believe in yourself: Well I am no Peter Pan
Get motion sickness: If I read in the car
Think you’re attractive: Right now only to perverted men with a pregnancy fetish
Think you’re a health freak: I wish
Get along with your parent(s): Yep.
Like thunderstorms: As long as they don't wake up Claire
Play an instrument: No

LAYER SIX:
In the past month…
Drank Alcohol: I wish I could say yes to this
Smoked: Nope
Done a drug: Prenatals
Made out: Sure, but it's not quite as frequent as it was when I was younger :)
Gone on a date: Not so much!
Gone to the mall: Nope...I am on house arrest!!
Eaten an entire box of Oreos: No, but I could have...
Eaten sushi: No thank you
Been on stage: Not me, but at times my vagina has seemed to be...

Been dumped: No
Gone skating: I don't even want to picture me on skates
Gone skinny dipping: With Claire in my bath tub!!
Dyed your hair: Nope...after 7 years I am natural again
Stolen anything: No

LAYER SEVEN: Ever…
Played a game that required removal of clothing: Don't think so...but I enjoyed drinking in college!
If so, was it mixed company: If I did it probably was...
Been caught “doing something”: WTF does that mean???
Shoplifted: A peanut from Santonis when I was a kid
Changed who you were to fit in: Who didn't when they were young and dumb?

LAYER EIGHT:
Age you hope to be married: 25 - and my dreams came true!
Numbers and Names of Children: Claire (almost 2)...Isaac and Ryan (Coming soon)
Describe your Dream Wedding: In Vegas
How do you want to die: I don't know...but not on the toilet!
Where you want to go to college: Dude...
What do you want to be when you grow up: Independently wealthy
What country would you most like to visit: Australia

LAYER NINE:
Number of people I could trust with my life: 27
Number of CDs that I own: not too many right now...mostly all my music is in my itunes
Number of times my name has appeared in the newspaper: 3 or 4...high school track
Number of scars on my body: One on by boob from my mastitis surgery
Number of things in my past that I regret: Don't know...probably like 3. Nothing that eats at me though...

:-)

Well good news people...my cervix somehow actually got longer!!!!! Last measurement was 1.6 and now I am measuring 2.2!! Apparently keeping off your feet helps it get stronger. I am so excited, I was worrying myself to death at the concept of bed rest. I feel much relief. All I have to do now is continue to stay off my feet as much as possible so I don't lose my gain!

The boys are measuring well. Baby A (Ryan) is breech and weighing in at 2lbs 6oz. Baby B (Isaac) is vertex and measuring in a 2lbs 7oz. Because Ryan is breech and Isaac is not they are literally head to head looking right at each other. Both boys are around the 45th percentile.

It did take forever today for the ultrasound because they had a vendor in trying to sell them a new ultrasound machine. I had to wait 40 minutes for them to set the machine up and then during the actual ultrasound the vendor had to explain all the functions to my tech. But honestly...I would have sat there for 6 hours not to be on bed rest!!!

Thanks for the prayers and well wishes!

Ultrasound tomorrow!

Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers for my ultrasound tomorrow! If I have have any cervical changes I am on bed rest!!!! I will give an update tomorrow!

Preparing Claire...

Well we have been doing our best to prepare Claire for the pending arrival of her baby brothers. I have a feeling it is not going to go over well because she gets very jealous anytime another baby is around. One example is when we were down the beach, Scott's Mom was holding a baby. All Claire could do is cry "no baby, no baby" until his Mom put the baby down. Another example is anytime Abby is around, my Mom isn't allowed to hold her without Claire getting an attitude!

On a bright note. When I ask her what is in Mommy's belly she says "baby brothers." Scott and I were also talking with her about our family and who was in it. She looked intently at us when we said our family is going to be Mommy and Daddy and Claire Bear and Isaac and Ryan. After we were done she says "and Gabby too." For those who don't know, Gabby is our cat!! I thought that was cute. Hopefully she is getting it a little.

Scott should start painting the nursery next weekend hopefully. I bought the baby bedding a week and a half ago from Walmart.com to be shipped to our local Walmart for free. Unfortunately today when Scott went to pick it up they "lost" the package. They refunded our money, but now we have to wait to get the stupid bedding again...I freaking hate Walmart!! Luckily I ordered the matching valances from eBay so we have something to go by for the color of the room! Hopefully seeing the nursery will prepare Claire as well.

I am in pain over here people!!!

My freaking belly button feels like it is going to bust! It is stretching so very much and kinda looks like a smiley face right now!! It hurts so gosh darn bad!!! It feel like people are jabbing needles in it! Ughhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for letting me complain...I am done now!

Much ado about nothing...

I had another OB appointment today which was uneventful. No cervical change during the internal. My OB swears that whenever he does an internal check it seems longer than the ultrasounds are measuring. I told him I probably just don't photograph well. I have another ultrasound scheduled for Tuesday to measure my cervix as well as the babies growth and developments. I get so worked up prior to these ultrasounds because I know I am a tenth of a millimeter away from strict bed rest. All I can do is take it easy and hope for the best.

I really miss working. Don't get me wrong, I love spending all this time with Claire but I just feel so unproductive. I miss the people I work with and the patients as well. However, I am sure when I have to go back to work this time around it is going to be so much harder leaving three rather than one.

I have ordered a few things for the nursery so far. I got wall letters spelling out each of the boys names to hang above their cribs as well as two paintings for the room. One painting is of a train and the other is divided in three of a train, boat and car. Thank goodness for EBay!! Now I just have to wait for Scott to clear out the room and paint it a light blue. We are getting two cribs from his cousin, mattresses from his sister and my Mom just ordered us a dresser/hutch. We will be snagging the rocker from Claire's room which she will be very unhappy about, but we will probably replace it with a cheap Ikea chair.

That is really all that is happening right now...

Isaac and Ryan...

These are the names of our baby boys! Scott and I decided that we would each name a baby since we can't agree on anything! I had Isaac picked out a long time ago because I always have loved that name! Also, back when I worked in daycare Isaac was the name of my very favorite kid (I know Meg remembers him too) who I just adored! Scott finally decided on Ryan last night after much intense research (or so he says). I like the name Ryan too and I am honestly surprised he choose it because he hated my friend Ryan that I hung out with/ briefly dated right before Scott and I met. The middle names are going to be Ronald and William after both of our fathers. Unfortunately we are in disagreement over which middle name goes better with which baby! But hey...at least we have names!!


Yesterday my friend Jenni had a shower for my friend Debi and me with our friends from the neighborhood. I got a lot of baby boy clothes!! I was surprised how cute the clothes were since for the most part I have always thought boy clothes were boring. We really had a good time at the shower and I stayed out until 11pm which is probably the latest I have been up in a LONG time (God I am getting old)!!