Black Friday & Cyber Monday

This year I was moving a little more slowly in getting to the great sales! I didn't leave the house until 9:15. I headed straight to Bed, Bath, & Beyond for their 20% off before 10:00 sale. Bed Bath and Beyond now has baby items on their website. Unfortunatly the baby items are not available in the stores. Although the coupon was for in store purchases they allowed me to place an order and use the discount as well. How excited was I to order all of the boys bedding, mobiles, and high chairs at 20% off retail?? Best of all I was only in the store about 15 minutes to get all of that accomplished! Then it was off to the mall where I got a parking place only 3 spaces from the door. I finally broke down and purchased materity clothes. Yes --- of course all of them were on sale. I am finally at a point where the "bella bands" no longer work. Belly is getting larger by the day!

So you think my shopping deals can't get any better?!?! That takes me to Cyber Monday. Now I wasn't really going to shop on Monday but my employees were asking what cribs and bedding I was looking at for the boys. I went online to show them the crib when low and behold I noticed they were 20% off. Unfortunatly they were out of stock online. Did I stop there? I think you know better! I called the store and they said they would honor the online pricing in the store. So off to Babies R Us on my lunch hour! Got the cribs at their internet price which was 20% off then they allowed me to still use the twins discount of 10%. I also had some coupons for 20% off from items that were shipped to our home. I used the 20% off coupon on the dresser and a chair for the nursery. When I got to the check out they indicated if I applied for their credit card they would take an additional 15% off. I NEVER do this but did some quick math! That's a lot of money to save. Needless to say I now have a Babies R Us credit card and am pleased to say I got almost our entire nursey at 50% off. The 15% discount from the credit card application was good all day and I still had 2 more 20% off coupons so I of course I had to return back to the store later that day to also buy the matching ottoman for our nursery glider and the double stroller. I don't think I have purchased that much in one day since we bought furniture for our house. Thanks to everyone who gave us gift cards to Babies R Us and american express because you played a HUGE part in purchasing our nursery!! Now we have 2 weeks for all of our bedding, cribs, chair, etc to arrive. Sounds like it's time to paint the nursery!!

Baby Showers Times Two

Due to Doctor's orders and travel restrictions beginning the week of Thanksgiving Chris and I had a lot of pre-holiday traveling to complete. We wanted to make it back to both Indiana and Lousiana prior to the travel cut off. We went to Indiana the first week of November. We had a great time visiting many family and friends at our couples baby shower hosted by my sister, Charlotte with help from my mother, aunt Wanda, and Aunt Gale.

We were spoiled during the shower with many cute matching outfits for the boys, two car seats, a pack and play, toys, blankets, gift cards......the list goes on an on. Some who were unable to attend the shower even sent gives to the house which was a surprise. I am awaiting pictures of the cake table and my family to add to the blog as the didn't end up on my camera.

After our return from Indiana we had one full week to rest and then headed to Lousiana the weekend before Thanksgiving. Again we were blessed to spend lots of time with family. Dinah hosted a shower for me with help from Chris' mom and a few others. Of course in true Slidell fashion there was TONS of food! We enjoyed playing bingo, typical shower games, and we received many nice gifts. More matching baby outfits, toys, blankets, gift cards.....

I didn't realize how many things we would recieve! It's so great to have supportive families on both sides. It really eliminates many of the things on our list to buy before the kids arrive.

Thank you all again for all of the love and support. We can't wait for our first trips back to our home states with the boys next year!!

24 Weeks

I am very behind in posting as we have been traveling. Look for pictures next week of the Indiana baby shower. Thanks to all of you who came to spend time with us. You truly made it a special day for us. Post trip I have had a lot of catch up to do at work. We fly out tomorrow to go to New Orleans to see Chris' family. This past Tuesday marked week 24. The belly is getting much larger! I thought the baby on bottom was our kicker but the baby on top has now ran out of room. I have quickly learned that he doesn't kick as often as the one on the bottom but his kick packs a powerful punch. The first kick I got from him was in the car as I drove to Jacksonville. The kick was so forceful that it made the elastic on my pants snap. Amazing! I have been fortune to this point to be able to wear my regular pants with help from bella bands. I think this will be ending soon as now I can zip them at all. Oh the joys of being pregnant.

22 Weeks

Today we had another Ultrasound. It appears I will be having one every 4 weeks due to having multiples. Both babies got good reports again. Despite my lack of weight gain both are very healthy weighing in at 1 pound 3 ozs each. The doctors assure me that I should be worried about not gaining weight as both babies are getting more than enough given their weight. I lost 10 pounds in the beginning of the pregnancy due to being so sick. I have gained back only 5 of those pounds to date.

Baby A had a heartbeat today of 155 and is in the 63rd percentile for height. Baby B had a heartbeat of 167 and is in the 75th percentile for height. Looks like my height may transfer to at least one of them. Like always our kids were very entertaining during the ultrasound. One was sucking his wrist while the other was attempting to suck his own toes. Made me laugh at the fact I hadn't had breakfast yet and they may both be hungry.

Baby A (on the bottom) has became our little kicker. Baby B still has a little room in there so I don't feel as much in his space. Chris felt the kicks for the first time yesterday. We found it entertaining that they actually kick back when you push into their "space".

I can also report that as of now those who were NOT wanting to know what we were having are now aware that we are having 2 BOYS!! My mother actually guessed it correctly. Amazing that my parents will have a total of 7 grandsons when ours arrive. What is the statistical chances of that? Chris' mother was hoping for a boy as she has one grand-daughter. We can't wait until they arrive and meet everyone!

We are looking forward to our travels this coming weekend back to Indiana. It will be nice to see family and friends. We are also looking forward to the change in the weather.