Silly Mom Thoughts

My fears that I was going to go to the doctor on Friday and find out that one of my little twinkies wasn’t there anymore were, thankfully, blessedly, unfounded. My OB fired up the ultrasound machine and immediately I got to see these sweet little ones. I have never seen my babies at nearly 14 weeks before, so it was so much fun seeing what my little 14 week old twins look like. One of the babies, Righty, as I will call “her” for the time being, was sleeping like… well, a baby. Her crazy little uterus buddy, Mr. Lefty, was dancing a jig as if to make up for the other’s laziness. I kid you not, during the 5 minutes I was hooked up to the ultrasound, Lefty did a complete 360 degree turn, arms in the air, wiggling, squirming, and sucking “his” hand.

Most people, when they are flooded with relief, cry. I have never been known to cry under those types of situations however, so instead, I laughed. A lot. The doctor jokingly said, “How’s a guy supposed to get a good look at these babies if you’re laughing so much!” I apologized and explained that laughter is my defense mechanism. He understood, I calmed down, and we got some great pictures of the babies.

Wanna see?

(As of you have a choice in the matter! *Wink*)

I labeled the pictures because, well, looking at ultrasounds are often like looking at Rorschach Tests. Admittedly, my twins resemble aliens more than my offspring at the moment, but hey, they’re still cute to me.

Allow me to introduce you to Righty, my sleepy child. She moved once during the ultrasound, only to roll over and then fall back asleep.

And, here is our little dancing babe, Lefty. He was hilarious, but honestly, I wouldn’t expect anything less from a child of Turk and I.

To clarify, I am calling the twins “he” and “she,” but those are simply arbitrary labels. We should find out next month if our twins are sporting a cheeseburger or a hot dog. Today, Bug adimantly informed me that there were two girls in my belly, depsite his earlier claim that there is a boy and a girl. Though, I must say, two girls surely would explain my awful nausea that continues to kick my ass about two days a week. (Still, better than seven days. I’ll take whatever relief I can get!)

Our babies are Lefty and Righty for right now because one has not presented yet, since they’re so small. When one travels down south more, that baby will be known as Baby A, and the sibling will be Baby B. Eventually, I will come up with cute little nicknames for them, but for now, while I can’t decifer one from the other, they’ll simply be “the twins.”

Yay for twinkies!