25w, 3d

My totally awesome and spectacular friends held a little shower for me last night. It was great and kind of embarrassing. I've just always had the belief that you get a shower for your first kid and that is it. They felt the need to do something small (there were only 9 of us) since this was a special circumstance. I might have two kids already but I sure don't have a lick of the things needed for a baby younger than 7 months yet, and certainly not for TWO babies under 7 months old. It was a great evening of just being with my friends. Being sent home with a bunch of presents was certainly a bonus!

I was up early this morning for an u/s I had scheduled. I was able to get in at one of the satellite imaging centers for the hospital which worked out great. It wasn't as far of a drive. There were far less people in the waiting room and the people there were far less scary. The u/s tech was very nice and wasn't in a huge hurry. I only waited 15 minutes for my appointment as opposed to the 2 hours I often wait. I didn't have to pay for parking. The list of pros just goes on and on.

The important thing, everything looked great. Baby A was once again being incredibly active. I hope he gets it out of his system now and is ready to do lots of sleeping once he arrives. Measurements were done of the heads, bellies, and femurs. The tech commented that these babies have long legs. Makes me wonder who these babies belong to. Certainly not me since I have short little stumps for legs and certainly not my husband who only has a couple inches on me. The tech did an estimate of their weights and came up with Baby A at 1lb 14oz and Baby B at 1lb 11oz. At 25 weeks they are supposed to be around a pound and a half so it is looking like they are still right on schedule.

After my appointment, I decided to stop at Babies R Us (BRU) since it was right across the street and I don't have a chance too often to get there. I was not aware until I arrived that today was their grand opening for their "new" store which is now a Babies R Us/Toys R Us hybrid. It was a nuthouse in there, mostly because there had to be at least 75 employees working there. I couldn't even look at an item for more than a minute because during that span of time, literally three employees would come up to me and ask if I needed help. My main objective of being there was to hopefully purchase a belly support belt to help my back pain. Mission accomplished. Have to say, this support thing is AWESOME. I saw some complaints online about the support belts being bulky and it is not something you can really wear out and about. Sure, there are a few little creases under my shirt that can be noticed but screw it, I could care less. I'm all about comfort these days and have been fine for weeks of just letting it all hang out and not giving a shit what anyone's opinion of my wacky body is. While walking the aisles of the store, I figured I would do some price comparison between stuff that I had wanted at Target and things I found on amazon.com. Pretty much everything was cheaper according to the websites at those stores than what was at BRU. I did end up going home with two new car seats though. BRU offers a 10% multiples discount on items of $50 or more if you purchase two at the same time, you just have to ask for it at the register. Although the car seats were slightly higher priced at BRU than what was listed on Target website, I had already checked out our local Target and saw they didn't carry them in the store. After the multiples discount, there wasn't much of a price difference anyway. So good news. Babies can now come home after they are born.