For now on I’m not going to post until the previous post has at least 10 comments. Loving me some comments (J/K about not posting).

Things are good, real good. Tobie’s aunt is here all week helping out. It’s been fabulous! Tobie had a laundry list of projects to accomplish during her visit. They are all done (ahead of schedule I might add). Thanks also to Nicole for coming over to help on her day off! The babies have been great as usual. Cole is eating table food better than ever. He’s eating so well that the feeding therapist is probably going to stop treatments in the next month. Now if we could only get him to eat more volume (is it wrong to always want more?). Paige also started using the walker. She is so proud of herself (I’ll be posting a video later). She’s also getting so much better with her separation anxiety. She’s even getting better at self play. Pretty soon she’ll be Miss Independent!

We had our OB appointment today. We set a C-section date for April 30th if we don’t go before 39 weeks. It seems just like yesterday Tobie was telling me she had some unbelievable news. Oh how time flies. We had another ultrasound today. The baby now weighs above 6 pounds. That puts him in the 70th percentile which means he’s charting about 2 weeks ahead of schedule. The OB is worried we are going to have a very big baby, making a C-section almost mandatory. Come 37 weeks we’ll be doing all the old wives tales to get him out to avoid having a C-section. We got another great shot of his head in 4D. I’ll try to post that later.

Tobie here:

Yesterday we got our car seats installed. I am so glad we made an appointment and had them professionally installed because there is a lot involved with car seats that I think the average person would not be aware of. For instance, a forward-facing car seat should not recline and a rear-facing car seat needs to have the shoulder straps below the shoulder. We ended up with the new baby in our 3rd row. This leaves enough room in the back for a small stroller and my diaper bag. For such a huge SUV, there’s really not a whole lot of room. It reminds me of the game LIFE where sometimes you can get so many babies that there’s not enough room in your car piece to hold them all and you end up stacking the babies on top of each other.

I do have to say that while there was a hot fireman there (a twin himself born at 32 weeks…what is with the whole firemen/twin connection?? The last fireman to install our first car seat just had twins. To top it off, the fire-lady had a 15 month old son named Cole. Talk about six degrees. Is Cole going to end up a fireman??), I think Cole was smitten with a hot fire-lady. She took Eric, Paige, and Cole to see the firetrucks up close while I stayed behind with the installation. Apparently they were too young to appreciate the gesture, but the fire crew said we can come back anytime when the babies are older to see the firetrucks up close. How nice are the fire staff?

Another topic I have to whine about is Paige’s nighttime crying/screaming episodes. I am getting tired of them. If we get to her relatively quickly we can lay her back down and she falls asleep pretty fast (within a minute). But she is waking up wailing about 2-3 times a night. Not good. I want to break her of this habit. So last night we let her cry it out for about 10-15 minutes before going to her. By this time she was screaming sooooo loud it was torturous to listen to. It also took me a lot longer to calm her back to sleep because she was sobbing so bad (about 5 minutes). And on top of it all, she woke Cole up last night and he wouldn’t calm down until I brought him in to see that Paige was all right. I bet you’re wondering how I knew he was freaked about Paige. He was staring at the door to his room trying to jump out of my arms until I took him to see Paige…then he literally fell asleep within seconds after realizing everything was okay. After all this drama…it’s been about 45 minutes by now….Mommy could not fall back asleep and it’s really hard to get to sleep as it is with the big belly, heartburn, need to have pillows just right for side-sleeping. So today is going to be a long, long, long day! Boo hoo! And the worst part is that I want to do it all over again tonight so Paige realizes that waking up screaming is fun for no one and hopefully she’ll stop.

Paige: “Hey don’t eat without me”.

Not the best eating session.

It’s been a rough week for Tobie. She started having a lot of contractions. We were finally able to see our OB today. The good news is her cervix is still closed, but we did a fFN test to see where we are at. Dr. F has also put Tobie on modified bed rest. Sounds great in theory, but I don’t think Paige and Cole are going to cooperate. Luckily Aunt Nancy is here for a week starting Saturday (aren’t you lucky Nancy!).

The babies are doing great. They are really starting to interact with each other. Paige has gotten so mobile, she’s now giving Cole a run for his money.

UPDATE (Fri 9:30 AM): The fFN test came back negative. So we should make it well past 35 weeks. Phew! So does this mean I don’t have to clean the dishes and take out the trash since Tobie’s not that close to labor?

Tobie here:

We had a busy busy weekend this last weekend, but nothing in comparison to the coming weekend. We went to the Mothers of Multiples sale on Saturday which is a huge sale the organization has twice a year. There was a lot of things to buy, mostly clothes, but the main things we went for weren’t available. We need a new triplet stroller. This is so ironic because we had bought a really nice one last year for the triplets (which I pretty much made Eric give away after Kaylee passed) because seeing it in the garage made me so emotional I didn’t want to go into the garage until it was gone. Now I think we’re going to need one. Or a heavy-duty back carrier in the meantime so I can carry Cole on my back and push the new baby and Miss Paige. (No way I’m carrying Paige on my back!!). What we ended up walking away with from the sale was maternity clothes for $1 to finish out my pregnancy with. Yes, you read that right, $1.

We also attempted Operation Tough Love this weekend. The first day it was great. After shopping all day and going to Chick-Fil-A for lunch the babies were pretty sacked out and fell asleep after 4 min of crying for Paige, and 1 minute for Cole. Yesterday was not so successful and Operation Tough Love may need some more consideration. We are attempting to put the babies to bed without bottles, wide awake, and on a set time schedule. If it works, it would be extremely helpful when the new baby arrives. Up until now, I would rock both babies to nap, usually giving Cole a bottle. I would have to do one baby at a time, taking up to 20 minutes per baby and by the time the second baby was down, the first baby would be waking up. I could still do this even with the new baby…but it would be a lot easier if naps would just be a “sure, okay Mom, I’ll go to sleep now” thing. Speaking of sleeping…Paige is definitely sleeping through the night now. She will still wake up two or three times a night standing on the edge of her crib wailing until someone comes and puts her back down. It only takes ~1 minute to put her back to sleep so I consider this sleeping through the night. She normally doesn’t resist being laid back down. Cole has been sleeping through the night for the last three nights which is good and bad. Good for Mommy, bad for Cole’s weight gain as we like to get one more bottle in him per day. And no, he is not compensating for the lost bottle during the day.

This coming week I am so excited about. Saturday I have an appt with some hot firemen to install our car seats. Cole unfortunately will still not be forward-facing since he is 1 pound shy of the requirement, but he will be graduating to the big-boy car seat and handing over his infant seat to his new little brother. My aunt also comes into town on Saturday, my parents are on spring break, and we are going to have a project-filled week of decorating the babies’ rooms and organizing closets, assembling furniture, making my room also a nursery and putting up black-out shades on the windows since it’s so hot and bright during the day. Eric will be installing even more baby gates throughout our house (it’s ridiculous how many baby gates are needed), hopefully getting our pool fence ordered, and otherwise baby-proofing the remainder of the house. It’s not so much of nesting for the new baby, but more desperately trying to finish what is needed for these guys. Okay, maybe a little excitement for the new baby too. I washed all our outfits for the hospital this weekend and started putting together my hospital bag too. It’s getting close!!