24 weeks and growing!

Today, we celebrated the twins' 24-weeks-gestation birthday. Yes, I've been pregnant for almost 5 1/2 months now, and have only 3 1/2 months (or maybe a little less) before our little girls arrive. The time seems to be passing by so quickly! It seems like just a few weeks ago that we learned we were having twins, and now people are coming up to me and asking me when I'm due!



As you can see from the picture, I'm now noticeably pregnant! Amazingly, the girls are only a little more than one pound each, so there are two pounds of baby in my belly right now. I'm trying to imagine how my belly is going to expand enough to hold an additional ten to twelve pounds of baby and just cannot imagine it! But I'm sure they will find the space they need, even if it is at the expense of my lungs and stomach and bladder.

We bought car seats today and now have everything we really need for the twins. Their nursery is not yet set up -- the crib is in pieces in the attic and their room is currently being used as a storage area for furniture and curtains and other random things from our tile project. But in the next few weeks we plan to put the downstairs furniture back downstairs and rearrange their room, creating a nice baby-friendly space for them. We'll install their car seats in the car soon and experiment with different arrangements of three car seats -- I'm really hoping we can find a configuration that will allow us to store a bit of cargo (groceries, diaper bag, stroller, etc) and still get all three girls in the car easily.