Well, this weekend was the first time that I really started feeling the babies kick from the outside! I even had my husband feel to confirm to me that others could feel it and he said yes. Now in that last five or six days, it's amazing how well you can feel them if you can have the patience to keep your hand on my belly long enough for them to kick!
When they're moving a lot, I can even just watch my tummy and see it bump out with each kick. I think it's starting to set in more with me that I am in fact pregnant....and with two babies at that!!
Between knowing the sexes (and names!) and feeling them kick from the outside, it's becoming more real. There is still a much different connection with Ava and Barrett then there was with my own children so I feel that I'm still emotionally distanced from them just enough to keep me in check that these aren't my babies.
It's just such an amazing miracle no matter how many times you've been through it or whether they're your babies or not! To be able to nurture and grow human life in your body is beyond explanation!
Russ (who has been staying with his parents up north since the last ultrasound) drove down yesterday to see us one more time before he headed back home to Tennessee. He brought Sorrell and I and each of the kids some Valentine's chocolates and took us out for lunch. It was nice to be able to just "hang out" and not have appointments or medical things to take care of.
It was a very nice Valentine's Day. :)
When they're moving a lot, I can even just watch my tummy and see it bump out with each kick. I think it's starting to set in more with me that I am in fact pregnant....and with two babies at that!!
Between knowing the sexes (and names!) and feeling them kick from the outside, it's becoming more real. There is still a much different connection with Ava and Barrett then there was with my own children so I feel that I'm still emotionally distanced from them just enough to keep me in check that these aren't my babies.
It's just such an amazing miracle no matter how many times you've been through it or whether they're your babies or not! To be able to nurture and grow human life in your body is beyond explanation!
Russ (who has been staying with his parents up north since the last ultrasound) drove down yesterday to see us one more time before he headed back home to Tennessee. He brought Sorrell and I and each of the kids some Valentine's chocolates and took us out for lunch. It was nice to be able to just "hang out" and not have appointments or medical things to take care of.
It was a very nice Valentine's Day. :)