Babies update

Well, I had an ultrasound yesterday. Allen is at sea, so when they checked the genders of the babies I covered my eyes, then Allen called me after the ultrasound so we could find out together. So...we are having a boy and a girl!
We are very excited. Allen is thrilled beyond belief that he is getting his boy. Alaina is super excited because Dora has twin siblings, a brother and a sister!
Allen gets to come home next week, and we will move into our new house and get settled and start preparing for our new little ones! Yay!

Update

Well it has been a crazy couple of months! As you all know now, I am pregnant with twins! They are due October 27 and hopefully next week we will find out what they are! Allen has been super busy on the ship, going to sea then coming home for only a couple of days before going back out. I have been staying at mom and dad's while he has his busy schedule, I have had pretty bad morning sickness so it has been great to have some help.

On May 3 Allen will officially detach from the ship!! That same day, the packers will go and pack up our house in Virginia, and by the end of the week Allen will be back in Illinois to stay. Alaina and I are very excited to be done with ship life, as I am sure Allen also is. We found a great house in Shiloh, just about 15 minutes from base. It is in a great location, Allen has a cousin in the area and I will have a great friend about an hour away in O'Fallon, MO. Not to mention family an hour and a half away! We are so excited.

The ship was in port for a whole week last week, I don't know the last time that happened, so Allen took the opportunity to take some leave and come visit Alaina and me. We had so much fun, it has been weeks and weeks since we had that much time together. We went to the zoo with our good friends in Missouri, and spent a lot of time playing outside and at the park. We found a great park in Carbondale that is a giant castle. Allen and Alaina had such a great time climbing up and down, and I enjoyed sitting in the shade watching them.

Um, can you get Belah down?

The other day Allen and I were in our bedroom and Alaina was playing in the living room. She loves to throw Belah in the air and see where she comes crashing down. This particular day there must have been a little more oomph in her throw because she came in the bedroom and said, "um can you get Belah down?" I said "where is she?" Alaina replied "up on the lamp." Well we do not have a lamp, just a ceiling fan way up on our 15 foot ceiling! Sure enough I look up and can just barely see Belah on a blade of the ceiling fan. After I took lots of pictures we decided to go ahead and get Belah down by turning on the ceiling fan. Belah flew right down and Alaina got such a kick out of it. It was really funny and I got a great laugh out of it.

Good times with Gramma

For those of you who don't know, mom came to visit me last week! Allen and I decided to do another cycle of in-vitro. Unfortunatley, when it came time to do the IVF, Allen was at sea. So mom came out to help me because one procedure knocked me out and the other one required 24 hours of bedrest. The IVF is done, I had 2 beautiful embryos implanted, and we find out if I am pregnant on Friday! It is going to be a long week! Alaina and I really enjoyed our time with mom here. We did a lot of relaxing, which was great, and we had a lot of fun playing on the Wii and going to the Virginia Aquarium. Thanks again mom for all of your help. I couldn't have done it without you!

Snow Day!

Well for once we got the snow that was predicted! Unfortunately Allen has to work today, but Alaina and I got out in the snow. She had so much fun throwing snow and making snow tracks. It was so cold and windy, but Alaina didn't want to come inside. That is until some snow smacked her in the face and she insisted on coming in and putting band-aids on her cheeks because they were red. But it was a lot of fun and now we are dry and warm and enjoying our snow day.

I Love Valentimes

Alaina and I made some Valentine decorations yesterday. I let her take full control, except I cut the hearts for her. She had so much fun gluing everything with way too much glue. And as she went along, she kept saying, "I love Valentimes" and "This is the best making Valentimes ever!". It was a lot of fun for both of us. I also included a pic of her in a Barbie cheerleader outfit that she got from Granny Flanny for Christmas. She looks really cute in it and her Barbie has a matching outfit!

Come on ride the train!

As most of you know, when Alaina was very small we bought her a Thomas the Train that she could ride on. Well we just got it all put together for her now that she is old enough to actually ride on it. She loves it so much that a lot of times I find her in her bedroom with the door closed going around and around on her train. What she also loves to do, since it is such a far distance, is hop on her train, ride it to her bookshelf to pick out her book, then get back on the train and ride it to her bed. The first time she did this was so hilarious that I had to get it on video.