A Piece of News (or two...)

If you're like me, you can't tell what you see in this picture.  I kind of felt like Rachel on Friends when she's having an ultra-sound and starts crying and saying "I'm such a bad mom, I can't see my baby!"  Well in this case, I couldn't see my babies (yes there are TWO!?)  but with the help of the doctor I could kind of see what she was talking about.  In this picture you see baby #1's head on the bottom right and its body on the lower left with the little arm going up from the shoulder to the ear.  The circle on the top is the body of baby #2, and you can't see its head in this picture because it's tucked down and the ultrasound is only 2-D so you don't get depth.  Sorry to bore you, this is for those medial types out there (mom & dad:)

I am 15 weeks now, due Nov. 6th, but praying they don't come before October.  And no, we're not going to find out what they are...sorry Mom!  They are probably identical based on the fact that the doctors think they share a placenta, but they can't be certain.  It would make more sense if they were fraternal though as those kind of twins run in my family (I could be wrong, but I think fraternal twins are genetic and identical twins are totally random).  My grandmother had a twin brother, and they also had 2 sets of other twin brothers, who I never knew because one set died in infancy, and the other set died when they were younger.  Anyway, here they are!  We're getting over the shock (I've had 4 ultrasounds now, and am just now really starting to believe that there actually are 2) and getting really excited!

Little Irby is also very excited;  if you ask him:

"Irby, where are the babies?" He says, "In Mamma's bew-wey."  

"Irby, how many babies are in Mamma's belly?"  He says, "Lots of babies, two babies."  It is too funny, I'll try to get that one on video.  I've never posted a video on this blog, but maybe that will be my first attempt.  I'm kind of think he answers this question just like he does 'How old are you?'  or 'What color is the grass?'  He knows the answer so he says it, but I hope he'll understand what all that talk meant come this fall.