Week 26 and 27: Getting closer!

Week: 27

Weight:161 (Pre-pregnancy weight=125)

Body changes: Getting really tired of the weight gain. Last night, I noticed the first stages of stretch marks around my belly button. Nooooooo. I've been religiously using Burt's Bees belly butter once a day but am upping that to twice a day. Although, I've heard mixed reviews on whether that stuff actually helps at all. Worth the effort if it at least helps reduce their appearance just a bit. Bring on the BUTTER!
Rose (good thing that happened) and thorn (bad thing) of the week:
Rose-Babies are moving like crazy. It's such a cool experience to see and feel them move. Josh loves feeling them move, and I love watching him feel them and see his eyes light up. :)
Thorn-Back pain and acne everywhere (back, neck, stomach, face). Ugh.

26 weeks

27 weeks

The past 2 weeks went by pretty quickly which is great! This pregnancy has felt like it has been lasting forever, but the closer we get to that 30 weeks mark the faster time seems to go. At this point, we have a goal of 6 more weeks to reach 34 weeks and a max of 10 more weeks to reach 38. How exciting!

Had a check up visit last week, and everything looks good according to the charts. Great news is that I passed my glucola test with flying colors. I was relieved to hear that because that is one less thing to worry about. I was worried that I was going to fail the test and then not only be restricted from sex but also from sugar. That would be pretty dang awful. lol. Next Thursday, we have another ultrasound, and then doc said that we will probably start having weekly visits after that. 

The nursery is finally starting to come together! We ordered 2 cribs from BabiesRUs about 3 weeks ago. When we initially purchased them, the store employee accidentally charged us $57 for the 2nd crib instead of taking $57 (10% twin discount) off the 2nd crib. It was after a long workday, and I thought the total price seemed too cheap but went ahead and paid for it because the employee even repeated the total price when I questioned what she told us it was. Then, Josh and I went to the car, and I looked over the receipt because the math didn't seem right. I caught the employee's $200+ mistake, and Josh and I thought we would do the right thing and bring it back in to be fixed. We thought our honesty would be rewarded with at least like a package of free diapers or something, but instead, we got a weak "sorry" and an additional 20 minutes of having to wait for them to fix the mistake and charge us the additional $200+ for the 2nd crib. The employee actually acted almost annoyed about it.

The cribs are ready for 2 adorable boys to sleep in them!

Fast forward a couple weeks. I called to check in on the status of the cribs. They put me on hold for 10 or so minutes. Let me tell you (in case you have never had to experience ToysRUs hold music) that ToysRUs has the most horrible hold music loop that I've ever heard, and I have heard a lot of hold music. They gave me a vague response saying the cribs were still not ready. I checked back a week later, more hold music, vague answer, more hold music, was told that the cribs were at the warehouse, and that there was this glitch in their system that keeps happening to orders and that they would email the warehouse and get it fixed. I called back the next day to make sure that "email" was sent. More hold music. No one knew about an email. That's when I pulled out some skills I learned from my mother and asked to speak straight to a manager and get these dang cribs figured out. I was polite but firm and reiterated that my experience with these dang cribs was very frustrating and becoming time-consuming. That's when the manager apologized and stated she would give us 50% off the cribs. I thanked her, hung up the phone, and high fived Josh. Despite the annoying runaround with the company, buy-one-get-one-free cribs are AWESOME! We got them on Friday night, and Josh had them assembled by Saturday. Now, this whole twin deal feels really real. Eek. 

Josh is ready to rock some boys to sleep!

We also got in our new navy striped rocking/swivel chair and ottoman that we ordered from Walmart online. We are pretty happy with the quality and comfort of the chair. I was nervous since we didn't get to see it in person first and based the purchase on online reviews. I'm looking forward to rocking my little babes to sleep in that chair.

 
 Last weekend, Josh made his second appearance as Mr. Easter Bunny at the Prime Easter Egg Hunt. He somehow transforms into character very well...hopping around and hanging out with dozens of kids and not complaining at all. Love him! This year, we had over 100 kids attend the hunt and get photos with E.B. Shout out to my little sister Amanda who also helped hide the 1000+ eggs for the hunt with me and Josh. I couldn't have done it without them because I found out I wasn't a very fast egg-hider with my pregnant waddle.




Other than those things...I don't have too much to share. Nothing too exciting or funny or crazy right now...which is probably a good thing. I kind of finally feel like we made it to that "honeymoon" phase of pregnancy. Besides being quite large, I feel pretty good overall and happy to be pregnant. I'll enjoy this phase while it lasts because I'm sure it won't last too long. Have a great week everyone! 

Happy Easter from the Mueller's!