BABIES!!!!

I had an appointment on Wednesday and everything is going great. I am about 14 weeks (slowest moving pregnancy ever it seems) and happy to say goodbye to the first trimester. I have started to get a little more energy but still get tired really easily. Growing 3 babies isn't easy work :)

Brack is getting very anxious to find out what we are having so we can start getting more things ready. He is making plans for the nursery but can't do a whole lot without knowing the sexes of the babies. So far work is keeping him very very busy (thank goodness) and he is still busy going to school a couple of nights a week. He is a very hard worker and I am lucky for that. He also has had to take on more duties around the house and I never ever hear him complain about it. I'm teaching him how to do the laundry (yes, he hasn't ever done it in the 4 years we have been married), he has taken to cleaning the kitchen a couple of times a week because I'm a freak about a clean kitchen, and he frequently is picking up after me. Oh the beauties of not being able to do anything from fatigue and sickness. He's also getting use to it for when I am on bed rest and when my life is full of just being a mom. He is such a good sport. He is getting excited for the babies and wishes he could come to more ultrasounds to see them. He loves the pictures and DVDs though.

I am getting more and more excited about the babies. To be honest, both of us are still going through the adjustment phase of finding out about the triplets. It is a lot to take in and our lives are changing dramatically. There are a lot of emotions to go through but we are excited. Each time I get an ultrasound I get so excited. I can't even find the words to explain how amazing it is to see all 3 babies inside of me. It seems so unreal. What a miracle it is to see. I still can't believe it sometimes that I have been blessed like this. Although it is going to be hard, it will be amazing to have these 3 babies. I just think that there must be a reason that these 3 have to come together and why they are supposed to come to our family. We won't be able to fully understand it until they are here. We have no doubt though that this is the Lord's plan for us and that we are blessed because of it.

This is at about 10.5 or 11 weeks. (I had more pictures but hated the most recent one so I'll post one from my trip when I get back.)

Like I said, I am starting to feel better and have more energy. My mom and sister have been helping me get a little organization done around the house. I feel like I need to organize what I have now because my life will be taken over by baby things. There is a lot of crap we have accumulated in the time we have been married that we just need to get rid of. Plus it helps with the anxiety I am having to actually accomplish something. I am getting bigger and bigger every week. I'm putting on weight like I am supposed to and trying to be as healthy as I can. I have been reading a lot of books on multiples and learning A LOT! I'm also trying to get in contact with a few moms of triplets and it has helped me to learn and feel better about things. Thanks ladies :) At my appointment Wednesday I was measuring about 18 weeks (although I think I look bigger than that). Oh well, I don't have anywhere for it to go but out. The pregnancy back pains and rib pains have started and too early if you ask me. I think it is because my belly came on so fast that my muscles haven't had time to fulloy stretch. Bracken has been great about a nhightly back rub and bought me a heating pad to use every night to relax me enough to sleep. All of the babies are measuring as big as they should, normal size for any baby for as far along as I am. Two of them are even measuring a week ahead which is great!! I will post a few pictures that I got of them Wednesday. They are looking like babies now and I love seeing them!

Side picture of Baby A

Baby B with arm up to it's head

Cute profile pic of Baby B

Baby C sprawled out horizontally across my belly

Tomorrow Bracken and I are going on a last minute vacation. We decided that with the change that we are going through we should get away with each other. It will be so nice. We are going on a 5 day cruise from San Diego, to Catalina Island, and Ensendada Mexico. I have been to these places but we got a killer deal and just need a get away. We cannot wait!!!

I'll post when we get back. Thanks for everyones nice thoughts and prayers, they are very much needed and appreciated.