35 Weeks Today!

Last week was a good week of taking care of things on my to-do list and ordering baby items and receiving gifts for the girls!

Since many of you can't be here to see all this stuff in person, I took pictures of the latest stuff to share, so you can feel a little excitement, too. (Remember to click on the images to enlarge them.) It is the month of March now, we are getting SO close!!

Early in the week, I got two more boxes of clothing from Christina, mom of two twin girls, too. They were also born at this time of year, just a year ago. She has been a real inspiration. These are 0-3 month outfits, so I will be washing these some time this week and putting them into the drawers.

Then a day or so later, A box from Texas arrived. This was from my friend Laura Kate, who had twins a month before I had Thomas. She lost her son Logan; I posted about him on the CarePages when she did her March of Dimes fundraiser last year. Her surviving twin is Ella, and all these hair bows came from her daughter. The photos she has posted of Ella have been super sweet with these fantastic bows, so I was more than happy to give them a try with these two I am expecting. I have a little bolster pillow that I used to display most of them.

A large envelope arrived on the same day from my parents in Florida. They had attended a craft fair the weekend before (my mom displayed her stained glass work at the same time). These are matching reversible bibs with coordinating fabrics. I show each side in the photo below. Adorable!

On Friday, one of my neighbors, Aileen, dropped off a large wrapped gift for the girls from her and her husband. Earlier in the month I had shown off the contents of the nursery (with all those clothes we've received!) to my neighborhood ladies, and so when she handed me the gift she said, "This is for the cooler months next winter." I waited until Tim got home from work, and we opened it together. They are just the most wonderful snowsuits! If next winter is anything like this one, they will be all set!! Each snowsuit has a coat, snow pants, and matching mittens. They are a dark magenta with silver embroidered snowflakes.

Using coupons and gift cards, I placed an order with Babies R Us for our Baby Trend Double Snap-N-Go stroller and for a Graco Pack-N-Play. We finally got to use our gift from Tim's coworkers at Liberty! Woohoo! The stroller is very light, maneuvers easily, and folds up quickly. You snap in your two infant car seats into the frame, it has no separate seats. This makes traveling to the grocery store (large basket underneath) or the pediatrician's office much easier. We will use it exclusively for the first six months, before needing to buy a regular type of stroller. Hopefully we can then find a nice one for cheap on Craig's List. The pack-n-play is a combination of a playpen, a bassinet, an infant bed, and a changing table. We have plans to drive to Michigan in June (yikes) and so this will work as a traveling crib. It also plays music and the bed and bassinet can be set to vibrate to aid sleeping. One of the babies will sleep in the infant bed for the first two months, while the other one sleeps in the other bassinet we had for Thomas. Then the baby can move to the built-in bassinet. The changing table will be handy for nighttime changes.

The stroller with car seats snapped in place:

The pack-n-play:

Tim will be taking my 35 week milestone photo tonight, so I don't have it ready to post yet. Maybe I will post it along with my birth plan later this week.

So the hospital bag is mostly packed (well, everything is laying out on the table next to the bag), the purple jacket is finished and the pink one is half done, I've balanced the checkbooks and paid all the bills. Slowly but surely Tim and I are taking care of things. Not much left to do!