Back to the real world this week!

Hi everyone!

Hope everyone has gotten to enjoy this AMAZING Indian summer weather we're having (well, those of you in Florida, you're practically still IN summer, yeah?). We actually grilled out hotdogs and had a little picnic on our deck today...in November! We loved it!

Not long after I wrote my last post, Sam got quite sick last weekend. He started running a high fever and just wanted to sleep. So of course, we worried that he had come down with H1N1 again. He ran a high fever (101-103) for about 3-4 days, and then FINALLY started recovering. He ended up with some kind of croup-like illness. We put him on a short-course of steroids after a really rough night mid-week. He's on the mend now...and thankfully all Mark and I got from it was a very mild cold that's nowhere to be seen.

Sam had his H1N1 vaccine over a week ago, so hopefully his immunity to it is almost developed. I was lucky enough to get mine on Thursday at my perinatologist. Mark still doesn't qualify for it, but he was lucky enough to snag a seasonal flu vaccine last week at his work. All in all, it was a shot-heavy kinda week.

I had a pretty uneventful perinatologist appointment last Thursday. Amazingly, I only waited about 20 minutes to get in. All the nurses were joking that the doc must've had some 'hot date' to be moving so close to on-time! I got to hear the twins' heartbeats again on doppler...it never fails to give me chills to be reminded that there are two little living babies in me! I even gained 2 lbs this visit...which is the first weight gain and not loss I've had all pregnancy! I go back again in two weeks and will start taking weekly progesterone shots, which will (hopefully) help prevent pre-term labor. Although with having twins, we know I am high risk.

So all in all, we're hanging in there! Mark is still quite tired from working so hard at work and at home. He got excited at the store this weekend and already stocked up on Thanksgiving supplies! Sam is excited to go back to school after missing both days last week. I'm excited to get to be out and about a little bit more. The walls around here seem to be closing in on me lately!

Hope everyone is doing well! Thanks, Kathy C. for your recommendation for your carpenter-husband. Woohoo! Let's get things moving!!!!