Weekly Update

Tenley is obsessed with Oreos and if we have any in the pantry she'll find 'em:

We had a play date at the Rices and the girls entertained themselves while we lounged on the couch like bums:

While I had the quickest appointment ever with Dr. Adashek, Auntie Karina watched Tenley (or should I say the dogs watched Tenley?):

Tenley was super tired after her busy day with friends that she passed out when we got home:

I was in so much pain on Wednesday that I was unable to take Tenley to her gymnastics class. Luckily, the Venturino girls came over to keep us company. I had fun cuddling Lena and making her giggle, while the girls played and had a dance party: 

Ed took Tenley out for a bit so I could rest and I couldn't find Pearl anywhere. Sure enough, she was cuddled up in sissy's bed waiting for her to come back:

I was still feeling awful on Thursday so I stayed on the couch as much as possible while Tornado Tenley took over. She played with every toy she has, lined up her friends and gel clings several time (major OCD issues), gave Purr check-up after check-up and watched it rain out the front window:

(While giving Pearl a check-up, Tenley and I had this conversation...

Tenley: Uh-oh!! No!!

Me: Does Pearl not feel good?

Tenley: Yeah...Purr bad!)

I still wasn't feeling good Friday morning. Usually my pain worsens throughout the day and will start to diminish throughout the night, but it hadn't let up for 3 whole days and getting up to pee was literally taking 15 minutes and felt like pure torture walking to the bathroom. I tried to tough it out, but I was having such bad contractions that I was crying. To make matters worse every time I cried Tenley would cry and throw a tantrum because she didn't know what was wrong with me. It got so difficult to do anything so I texted my doctor about what was happening and he suggested I come in for monitoring. During monitoring I was having contractions every 2 to 5 minutes:

Since I was having more contractions than they'd like to see at almost 31 weeks they wanted to do an ultrasound to double check the babies and check my cervix. The babies were lively and scored a 6 out of 8 on the ultrasound exam. Ev was being shy again, but Wes was looking right at Mommy the whole time:

With the monitoring and ultrasound the babies scored an 8 out of 10 and they were doing great. Lastly, they checked my cervix and said I was only dilated a fingertip. Due to all the contractions I've been having the doctor prescribed me Procardia to stop the contractions so the babies could stay in as long as possible to cook. I'm so glad I went to see the doc because I would have been worried sick all weekend. Knowing that the babies were ok really put me at ease and I was finally able to rest comfortably.

Thank God for Lindsay offering to watch T at such late notice while I went to see the doc. The girls played with each others iPad and were really good for Linds:

(I really don't know how I would've gotten through this pregnancy without such great friends to babysit T all the time. I appreciate it so much. Love you, Linds and Karina!)

We had a super lazy Friday night. Tenley lounged in her lil' bro's sleeper and had fun playing with Daddy:

We got T into the Saturday morning gymnastics class so that Ed could finish out this session with her and they had a blast together:

T really missed Pearl while she was at gymnastics and made sure to give her lots of hugs when she got home:

That night, Ed got out all the Christmas boxes to start decorating so we could relax during his 4 day weekend. Tenley was such a big help and had so much fun putting Santa hats on Pearl and telling us where to put the ornaments:

(Always lining things up! OCD- just like her parents!)

Since we're on the topic of Christmas...I tried thinking of things I need. The only things that I actually need is my school loans to disappear, a car to fit my massively expanding family and bedroom furniture, but that's a whole other story. Since I don't truly need anything, I'm sharing the few items in lusting over:

Ed forced me to do nothing, but lay in bed on Sunday and I happily oblidged. When I lay in bed the twins are always sticking their lil' tushies out making my belly look like a butt. I tried getting a picture of it, but the picture just doesn't do it justice:

Until next week! :)

(My favorite holiday is next week!! Woo-hoo!!)