Happy Birthday

...to me and J since we were born on the same day.... It's actually a belated B-day since our Birthdays were on June 2nd. We celebrated yesterday by going to the Zoo and then to a nice meal out. My cravings for new "heavy and unhealthy" foods just amazes me. These boys must like red meat and be big eaters since their mother has never been either. Typically pre-pregnancy I might have ordered a grilled chicken sandwich or fish w/ salad on the side. Yesterday I ordered a warm gooey artichoke dip for an appetizer, a side salad that was filled w/ feta cheese, dried cranberries, candies walnuts, etc. to start out w/ and then I had a half rack of ribs, french fries and garlic mashed potatoes for dinner. Ribs were the only thing on the menu that sounded good and you couldn't have paid me to eat ribs pre-pregnancy. A few hours later after that huge meal where I swore I wouldn't eat again for the rest of the day b/c I was so stuffed I made J take me to Baskin Robbins so I could get a scoop of chocolate mint chip ice cream. I have a feeling I'll have no trouble putting on the recommended 45 pounds now that my appetite has kicked in. Hopefully it won't all pour on in a month though :-)

We have the boys names down to a short list. We know one of the names for sure and the other is between two so I'll announce them when we're decided. We've been looking at cribs and all of the other stuff we need but haven't made any purchases yet. For some reason I've been putting it off (wanting to make sure everything w/ the pregnancy was going the way it should) and we have our house for sale so I don't really want to start decorating the nursery until we find out if we're moving or not. The housing market in California is slow... there are a ton of houses on the market right now so it's definitely a buyers market (will be so nice to be on that side of things). It's a pain in the ass to have your house up for sale. I'm constantly cleaning for someone that may come by. We had one person make an appt that never showed after I rushed around to make the house perfect. We plan to keep the house on the market two more months and then we'll take it off so we can get serious about the nursery and settling "nesting" in before the babies arrive. It would be so nice to move close to where J works (about an hour away) though so keep your fingers crossed for us.

Also- the results to my AFP triple screen came back negative (whatever that means) which I was told is good. I passed my glucose testing w/ flying colors and my thyroid is behaving for now. So I just need to eat, take it easy, put my feet up as much as possible and let these baby boys grow.