24 weeks/6 months - Bye-bye Belly Button!

It's been awhile since I've had time to update everyone on the babies! I've been SO absolutely swamped with planning the wedding (which is only 2 weeks away!), White Hawk stuff, planning the house, packing up, baby prepping, and working full-time! I'm quite the busy bee!!

So, now for the good part :)
Both babies are ........................GIRLS!!!

Beautiful and healthy girls! The doctor is very pleased with their size and closeness in size. They are now:
Baby A - 1lb 9oz
Baby B - 1lb 12oz
With twins it's important that they stay close in size or complications can occur.

Arvelle is definitely one of them and we've decided that Steve will name the other one :)

At the last ultrasound, Thursday, we actually got a video tape of our babies! It came out perfect and we can't wait to share it! Jim is going to attempt to put it into a digital format for us. As soon as we get it, I'll post it up here for all to see! Take care till then!

*DRUM ROLL PLEASE*

Ok...we finally found a scanner so we could get the pics up!
You can click on it for a bigger image.
Here we go....
Yup...you read right....BABY A AND BABY B!!!!
We nearly died right in the ultrasound room! TWO BABIES!!!! OMG!!!
TWINS!! They are fraternal (not identical).
Here are some other shots of them:

They even had the ultra-cool 4D technology up and got this shot of Baby B's face/arm:
This means so much...and we even found out the gender, but might wait to share (in order to have a lotto or some such thing). We'll decide tomorrow, as right now it is very late and I am exhausted....the babies need their mommy to sleep up!! lol

HALFWAY THERE!

Yup! That's right! Our little baby is about half-way "done" at almost 19 weeks! You might even say that s/he's a half-baked bun :)

Things are coming along great! The baby is up to several movements a day, ranging from drop-kicks to love-taps. We keep trying to time it so that Steve can feel it, but so far the timing is off. We'll get it any day now!

We are so excited about Thursday! We finally get to see our little creature! We'll be sure to get the ultrasound picture (if s/he isn't camera shy) up as soon as we get home! We're hoping for a decent profile shot!

People keep asking about names. So far we have first names only and they are:
girl - Arvelle
boy - Damien
Arvelle is the elvish word for the awe of nature. Like when you hike to the top of a mountain and look out and your breath is taken away by the view. That's arvel - we changed the spelling.
Damien is a name we both like. The baby will be a Leo and the name is a strong one, it is greek and means "to tame".