Cravings...

Just so I don't forget....
One of the symptoms I've been having since becoming pregnant has been food cravings. I get them and I get them bad. I think they are rather amusing, but are also a big pain as some of them aren't the most convenient. Lucky for me, I have the greatest husband who has never denied me my craving indulges and a family who has dropped everything to come pick me up and take me down to the ghetto to get my taco fix. Below are some of the items I've craved since being pregnant:

1. Pickles: This wasn't a normal craving for pickles. It happened the week after conception and I didn't even know I was pregnant yet. I ate almost an entire jar of pickle spears and was drinking the juice out of the jar when I realized it wasn't normal. People don't drink pickle juice!
2. Crispy beef from P.F. Chang's
3. Sizzling rice soup from Abbicus Inn
4. Corn on the cobb from Kentucky Fried Chicken: I have never once craved their corn on the cobb. In fact, I normally don't even like it all that much!
5. Barbeque
6. Spaghetti with meatballs
7. Tacos from the original Garcia's
8. Buffalo Wild Wings
9. Nachos from Taco Bell
10. Oranges
11. Bananas: I didn't get to see this one through to fruition. I bought them and when I went to put them on my cereal seeing and smelling them made me puke.
12. Yogurt
13. Cottage cheese with Lawry's season salt on saltine crackers
14. Mango gelatto
15. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches

Some of these cravings I think are so funny. I mean, corn on the cobb from KFC? Really? But I have thoroughly enjoyed each one of them...that is until I've puked them up and never want to see them again!

Week 10 Ultrasound Pics

Our doctor wanted us to have two ultrasounds during the first trimester since we having twins. Below are the pictures from that visit. If you look closely in the third picture, you can see why the ultrasound tech thought she tell the baby on the left is a boy.

Groens...soon to be a party of four!

Eric and I have some very exciting news....we're expecting twins!! I'm officially 12 weeks pregnant tomorrow. I had my 12 week doctor's appointment yesterday and since everything looked good, I'm spilling the beans! The official due date for our bundles of joy is July 1st, 2009. We've learned that the average gestation for twins is 35 weeks, so they will most likely arrive in early to mid June.
The first trimester has been pretty rough. I've been incredibly sick and can't wait until the "morning" sickness wears off. That terms still gets me. There's nothing "morning" related to it! I can tell it's getting a bit better, though. It really takes a strong smell now to throw me over the edge. Just a few weeks ago, I would throw up in the morning as soon as I woke up and then usually whenever I would eat anything or drink too much of something. I've been so grateful to have taken the last few months of work. I have no idea how I would have been able to work feeling like this. But now that the nausea is beginning to wear off, fatigue has set it. I get so tired just by doing normal everyday things. Just by taking a shower and getting ready for the day I get so worn out!
At our doctor's appointment yesterday, we got to see the babies again with the ultrasound, but the printer wasn't working to take home a picture. Baby A (the baby closest to the cervix) always does flips whenever we see her (I have a feeling she's a girl, so until I'm told otherwise, I'm calling her a "she"). I think she has a personality like me: very type A and energetic. She's always moving around!
Baby B (who we think might be a boy) seems to have a personality more like Eric's. Whenever we see him, he's just hanging out and only seems to move around when he has to. At our 10 week ultrasound, there was a really good shot of Baby B's butt. The tech was looking at it for awhile and said that although it was really early to tell, she thought she could tell the sex. I thought what I was looking at was the umbilical cord, but she said that if it was it would turn colors when she brought up a red square on the screen. That was so exciting.
We just love our doctor. Eric got a chance to meet him yesterday and when I told Dr. McKernan that Eric was a medical student, he introduced himself as Paul McKernan (yep, they're on a first name basis!) and would use real medical terms when we were looking at the babies. Eric really appreciated that. Dr. McKernan tells us every time I see him we have the best type of twins you can have. They are fraternal twins (so separate egg, separate sperm) and have separate membranes and are in excellent positions in the womb (sounds weird calling my uterus a womb, but I guess it is!).
We feel so blessed to already have these two in our lives. We can't wait to meet them!