Halfway Today!!

Today I am officially 17 weeks along. My goal is to make it to 34 weeks, so that makes today the half-way mark----Hurray! I only hope that the second half goes as well as the first half has! At my doctors visit last Friday everything looked great. The babies still growing well and I am still looking like the model patient. During the ultrasound, the technician was able to find girl parts on three babies and boy parts on two babies. As long as she was really looking at five different babies (I really don't know how they can keep track of everyone in there!), I think it is safe to say that we will be having three girls and two boys! Now comes the monumental task of choosing names. I haven't even started to think about that yet---I figure I will have plenty of time for name searching while I am sitting around all day on bedrest! If anyone would like to give suggestions, I would be happy to take them into consideration. Riley and Kaiya's top three suggestions have been: Falcon, Hot Shot, and Moon Face. They don't understand why I haven't started having towels and onsies engraved with their "fabulous" suggestions.


Below is a 3D image from our last ultrasound. Supposedly all five babies can be seen in the picture. When I first saw the picture, I have to admit that I thought it looked more like modern art than a photo of my future five. However if you stare at it long enough (kind of like those 3D pictures that were so popular in the 90's), you can actually see at least four of the five babies. (The ultrasound gal claims baby five is along the bottom somewhere.)




In addition to being the halfway through my pregnancy, today was significant in our family for another reason. Today my daughter, Kaiya, had her very first "real" haircut. Since her birth, I have only trimmed the ends enough to even things up and given her bangs. It was actually a hard thing for me to chop her hair off----I love cute girl hair, big bows, french braids, pig tails, etc. (thus my excitement over the slightly higher estrogen levels in the quints gender split). However, I am leaving for Arizona in exactly one week and will likely be on bedrest soon after that. Short hair is easier to maintain. Despite my sadness at getting her hair cut, I have to admit that Kaiya looks pretty cute with her short bob. We are going to donate her chopped off hair to Locks of Love, which Kaiya is also excited about. I guess it is time to put away the scrunchies, ribbons, fru-fru bows and ponytail holders and go buy some cute barrettes!











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Halfway Today!!