Twins: 18 Weeks

Felt a couple of kicks (Anthony felt them too!) for the first time this week...since week 16 I've felt them rolling around but no jabs towards the outside.  So incredible!  Half-way to full term (36 weeks for twins) even though 37, 38, 39, and 40 weeks might creep up on them still in the womb anyway...if they're anything like me they'll be out and ready to go at 36 weeks...like Anthony, well, they might just lounge while they can and come out walking...

See ya Saturday!  I'm off to roll a coat of paint on kitchen cabinets!  :)

Chaos All Around

Thursday morning:

Yesterday morning:

Last night:

 Countertops in!

Later last night:

As you can see, chaos reigns in this kitchen.  Let me point out the ways...

1 - left-hand cabinets, empty, sanded, and ready to be painted...tomorrow?

2 - dishes and leftovers on left counter...why?  no working sink + no working dishwasher/drying rack = dirty dishes

3 - new, lovely sink, installed but without it's soul mate, the faucet, and it's undercarriage

4 - food from left cabinets completely covering every square inch of dining room table, thereby forcing us to dine in front of the tv...what a tragedy

5 - Anthony, the plumber/electrician for the night, happy we found the correct box for our new over-the-sink pendant but unhappy because he just realized our sink will not be wettened tonight due to lack of plumbing parts...trip to Lowe's in the morn

6 - under-the-sink plumbing hanging out solo in utility room which has a blue hue due to lighting and camera settings
7 - a mess of a backsplash wall due to a) no backsplash yet and b) markings and dents from Anthony's demolition fest ripping out old countertops Thursday night

8 - if you could peer into the room we call our living room, you'd see two sets of saw horses atop a bed of sheets (protecting the floors from any 'oops'), an unfinished loveseat (yep, remember that?), five paint and primer cans, various paint tools, a plethora of cleaners from under the sink, and nine cabinet doors waiting to be stripped...whew...

Hence, there's enough chaos in this house for both you and us.  AND (as if that's not enough), during my need-to-take-a-break-because-I'm-five-months-pregnant-with-not-one-but-two-children, I'm playing around with blog design, hence why this here blog probably looks a little unkempt right now. 

 Pardon the construction, mess, and lack of a better post people, we're DIYers and it's the weekend!

Be back next week with a somewhat cleaner facade.  :) 

Twins: Week 17

 Special thanks this week (and every week) to the Beband from Target (hand-me-down to me) for letting me get away with only having to buy one pair of maternity jeans and helping me feel like I can get away with wearing all of my non-pregnancy pants...hopefully for the remainder of the twins life in utero...and probably beyond.  Also to Shiva Rea and her incredible Prenatal Yoga dvd (and to Farrah, who let me borrow it), which has somewhat soothed my aching, stretching abs and back only at the cost of me looking quite silly while trying to imitate her.  Thank you too to a somewhat stranger who told me during a convo about twin pregnancies that I was going to get so wide come 8-9 months that I wouldn't be able to wrap both arms under my belly and touch my fingers...just what I wanted to hear. 

And last but not least, to my Aunt Angie for giving me this rad, sequined number of a shirt, thereby making me my own personal disco ball to which I can jump, jive, and wail all night long...or at least for a few minutes before my body shuts down due to fatigue and my legs feel like they're going to give out.  :)

One Down

Three sections to go.  Hopefully priming and painting the next three won't take me two weeks each either.  My fun-filled schedule of babysitting, eating, napping, and painting in between isn't really conducive to a kitchen remodel.  But, the next few weeks seem a little more lax so hopefully I'll have this baby done by the middle of March.

As far as priming and painting go, I followed the same process I used during our master bath paint fest, except I rolled on two coats of paint instead of one.

Primed:

Painted:

Of course we still have a couple of things to do like add a light fixture and some molding to cover the gaps between the sofit and cabinets near the window but that's all on Anthony's to-do list so I'm free to move on to the opposite side.

Speaking of the opposite side, late one night last week we also managed to mangle some shelving and trim to finally make way for the above-the-range microwave we've had living in our guestroom closet for the past year.  Three cheers for getting our old microwave off the counter soon, thereby uncovering some coveted counter space and making our kitchen step even further into the 21st century!

Fingers crossed and hoping upon hope, our new countertops will be here and in next Friday (they were supposed to be here yesterday but were 'back-ordered'), so I'll be sure to squeeze in some exciting pictures of those.  :) 

Have a great weekend!  I'll be spending some of mine doing prenatal yoga, hoping it'll cure my aching abs.  :)

Happy Valentine's Day from a 16 Weeker!

I thought I'd add a little bit of a smile/smirk since it is Valentine's Day and all.  I'm not really one to take self-pictures so don't mind the half-hidden-behind-the-camera-awkward smile...my sis was the ham in our family, always stealing the show.  :) 

The twins are growing...rapidly I feel.  Also, depending on when I take their weekly pictures, my belly changes a little in size.  In the morning I feel like I have just a tiny bit of show but come nighttime, I feel (stretching muscles tired of stretching all day) and look a couple of inches bigger.  Funny how that is.  But either way, I'll take it.  Anywho, not much time for chit chat cause our double stroller just waltzed...er, heavily slid...through the front door courtesy of UPS and an unknown as of right now gift-giver!  Boy did reality hit me seeing it sit in our foyer!  Off to opening it and further getting enthralled with the ever-solidfying reality that we're having two children at once!  Oh my goodness!

Have a wonderful, love-filled Valentine's Day everyone!