That shit cray!

Sorry for the hiatus! Things just got a little crazy!

It all began when we had our first scan on 14th June 2012. An image of a perfect, tiny little baby popped up on the screen, and for a second I freaked and thought it was dead because it didn't move at all. but the scanner lady (i know she has a proper title but my mind has gone blank) piped up and said yup, baby is looking good and has a strong heartbeat.

so then i was just excited. because it was just like all the images i've seen in the movies/online and was just perfect. i couldn't believe it was inside me! She did say it was measuring smaller than expected, which means my dates are out by about 11 days.  and as she moved the wand around, i swear i saw a flicker of something. just  a little blob at the edge of the screen. but then it was gone in a split second. and the next couple of words out of the lady's mouth were - how do you feel about two?

At which point i broke into hysterical giggles while josh sat there stunned, looking like he was going to faint. and then we were saying "are you serious", "are you sure", "i knew it" (that was josh)", and "it's your fault" (that was me whilst pointing at josh and giggling some more).

so josh reckons he'd been talking about the possibility of twins with his mother just 3 days before the scan. but he hadn't said a word to me the whole time. and i'd googled twins and it said that the twin gene runs through the mother and as there are no twins in my family, i didn't think twins were very likely.

the lovely lady had a closer look at the twins so she could figure out what type they are and then told us that they are identical. josh got her to check that they weren't conjoined, and also that there wasn't a 3rd one, and thankfully they aren't and there wasn't. phew!  So, seems like we are lucky enough to be having identical twins, which aren't genetic, and are just completely random. A gift from god apparently :)

So i was super excited and couldn't stop laughing and josh was looking more and more shocked. To the point where i was worried he was going to pass out or vomit. What a crazy and wonderful surprise!

For some weird reason, i felt better knowing there are two babies inside of me. As silly as it sounds, I like the idea of them having company and not being alone. and oh my gosh, what a crazy adventure this will be. Looking forward to meeting the babies and learning about identical twins and hopefully, between the 4 of us, we'll be able to figure this all out x We are going to be a family :)