Week 30: Nursery Creations; Drawers and Celebrations

My beautiful cousin B, came to visit last weekend with some friends in celebration of graduating med ical school. Our first doctor in the family, and I'm sure many more to come. Cousin B is highly intelligent - of course goes without saying she is officially a Doctor, but she is also gorgeous, funny, great sense of humour, and down to earth. cousin B and I decided to put the twins chest of drawers together.

Cousin B took the lead - she is a Doctor after all, and I was her side kick. we laid out all the nuts and bolts, screws etc on a mat - really the instrument table. Cousin B followed the instructions and I passed her the required piece. It was like playing surgery in the nursery with furniture. Great experience, Cousin B was very methodical, very relaxed (mmm no matter what your profession is, it takes great self awareness to be relaxed when putting Ikea flat pack furniture together) and most of all focused. a few hours later and we were done. YAY! no tears, no swearwords, no tantrums, just good old fashion chatting, laughing and hanging out together. Cousin B will be known as Aunty B to our babies, such a delight to be able to tell them their Aunty and I created the drawers for their clothes.

Week 29: Nursery Creations; Cots and Viable Babies

WE HAVE COTS AND VIABLE BABIES

Our babies have a place to rest their weary heads. Sam and I spent over an hour trying to choose the perfect cots. there are just so many choices, sleigh style, ones that convert to toddler beds, white, oak, ones with coloured rails, oh the list goes on. I left this to Sam to decide on the cots as he is very practical and has good taste in furniture. We spent a friday night hanging out in the nursery putting the 2 cots together, thank goodness it was just bolts and an allan key. Nothing too stressful nor complicated. It was great fun putting the cots together, feels so real now that soon 2 tiny people will be coming to our home and living with us. Its a dream almost coming true!!!

Samosa Babies Update:
Our latest scan results show the babies are growing well and our surrogate Mrs U is healthy and doing just fine. YIPEE - we have viable babies.
Twin 1: HR - 148Bpm. Weight - 1250grams
Twin 2: HR - 154Bpm. Weight - 1169grams

Week 28: Baby Shower

Its our baby shower today, we are super excited to be able to experience this one time event and share it with family and friends. We aren't having the 'usual' style of party, afternoon tea in the garden type event. We decided on yes a garden party, but one at night and with endless drinks flowing. candles everywhere, the tables covered in blue and pink shiny confetti shapes of crowns, balloons and swirls. and glitter. my gosh the glitter was everywhere. This set up made for us the perfect baby shower.

We had wonderful food prepared by my long time friend of 20 years Mr C and his partner Mr M. Gravy for the lamb made by Mrs M's mum, the best gravy in the world. meatballs by Mrs D and the lamb cooked by both Sam and our mate Mr M. Top job everyone. We wrapped up the party at around 3am. I think this may be our last big party night in a long time.

Well....come to think of it, our next big party night will be with 2 tiny people with milk flowing and lots of cuddles - as much as we enjoy going out and having a party, we are truly looking forward to our night parties with our samosa babies.

My dear friend Mrs M, made the most delicious cake. white chocolate mud cake covered in hundreds and thousands. Its a freckle cake! I'm amazed at how she got those tiny hundreds and thousands all over the cake.

Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate with us, one of many celebrations we will have over the coming months. And a big thank you to all the lovely gifts we received, we feel blessed to have such wonderful support from you all. XOXO