Monday, September 18, 2006

"The Twins..."

Remember when I posted about NOT calling the babies "The Twins?" Well, we have had some suggestions about what to call them. But I think my favorite is one that I came up with myself. So far everyone seems to like it -

The Triflettes

Let us know what you think!

Saturday, September 16, 2006

A Done Deal!

The closing went extremely well.... only took about an hour. We now own 2230 Evening Sun Road! (AND 415 Hickory Drive - oh joy!) Our walk through was extremely easy. We didn't find anything except a few things that needed to be touched up with paint. That was to be expected. The painter will come on Monday to take care of that. Today is moving day! Robert spent the night with Grandmom and she will bring him to the new house tonight. I can't wait to show him his new room and his new playroom!
Ready for my favorite part of yesterday... NOT the King Crab Legs I celebrated with at dinner, and NOT the 5 complete minutes I spent envisioning how my clothes will hang in my new walk in closet... my favorite part was when we got down to the final numbers at the closing... (Bobby and I did ALOT of number crunching before we considered building/purchasing a new home. We needed to make sure that we weren't biting off more than we can chew and that it was an investment we really could afford. We came up with different scenarios- i.e. if the mortgage is X dollars and the the taxes are Y dollars, and we sell our current home for Z dollars, this is how much our mortgage will be. We came up with an ideal number. It was higher than I had liked but certainly not unreasonable - A very comfortable number. The ACTUAL number would remain a mystery until the closing, when everything was in print.) We expected our monthly payments to be higher than our estimation. It was. But only by $4.01! I was so happy about that! AH, its the little things...

Time for me to go... there are so many little things that need to get thrown into boxes before the crew gets here to start the move! Lucky me, I get to go sit at the new house and wait for the refrigerator to be delivered!

Public Service announcement: if ANYONE reading this is ever considering building in the Lehigh Valley, we STRONGLY reccommend TUSKES HOMES. They were honest, thorough, fair and FAST! We are so impressed with the quality and construction of our new house. Hope you can make it by for a visit! :)

Saturday, September 09, 2006

elaboration on the last post...

So, as you can plainly see, we're having TWINS! (why is it that whenever I type that word, it has to be in all caps???) We are both shocked and delighted. I have always wanted three children. Bobby has always said he wanted 2, but he was warming up to the idea of three. I got my way... again - And there is nothing Bobby can do about it! Life is good!

On to the questions everyone has been asking... "Do twins run on either side of your families?" Well, the answer is yes. I have twin cousins. However, they are identical. Identical twins are NOT genetic. Our twins, it appears are fraternal (two eggs meet two sperm becoming two sacs with two placentas. Identical twins share a sac and a placenta and are formed from just one egg that splits in two) On the Trif side, we just found out that Bobby's great great aunt had fraternal twins. It's unlikely that Bobby's genetics plays any part in the fact that we have twins, since it appears that it was ME who released two eggs when we conceived -this is called hypo-ovulating.
I, on the other hand, have my own theory... As many of you know, this pregnancy was a surprise. I stopped taking the pill in June. I thought maybe we could start trying for another little Trif in the Fall, and I wanted to give my body time to get back into it's natural cycle. Well, we got pregnant 2 weeks after I stopped the pill. My personal theory is that my body was playing 'catch up' and that is why 2 eggs were dropped.
Regardless, we are overwhelmed, surprised, anxious, and excited all at the same time.
We need to pick 4 names, 4 godparents, get another crib, another carseat, a double stroller, and probably a new car. (Ugh, the thoughts of driving a mini-van...) And as for the new house, well we managed to fill up all 4 bedrooms, and we haven't even moved in yet! Thank god the house thing was taken care of of I'd be freaking out even more!
We are almost positive we will be finding out the sexes of the two tiny Trifs. We've been surprised enough this time around! We will find out in November.

And help me out on this one if you will ... Please do NOT call them "The Twins!" We have to think of something better than that!

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Friday, September 01, 2006

Our (my) Kitchen

Minus some cabinet doors and appliances... The kitchen is coming along. Under the cardboard on the floor is hardood, and and island will be installed in the middle.
The house is completely painted inside, and flooring has been laid in the bathrooms as well. The banister on the main staircase has been installed and stained to match the hardwood. We're waiting on appliances, carpets, and bathroom fixtures... and we're just about finished!



(master bath-yay!)