Everything's FINE!

How do you feel?
     I'm fine.
Fine? You know what "fine" stands for, don't you?   
     Yeah, unfortunately. Freaked out... Insecure... Neurotic... And emotional.

From one of my and Tim’s favorite movies, The Italian Job. And that’s EXACTLY how we feel right now – FINE!

We found out a few things this week, as B has had two doctor’s appointments. She will go back to the doctor on Monday and they will be scheduling her c-section for sometime at the end of April. All of a sudden we are down to one month and counting! She has also been put on bed rest, so we ask your prayers that she will adhere to that and that the little ones will hang in there a few more weeks and not try to come too early. They are around 33 weeks right now. This week’s ultrasound also showed a boy and a girl, so we’re about as sure about that as we can be at this point!

Wanted to share a couple of fun stories from the past few weeks.

Telling my 93-year-old Grandma was so much fun. She has lost all of her hearing, so we ended up making her a short storybook. Her reaction was priceless! The next day she had my dad take her out shopping, because she just had to be the first one to get the babies a gift. Those little green receiving blankets will be cherished forever!

Quote from our little friend Colby after being told by his mom that we were going to have two babies: “Does that mean Tim gets to have one in his belly too?”

And our friend Austin insisted to his mom that twins could not be a boy and a girl. Twins have to be two boys or two girls that look exactly alike.

We were able to take one last trip together before our world changes forever. My parents had planned a big family vacation for the end of May, which obviously is not going to work for us anymore! Our “consolation prize” was that they took Tim and me down to Atlanta for the SEC Tournament. Let’s see… beautiful weather, great seats, a throttling of the Gators, and another trophy? I think I’ll take that as a consolation prize any day!

And God had neat plans for that trip too. The entire weekend at the games, we sat in front of some really nice guys from Alabama. They all seemed to be older high school or college age, and then there was one older gentleman. We joked and talked with them for a few days – cheered for them against Georgia and then beat them the next day, lol. But they were so nice and polite and a lot of fun. On Saturday mom got to talking to the older man, and found out that he was the father of the three guys beside him. Mom made the comment that she had three girls, and he said that he also has a little girl – who they adopted from China. (And her name is Lucy Grace, which is crazy, because my aunt is Lucy and her adopted daughter is Grace!) Mom then shared our adoption situation with him, and it turns out he is on the board of a large international adoption agency. Needless to say we got to talking about a lot of things after that, including Radical and David Platt, because they’re from Birmingham and attend one of the other large churches there. So cool.

 As I am writing this, our friends Chuck & Abby are in Ethiopia preparing to come home with their children Zeek and Layla! We also have some friends in China who will be home soon with their new daughter!

 A lot of people have asked about where we are registered. Here is the list:

Babies-R-Us
Buy Buy Baby
Target
Kohl’s
Wal-Mart
Elder-Beerman

 Look for an update next week once we find out what day everything is scheduled for.   :-)