Babbles

Your guide to those exciting nine months

I’ve been writing over at Babble’s Being Pregnant (almost 3 weeks!) and my posts there are an extension of here – only sometimes more awesome because I get to do things in their dashboard I can’t do on mine.

Like my post on 17 of the best cloth diapers around – from preemie to toddler. Check out my absolute favorites and the ones I lust over. (Yes, I lust over diapers. It’s strange.) [Read more...]

18 weeks pregnant with twins, a belly pic, and a measurement…

18 weeks! Halfway there in a twin pregnancy – although you won’t hear me complaining if they go slightly longer. 36 weeks is the goal I have my eyes on every day.

BO & GO are the size of a…?  Bell Pepper! Grow babies grow!

Photo credit: BabyCenter.com

How far along? 18 weeks 1 day. [Read more...]

Can you keep a secret?

No they’re not triplets.

No we aren’t moving.

No I didn’t get another job.

No I’m not feeling all better.

Ok, now that those are out of the way… [Read more...]

17 weeks pregnant with twin…

Ready?

:)

We are having…

twin… [Read more...]

On the Morning of…

I woke up at 6:30 this morning after not really sleeping at all last night. The excitement. The nervousness. The dreams.

Oh, the dreams. I kept having one of the tech seeing how excited I was and therefore refusing to tell me what the babies were. She just figured that medically I wouldn’t be able to handle the news. :/

So then I woke up at like 2am plotting how to be really unexcited and calm to pretend like I didn’t care. I tried to convince my exhausted self that it was like buying a car you really wanted – you never, ever let the salesperson know.

Logic fail. [Read more...]

Country Crock Spread Recipe: Cooking Veggies for a Toddler

This post is sponsored by Country Crock. I was selected for this opportunity as a member of Clever Girls Collective, and the content and opinions expressed here are all my own.

We’ve never had a big problem with Bella eating her veggies. Up until a few months ago, Bella ate just about anything. As time goes on, she has begun to balk at certain foods, and the past few months I’ve honestly been too tired to argue or really push the “Let’s try one bite” thing. I’ve never been a huge fan of hiding veggies in food, but we eat whole foods that are home cooked so often I haven’t ever stressed her not getting enough of anything important. But it would be nice for her to eat veggies separately instead of attempting to feed them to the cats. [Read more...]