This week, the babies are the size of mangoes, and I can feel their mango-judo chops more and more often.  Here are some 18 week pictures:

I’m also pretty sure I experienced my first pregnancy craving, in the form of a banana.  I had already eaten my usual lunch, and all of the sudden I had a major, major desire for a banana.  And when I ate it, it was the best thing I’d eaten in my entire life.  I eyed another banana that was on the counter, and it was tempting, but I figured I’d better stop at one.  

In other news, we had another doctor’s appointment today, with a quick ultrasound.  This was a different doctor, who disagreed with the previous doctor about the genders; this one said she didn’t see any boy.  So the doctor’s are disagreeing, and we are trying to patiently wait until our next ultrasound in February.  Tricky babies!

This week we had our ultrasound, where the doctor tried to look VERY carefully at the genders.  And she is “almost” positive that they are…

!!!

But we’ll wait for our next ultrasound to be totally sure!  We can’t run out and buy pink and blue just yet!

The doctor noticed that the girl was kicking the boy in the head- already acting like siblings!  I’m sure they were “love kicks” 😉  We got a nice picture of little girl, but the boy was turned upside-down with his back to the camera, so maybe we’ll have a better photo op next time!

This week, the babies are the size of onions (the size of the foods are debatable, because I have an avocado-their relative size last week-in my house right now that is much bigger than an onion, but I’m confident that they are growing, so they must be some big onions!)

To prove how big these onions are, here are the 17 week pics.

This week the babies can open and close their mouths, which also means they can suck their thumbs!  They have fingerprints already, and are moving their eyes around, although they can’t open them just yet!

Just for fun, here is a picture of their progress from week 10 to week 16! (You can click on the picture to make it bigger).

Week 16!  The babies are the size of avocados, and they can now start to hear things, like Mommy’s voice 🙂  I wish I had a nice soprano to serenade them with, but I can get through “You Are My Sunshine” without too much screeching. 

Here are some pictures of how much they’ve grown this week:

Other milestones:  They are now strong enough for me to feel them moving around occasionally.  I first felt their little “tap tap tap” when I was teaching, and I’m sure I had a big dumb smile on my face.  Other than the taps, it also feels like bubbles popping.  Love the feeling!

Just a quick post for the 15-week pictures!  The babies are growing fast- they are the size of apples now, so I have two apples in there!  My pictures look more like I ate a watermelon…

Now that we have passed into the second trimester, we thought it was a perfect time to let our friends and family know about our babies.  What better day than the first day of 2014?  We had Kiki and Pitu help us make the big announcement.  Here are some out-takes:

The one we posted…

Do you see the little nibble in the paper?  I had to bribe them with pellets to keep them from eating the sign!

Nothing but a bunny butt…

Bunnies + Photography = Really really difficult!

In other news, on the 30th we had another ultrasound, and this time Josh got to see them both.  Both babies are fine and moving around a lot!  Still don’t know the genders!

Also, both babies went on their first international trip!  Here is the bump picture from their travels:

The babies have really started to pop out!  It’s amazing the change a few weeks make!