We are 35 weeks!  The babies are the size of honeydew melons… or my personal favorite (according to one website) the size of roasting chickens.  They are continuing to gain weight, their brains are working hard, and I read that they now have a full set of finger and toenails, which I have been imagining scratching at my bladder- because that’s what it feels like.  

You can see that my little scratching chickens are growing:

My maternity shirts are getting a bit tight!  More pictures from this week- it’s getting hot out here, so I am trying to keep the roasting chickens cool!

So I thought it would be fun to record the best things people have said to me lately- I feel like a celebrity who can’t go anywhere without comments.  Mostly people are trying to be super nice, but sometimes their “conversation starter” comes out a little badly.  So here goes:

At the hairdressers: “Are you having triplets?”  Hmmm… thank you for throwing that out there, and for going one step above asking if I’m having twins.  Now I have to say “no”, and isn’t that super awkward for both of us?

At the pool, and old man says to me: “Nice flotation!”   Wha?  Nice flotation?  I’m actually swimming back and forth, so are you saying you’re impressed that I’m not sinking?  I have a confused look on my face before he says, “The baby must like it too”. Oh!  Okay, this was your segue into talking about the “baby”.  So you weren’t really congratulating me on not drowning.  Got it.

A girl in my neighborhood told me I looked “extra pregnant”, which I thought was actually a great way of describing me.

A woman at the front desk of our community pool: “You look great!” I’m thinking, thanks! before she adds, “except for your belly”.  Okay, I see where you were trying to go with this, but really I think it came out wrong.  

I hate any comment with the word “Wow!” in it.  Especially one guy, who just made a loud, extended “Woooooowwwwww” as I got out of my mother’s car in a parking lot.  I’m sure I’m not the only pregnant woman he’s ever seen?  Right? 

Two people also asked me if the twins were “planned”.  Yes, I pre-programmed this.  It was like ordering off of a menu.

Really, it’s nice that people are so interested, and that they want to talk to me.  I just think some of the things they say are funny, and actually a lot of people do say really sweet and totally acceptable things!  And to be fair, I do look huge.  I even almost knocked a bowl of watermelon over this morning, so I can’t really blame people for noticing.

We are getting so excited to meet the babies, and now their room is almost all set and ready for them.

Thank you to all of our wonderful, amazing friends and family who have made our cute little nursery possible.  We couldn’t have done it without you, and we can’t believe how lucky we are.  I’m sure the babies can already feel how loved they are!