Double Happiness

This year, we have a little something extra to celebrate…

…or should I say, two little something extras to celebrate…

I’m pregnant!

With twins!

^^ Can you believe I actually made that banner? As someone who hates anything crafty or DIY, I can’t. ^^

For those who have been suspicious about my three+ month vanishing act last year, now you know why. I had the worst “morning” sickness that lasted all day, every day, and left me almost completely debilitated for months. I couldn’t eat or sleep, or do much of anything besides lie in a curled up position in a dark room (or beside a toilet) while my kitties (b/c Sly was traveling/away a lot during my first tri) kept me company.

Besides being sick, we’ve been waiting a while to announce mainly because we aren’t big on public announcements and I wasn’t sure if it was something I wanted to include on this blog. But, given that in a few month’s time there will likely be two little kiddos popping up in photos/referred to from time to time, I figured I should probably at least mention that I’m preggers!

There’s a lot more I want to write about (although don’t expect any birth stories, nursery decorating tips, maternity fashion, photos of me with a flower crown, tips on how to lose baby weight, baby milestone updates, etc.), but I’ll save it for another post (or two). For now, a few answers to some questions that people have been asking us since we broke the news:

• I’m currently at 27 weeks. Our due date was initially set for May, but since our twins are growing ahead of the curve, and since twins are normally born earlier than singletons, the drs have tentatively pushed the date up by a month. So we’re anticipating an April – May due date if all goes well.
• We plan on having the twins in Korea, at a Korean hospital, by a Korean doctor. This is apparently very confusing for many to grasp.
• We weren’t necessarily planning on having kids in Korea, as in having kids abroad wasn’t necessarily some end goal. It just sort of worked out that way.
• We didn’t “plan on having twins” (how does one even plan on twins?), although I’ve always had a strange gut feeling that I would have twins, even since I was a kid. I don’t know why.
• The twins will be naturally born American citizens.
• We haven’t decided how much longer we’ll be in Korea. Living abroad has always been a “we’ll take things as it comes” sort of thing, even before the twins, and that is still our mentality now. Right now we are starting our fourth (!!) year of living in Korea. The max time we can stay here is until January 2020. As of now, we’ll probably at least stay until the end of this year and then reassess where we are after that.
• We are still planning on keeping our kitties. (OBVIOUSLY!)
• We do know the sex but don’t plan on doing any sort of gender reveal.
• We do have names picked out but we want to meet the twins before fully committing. They will most likely have family names from my German side of the family.
• Our parents/family plan on coming out to Korea when the twins are born to help. Because we’ll definitely be needing a lot of help.
• In the very early stages of my pregnancy, before I even knew I was preggers, I ate an entire Costco-sized jar of banana peppers. Sly, who witnessed the aftermath, jokingly asked, “Are you pregnant or something?” Of course, we laughed, not knowing how true that was… Since then, I haven’t had any “weird cravings” or even really been all that hungry (though pre-pregs I ate enough for 10 people, so…). I pretty much crave the same things I always do/did – Tex-Mex and Viet food. If anything, there are a lot of foods I dislike now, like spicy things.

Even though I’ve been pregnant for a while, it’s still so strange/crazy/wacky/wild that I’m actually pregnant. Like we’re going to have kids in a couple months. We’re going to be parents?! To TWO babies? Does this ever get less weird? Does. Not. Compute.

We’re super excited, but my mind still hasn’t fully processed it. I guess I should get my act together because we still haven’t bought a single baby item yet save for some gifts my family sent us for Christmas. The twins can wear kitty t-shirts, play with cat toys, and sleep in cat beds, right?

PS: Is it wrong how much I’m looking forward to dressing our kitties in the twins’ baby-sized overalls and carrying them around in a baby bjorn?