Stupid bed!

I HATE bed rest! I've only been at it a few days and I feel like I'm going to come unglued. I moved in with my parents for the month of October to try to get a few weeks farther at least in my pregnancy. They're helping me with the twins. My brothers are 10 and 13 and you should see them changing poopy diapers, feeding the babies, dressing the babies, and so on. It's so cute! They even keep me entertained playing Nintendo with me and chatting and such. My mom gave me a book to read called "Amazing Grace" by Danielle Steele. Pretty good so far. But I'm used to doing laundry, cooking, cleaning, doing everything for the twins. Now I feel so useless. People get on to me if I do anything. Which is what I need I suppose. I know it's what's best for the baby, it's just really hard. You wouldn't think laying around and letting everyone cater to you would be difficult, but it IS! At least I can still take a shower and whatnot. They just won't let me do things like lift the babies or stand on my feet for very long. Even Duane calls to check up on me to make sure I'm not doing anything. With the twins I was gone bowling, playing basketball, shopping, excersising just weeks and days within delivering them. So we're all a little frantic since Turner has decided he wants to come out and play with his brothers instead of staying safe inside me.

Updates...

So we almost had Turner last night. I made it to the ER in perfect timing though. They gave me a couple of shots to stop the contractions and I had to stay over night, but we're both doing good now. I just am not able to do much of anything until the baby is born. How do you manage that with twin babies???

Taylor started sitting up just a week or so after Tyler!! So I have two sitters now. Taylor also got in his two bottom teeth and is trying his hardest to eat my knee cap. Not sure why my knee cap.

I'm too big to bathe the boys now. Tried to do it in the sink, but needless to say it makes to much of a water mess. So now that is Duane's job.

And they can hold their own bottles now too!!!

I think that's about it.

long update...

Daddy put caps on his boys yesterday and Mommy thought it was so cute she had to get pictures.

Tyler is trying to help Taylor sit. Isn't that the cuttest!?

Tyler has been sitting completely by himself for almost 2 weeks now!!! That makes bath time a bit easier.

Taylor's trying to sit by himself. He can make it for almost a minute!

This is him slowly falling over :)

But he does have a lot of lower body strength. Daddy is barely supporting him.


About mid August we traveled up to northwest Arkansas to see my long-time friend Haili for the day. Haili and her mom, Gretchon, were playing with the boys after they all took a nap. It was a long drive.




Tyler thinks lately that he can feed himself. So daddy decided to let him. It made the biggest mess you ever did see! But it was so worth it. Tyler and Daddy had a blast.




Last month I was able to attend the temple three times. I took every opportunity I could. The first, my mom and dad kept the boys so Duane and I could go. The second, the relief society had a day and Kristin and I went with our boys and kept them at the nursery. The third, Jennifer kept my boys so Duane and I could go. It was so wonderful to go in and leave everything at the door. I'm such a worry wart! I worry about everyone and everything. So it was nice having a little peace. Here are me and the twins and Kristin and Christian.

Some of my family and the boys the day of their blessing.

Some of Duane's family and the boys the day of their blessing.

I cut the boys' hair.

Can you tell?

Got my hair done in Arkansas this week.

A little dark, but it should fade some.

These are a couple of ultrasound pictures of Baby Turner. In this one you can see his face on the right side and his body on the left.

This proves he is a boy...definitely.

Where does time go!?

I haven't been very good at keeping everyone informed on what's going on in our lives, so I thought I'd do a little update.

Starting with Duane and I: I bought Duane an xbox 360, so if he's not at work or playing with the babies he's on that. I bought him a new game about a week or so ago and he's already almost done with it! It's a lot of fun for him, and me too because I can get on there and play with him sometimes. But he cancelled our Internet and cable, so if his game isn't on it's my Mario or the babies movies. But I have figured out that my Cd's will play in the DVD player...because we don't have radio either. My parents' bought me a Nintendo with games Mario and Donkey Kong. I love those games!! So I've been playing that in my spare time. Also trying to figure out new ways to entertain the twins. If anyone has any ideas please let me know. I do Baby Einstein, the exersaucers, and of course just sitting and playing with them. The boys are at my parents' house right now, so Duane and I have been playing tennis, ping pong, checkers, and he even taught me how to play chess. I think we're going swimming and playing monopoly tonight when he gets off work. And tomorrow we are finally able to go to the temple. We haven't been able to go for a while. We haven't spent time like this together since the twins were born, so we're both pretty excited.

Now for the twins: They are growing up so fast!! They laugh and roll all the time. Tyler will get into little giggle fits. I love those. They've learned to steal each others toys lately and they try to bite each other. They poop up and out their diapers all the time...about 3 or 4 times each. So we go through a lot of poopy clothes. I've tried the bigger diapers, it doesn't help. And they laugh at me when I catch on to what they've just done, they also laugh at me if I try to get on to them. Silly little boogers!!! They are so funny and you can't help but laugh at all the things they do. They keep me very busy through the day. Can you believe they've learned to do all of these things already!!? I'm sure there's more I just can't think of at the moment. They were also finally blessed this past Sunday. I'll post pictures when I get a chance. I was so thrilled when Duane blessed them. Duane said he feels even closer to them now.

Baby Turner: Kicking up a storm. Boy can the boy kick! And he makes me pee all the time.

So that's the update on our family. I know it was a lot, but I haven't really posted much. Hope all is well with everyone.

It's a boy!

We found out today that we are going to be bringing little Turner Duane Britt into the world the end of December. I believe he'll fit right in with the twins. He's very active and kicks me all the time. Unusual for being so early, but he's a strong little boy. All is well with the pregnancy and everything looks good and healthy.