Happy Birthday Claire and Lucy

We are very happy to introduce Claire Elizabeth and Lucille (Lucy) Charlotte! Claire was born at 1:13 and weighed 6 lbs and 4 oz. Lucy was born at 1:15 and weighed 5 lbs 8 oz. Both of the girl are perfect and are beautiful. That is Claire on the left and Lucy on the right in the picture. They both have a good head of hair. Lucy's is lighter and we think may be a tad red while Claire's is very thick and very dark.

Laura, the reason the girls are so beautiful, is doing really well.

I couldn't be more proud!

Big Reveal

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Any Day Now

Today the BOGOs are 34 weeks! That means the Drs won't due anything to stop labor if it starts. And we know they won't let us go past 37 weeks, so we'll have babies anytime now. Though nothing is imminent.

As of Monday, both of the girls weigh 4 lbs 12 oz - that is 9 and 1/2 lbs of baby! We keep hearing the bigger the better, so we hope to girls stay in there for a while. I've told 'em they are grounded for a couple of weeks. We'll see if they listen to me....

Week 33

Tomorrow, the Bogos pass the 33 week mark. At the Doctor appointment last week, Dr. Shaw made a big deal about getting past 32 weeks. Essentially saying that babies born at 32 weeks do really well. The way we see it, getting to 33, 34 or 35 weeks is just that much better. The Dr. also told us that he won't let us go past 38 weeks. One way or another, the McNally Clan will double in the next 5 weeks. Yikes!

We will be going to the Doctor every week now and have an ultrasound on Monday. We are hoping to find that Bo, aka Baby B, has flipped and is back to head down. Keep your fingers crossed...

The addition has moved past the 6th week and with any luck should be done within the next two weeks!!! Today they started painting. Friday the hardwood floor goes in. Monday the kitchen cabinets go in. Then, really should just be the finishing touches. The pictures don't do it justice, but here are a couple so you can see how it looks....

Week 4

Today completed the 4th week of construction and much of the inside work began today. For a while it looked like progress was slow. Once the walls and roof were complete, it looked like everything stopped. It didn't though and the crew worked diligently installing insulation in the walls, ceiling and on the foundation and installing the electrical.

The first inside work is installing the new can lights in the kitchen. That meant tearing into the ceiling and, well, it seems that we will be without a kitchen from now until the project is done. We could still use it, but it is going to be a mess. Most everything is covered in a thin layer of dust. Just enough so that you know you should clean everything off before you use it. They have also begun putting up the drywall.

In the next few days, we expect they will begin tearing out the wall between the kitchen and the breakfast nook. We have been held up by our new door, which has not been delivered.

The contractors found old newspaper in the walls and ceiling. Not sure why it was there, insulation perhaps. It is very brittle but I was able to find a date on one page - 1933! - which is right around the time the house was built!

BoGo Update

Tomorrow is 31 weeks! It has been a while since the last post on the BoGos. So here goes.

Here are the ultrasound pictures from the doctors visit on the 18th. The top one is Baby A (a.k.a Go) and the bottom one is Baby B (a.k.a. Bo). Mother and babies are doing really well. Bo measured in at 3 lbs and Go measured in at 3 lbs 4 oz.

Both girls seem to be very active and we often spend the evening watching Laura's belly as the duke it out. Laura is sure that Bo flipped over the other night, which would be a good thing because at the last ultrasound we found out that she is now breach.

Laura is holding up like a real trooper. She is a little worried about summer and being to hot. I have assured her that extra air conditioning is in the budget.

We head back the the doctor on Monday June 2nd.

Progress!