Okay, I’m feeling much better now. Had a nap and a little dinner. And tomorrow is a new day! Now, onto a better post…

This is so weird, I went back to find the post I made when I was pregnant with Harper around 22 weeks, and it was done on the exact same day as this one! For comparison, I’m going to leave my answers up that I had with Harps, and put these new ones in italics. (I don’t know how to change text size, or do color or anything like that, so here it goes…)

How far along? 22 weeks and 3 days/ 22 weeks and 3 days

Total weight gain/loss: 15 pounds/ haha, well, 32 pounds!

Maternity clothes? In full swing! Just received a TON from my next door neighbor! Now at least I’m not wearing the same things over and over and over again!!!! / I’ve almost outgrown my maternity clothes. I can’t wear my button up shirts anymore as they pull at the belly and are just uncomfortable.

Stretch marks? hmmmm… a few have developed, but not on my tummy! 😉 / not yet… but they are coming…

Sleep: well, sleep is wonderful right now. I sleep like I am in a coma! I don’t hear anything, and Chris says I have picked up a new little hobby… snoring. Oh how delightful! I don’t want to be a snorer! That is gross! Hopefully, it will go a way once Harper arrives! He says I only do it every now and then… so maybe there is hope!/ I do still love my sleep! But I can only sleep for 2-3 hours at a time before I have to go to the bathroom. My poor bladder is squished! I also have been having some crazy heartburn at night. Last night I was up about every 30 minutes with that, until I finally took real medicine instead of just eating Tums like candy.

Best moment this week: shopping for my little girl on Saturday at the outlet mall, i got sooo many cute things – her crib dust ruffle, a bumper pad, 2 cute little outfits I couldn’t resist, and a shadow box frame. / starting to work on the nursery. I can finally start seeing things come together!

Movement: TONS!!! I’m trying to start keeping a kick count, but its hard! I just make sure she moves some every hour. She really goes to town when I’m eating. 🙂 She must like food like her mama! / Movement times 3! I’m beginning to decipher where each baby is located. At our last ultrasound, Baby A was head up, Baby B head down, and Baby C head up. It will be interesting to see if they have moved positions. It wont be long before they won’t have any more room to move, and I will be able to tell who is who!

Food cravings: Cinnamon rolls or muffins/ fruit (I usually keep a fruit salad of strawberries, oranges, grapes, apples, and pineapple cut up and ready for access) or salad with ranch dressing. Still have to eat some protein with each meal or snack or I feel shaky.

Gender: Its a GIRL! / It’s three boys!

Labor Signs: none thank goodness! Although I did have a little scare about 2 weeks ago. I had some cramping all across my abdomen, but it turned out just to be her growing and stretching me out! That happened Friday, and Sunday I had so many people coming up to me saying – oh my gosh, you actually look pregnant now!

Belly Button in or out? in, but shallow! / in only a tiny bit

Wedding rings on or off? off… only b/c they have been giving my finger a weird rash! I’m going to have them cleaned and see if that helps at all! / off so I don’t have to get them cut off. They do still fit, but i’ve heard my fingers can swell quickly at this point, and just not to risk it!

What I miss:eating a good hot dog. Weird, I don’t really even like hot dogs all that much, but since I can’t have them, I just want one. / Drinking as many cups of coffee as I want. I love coffee and wish I could have more, but I only drink 1 – 1 1/2 cups a day. Caffeine isn’t good for the babies. I also miss the ease of rolling over in bed. I am thankful we have a king size bed, otherwise I know I would knock Chris on the floor every time I change positions. It is a major process with about 6 pillows involved. haha!

What I am looking forward to: Chris feeling her move, AND starting to do stuff for the nursery! I will post a pic of what we are hoping for her nursery to turn out like! / Going to our ultrasound on Tuesday and having Mom meet the boys via the tv screen 🙂

Weekly Wisdom: start collecting stuff now! Especially diapers! I try to buy 1 pack every time I go to the grocery store. I’m collecting all sizes so we will have some back ups. I know we will go through them so fast! / Hmmm… I am going through all my pictures I have saved from high school and college and condensing them down into a MUCH smaller pile. I won’t have time to do this after the babies arrive, so I might as well do it now!

Milestones: Finally choosing a name – Harper Grace! Going shopping for Harper, and feeling her move all the time! / Celebrating our 5 year anniversary! Also, working on the nursery! My next major milestone that we’re looking forward to is April 30th, when the boys will be 24 weeks. That is HUGE!!!! Only 1 1/2 weeks to go!!!

And here is a picture of me at 22 weeks, and a pic of our family before Chris and I went to celebrate our anniversary. Oh, my little round face. Babies, when you start needing fat, pull from that area first, okay??? 🙂

Today I am just grumpy. I woke up that way. I have pushed myself hard these past few days without even knowing it. From my mom getting here on Thursday I’ve been going non-stop. Friday we cleaned out the nursery and if that wasn’t a busy day enough, Chris and I went to dinner for our 5 year anniversary. It was fun to get out, but the food wasn’t that great. We went to J.Alexander’s for something new, and neither of us were super impressed. It was so incredibly busy and loud. By the time we sat down, we were starving. He ordered a burger, and I ordered BBQ chicken sandwich. We topped our overly stuffed bellies with ice cream from Sonic (which was yummy), but I paid for my food indulgences that night with severe heartburn. I woke up every 30-45 minutes to eat a Tums. I had to sleep sitting propped up in bed, or otherwise the food was thinking about making a return. I finally took Prilosec and fell asleep about 4:30. Why didn’t I take it sooner? I think it was because I was sleepy and because I was trying to reason with myself that less medicine is best for the babies, so I will tough it out.

Saturday, we woke up and traded furniture with the Taylors. While I didn’t have anything to do with this physically, it was still tiring for me. We went to visit them after all the furniture swapping took place, and I think that pushed me just enough. I never feel like I’m over doing it in the process, it is when I stop that my body lets me know I’ve done too much. On the way home I had about 4 contractions – yes a little scary. I continued to have about 1 ever hour, but they weren’t that intense. I drank about a gallon of water, and rested in my bed until I fell asleep around 10:30. I slept okay last night. I just think my body is still tired from doing so much.

Harper has been the Queen of Whine today, and mom and I can’t figure it out. She’s eaten, she’s slept, her diaper has been changed. I think she is tired of being cooped up inside. Hope we all wake up in better moods tomorrow because it is supposed to rain until Tuesday. We’ll all be itching to get outside on Wednesday morning.

Must sign off… the Baby Einstein theme song is playing for about the 40th time, and I can’t handle it any more!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will post other more *happy* posts later. Just had to vent. Some days are good, some days are bad…

But my God remains the same, and I am thankful that He isn’t affected by my mood!

Five years ago today, I was about to walk down the aisle on my front lawn and say I DO to Chris. I went back to look at pictures of that day, and not only do Chris and I look skinny and young, but clueless. We had no idea of what was on the road ahead of us. Isn’t that what’s so exciting about weddings?!?!

This year we had talked about and planned to go to Lake Tahoe for our anniversary. We wanted to go somewhere neither of us had been… an adventure of sorts. Well, instead, we are going out to dinner because preggers can’t do much of anything these days. My mom is watching Harper, and we will enjoy celebrating and reminiscing the last 5 years, and dreaming about what the next 5 years will hold. Never would I have believed that we would have a precious baby girl and be expecting 3 boys by the time this day came around! But, I couldn’t be happier. Lake Tahoe…you will have to wait. We will visit you some day – probably with 4 kids in tow.

Happy Anniversary, Chris. You make my world a beautiful, safe, joyous, romantic, child-filled and hilarious place!! I love you all my heart and look forward to our adventure for the rest of our lives!!! Thank you for marrying me!

First of all… I will announce our boy’s names because if you are like me, when I read a blog & I’m waiting for important information, I also scroll to find the info, then I will read the rest of the blog… haha. Come on, you know you do it too 🙂

So, without further ado… The Blanton Boys…

Maverick Miller – Maverick was our ‘back up’ name with Harper. Chris LOVES this name. At first I thought it meant wild one, and was a little hesitant to name a boy “wild one.” But, then I came to find out that it meant someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action. I can deal with independence. 🙂 Miller is my maiden name

Warner William – Warner means defender. It was also my grandmother’s (Mama Dot) maiden name, and it was my mom’s middle name. While I have several Williams on my side of the fam, we are specifically naming Warner William after Chris’ grandfather… a man who is a strong, hardworker, and loves the Lord.

Crews Christopher– Crews is my brother’s middle name, and my great grandmother’s maiden name. I love having a little boy named after my brother who has one of the biggest hearts in the world… not to mention a great sense of humor! And Christopher is after his daddy.

Another question we have received about names is how we are going to name them. We are waiting until they are born to look at them and see what name goes with what baby. Oh, and all of them will go by their first names…

Maverick, Warner, and Crews. 🙂 My boys.

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Today we had our big ultrasound. And let me say how good God is!!! One of my prayers was that they would be able to find EVERYTHING they needed on each baby. Guess what?!?! They did! I’m not surprised at all. Both ultrasound techs that worked on me said how rare that was with multiples. Usually they have to bring the mom in several times to get all they need.

All 3 weigh 13 oz., and are measuring 1-2 days ahead. Baby B is a bit longer than A & C. A & C are breech and B is head down. The hospital that we get our u/s at is a teaching hospital. Anyway, I LOVE it when we have a student in the room with us because we get everything explained to us. Having been a nursing student for 1 1/2 years, I know some terminology so I can kind of catch on to what they are saying. Brittany, the student was so cute and excited that she got to see triplets! Sarah, my tech, told me this was only her second time seeing “spontaneous” (no meds) triplets in her career. She was very encouraging saying that she thinks I will easily make it to 32 weeks because no fertility meds were involved, and God made my body to be able to carry these babies. How encouraging!!! I pray that the Lord will bless these boys, and get my body to 32-34 weeks.

Also, our nurse practitioner, Tracie, came in to check on me to see how I was doing after the weekend. She told me she specifically prayed for me and my uterus -haha. She said she prays for many of her patients… how special is that?! It just confirms to me that I am exactly where I should be.

Next visit is in 2 weeks. I will get another gestational diabetes test done. Mom will be here at this point, so she will get to go with me to this ultrasound… yay! Chris’ mom is here this week, and has been taking great care of us! We are loving it! 🙂 Well, I’m going to go rest… it was a long but wonderful day!!!

Do you have any questions for me that you are wondering about me, Chris, Harper, the boys, my pregnancy???? Feel free to ask me anything! I’m an open book! If you want to leave it as anonymous, that’s fine. I will see how many questions I get and then possibly do a Q&A post.

Thursday the babies turned 20 weeks!!!! This means I’m OVER half way there! Yay! 20 weeks was a big milestone, as it is ‘easy’ to lose a baby before then. We are so thankful that all three are doing so well.

Next Milestones…
* April 30 – 24 weeks – Babies have a 50-70% chance to live outside the womb (if born).
* May 28 – 28 weeks – Viability of babies increases to 95%!!
*June 25- Doctor’s goal for us to make it to… we’re going to do it!!!

Here is my 20 week belly pic…

And here is a comparison picture of when I was pregnant with Harper. The closest one I could find was when I was 22 weeks…

I think it is quite funny that almost everyone I see says, “You aren’t that big for carrying triplets.” First of all, I don’t know how to take this… I feel huge, but yet when they say this it boost my self-esteem and makes me feel “little.” But, then I get discouraged, too because I’m working so hard to grow big babies!!! Although, I’ve gained 23 pounds!!! Yay!!!

I started to work on this post this morning, when I started getting more and more contractions. I usually don’t get any contractions until the evening, so I started getting concerned. Last night, I had one whopper contraction and it scared me, but nothing followed it, so I drank lots of a water and went to bed. I called the nurse practitioner, and she wanted me to come in just to make sure. (Which put my mind to ease!)

The good news is I’m fine and so are the babies! I got a very quick ultrasound by Hannah – my very FAVORITE u/s tech- to check the heartbeats, and she just had to know the sex of the babies…hahaha – see why I love her so much?!? Anyway, it was confirmed that there are 3 boys! I also had a ton of tests run, which was good, and I do have an “infection” – I’ll just leave it at that. But, I have antibiotics and will be fine! So, PRAISE THE LORD!!! I am to take it easy this weekend, and be “The Queen” (as my nurse practitioner told Chris and Harper – ha!) So, my feet are up and I’m drinking LOTS of water while Chris and Harper play on the floor.

We go in next Tuesday, the 7th, for our detailed ultrasound. Please pray that all is well with each little boy, and we can continue a smooth pregnancy. Also, pray that I do well during the scan – that I don’t get sick or pass out since I have to lay on my back for about 1 1/2 hours.

Have a great weekend! Thank you for your prayers! We love you!

PS… I will do a post on my AWESOME shower that our church gave us. For now, I have to go lay down.