New New Job

Bear just switched jobs to working at Midwest Academy. It's a therapeutic boarding school for troubled teens. Which is exactly what Bear wanted to be all along. He works 16-18 hour shifts straight, but then has whole days off in between so that we can go have fun during the week, not just on the weekends. But yes, this means that his schedule is different every week and he'll have to work Saturday and Sundays sometimes. Bear was really unhappy with his sales job and the pay is about the same. It's a little frustrating that we didn't start with this job, but sometimes you have to go down one road to realize that it's the wrong one. Like Jeffrey R. Holland talks about in this Mormon Message:

It's only his second day of work, but it will be interesting to see where this takes us. I keep getting asked if we plan to stay in the area, and I guess we haven't thought about it deeply yet. The biggest goal was to finish college after we got married, and we're taking things one step at a time. We've lived so many places just since we've gotten married, and both of us moved a lot growing up. So I know that we could learn to live anywhere. One thing I do know for certain...I miss Virginia. I think the middle East Coast is my favorite.

iPhone Photo Update

Someday, I'll get a real camera.

This was still in VA. Big Bear and Little Bear watching TV together.

Meeting Santa for the second time. Last time he was 2 weeks old.

Santa Baby.

He loves baseball caps.

Christmas Morning with his new blue moccs and car.

Despicable Me 2!

Grandpa and Lachlan have matching grey sweaters! (bought at different times)

Happy New Year!

Grandpa's headphones

Playing with blocks.

How Lachlan puts on sunglasses.

Lachlan had a low-grade fever. Probably teething-related.

Twin Facts

Some facts about twins:

• It's more likely that your morning sickness will be worse.
• More than 50% of twins are born preterm (before 37 weeks).
• With a single baby, the average delivery is at 40 weeks, with twins it's at 35 weeks.
• A single baby's average birth weight is 7 lbs, twins are 5.5 lbs on average.
• You're twice as likely to get preeclampsia with twins
• You're more likely to have gestational diabetes with a twin pregnancy.
• One twin can be much smaller than the other because of placenta problems or because of twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (when identical twins share a placenta and the twins pass blood between each other, making it uneven).
• It's healthy to gain 25-35 lbs with a singleton pregnancy, but with twins 37-54 lbs is healthy. I need to be gaining 1 lb per week in the first half of pregnancy, and more than 1 lb per week in the second half. Yikes.
• Because it's less likely for both twins to be head-down, C-section births are much more common with twins.

Now do you know why I'm a little stressed out?

Credit: Your Pregnancy and Childbirth: Month to Month, Fifth Edition