Prayers Are Working

Had yet another ultrasound this morning and her cervix has actually added a bit of length. Because I'm a total nerd, I've created the following chart to track her cervical length. July 29 was the day she was admitted to the hospital. Just to clarify, the more cervical length the better. If she gets to zero, the next step would be for her to start dilating which we don't want yet. Another way to look at it is that the cervical length is the amount it's closed and dilation is the width of the opening once cervical length goes to zero.Today and tomorrow she gets steroid shots to accelerate the babies' lung development. We're very excited for this, but concerned that the boys' world records in the future will have an asterisk beside them.

Because my lovely wife is busy doing an amazing job of growing babies in the hospital, the job of decorating the nursery has fallen to me. Chris had some bedding for the crib with light orange and yellow animals and wanted to use that as a theme. Well, not only is it difficult to match, but my boys don't want no light orange and yellow animals to look at all day. So my buddy Brent and I headed off to Babies 'r Us yesterday. We picked out a manly theme, bought a glider, and shopped for car seats and strollers. The funny thing at that store is that every time I asked a question of one of the sales people, I also got an opinion from every Mom within 20 feet. I'm torturing Chris by not telling her what the theme is or what we're doing. It's going to be a surprise. Now, whether it's going to be a good surprise or a bad surprise, that's a different story.

The next of our unending ultrasounds is Thursday. I'll add to the graph and provide an update at that time.