Week 23

Time for another update, although there's not too much to share. Sherri's doing ok this week, has started to have a few contractions occasionally which always puts us on high alert! I'm hoping that they don't get any worse as if they do we'll be off to the hospital for a full check over, and I'm thinking that we might just lose our mama around here for a while. Hoping that doesn't happen yet, as both Mark and I would prefer her to be here at home. But the babies come first, and at some point I know she'll be hospitalized so we'll just have to wait and see.
Sherri's mom is flying out tomorrow for a week, and it will be so nice to have her here. I'm realizing that it is really tough to look after a 3-yr old and a wife on bed-rest...so the extra help will be amazing. Last weekend my aunt and uncle came down from BC to help out for a few days...Aunt Betty filled up the freezer with made meals and Uncle Robin helped me with my projects- absolutely amazing of them to come and be with us. We truly enjoyed having them and Mark was calling them grandpa and grandma in no time! Whatever...the more the merrier!
We've pretty much shut everything down except for necessities. Sherri is taking her bed-rest very seriously - only up for bathroom breaks and lots of days she doesn't even come downstairs. This of course is kind of tough if I'm working late so we've had to call in a few favors!! Thankfully, we've got great friends around that are able to chip in a little here and there.
I find myself counting the weeks all the time - and just keeping my fingers crossed that we can get to the 32 week mark, where in theory the NICU can take over if they have to and the babies will be fine. But between then and now there's 9 weeks that sometimes seem like ages! One day at a time...
Our next scheduled appointment at Swedish is next thursday, so thats our next big target. We'll keep ya posted.

Some pictures from when Uncle Robin and Aunt Betty came to stay!

Mark keeping mama company
Mark's "worker-man" hat!
Fun fun fun!