Two for One

We received the biggest surprise of our lives yesterday at my first ultrasound appointment when we were shown TWO BABIES!!!!!  

NO I am not kidding and NO we have NO history of twins on either side of our families!!  

The tech thought we already knew and just casually said, "So there's twins there."  We thought she was kidding and she had to say three times that she wasn't until she finally said that she "wouldn't kid around about something like that!"

Jake and I broke into hysterical laughter that lasted about five minutes.  I'm not sure if I have ever laughed so hard in my life.

The tech started laughing so hard at us that she started to cry as she said, "I'll just give you two a minute!"

So if you do the math, we will have THREE children under the age of TWO come early November!  My due date is now the 10th.

That would be their TWO heads below...

One on top of the other sideways (because there are TWO babies)...

"Baby 1" (labelled as such because there is MORE than ONE)

"Baby 2" 

We are absolutely overjoyed and shocked and thrilled and nowhere near close to grasping what is about to happen!  Our God has SUCH a MIGHTY sense of humor, and it's beyond exciting to see that He has a plan for our lives that is NOT what we could have ever guessed.  My adventure-loving Jake who has the gift of adaptability said over and over on our way home, "I love life!!"  I have never felt so in the middle of the Lord's hands as we are entering into this crazy new stage that only He could have miraculously chosen to bring us to.  

As we are trying to absorb all of this, we talked about how we really want to keep forefront in our minds how we felt those first five minutes and "Choose hilarity!" Because this is a great demonstration of a great God who works "outside of the box" and has all kinds of things up His sleeve that we could never imagine!

There is a lot more I could share but one last thought that we love is how God created Abby Jane perfectly for this role.  That girl's independence and knowing of her own mind and total confidence in marching to the beat of her own drum is the PERFECT recipe for the only-slightly older sister for twins.  She will effectively rule the roost and not come anywhere near getting trampled down by the younger two.

Please do join us in praying for the babies' health as there are all kinds of extra factors that come into play with twins.  But everything looked great yesterday and we are at total peace and rest in the confidence that the God Who created those TWO babies did not forget any of the details that will come along with them, including their health!