One Surprise After Another
Well today is Thursday June 16, 2016. I'm sure it's the most shocking day of my life, finding out we were having twins was pretty huge along with some other items. Anyway we are doing a gender reveal party this Sunday for the twins. It's going to be a surprise for everyone, including us. Even though my wife is only 15 weeks along, I guess it's popular to find out gender these days as early as 13 weeks.
After a fairly normal Thursday at work in Tracy I headed to Danville to meet the family at Adorable Baby. Let me just say this lady is a total class act and highly recommended. Not only was the experience great, this was the best ultrasound room I've ever been in. Unlike a cold doctors office, the rooms were very warm and my wife laid on a beautify bed. She had a bin of toys in the corner for our 2 kids to play with and a huge jar of candy we could snack on. Very comfortable couches were laid out in the room with 2 TV's of very nice size. The room could easily hold 8 or 10 people wanting to find out gender of an expectent couple.
We wanted to find out gender, but we had given strict orders that it would be written down and sealed for the baker. They'll be a cake with the layers died to indicate gender, you know blue for boy, pink for girl. That way when you cut the cake everyone finds out gender together.
Anyway the kids are sitting on the couch, Zac is cranky as he's still waking up from the car ride nap. The lady asks my wife, when was the last time you had an ultrasound, a few weeks ago my wife says.
"Are you sure it's JUST twins guys, because I see three babies." Let me let those words just sink in...
Yeah that's right, triplets. I think my wife instantly started crying with the overwhelming statement. I could clearly see the monitors and every which way I looked at it, there were 3 babies. Now she assured us she's not a doctor, and is only looking at what she sees, but it really didn't matter, as she moved that image around it was what looked like to all of us 3 very distinct babies. So I'm really blown off my chair in amazement of the news. 3 babies and zero fertility drugs. How is this even possible? Then I come back the the room, my wife is crying and I realize I need to now somehow comfort her. Lying seems like the best course here, "It's okay" I say. "We are going to be okay." "You can't worry about things you can't control, we are just going to take it a day at a time." Maybe the last part is true, but I tell you I was literally slapping myself to wake up from this insane dream.
How can we possibly be have 3 kids, AT ONE TIME?! We wanted to have one more kid so we had a total of 3, now we were told we are having 3 more, all at once?! Shocking hardly seems to grasp the depth of this monstrous news. For the first several days after we found out we were having twins the wife and I would just look at each other, say twins, and start to nervously and yet excitedly chuckle at each other. It was cute, you know, twins. I have to say, having twins seems so easy and simple at this point, "oh just 2 babies, simple" I think to myself. I mean, you got 2 hands, simple.
I'm still not really sure how I'll survive. The lady doing the ultrasound said with her 3 under 1 year old she just put all the furniture in the garage and has gates up holding all the kids in the main room of the house. I told my wife that actually sounds pretty good, a few beds in the corner, some toys in the other and just let them at it. Who needs a tiny house (all the rage right now) when you are having triplets?!
We still need to have the official doctors appointment, but after you see three different heartbeats, three faces and 3 genders, I'm really not sure how this could be wrong. Shocking does t seem like the correct word, but I can't seem to think very well after all this.
One day at a time, I keep telling myself...