The Estes Family Chronicles

San Diego Temple


At Sea World eating the most disgusting smoothies EVER!

Me and my favorite Beluga Whale

Devin and I on our Anniversary Vacation!! YEAH MAN!

I can't believe it is already October!! this year has gone by so fast I hardly know what to do with myself! This Saturday the 9th is mine and Devin's first wedding anniversary! and to celebrate we are going to go hang out in San Diego from Sunday until Thursday. Before me and Devin were even married we both talked about how much we wanted to travel, but I never thought in a million years that on my first wedding anniversary I would be nearly 5 months pregnant! so Greece, Spain, Italy and Japan, will have to wait! I'm beginning to realize that although I would still love to travel to all those places someday, even going to phoenix is a nice getaway! SO San Diego here we come!

Update on the babies. Last Monday I had my 18 week ultrasound, the Ultimate ultra sound where we get to find out the sex of the babies! WELL the ultrasound went really well and we know with out a doubt that baby A (names are undecided so a letter is better than a number right?) is definitely a boy. and he is BIG quite a bit bigger than baby B. To give you some idea baby A is measuring in the 60th percentile, and baby B is measuring in the 20th percentile. Baby B is developed and has all ten fingers and toes, but we took several ganders and just couldn't quite decide what exactly he or she was. I would be surprised if it was a girl, but at this point it was just a little to soon to tell for baby B. I also was able to figure out why the baby I thought was on my right side never moved! because they are both on the LEFT go figure. I was kinda getting nervous and thought that maybe something was wrong. I would feel movement all day long on my left side, and little to nothing on my right, come to find out I have a nice and healthy placenta that is eating up the space on the right, and the twins are stacked like bunk beds on the left. So the ultra sound went good, they were a little concerned about the difference in size and come to find out they may in fact be identical just with two sacks and a fused placenta. I thought the whole fraternal and identical twin thing was cut and dry but apperantly there are a lot of different ways they turn out. Because of the large difference in size and the thought that the two individual placentas look fused the twins may have what is called twin to twin transfusion syndrome. This basically means that their umblillical cords are connected at the placenta and they share vital blood vessels. If this is the case one twin gives away some of its blood flow and nutrients to the other twin causing the difference in size. I have another sonogram in two weeks to measure and look at all these possibilities. At this point there is no need to worry chances are one twin is just bigger and one is smaller.