25 weeks today

Well I am 25 weeks today and have made it through 5 days so far. I have been a little emotional here and there, but everyone keeps telling me the first week is the hardest. I have seen Barrett every day and Louis every day but one. It gets lonely during the day, but I look forward to my evening visitors. Louis brought me a dozen of the most beautiful light purple roses I have ever seen last night to brighten up my room....he can be so sweet when he wants to :). We attempted to get Barrett to lay down and spend the night last night, but he wouldn't settle. There are just too many things for him to get into :). And with me monitoring on top of it and the sounds of the little heartbeats, he was just too intrigued. I think we are going to try again tomorrow night with his pack n play and see if keeping him contained in that helps. I miss sleeping next to Louis too.....7 years is a long time to have someone next to you every night. Hopefully tomorrow night works out!
The babies are doing great. I have started to do the monitoring on my own, which has impressed some of my nurses since I haven't even been here a week. I monitor 3 times a day for an hour at a time. For the most part, they are staying on the monitors rather well. There have been one or 2 times where it has taken 2 hours to monitor because they are just SO active. It's fun to watch my belly move all around when I am monitoring. There were some good heart accelerations today that the nurse said is a really good sign for this early....so that makes me feel good. Hopefully they just keep cooperating and don't get themselves tangled in there! I had to start procardia today. It is a drug that helps with contractions. I didn't even realize I was having them really, but the monitor showed I am so we need to keep that under control so they don't progress. It's apparently pretty common in a multiples pregnancy.
Other than that, nothing new to really report. The pool is a nice break in the middle of the day and I have finished a book and a half already! I am planning on starting my knitting tomorrow. I was going to start today, but Barrett is coming down shortly with Sophie. I'm looking forward to seeing them. I will report in a couple of days. Thanks for the love and support!