The 12 Week appointment

So like I said, Steve and I realized that we were adjusted to the idea of twins the night before the 12 week appointment. We were excited to go to the appointment because it was at Maternal Fetal Medicine and we knew they were doing measurements, so that meant we'd get to spend a lot of time watching the babies. When we got there, we had to meet with the genetic counselor because of my blood disorder. (Side note: on Dec 27, the hematologist told me that I do NOT have spherocytosis, the blood disorder they have told me I had my whole life. She said they just call it that because they don't actually know what I have. Its my own special blood disorder and it might not even be genetic. They just call it spherocytosis because it presents the same and that's the closest thing with a name to my blood disorder.)
What was cool about meeting with the genetic counselor was that he answered any and every question I could possibly come up with about the twins. Then it was off to see the babies! As you can see in the picture, the babies started out in bunk bed style.

Kristen, the sonographer, told us that the bottom baby looked like a boy. She wasn't sure about the top baby, but before she could share her guess, we asked her to please not tell us! We wanted to wait until the 20 week when we could be more sure. In conversation, we also told her that we were not telling anyone it was twins until we found out the genders at 20 weeks. I told her that my mom was going to come to that ultrasound and it would pretty funny if that's how she found out. Kristen said she thought that was an awesome way to tell my mom, but she bet that I would not be able to make it 8 weeks without telling. (To which I replied, why not? I waited 8 weeks to tell anyone there was a baby to begin with!) After the measurements were done and the appointment was over, Kristin walked out with me to make sure she would get scheduled for my 20 week. She said there was no way she was going to miss this!