The Elaine

Last weekend already feels so long ago but definitely not forgotten. My spa getaway was wonderful, felt almost unreal how beautiful it all was and how spoiled I felt. I feel the need to give a shout out just in case any of you might ever get the chance to go here. It's the Kranzbach hotel right by Garmisch. It's a modern spa hotel plus a castle for lodging surrounded by the Alps - yes the weekend was too short.

This past week was nice and low key. Sure seems like Germany closes up shop in August. My 2 playgroups and one movement class closed up shop this week until September. Good thing we'll be very German-like and take a nice long 2 week vacation (more on that in a future post).

I have a big appointment tomorrow with the twins specialist center to make sure all is ok. We also find out the sexes, woohoo! I've been more nervous lately because of how I feel and just the fact that I have officially cracked open the books and started reading about being pregnant with twins. I feel A LOT of pressure down you know where and I'm not that big yet. I also feel a lot of pain, especially in the evening, which I assume is just everything stretching but still, it scares me. My level of fatigue still is abnormally high even though this is when I should feel best. What I've read so far is about the importance of gaining a lot of weight and taking it extra easy to best ensure the babies stay inside me for as long as possible. My main takeaway from the books so far is that I have to be extra careful because carrying two is risky and not natural for our bodies. I was hoping to read more reassuring statements instead of warnings but maybe I just started with the wrong couple books.

Anyway, looking forward to finding out the sexes and hopefully not getting any kind of scary news about the twins or the doctor telling me to go on bedrest.

Here's a picture from this morning going out for Breakfast. I also included a short video of Lily dancing today at the train station by our place. Our station plays classical music and Lily does the Elaine dance from Seinfeld to it. Maybe I shouldn't sign her up for a dance competition.