Preparations in Motion

With the triple birthday moving ever closer, we have been getting to work with preparations -- finishing up painting rooms and doorjambs that have sat half done for a while, getting a nursery ready, making room on our bookshelves for children's books, finding a used triple stroller for sale (http://www.bergdesign.net/triple.htm), researching nannies, and putting to use a very helpful multiples planning book we received as a Christmas gift. Sunday night we watched a Discovery documentary DVD that was also a gift, "Multiples in the Womb," which was by turns fascinating, amazing, and, well, nauseating. The next big date is Friday's ultrasound, which will include the full anatomical scan. Are we nervous about it? Yes. Are we excited about it? Yes. It promises to tell us a great deal about the threesome, and we will report back here what we learned.

Meanwhile, we continue to discuss names, and think we are settled on two of the three. But we'll be sharing what they are on delivery day....