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Entries from March 2008

5 months minus 16 weeks add 3 hours…oh forget it

March 24th, 2008 · 8 Comments

Yes the Tadpoles are 5 months old now. When people ask how old they are I often debate whether to tell them their real age or their adjusted age (how old they would be if born on their due date). Even saying they are a month gets comments like “Ohhh, they are so small”. They [...]

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Tags: twins · update

Happy Easter

March 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

Easter, a wonderful excuse to spruce up the twins. Loen wore her first dress and was adorable. Derby had on a little shortall or as Matt called it “a one piece dress shirt”. Tadd called me out for being overly excited in dressing them up. Now I just need Loen’s hair to grow enough so [...]

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Tags: twins

Smiles

March 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I am starting to think there is an unfair gravitational pull of the twins towards Tadd. First everyone says they look like him. Then on Saturday night Loen decided to unleash her first smile to Tadd. TADD! I mean come on I am the mom. I carried them, I provide the food, I spend hours [...]

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Tags: smile · twins

They are the astrologers to my Nancy Reagan

March 12th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I have been meaning to write about this for a couple of weeks but my goodness where does the time go (I’m hoping all of our readers pick up on that subtle sarcasm). Anyways we had written about the story of the cranes with Andrew and John (read about it here). Then there was the [...]

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Tags: boys · twins

Aren’t there starving babies somewhere???

March 7th, 2008 · 5 Comments

In regards to our overflowing freezer of breast milk a friend gave me the contact info for a local milk bank. I contacted them thinking how nice it would be to have at least one freezer be free of breast milk. Donate a gallon or two for those preemies who are less fortunate, a win-win [...]

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Tags: nursing · twins