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As I have jokingly complained before, the twins are wild and busy and TODDLERS. They make me tired, they make me laugh, and they make me cry. On Wednesday we went in to see Dr. Silverberg, the twins opthamologist. You may remember that he was featured during the Childrens Miracle Network telethon we were in. [...]

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I swear my son’s internal compass points to DANGER and DESTRUCTION. Just when I think he is playing so quietly I find he is up to no good. On Friday we went to the park then to Trader Joe’s to pick a few things for dinner. They recently introduced kiddie karts at our branch and [...]

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Awhile back Tadd wrote a letter to Cascade, the company that made Derby’s DAFO (Dynamic Ankle Foot Orthotic). He told me after the fact and when I saw the letter it made me choke up a bit. Below is the correspondence between Tadd and Cascade DAFO. From: Tadd To: Dafo; Technical support; Customer Service Subject:Our [...]

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Yesterday I was catching up on emails while the twins were playing. All of a sudden windows started popping up and characters I did not type appeared in my email. I was trying to figure out what was going on. Virus? Poltergeist? Then I heard the familiar sound of beeps and keys tapping in the [...]

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Smooth sailing my foot. We don’t do no stinkin smooth sailing in this family! Today is Derby’s 2 year anniversary of coming home from the NICU. Quick recap: here we are 2 years ago. Lord they were tiny! The night before Loen was running a temp of 102. Then this morning they both were feverish [...]

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You have to have video, audio, photo proof of every cough, smile, step. Such is the fate of our twins. Video in HD on Vimeo set to Nancy Sinatra’s “These boots are made for walkin”. Derby walks from The Tadpoles on Vimeo. YouTube had some issues with the Nancy Sinatra song so here is the [...]

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I really haven’t had the energy to post more than an occasional blurb on my Facebook let alone blogging but here goes. Loen: Weighs 19 pounds 3 1/2 ounces and is 31 1/2 inches long. Like the scene in Miracle Worker where Helen Keller makes the collation between water and the word, Loen is picking [...]

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I took Derby to the barber today because I have come to realize that I may be handy in many things but cutting hair is not one of them. Occasionally I do a decent job but after trying to trim a squirming kid’s hair in the tub I decided I was over it. We went to [...]

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My little man is a teething monster lately. While we are behind in most things we are ahead of the curve when it comes to getting our teeth in. They are both cutting their second molars and have been a drooly, teethy mess. Derby has started taking his teething aggression out on his WubbaNub, which [...]

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I have been putting off this post for almost a month now, time to bite the bullet and get it out there….. Derby has been our little stubborn pistol as of late. The kid wants to move, he wants to feed HIMSELF and he wants to do things HIS WAY. The feeding has really got me [...]

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