Tracking
Well, this looks pretty much irresistable. The iPhone interface is the deal-clincher.
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Late as usual (I’m just over 28 weeks now), but here are some fun pictures Matt took when we were on vacation last week. Don’t be deceived by all the sunlight; we had one sunny day out of seven. Still, we had a really nice time and managed to relax to a degree we haven’t been able to enjoy in months and months. Somehow I don’t think there will be as much knitting, reading, guitar-playing, and Nintendo Wiiing when the babies get here.
You are all very patient to look at all these photos of me as a beached whale (that one was for you, Auntie Deejee). I know you’re all waiting for the main attraction — I’m just the opening band. The headline act will be here before we know it, though!
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Let’s talk about sex, babies.
Rachel and I have decided not to find out in advance what the sexes of the twins are. Partly, this is because we like the idea of being surprised, but mostly (for me at least) I don’t want anyone to know in advance whether we’re having boys or girls because I do not want to be inundated with pretty pink princess crap, or sports and cowboys crap. DO NOT WANT.
It’s odd to me how common it is to find out the sex of your unborn baby. In our twins class, we’re the only couple out of 9 who didn’t already know what they were having. When we went to Babies “R” Us to start our registry, the woman at the checkout was apalled that we weren’t finding out. “But,” she pleaded, “how will you buy bedding?”
I get it that, traditionally, pink clothes and sheets with flowers and such are for girls, while blue stuff with balls and trucks and cars are for boys, but I can’t shake my bafflement that anyone thinks a one-month old cares what’s printed on his or her crib sheet. Even burpcloths are gendered. Burpcloths! Because, God knows, if a boy throws up onto a towel with flowers on it, it will turn him gay.
I swear, if we have a girl, I’m totally dressing her in this “chick magnet” onesie. Because this makes me kind of queasy.
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We had a great ultrasound the other day, confirming that both babies are growing on track and that Baby B does, indeed, have that all-important four-chambered heart (the tech couldn’t get a good look at it back at 18 weeks). Baby B also continues to have big feet and is building up a lot of muscle by kicking me with them.
Twin A, practicing his or her knitting technique, I think
Twin B, cutting a handsome profile
We’re off on vacation up at Lake Winnipesaukee next week. After the whirlwind of the last few months, we really need it (you know, before the real chaos sets in!).
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