Twins have arrived!

The twins were pulled into this world, both by their feet on 5/25/06.
They are: Adrienne Christine - 7:30 am - 7 lb 1 oz (L) and Atticus Arthur - 7:31 am - 7 lb 2 oz (R)
Both are big and healthy and already nursing regularly. I am nodding off to sleep as I type this.

When it rains....

Let me summarize the physical conditions of the members of my immediate family:

Daughter - cough, congestion, ear infection, diarrhea.

Wife - cough, congestion, conjunctivitus (both eyes), feet swollen, ankles swollen, face swollen, back hurts, abdomen hurts, pissed off that the twins are not born yet.

The Fid - sinus infection, cough from hell that never ends and enough snot to foam a runway for a crash landing.

Now if we can all get healthy in one day before the twins arrive.

Jupiter help us!!

Lo, the time is drawing near.

Only four full days until the twins are not gently removed from the wife's uterus through a below-the-bikini-line incision. Thank Dionysus I am not a woman! These pregnancy hormones are getting pretty wild- the thermostat is set on 60 and I am not going to be able to afford reconstructive surgury for my frostbitten extremities.

The daughter actually asked to go to bed tonight at 7:30 pm (as opposed to being forced complete with whining and kicking and screaming) . There must be some sort of interstellar phenomenon like all the planets lined up or maybe 69 supernovae simultaneously exploded.

One sign of normalcy for the daughter was her instance of removing her socks and shoes to check for toe jam- "Daddy, see toes... toe jam" and requesting to "see poopie" while I was changing her second soiled diaper of the day.

The house of phlegm

The daughter came down with an ear infection then a full blown cold and graciously passed the cold to me.

The wife has 10 days left till the twins arrive and the last thing she needs is to be sick. I need to be better by the time the screamers join us.

It looks like I will be borrowing about $1.5 million to finance the partial buyout of the company I am running. That is pretty fucking scary.

If you need any mucus or snot, I've got plenty.

Knowledge sponge

I was reading a book to Lolo last night. It is an elmo book that has a page with the letters of the alphabet. Each letter is on a block and each block has a fold down flap that reveals something that starts with the letter on the block. I always sing the alphabet to her when I get to this page. I realized that she knows the entire alphabet- at least she can sing it. She can't recognize all the letters yet but she can tell me Z, L, O, and X are when I point to them and ask what letters they are.

Obviously she is brilliant and far advanced just like her dad.

Lolo is at the in-laws today. She wound up at the doctor yesterday with her first earache. The doctor threw her on amoxocillan. She was screaming incessantly for a while yesterday and it caused the 8 month pregnant wife to come undone.

The wife is suffering- swollen ankles and feet and generally feeling like shit- she is ready to get those two babies out of her. She will have to wait until the 25th.

What I got done today:
1. Took Lolo to meet her grandparents
2. Purchased birthday present for a 3 year old kid whose birthday party we are attending tomorrow.
3. Purchased ink for the inkjet printer.
4. Purchased card and gift certificate for massage, manicure and pedicure for the wife for Mother's day
5. Purchased 2 hanging baskets for my mother and the mother-in-law for mother's day.
6. Took plastic and glass recycling to the recycling center
7. Carried all the groceries upstairs from the garage
8. Planted 11 Hosta plants along the walkway in the back yard.
9. Scrubbed the hot-tub cover.
10. Dug a trench to lay new drain pipe for gutter drains.
11. Cleaned out the pond and the fountain pump.
12. Replaced the walkway lights.
13. Watched the new King-Kong movie- disappointing- only good thing about the movie is the special effects.

Damn I'm tired.

Public displays of Potty Mouth

Today the wife took Lolo with her to the local medical supply company to rent the breast pump that will releave her swollen breasts of vast amounts of mommy milk over the next six to nine months.

Store attendant to Lolo:
"What a pretty girl you are! What is your name?"

Lolo:
"Wundone Fidwer"

Store attendant:
"That's a pretty name."

Lolo:
"My poopie is GREEEEEEEEEEEN"

The wife withered in embarrasment.

So is $1300 to much to spend on a swingset? I think it is but I will be giving in to the wife and laying out the bucks. I wonder if I would have any success in moonlighting as a gigilo?

14 Days to go until twin time!!!