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Can you spot the babies?

One picture is of the wife who is seven months pregnant with twins, the other one is me pushing out my gut as far as I can.  I’m not telling you which is which, you’ll just have to guess.

Thank god I still have that gym membership.  If you’ll excuse me, I think I’ll go run about a thousand laps now.

We had our weekly ultrasound today, but there are no pictures.  Trust me, you wouldn’t know what you were looking at anyway. The babies are face-down, head down, and right on top of each other.

According to the sonogram computer, the girl weighs in at 3 pounds 10 ounces, and the boy is 3 pounds 2 ounces.  The computer determines the weight based on the measurements of the head and legs, and then does some math or something.  As a computer nerd you’d think I’d know more about this, but alas.

We’re now 31 weeks into the pregnancy.  The doctor says that the goal now is to shoot for 34 weeks, while 37 weeks would be ultimately the best to hope for.  However, I guess most twins don’t make it to 37 weeks and are delivered early.  Although some make it all the way to 39 weeks.  I guess what he’s saying is that our “due date” of October 4th is bullshit, and the babies could come anytime between now and the middle of September.

We’ve got the nursery just about finished, the cribs are assembled, the strollers are in the garage, the car seats are ready to install.  Why do I still feel like I’m not ready for this?

More news as it develops.

That’s the sound the truck made when it crashed into us last night.

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Yesterday we had an ultrasound on the fancy 3-D machine. Everything looks good so far–the babies have healthy looking parts, no visible defects. We were even able to tell which one was the boy and which was the girl.

The girl:

The boy:

They like to squirm when getting their pictures taken.

It’s not the clearest picture in the world, but today’s ultrasound looked better on the monitor.  We could clearly see the heartbeats of both babies, and one of them squirmed a little bit.  They’re each about the size of a large grape right now.