Den Of The Danimal

I knew immediately that the 2008 remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still would be a bad movie, and probably really bad. Nevertheless, it ended up in my Netflix queue and we just recently watched it on DVD, even though I knew there would be nothing (other than greed) to justify its existence, and [...]

The girls are almost two weeks old now, and for the most part they seem to be doing very well. The heart rate and breathing alarms still go off once in a while, but it seems that they’re both doing what they need to do — just get a little older and keep developing. Elizabeth [...]

Our two daughters were born eight weeks early on Tuesday, May 12, 2009. For those of you interested in just the highlights of that day, read Dan’s post Introducing Carolyn Joy and Elizabeth Grace. For those interested in all the play by play details, read on…
The day began rather earlier than expected. I got up in [...]

So Janet and I were just talking about how we didn’t have any good side by side pictures of the babies yet, because they’re on such a short tether with all the wires and tubes… Well, I left my old digital camera there in one of the cribs, because one of the nurses had told [...]

People keep asking us if we know if Carolyn and Elizabeth are identical twins. Nope, we don’t know. There are several things one might look for that would rule OUT identical twins (different gender, different blood type, etc), and our girls match on all those things — but this only means that they MIGHT be [...]

Today it has been one week since the twins were born, and in addition we are also celebrating Janet’s birthday! After spending a few hours visiting with the girls at the hospital in Walnut Creek, we got together with family here in Livermore on Sunday to celebrate Janet’s birthday. We had a nice dinner of [...]

If a picture is worth a thousand words, and a film is thousands of pictures, then this little video of our tiny little girls must be worth millions of words. I’m loving the snazzy new HD video camcorder we bought! But I love these girls even more.
I’m sure I’ll get a couple more movies posted [...]

After just 32 weeks, our beautiful daughters arrived on Tuesday, May 12th! Janet got up to use the restroom in the early early morning and noticed a pink tinge that obviously wasn’t right. We figured it was just a little spotting like what had happened in January — at which time, we learned that the standard [...]

We have weekly visits with the OB now so we were back there on Monday, May 4. He was looking at the report from the ultrasound specialist and commented about how the head size for Baby A was off the chart. His report listed Baby A as weighing in at a gargantuan 21 pounds, 3 [...]

The past five weeks have pretty much just flown by, and I’m told it only gets faster from here. We’re very thankful that the pregnancy continues to progress very smoothly. Here are some highlights since the BIG 26 week update.
Tuesday, March 31 – I had to take a glucose tolerance test to make sure I [...]