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Boy am I beat.  Can’t seem to shake it either.  Don’t know why.  It’s not like I have anything going on.  Just twins, finishing construction on the basement, keeping up with the yard, helping the parents (on both sides), and what else?  Oh yeah, work. 

Yeah, yeah, poor me I know.  I’d feel sorry for me too if I were you.  I just have it so tough…  Yes, that was sarcasm.  As busy as it is right now, we love the kids.  Summer is just wizzing by too fast and I’m not getting as much done on that basement as I want.  I’ve had tons of help from great people, and we are drywalling now.  So we can start seeing rooms come together.  Hopefully by the time September hits, we’ll be using a couple rooms.  And I also hope the twins are sleeping through the night (please Lord). 

Anyway, next month it’s a trip to Calgary for my cousin’s wedding, then immediately after a road trip to the Oregon coast with out friends.  Another busy couple weeks, but should be fun.  As usual, I’ll try posting pics as I go.  Speaking of pictures, I should take some of the basement as we go so we can “journal” what it used to look like. 

I did get a chance this weekend to see The Dark Knight.  Great flick.  Not sure I was big on the ending, but it works in setting up the next one.  Performances on all sides were great, although the Rachael character I could care less about.  And I’m not big on Maggie Gyllenhaal.  She just looks odd to me.  I’d like to have seen Katie Holmes come back, but maybe Tom doesn’t like it when his wife’s career is better than his own. 

Anyway, until later.

So a lot of the family are looking for more photos of the little ones.  It’s not that there are not enough pictures being taken of them, it’s just that I don’t seem to get a hold of them very often.  My wife is taking A TON of pictures.  Thank goodness we made the move to digital a while ago, otherwise we’d be paying a fortune in developing fees.  So I’m adding these to the mix.  Again there are just a few but it’s better than nothing right?    We just did some family portraits too, I’ll upload them when I get them.  Enjoy.

Ellie holding Cai’s nose       Holding hands (awwww)      Two Cuties    

Cairo’s close up        Ellie close up          Cairo in Flames Gear (my fave)

Well that didn’t take much longer.  So 2 days, well technically 3 days, after my last post the new Canucks arrived.  My wife went in for an ultra sound on Valentine’s Day and they decided it would be best if she didn’t leave.  She ended up with Preclampsia, so bad that they felt she needed to get the babies out on the 14th.  So I got the call at work at around 2pm.  Off I run to get everything set at home, and then off to the hospital.  She was induced at around 6pm on the 14th and at 3:44am and 3:46am on the 15th, Eleanor and Cairo were brought into the world.  Ellie weighed in at 4 lbs, 13 oz, and Ciaro at 4 lbs, 6.5 oz.  Both ended up spending some time in the NICU as they were preemies (made it to 35 weeks).  Ellie got up to speed much quicker and was able to come home on the 20th.  Cai is still there as he’s having a little bit of an issue with some arrythmia problems.  Sounds like it’s managable but still something we will need to get trained on and watch for. 

Luckily with Ellie being a preemie, she’s actually not quite ready to be up and awake much.  So she’s on a 4 hour feeding schedule that allows us to get some decent sleep.  We’re told not to expect that to continue much after her actual due date comes as she will then be a newborn and want to destroy our sleep schedule as much as possible.  So we’re enjoying it while it lasts.  And now, on to the good stuff.  The pics!!

Cai eyes open     Ellie and Cai     Ellie in the Hospital     Ellie Sleepy

Update: More pictures:

Mom and Cai 1   Mom and Cai 2   Mom and Cai 3   Mom, Cai, Ellie 1

Mom,Cai,Ellie 2   Mom and Ellie 1   Mom and Ellie 2   Mom and Ellie 3

Cai’s Faux Hawk

Hmm, October eh?  That’s a while back.  Well the update… the little ones are almost here.  Yes you read that right ONES not one.  Twins.  We found out in our 5th month.  For those of you, like I was at the time, who are pregnancy ignorant, that is quite a ways to be along before finding out.  Yes we had ultrasounds and exams before that, but they didn’t catch it until then.  So after the initial shock wore off, who am I kidding I still don’t thing it’s totally worn off, and both our parents telling us twins run in our families, we are getting things ready.  We are actually about a week away.  Original due date was March 20th, with twins you are normally about 4 weeks early, which brings us to now.  The nursery is all but done, the basement alas is not.  Progress has been made but way too slowly.  Mostly my fault, but life does seem to eat up the time.  Anyway, hope to have a bedroom and family room done shortly. 

My wife has done an amazing job at getting educated about not just being pregnant and giving birth, but the whole twins thing.  She’s bought about every book on the planet I think.  I do need to get reading a few of them myself.  Maybe on some of those sleepless nights that are right around the corner.  And the stuff!!!  Man the stuff you need is unreal.  It’s not just some bottles, some blankets, clothes and a stroller.  You need sleepers, and onesies, and receiving blankets, and swaddling blankets, pacifiers, indoor stroller, outdoor stroller, car seats, basinets, changing pads, the list just keeps going.  And don’t forget, twins, so TWO of most of that stuff.  We did find a good dual stroller that we can use with the travel car seat carriers.  So that helps quite a bit.  But still.  Yikes.  And I did just purchase this:   DadGear Diaper Vest.  It looks pretty cool.  I’m hoping it is.  I’ll write up a review when I get it.  Simply because I’ve only found ONE other review on it.  Would be nice to hear from some people on whether or not they liked it. 

What else?  Oh yeah, we finally traded in the old POS Passat, it was WAY on it’s last legs, for a 2004 Dodge Durango.  It’s a nice ride, and in keeping with the debt free way, it’s paid for.  Which in this instance is a good thing.  With twins on the way we don’t need payments.  But we also couldn’t have twins ride in the Passat.  There just isn’t enough room.  I’ll post pics of the twins next week or so when they are actually out of the womb, for those that care.  For the rest, I’ll see if I can’t rustle up some humor, although with all the sites out there it’ll be tough to find something that isn’t already out somewhere. 

In the meantime, for those who have an annoying co-workers you can’t get rid of try this.  WARNING: not safe for work.

Okay, so the whole bi-yearly update isn’t working so well.  Been a little busy, oh heck I’ve been busy and haven’t felt like updating.  Anyway, no new jokes or anything.  Although there are a couple I might pilfer and post.  I did go back through recently and update a TON of broken links.  Apparently during one of my upgrades I lost a bunch of links.  All the humor type stuff and pictures should work again.

As for me?  Still doing the debt free thing, can’t believe I did it any other way before.  I highly recommend trying it out.  It’s worth it.  What else?  Oh yeah, gonna be a dad!!  The wife and I finally did it.  Actually been trying for a LONG time (and not just practicing either).  So we’re due March 20th, or there about.  Going to wait to find out what it is.  But that means re-doing the budget, finally getting that dang basement finished out so we have room for people and stuff, making a nursery, and just generally getting things in order.  So for those that know me, there are the big doings so far.  Lots of little stuff, but nothing worth posting here.  Who knows, I may get the bug to start updating this thing more often.  Still haven’t figured out what I’d update about though.  Guess I could post things bitching and complaining like everyone else.  :)  Who knows, maybe I will

Oh, and GO FLAMES!!