Lindsay's First Father's Day

Daddy had a Father's Day Photo Shoot with the babies. This photo is my new screen saver. Hard to believe Dylan & Neisha are 28 weeks old (7 months, not officially). We are surprised everyday with new things. The latest is the attention cough, used to let you know that "I'm right over here" or to communicate between each other. Not sure what that is all about, twins sometimes have their own way of communicating. When you cough back at them or say "faker" they laugh.

Neisha surprised Daddy with a blow out the morning of Father's Day. She hasn't done that since her induction of Daddy to parenthood when she was 2 weeks old. Funny what kids come up with in the way of presents! ;-) We all sat in the play pen (kind of like a people zoo, animals look in the cage) and watched Daddy read his cards and unwrap his small tokens of our appreciation.

Daddy's favorite gifts "some peace and quiet" and "best buy gift card", there will be plenty of years for the token tie. Daddy laughed at his cards. From the Dylan & Neisha "We all agree, you're the World's Best Dad. We're still fighting and killing each other over who's the world's best kid!" From Mowgli "This Father's Day I wanted to point out that you and I have a LOT in common. We both like to Lay around. We both like to scratch ourselves... and we both like to Sniff our friend' butts. (or is that just me?). From Mommy "It's Father's Day and YES... this time you're the Daddy!"

We should get the high chairs later this week. We've been making due with what we have in our happy meal sized living space. Neisha and Dylan are able to pick up their own pacifiers and put them in their mouths so we are about ready for hand feeding activities. Oh, the "drop the ____ (fill in the blank) watch Mommy, Daddy & Auntie Janine pick it up" game has begun.

I am most amused by baby protests during morning breakfast or in the selection of which Baby Einstein video to pick. It is like tag team wrestling. Neisha/Dylan shoot each other a look as if to say "Are you gona tell her or should I?". Who ever feels the most awake/expressive/talkative pipes up and delivers the message. We so need to teach them sign language. These grunts/coughs/yells are cute now, I can see how this form of communication could really grate on your nerves after awhile.

Linz & I ran into a couple from Scotland with 10 month old twins (boy & girl) in toe the other day. They packed up the kids for a Holiday in California. Get this, they rented an RV, had already spent 10 days in California with another 7 to go. Happy as clams. Besides the fact that they are navigating a large RV and driving on the other side of the road (what we Americans call the right side of the road), they encouraged us to "just do it, what could go wrong that couldn't be worked through?"

Love the Scots! As we compared notes, there is something very strange about being twin parents, your part of a club of kinship no matter where you live. Twin parents "get it". Stories are so similar that you can't help but laugh and apprecaite the fact that there are "survivors". The killer of all times, both their babies are sleeping through the night... as Gavin (dad) put it "for a long time now". Heather (mom) shared her feeding schedule and tips, while Abagail and Lucas exchanged looks with Dylan & Neisha. Mowgli, however was clearly the hit amoung the little people.

As we said our goodbyes, Linz & I talked about how much we love to travel and how we should probally start testing the travel wings with the babies while they are young. We will need to work up to the boldness of our new friends from Scotland, but we have a solid life example that travel with twin babies can be done!