Archive for July, 2009

We knew when we first started preparing to have our second child that we were going to have to do some rearranging of our current layout when the new-bebe became an impending reality. We have a four bedroom house and we have all four rooms accounted for: us, son, spare bedroom (for reinforcements) & my office/studio.

We know we cannot afford to get rid of the spare bedroom because those reinforcements I just mentioned will be grandparents, aunts, uncles and friends who we weasel into giving additional support while we adjust to having twins and the reality of three potentially crying babies in the house.

We had discussed moving my office/studio to the basement and making my former diggs the new baby’s nursery. My stash of guitars and equipment has some humidity and temperature necessities that would have to be addressed before any move would be considered.

Thinking that process over, we don’t have the cash right now to construct a basement office and basement playroom. We have to do some maneuvering of our living space above the frost line for the first few years before we can successfully put some money aside to build out the basement.

So we have come to the conclusion that we need me out of my office so the twins don’t have to sleep in the hallway, and that means, my office/studio will now reside in the front living room.

There are no doors to keep out sticky, cheese-filled hands.

In addition to all of the moving I will be doing of my equipment and instruments, I will be in the market for an 8 foot baby gate that can sustain the muscle-man I currently have ruling my life and the impending twin assault.

Here’s what I’ve found at Amazon that I like:

I don’t find it necessary to build anything ridiculous, because the basement will one day house my man-cave, but for the next 3 or 4 years, I need to safely store my equipment away from ze’ babies would could hurt themselves on a 2006 Butterscotch Blonde American Telecaster (my pride and joy).

When we got back from the hospital with our son, I ordered Jimmy Johns for lunch and Julie was sitting on the couch DEVOURING a turkey tom when out of nowhere I heard sniffling and weeping.

I look over and she’s chewing a HUGE bite of sammy, wiping tears from her eyes with her sweatshirt sleeve. I asked what was wrong, she shakes her head to tell me nothing’s wrong, so I ask how her sandwich was and she does a few sharp intakes of air and says through her huge bite and the tears “It’s Delicious.”

YOU’RE CRYING OVER A SANDWICH?!

photo credit: quinn.anya

I knew at this moment she wasn’t upset or sad or anything, she was just dealing with a HUGE influx of hormones now that she had been relieved of incubation duties for our son. I tried my best not to laugh, but that didn’t last long, so I excused myself and exited my house into the -10F cold to laugh hysterically.

That was quite possibly the funniest thing I have ever seen firsthand, but now that we’re having twins, these emotional episodes are becoming more frequent and for even weirder reasons.

So, as I have done with the list of things Wifey hates (smells, tastes and things that make her sick to her stomach and want to barf), I will now jot down a short list of things that make Wifey CRY.

Things That Make Wifey CRY: Vol. I

1. Sappy commercials
2. Magazine articles with a happy ending
3. So You Think You Can Dance
4. Big Brother 11
5. The Bachelorette
6. Putting our son to bed
7. Picking our son up from day care
8. Getting hugs and kisses from our son
9. Not vomiting in the morning -
   (but as soon as she notices she hasn’t vomited, she has to vomit: I relate it to getting a car wash to make it rain)
10. Vomiting in the morning
11. Day time television
12. Her job
13. Vomiting while at her job

I can assure you this list will grow.

For now I will remain patient as I have read in the many, many, many books I am currently in the process of reading that this uncontrollable surge of feelings, emotions and AAAAHHHH is affecting the neurotransmitters of the brain more now than any other time during the pregnancy (we’re right at the climax of the last half of the first trimester).

At any given time, holding any container with water or food, standing or siting near any type of flooring, furniture or HUMAN MALES, a jolt of pain can be sent directly to your hip or uterine area which will cause said container to flip INto the air, flipping end over end and landing on said floor, piece of furniture or HUMAN MALE.

photo credit: //amy//

These sharp pains are not the babies trying to hatch.
These sharp pains are not a voracious pack of mealworms trying to ooze their way out of your hip bones or uterus.

This sudden sharp pain jolt is “Round Ligament Pain.”

The Round Ligament of the Uterus, as told by the almighty Wikipedia is:

“The function of the round ligament is maintenance of the anteversion of the uterus (a position where the fundus of the uterus leans ventrally). When the uterus grows during pregnancy, these ligaments can stretch causing pain.”

Due to my ownership of testicles and not actually carrying the twins, I am limited in what I can do to make these pains go away to absolutely nothing, but at least I can educate myself enough to try and quell her fears about alien babies and imaginary deck nails poking her at random intervals.

Today’s lesson tells me I can shush her successfully by putting my hands in front of my imaginary uterus and mimic the “uterine growth” that is occurring.

Those are growing pains babe! SUCK IT UP! *im dead aren’t i?*

photo credit: Sarah G…

When we got home from the hospital that cool night in June, I was all over the internet looking for sites on families having twins and the step by step process of dealing with the news, incubating the lil’ ones and then having them successfully and being calm twin parents – I didn’t find any between the hours of midnight and 3 am. Now I’m finding them all over the place!

One of the coolest sites that I’ve seen on just what I was looking for is AndrewsKids.com. You can see the week by week progression and ultrasound pictures as well as see exactly what these parents are going through on their way to being the parents of twins.

Very cool. Very relaxed. Very informative.

Go visit: AndrewsKids.com

photo credit: somegeekintn

I’m telling you, my sleuthing skills as far as awesome twin-sites are concerned are turning pro before I even grow out of my minor league jersey!!

A few of the better twins related websites turn out to be landing pages for some unknown entity in Canada that is an auto-generated pay per clicks thing thing. Sometimes you can utilize those sites for some decent items to purchase, but I’m becoming a sponge, not a collector of all things useless.

I found out that I can find really good websites by just trying to .com them. That’s actually how I named my website, this site IS what I am: Having Twins Now.

So I used common sense, my keyboard and my internet connection to deduce a few sites to frequent. The latest in my quest for as much cool twin stuff as possible ended in me finding www.TwinStuff.com!

I joined their community and I’m enjoying the content, conversation and ease of navigation more than some of the other sites I have visited that try to pull off the forum thing thing.

Check out www.TwinStuff.com