Last night, January 22nd, 2007, our little family doubled in size with the arrival of 2 little bundles of joy: Lorelai Kate and Reece Joseph. Lorelai was born at 8:43 Pm and weighed in at 4lbs 13oz and Reece was born at 9:07 PM and weighed 4lb 12 oz.

It was a very emotional night, and I’ll tell the whole story at another time. Lisa and Lorelai are doing really well. Reece has had a little bit of a rough start to life, but he is a strong, strong little boy, and is getting better every hour. He’s currently in the NICU, but they’ve removed him from the CPAP machine they had him on to help him breathe, and is now on just regular 21% Oxygen via a nasal tube. We hope to have him out of the NICU in the next couple of days.

Many thanks to all of you who have already expressed so many kind words and helped out. We really do appreciate it.

I’ll update as I have time over the next few days and post some pictures as soon as I remember to bring the camera home from the hospital.

We had another visit to the OB today, and Lisa had another ultrasound done. Baby A (the girl) weighed in at 4lb 7 oz (was 3 lb 10 oz on Dec 27) and Baby B (the boy) weighed in at 5 lb 6 oz (up from 4 lb 7 oz on Dec 27th). Everything is progressing very well. The heart rates are excellent, the fluid is perfect, and the blood flow to both is doing very well.

So we’ve just finished week 34, and the average birth for twins is at 37 weeks. Our doctor doesn’t believe there are any indications of early delivery at this point, so we’re looking at 37-38 weeks most likely, unless something changes really quickly. That puts us anywhere between Feb 5 and Feb 19th. We’ll know more after the next ultrasound on Jan 29th.

At this point, the main issue is keeping Lisa comfortable. The babies like to put their feet on her ribs and push as hard as they can to stretch out, which usually implies pushing their head into her bladder. Apparently, that’s not really that comfortable, at least not for Lisa.

If you get the chance to see the documentary “In the Womb: Twins, Triplets and Quads” on the National Geographic Channel, by all means, watch it. It was a fascinating look at what is going on in there. A little scary for parents to be at times, but comforting as well. It’s amazing to see how much of the basis for the relationship between twins is formed before they are even born.

This is a test of my ability to post video from our new CamCorder on line. Let me know if you have any issues viewing this

Edit 2012: No idea what this video was. It’s lost to the interwebs.

I know, it’s the thought that counts, but hey, I’m a very sharing, caring person, so I decided to share my cold with Lisa. I’m just about over mine, but she came down with the symptoms Friday night. Oh joy. As if the stuffiness caused by the pregnancy wasn’t bad enough, the cold is causing her eyes to drain continuously. I tell her I don’t think it’s brains draining, but who really knows what it is. Hopefully the kids don’t catch it too. I can’t imagine what would happen if they started sneezing.

I’m starting to feel a little better today, but god do I hate colds. I was up around 3:00 AM and couldn’t sleep after that because I had to blow my nose just about every minute. My fever broke around 6:00 AM this morning. I’m down to using a Kleenex once every 5 minutes now (6 if I let my moustache act as a dike in the river for a minute).

So much for a nice, relaxing long weekend. I should be all better just in time to go back to work on Tuesday. And I start my on call week on Tuesday. Yippie.

That’s how I’ve felt the last two days. I picked up a nasty cold somewhere and it’s got my head in a vice. I’ve got tissues on autofeed, and have been taking Airborne like it’s candy. Even Nyquil hasn’t worked the last two nights.

I hate being sick, and I really hate being sick on a long weekend.

The good news is that Lisa hasn’t shown any signs of getting it, so hopefully she won’t.