BS: Twice as blessed!!!!!

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From: Pseudolus
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 02:20 PM

A while back I started a thread anonymously ("I could use a little help") asking for good thoughts and prayers cause my wife and I were trying to have a baby and all attempts had failed. I recently added that we were finally successful and expecting twins but at my wife's request we weren't telling anyone so I had to stay anonymous. Well, the wait is over, I can FINALLY spread the news! It's me! Or should I say us! We're having twins, the due date is Jan. 21st but the doctor tells us that the "tax deduction" gods will most likely be with us cause twins normally come early!!! Two Christmas babies! Who could have asked for more than that?!?!?!

   Not that it was all that much of a secret and I'm sure no one was holding their breath trying to figure out who was having twins but there you have it....Pseudolus and KarenB are with child...or should I say with childs!!!!


Frank

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From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 02:24 PM

Wow! Congratulations!! Two tax deductions at once!!

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From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 02:25 PM

Congratulations! (Again. Twice!)

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From: GUEST,KB
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 02:25 PM

Congratulations!
Double the fun...

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From: Amos
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 02:34 PM

Way to go! Way to go!
This is going to be a very interesting couple of decades, raising twins!


A

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From: CarolC
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 02:35 PM

Congratulations! December and January babies are definitely some of the best.

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From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 02:53 PM

Congratulations!!!!

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From: Alba
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 05:02 PM

Aww that's great. You both must be very excited. Would seem that two wee Capricorns are on there way!
Congratulations Ma and Pa:>)
A

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From: Giac
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 05:20 PM

Can't have too many Capricorns! Look forward to hearing about them.

Mary

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From: Beccy
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 05:29 PM

Way to go! You said a mouthful when you said twice as blessed. I love my 3 (soon to be 4) boys unlike anything you could ever imagine. One of them (the stubborn one) came on January 4th, 2000. Guess how many people asked if my husband and I were trying to have the millenium baby? I can honestly say that was pretty far from our minds when he was conceived.
The third one arrived on December 31st at 3:16p.m. His initials are T.D.L. (and I SWEAR the t.d. does NOT stand for tax deduction. It's just a happy coincidence!)
God Bless you ALL and enjoy every minute because as trite as it sounds, the time DOES fly!!!!

Beccy

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From: lady penelope
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 05:38 PM

Congratulations, and I hope you get some good rest in........

TTFN Lady P.

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From: Jeanie
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 05:47 PM

Ooh yes, Frank, I remember your anonymous post last year ! This is *wonderful* news !! Many congratulations to you and Karen !

Sending lots of love,
- jeanie xx

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From: Wesley S
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 05:50 PM

Congrats from Texas too. Babies are wonderful creatures - I'm very happy for you. Yes - you are blessed.

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From: *daylia*
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 06:12 PM

Congratulations X 2, Pseudolus! You're in for a real adventure -- double the trouble and double the fun!! My identical twins are 21 now, they still look very similiar, they still fight hard, they still make sure their hair is cut differently, and they've learned to avoid those trouble-making girls who want to play "both fields".

I'll never forget the last couple months of that pregnancy. My belly was so huge it was resting on my knees, and they seemed to wake up as soon as I'd lie down. It felt like an octopus in there with all those arms and legs flailing around, struggling for position. I'd watch them, thinking my belly looked like the rolling ocean waves. They were doing Jiu Jitsu before they even left the womb ...

Congratulations again to both of you, and thanks for the memories.

daylia

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From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 06:29 PM

LOL, daylia, that's what my daughter looked like and felt, too!

Congratulations, Frank and Karen! I am so glad that things have worked out for you and you have two of them to look forward to. Do get as much rest now as possible 'cause you are going to be flyin' after they are born! My grandsons are just now 5 and I don't think my daughter and her husband have stopped much at all in those five years.:-) Though, from what they say and what my parents said about my sisters, twins are good at entertaining one another you just have to keep an eye out for what they decide to entertain with!Haha.

Oh, joy!

kat

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From: Ebbie
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 08:24 PM

Congratulations! One of the frustrations my daughter had with her twins (age 13 now) was that when one of them would get in trouble for something, the other would immediately commit the same crime. My daughter said she never has quite figured out the rationale on that.

On the other hand, she says that if she knew it would be twins again, she'd try for another pregnancy, that this time it would be fun.

I'm happy for you. The best of luck to all of you.

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From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 09:41 PM

Congratulations! MOre Mudcat babies. WOW!

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From: Tinker
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 10:24 PM

Great news.... take time now to enjoy the quiet and each other... Then just hang on for the ride.

Blessings,
Blessings,

Tinker

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From: LadyJean
Date: 08 Jul 03 - 01:10 AM

Congratulations!
Now, to counteract all the scare stories people are telling you!
1. My sister was born when our mother was 39. She's an honors graduate of the University of Chicago, and she was 15th in her law school class, working days and going to school nights.
2. My friend Emily's first child was a breach. He was supposed to be a c-section, but he got there before the surgeon did. There's nothing the matter with him, except he plays ice hockey.

My grandfather was a fraternal twin. He was born in 1880. When the family's church had a bazaar, they had a display of the McCallister twins, two dolls labeled Edgar and Edna. That's how grandaddy got his name. His parents had been planning on naming him Edbert. Don't do that to your twins, and good luck!

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From: fat B****rd
Date: 08 Jul 03 - 03:19 AM

Many Congratulation, I wish the four of you much happiness.Now start learning "Twenty Tiny Fingers"

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From: gnu
Date: 08 Jul 03 - 05:01 AM

Awwww.... congratulations !!!!

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From: sian, west wales
Date: 08 Jul 03 - 05:30 AM

Just perfect!

(But does that mean we'll need new Secret Santa co-ordinators???)

sian

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From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 08 Jul 03 - 05:34 AM

You truly are blest! Congratulations!

My fraternal twins just turned 30, and it's been a wild ride. (They were induced two weeks early, weighed in at 6lbs and 7lbs,1 oz...and I'm only 5'2" !!!!!!!!!

Frank, you gave me some good advice once, maybe I can return the favor. PM me as time goes by if there's anything I can help with. The main thing is to just ENJOY!

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From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 08 Jul 03 - 05:53 AM

Blessings X 2!!

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From: Morticia
Date: 08 Jul 03 - 07:36 AM

Couldn't be more pleased for you........wow!! Keep us posted, won't you?

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From: Carly
Date: 08 Jul 03 - 08:17 PM

Good for you! Congratulations...you are going to have so much fun...

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From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 09 Jul 03 - 11:38 AM

Hope it wasn't anything to do with the Pontefract cakes!!!!!
Our twins are four next month so maybe its catching! And don't beleive anyone that says its twice the work - quadruple maybe!! But same goes for blessings and love - you'll never be without now! Good luck to you both and many congratulations.
Jane and Geoff

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From: Raptor
Date: 09 Jul 03 - 12:06 PM

Good for you!

Raptor

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From: Wesley S
Date: 09 Jul 03 - 01:39 PM

Two suggestions I'd like give you. First - everytime you go to the store pick up diapers of all sizes so you'll have a supply when they get here. And second - every time you cook make a double batch and freeze some of it so when the babies arrive you'll have something to eat. You won't have the time or energy to cook when they get here. Trust me.

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From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 09 Jul 03 - 02:10 PM

Due Date 21 January?
Ours arrived 3 weeks early! Molly came at 20 to midnight, 7th August. Rowan looked as if he was hanging on until the next day! He did arrive on the 7th, but only just!
Watch out for Midnight 31 December 2003, You could have birthdays in two separate years!!!!
Quack!
Geoff the Duck.

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From: Walking Eagle
Date: 09 Jul 03 - 04:21 PM

Double Trouble!

The feezing of meals and hoarding of baby stuff is good advice! Fraternal or identical, or do we know at this point?

O'sda utugi!

Julie

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From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Jul 03 - 10:14 PM

Give it 6 months or so and you might be thinking you spelt 'blessed' wrong.....

Congratulations and here's hoping all goes well - get as much rest as you can now, because even with one baby, you sure don't get any afterwards!

LTS

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From: Pseudolus
Date: 09 Jul 03 - 11:45 PM

Wow! Thanks for all of the kind thoughts! I do plan on stocking up on sleep, diapers, frozen meals.....all good suggestions! We are pretty excited along with my two daughters (11 and 14) who are busily coming up with names....   Speaking of names, I jokingly told my in-laws that we weren't taking suggestions for names unless they were written on a package of pampers! I thought it was pretty funny....turns out it was pretty smart. even though my family knows that I was kidding, we have received 5 packages from different members of my family already and apparently more are on the way!! I love my family!!


Frank

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From: Pseudolus
Date: 09 Jul 03 - 11:46 PM

Oh, yeah, the twins are fraternal....very little history of twins in the family but they are there....

Frank

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From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 10 Jul 03 - 04:23 AM

Avoid giving them first names with the same first letter. When the mail arrives addressed to J Bloggs and it is Haemarrhoid cream for John Bloggs, he might not want Jeremiah Bloggs to open it by mistake.
Just a thought!
Quack!
Geoff.

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From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 10 Jul 03 - 05:31 PM

I didn't realise until it was too late that Bratling has one of my inistials and one of Manitas' initials... when a letter came addressed to her, I didn't know whether it was mine or his!

LTS

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From: smallpiper
Date: 10 Jul 03 - 06:02 PM

Double Blessings
xx

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From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 10 Jul 03 - 08:01 PM

My dad was quite a character! His name was Vance, so he told all his friends that the twins would be named Vance and Advance.

Also, at coffee club each morning, when a friend would be bursting with pride and telling all about his new grandbaby, my dad would say, "Oh, just one?"

We didn't know until the last minute that we were having twins, so we didn't have names. They went six days without a name! The hospital staff said I had to name them before we could go home. Charles and David

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From: Neighmond
Date: 10 Jul 03 - 08:24 PM

I was getting my taxes done, and a tired-looking moke and his wife and two howling babies were standing at the bar next to me, and the accountant's assistant was talking to him. As I was waiting on my turn I heard her tell him he was wise enough to plan ahead, and have his babies in December, because he could deduct for the whole of the year. Before he could say ary a peep his wife blurted: "He never thought ahead a day in the last ten years! It was just St. Patrick's day!" His face is likely still red.

Taken as it was worth

Chaz

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From: GUEST,Wesley S
Date: 11 Jul 03 - 01:48 PM

Something we've really enjoyed was a baby monitor with a built in TV camera. You can watch everything they are doing from anywhere in the house - and they work well in the dark too. You can even work in the back yard when they are napping and know exactly when they wake up and need you. We got ours as a gift but I seem to think that they sell for around $125.00 US. Well worth the money if you ask me.

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From: Hollowfox
Date: 12 Jul 03 - 12:21 PM

Many congratulations. My advice is to not bother with "newborn" size baby clothes. Even if they are born on the small side, they'll outgrow those baby pelts in a flat minute, The one thing babies don't do is shrink. *g*

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From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Jul 03 - 04:59 AM

They only shrink your bank balance!!!

If you can, or if there are enough people near you, get into a circle of friends who also have children a few months older than yours.... hand me downs can go a long way!! Bratling and I got into such a group and last I saw, one of the dresses I made her at 6 months is still doing the rounds 6 years later.

LTS

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From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 13 Jul 03 - 07:56 AM

Obviously should have moved to US to have children - tax deductable children sounds good!

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From: Gloredhel
Date: 13 Jul 03 - 10:38 PM

My brother and sister in law are expecting a girl and a boy next month. We're praying everything comes out all right, as my SiL is ony the petite side--only 5'2" tall, plus she's 42 years old... But she seems just fine, and I can't wait to see how the 4-year-old will react to being a big brother.

Good luck with your twins! (Start saving for college now...)

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From: Mudlark
Date: 14 Jul 03 - 01:12 AM

Congratulations squared. You must be over the moon!

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From: artbrooks
Date: 14 Jul 03 - 09:00 AM

On names...visualize teenagehood, and don't name them anything that will backfire in the future. We named our oldest Ruth...but she unilaterally changed it when she was 14 because she was tired of "Ruthie" and "Baby Ruth" (a US candy bar). And what ever you do, don't give then "twin names"

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From: Pseudolus
Date: 14 Jul 03 - 01:55 PM

I'm getting much better advice from this thread than I am from my friends and family!! I've had name suggestions like, if they're both boys, Pete and rePete, or the suggestion that it doesn't matter what you call the first one out but when the second one comes out, Call it quits!! As you can imagine we've been having a BLAST with all of the jokes and the laughs.....hopefully that'll continue after they're born. Just add a few yawns to the laughs!!

You have all been great, I always wonder if starting a thread about myslef and my situation is a little self-serving. It may still be, but your thoughts and comments kinda make it worth it!!!

Thanks,
Frank (and Karen and the twins!!)

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From: GUEST,Boab d
Date: 14 Jul 03 - 02:06 PM

Well done and a big well done to the Mrs also hope all is well and merry Christmas when ever the two wee weans arrive
Dylan

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From: Pseudolus
Date: 17 Sep 03 - 11:19 AM

OK, I promise I'll let this thread go off into the sunset after this post (of course a birth announcement thread will take it's place later!) but I do have to tell you all the latest....we had a level two Ultrasound and the verdict is in....they're both boys! Omigod!!!!! I know what to do with girls, I've had practice!! But boys?!?!?! Actually we were all quite shocked at first, in fact my daughter who was rooting for girls just cried! She was devastated, but she was promised a shopping trip for boys clothes by my sister-in-law and now she's thrilled! As are the rest of us!! We have names but I'll save that for the birth announcment later!

So anyway, just had to tell ya. Thanks again for indulging my on this one!!!

Frank

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From: wysiwyg
Date: 17 Sep 03 - 11:25 AM

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