Today is the twins' birthday.  What a year they have lived, and we have lived with them. I have been reading my hospital log from a year ago and the antepartum time almost feels like yesterday.  But then I think about the babies' birth, the two month hospital stay, and their ten months at home and that time feels so long, so full of memories and changes that it can't possibly have been only a year ago that it all got kicked off!  Time is funny that way.  I imagine Tom and I will look back on this phase of our life, time with kids at home, having little kids who demand so much of us, and think it flew by.  I'm told we will miss it, and I believe we will.

Jumping topics, I want to muse about this day a year ago.  God surely has a sense of humor and timing.  I certainly had no idea January 3rd was the big day for our babies.  It was so normal, in an antepartum sense.  I did my morning prayer time, visited with another mom on the unit, printed some paperwork to complete in the next four weeks (so I thought), worked on Blaise's baby scrapbook (I would have hustled on it more if I knew I wasn't getting 7 weeks in antepartum), and worked out right before the fateful non-stress test at 3 pm.  The humorous part is that I took the husband of a new mom on the unit on a tour of the facility so he could know where to do laundry, get food, print things, etc.  On a whim we visited the Ronald McDonald House.  I told the director, "We're both in the antepartum unit so we'd like to learn what you have to offer after our babies are born.  Hopefully I won't be needing your services for another month, but it's good to know in advance."  That was only six hours before the boys were delivered.  It just goes to show we never know how a day can go radically different than we expected.

Now, a year later, no one would know the boys had such a perilous beginning.  They army crawl or crawl across rooms, pull themselves up to standing with furniture, wrestle each other for the prized toy, and eat some table food.  They sleep through the night.  They are so smiley and easy-natured.  They are truly a joy and we love these miracle babies so much!

Also, if you want to see more pictures and updates of the babies and the rest of the Triplett crew, I started a family blog. I haven’t been good about posting because no one is following it that I can tell, but I’ll be better about posting if people care to read it. I think it’s possible to subscribe. The link is

https://quinlh01.wixsite.com/triplettfamily