Those who know me well, are very aware that I’m a numbers nerd. What better way to sum up the one-year birthday of Clara and Nicolyn than with a few solid numbers for posterity. Next post: a year in review in pictures (probably a little more interesting for the rest of you, but I had a great time putting this together).
Category: Seeing Double
Clara and Nicolyn celebrated their first birthday in late April. The entire family is very relived to have reached this milestone with everyone’s sanity more-or-less intact. Among some very exciting birthday presents from Nana and Grandpa Dell was a large selection of dress-up clothes that any little girl would be excited to have (including a magic wand from Aunt Autumn). The girls quickly realized how to make the most of these.
In late April the Vance family was fortunate enough to have as their guests Nana and Grandpa Dell — or, as Annika sometimes calls them, “Jonathan’s parents.” Grandpa Dell did all of the home repair projects that Jonathan had left undone. Nana brought wonderful birthday presents for the girls. Together, everyone went to the zoo on a beautiful Saturday.
What were you smoking? Can I have some?
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Women get a lot of hype about being “Supermoms”, but I’m pretty sure I’m married to a “Superdad”. This is what I saw when I came back from cleaning up Annika’s bath paraphernalia. And yes, Jonathan was reading a story out loud to Annika, not just looking at the book with her. . .
Sometimes people ask how Annika is handling her new role as Munchkin-in-Chief. The answer is, she has slowly become more comfortable. A few days after the babies came home from the hospital, this conversation occurred:
Jenelle: Annika, do you like the babies?
Annika: No. All done. Babies go home.
This is not a posed photo. We don’t know how two non-speaking infants can coordinate like this, but they repeatedly do. Now if they would just coordinate their feeding times.
The twins are now just over one month old. If Jenelle and Jonathan can survive the next 17 years, 11 months, everything should be fine.
This week the Vance family welcomed into the world Clara (formerly known as “Baby A”) and Nicolyn (formerly known as “Baby B”). The labor was easier than expected, and the babies are larger than expected (both over seven pounds).
Everyone is healthy (but we should note that “healthy” is different from “well rested”).