Babies Birthdays

How does time go by so quickly? It seems like yesterday that I was pacing the halls of Christ Hospital waiting for those babies. I remember the really strangely uncomfortable chairs in the waiting room and I remember staring at the double doors, nose pressed again the tiny windows, the world inside gridded by the little lines in the window glass. Seeing the babies for the first time was a little surreal, I saw them before seeing Christie, and as beautiful as they were, and as excited as I was to be with them, I kept thinking that they should be with Christie and I should be seeing all three of them. It took awhile, but finally everything was perfect and Christie was sitting in the hospital room holding the two sweetest babies I've ever seen. Obviously, by now the babies are way too big to hold at the same time, but if I had to choose a time that I loved in this past year, it would be holding both of them at the same time, heads lined up next to each other...It gave me the same feeling that having Walter and Lucy both curled up next to me does...which is good..

I promised Christie I would post some photos of the first birthday party. It was crazy and fun. There were a lot of kids there..mine were part of the wildness. The babies were super well behaved. Aubrey spent some time trying to hit me, and then spit at me..but, I have to believe that this is a phase (right? right? right?) I was shocked to find that Aubrey and Quinn made it through the whole night without crying at all..just the amount of people and attention is usually so overwhelming that most kids are bawling. write more and add photos tomorrow.