One Year Ago

It's hard for me to believe that one year ago I found out I was having twins. The day before my 26th birthday. Going into the OB/GYN and just expecting to hear that, "yep, your positive home pregnancy test was correct, you are indeed pregnant." Instead hearing that I was pregnant with twins. It just went so fast. My midwife gave me the sono picture, sent me to the lab to get blood drawn and then refers me to a specialist who deals with high risk pregnancies. And then of course almost passing out while I was waiting to check out. I had just been accepted into the physical therapy assistant program at ICC. I knew there was no way that I was giving that up though. I had been trying to get in for two years and with the twins coming, I was really going to need a college education. We were also in the process of looking for a new house. We had to move out of Peoria and fast!

The girls are five months old now and Logan is three. I love my children very much, but they can also get under my skin, but honestly who can say that their kids don't. Logan has been taking a nap the past few days, I'm sure in part due to the fact that he just got over an illness. He won't nap in his bed though, he'll lay on the couch and fall asleep. I think he likes that he can choose where he gets to nap. On May 8, I'm taking Logan in to see a speech therapist. His vocabulary really doesn't seem to be where it should be for his age. I can understand 70% of what he says, the problem is he doesn't have a very extensive vocabulary. I don't know why. I read to him every night, he repeats anything Vince or I say, but yet he can't put a whole sentence together. Like, instead of saying, "I'm hungry," all he says is "eat." Or instead of, "I don't want to go nigh nigh," he says "no nigh nigh." I hope it's nothing too bad and that it can be worked out before he starts preschool.

 The girls are rolling machines now. They haven't started scooting yet, but I can tell Aimee is getting close. Once she's on her belly, she'll stick her butt up in the air and get her legs underneath her like she's ready to push off. Nothing yet though. I'm almost thinking I need to start planning for their birthday already too. What do you do for a twin first birthday party? I have no idea. The only thing I've come up with so far is Thing One and Thing Two from 'Cat in the Hat', but we don't really even read much of Dr. Suess in this house. So I need to come up with something better. Any ideas?