34 Weeks

Almost There

That's what I keep telling Melissa, almost there - you can do it. The title says 34 weeks because that is when these pictures were taken, but she is almost at 35 weeks now and doing great. We have a hunch that the babies weigh around 6 pounds each now and will find out at the doctor today. Melissa is actually very uncomfortable now but remaining in good spirits and we are both getting increasingly excited. Here is a photo of Melissa last week out front by our thriving Ruella plant. I say "thriving" to poke fun at my parents who got the same plant only to find it devoured by deer the next morning. They are remaining in good spirits despite the loss...

The boy's room is complete as you can see in the following photos. The changing table was hand-made by Melissa's Dad. He planed the wood and spent many hours making it - we just love it. The changing table top is removable so that later we can just use it as a chest of drawers. Beautiful - the craftsmanship is phenomenal. With the room all ready to go, we are just missing the boys now, so as you can see we had some fun with the orange fish stuffed animals...




To close it out, I wanted to include a photo taken in 1889 of the Wakeman Twins. Alfred Wakeman was my great grandfather on my Mom's side of the family. To tell you the truth, the fact that he was a twin did not sink in my whole life until we found out that we were having twins. Now it has sort of a special meaning and importance to me...