Random stuff

Have been remiss in not posting to blog.  We are now on facebook and facebook is more convienent to our current lifesyle.  Short blurbs that can be quickly shared.  It is hard work to keep the blog updated and interesting with 3 young boys but we will try.

Yesterday (19th) we had tp take the boiys to the doctor for their  month shots.  Since the boys were receiving shots all 5 of us go to the doctor.  It is unfair to the doctor and to the one of us that would take them to the doctor to do it with just one of us.  Once the first twin receives his shots, if he does not react well, it is difficult to comfort the first while the second is receiving his shots.  So our solution is all five of us go to the shot appointments.

Benjamin went first and weighed 7.57 k..  He has almost tripled his birth weight.  His growth chart is practically vertical.  From 10% at birth to 85% at 18 weeks.  We are amazed at his growth.  Considering that he was 5 weeks premature his growth is nothing less than phenomenal.

Nathan is growing but not at the pace of Benjamin.  Nathan weighed in at 6.8 k.  He is at the 75% but his line is not nearly as steep as Benjamin's.

The sad part of the trip was when we returned home.  I got one of the boys out of the passenger side of the car and opened the gate and walked toward the front door.  Julia got the other twin out of his seat and helped Samuel out of the drivers side of the car.  As I reached the front door I turned around and Julia was placing the twin on the stoop, the gate was closed and Samuel was nowhere to be seen.

As I was asking Julia where Samuel was I saw his head pop up through the gate.  He had been locked out.
Julia immediately unlocked the gate but Samuel ran away from her.  Apparently she had closed the gate in his face as he was following her into the yard.  Samuel ran directly to me and refused to look at or hug his mummy for at least five minutes.  All was soon forgotten by Samuel.  We tried to explain to him that it will not be the last time that he is forgotten and left behind.  It will happen again.

Samuel does not like watermelon.  Very disappointing.  He loves what are called in France Yetigel.  I cannot remember what they are called in America.  Yetigels are the summer treat of fruit flavored frozen water in small tubes that you slowly suck on until they melt and then you drink the sugar saturated water.

I get my 36 hour break for August next week.  I will leave for Antwerp on Wednesday morning and return early Thursday evening.  What we have learned over the last 5 months is that Julia and I love each other and our boys very much but we have been together under the same roof since February 1st.  We decided that a quick remedy is that each of us gets a 36 hour break every month.  Our trip coincides with a visit by the garde de nuit so the one of us that stays behind is not left completely alone with the boys. In July we both spent our trip in Brussels.  We try to visit spots that are within a 2 hour train ride of Paris.

Samuel can now say I love you.  Well, almost.  He says "I la."

Nathan is a smiley baby.  Subsequently his nickname is Smiley.  Samuel calls him "Miley."