Well, as promised, I'm going to ponder the concept of my brother & sister-in-law's having a two year old and then twins. Here's a picture from this weekend. From left to right are: Ian (2-1/2 yrs.), Aaron (8 months), Aunt Lou Ann, Will (8 months). By the way, all three nephew outfits were Aunt Lou Ann Christmas gifts.

Now, I have been rather amused by this concept of their second "child" being twins. I'm sure that the things that I find amusing, they don't! But still I'll share. First of all, consider this ... when most couples have a second child, they use all of the "stuff" from their first child. The same stroller, car seats, high chair, bouncy seat, bassinette, crib, etc. Well, because their second "child" was twins, they had to get a 2nd one of most of everything. Except bouncy seats. The funny thing about the bouncy seats is this: with one child, it's rather easy to carry child and bouncy seat up and down the stairs and around the house. But with two, you'd have to leave one child alone and carry the other child in his bouncy seat to the next place. SOOOooo, my brother and sister-in-law have two sets of two bouncy seats (my brother said three sets of two, but I never saw them). They have an upstairs, a main level and a basement ... and supposedly have bouncy seats for all three places. That is funny!!

My brother and his wife also have a mini-van. With one child, it was easy ... the mini-van can carry three adults and a child in a car seat. Or two adults and two children in car seats. All of this while not using the "way back" bench ... and having lots of storage space to carry stuff (like the dog!) When the twins were born, my brother went out and bought a Suburban, because there are very few mini-vans that can give you room for two adults, three child seats AND storage space (or dog space). Now, in the Suburban, if they have to, they can put three child seats in a row and take out the way-back seat and use the space for storage. Ugh!!

Another thing I noticed was feeding time. The twins are just now starting "solid" food (it doesn't seem all too "solid" to me!!) When Danielle asked if I wanted to feed them (of course I did!!), she handed me one bowl and spoon. I was informed that, until they can hold their own fork/spoon, they will be eating out of the same dish with the same spoon. She figures that they share all of their germs anyway ... so why bother with separate utencils!! So ... one spoonful for Aaron, one for Will, one for Aaron, another for Aaron, one for Will, two for Aaron (he eats about twice as much as Will) ... and EAT they do ... a LOT!!

Well ... those are the most notable things I came up with. There are the expected things, like the fact that when you have three in diapers, your life consists of changing, feeding, cajoling into naps, and then more changing, feeding, and lots of crying in between. Oh - and SPIT UP ... yup ... it took me about a half hour to find and treat all of my laundry from the two days I spent there for all of the spit up stains (and one mysterious katsup stain which I'm not sure where it came from since I ate absolutely no katsup the whole time I was there!!)

More pictures will be forthcoming sometime over the next few weeks.