What Time Is It?: Hit it!

We’re back and we’re betta than eva!

Yes, I know, “Damnit Vnak! It’s been almost 6 months!”

6 months, you gotta be kidding me? Oooo, I guess it has. Well, at least there plenty of good reasons. There are plentiful good little anectdotes that are worth sharing, but alas, only so much time for typing. I’m sorry if I duplicate anything in previous posts, but I don’t have the time to reread what I wrote.

“But Vnak, there are other people who have an infant and they seem to update their blog fairly regularly!”

Correct, but they only have one child. Not two, or three.

Yes that’s right, for those of you who don’t know, Vnak #3 is on the way. This oven ain’t shut’n down, it’s only warming up.

Baby Vnak #3 is due on Christmas Day. Yes, that’s less than three weeks away. It’s been another wild ride. Katie was sick the first trimester again and had to miss work for about 8 weeks. But then she felt great during the second trimester. We were able to head off to Chicago to celebrate the weddation of Nick Lambrecht and Jess Boehm which was a devilishly fun weekend.

And the third trimester was looking like it was going to be great, no 10 weeks of bedrest this time around. But then the day before Thanksgiving came, and Katie went into active labor a full month ahead of schedule. We went to the hospital, spent the night, and she stopped progressing, however, she was dialated to 3. We didn’t get home until noon on Thanksgiving and then the rest of the day really sucked to be honest, as we were super exhausted. So, Katie had to stop working and take it easy (which is anything but easy with Tom and Joe). She has been contracting on and off sense then, so by technical terms, she has been in active labor since the day before Thanksgiving. Not fun. She is super uncomfortable, and the baby has been taking turns pressing against her sciatic nerve, which is no fun either. Last night, she started contracting like crazy again, so off to the hospital we went, but still no baby. Maybe he (yes, we are having anotha boy!) is going to hold out for Christmas. Who knows.

Other major fun items besides Tom and Joe:

1. We bought a house. And moved. Long story short: found the perfect house. Bought it. We sold our townhouse in 30 days. Take that national credit crisis! Eat housing market! The new crib is schwiggity schweet. It’s only 8500 sq feet, but I think we’ll fit by the time we’re done with Vnaks #16 and #17.
2. I was able to partake in all male weekend to ND for the season opener against Gtech. Home opener is always the best, we didn’t suck at that point, so the times were great. Mucho kudos to Cieslak for letting us crash at his Fischer Grad brothal for the weekend. Three crazy nights going out in a row resulted in me losing my voice until Wednesday of the following week. Good stuff!
3. Home remodeling. Before the baby is born in December, we’ve been on a big push to get the main level of the home painted and fixed up. Normally this would be an easy task. But two kids turns the easy upside down. It’s a big project, but we’ve got most of it done so hopefully we can enjoy most of the holidays.
4. I know I’m missing a million other things, but this will have to suffice.

For those of you who want more updates, you are in luck. My resolution for 2008 is to most more often than every 6 months, so that we guarantee at least 3 updates.

On to the boys:

What a joy! Being a parent never really gets easier, it constantly demanding and difficult, but always changing to keep you on your feet. You trade sleepless nights for disruptive behavior. It’s all relative. Katie and I can’t wait for sleepless nights with the new baby and disruptive behavior with the boys. Happy, happy, joy, joy!

The boys have been walking/running for what seems forever. I can’t even remember when it started. All I know is is was one step, two steps, a thousand. The boys have an outstading vocabulary for their age (would you expect anything else?). It is incredibly entertaining. Although they don’t get out all of the syllabals, you can tell they are trying. They can mimic just about anything, so here are a few recent stories I can remember.

“Joe, can you say Tom”

“Pom”

“No, no, Tom.”

“No, no, Pom”

“Forget it.”

“Okay!”

Dad was watching football, and the announcer screams, “Touchdown” and Joe goes running around the house with his hands up in the air screaming, ‘Touchdown, touchdown, touchdown!” Datta boy!

Halloween was very entertaining. Tom was a big butted lion and Joe a big butted Zebra. See pics below.

The boys know when to say, “Hey!” during Jingle Bells. Very entertaining. They love the Itsy Bitsy Spider. And old McDonald.

It’s really interesting being the parent of twins and watching how they interact. For those of you with one child out there, ask yourself the question, “Who does my child know best?” And the answer is easily mom or dad. But for us, Tom and Joe know each other best before mom and dad. It creates a completely different dynamic. Today I had to take Tom to the doctor by himself while Joe stayed at home. Both were lost without each other. It’s cute and you can see how twins develop their life long affinity towards each other.

For all of you without kids, make the most of your time before starting a family. I don’t mean that in a negative context. Having a family is the most rewarding experience ever, but it really puts in context what is important in life as well as how much of your life you wasted (time and money) before you had kids. Someday you’ll all know what I mean.

Ok, it’s awfully hard trying to recollect when the window of time (6 months) is so large, so I’m going to cut it short and let the pictures do the talking. I will try to update more frequently, and if I don’t I apologize.

Enjoy and happy holidays! I probably won’t post again until the new baby is born, so please pray for us that all goes well!

Take that back, we bought a new camera and should have some sweet new pictures since we don’t have to wait five seconds for the camera to take pictures anymore.

Here's Tom and JOe's room before my remodel. Yes, I do my own work.
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