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It should be easy.  I'm hard to miss. According to my mother there was an "audible gasp" as I walked onstage with my fellow altos for our recent concert.  And today I fielded three separate "You look like you're ready to go any day now" comments during my grocery run.  It's no wonder that every  book I've read about raising twins has addressed the issue of strangers' comments.  Most resources have committed a section, or even small chapter, to the attention twin-pregnant mom draws and then the barrage of comments the babies will draw after they are born.  There are suggested strategies for responding to or even avoiding the attention.   The books and a couple people we know who have twins have provided some lists to prepare us.  "You look like you're ready to pop" is really up there.  I heard three versions just today.  And "Do twins run in your family?" is another one.  'Gotten that countless number of times already. ...

In a transparent attempt to post something on the blog when we've got nothing to post, here's a lovely photo I found of Art and Jess a long time ago!

They're laughing very hard as they try and reach over their big bellies to hug. Emily is pregnant (due in November) and showing quite a bit. And of course Jessica is already a fairly absurd size. So seeing them hug is funny. "It's only going to get more ridiculous," said Jess as she was bending laughing and hugging her sister. Now they just went into the kitchen to see if they could 'rest' their bellies on the counter.

This is quite a funny little exchange on Jessica facebook account I wanted to share: ---------------------------- Jessica Parker Garvin Just W-D 40'd my back door after almost 2 yrs of enduring it squealing. Now, without the squeaky announcement I feel like I'm magically entering through some kind of teleport. William Damkoehler ‎"WD-40'd"! We witnessed the birth of a new verb! Congratulations, Jessica! Jessica Parker Garvin You know me. I just can't stop birthing things.

Yesterday I had a routine ultrasound to check up on the twins and be sure they are growing at even rates and well. My midwife said, "You had a beautiful ultrasound! You couldn't have asked for a better twin ultrasound." Both babies are estimated at around 2 lbs and change with "beautiful" hearts, good movement and all their necessary parts. One of them, Twin A, is curled up in my right side with her head down while the other, Twin B, is stretched "transverse" bent at the waist with her body and head across the top of my uterus and legs and feet hanging down over the left side. B took a lovely 3D picture: Twin B A was less cooperative for the 3D pics, but the technician got this very nice profile: Twin A And here is a picture better displaying their position. Those are Twin B's feet in A's face. She kicked her many times while the tech did her measurements. B! Do I have to separate you two?!?!

For those noticing Lewis is helmetless and Art is in the FRONT seat, don't worry too much. It was only for a block to our house...