Recap of the Last Two Weeks

... by way of John's Facebook updates.

January 26, 2011 - "Angel has two weeks to go, plus or minus two weeks."

January 27, 2011 - "is thinking this may be the last quiet weekend for some time..." (I assured him he was wrong.)

January 31, 2011 - "The twins' heartbeats sound like the coconuts from Monty Python and the Holy Grail." (Written during monitoring at the hospital. They really did!)

January 21, 2011 - "We need radio collars to keep track of our kids. And they haven't even been born yet." (Monitoring required the constant attention of a helicopter nurse (or two.))

February 1, 2011 - "Question: If the kiddos come out tomorrow and see their shadows, will they go back in for another couple weeks?"

February 2, 2011 - "(John) and Angel are proud parents. Baby A weighs 6 lbs 10.5 oz (after pooping!) and Baby B weighs 4 lbs. 1 oz. Both keepers. Both girls! Angel is recovering from c-section and is doing well."

February 3, 2011 - "Baby B looks like a canyon tree frog - with a shock of black hair on her head."

February 5, 2011 - "I decided to skip Dr. Seuss for now and to fast forward straight to "Treasure Island" for this afternoon's reading."

February 5, 2011 - "Although we had picked these names over a month ago, it took three days of discussions, negotiations and nurse-on-the-street spelling surveys to confirm they matched the kiddos. Baby A is officially Catherine Rae Robison and Baby B is Lela Grace Robison. (Lela is pronounced "Lee-la")."

February 5, 2011 - "Is getting ready for BANFF (Babies Are Needing Food and Family). It's another extreme sport, but without the pro deals." (We were about to miss the Banff Film Festival... an annual tradition.)

February 6, 2011 - "Angel and I checked the Fish and Game regs and you can't take home any babies less than 20" long. So we put them back and will keep returning until we can take them home. Until then, it's a bit like catch and release parenting."

This brings us to today... our first day of waking at home, visting the girls in the morning, taking a brief afternoon siesta and returning for the evening. Personally, I think this is also proof that a Facebook intervention is in order, but we'll revisit that later.