Loyalties

Brother James is our Daddy's boss at Lewis. He sent us these Lewis clothes. We don't fit them quite yet, but we did take some cute pictures in them.







For the record, Brother James, our Daddy is conflicted but suggests you not mess with his Domer indoctrination.

Twins...

Enough said.

Ribbit

Frogs? You want frogs? We'll give you frogs.
































Aristophanes has nothing on us.

This does remind us that we are still waiting to meet our Uncle John.

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Happy Cinco de Mayo from two little baby burritos!!

Little pterodactyls

We love to sleep like this, with our little heads back and arms flung out.





















It reminds our Mommy and Daddy of certain fossils.

Growing

Yesterday our Mommy put us in the car and took us all the way up to Ravenswood to go meet some of her friends. We met Jill and Thelma and Amada and Chuck and Jasmina and Kim and Khalid and Judy and Lucy and Lynn and Gina and Nate and Brian probably lots of other people.

Very friendly people, but apparently the reason we were there was not for Intro to Socializing but for our one-month checkup. The good news is: there's nothing wrong with us! We are very healthy babies, and we are getting really big! Julia weighs 6 pounds and 6 ounces, and Anna weighs 6 pounds and an ounce. We have each grown an inch in length as well-- Julia is 19 inches and Anna is 18.

This is what we did when we came home. Our Mommy did likewise.

Bunnies

Our Great-Grandma Madigan sent us some very cute little toys. They are nearly the same size as us.
















Our Mommy found this picture reminiscent of a certain movie clip:

Bathtime: update

We admit that the concept of the hooded towel escapes us.

The cuteness factor is pretty high, though.

Seeing clearly

Our focal length has improved!

Maxwell, Einstein, Daddy, and Us

Our Daddy sometimes needs some help with his grading. We are always happy to step up and lend a hand.





























We are pleased to say that our grasp of magnetism and general relativity far surpasses that of most infants.

Domer indoctrination starts now

Touchdown Anna!

All wet

We love our bath times. We could have a bath every day, but we have apnea monitors and the leads can't get wet, so we only get to splash in the water a few times a week.























We are bath-salts-and-tiny-candles girls in waiting, but for now we get the kitchen sink and baby shampoo.

Sisters

Ah, yes. This is what we were doing in utero.

April 21: HOME!!

Anna was allowed to come home on Thursday, April 17. Since Julia had to stay a few more days, she moved in with our Mommy and Daddy in the Barr Tower studio.



Julia finally joined Anna at home on Sunday, April 20.

We know we look a little puny in our carseats, but it is so nice to be home!!

We want out!

Neonatal Intensive Care, or Guanatamo Bay for Babies?






Habeus corpus is a fundamental human right!! It says so in the Magna Carta.

Getting cuter

It look them a few days to realize that we are not scrawny, tiny, pathetic sickly babies.

Well, tiny and scrawny maybe. But not sickly. We ditched the oxygen. We ditched the IVs. We tried hard to ditch the NG tubes, but we got remarkably cuter even with them in place.

NICU living

We have been in the Nursery for 15 days now. Not that we are counting.

It could be worse, for the first few days we weren't even next to each other so our Mommy and Daddy couldn't see both of us at once. They had to trek down the corridor to hold us.

Now we are in the same nursery, so we can feed off each other's cries.


We LOVE kangaroo time with our parents-- reminds us of fetushood.

April 1: BORN!

Farewell to thee, fetushood!

On April 1, Baby A's water broke around 6AM.

At 9:01AM, Baby A was BORN, followed at 9:24AM by Baby B.

It turns out we are little girls! Well, we knew this, but our Mommy and Daddy were delighted to find it out.

Baby A came in at 4lbs even: 1825g. She will be known as Anna Kathleen:



Baby B came in at 1980g, or 4lbs 5oz. She will be known as Julia Madigan:


These photos are from our birthday, when the doctors thought we might be sicker and weaker than we really were (FOOLS!). We known we have taken more flattering pictures in our short lives, and we hope our Mommy will post some of them soon.