Wike's Order: 2 Healthy Babies with a Side of Poundage!

27 weeks pregnant with twins... this marks the end of 2nd trimester, beginning of 3rd (depending on how you count it).  I am... growing  have grown pretty big HUGE   *ahem* ...looking pregnant these days... and here is why I am COMPLETELY ok with this:

1. These babies are HEALTHY, i mean that in both ways it can be taken... They're bodies are developed and functioning properly=healthy.  They are... not lightweights=healthy!! :-) 3 weeks ago they both weighed right around what any average singleton would weigh at that point (one even a little heavier!) This is good! and what Hubby and I pray and faith the L-rd for because he has promised it to us! And if I have to get the size of a... a... well I can't think of anything right now... everything I can think of (basketball, beach-ball) I'm already as big as. Well ANYWAY if I have to get 20X bigger because these babies want to be 9 lbs. each! AWESEOME!

2. I am HEALTHY, Blessed once again that, although I have done some minor exercises to strengthen my back and body to carry the weight and still be able to carry Tater, it almost seems impossible how much the L-rd took my small efforts and magnified them. I remember back pain in the 1st trimester before gaining ANY weight that has not been an issue since!

3. The enemy, prince of lies, thief, is NOT going to steal my joy during this pregnancy.  And I don't have to give in to his efforts because my FATHER says i don't! So I don't consent to the thoughts that I have to feel/be: miserable, achey, in pain, feeling like a cow, discouraged, not sleep well, worried about anything.  I am being gently taught that THANKSGIVING(how appropriate for now) is the best way.  Ladies, I want any and all of you that are or will be pregnant to love, enjoy, cherish the 9 months the way it was intended and also not be stolen from. So here's the deal: Letting thanksgiving be on my lips! negative things are just going to be spoken over you, to you, and around you regarding your pregnancy and you. Slowly... (sneakily on the enemy's part) you can slip into this negative thinking. You might Start taking things on as if you have to submit to what everyone in the world says is "true" about it! Well, ya don't! and please don't! So you can have LIFE and JOY! So here's what I am reminded of today:

• I am healthy
• I have been blessed with 1+2 healthy children! 
• My body is still able to go and do and have energy
• I am still able to carry and take care of my first born (who weighs 30 lbs!)
• I am still able to do most anything just sometimes slower and more cautiously
• I have an amazingly supportive husband
• I have an amazingly supportive family, extended family, and fellowship of brothers and sisters in Christ 
• I am a daughter of the KING of KINGS and heiress to his Life Abundant here and now, and forever!
• I am LOVED-How deep the Father's Love for us! Vast beyond measure!

Ok there are many many more things, too many to list here, but when I start focusing on these things instead of all the junk that us pregnant women are presented with I start to feel... not pregnant! (at least not the way the World says pregnant should feel! :)) 

BUT!!!!... just for giggles!! seriously just for fun, let's take a look at some of the crazy things total strangers will say to pregnant women in public!! my girlfriends and our hubbies say that having an obviously pregnant belly must be like wearing a sign saying: "Please come say any weird/rude/negative thing to me" because this is the only time it seems socially acceptable...  (seriously, please don't be offended on our behalf's, these ARE true stories, but I'm just posting them so you might get a laugh.  I have laughed these things off, do not regard them at all, and am not looking for your comments to assure me or combat these things, so don't feel the need to do that) 

• (when I was pregnant with my first-ONE baby, I got this a lot) "are you sure there's not TWO babies in there?... " um.. yes, pretty sure that would've come up by now...
• (to my girlfriend who still had a couple months left before DD) "Oh you're HUGE! and you still have HOW LONG left?"  Well that REALLY makes me want to tell the truth about the two months thing... um... soon is a relative term right?
• (with my singleton) "When are you due?" in 2 months "OH, you POOR THING!"... um ... ok. 
• (With the twins) "How much Longer?" 3 months, but there's 2 babies in there...  "Oh, you'll never make it that long, Honey!"... ok...
• (From aquaintances not seen in recent months) "WHOA! You're pregnant!" yep, and there's 2 babies in there "NO, there must be like seven babies in there!!"   
• (To my friend in walmart, pushing her 1-year old in the cart, also about 7 months pregnant at the time)  A woman just walked up to her, looked at her baby, looked at her belly, and started to laugh and mumble something like "oh, honey, you poor thing..." 
• (to me this week) "When are you due?" Feb. 6 "Really, I was gonna guess tomorrow!"...
• ( and finally, while waiting in line at Starbucks) a woman seemed excited about my pregnant belly and "cute clothes" as she kept commenting on my cute maternity clothes and finally asked when are you due? I didn't really have a good opportunity to mention that I was having twins, and I just told her Feb. 6th... I think she was expecting to hear "within the month" because she just stopped, disgusted look on her face stared at me for a second, then turned around in line and never said another word to me... I think she was kinda offended or something, or truly disgusted, or she maybe thought I was joking with her... it was bizarre! and I laugh about this one the most! 

There are the occasional nice things people say too, so its not ALL bad. But these are funny! Once again, please don't feel the need to type and tell me that these things aren't true or these people are rude.  None of this bothers me, but I hope you got a laugh! :-) I do! LOL. 

Unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unbelievable is about the only word to describes what took place. If you have kids you know the first thing that you must do once they are born is “get them home.” (I guess that was a no brainer.) Anyway, once these little tykes have come we have to be able to transport them properly home from the hospital. It’s kinda a big deal, if you haven’t been down this road yet, wait. If you don’t have an approved car seat they will make you get one, then they watch like a hawk as you put the car seat in the car.  Waiting to pounce on you inexperience parenthood, to correct you and point you in the right direction.  With Tater our first son I had no idea, let me say that again I HAD NO IDEA what I was doing. I didn’t know that there were different settings on tilting the car seat so that the kiddo could lean back a little. So when I put our first born in, I thought no problem. Until I looked back about half way home and his neck was bent in two and he was basically hanging from the seat belt part of the car seat. I did everything but freak out, because I was driving. I told my wife “great we’ve had him for two days and I broke him already. She assured me that he was very nimble and was not hurting, I’m not sure how because the position he was in would make a contortionist cringe.  Anyway, I digress, the whole car seat thing is vitally important. But what is equally important is the vehicle that you are able to put the seat into. This is where my wife and I ran into a snag.  We have gone through a few cars throughout our marriage. Praise the Lord we have never had a car payment though.  Currently we own a dodge Dakota sport four door and a motorcycle. Before the motorcycle we were down to one vehicle which was not a terrible place to be but it did leave my wife stranded at home with tater all day having no escape. Plus with only one vehicle it (allowed) me to be present for all grocery shopping trips. Don’t get me wrong I love grocery shopping just as much as the next guy, but our situation is different. See when I go grocery shopping we spend an unexpected amount of money. My beautiful wife is an amazing shopper. She has a budget and sticks to it and gets everything we need. I on the other hand end up seeing and buying, so it is really not a good thing when I go. The motorcycle was purchased as a transportation vehicle for me to work and back. Although I happen to think I look very good on it, not to mention that I feel like a cool cat when I ride it. The only problem with a motorcycle is where we live in the Midwest it tend to get FREEZING come October into winter. Now I could be a diehard bike rider and ride the bad boy all through winter, or I could be smart and get into a car with heat and four wheels. So we were faced with a dilemma. We needed a new vehicle; the truck is too small to fit three car seats across the back so it wasn’t going to work.  The motorcycle is looked down upon as a family vehicle not sure why, if a bear can ride a bicycle then surely a family of five can fit on a motorcycle. So we did what we will always do. We prayed and asked the Lord what to do. At this current time I help coach football at a local high school. Which I truly love and puts some money in my pocket. Well we thought we would take that extra football money and use it to buy a new vehicle.  It was a great plan. Because when it was all said and done around Christmas time we would have around 3,000 dollars, which is enough to put down on a nice van, because that is what is most efficient. My wife and I had sat down figured the number and what we needed and decided for the money, fuel economy a van was the best route.  There were only a few problems with our plan. One was that it was getting very cold in the mornings on the ride. (Painfully cold)  Also, the house we life in is not completed, it’s a fixer upper, but a direct blessing from the Lord.  So we needed some money to get the basement prepared for these two little blessing that are coming. Well since we were going to spend all the money on the van that left us with no money to finish the basement. But priority is priority; we have to have a way to transport these little tykes. So that was the plan. During this whole time I was not really sure for the money what type or shape the van that we were going to get was going to be in. I looked at a lot of vans in the upper hundreds of thousands of miles in our price range. We were in a “pickle” you could say. We didn’t know if we should buy a van for 3,000 dollars with high mileage, which was basically the case for the price we were looking at. Or do we go ahead and get a van that will last us, a good solid van with fewer mileage. With some of the nice features that would surely benefit us with having twins. Things like as remote doors, nothing in the center isle so that my wife can move about the van while I drive, Captain Seats for a second row. I know that his seems very spoiled and you might be right but if we were going to have a car payment then we were going to get what we wanted. Well this dilemma was soon taken care of supernaturally.  My parent had been in town to visit us for the weekend, to celebrate my dad’s birthday. When some DEAR friends of ours wanted us to all come over and celebrate at their house. I thought that it was a nice gesture since these friends are mutual friends with my parents it would be fun to celebrate together. We all gathered up and went over to celebrate at the friend’s house.  We shared some cake and talked for a while, and then it was gift time. The husband (lets call him JOE) said that he wanted to share something. If you knew Joe this is probably not out of nature for him. He is a man from the Lord and walks in wisdom, so any word from Joe is intentional and meant to edify and build up. So I was eager to hear the encouraging word that he had for my dad on his birthday. Joe started by saying “happy birthday” to my dad then said, “Usually you get presents on your birthday, but being a father, and your dad (speaking to my dad) would agree that the best gift is not one to you but one to you children.”  Joe said “the Lord has been gracious and amazing to us, and we would like to show you something (now Joe is talking to my wife and I).”  We followed Joe to the garage and there was a new Chrysler Town and Country VAN.  I felt like I got hit square in the chest, my breath left and I instantly had tears in my eyes. I couldn’t process what was going on and I just stared at my wife. I could tell that the same thing was happening to her. Word wouldn’t form, my body went numb, I felt unresponsive but I couldn’t do anything. Joe and his wife (lets call her GRACE) started to tell us about this unbelievable gift they/ the Lord had just bestowed on us. Joe and Grace when through all the special features like REMOTE ENTRY, CAPTIAN SEATS, AND NO ISLE so that my wife could move about while I drive.( yeah if you’re not crying by now I certainly am why I type this) How amazing is that, exactly what we had wanted and the Lord provided, unbelievable.  We told Joe and Grace that this kind of thing doesn’t happen, people don’t do this. They graciously responded “it wasn’t them it was the Lord.”  They went on to tell us that the Lord had told Joes about two weeks before once he found out that we were having twin that he should buy a van for us.  Then a couple of weeks later the Lord told Grace that they should buy a van for us. The Lord told them separately, then when they talked about it and had confirming stories they knew that the Lord had great intentions and was directing them to do this. The Lord is so great, and Joe and Grace are phenomenal.  The Lord is great and will always be, but His Grace, Mercy and Love are so greatly exemplified when his children (Joe and Grace) are completely submitted to Him and love those around them.  The Lords Love for us and for all was exampled on the cross but here it is 2000 years later and he is continuing to look down and show favor and blessing, wanting to continue to bless his children. I feel overwhelmed with blessing not just to know Joe and Grace as brothers and sisters of the Lord but for their complete abandonment of themselves and obedience to the LORD. I pray that the Lord will bless them 100 fold what they blessed us with, my confidence is that any material blessing that I could come up with to repay Joe and Grace will be so inefficient to the powerful, full, complete blessing the Lord will pour out on them, because of their life example of the Lords LOVE.

OH BOY!!!!!!!

Oh Boy!!! that's exactly right.  We are excited to report that the two little miracles that are growing big and strong in my beautiful wife's belly are Two baby boys.  We found out about three weeks ago, when we went to get yet another sonogram.  To say that this pregnancy has been a surprise is a understatement at the least. Of course when we started this Pregnancy we thought there was only one baby in there, weren't we surprised when we found out TWO. Well, we were surprised again.  However, I'm not sure if we could ever be as surprised as the first time when we found out. But, sure enough we got another surprise. My wife and I found out on one of the first " ten" sonograms that we were having  A boy. Well if you know anything about TWINS then you know there are two babies in there. (please excuse my humor, not being sarcastic)  So with one baby known we were excited, hoping the other would be a girl. We were ecstatic that at least one was a boy. Nothing against girls but I can only imagine two little girls at the same time. That means two " Princesses" in the same house.  I'm not sure if that is possible in our tiny home. Let alone I know nothing about girls. I am completely okay with wearing a "two two" and doing tea parties, but just wait a second double the tea parties, and double the dresses. I might as well just give up my man card and start growing my hair out so they could style it. So you can imagine when I (the manly man) found out that were were having another boy, I was pumped. A little background about me the only sibling that I have is a baby sister. Who I hold dear to me, but we are five years apart. Honestly, we did not really have a relationship until she graduated from high-school and now has grown up. So I did not have any brothers to play with growing up. I always wanted one or two (wink, wink).  But, that was not in the cards for me, so know I am going to get to play, rough house, love, and cherish every minute I have with these little Blessings.  Anyway, so one babies sex down we were certain there was a reason we could not see the sex of the other baby. (for obvious PARTS reasons).  So we kinda got set in our minds that it a boy and a girl.  My wife and I were excited about that, three kids seems like a great number, and we have the two boy and I get my one little princess to spoil and pamper.  So you can imagine the surprise when we saw those two "special little indicators" at the sonogram appointment that told us we wer going to have the "three musketeers".  Don't get me wrong, I am ecstatic about having three boy just as much as I would be with having two boy and one girl.  It is just another surprise that keeps us on our toes. I think possibly this whole pregnancy has been about training us how to be parents of Twins. If it is a indicator of what its going to be like then we can expect: Many surprises, Lots of Fighting and rough housing (they are already doing that on the inside).  Tons of food being eating. (mommy seems to be hungry and eating more then just the singleton).  And a phenomenal amount of LOVE growing for these two as I watch them grow everyday.

No Going Back - (I do exist)

OK! So, here I am finally! I do exist! This blog was a great idea by my man, but the idea was for us both to write, and so far... I'm slacking!  19 weeks pregnant with the twins... it is hard to believe it was only 4 weeks ago that our midwife said these words that there's "no going back" from: "I think there's two babies in there"...  It is sort of bizarre and beautiful actually. The beautiful part: self explanatory, the news that you're pregnant all over again, except you knew about the first one. The bizarre part: this woman is just doing her job, and she wasn't real sure at first what she was seeing on her small machine.  But her life was not/ is not affected by these words like ours is, it's just another day at the office. And so, it is kinda funny the dialog that went on in my head right at first... she was so calm about it and so matter of fact, nonchalant, and I immediately think "whoa, hey, don't just be throwing those words out there, you can't just take that stuff back" almost as if I thought she had the power to speak that second baby into existence! And then when they continue on analyzing, discussing, "well, is there one sac or ... placenta... or two? what are we seeing here..." You wanna be like, "hey, can we just pause here for a second", and "I don't know if you realize that we had no idea we were having twins til about 10 seconds ago, so can we just process?"
My husband is so amazing.  He could not have been more positive and encouraging that whole day! As he described, the L-rd not only gave him peace, but instruction, clear instruction, not to go down any roads leading to "what if's" or the long list of what we need to do... We knew that we WERE going to be soooo excited and this was in fact going to be a huge blessing so we just CHOSE to go there immediately and not detour at worried, or stressed.
What is amazing?... How quickly we got so used to referring to the babiES! plural! "them" "the twins"... and within the couple of days it took to sink in... the words i had thought at first about not being able to take those words back, were so true in more than one way... we can't just go back, in such a short time it took for our brains to process the news of two babies at once, it was also made permanent and seemed like it had always been there. Like we had planned it. We now cannot think or imagine it any other way.  Feels like we planned our family this way! As we went back to the doctor two weeks later, I realized that while some people might assume that I would've welcomed and sighed relief at a "oops we messed up, only ONE in there!" -- I went with the opposite, and was truly so glad that they "can't just take that stuff back!"

A Weekend to Remember

WHAT A WEEKEND. This Saturday was lil taters birthday party. The very first one. It's crazy to think that only a year ago he was born. It seems like yesterday that I held him for the first time. That I heard him take his first breathe of air. It seems like only yesterday that he slept right next to us in his bassinet, and now a year later hes walking, talking (his own language) and exiting babyhood and moving into lil boy(hood).  I'm not sure if I'm ready for him to grow up. I know what your thinking he still only one you've got seventeen more years to have him, but if this first ONE went by that fast how fast will the rest go. Its such and amazing overflow of emotions as a parent, be proud and excited as your baby grows up. And on the other hand be saddened by the fact that they are. I feel kinda bad now that I think about it, I'm sure this is how my parents had to feel as I grew up. I'm not sure if ill ever be able to look at my lil tater and not see him as a little baby, so cute and lovable. That's kinda hard for me to admit because I would love for him to grow up and be a tough linebacker type, a gentle giant. An animal on the Field, or court, and pleasant, and nice off.  I guess I'm putting the cart before the horse we probably better just get him sleeping without his teddy bear before we unleash him on the football field. Well, anyway, this weekend was a complete success, thanks to my wife. I really can not brag about her enough. She put together this amazing birthday party. She made cakes, sent out invitations, it was great. Not sure if lil tater will remember it but we have enough picture to last him a lifetime.  A bunch of people should up for the party, including the grandparents and Great Grandparents. So of course since we had everyone in town we had to share the "NEWS."  I'll tell ya what its kinda hard to divide the time, because we wanted the party to be about lil tater but we wanted to tell our family while we had them there in person, so we did. My wife thought up a great idea about wrapping up little diaper to share the news on the front it read "Boy ? Girl"  then on the inside we put "TWINS."  It was a great hit, I believe both sets of grandparents were blown away, completely caught off guard, but blown away.  Everyone was extremely excited about the thought of twins. For my parent this is going to be there second Grandchild so they were elated to escalate up to three grandchildren to spoil. My in-laws were thrilled as well. My brother in-law also has three children so we have caught up to them, and now my in-laws have an even number to spoil. All in all it was a phenomenal time. I love when we get to see out parents, especially when we have wonderful secrets to share with them. This weekend was a wonderful time, lil tater got more presents than he knows what to do with. Our parents got a little extra gift surprise that they were unexpected. And we got the joy of being parents to the worlds best one year old, and looking forward to celebrating many more with him and the TWINS.

Tellin the friends

With this incredible information we defiantly have to tell people. First of course we wanted to tell our parents. But, since it is going to be "taters" birthday this weekend we thought we would wait until then. However, with the overflow of excitement like Niagara falls, we had to tell someone. We decided to let our friends know, in hopes for positive encouragement. It is a mix of emotions to say the least. I believe that my wife and I are a kind of a unique couple. Because we have friends that vary in age dramatically. Some of our friends are later in years with four or more kids. Others are having their first, and some are in the process. Praying that the L-rd would bless them with little "tator tot" to add to their family. This made it an on edge experience. Our friends up in years, ( not saying OLD) we were worried about their response. In my head I had prepared for the worst. Something like, "OH BOY, THAT'S A HANDFUL." or "YOU BETTER GET A BETTER JOB" or my personal favorite "GLAD THAT ISN' T US."  All these comments seemed to flood my mind moments before we told them.  But to my surprise (not sure why I doubted them) they had only positive things to say. I could tell by their face that they too felt some of the overwhelmed feelings that I felt when I found out. (think if it were truly you with twins)  But overall they we ultimately positive. Encouraging us that it was going to be a great ADVENTURE, but one that we could handle. It felt great to tell someone, to just talk about it. Almost like something we needed to get off our chest and the more people we told the better we felt. With such a great response from our " OLDER" friends we were super (yep I said super) excited about telling our friends who were also excepting another child. Surprisingly we seem to have quite a few friends who are on to their second child. Must have been a LOOONNGGG winter. ( wink, wink)  But how do you tell your friends who also just found out that they're pregnant expecting their second. When they are finding out the sex and are so excited. I felt like a big party pooper, just raining on peoples parade. I mean how does it sound when they are like "we're having a girl and we so excited." and you chime in "WELL WERE HAVING TWINS." It reminds me of a comedian who has a joke about the "ME" people, who always talk about themselves. The comedian says he wishes that he could have been the first person who landed on the moon. Because then he could let the me people talk all about themselves then just totally smash them by saying, "Yea well I landed on the Moon." Thank you so much Brian Regan for your amazing stand up that has truly impacted my life, probably more than I wanted it to. Please don't get the impression that I have selfish friends, quite the opposite. Our close friend are some of the most compassionate and selfless people that I know. But telling them feels like a thunderstorm during an (outside) pool party. We didn't want to be the one uppers, but we were. We seriously never intended on out doing anyone. I mean at our wedding I was nervous but not because I was getting married but because I had to stand in front of all those people. So being in the lime light is not really a badge I like to wear. So this is really a stretch for me and my wife to just steal the attention, but we managed to do it. All of our "expecting" friends were very happy for us. Funny enough they to had a similar facial response as our "not as young friends."  We could tell that the information was overwhelming, as they put themselves in our shoes. But as much as they possibly wanted to they refrained from negativity. Only excitement and encouragement pored from them. Along with some "If you need any help let us know."  Funny coming from people who were about to have their second child which is a dramatic life change. Apparently they took pity on us. I guess when someone tells you that they are having twins it makes a single birth, one child seem less of a big deal. So all you parents who are worried about your single baby birth, " WE ARE HAVING TWINS."  Hopefully that makes you feel better it was not intended to down play the importance of your birth. There I go again sounding Egocentric, I guess that's what having twins does to you. Anyway the last friends that we have to tell are our friends who are praying for the L-rd to bless them with children. My wife and I have actively joined them in this petition to our Father. That He would bless them with a kido that would make their home complete. How do we tell them, they are amazing people and I TRULY believe that the L-rd will bless them, but how crushing this news about our twins will be, or so I thought. We called them to "break" the news to them.  I mean I can't imagine praying diligently that my wife and I would get pregnant then to hear that some friends of ours are having double what we are asking for one of.  Not only that but just a year ago the L-rd blessed us with our first son, so add that to the scenario.  I had feelings of excitement to tell them with complete and total heartache. I would literally do anything to see our friends pregnant, expecting. My heart still aches to think about that, but that is not the reality, like I said, I truly believe any day now they will call us with new that they are expecting and we can all celebrate together. So we called them up and told them of our new development. They are were more excited then I would have imagined. even making jokes about something being in the water. There can not be enough said about these kind of people. True from the L-rd brothers, and sisters.  The L-rd has been so good to my wife and I, but one of our eternal blessings has been the friendships that we have been apart of. And we could never thank them enough for their friendship,and encouragement during this time. We will continue to need them through this " adventure" and hopefully after, (if we still have friends after twins?) Its funny though because my wife and I are the ones who will be raising these precious lives, but what we surround them with and who, will make an equally significant impact on their lives. As I see times changing and our world seeming to go more airy everyday, it puts comfort In my heart to know that  outside my home my children will be tended to with Love, Encouragement, and Hope from THOSE friends and Family.

When we found out!!!

It was a normal day.( I know that's how all stories begin, but for this story that detail is vitally important. My wife and I knew that we were pregnant already but due to our Gypsy like summer of traveling so much we had not yet been to the doctor for our first check up.  We knew where we wanted to go since our son had only been born a little less than a year ago (literally).  So when it came time for us to choose a place we knew where and what mid-wife. The appointment was scheduled and we were planning an exciting reveal at our sons birthday party the next weekend.  My wife and I thought it would be fun to tell everyone what we were having, boy or girl (ha ha) at his party, so we were semi anxious to see if we could see the sex of THE BABY this early in the pregnancy.  The doctors appointment went as scheduled, with all the questions and poking and prodding, along with a 11 month old running around small room scouting things that he could get his hands on. Then we asked THE question that open THE door to the wonderful journey we are now on. "Could we get an sonogram, to hopefully get to see the sex?" We explained the situation with the upcoming birthday party and our exciting thought on how to reveal the sex. With no hesitation our Mid-wife said "no problem," and so she got the machine out. The Mid-wife put that blue goo on my wife's tummy (what is that stuff anyway) then proceeded to do the sonogram. There was no talking for what seemed like 10 min. I remember looking at the sonogram and thinking, "it's pretty clustery, in there."  It was defiantly not the normal one defined head, little tiny torso, then some legs. It looked like a blob of bod(ies)?  Then our Mid-wife said these words that I know WE will never forget. With a smile on her face she said "it looks like there are two babies in there." My jaw dropped, I had no words, and for me that is saying a lot. I can not explain the rush of emotions and whirlwind of excitement and being overwhelmed that set in right them. I tell people its kind of like when you ask and friend for some veggies from their garden, and when you get home your front yard is full of veggies. You know at the end of the day that it is going to be great to have the veggies but all you can think about is the work required to clean, can, cook these veggies. At this point my son was giving me the dead legs and wanted to run around so I optioned to take him to the waiting room to let him down and gather my thoughts. To be honest I was freaking out. With this new information all I could think about was I have to finish our basement, were going to have to get a van, we're gonna need a nanny, I need a better paying job. (you know the things you think about when your told your having twins).  So in the waiting room I asked the L-rd to "give me wisdom and what am I going to do." With amazing speed the L-rd responded.  I believe that He knew how overwhelmed I was and answered instantly. He told me, " put a smile on you face and tell your wife how great this is going to be and how excited you are about these babies." Then He said, "do not go down any roads, that pertain to preparation or what are we going to do, just enjoy your healthy beautiful babies."  With that word from the L-rd I went back into the room with a big smile on my face. At this point the Mid-wife had gotten another Doctor (who shall be named Doctor poopy pants) to come in and assess the sonogram for verification.  Doctor poopy pant (who was one of the most negative people I have ever meet) told my wife all the bad and ugly of having twins (he must have forgotten the GOOD) while I was in the waiting room. Once I came back into the room the appointment had basically expired and my beautiful wife was putting her clothes back on to leave. I commented to her "how you doing?"  when I say that my wife is special I Mean it. Sorry to all other wives out there but you don't even compete with the woman the L-rd graciously gave to me to be my wife. She said with misty eyes "I don't want to talk about it!"  At this point I was semi confused because I was on my Husband of the Year campaign, smiley face and full of positivity. She told me about what Doctor POOPY pants said and that she just wanted to leave at this point. I Started to let that flood of positivity poor out, completely unsure of the things that i was saying, but putting on a good bluff. She slowly came around. I shared with her the direction that I had received from the L-rd. She said that this direction was exactly what she (we) needed. I remember vividly the angle at the desk as we made our two week appointment.  She with a smile on her face asked "boy or girl?"  My wife and I starred at each other and kinda smirked.  With a bigger smile on her face the receptionist said "TWINS?"  We shook our heads yes. The receptionist still Smiling said "I have twins, don't worry the shock will go away and you will realize what a blessing you've been given." She hit the nail on the head Shock was exactly what we were in. Through the next couple of hours it slowly sank it. There was not a time that I would not think about us having twins without smiling and LOLing ( laughing out loud). I mean this is something that happens to other people, in a positive way ;) But I am pretty sure that I actually stop and stare at twins when I see them ( yeah I'm that guy). And now I am going to be the father of twins. It is a feeling that I can not explain. But I know it is one that life for me would be incomplete with out feeling. I have already fallen in love with these two little blessings and I know that the next 5 and a half months with be a journey my wife and I will never forget.