Shakespear Shuffle

3 years ago

Does anyone want to guess what happened to us on June 22, 2009?  BIG day--one I will always remember. But a few months before that day I had been talking with my good friend Ruth (who has two boys, twin girls & a boy, all spaced 2 years a part, well except the twins) & I was telling her how I wanted to have twins but I didn't think I would be able to handle it.  She said she was able to handle it because her husband Lee was such a great help & family man & that she thought Jeremy was similar.  I knew Jeremy was a great help so that was the day I started to think maybe I could handle twins.  I started really hoping & praying for it.  Then we got pregnant.  THEN June 22 rolled around.

Jeremy had two external rotations for two weeks for school 5 hours north of us in the Upper Penninsula of Michigan.  His Mom Susan had flown up to take care of the boys so I could throw up & sleep to my hearts content.  I did a lot of both.  That morning I had my first doctors appointment.  Susan dropped me off then went to the mall across the parking lot to let the boys play.  I met my doctor & found out I was only 9 weeks instead of the 12 I was hoping for.  I swear that has happened to me every time!  I was telling him how I was really hoping for twins so that I wouldn't have to be pregnant as many times.  He then proceeded to tell me how I didn't want twins because they were trouble.  Well that statement has been proven to be true!  :-)  Then he plugged me up to the ancient ultrasound machine just to make sure & there sure enough were two tiny little babies swimming around in there.  Even though I saw them as plain as plain I didn't believe it for about 5 minutes.  I was so excited!

I ran across the parking lot to the mall & exploded the news to Susan & we jumped around squealing & yelling.  I'm so glad she was there to share it with!  I called Jeremy about a dozen times until he finally called me back on his lunch break.  He wouldn't believe me.  Probably because I had been talking about having twins for a few months prior to that.  My favorite thing he said was 'Megs, what are we going to do???'

Twins are so hard.  In some ways they are trickier more now than ever but in other ways they are easier.  I can understand why people say it gets easier when they're 5.  I used to think surely not that long but I'm starting to believe it.  Maybe that's because it's the age they go off to school?  I dunno.  I don't know if Hyrum & Hunter are just milder or if the twins are just crazier or maybe a little of both but they do things our other kids have never dreamed of.  Like Emma eating through the paint & plaster all the way to the metal reinforcer things on the corner of our walls?  Who does that?  They just get going & egg each other on to all sorts of mischief.

But I tell you what there is nothing sweeter than when they do get along.  And when I hear down the hallway Justin saying 'Emma where are you?  Come play Emma' or Emma saying 'Justin bye!  I love you!'  It's an adventure & one that is hard but one I wouldn't trade for the world.  If I could go back & have them one at a time with a 2 year space it would be tempting some days but I would never do it.  I'm so grateful we could have twins!

 

  

It is hard to get a good shot of the two of them together nowadays!  Always on the move