Yikes!!! 3 More Months???

Hi All,

Twin update: They are continuing to grow very well (as I'm sure you can tell from the photo). I can't believe there is another 3 months left for them to grow!! I'm starting to feel like I might tip over. Fin has started walking around the house poking his belly out as far as it will go and leaning back. I kind of get the feeling I'm being mocked! I didn't think that was supposed to start until the teenage years!

Fin is turning into quite the social butterfly. Going on play-dates, to birthday parties and having people over to our house. The photo was taken on our balcony with two of his favorite friends, Sean and Daniel. Daniel (on the right) goes to the same play-school as Fin and we share rides there and back. Sean lives in our building and fin and he started playing together of their own accord whenever we would meet up in the playroom. I'm so happy that Fin has such a big group of kids to play with; it's one of the best things about living here.

One of the worst things is the humidity!! I just bought two giant dehumidifiers and when I plugged them in the readout said that the humidity in our apartment was about 90%!! With the machines running full time we can keep it down to about 70%. INSANE!!! What's even crazier is that despite the humidity, whenever I run the air conditioner at night in the bedroom the air gets so dry that I end up with a bleeding nose! There's just no winning here!

Steve is working like a demon but it seems likely that he will have some time off over the Easter break. We are all looking forward to that! I'm not sure the Easter Bunny would be able to find him at his office.

Hope you all have a chocolate-y Easter!!

Names???

The twins are continuing to grow nicely. They are biggish for their gestational age, even for singles, so that is a really good sign. Naturally they have big heads! Just like the rest of us Mac-Taks. When Finley had his first check-up the Dr commented on the size of his head and said it was typical for children to be like their parents. Steve and I understood that to mean that we are the bobble-head family. So all you knitters that are contemplating hats for any of our clan, keep that in mind! ;)

I saved up all my energy and took Fin to his swim lesson on Friday and still found that I had overdone it. It's so hard though!! He loves it so much and is so darn cute in the water!!! While we are in the pool he tells me that he swims like a Baby Beluga and that he swims so free! Raffi is leaving his mark on yet another generation.

We bought several giant houseplants last week and while we were at the nursery I was bitten about 30 times and because of the medication I am taking I am finding them almost unbearably itchy! If anybody has some home remedies to suggest please send them to me ASAP!!! I'm dying here!!

I've made friends with a mom in the complex that just moved here with her family from Denmark. She has been great to hang out with and seems to share a lot of the same interests as me. It is making being confined to the complex much more pleasant! Her husband is an engineer with Lego!! How cool of a job would that be??

OK, so we are moving in to the third trimester over here and still don't have any strong feelings for naming these little guys. Argh! So please send your suggestions! Perhaps we'll post the top 5 and put it to a vote..... (Jane and Dave are, of course, already in the running!)

The photos are just kind of random shots - I need to transfer new photos to the computer and then I will post some more current ones. The top photo is Fin in our bedroom and the bottom one is Fin in Kowloon, looking over at Hong Kong Island.

Thing A and Thing B

So as some of you already know the twins have insisted on a repeat visit to the hospital. Apparently they love it there! On Sunday I started having contractions that were coming very close together so was admitted for observation and medication to prevent the contractions. Everything went very smoothly and the medication completely stopped the contractions. I am home again and SO happy to be here! Not sure how long I will be on the meds but they seem to be doing the trick!

Sadly Fin didn't seem at all bothered that I was gone for 3 nights! He's too independent! Steve has been working his usual crazy hours so Evelyn has been a real life saver during this whole thing.

Now that I'm home I'm on modified bedrest again - no going out for a while. I feel like a giant incubator, all I can do is sit on the couch growing babies! Fortunately these guys keep reminding me how worth it they are with their constant wiggling and kicking.

Belated Gung Hei Fat Choy!!

We have been SO busy over the last couple weeks! Fin's class went on a little field trip to Kowloon on the Star Ferry last week - very fun! I am finding Fin's class more and more difficult as it involves a lot of getting up and down from carpet time to craft table and back down to the carpet etc. Fortunately Fin seems ready to move on to the next level, called Stepping Stones, where he will just be dropped off and I won't have to stay and participate. We also started Fin's swimming class last week and it was a TOTAL success! He has been very leery of the water in the past and has cried and made a fuss every time we have gone to the pool. He seemed to love the class though and cried and made a fuss about leaving the pool this time! He was very happy splashing around in the water and even put his face in the water....on purpose!!!

I met another mom in our complex that has a toddler close in age to Fin and is due with twins in the same week as me! It will be so nice to have someone around to compare notes with! I had another doctor's appointment today and the twins are looking great. They are as big as single babies are at this stage. The boy is lying head down and the girl is lying crosswise at the moment. They both kick and wiggle ALL the time! The doctor is very pleased with how everything is going but tells me I need to take it even easier. I feel like I'll practically be comatose if I take it much easier!

Our building put on a really wonderful Chinese New Year celebration and carnival. There was a bouncy castle, which amazingly enough Fin actually ventured into, and some traditional treats, acrobats and lion dancers. Fin was particularly impressed with the lion dancers (although we could not dissuade him of his belief that they were dragon dancers!). He still talks about them all the time and asks to go see them. After we saw them he turned to me and said "I lub dragon dancers!".

Apparently we are raising a very fiscally responsible young man. I gave him a $10 HK bill and he handed it back and asked me to "put it in the bank"! Ah! Somebody to look after us in our old age!