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Rotavirus vaccine for Adrian

Sat, 07/25/2015 - 9:11am

Yesterday afternoon Adrian and I went to the pediatrician for his rotavirus vaccine. He couldn't get that at the four months checkup.

This vaccine is given orally so there was no crying. It was nice to spend some time the two of us.

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"Are they twins?"

Thu, 07/23/2015 - 2:48pm

When we go out for a walk or when we're in the grocery store we get a lot of friendly comments about our big stroller. "Are they twins?" "How old are they?" "Are they identical?". It's special to see baby twins, that's for sure.

A few weeks ago I was in a store and behind me an older man asked: "excuse me, in which aisle are the babies?" (implying that he wanted to buy some babies). I didn't skip a beat and said: "oh, right there and they're on sale -- two for the price of one!".

To be honest, I had read such a joke earlier on Facebook, haha.

Yesterday I went to Giant with the boys and several people smiled and asked about the boys. Then when I left the store I heard: "oh, do you have twins? We are twins!" Two girls in their late twenties -- clearly identical twins -- smiled and waved at Leo and Adrian.

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dailylife

Almost five months old

Sun, 07/12/2015 - 11:28am

Since about a week the boys have been sleeping really well at night. They go to bed around 11.00 pm and don't wake up until at least 8.00 am. Before last week, they'd wake up around 5.30 am for a feeding and immediately fall asleep, but they've been skipping that recently.

During the day they nap pretty well too. Adrian in particular sleeps easily and long. A month ago Adrian started sucking on his thumb and he is able to soothe himself to sleep, usually. Leo sucks on his fingers during the day sometimes but doesn't quite connect his hand with his mouth when he's angry and tired. They boys are now about the same ago as when I met Jasper for the first time. I remember that Jasper was very interested in his feet. Adrian too, he keeps grabbing them.

They enjoy tummy time more and more. They can hold their heads up well and start to wiggle around. Leo in particular knows very well how to roll over, from back to front and front to back. Sometimes he moves his legs around in a Pilates-like "swimming" move.

The boys adore Sasha and keep her in their sights throughout the room. They started babbling too, very cute. Since a few days Leo started making the same sound that Nora used to make: "maamamamamamam".

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dailylife

A literary surprise

Wed, 07/08/2015 - 7:52pm

The other day we received a thick envelop from the Netherlands that contained quite a surprise.

My uncle Gerrit finished writing his book Bastonisto and has dedicated the book to "all twins in [our] family, and in particular to the latest duo, Leo and Adrian". Two characters in the book are named after them as well, very cool.

The book is a young adult novel with a futuristic theme. A wonderful gift and I look forward to reading it.

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dailylife

Fourth of July 2015

Sat, 07/04/2015 - 3:13pm

We slept in this morning and when we woke up it was raining a lot. But at 10.15 pm the rain stopped -- and we decided to go to the Fourth of July Parade after all. The Parade was cut short because of the rain but we had a nice time in the Lyon Village playground. Hopefully next year the weather will be better.

Afterwards we went for a long walk. We walked to our old apartment building and explored the new development on the Bergman's site -- it looks great. The MOM's grocery store will probably open in a few months; several of the townhouses were already occupied.

We grilled some delicious burgers for lunch.

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