The Twins turn 4

The twins have turned four. It just seems incredible that they could be so old already. Four short years ago Randi Marie called to tell me her water broke, I wasn't very upset just concerned that it was very early (29 weeks and 5 days) When we got to the hospital they didn't seem too upset, until they had Randi hooked up to everything they could find. Then we saw her Dr (the head of the Neonatal trauma team) running down the hall. This was NOT good. Efrain and I were given scrubs to put on and told to go sit and wait for them to come and get us. We were asked if we had any questions before they took us in with Randi and the teams of Doctors and nures that were standing by to help with the birth of the tiny babies. It was so hard to see those little 2 lb boys being rushed away. But the best sound was their crying all the way down the hall, it wasn't loud but we could hear them!!
Now we see these big boys running around asking for birthday cake. That is their favorite food!! That and trains!! They had a train pinata and train cake, with two sets of tracks and trains that really moved on the cake. Everything was trains. It was so fun. They are healthy, happy and if I do say so myself, the cutest 4 year olds I have ever seen (well besides our CJ, he is the cutest also)

The last one!!

Tonight was the last "back to school" night for my children!! 22 years and 72 back to school teachers to meet with, and it is over. I was greeted with hugs and smiles tonight as I met with Allie's teachers, especially the teacher she TA's for, a nice tribute to Allie was part of the presentation of the class outline. I sat with Maggie's Mom and Tyler's Dad in one class. They all were in the same kindergarten class, we have delightful pictures of them holding hands as scared 5 year olds, and now as they get ready to go off to major universities, we remember how cute they were. (Tyler will get one semester in before his mission. ) These high school years were hard because I had to sit on the Blue and white side and try not to cheer for the black and orange. It was the hardest when I had a child participating wearing blue and white. Ross playing football and basketball and Petra in the band. This is certainly a milestone, I was so sick of going and sitting in classes to find out how busy the teachers were going to make my life each year, and this time I sat grinning. One teacher commented on it, I told him I was just savoring the moment because this child doesn't need the prompting some of the others have needed and this was the last time I would need to hear about homework deadlines and major projects. ahhh memories......