Dates, Da-Dates, Dates, Dates

Posted Tuesday, November 03, 2009 1:49 PM

As of yesterday, the boys were 8 months old!  Can you believe it?  I barely can.  I just have a hard time viewing myself as (and this may seem silly), but old enough to have 2 babies well on their way to 1 year old.  1 year will be here before I know it.  I didn't want to do a first B-day party with friends, just a small dinner with Mine and possibly Matt's family if they can make it.  However, Matt wants to do this, as well as plan a big friends party.  I don't get it.  It will be early March, the weather is hit or miss for a BBQ and I just don't want that many people in my house.  It was so funny.  The day I had the boys, it was freezing, I had to wear my biiiiig maternity winter coat on my way to the hospital.  The day I was released (4 days later), it was 80 degrees, I wore a tank top and we rode home with the AC on in the car. 

I was looking at the ticker in my signature on my regular message board and was thinking back, I carried these little babies for 37 weeks and 3 days.  Then I thought, I wonder what day they will be 37 weeks and 3 days old.  That would be November 19th, my 26th birthday!  I thought that was pretty cool.  On my b-day, the boys will have been outside babies as long as they were inside babies. 

Also, I looked back at Mandy E-worth and saw the date of my last post, 5/27.  That means that this month will mark 6 months since I decided to ditch the bump boards and deactivate Mandy E-worth.  It makes me so sad.  Almost half a year since I lost the screenname that I used to post my huge adventure of getting pregnant, finding out about the twins, finding out that they were my little men, figuring out names, and introducing them to this world.

It makes me sad that I had to leave so many people behind in order to let the drama die.  I have wished on so many occassions that I could just go back and look at a post and read the comments and excitement, such as last Friday being the one year anniversary of the day I found out via ultrasound that my babies were little boys.  I was so happy and I posted that picture of suckers that said "It's a boy" "It's a boy"  I thought that was so much fun and it is all lost.  I tried to filter back as of Sunday to see if I could sift through some pages to get to it, but the bump only let me filter back one year, and no more, so I lost that post on the trimester boards, as well as lost the comments from over here.  It is such a shame.