3 Months Strong

Tonight, Mommy and Papa got to have "date night" for the first time in a couple of weeks. Woo-hoo!!!

It's sort of odd to think ordering Chinese take out from our favorite strip-mall Chinese food place (Jumbo Chinese) and eating it at our kitchen table with Presleigh in her booster seat and two babies beside us is actually a "date", but we really enjoyed it. It is, as Cristine reminds me, just a season. We've got romance, we'll have more soon enough. In the meantime, we have three under two and they are a delight to us.

This week, the twins turned 3 months old. How the heck did that happen?

Today, they weigh in at almost 15 lbs each - two and a half times their birthweight. Jezreel is chunking UP!!! Jovi is trailing a dainty pound behind him and today chuckled for the first time. About two weeks ago, they both started gooing, cooing, and gurgling regularly. Jezreel is the more vocal of the pair, as we expected, but he laughs more than we had imagined. When doing certain activities, he'll throw his head back, open his mouth wiiiiide, and laugh a goofy, adorable laugh that cracks us all up.

Jovi chuckles a lot like her older sister, an infectious giggle you'd expect from a baby girl with a super cute smile.

While the count isn't exact, the math and empty boxes suggest we've just hit the 1,500 diaper mark - not that we're going for a record, just amazed that we've seen that many diapers go bye-bye at the whim of two teeny babes. At least now we're only using about 100 a week. That's great news when you consider the bigger the diapers get, the fewer come in a box for the same price, right?

God has provided marvelously. This week, Papa was asked to do an extra speaking gig and was paid enough to cover the diapers, his back X-ray at the chiropractor's, and buy some food for date night tonight. He supplies our needs, often before we know we need them.

These babies are amazing and we're still scratching our heads in wonder at the fact that they're here, they're ours, and they're so adorable. Thanks, to all of our wonderful visitors, by the way. We don't get out as much as we used to, but it's been great to fire up the grill for our friends and enjoy their company. We are so very blessed by the fellowship of such great people.

May God bless you and keep you.

Amen.