Happy Birthday, Kiddos!

Sometime during the most sleep-deprived nights, sometime during the 9th daily washing of 8 Dr. Brown bottles with all their useful but numerous contraptions, sometime during the stiring of the 2000th giant pot of formula, definitely during the 347th ear-piercing loose lead on the apnea monitors, we dared wonder what life would be like when the kids were the seeming astronomically far-away age of 3!


Here's a little pictorial voyage...


Vasco, a day old

Justine, day 2 or 3, on CPAP, too small to be touched without rubber gloves

Vasco, coming home! September 23, 2004




Justine, 1st hour home! October 9, 2004 (their original due date)





First Birthday, waiting for the cake :)




First birthday, with their preemie dolls (made to scale)




Second birthday, 2006, with preemie dolls




Second birthday party



And, at their third birthday: