"What happened to then?" "We passed then." "When?" "Just now. We're at now now."

I’ve seen a few other blogs do this, and I’m jumping on the bandwagon. Here are some then and now pictures of the twins. It feels like an appropriate time to do this since they just passed their half-birthday last week. Plus, it should be an easy post.


This picture is from the day after they were born. It’s a picture of someone, possibly Tory, but I’m pretty certain that it’s at least one of my kids. I probably should have made a note of who’s who.


This is the boys right before we loaded them into car seats to take them home. Actually, Ian was less than the car seat’s minimum rated weight (5 pounds) and had to go home in a car bed. They spent 25 days in the NICU. Looking at other parents’ tales of the NICU, we had an extremely easy NICU experience. Tory spent his first couple days on the ventilator; otherwise the scariest thing either boy underwent was the bile lights. No surgeries. No extraordinary feeding difficulties. No exceptional apnea episodes. They were just small, and needed to learn to bottle-feed.


Here they are a couple days ago. Looking back, they’ve grown a ton. It’s great seeing how focused they are now, instead of the dazed looks they gave us in the NICU. They’re hitting all of their developmental milestones for their age group, which is encouraging. They hold their heads up, recognize faces, make lots of sounds, roll and scoot in all directions, and they’re starting to push up on their hands and knees.


This photo is from today. It’s a picture of Tory. I’m making a note of that right now.