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I hate coming up with titles (and subject lines for emails).

So, I took Hannah and Robby for their 1 month well-child pediatrician visit last Wed. They are both very healthy and look great. They also, apparently, are growing like weeds! Hannah is now 9lbs, 11oz and Robby is 10 lbs, 8oz! Now, I checked and Mari was like 11 lbs, some odd oz at 1 month but still. Oh and the most exciting part for the VERY vertically challenged Durkee-Specters -- Robby's height is in the 80th percentile with his weight in the same! Two good things -- to be in the 80th percentile for height for us is purely a miracle (the pedi once told me that Matt and I are each in like the 35th percentile for adults for height...) and to have it match up with the weight? Even better!

Now, Grandpa D is enormously tall for our families -- a good 6 ft. Average for most, gigantic for us. We have all reason to believe so far that Robby might break through the curse and be taller than 5'9"! I know, I know! He's only 6 wks old and ANYthing can happen. But, we take what we can get!

That's it for now. Off to feed the twins! Steph

Back in the saddle

Okay, I think we're going to make a real effort to get back to regular posting now.

A lot has gone on of course. The twins will be 6 weeks old tomorrow. They continue to improve their nighttime sleep patterns. They have had as many as 6 hours sleeping at a time, and are pretty consistently able to give us 4-5 at a shot. They still have an occasional 3 hours only stretch, but that is becoming more and more rare. They also go right down to bed about 90% of the time, which is already better than we got from Mari. AND, they almost always go right back to bed after a feeding. All in all, the nightmare that could have been has not happened.

The big girls continue to have the summer of amusement parks. More trips to King's Island, a trip to Coney Island (the Cincinnati one for you non-locals), and a growing obsession with all rides.

Steph and I continue to plow along. A little bummed that everyone is going to Hilton Head without us next week, BUT...we've put together a little budget trip for ourselves. We'll be heading out to Louisville for a few days and have found a good selection of inexpensive activities for everyone. We'll talk more about that later.

At any rate, since a total stranger (to me anyway) left a comment that she had been missing the blog, we'll be making a better effort to keep things updated.

Matt