Paul Gray

The circus has been in town, and we took the kids along tonight.

Unfortunately, we weren’t able to take photos inside the tent, but I think we saw all the usual things – performing lions, ponies, monkeys, clowns, trapeze artists and a slapstick routine.

We had ringside seats and, by coincidence, were sitting right next to one of Thomas’ pre-school friends, Clay. The kids thought it was amazing, with both really liking the lions and the clowns with their slapstick routine.

Here’s the 20 weeks photo:

Others in the series:

• 17 weeks
• 18 weeks
• 19 weeks

I snapped these photos earlier tonight, showing Lachlan, just like his Daddy.

Luci & I went to the next lot of ultrasounds for the twins this morning. Luci took the day off school to attend, while I took a couple of hours. At first, the Hospital weren’t going to do the ultrasound as their receptionist hadn’t written down that it was a twin ultrasound, which obviously takes longer to do than a singleton, and the rest of their day was fully booked up!! A few words were exchanged and the ultrasound started.

All is going well, Twin A and Twin B are coming along nicely. We were excited to discover the sex of the twins – Twin A is a boy and Twin B is a girl.

Thomas had wanted two girls, while Lachlan wanted two boys. Thomas’ comment when we told him was that

he could look after the girl while Lachlan looked after the boy.

Lachlan however, said

That’s no good. I wanted twins – twin babies.

We will continue to work through this understanding with Lachlan!!

A couple of photos of each bub are below – a side on shot and a “skeleton face” as Thomas puts it. During the ultrasound it was nice to see Twin A do a big yawn – the ultrasound was taking a long time after all – it took an hour and a half all up.

Here’s the 19 weeks photo:

Others in the series:

• 17 weeks
• 18 weeks

Came across this comic the other day – I do sympathise with the man – once I get immersed in the ‘net, it can be difficult to communicate with me.

Another great Joy of Tech comic….

Following on from the 17 Weeks photo, comes the 18 Week photo.

So the Olympics ceremony was on and Thomas was watching it on TV this morning. When the little girl in the red dress started singing, in Chinese, Thomas asks:

“What’s she saying Mummy?”

to which Luci replied,

“I don’t know any Chinese darling.”

Thomas then says,

“So you just know Chinese food and that’s all??”

Bless him.

After someone very kindly gave us this photo collage showing the growth of triplets (full size image), we decided to record the growth of the twins.

So here’s the first in the series, 17 weeks pregnant (Photo taken 8/8/08, 17 weeks pregnant).