BIG News! No, I mean REALLY Big!

For those who haven't heard the news yet, Erin is pregnant. For some of you, this is big news. For a while, we may have been the last couple people thought would have a baby. But I guess we both decided we were ready, and so off we go down the slippery slope of parenthood. Oh, but wait. There's more.



We're having twins.

We just had our first ultrasound at 10 weeks, yesterday. I had stepped out of the exam room, and just as I walked in, baby #1 was on the ultrasound screen (just one). "Whew", I said, "because I saw the pictures of the twins in your lobby and was a little worried." Clearly, the universe could not let such a karmic slip of the tongue go unpunished. The doctor replied, "Well, let's look around.." and 10 seconds later my prophetic utterances came true and the doc discovered the second one.

Needless to say, this was a bit of a surprise to both of us. No fertility drugs had been used, no in vitro procedures needed. It appears we simply won the genetic spinning wheel that decided we should be that roughly 1 in 100 who naturally have twins. Erin and I are .. excited/elated/horrified/amazed/in shock at this development. It really is surreal. Hopefully in a few days/weeks we'll both settle on one.

As soon as I find a scanner with high enough resolution I'll post the two shots from the ultrasound showing baby #1 and baby #2. We are also now in possession of a VCR tape which contains the 2:00 minute Zapruder-esque ultrasound video. If I can somehow get it digitized I'll try to get it uploaded as well. There's no sound, so I'll have to post a separate narration ("1:35 - doctor finds twins; Ben gets glassy eyed. 1:45 - doctors looks for a third!? Ben and Erin scream, "No, No, No!").

I'll be updating the blog as there are more doctor visits. Thanks for tuning in! Here are the first shots of Baby1 and Baby2: