Sad and Happy

Some sad news in our family. As of our last ultrasound, one of our twins, Baby A, no longer has a heartbeat. We are clearly quite sad about this, even though we only knew we were having twins for a few short weeks.

Now our focus goes to making sure that Baby B's stays put and stays healthy. This is a very uncommon stage of pregnancy for this type of death to occur, so we are still waiting to hear from the experts on what to expect for the future months.


But on to a happier topic...a funny story about my #1 girl, Kiki.

The other morning, we were driving to work/school. When we go to work, we take the expressway and, these days, it is still dark out.

As we drove, Kiki and I were chatting back and forth, but suddenly, she stopped responding to me.

"What can I do here," I thought. "I can't turn around a look to see that she is OK, because I'm driving, and it's dark anyway!!"

Then I remembered the rumble strip at the side of the road. I made a plan to drive ever so slightly off the road to hit the strip for a moment, and to see if she would react to the sound. I made my move and heard that horrible "Mrrrrrraaawww" sound the strip makes.

And from the back seat I heard, "That COW is LOUD!!" Guess she was fine, and just ignoring her dear old mom.

She's a Dancin', Dancin' Machine

Once again, Kiki has some new moves...