Saturday, December 5, 2009

10 pounds

Tristan and Duncan have now more than doubled their birth weights -- and they continue to be ridiculously identical. At the doctor yesterday they both weighed exactly 10 lbs. and they both had temperatures of 97.7 F.

To celebrate their weight hitting double digits (or possibly because driving to the doctor's office made me realize that I was going INSANE in our apartment) I took Dane's parents and both babies to the beach yesterday evening. This caused me to realize several things:

1) I can still drive! I hadn't done it for 6 months, but it turns out I didn't forget how. I even managed Friday evening rush hour on the 101.
2) You can breast feed a baby in the driver's seat of a Honda Civic hybrid while someone else bottle feeds a baby in the narrow space left in the back seat between two car seats. I wouldn't recommend it, but I'll probably do it again.
3) Two babies screaming inside a Honda Civic hybrid is REALLY LOUD.
4) Baby Bjorns are a fantastic invention.
5) I LOVE BEING OUTSIDE!

5 comments:

Summer said...

Ahhh...you all are so cute! Glad to hear that everyone is healthy and happy :-)

James said...

You can breast feed a baby in the driver's seat of a Honda Civic hybrid

Was that while driving in the aforementioned Friday evening rush hour?

Hanna said...

James -- Definitely not. :-)

Though, I saw a news clip a while back where a woman was arrested for child endangerment after being caught breast feeding while driving in Cleveland. She was completely unapologetic. Also, headed for a very long stay in jail.

James said...

On another note, I see you were only personally feeding one at a time, possibly due to driver seat restrictions. Have you tried the double simultaneous feeding, or would that leave you feeling like an empty Hi-C juicebox?

Hanna said...

I've tandem nursed them several times, but I haven't started doing it regularly yet. It's getting easier, but it still takes a lot of room and it's a fairly . . . intense experience. After I go back to work I'll probably be doing it twice day. Wish me luck!