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people always ask me for tips about life with twins

by sesame on September 15, 2010

life with twins is wonderful and rewarding and scary and frustrating and all of the things that life is with kids, times two. at the eye doctor yesterday, i found out that i have eye muscle imbalance.  simply, my eyes do not work together to focus on exactly the same thing.  (that explains the headaches [...]

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twins

by sesame on September 6, 2010

yes, we really do still get asked if they are identical. now, i understand that people get confused and ask that when they really just want to know if they are similar. i mean, i get “modern” and “contemporary” confused all the time. i still say ”fewer” for “less” and “less” for “fewer”.  THAT drives my [...]

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it is hard to be a small boy sometimes

by sesame on August 28, 2010

today’s “stating the obvious” fact:  mouth injuries bleed a lot. (how cute are his fangs though?  and people think gemma looks like a vampire kid…)

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images and growing up

by sesame on August 26, 2010

gemma went as Matilda for her school book week character day.  and that slight smile is hiding her first ever wobbly tooth. come on tooth fairy, we are ready. clover finally has enough hair for a ponytail.  a wispy, straggly, wish of a ponytail.   i wonder how old she will be when she gets her first [...]

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how are those twins?

by sesame on August 25, 2010

they are crazy…thanks for asking. kids wear things on their heads…right?  cause all i can think about is the little boy from the movie “parenthood” who walks in circles with a bucket on his head, so um, please say your normal kids do this too. oh and photo info…shot these with my new Sigma 24-70mm [...]

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why were my kids the only ones with paint in their hair?  I am going to have to buy hooded art smocks. thank you universe for this activity so that i do not have to do much “art” at home with them yet. i forgot to take the D3 with me, so these phone shots [...]

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bugs, walls and a bit of color

by sesame on June 1, 2010

our adventure thursday happened on a monday this week.  peta and i took the twins to the melbourne museum. the museum has some great bugs so i thought i would take my little boy for a look. live bugs and dead bugs and drawings of bugs.  all kinds of bugs. well, he looked… and then [...]

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adventure thursday . a winter beach

by sesame on May 13, 2010

half of the sand you see here was at the bottom of the bath at home later in the evening. that is proof of fun had. (i am not sure how clover is going  to deal with peta’s return to new zealand…as you can see here, they are the best of friends.)

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in the shadow of zen

by sesame on May 6, 2010

today we played just a stone’s throw from a center for buddhism. (not that we would throw a stone at a buddhist…in fact, quite the opposite.  we picked up some brochures as we have been meaning to go to some classes since we moved here.  they even have a kid’s club!  my kids could use [...]

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saying goodnight to the moon

by sesame on March 16, 2010

sometimes i am just struck by the weight of the fact that we almost did not have these two babies… if we had not decided to see a specialist if we had not done all the tests to find my genetic issue if we had not switched doctors if we had not tried for one [...]

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