http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1306283/Miracle-premature-baby-declared-dead-doctors-revived-mothers-touch.html

I posted this on Facebook and Twitter already but I wanted to talk about it on our website again.  We had a similar experience with Amelia. As she is a twin, I felt it was poignant. She was born second, a minute after Wyatt and she was having respitory trouble. I got to give her a quick kiss while she was still gooey and then got to see her once again bundled up before they wisked her away to the warmers and the nursery.

When she was trying to breathe she was having to work so hard that her tummy was pushing up in a weird way. It was the red flag that was freaking out all the nurses.  All I kept asking was if I could hold her and if I could have her skin to skin. The nurses all thought it was too risky. She stayed in the nursery for 5 hours and was doing alright.

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I'm cool enough, special enough and gosh darnit Digg Likes me!

Okay, Chad and I love this progressive radio station. Chad listens to it or a podcast on his commute to work.  Thank you to myself for finding it two years ago as it was up and coming during the presidential elections/primaries or something like that.  Anyway, I had totally planned to enter Chad in this exciting Ulitmate Back Yard Makeover contest for Father's day. It was produced by the sunday morning shows Mighty House and Gardening  guys. I love listening to them on the way to church for little tips even though I have yet to use them in planting my garden.

Anyhoo, Chad's backyard did not get entered (hello, twins...five months...three year old...etc).  But now I'm kind of glad.  AND here is why.  If you go to the link PLEASE DON'T VOTE. Unless you truly want to support really stupid home projects dad's have started and never finished.  Here's the link http://www.chicagosprogressivetalk.com/loadit.php?cp_id=1

All of them include unfinished water features (like pools, docks, or a pond). Each of them was trying to build a deck.  And all of these projects involved concrete. Can I just say right now . . . I LOVE MY HUSBAND. For not being a total idiot when it comes to home projects. Yes, he doesn't finish everything. It takes him forever to get one thing done. But he is the only one working . . . this takes up a lot of his time literally and mentally. Thank God he doesn't try to do stupid stuff at home that takes up more time and keeps him away from us.

We're starting a new weekly game for the summer and I decided to base a new character on one of our pets.  She is our cat Diesel.  She is one of the cats that I got when I graduated from NCC and was a hall director at Beloit College. I adopted her along with another cat whom I affectionately named Vin.

So besides basically killing Chad's pet snake when we first moved in together, destroying countless cords for a variety of technology, and never approving of any men that I dated until Chad. . . Diesel is an excellent personality to base DnD character off of.  She is incredible aerial and acrobatic (very rogue-ish) and she has her claws and whips them out at will (also rogue-y). Okay not at will, but you get y meaning.  There are a pleathera of druid things that make her and excellent character as well. So with out further ado . . . here is Dielillah, my Diesel based Razorclaw Shifer Hybrid Druid Rogue! (and her backround story) 

Shane spent last night and most of the moring teaching Amelia how to be Baby Iron Man. He take's his play very seriously. He is running all over grammie's house with her excercise ball getting the bad guys. Then checks in with Amelia to make sure that she's using her repulser's and fire powers to get his back. Our three year old son plays and mostly speaks this way. He blows me a way on a regluar basis -- and not just with his preten Iron Man repulsers. He only once bopped Amelia (4.5 month  old baby sister) in the head with the ginormous excercize ball. He felt bad about it too.

Wyatt (our other 4.5 month old) was sleeping most of the morning. But he usually wants to amorously watch his big brother be a super hero all day too. That is, when he's not mushing his face into the ground trying to crawl. Wyatt's super power is brute strength and he's had it since he was born. That, and pure unadulterated passion. The kid feels everything with his whole being. This is why he has to be swaddled twice a day at least in order to nap, other wise he would flail himself off the bed or couch.

Amelia is the baby sister. She's just the most precious and hilarious of the three. If she's awake she's talking...to everyone, to no one, to her stuffed bears. When I say talking, I really mean speaking like a wookie in truest chewbacca form. I have recordings of which I will show a boyfriend at some point in time and I do hope she is always able to make the wookie sound because I cannot no matter how hard I try!