“It’s been an amazing 22 months.”
So read today’s e-mail from Grandma Jane.
It really has been!
Our own Coleman is the only person to appear twice in color in this weekend’s Minneapolis StarTribune. And Megan and Carson are in there as well.
About a month ago, Megan and friends Emily and Jenny and kids were at the Minnesota Children’s Museum in St. Paul. The kids were playing. The usual. Then the unusual: a guy with a camera photographing the twins. Eventually he asked for the boys’ names, and divulged that he himself was a twin and was a bit partial.
Whether the boys might appear in the paper piqued our interest at the time, but then we almost forgot about it. Until this morning.
Meg got an email today from a friend letting us know that the boys were pictured in this weekend’s paper. So this afternoon, while David was out running some errands, he stopped at a coffee shop to grab a copy.
Lo and behold, not only a picture of Carson and Coleman, but a large shot, in full color, front page of the section, above the fold. And another of Megan and Coleman.
Strange to have Mathises visually dominating the special museums sections of this weekend’s paper. Never thought Carse & Cole would be the poster boys for Minnesota museums.
Nothing’s on the StarTrib Website yet, but here are shots of the pages (we’ll link to the Strib if they put the story online):
No foolin’—Carson and Cole are 21 months old today.
Only one more quarter till the big second birthday—when we can officially stop counting months, we hear.
Here’s some recents…
Coleman
Carson
Cole left, Carson right
Carson in the white, Cole in the red
January 28 and March 12, 2010, were our big ultrasound-news days.
On January 28, we found out there were two babies in there, and then it was a good (long!) six weeks later on March 12 that we learned that it was two boys.
Too much from 2010 is now a fog for us, but thank God for journals. Here’s a little section from Daddy’s journal about March 12, 2010, written a few days after:
The twins are boys! Both of them! Meg’s appointment with the perinatologist was last Friday, March 12, at 10 a.m. Within 10 minutes we heard, “Baby A is a boy. . . . And Baby B is definitely a boy.” . . . I texted Mom and Pop and the sisters and several friends: “At the ultrasound…it’s 2 boys!!!”
It’s not Spring yet, but it’s almost 60 degrees today, and we’re getting a foretaste.
It is amazing to be outside!
(After being couped up inside all winter, Carson wasn’t afraid to be outside in the coupe!)
It’s the big two-oh for our oh-so-big two. The twins are 20 months old today!
Here are some recent pics from a trip to the Children’s Museum in St. Paul…
With Grandma Jane and Grandpa Rick
Coleman Updates Carson updates
