Jeff got to feel his first kick this week, after weeks of touching my tummy and waiting. As well as weeks of me telling them to kick for Daddy. He was so excited and surprised.

I have been spending more time talking to them now that I know they are big enough to actually hear me. Before I was just talking to them in my head, not out loud as much. The other day, I told them about the trees. About how wonderful trees are. And how when the blossoms fall off of them, it looks like pink snow. I told them about the sun, both the joys and the dangers. :) I told them about Archie and about their Dad. I have to say, though, I find this out loud talking to them a little difficult. I address them as "girls" or "babies" but both are problematic because it is not an individual thing. I don't want to get used to calling them "girls" because I don't want their gender to be the first thing that identifies them. And i don't want to use a plural because they are single beings. I use their names a little, but I don't want to just address one at a time for fear that someone will feel left out. And passengers is something we call them when not addressing them directly because it is, well, just too formal.

This made me think: "We prefer Telepathy". A phrase that I was writing on my art for months last year. Looking back, a lot of the phrases that I used on my art were quite prophetic. First, the use of the word WE. As if I knew I would be this collective at some point. Of course, We prefer Telepathy. I never knew what it meant until now. Another one, "We are all pretty girls". And the biggest one is what I started writing on shirts and skirts more than a year ago: "I will have an army of clones. We will be so charming". Oh my. How strange is that? How on target is that?

Our doctor's appt yesterday seemed like little more than a formality. This is a good thing, I think. My blood pressure is normal, which is just crazy because I am overweight and pregnant with twins, walking around with a normal blood pressure. Weight gain is good and the passengers are happy. They are currently both breech. We saw their little heads side by side on the sonogram. They looked like they were conspiring, forming an alliance if you will. I am in the cake time of pregnancy right now. Let's hope I stay here a while.