Congrats to you and your wife. As a parent of 14 year old twin girls, I can assure you that your life is going to get very interesting. Never have I ever been so exhausted as I was their first year. Twin teenagers skew that chart as well: 51% PITA. 
Wishing you the best for an uneventful pregnancy and birth.
Congratulations!!
Great post, one of your best I think. Hope everything goes well with the twins.
Brilliant! Congrats, yâallâŚ
Weâre not outnumbered by the kids yet, itâs 2 vs 2, but, wow, your article perfectly encompassed what it is like to be a parent. My daughter is already 7 years old, but my son is just 10 months. I couldnât imagine having more than one baby at the same time!
This is the perfect quote: âChildren give the first four years of your life back to you.â
Simple, beautiful, and so very true. Thank you for that, and for this article. And congrats and best wishes for you and your (present and future) family!
HUGE congratulations, Jeff!
I had to share this on my feeds because it nails the painful feeling of transitioning into a parent as well as the overwhelming of joy (even in spite of the frustrations) that being a parent gives you once youâre there. Itâs a strange form of insanity we sign up for, isnât it?
Congrats.
Youâll have to switch from a man-man/trap defense to zone.
I like Jerry Seinfeldâs line about fathers. From Season 2 episode âThe Jacketâ, âAll fathers are intimidating. Theyâre intimidating because they are fathers. Once a man has children, for the rest of his life, his attitude is, âTo hell with the world, I can make my own people. Iâll eat whatever I want, Iâll wear whatever I want, and Iâll create whoever I want.ââ [http://www.seinology.com/scripts/script-08.shtml]
All the best!
CONGRATS on the kids!
Iâve got three, all boys, 16, 9 and 7.
Loved the article - kids donât come with manuals, have âerror messagesâ that make Microsoft envious as they arenât as obtuse, do not follow any patterns, factories, instantiation methods, nothing - seem to be the only devices that truly can do randomness, have no concept of âstandardsâ and couldnât care less that they arenât. Oddly enough with the same input, they all came out different. They consume tremendous amounts of system resources and the output is, well, for the first few years, everywhere out of every orifice too⌠later on they do manage to control that process (mostly anyway), but then, as they get older they consume everything that is edible (and in the fridge or pantry).
Iâll never forget the first time we went out to dinner when our first was at grandmas - every time weâd gone out before with him, heâs take great pleasure spreading out the sugar packets and âsharingâ them with other tables (or the floor, especially the floor) - so much so, sometimes weâd order food, and before it would get there, weâd be packing him up and take the food to go, we didnât want to ruin other peopleâs meals because our boy wouldnât behave) - we sat there and stared at each other with a âwhat do we do nowâ as weâd not been out by ourselves in so long. So, I spilled the sugar packets over the table and we talked about our son for the rest of the night. Kids change you forever. Chaotic bliss at times, and, yep, a PITA the other 49%.
I always have to remind myself, these kids will be picking my nursing home, so be nice to them
Congrats Jeff.
My son was two when we found out we were having triplet girls. It is a fun, yet tiring, ride. We just got past the six month mark and, as people before me said, get ready for some âfun.â
You didnât specify if they were monozygotic or dizygotic. Care to share? We had both.
I think the incremental drain on your energy follows something like an inverse-square law: one kid leaches 1/1 of your available energy, which is just about OK. The second takes another 1/4, so youâre in deficit. Thatâs where we stopped. Third? Only another 11% or so. Not much worse, really. If my guess is close, then the marginal energy cost of, say, a ninth kid is almost zero, which seems reasonable (how much deader can a zombie get, after all).
My younger one (10) fell asleep against my shoulder last night while we watched a movie - I was struck by the (sad) thought that this may never happen again.
Oh, watch out for the plumbing differences in the first year or two, btw.
Mom, dad, son, twin girls. Come Halloweâen a few years down the line, that could make for a great âThe Shiningâ family costume.
As the father of 14 month old triplet girls, first let me congratulate you.
Second let me console you on the death of your dear friend named Sleep.
Third let me congratulate you again. My girls have changed me in ways I never thought possible. They have broken me, and rebuilt me better than before. Not quite Six Million Dollar man style but close.
So many magical moments await you. Iâm excited for you!
Having more kids would make it obvious how different they are from each other.
Congratulations on having the courage to have more than one child!
Congrats Jeff! Having a daughter is yet different from having a son and youâll have twice that experience! Though now youâll have to transition from man to man defense to learn a zone defense as youâre outnumbered.
Great thoughts. Being a parent is not like something else at all.
60 things weâve said to one or more of our children:
Ahhh, if youâre going to experience the newborn days again, x2âyou know, that stuff youâve mercifully forgotten like how much they cry, eat, and donât sleepâyou might need a piece of advice my mom gave me when I had the-baby-who-never-slept:
God made babies cute so you wouldnât chuck them out the window.
Of course, you already know itâs worth it in the end, but you know how it is when you havenât slept in daysâŚ
Congrats!
Leah
Nutpicking, ths is a 2% (51-49)% difference.
Congratulations! We have a 10 month old baby girl and I canât tell you how on-point that post is. One of my top 5 favorite things youâve ever posted.
Jeff,
Congrats, and good luck!
Iâm an identical twin and a father of threeâŚ
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