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January 9, 2008
The Swing and The Swaddlers
The Swing
Tim: We've written a lot about the twins but we haven't yet written about their favorite thing - their "rainforest" swing. Aunt Martha gave us some money for this and we owe her a debt of gratitude because it is now one of OUR favorite things! We swaddle them up, place them side by side in the swing and (with their pacifiers securely anchored), they drift away into tropical torpor. It is a rainforest swing because there's a toucan, monkey, frog etc. on the fabric and it plays, get this, "rainforest music." Now, we are not professional ethnomusicologists, nor have we visited an actual rainforest, nor have we heard any authentic field recordings of "rainforest music" (if any exist), but we confess that when the music starts, we see visions merry macaws, scurrying salamanders and ambling armadillos and are tempted to curl up beside the twins to drift away into rainforest rapture. [Joanna: Yeah, and I'd love to hear the story of how Stephen Foster's Beautiful Dreamer became "authentic" rainforest music...]
The Swaddlers
Tim: Another one of our favorite things is the swaddlers the twins sleep in. They are called "Swaddle Me." When they are sound asleep in them, they look like little mummies. We like to think of them as little presents that we wrap each night, then get to open up at feeding time and then in the morning. "Look what I got - a twin! It's just what I wanted!" Then we get to watch them stretch, yawn, make funny faces and sounds. It's the best kind of gift-giving - they're free, there's one for each of us, they don't need batteries and they're fun to play with!
deux bebes | By Tim and Jo | 6:19 PM
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Genevieve sleeps in those swaddlers every night. She has a green one and she looks like a glow worm in it. I love it in the morning when we let her out of it her little cocoon her stretches are so big. I did not know about swaddling her for sleeping and the first night she was swaddled she slept for 6 hours it was amazing.
Posted by: S-G at January 9, 2008 10:22 PM
Oh my! They are just precious. LOOK AT THEM!! Wow. Beautiful. Congrats.
Posted by: Camille at January 16, 2008 4:36 PM