Ok, Picasa's really getting on my nerves.  So unless I find another system that works I'm just going to host my own pictures.  It's just bare-bones right now (thumbnails - click to get the full image) but I'll add tags, etc. time permitting.

http://www.smilingkevin.com/babies.asp

Babies are here!  I don't have the energy right now (nor the grammatical skills, evidently) to do a whole thing about what's happened, but for those in search of pictures, your journey ends here:

 http://picasaweb.google.com/smilingkevin.com

Use caution in viewing the Delivery album.  There be blood.

That great theologian and political strategist, Charles Barkley, on how conservatives aren't true Christians, and his bid for Governor in 2014.

Personally, I'm not going to be convinced until I hear Howie Long's opinion on the election.

Snipe Drunken Waldo!

I'm sad to say I came to say you must be going.  I'm glad you came, but just the same, you must be going.  It's been a fun run, but I'm afraid Huckabee has little chance of winning.  And unless he has a really great showing today (which he has won West Virginia so far) it's probably time to drop out and throw his support behind Romney.  Because the alternative is he and Romney splitting the evangelical base and McCain getting the nomination.  And McCain, despite a recent barrage of media to the contrary, has a very spotty record when it comes to conservative values.

On the other hand, McCain might be more electable in the general than Romney since he's more centrist.  On the gripping hand, Rush Limbaugh and others have joined Ann Coulter in saying that they would vote for a Democrat over McCain - meaning he'd lose as much from the base as he'd gain from the Dems.  So I don't know, but either way it's bad news for conservatives.

Ah well, always 2012.

Oh, yes, I voted for Huckabee.  So call me an optimist.

Well, we've made it to 28 weeks as of yesterday.  Our girls would stand a pretty good chance of surviving without permanent problems now if they had to be delivered, though they would likely spend 4 - 6 weeks in an incubator.  So I'm happy to say that they are still safely with Leesa and growing more every day.  She hasn't had any other issues recently.

We did have to go to the hospital last Tuesday around 11p, which was fun.  She hadn't felt them move much for a couple days and the discharge slip from our last visit said that was something to watch for.  So we called her OB on call and she said to head for the hospital for some monitoring.  Which means we had a few hours of find-the-babies, with both of them becoming very lively indeed once they felt the monitors on them.

So we weren't real concerned about their lack of movement by the time we left since they hardly stopped moving the whole time and both had good, strong heartrates.

I'd like to momentarily call attention to the excellent nursing staff working at the new Family Birth Center at St. Mary's in Athens.  They are really exceptional - Angela, in particular.  Especially considering all of the challenges of constantly putting up with our hyper girls and taking care of easily-excitable new parents, it's wonderful how professional and still friendly they are.

That being said, I'd really like it if I only see all of them once more in my life.  You know, nothing personal, we just never go there just because we're bored and have little else to do.

Leesa has an appointment with her perineonatologist (hah, Firefox's spellcheck isn't even going to try) tomorrow where I'm hoping we get some more great ultrasound footage (maybe even the 3D (4D?) dealie) and she's hoping he'll say, "Your placenta is like the Rock of Gibraltar and you may feel free to decorate the nursery, take frequent trips to Target, and lift objects many times your own weight at will!"

Probably not, but hopefully she'll at least be cleared to go up the stairs once in a while or take short shopping trips.  I know it's killing her being stuck in the house all the time and not even able to come upstairs and see the nursery.

Ann Coulter on Hannity and Colmes said that she would vote, even campaign, for Hillary over McCain if it comes to that.  I don't know if I would go quite that far (especially with news that Nancy Reagan is privately endorsing McCain) but if it came down to Obama and McCain?  Yeah, I don't know...