The twins both have chicken pox (hence the medicinal goop on Megan’s head), so they were a bit fussy. I managed to pick them both up, and they calmed down. But that’s more than 17lbs of baby! Oof! Megan (on the left) is around 10lbs, and Maribeth is around 7lbs.

My mother with Megan — poor baby has chicken pox…

Allan’s birthday is actually today, but we celebrated yesterday to accommodate scheduling. He’s 33 today, which — eek — means I turn 32 in less than three weeks! I think Allan’s trying to show the kiddies how old he is…

You’ll be able to tell when I’m busy, because this will turn into a Photoblog. Which is really not a bad way to show the photos from my trip, since there are enough of them to fill up the rest of the year on this blogspot (and more…). I do like the Photoblog feature a [...]

Who is Accordion Guy? A Filipino-Canadian! Yessiree, there’s a bunch of us here in the Great White North (ironically, Toronto is below the 49th parallel, in case you haven’t noticed). Thanks to my older bro, who will be 33 on Sunday, for sending the link.
http://www.joeydevilla.com

I’ve been looking at the invitation for a while now, and I jumped in and joined. There are some excellent features, but we’ll see how it goes.
Go ahead and send me an e-mail: gailontheweb - at - gmail - dot - com
Nice for me that it would be called GMail. I was tempted to take [...]

I was going to be an EARLY-early adopter, but I waited months before diving in. I have Telus Enhanced ADSL, so I thought I might as well get my money’s worth and ditch the Telus landline since I can’t claim it on my taxes. Also, Telus charges a small fortune for features such as Caller [...]

The twins last week, when their maternal grandparents and two aunties were in town. 

I’m not kidding! I actually hiked up to the office!
We were working on our big monthly report, so we’ll take a day off in the summer in lieu of today. I took public transit so I could avoid the long weekend ferry lineups and general busy-ness. Also, I wanted to time the walk up to [...]