Dear Science Babies,
Your legs have grown quite a bit this week. They are now longer than your arms, meaning you can finally produce a really satisfactory high kick. Legs are marvelous, and I think you will enjoy them even more, now that they are long enough to keep your knuckles from dragging apeishly along the ground. Your grandmother broke both her legs recently, and I think she can attest to the usefulness of those particular appendages. Legs allow you to walk, and skip, and go to the bathroom without aid of a bedpan. Though the bedpan part probably wouldn’t bother the two of you, as I have it on good authority that you are currently swimming in your own urine.
I hope you will find many and varied uses for your new, long legs in the future. Jumping rope is quite enjoyable. As a girl I thought I might do that professionally, but it didn’t work out. Some people use their legs for sports, and perhaps you will like that sort of thing—kicking a soccer ball or running a race. I am quite a HORSE enthusiast, myself (by which I mean I am fond of the game HORSE, not that I am either a heroin addict or a breeder of thoroughbreds). Without legs, you can’t stand on your own two, or participate in a conga line, and it is legs that give purpose to pants.
This week you have also developed unique fingerprints (so I hope you got any crime sprees out of your system in the first trimester) and have begun to accumulate a layer of tasty insulating fat under your skins. All in all, an impressive list of accomplishments for anyone, much less persons measuring less than five inches apiece.
My goal for the week is to sort through the unpacked boxes in the room that is now the office. Not as impressive as long legs and fingerprints, but I do intend to accumulate some insulating fat of my own, so that is something. And the room that is now the office is the room reserved for the two of you, so beginning to clean it out requires a certain amount of effort on my part, effort to believe that next spring the two of you will be born alive and well. I think generating a fresh set of fingerprints might actually be less difficult for me, but I am giving it the old college try.
Love,
Your Mother
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First of all, I adore you. Second of all, you are going to be such an amazing, wonderful, fantastic mother to those dear babies. Third of all, I didn’t get a chance to say this before, what happened to your mother is AWFUL and I am so so sorry. I am glad she is going to be ok eventually, but in how many ways does that suck. Fourth of all, this post makes me insanely happy on a cold night. Fifth of all, so brave of you to start buying baby items and preparing for their arrival. This is wonderful to hear and it also makes me very very happy.
I study/take pictures of latent prints.. so this whole fingerprints formed in the womb and never change … just fascinates me to no end. Good luck cleaning everything out in preparation
Fingerprints and fat! Sweet. When do you start in on the eyeballs and hair?
Alexa, You crack me up!
I SO want to grow fingertips. New ones, I mean. I already HAVE some.
It wont be long before those wonderfully long legs will be kicking up such a storm that you will feel it!
I think it is wonderful that you write to the babies, you really should think about printing off the letters and putting them in the baby books that you are sure to make for them. They will love it later on in life and also be able to understand what a miracle they truely are.
You are sure to be a fantastic mother!
Congrats on the leggy achievements of the Science Babies,
J