How Things Stand Now - the Girls

We had another doctor's visit this week. It was full of encouraging news. The pediatrician said Hannah is continuing to recover well. Aside from an ear infection in Miriam both girls are doing well. We also had the twins weighed and measured. Hannah came in at 19.3" and 5 lbs 1 oz (an increase of 9 oz from the previous week) and Miriam was 20.9" and 7 lbs 10 oz (an increase of 7 oz). If you saw the last post on the girls' weights you might be wondering about Hannah. It turns out we had a 'language-gap' moment and misunderstood the doctor last week. She was actually 2.05 kilograms, not 2.50 kg. Well, communication difficulties are part of cross-cultural living...
Some more encouraging news was that the doctor said we only needed to come every-other week now for check ups and weighing. It's nice she has confidence in the girls' health.
We've added more pictures of the twins to our picture pages. Click here to see them. We've been adding new pictures every couple of days or so lately.
Finally, we want to thank everyone for caring and loving our girls without ever seeing them in person. Last month almost 5,000 people visited this website. That was 3,500 more than any previous month. It's pretty obvious what the difference is! We received so many encouraging emails and messages on this blog. It amazes me that churches held baby showers for a couple they hardly know who live all the way in Africa! We know we've been blessed - abundantly so. We look forward to thanking as many of you as possible in person next spring when we return to the US for our furlough.