We had a date for the babies!!!

Lbsutke

Shared on Fri, 02/16/2007 - 12:51

Warning, this could be a long ass post, so there...you have been warned.

March 20th, 2007

So Teri went to the Baby Dr. yesterday and the doc is like…So when would you like to have your babies, and she was like well I was hoping you could tell me. The doc said she really just wants Teri and the kids to get to Week 38 (which would be March 16), so Teri decided March 20th, and now I am going to try and explain how she came about this decision. Stay with me because this could jump all over the place, but I will start from the beginning:

So about a week ago while we were finishing up the kids room, Teri gets this weird ass look on her face and turns to me and says “you know what I just realized” and I am saying to myself “oh crap she is going to tell me we need to re-do something…fuq…” and I said what was that. She turns to me and starts pointing at the baby pod (also know as the belly) and says the girl is on the rightish (yes I made that word up) side of the pod and the boy is on the leftish side, “OOOKKKK” I said, she then said, look how we have the cribs, the boy’s is on the left, the girl’s is on the right, “ooookkkk”, now look how I have the kids close separated in the 5 drawer dresser, boy’s on the left, girl’s on the right, “ooookkkk” in the closet, the boy’s stuff is on the left, the girl’s on the right, “ooookkkk” (at this point I am still waiting for her to tell me we have to re-do something), the twin cabbage patch dolls (boy and girl) is on top of the dresser, boy on the left girl on the right. (now here comes the march 20th date thing) and the birthday on the cabbage patch birth certificate is March 20th . Finally I realize she is not going to tell me we have to move something. And she is like “how weird is that?” I did not do any of that on purpose; even the cabbage patch dolls were a random thing.

So now jump to yesterday at the doc’s office. So when the doc asks Teri what date she would like, she picks March 20th. Because it would match the cabbage patch dolls….WTF. So she tells me this last night and I start to laugh, and she wants to know why I am laughing, and I said can you imagine when we tell the kids why we choose March 20th as the day what they will say. I imagine it will go something like this, “Hey kids this is why you were born on March 20th, blah, blah, blah”:..They will turn to each other and say in unison Mom, Dad, you two are a bunch of Douche bags!!!! (Profanity plug baby!!!)

I don’t know I just find it kind of silly, but that is how we are. I think it is really trippy how everything kind of worked out like it did.

Teri and I are not really religious, we both believe in a higher power, and we both believe that religion can be a source of comfort, positive reinforcement for some people, for others it is an excuse to be a bigot, racist, or a mindless drone. I was brought up catholic as a child and many years ago I made the decision to not really be a practicing catholic and pretty much turn my back on the church (primarily due to them keeping around child molesters and “forgiving them” as the good catholic thing to do)(please do not pm me about your pro’s and con’s on this. I am just stating something about myself). I believe in Karma, and do onto others as you would to be done onto you. So this hole symbiotic thing that is going on is just trippy.

According to the astrological signs, the kids will be Pisces (a freaking fish?) and here are some things that have happened on March 20t:

1602 - The Dutch East India Company is established.

1739 - Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.

1760 - The "Great Fire" of Boston destroys 349 buildings.

1815 - Napoleon enters Paris after escaping from Elba with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.

1848 - Revolutions of 1848 in the German states: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.

1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.

1856 - Costa Rican troops rout Walker's soldiers.

1861 - An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, a city on western Argentina.

1883 - Signature of Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property.

1899 - At Sing Sing prison, Martha M. Place becomes the first woman executed in an electric chair.

1913 - Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) (KMT), is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.

1914 - In New Haven, Connecticut, the first international figure skating championship takes place.

1916 - Albert Einstein publishes his theory of relativity.

1922 - The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.

1933 - Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida's electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

1942 - In Zgierz, Poland, 100 Poles are taken from a labor camp and shot by the Germans.

1942 - in Rohatyn, western Ukraine, on Friday, German SS murder 3000 Jews, including 600 Jewish children, annihalating 70 % of Rohatyn's Jewish ghetto. The entire action took one day, from early morning to five o'clock in the evening. All the dead were buried in a mass grave behind the railroad station in Rohatyn.

1942 - General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".

1948 - With a Musicians Union ban lifted, the first telecasts of classical music in the United States, under Eugene Ormandy and Arturo Toscanini, are given on CBS and NBC.

1951 - Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū. was founded. The city rests at the base of majestic Mount Fuji, and is built upon old lava flows.

1952 - The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.

1956 - Tunisia gains independence from France.

1964 - The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.

1965 - In Naples, Italy, France Gall wins the tenth Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg singing "Poupée de cire, poupée de son" (Wax doll, bran doll).

1966 - The football World Cup is stolen from an exhibition at Central Hall, Westminster, London

1969 - In Gibraltar, John Lennon and Yoko Ono get married.

1974 - A failed kidnap attempt is made on Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace, London.

1985 - Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

1986 - Jacques Chirac becomes Prime Minister of France.

1987 - The Food and Drug Administration approves anti-AIDS drug AZT.

1990 - Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.

1993 - A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in Warrington, northwest England, killing two children.

1995 - Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway killing 12 and wounding 1300 persons.

2000 - Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after a gun battle that leaves a Georgia sheriff's deputy dead.

2003 - 2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries begin military operations in Iraq.

2004 - Stephen Harper wins the leadership of the newly created Conservative Party of Canada, thus becoming the first leader in the party's history.

2005 - A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits Fukuoka, Japan, its first major quake in over 100 years. One person is killed, hundreds are injured and evacuated.

2006 - Cyclone Larry makes landfall in eastern Australia.

2006 - Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC. The growing rebel movement seeks to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Deby.

Other people born on March 20th:

43 BC - Ovid, Roman poet (d. 17)

1477 - Jerome Emser, German theologian (d. 1527)

1502 - Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (d. 1575)

1725 - Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1789)

1735 - Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist (d. 1784)

1737 - Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, King of Thailand (d. 1809)

1741 - Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (d. 1828)

1770 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German writer (d. 1843)

1799 - Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (d. 1839)

1811 - Napoleon II of France, (d. 1832)

1823 - Ned Buntline, American publisher (d. 1886)