circus

Thanks for all the advice on diapers! You brought up things I hadn't thought of before. I think I'm going to go ahead and try cloth diapers, but not buy as many as I had planned to. Maybe just 15 or so. Then, if I love them I'll buy more, or if I hate them I won't have to use them all the time. Either way I think having cloth diapers will save us money in the end, which is a very serious consideration.

I'm starting to be asked by kind passersby, who are always women, "When are you due?" with an inflection that fully anticipates my answer to be "Any day now." When I mention not till late June/early July, I love seeing the cogs work. Usually they're shocked, some of the braver ones even exclaim it cannot be so with a belly so large, but I let it sit for a couple of seconds until I can see they've reached the conclusion that I just must be big...Then I tell them its twins, and everything changes. It's usually at that point I get unsolicited advice, that sometimes begins with: "My mother's aunt's friend had twins, and she said...." or "You probably will have to have a C-Section, won't you?" or, like I had at church yesterday, uproarious laughter accompanied by "What an induction into parenthood!!!" followed by more laughter.

Instead of feeling conspicuous and kind of like a moving circus, I'm trying to make a game out of this. I've been tempted to tell outrageous lies. Like telling them I have one GIANT baby ("I may even be in the Guiness Book of Records! Watch for me on TV!") or something involving my water suddenly breaking, and could you drive me to the hospital?