This evening we took our trusty dog Hazel to our neighborhood park for the Summer's End Dog Fest.
Here's the scoop on the event from Film Action Oregon, the primary sponsor:
The goal of the first annual Summer's End Dog Fest is to bring together Portland's dog lovers and the residents of Hollywood, Grant Park, Laurelhurst and Irvington neighborhoods at a special event at Grant Park, famous for its statues of Beverly Cleary's Ramona and her dog, Ribsy. The purpose of this event is to build community, raise funds and awareness for Film Action Oregon / The Hollywood Theatre, and simply to have fun.
We had a good time and the twins, who ran into a couple of their new classmates, enjoyed watching the wiener dog races.
We'll look forward to attending again next year.
Frances and Katherine, our dynamic 2-year old duo, woke up around 5 am this morning and were ready to start their morning with a little dancing, endless book readings, some wrestling with their old man and a few minor disagreements over which twin got which Elmo doll. After three hours of that it was off to work and tonight my last meeting ended just before 8pm. Long day and I’m ready for bed. The kind of funny part: I had so much fun this morning with those little monsters of mine. I was bummed they’d already crashed by the time I got home. Sleep is overrated when you’ve got 2 year old twin daughters around. 
Portland is in the middle of our annual 
This weekend we made our way down to the Bay Area to visit Liz’s family. It was a great chance to show off the twins to their grandparents, aunts, uncles and assorted cousins on the Smith side of the family. Unfortunately, a short visit like this didn’t afford us the opportunity to spend time with our many friends in the area. The occasion for
their new 
Happy New Year's Eve. We'll be leaving in the morning from Portland and heading back to St. Louis. Traveling with us are two very sick babies. Frances and Katherine got sick over Christmas and by this Monday had developed pneumonia. We've spent the last five days in and out of doctor's offices. Both babies are undergoing breathing treatments every three hours 
and have enough medicines in them to open up a pharmacy. Our hope is that once home they'll relax and start to feel better. Your prayers and good wishes for a speedy recovery are appreciated. Even sick these kids are way cute! 
Life has abruptly taken a change this week at the Currie household. 
We’re now seven weeks into our big adventure as parents. It is now clear why sleep deprivation is considered a form of torture. 
Our girls turn five weeks old today. They just keep growing. Every week I'm posting a new series of photos. This might get a little old when they're 26 or 27, but until then you just have to check them out. 
Our twins Frances and Katherine are four weeks old today. We have new pictures of them at 
We've got more photos of the twins on our 
We made it back home today from the hospital with Katherine Chalmers Currie and Frances Bright Currie. Both girls and their mother are doing great. All of us are a bit tired. You can find a few new pictures of the girls at 
Frances Bright Currie and Katherine Chalmers Currie are now more than 30 hours old. 
Here is Liz now 36 weeks pregnant with our twin girls. We are only five days away from the planned C-section. 
Here Liz is at 35 weeks. We have 
We’ve reached the 33 week mark in the pregnancy. On Thursday, we had another appointment with the OBGYN who was very happy with Liz’s progress. As I’ve mentioned before, our doctor won’t let the pregnancy go past 38 weeks (somewhere around July 15-18). That means at the most we have five more weeks to go. However, our doctor has also told us that in recent times he has only had one mother of twins actually make it to 38 weeks. So these girls of ours could come at any time. Liz is busy getting prepared. Today she assembled one of the swings. 
Here is Liz at 31 weeks. We had another good doctor appointment on Thursday. Tomorrow we have an all-day lamaze class at the hospital. Liz is still feeling pretty good. We picked-up a video camera at Costco the other day for when the babies arrive. This means anyone who visits this site will be doomed to watch endless baby movies. Viewer beware. 
This is what it has come to: my car that once carried kegs of beer... where the dogs once had free roam .... that transported people from party to party ... has become a baby transport. 
29 weeks and counting..... Here's all the news from the last week. Our OBGYN said on Thursday that he wouldn't let our pregnacy go past July 15, but he said you could bet money the twins would come before that. We’ve now graduated from the “preparing for multiples,” “CPR for infants and young children,” and “breast feeding for multiples” classes at the hospital. There are several additional classes to go before the twins arrive. Liz put together one of the two bassinets that her dad and step-mom, Chalmers and Carolyn, sent us this week. The remaining one is my job. That’s all we have for now. 
We've reached the 27th week of our pregnancy. This week we attended the second of our “preparing for multiples” class at the hospital. Three of the other couples – all due around the same time as us – had to drop out because they went into early labor. Modern medical miracles mean that babies born at 27 weeks have a pretty good chance of making it and doing well. We’re still holding out for a July birth though. Make sure you add your guess on the birth date to our 
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