{"id":509,"date":"2008-01-02T15:35:58","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T21:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/02\/good-times-with-the-twins-today\/"},"modified":"2008-04-03T15:40:59","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T21:40:59","slug":"good-times-with-the-twins-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/02\/good-times-with-the-twins-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Times with the Twins Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>9:08 pm<\/p>\n<p>Most of the day we were along with the boys today, and it was a good experience. We\u2019re finding we have a lot to learn and we need to learn it fast.<\/p>\n<p>Brenda made good progress in her recovery and managed to walk a lot further today, in addition to being on her feet a lot more, taking a shower and getting up and down from a chair with one of the babies. So while she\u2019s still in pain she\u2019s a lot better then yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight will be the first night I\u2019ll actually go home to sleep and come back early. There\u2019s not much reason for me to stay and I\u2019ll get better rest at home.<\/p>\n<p>We will be checking out on Friday around 2pm to take the boys home. That is when the real work starts.<\/p>\n<p>I uploaded a few more photos from today, and you can find those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tomchak_family\/sets\/72157603573163819\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9:08 pm Most of the day we were along with the boys today, and it was a good experience. We\u2019re finding we have a lot to learn and we need to learn it fast. Brenda made good progress in her recovery and managed to walk a lot further today, in addition to being on her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-text","category-web-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47XZT-8d","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":329,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/24\/brenda-at-33-weeks\/","url_meta":{"origin":509,"position":0},"title":"BRENDA AT 33 WEEKS","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"November 24, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Brenda and the boys had another good week. She\u2019s slowing down, but she\u2019s still getting around. She takes more naps during the day and sleeps a lot more, but she\u2019s still working on the video project that she started back in July of this year. It\u2019s looking like this is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Photo Post&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Photo Post","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/category\/photo\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/l1dy4sryp26dy5o23w9bnva5_500.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":824,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/28\/6-month-checkup-better-late-then-never\/","url_meta":{"origin":509,"position":1},"title":"6 Month Checkup (better late then never)","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"July 28, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This morning the boys had their 6 month checkup, although due to recent travels it's actually closer to a 7 month checkup. 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