{"id":74,"date":"2008-02-24T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/24\/week-8-the-boys-are-great\/"},"modified":"2008-02-25T14:39:14","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T20:39:14","slug":"week-8-the-boys-are-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/24\/week-8-the-boys-are-great\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 8, The boys are Great!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2089\/2289816436_ef45cdb347.jpg\" alt=\"Brenda and Andrew\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It has only been 8 weeks but it seems like at least a year. It&#8217;s just hard to remember what things were like before they came along.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This weekend we had our friend Don over on Saturday and it was his first time meeting the boys. We all just hung out and relaxed with some pizza and beer while playing with them (as much as we could between sleeping and eating). It was a nice relaxing evening. <\/p>\n<p>This week Andrew was weighed and we found out that he&#8217;s almost 11 lbs. now. Max has grown as well but we don&#8217;t have an&nbsp;official&nbsp;weight on him. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They are both smiling now. It just melts your heart when you pick them up, they make eye contact, and then just smile from ear to ear. Yesterday when I picked Andrew up he was mad and crying, but a few seconds later he was just looking at me with a huge grin. What&#8217;s not to love!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have more video then I have time to process right now, so I&#8217;m not sure what else I&#8217;ll have posted this week. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Have a great week!&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has only been 8 weeks but it seems like at least a year. It&#8217;s just hard to remember what things were like before they came along.&nbsp; This weekend we had our friend Don over on Saturday and it was his first time meeting the boys. We all just hung out and relaxed with some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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],"tags":[10,11],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-text","tag-brenda","tag-twin-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47XZT-1c","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4027,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/31\/two-turn-four-happy-birthday-boys\/","url_meta":{"origin":74,"position":0},"title":"Two turn Four &#8211; Happy Birthday Boys!","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"December 31, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy New Year, and happy Birthday to our little boys Andrew and Max who turned 4 years old today at 8:02 and 8:04 am. 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