Q
& A:
Is Valerie getting a little sleep?
Yes, with focus on the little. Actually, we are at the point where
if we can catch them stirring at night, we can feed 'em and they go
back to sleep.
How about Miles?
Miles is sleeping the way he always did, in class.
What are their names again?
The girl's Hebrew name is Gittel Tovah (both words mean good in Yiddish and
Hebrew respectively). Her English name is Jessica Tovah. The boy's Hebrew name
is Avraham, English is Abraham Lander.
What do you call them? Rami for the boy and Gittel for the girl.
How did they get those names?
Rami is named for Valerie's mother's father's father Abraham Gotkis.
Lander is a town in
Wyoming where's Miles' father's father ran a dry goods store. He also
ran a store in Kemmerer, WY but was put out of business by his competitor, JC
Penny, plus Lander sounds cooler. Now as a complete coincidence, Lander is
the county seat for Fremont county in Wyoming. Both Lander
and Fremont were named
for civil war generals. Fremont happens to be the middle name of my
sister's second kid Daniel Fremont Tillman (oh yeah, Daniel is also named
for Abraham Gotkis's only son, our grandfather Daniel Gotkis). Turns out
Nora and Seth choose Fremont as a name because he was the first person to
run as a republican in a presidential election (he lost to James Buchanan,
which we actually considered as a name for a while).
Did we know we were having twins? Yes
Did we know the sexes? No!
How come we didn’t tell anyone we were having twins? Wasn’t it obvious???? We were also very nervous and just wanted this day to arrive safely, and in good health without too much “pre-fanfare”
We also got some pretty funny emails when the kids were born