Balloon Juice commenter, hitchhiker, has some wonderful news to share with us.
I post/lurk as hitchhiker, and I thought if you want you could share some happiness from a longtime juicer. On Wednesday morning, just an hour or so before the riot got underway, our younger daughter delivered a pair of brother/sister twins.
Brand new citizens, brand new humans, and none of us can take our eyes off them.
It’s been a great counterpoint to the madness.
To which I say, welcome little ones!
trollhattan
Awwww. Congratulations!
NobodySpecial
So beautiful. Congrats, Hitchhiker! A great way to start 2021!
raven
Look at them widgets!
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
Awww, indeed. Hopefully, we can make a better world for them. Congratulations hitchhiker!
JPL
My goodness, they are so cute. We’ll do our best to make the world a better place for them. Are they your first grandchildren?
Sister Golden Bear
Awwww. Congratulions!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Let there be hope…
Eric NNY
Congratulations Hitchhiker! They’re beautiful!
NeenerNeener
Woo hoo! Congratulations!
Brachiator
Congratulations! A pair of cuties.
Chat Noir
“Babies come with hats.” –Toby Ziegler
Congrats on a pair of cuties!
Bluegirlfromwyo
So precious! Congratulations!
Elizabelle
Oh, those are some darling babies.
Congratulations hitchhiker and family. What fun and joy awaits.
Dorothy A. Winsor
What cuties!
Lapassionara
Wonderful news. Adorable babies. Congratulations!
MagdaInBlack
Lovely little works of perfection. Congratulations !
gwangung
The bottom photo just made me LAUGH.
Mel
They are such darling little ones! Congratulations!!
zhena gogolia
Oh, how sweet. Congratulations!
stinger
Oh oh oh oh ohhhhhhhhhhh
Oh, thank you for sharing these photos! My father and aunt were twins. Your brand new grandchildren are adorable, hitchhiker. I’ll do everything in my power to help make this a better world for them.
mali muso
awwww, look at those precious faces! Those little newborn caps make me nostalgic for my baby (now 4 years old).
Nicole
Congrats! They’re so beautiful!
Rusty
Nothing more hopeful in this world than a baby. They are beautiful, thank you for sharing!
Suzanne
Oh my God they are GORGEOUS. Congratulations!!!
JeanneT
They are so beautiful, they made me catch my breath. Congratulations to everyone in the family!
Felanius Kootea
Congratulations!
Benw
Huzzay babies!
MJS
Congratulations to hitchhiker! My twins will be turning 25 in 2 weeks. The parents of those beautiful babies are in for an absolutely wonderful time.
artem1s
Lovely post! what a pair of cuties! two magnificent bundles of human potential.
Gin & Tonic
Congrats. Grandchildren are the best thing ever.
Tony Jay
Ha! Boy/Girl twins. Job done hyper-efficiently. Activate smug-mode.
Soooooo, cute.
Ken
Congratulations!
(That seems a safe thing to say…)
Wapiti
Congratulations!
Kristine
Congratulations and awwwwww….
Baud
The bottom picture tells me they are already tired of our shit.
Congrats!
brendancalling
Adorable! Congratulations! Babies are awesome.
FelonyGovt
Awww they are darling! Looking at those pictures makes me happy. Congratulations!
Yutsano
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!! MAZEL TOV TO HITCHHIKER AND DAUGHTER!!!
Leto
Congratulations! Those two are waaay too cute (and they already know it!) :)
hitchhiker
Thanks for putting this up, Watergirl, and thanks for the kind thoughts, everybody.
These babies are the result of the epic pandemic pregnancy, and yes, our first grandchildren. I can’t take my eyes off them for long. The night before they were born I was in a state of double anxiety, first because of the GA races and second because I know that anything can happen during childbirth. I went to sleep knowing the races were won (THANK YOU, GA!) but not knowing that within hours they’d be doing an emergency C-section delivery.
They come into a world that feels balanced on a knife’s edge. I imagine a future day in which they’re assigned a middle school project covering that time some people thought that crashing the counting of electoral votes with guns and bombs was a good idea. Kind of sorry they’ll have to learn that it happened on their birthday.
Tazj
Congratulations! ? Such beautiful babies! How nice of you to share the good news and pictures with us.
debbie
Congratulations! Precious little jewels! ?
opiejeanne
Oh, how sweet! I want one grandchild, just one, but I’d settle for four.
Emperor Lew
As a long-time lurker, and very, very occasional commenter, let me add my well-wishes. Congratulations! Welcome to the world, we’re doing our best to make it better for you.
Kelly
Grandparenting is a joy.
JPL
@hitchhiker: Show and tell will be interesting. I purchased both the NYTimes and the AJC to save for my grand imp.
SiubhanDuinne
They are beautiful! Big congratulations, Hitchhiker!
Josie
So beautiful. Congratulations.
opiejeanne
@hitchhiker: I thought they might have been a Caesarian delivery because of how they look in the photos. Caesarian babies are usually very pretty.
It took about a week before mine stopped looking like their faces were a bit mashed.
Eunicecycle
Congratulations! They look healthy and (at least one of them) alert! My daughter had twins almost 4 years ago, also boy- girl and they are so much fun! Although it takes Grandpa and Grandma to watch them when we babysit, because of course they are going in opposite directions. You have so much joy ahead of you, times two!
debbie
I’m guessing that’s the girl on the left in the second photo. Careful, she’s already on to all of you.
Immanentize
That last picture!! Your daughter’s future; one wide awake while the other snoozes. Oy! Good health to all.
Geeno
AAAAGGGHHH!!
bebebebebebebebebaboooooos
sweet baby baboos – <<<melts into goo>>>
JPL
@debbie: That’s what I think. She’s already practicing to be the Speaker of the House
TomatoQueen
Ohhhh welcome in to our newest jackal pups and congratulations to hitchhiker and younger hitchhiker daughter (emergency C-section? hope she’s recovering well and cared for). They have such lovely sleepybaby smiles.
Alison Rose
Oh mah gah they are SO FLIPPING CUTE. Mazel tov to all of you! And welcome to the world, little ones…we’re doing our best to make it a better one for you.
David Anderson
OOOOOHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Low Key Swagger
Nothing better than babies. And OMG are they beautiful.
divF
Thank you for sharing these pictures!
Looking at newborn pix lowers my blood pressure by 10 pts.
LuciaMia
Wonderful, Congratulations!
Love how newborns immediately get their own little hats.
“You cant stay warm if you dont insulate the ol’ attic!”
Lyrebird
WOW hitchhiker, that’s a lot of adorable in two small packages!
Congrats to you and daughter and everyone.
@Alison Rose: Sending wishes of comfort re: your family’s loss, & was too late on the thread where I learned of it. and HEAR, HEAR! to building a better world for these little folks, and for their awesome grands too!
MomSense
Congratulations!!! Welcome, precious little ones. They are so beautiful and sweet. With this wonderful announcement and Immp’s good news, this is a great day for the jackaltariat.
Scout211
Beautiful grand babies hitchhiker! May they bring you and your family infinite joy.
hitchhiker
@TomatoQueen:
Yeah, our daughter had mild preeclampsia for a week or so, and on Wed morning suddenly her blood pressure was high and not going down … not something to fuck around with. She and her husband have been in their own room at the local birthing center ever since. I’m at their house tending to the cat and laughing at their six ridiculous fat ducks.
I have cleaned this place within an inch of its life. I’m not allowed to visit the hospital because of covid, so these days are just staring at photos and waiting, which is fine. It’s extremely reassuring to know that everybody is where they ought to be, and getting all the help they need.
I still can’t quite believe it’s all real.
OzarkHillbilly
Look at them eyes. Glowin’ like he just hit pay dirt.
ETA: and now comes payback. You get to spoil them rotten.
skerry
Beautiful babies!
Congrats to hitchhiker and family
Emma from FL
New hopes, new dreams. Your family is blessed.
Ksmiami
Congratulations! Mazel Tov. They are exquisite
Feathers
So cute! My parents were the first in their friend set to become grandparents and there was so much jealousy. Congrats!
Haroldo
Yay babies!
Congratulations.
Good health to them and your daughter.
WaterGirl
@hitchhiker: All that, and you didn’t even mention Covid! There’s way too much going on right now for comfort.
Emergency C-section must have been scary, so glad for the happy ending!
Barbara
The photos captured the look of pure concentration in a baby’s face when they are sleeping and pure astonishment when they are awake. Along with new baby smell, there is nothing so precious. What a great day for all of you. Congratulations.
Tdjr
Such beautiful babies! A ray of hope! 2 actually!
satby
Congratulations hitchhiker, hitchspouse, and to the happy new parents! What a wonderful counterbalance to (all that other stuff).
My mom and her twin brother were born on Christmas eve, my sister’s fraternal twin daughters born in October. Advice from my mom to my sister 26 years ago: get a chart. Otherwise you’ll lose track of who ate when ?.
Wag
What a cute pair of kids! Twins are a whole lot of fun.
MelissaM
Lovely! Congratulations. I find newborns truly awe-some!
Catherine D.
Wonderful! So glad all went well during this crazy time.
If I may share some good news of my own – I called my 87 year old mother Thursday night and she was incoherent. I live 4 hours away so called my sister who lives nearby and then called local 911 to connect me to her 911.
Long story sort, they took her to a hospital specializing in strokes. She had two procedures to clear brain clots over 12 hours. Today she’s walking, sitting up, and talking. I just got off the phone with her, and while her speech is a little slurred, she knows what she’s saying.
And the sun actually came out today in the people’s republic of Ithaca. Good omens all around, I hope.
Mandarama
Such terrific news! Congratulations! Like MomSense said…this combined with the Immp’s great news is a balm to the cynical soul.
susanna
Congratulations and thanks for sharing the photos of these adorables! Babies make us feel joy, nothing can top those moments.
Shakti
Congratulations to you, hitchhiker, on your beautiful new granddaughter and grandson!
CaseyL
Such cuties! Congratulations!… the one on the left in the second photo is gonna be
troubleadventurous, I can see it already :)Mandarama
Oh, and it might not take them 18 years to become jackals. My 16-year-old has been reading here for quite a while! He’s a BaudBro.
O. Felix Culpa
Adorable. Congratulations!
I have a grand-puppy and three grand-kitties, but no grand-humans in the works. I keeps my mouth firmly shut and waits.
WaterGirl
@Mandarama: I nearly went with 16 but changed it to 18 at the last minute.
moonbat
Congratulations to your daughter and to you, new grandparent! Better keep an eye on that cutie on the left. I think they’re already up to something. ;)
Delk
Huzzah!
funlady75
God bless those cute babies….they are our future!!!!
Alison Rose
@Lyrebird: Thank you <3
Betty Cracker
So cute! Congrats!
Palindrome
Welcome munchkins! Be safe and well.
gbbalto
Congratulations! Thanks for sharing.
KSinMA
Congratulations!
Mary G
Seeing that is balm to my soul. Every once in a while the black dog whispers in my ear that the world is burning up, the Republicans are destroying America, nothing I try seems to work and I have no family so I should give up. Then I see somone’s grandkids and it grounds me with the purpose of not wanting to imagine them hurting. So thanks for topping up the tank with these especially splendid twins.
If I had chosen to have children, there is a better than average chance there would’ve been some twins. My mother’s brothers are twins and one of my cousins on my dad’s side had three sets. Thank Dog for birth control. That’s another thing to keep fighting for. All babies should be like yours, hitchhiker, eagerly anticipated with love and excitement.
ltelf
@hitchhiker: What a lovely little pair of humans! Thank you for sharing the photos, they brightened my day immeasurably.
HumboldtBlue
Hi babies! How beautiful!
Odie Hugh Manatee
Congratulations to the proud parents and grandparents!!! They can say goodbye to their sleep and sanity for a while but it’s worth it. :) The best part about being a grandparent is that the kids live somewhere else. ;)
What a nice way to start 2021!
Zelma
Awww…….! How much do they weigh? The look tiny but healthy. And adorable!
Bodacious
As one lurker to another, I LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT!!!! Babies put things in perspective and dissipate some of my cynicism (puppies are nice too). With twins, your arms will always be appreciated. Thanks for the distraction!
Suburban Mom
Beautiful babies! Congratulations to you and your family.
SFBayAreaGal
Congratulations to you and your family hitchhiker. Twins are special. My two sisters are twins.
Ruckus
@Baud:
They have entire lifetimes to develop their own.
Hitchhiker – congrats on the grandkids. Hope they they bring you all the happiness in the world.
TEL
What a couple of cuties! Congratulations!
tinare
So, so adorable. Congrats!
Tehanu
They’re adorable. Congrats to the new parents and grandparents!
Grover Gardner
Two!?! You don’t *really* need TWO, do you? You could send one to us. ;-) Seriously, they are just gorgeous. We’re too old for more and our daughter is only 17, so it may be a looooong wait for for more babies. I’m jealous! Congratulations to you and the parents.
J R in WV
Hola ~!!~ What beauties! Thanks so much for sharing these babies with us!!!
I’m sorry I’m so late to say congratulations, just missed the best thread of the year so far! Seriously, this buoys my mood so well. I was just beginning to unwind, calm down, relax… we had won the Senate in Georgia (YAY!!! Go Ga!) and that seemed like it would be the successful end to a tragic 4.2 years.
Then the news erupted with bad. And you, your daughter (and son in law) and those perfect little babies have soothed my spirit. Thanks so much. They are perfect, and almost make me jealous….
Best wishes for your kids and grand kids.
Congratulations again !!
C Stars
Beautiful!!