Instead of making retirement a question, make it a sport- can I do it and how fast?
About Me
jIM
I am a 35yo married and father of twins. I will update the photos once in a while. They were born 3 months early in March of 2008 and went through a tough first 4 months. They are now doing well.
Retirement checkpoints
( ) $1.5 M needed age 53 2026
( ) $750k needed age 45 2018
( ) $375k needed age 37 2010
( ) $180k needed age 29 2002
I had 200k before the drop in 2008. I need to set aside around 200k in next 2.5 years to get early retirement.
[ ] max 401k for me
[ ] max 401k for wife
[x] max Roth for me
[x] max Roth for wife
[x] start taxable portfolio
[ ] 3 months expenses in EF
[ ] 9 months expenses in taxable account
[ ] open college savings account for kids
[ ] dividend income equals half of annual expenses
[ ] pay off 2nd mortgage by 2013
[ ] pay off 1st mortgage by 2026
[ ] finance next car for 3 years or less
[ ] pay cash for my next car around 2016
[ ] start a TIPs 10 year bond ladder by 2016.
Gosh, they are so cute! How blessed you are! My oldest kids are off to school tomorrow and I am feeling that my nest is empty with two left. I see cuties like yours and hope that I will be blessed with more! Definitely identical IMO!
They are identical in their cuteness! What are the names of the little darlings? Do YOU think they're identical? A little hard to tell from the picture.
Wow, they have grown so much even from your profile picture. I think they look identical... but then again, I was convinced that my brother and I were really twins when I was little (we're 3 1/2 years apart). You might not wanna trust my opinion.
They are sooo cute! I really can't tell. They look identical, but you can see a few differences too. But I am sure identical twins have little differences too. I don't think anyone can be exactly identical! Keep us posted and thanks for the pics!
My brother and his wife adopted twin newborns a few years back. For the first couple of years only Mom could tell them apart, and she sometimes put name tags on them so the rest of us (including Dad) could also know who was who. Now at age 7, they look nothing alike, LOL.
So can you tell them apart? Can your wife? They are cute!
I have a friend who has twin girls, and they can't be dressed identical either. If so, they'll fool even their own mother. So, something always have to be a little different, even if it's just the way their hair is pulled back.
I just came across this post and had to tell you I think the boys are identical. As a mother of identical twin girls (now age 33), I can tell you that identical twins may have some very slight facial differences but still be identical genetically. One of my twins weighed 4# and the other 6#. They looked very different until 3 months..then we had a hard time telling them apart. The MD said they were identical.
Your boys are super adorable! Don't you LOVE having twins? I do!
August 19th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
August 19th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Gosh, they are so cute! How blessed you are! My oldest kids are off to school tomorrow and I am feeling that my nest is empty with two left. I see cuties like yours and hope that I will be blessed with more! Definitely identical IMO!
August 19th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
August 19th, 2008 at 01:30 pm
Is there any way of finding out now?
August 19th, 2008 at 01:38 pm
August 19th, 2008 at 01:52 pm
August 19th, 2008 at 02:31 pm
August 19th, 2008 at 02:44 pm
Of course I biased the question with a picture of kids in same outfit- we normally do not dress them alike (see the other pictures).
August 19th, 2008 at 02:48 pm
August 19th, 2008 at 07:04 pm
August 19th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
August 20th, 2008 at 07:51 am
My brother and his wife adopted twin newborns a few years back. For the first couple of years only Mom could tell them apart, and she sometimes put name tags on them so the rest of us (including Dad) could also know who was who. Now at age 7, they look nothing alike, LOL.
So can you tell them apart? Can your wife? They are cute!
August 20th, 2008 at 10:35 am
August 20th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
DS1 weighs about 12 lbs right now and it's dead weight... he will flop if you don't support his head or torso just right.
DS2 weighs just under 10 lbs and is lean. He feels 10 lbs lighter and I think he is more compact- so holding him is MUCH easier.
August 20th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
August 20th, 2008 at 08:43 pm
August 21st, 2008 at 07:40 am
August 21st, 2008 at 09:16 am
September 12th, 2008 at 06:07 pm
Your boys are super adorable! Don't you LOVE having twins? I do!