Twin Boys!

It’s official. They are boys. No doubt about if you know what I mean. The ultrasound yesterday made it clear. We had been thinking they would be boys for some time now. I had a theory and it would seem my theory proved true.

Way back before we even had children Barbara had said that if we ever had a boy she wanted to name him Thomas. Her dad had been named Thomas and had died when she was younger. This was a way that she wanted to honor the memory of her father and I thought that would be great.

When Abby came along, we simply set the name Thomas aside and held on to it to see what would happen. Then we found out she was having Twins. We didn’t know if they were boys or girls, but we knew that we might have the opportunity to use the name Thomas.

Well one day we were talking about names for the babies. And something struck me that I seemed to remember about “Doubting Thomas” in the Bible. I went to John 20:24 which is actually part of the text I will be using this Sunday in my message. In this verse Thomas is identified. The text also says he was called Didymus.

Doing a little research you will discover that the name Didymus from the Greek means twin and that the name Thomas is based on the Hebrew word for twin.

It was in that moment I was convinced these twins would be boys (they are identical). I knew that one of these babies was simply living up to the name he had already been given – Thomas the twin.

Yesterday, it was revealed to us that indeed it is true. We’ve got boys on the way!