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Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on July 13, 2013 at 1:08pm

So Double trouble maybe your boys will be stationed where Sam goes he will be an EM on a Sub.  While in Boot he changed from MM to EM.  They pull the nukes aside to get a more complete picture of the nuke program, Sam decided he preferred EM so he switched, they let them do that.

Comment by Sierrascrapper (ETN2) on July 13, 2013 at 11:56am

So glad you got to communicate with Stephen last night.  How wonderful...I bet you are on cloud 9.  Communication will be golden when Jonathan leaves.  He's not as talkative as his brother so I probably won't get to hear as much as I want. I will definitely cherish whatever stories I can get.  

It's gotta be real difficult to not get to know "where" your son really is.  But it is almost kind of exciting at the same time, because maybe you can imagine where he is. I know kinda goofy.  I try to look for the positive in things all the time.  It's just who I am.  

Funny you say that you call your son by his full first name now. When we named the boys, I always said that I didn't name him Jon so I don't want to call him that and I didn't name the other Nate so don't call him that.  However, we all seem to call Jonathan Jon all the time.  It bugs me and I try to catch myself but it still slips out. I think it only happens around the house and not outside of the house by his friends. We don't really shorten Nathanael's name though.  It just doesn't seem to ring right and he definitely doesn't like people to shorten his name. When they boys were in grade school and middle school together a lot of kids just called them by their last name because it was hard to tell them apart.  (I almost blew that and typed it in!)  We have a last name that sounds like a first name.  Either way, after the kids got to HS, they hated it whenever they heard just their last name called out by an old friend.  So they went to first names again finally.  It's funny now to hear Jonathan always being called by his last name by his Recruiter and the others in DEP.

Cathy-how cute that the colors matched their first names like CO-twin pointed out.  I know what you mean about people wishing they still dressed in the same colors.  We did it mostly for the benefit of other people.  We could tell them apart pretty easily, but it was hard for their teachers and friends at church, etc. Jonathan has a blond spot on the back of his head that shows up pretty good when his hair is short so that is another way we could tell them apart.  We say that is where Nathanael bopped him in the head when they were in the womb. LOL

Comment by cathymgShip03Div367&ship11Div383 on July 13, 2013 at 11:30am

At my last posted pictures, I meant that I would stop posting pictures now!!

Comment by cathymgShip03Div367&ship11Div383 on July 13, 2013 at 11:29am

That is funny, because it was in shop class that my boys fought and the industrial tech teacher always got a kick out of them.

Comment by doubletrouble on July 13, 2013 at 11:21am

Hull Tech is basically a welder. He is sooo good at it. Their instructor in school said Darien was one of his best students ever. They both took welding in high school, its 2 yrs, Jr & Sr year. Darien was a state certified welder after the first six weeks, Jacob got certified at the beginning of the second year.
One of you said your boys were suspended from school for fighting with each other, that sounds like my boys! All their teachers, especially their welding instructor, said they get along good with others, they just fight & pick at each other. The welding instructor loved it, he brought his jet ski out to the lake when we had one of their graduation parties. That was the first time we met him &he had so much good things to say about the twins I thought my husbands chest was going to explode with pride! But he brought the jet ski so he could put them both on a tube behind it & drag them all over the lake just so they would be pounding on each other!

Comment by cathymgShip03Div367&ship11Div383 on July 13, 2013 at 11:16am

I didn't mean to post 2 pictures, not sure what happened.

Comment by cathymgShip03Div367&ship11Div383 on July 13, 2013 at 11:15am

My boys at Busch stadium!! I will stop posting pictures not.

Comment by cathymgShip03Div367&ship11Div383 on July 13, 2013 at 11:11am

OK what is Hull tech?? I know there are many jobs that I don't what it is..

Comment by doubletrouble on July 13, 2013 at 11:09am

Sierrascapper your boys are so cute! Love the pics. Cathy, I so know what you mean about holding them and not wanting to pit them down! It's terrible, I wanted to just hold them &kiss their cute little lips!

Comment by doubletrouble on July 13, 2013 at 11:05am

Darien will be a Hull Tech & Jacob a Machinist Mate on a sub! He volunteered for sub, i asked if he was trying to give me a heart attack!! But after joining them mom of subs group, I've decided its ok, at least he is under the water "hiding".
When ours were old enough to pick things they always picked different shoes. Darien always picked white shoes & Jacob dark ones. Their kindergarten teacher said thank goodness cause she couldn't tell them apart except for their shoes!
Cotwin, I'm going to pass that along about BC & how the division suffers because one being a jerk. Darien & Jacob have been in football since middle school & are good at being a team player, they are not good at tolerating having to be punished for some one else. They are quick to "teach" others to be team players. Don't know if that will be good or bad.

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