Nate update...

Looks like he is feeling better...

They have enjoyed the Christmas boxes to climb on.

Nate Bug has the Flu Bug :(

We went to the doctor today to get our Synagis shots and everyone was in a great mood and having fun playing with Mamaw while we waited for the nurse to come back in and give us the shot never showing any signs of illness. They were happy and feisty! So when we got home and started dinner everyone still playing and taking each others toys. After dinner I was just about to get everyone washed up and out of the highchair and Nate started vomiting. I don't know who I felt worse for him or Emma. Emma just kept saying "oh Nate, oh Nate" with tears streaming down her face. We have had some respiratory infections but never have they vomited other then the reflux spits.

Here is poor little Nate with his pan just in case. He played for a bit and then sat on my lap and then got up on the couch with daddy.

I took this picture just seconds before round two started. He was sleeping so peacefully. I was so proud of Donnie. He has the weakest stomach and both times he handled Nate vomiting pretty well. When I took Nate's picture Alli quickly got up on the couch with daddy telling me all the while she was getting into position "Alli pissure." Between her " piss=Kiss, pissure=picture, bitches=britches" someone is going to think we have been teaching her bad words. I have told Donnie I am pretty lucky I don't usually say bad words because they are quite the little parrot. My phrases of choice are usually "dog gone it," "holy moly," and "fine," and they all say those frequently.
and of course since Nate and Alli got a picture Emma had to have one also.

Daddy Day

It was a daddy day. This was the "good monen (morning) da dee, hod (hold) you." Everyone was all about daddy this morning. So daddy held everyone together. We had a late nap today because grandma and grandpa came to see us today. We were all a little "disorganized" as Ginger calls it. I call it miss come bobulated! After our big day on Friday they were all a bit over stimulated and out of sorts. They all were fussy all day. When they got up Nate just could not get it together even after being brushed. Brushing is a program that we do for all three babies that helps with the sensory problems they have. Emma by far has the least problems and Nate and Alli are a lot worse. Brushing has been a God send for Alli. When we began Alli would not engage in activity with Emma and Nate or anyone else. She did not like to be held, she just wanted to be by herself and no one touch her. I spent a lot of time feeling guilty because I didn't hold her and cuddle her like the other two. She was just a much happier baby being left alone. Once we started brushing and she had gotten up a bit after they went to bed one night and she let me hold her I didn't want to put her down and I cried when she reached up and touched my face. She finally fell asleep and I had Donnie take a picture because I didn't want to forget that moment. The link above explains more about this and helped me to understand the differences between Nate and Alli. Nate responds very differently to things then Alli. Thanks Gen McNulty for the great article about sensory integration. Boy did I get off track {he he}. So back to Nate...Daddy snuck Nate out to the garage while I finished dinner and they had not been out there long when Donnie called me on the phone to sneak out the front door to look at Nate and asked me to take a picture. See below...
So I didn't sneak to well Nate heard me but It was so sweet to see them sitting there watching football in the garage. Nate is by far his daddy's son. He absolutely loves Balls. He don't care what kind they are he just wants to have one all the time. Poor girls, I bet we spend a fare amount of time at ball fields of all kinds.
After there little rest they took a nice little walk down the block, it was so adorable.

A Saturday in the making...

Today we are going to the pumpkin patch with the MOM's group. Emma must have gotten up in the night and pulled the strings around daddy's pinkie and got to lay with us till morning. Thank God this doesn't happen to often. As you can see from all the pictures below we had a great day with friends. The kids had a great time and we ended the day with grandma and grandpa coming to play. I am sure loving my every other Saturday off.

Happy Birthday Daddy

Today is Donnie's birthday and I don't even know where to begin. I have so many things that I love about my husband. For the longest time he wanted to be a daddy and I always new he would be a great Daddy. Donnie has that "special something" that it takes to be more then just a dad. He loves his babies more than imaginable. He does things that many men don't! He was up in the night every night when they were tiny babies and did most of the 1am feedings by himself while I would get up and pump and go right back to bed. Dr Arnaez told him when we were in the NICU that I had to have enough rest at night to be able to take care of the babies while he worked and unlike many men, he listened. Dr Arnaez told us that we both could not be awake in the night because we had to be rested, so he did 1am and then he went to bed and I got up and did the next feeding at 4am and he slept till the first day time feeding. Donnie gives them baths, he keeps them all by his self and has for a long time. He takes them out of the house. He got up and had him and all the babies ready and out the door to be at the March for Babies walk that started and 930am. He takes them to Sam's to shop and even had a lady in the parking lot ask him if he was by his self and told him "he rocked" because so many men won't do those kinds of things. Through my whole pregnancy he always knew mine and the babies weights, he always remembered their heart rates. I went to only one doctors appointment by myself and that was because he was at work and she just wanted to check me before she left for vacation. When they were in NICU he remembered their weights from day to day. He couldn't wait to get to the hospital when he got off at night. He was so strong and would always get me through the mommy melt downs, and still does. He was so proud when they all said "Daddy" first. Today he is a ball of smiles when he comes home to those little faces waiting at the baby gate when they hear the garage door go up. He loves that his son appears to be left handed and loves any kind of ball just like himself (for you ladies that don't understand this, left handed pitchers make more money because there are not a lot to go around). He loves that the girls just thinks he is the best thing since sliced bread. He works with them on the weekend with things they need to learn that they are developmentally behind on. He has taught them all the body parts they know. They know the cross that our Lord died on because of him. They tell "Jesus" night night every night before bed. He loves us all beyond words! What more could a women ask for in a husband? Cooking, Cleaning, and Laundry you say? Well, he does all of the above that mommy fails to do because she has been busy with the babies all day or hasn't felt well. What more could a wife ask for? I am the luckiest girl in the world. I love you honey more then you will ever know and never thought I could love you any more and then our babies were born and I fell in love with you all over again. I would not take all the money in the world for the four of you, you are my life past, present and future. Happy 40th Birthday! Remember age is just a number and we have so many years to look forward to and our precious triplets to keep us young.

Forever S-

Black eye update and more

Daddy and the trips just lounging around...
Nate day two of his black eye...I can not believe his whole eye was not black and blue. Just a bit into the corner under the eye and right where he hit above the eye and that was it...
Look, they are all looking and it is even cute!
More firsts under our belt...mommy painted our toe nails, we love our pretty girl toes!
Tonight as we went for our walk in the choo choo, when we got on our street heading home we stoped to talk to a neighbor and her little girl and the little girl across the street were playing with the kids and they wanted out of the wagon. Our street is black top and this is what their feet looked like when we got in the house.

A day with Daddy

Nate and Emma have really taken to rough housing! Alli sits back almost always and takes it all in. Today Jenna decided she would stay out of there way also. They just love this lawn mower and it is the start of a lot of tears. You can tell they were with Daddy by the looks of Emma's hair. The pony tail holders are so small that he has trouble with his big hands trying to get it wrapped around her hair. He will get it as they get a bit bigger. I know this because through a couple of my surgeries where I could not lift my arms above my head when my hair was long, he would brush my hair everyday before he left for work and would put it up in a pony tail. He has been just the best husband and has proved over and over what a great daddy he is. I love you honey!