Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Merry Christmas and New Years!

Merry Christmas! We had a wonderful, quiet (for three babies) Christmas. It was lovely to not worry about doctor's, nurse, therapist appointments and just relax and enjoy the babies with Kyle. Here are a couple pictures of our Christmas. The girls got quite the haul. Spoiled... Kyle and I got a family present of a new camera! I am so excited because I can hopefully start taking better pictures. They even gave me a couple classes to take with it so hopefully I can figure out what I'm doing and get better at taking pictures. It's a Pentax KX for anyone who cares... I'm sure I'm the only one really excited about it. I put some pictures below of the girls separately while messing around trying to figure it out. Kyle was also pretty excited to get some more episodes of Seinfeld...and Florence chocolates. I think he has a second stomach for sugar. And I received some gift cards, or as Kyle says, the gift of shopping-which I love very much. But most important we are so grateful for the best gifts we could ever receive this year- three babies that are quite healthy. It means more than all the other gifts put together!

Girls: L to R: Madison, Carly (loved her stuffed turtle), and Mckenna with their Christmas loot

Mckenna....
Madison...
Carly....

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Wedding Weekend!

So Kyle and I finally got a small (3 day) break from the girls this past weekend. My brother Mark got married on Friday to lovely Ashley and we agonized over whether to take the girls or not. In the end, our fear of them getting sick (and would get tired and cranky through the trip) outweighed our desire for everyone to see them, so we left them home with Grandma Morrell and her sister Aunt Sharon. Thank you so much to them for allowing us peace of mind to leave and enjoy ourselves and not worry that they were in good hands.

Mark and Ashley got married in the Rexburg Temple and had a luncheon and reception in Rigby where she is from. I do love weddings...I'm way too much of a romantic. It always makes me reflect back on my happy wedding day. It was all very fun just to be with my family for a little bit since we are staying in Boise with the girls for Christmas this year. Kyle's mom, who has been staying with us for a couple of months, will be going over to her daughters (Kyle's sister) for Christmas for a few days and then coming back. So we are going to enjoy our quiet little family Christmas (although much larger family this year). I don't plan on leaving the house for days over the holiday. I guess I do that already....

Below is a picture of Mark and Ashley at the reception. Nicole, I cheated and copied this picture from you. I was a doofus and forgot to bring my camera to take pictures myself. So thanks for letting me borrow from you!

The girls got Christmas pajamas from Grandma Morrell a few weeks back and so we took a picture of our little Christmas presents this year. Just so you know, Madison only smiles that big right now for dad (she was looking at dad when the picture was taken). She LOVES her daddy. Apparently we have discovered who's the daddy's girl. And Kyle said that Carly is a mommy's girl. She is always looking for me and wanting to be held by me. Mckenna isn't partial to anyone, she loves all. Although she loves to laugh with Grandma! L to R: Carly, Madison, Mckenna

Sunday, December 13, 2009

7 months old!

Weren't they just 6 months old yesterday? For that matter, weren't they just born yesterday? The girls are 7 months old! Nothing really new to report so here are pictures. Carly's picture is specifically for Grandpa. The others were take back in mid October but we wanted to put up our family picture for the holidays!

Carly learning a new nosie.

Girls L to R: Carly, Mckenna, Madison

Girls L to R: Madison, Mckenna, Carly

Friday, December 4, 2009

A little bit of video

Some videos of Carly smiling....

and Madison rolling....

and Mckenna talking....

Thursday, December 3, 2009

We're eating turkey!... okay, maybe just rice cereal & apples

So I tried to load a video of the girls chatting but it didn't work for some reason. So I'll try a video later at some point. But, exciting news! Since we got to have Turkey day last week we decided that it was time to start trying solids! So we pulled out all the booster seats (pretty much took up all of our seats from our dining table) and set up and started our trial. They did quite well. I was expecting nothing to end up in their mouths and all over their outfits but so far they have ingested most of their food so I am pretty thrilled with that. They seem to really like the food, they make the funny faces and all but in the end they swallow the food. I will say it is a ridiculous amount of work. It makes me tempted just to go back to bottles only because I know (and they know) how to whip out a bottle feeding in no time. Eating solids takes a lot longer. Well, hopefully they start eating faster and I will be happy that they aren't only on bottles!

They were doing pretty good at sleeping from 10 pm until around 5-6 am but then last week they reverted back to the 2-3 am... so that was exciting... But hopefully the solids will help them keep sleeping longer. The difficult thing is that when one makes noises in the middle of the night, it wakes one of the others, they start making noises, it wakes another, you get the point. Unless I sprint from my bed as soon as I start hearing peeps, I've missed my window. And I don't know about you, but I struggle moving really fast coming out of dead sleep. I'm getting better at it though, for fear of being up for an hour or so trying to get babies back asleep.

The only new news we have is that Carly will not be going to San Francisco anymore for her arm. We had issues using that clinic, so instead, we are going to the other vascular specialty clinic in the U.S. which is in Boston! I know it's a lot farther but it's located next to Harvard and maybe we can do a little bit of sightseeing while we are there since there is a lot of our country's history there. Of course, we probably won't have any time for that, who knows... We are still trying to get dates nailed down but this clinic tries to get everything done (tests, surgery, etc) in the same week so we will be there for awhile but hopefully we won't have to go back. I just really want to get it over with so Carly can be over the pain she will have and be recovering and healing and moving on with her life!

The girls just keep on growing! They were weighed today and they are: Mckenna- 12 lbs. 11 oz. and 24 1/2 inches long, Madison- 13 lbs. 10 oz. and 25 1/2 inches long, and Carly- 13 lbs. 13 oz. and 25 1/2 inches long.

All lined up for the feed! L to R: Madison, Mckenna, Carly


Different view and look how excited Mckenna looks for her food! L to R: Madison, Mckenna, Carly

Mckenna after eating (she's always the cleanest)


Madison after eating- like food all over the face is surprising with crazy Madison. She does love to get her hands involved when she eats so she helps fling food all over her face and loves to rub it on her legs.

Carly after eating- Well, this might have been just the beginning of the feed because she definitely looks messier than this normally.