I never rest! Which means Mom never rests either!

Not to focus only on Madison but she is the mobile one right now so I get much more interesting pictures with her than the others at this time. But interesting pictures usually means curiosity and trouble. I was never one to really want any of them to start moving fast so wouldn't you know I would get one that has been wanting to move from day one. I guess I can only hold off the inevitable for so long. Maddy now travels far and wide through our house. We have started closing off rooms- mainly bathrooms and breakable rooms. Of course, she loves anything adult: especially shoes, electronics, rugs, sunlight (quite entertaining to watch her try and grab it). All I know is I felt like I got a breather for a month or two when they started sleeping through the night and now I feel tired again. And this is only the first one. The bad news is Carly has now started to discover the edge of the rug and I remember that was about when Madison started to figure out she could scoot around. Great....
Maddy on the move, loves to go into the kitchen.

Girl just like mom, LOVES shoes!

And has to have one in each hand...

She finds crawling over top of her sisters quite fun and challenging. Good thing they usually don't mind, even Carly...

And today I have finally been forced into the decision that the play pen needs to be lowered. Madison doesn't take naps well in the room with her sisters so she sleeps here during the day. I didn't get the picture at the worst but at one point she was standing looking over the edge. So it's lowered now... wow, that happened fast...

Look how proud she is that she can see over her bed. Silly girl...

10 months old!

The girls are getting so old! Tomorrow they get weighed so I don't know where they are at right now. I'm sure Carly will be at least 18 lbs., Mckenna I hope is at least over 15 lbs. and Madison somewhere in the middle. We love them so much! Something funny we have discovered, with Madison being so much more mobile she has started to crawl around and take everyone's toys, even if she has the same toy in her own hands. We kind of have always thought of Mckenna as the sensitive fragile one but always noticed that Madison would take away Carly's toy and rarely Mckenna's. So the other day she made an attempt at taking Mckenna's toy. Mckenna has always had a death grip on her toys and so when Madison came to take it Mckenna fought back and held on. It became a tug of war back and forth and Maddy started to get mad that Kenners wouldn't give it up. Anyway, I love it. Mckenna knows how to hold her own against wild Madison. I guess she really is the oldest-the alpha. And Carly definitely is already easy to pick on for her sisters. She gets her feelings hurt easily. Oh the drama...

Carly

Mckenna

Madison- always in blur these days...

L to R: Madison, Mckenna, Carly. Apparently Mckenna was the only one happy about this picture! Ha ha!

L to R: Madison, Mckenna, Carly- Once again, trying to get things focused on all and Madison ended up in blur.

Carly's Teeth

I finally have apicture of Carly's teeth! She's had them for well over a month now. No hints or signs of teeth for Mckenna yet...

March is here!

So Grandma has been begging for pictures so here we go! I also got some video taken (finally) and that will be up next. Girls are doing great! Starting to get a lot more mobile...well, at least Madison. She is all over the house now in her scooting/shuffle thing. I'm sure the others will be right behind her in a couple of months. Carly has really done well with rolling over. I was worried about how she would do because of her arm but so far, it doesn't seem to bug her at all and she spends most of her time on her belly with a toy now. She gets really mad because Madison likes to crawl up to her and take it away. Oh, the sibling fighting begins! They are also very into touching faces right now, even each others. They are really intrigued by each others eyes and mouths so we have to watch them or they are poking and biting each other. It's very interesting to watch them all learn things together.
Carly

Mckenna

Madison- love the smile, it's very hard to capture it on camera sometimes...

Sitting together... look at Mckenna put her head on Carly's shoulder. L to R: Mckenna, Carly, Madison

Valentine's Flowers

This is a little late but Kyle gave me flowers for Valentines and they dried (in the vase) so pretty I thought, so I took a picture.

Just some pictures

Just thought I would put some pictures up. I thought I had taken more pictures than I really had. The girls are doing so great. For sure we are holding off on doing the surgery on Carly's arm until 2-3 years old and we are pretty sure it will be done here in Boise....until something changes in her arm that we didn't anticipate. Also, she now has teeth like Madison and I haven't got a picture of the elusive pearlies yet. I also plan on putting some video up but I'm still trying to figure out how to run my video setting on my camera....I guess it would help if I read the directions instead of just pushing buttons right? Anyways, pictures!

Yes that is a beard of drool on Madison's chin... and she is starting to get up on all fours in prep for crawling!

Teamwork: I'm not sure what they are working on-maybe just holding hands (Madison left, Carly right)

Just thought they looked so sweet together! (Mckenna left, Carly right) Madison wasn't behaving so she is the green color you can see on the bottom right corner.

New Pictures!

I guess it's been awhile since I have posted pictures... so here are a few and updates:
Pretty much everyone just keeps on growing and doing so well. Mckenna and Madison don't have much new news except that Mckenna is now 14 1/2 lbs. and Madison is 15 1/2 lbs. Carly is a whopping 16 1/2 lbs! I always worry and want to take her off her milkshake-like formula but they keep on telling me that she is actually at a healthy weight and the other two are a little underweight--so I guess I won't worry anymore.

Carly's trip to Boston has been postponed for now. They really don't want to operate on the arm until they have to so they want to wait until she is a little older (2-3 years old). So even though I just want to get it over with, I guess this is the best thing in the long run. If it ever starts really affecting her development though, then we would move it up. Until then, she's going to be Popeye. She really uses it so well, in fact, she is dominant using the right even though it is so much bigger. She does have a short ulna but it keeps on growing and hopefully will catch up with the radius bone (ulna-radius are the two big bones running down the forearm) and so far doesn't really affect her grasping things with her hand or rotating or anything. I'm kind of bummed not to get moving with it, but in the long run whatever is better for her is most important. Plus, if she is a little older, we might have a possibility of having a radiologist here in Boise do the surgery instead of packing up and heading to Boston. Not that I really would like seeing Boston--- just not with a little baby in tow having surgery there. So..... pictures!

Mckenna holding one of their beloved toys.

Bleary-eyed Mom and Kenners snuggling.

Madison- this makes her look so innocent when she usually is quite mischievous.

Madison and Carly- the girls really like to hold hands these days.

Carly on her belly- thought her facial expression was funny.

All the girls together! L to R: Madison, Mckenna, Carly