Wednesday, May 18, 2011

A few very short videos


This is Presley in the morning. She is always her happiest at this time!



Keith rocking Ashton and Presley.

One with Keegan will be coming soon...

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Happy 3 months and 2 days!

Keegan, Presley, Ashton


Well the babies are already 3 months old! They are starting to do a lot of stuff and sleep a little less during the day and little more during the night.

Our new schedule goes like this:

1:30 AM- One of us gets up to feed the babies then goes back to sleep.
6:00 AM - The other one of us gets up to feed the babies and goes back to bed.
9:00 AM - We both get up and feed the babies. Then put them in a bouncy seat or boppy. We get something to eat ourselves and maybe get ready for the day.
1:00 PM - Feed the babies. Play with the babies for a few minutes. Wash bottles. Make bottles for 5 more feedings. Eat lunch. Think about getting some stuff done. Throw some laundry in.
4:00 PM - Feed the babies. Throw some more laundry in and fold the others. Watch some TV. Play with the babies.
6:00 PM - Let the screaming begin! Grumpy hour has begun. We try and soothe the babies as much as we can. It doesn't work. We endure the screaming while taking turns holding, bouncing, rocking, swaying, walking around with the babies.
7:30 PM - Feed the babies. Change into their PJ's. Clean up the living room. Fold the laundry. Oh yea...eat.
8:30 PM - Put the babies to bed. Clean up a little. Get on the computer for a second. Get in bed and watch some TV. Then fall asleep.

This is how we feel at the end of each day

Presley is now eating 4.5 oz. (each feeding) She is smiling A LOT! And it's really cute. I will have to get a picture to put on here.

Keegan is eating 5 oz. He is smiling a lot too and starting to grab stuff. Keith has been trying to get him to roll over by putting his pacifier where he can almost reach it with his mouth and then keeps pulling it farther away as he goes for it. Keegan has also started doing push ups.

Ashton is also eating about 5 oz. He isn't smiling a whole lot yet but has some definite strength. He loves to stand up with us holding him (of course). He also is very good at pushups and can hold his upper body up for a good amount of time. He has started grabbing at things too...especially my hair and Keith's chest hair!

Ashton was born tounge tied ( I don't know the medical term off the top of my head). But the thing that holds your tounge to the bottom of your mouth (frenulum) was connected all the way to the tip. So he couldn't move his tongue around a whole lot and he couldn't stick it out. We decided to take him to a ENT specialist to see what he recommended. Well he recommenced that we clip it and we did. It took about a whole minute to do so. He didn't cry much and it barely bled, and he was ready to eat or do whatever right away. He will probably thank us one day for that!

Mercy loves the babies too! She is really good with them. We didn't get Ashton on because we ran out of room.

We had a good mothers day. We ordered in food! We also made stepping stones for their grandma's! Which included a footprint and name of each baby. This was really fun to do but we were doing it during grumpy hour so it was very loud and no one was happy.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

12 weeks old

Today is the babies 12 week birthday! Yay! Looking back at the previous post from almost a month ago it is amazing to see how much the babies have grown! This past weekend we made our first trip to Lewisville which is about 3 - 3 1/2 hours from Austin. The babies pretty much slept the whole way! Our trick was to feed them right before we left. However towards the end of the trip every time we stopped one of the babies started crying...but once we started going again they were fine. We also had Mercy (our dog) with us. She got to sit up front while I sat in the back w/ pacifiers ready. The trip went well and they got to see their grandparents "Grandmommy" and "Opa"

The triplets have begun a new thing I call grumpy hour...and well grumpy hour doesn't last one hour...it last 3. This happens between our two last feedings before bed. The babies scream and cry and NOTHING makes them happy. It's pretty much the hardest part of the day just because you have babies screaming and there is nothing you can do.

They have also started smiling and laughing (w/o sound) on purpose. It is soo cute! I love to try and make them smile but it seems like when I try they won't cooperate.

Ashtons episodes have gotten a lot better...he rarely has them now which is great!!

They are also eating about 4 1/2 oz. 7-8 times a day. We are still getting up at night which stinks but there are some wonderful nights where they only wake us up once...like last night! They went to bed around 10 woke up at 2:30 and then again at 7. Praying for another night like that!

We have taken the triplets on a few outings...multiple walks, out to eat, shopping at Khols. They did wonderful everytime!