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July 26th, 2 months

Holy Cow, I cannot believe that these babies are already 2 months old, time sure has flown by. They have gotten so big and come a long way since we brought them home. In the last week they have started to smile and really focus on things like the stars above the couch caylee will sit and stare at them for the longest time. Joey is in the bouncy staring at the toys and he has the hiccups too. and He just cooed for the first time, no really I have never heard him do it before just now.


Well today we went down to Mishicot and the babies got to see their first parade and carnival, they mostly slept and then it rained buckets. At least allie got some rides in. I went back to work this week and it has been going well, yeah I miss the babies and allie, it has been 6 months since I was at work, but it is nice to know I will get out of this house and not be stuck here. Granted that if we could afford it and didn't need my insurance I would probably be home with them, but just not in the cards for us. We will survive. Tomorrow we go for shots and will see just how big these babies have gotten.

July 13th Ericka leaves.........

Well it is so hard to believe that Ericka is all grown up and now she is gone. She left for the Air Force today and it really sucks not having her here. But I know this experience will make her stronger and in the end she will be glad she did it too. Here are some pics from today We Love you E!!!!!!! Can't wait to see you in September.



Ericka being Ericka



Ericka and Grandma Karren




Emily, Erin, Whitney, Jena, E and Sara





Timmy, Allie, Joey, E and Caylee

July 8, 2009 8:15pm

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! Just had to post this, everyone in the house except me of course, is actually sleeping. Calvin, Allie, the babies and the dogs and cats all sawing logs. I cannot beleive our house is this quiet. Just had to share.

July 5th First Road Trip

Well today we decided to brave a road trip. We went up to the cottage to see Grandma, We took the babies in the truck and Kim took Allie. We still have not gotten a vehicle big enough for all of us, someday soon. We had planned to cook out so grandma had to do nothing but typical grandma she was up at the crack of dawn cooking. It was a very nice day and babies did great in the truck that long. Allie found her first snake, she saw one down by the water sunning itself on the rocks. Calvin brought it to the window and me and grandma both had a fit. I love these pics of grandma with the babies, it is amazing the age difference here. So hard to believe that grandma is 90 and still driving and doing awesome.

July 4th 5 weeks old

Today we went to visit Auntie Kim and we got to wear these cute new outfits they say Mommy's little firecracker. That shirt says it all. Hear is all three of us Timmy, Caylee, and Joey

Here is Timmy and Joey holding hands before they put Caylee between us.

It is so hard to believe that these babies are five weeks old. Time sure is going fast and the babies are changing all the time. They are eating like little pigs. Joey ate 2 1/2 bottles in like four hours. They are usually eating like every four hours. Joey is our gentle giant, he is mellow, but when he is hungry he will let you know. Timmy is the snuggler, he likes to just hang out. Caylee is the drama queen to the T, She will scream and scream and then the minute you pick her up she shuts it off. All of the babies are very good but their own personalities are definately coming through. Allie is still in the habit of stealing nuks from the babies, I went in the bedroom this morning and she was hiding something behind her back and low and behold she had Joey's nuk. Joey had been sleeping in the crib and stuck her hands through the bars and swiped it.

June 26, 2009 Babies are one month

This is the first time we took all three together somewhere unfortunately for them it was to the doctor. June 26th, 2009



This was on June 25th almost a month old.



Here we are all wearing our eis structure movers onesies that were made at mom's shower.





Here is Ericka and allie on graduation.




Well our precious little babies just turned a month old. Time has gone by soooo fast hard to believe a month already. We have survived, the nights are long and some more sleepless than others and usually every night one of the babies have slept between us. But when you look into those little faces every second of it is worth it. We will look back and cherish this stage of their life. The pics i will post one will be of all three, one of their first trip anywhere in their carseats, which was their one month check up. and a few other cute ones. I will also put some from erickas graduation.

At their check up all is going well with the babies Joey our sweet little boy who likes everything right away weighed in at 7 pounds 9ounces. Timmy our mellow boy passed up his sister and weighed in at 7 pounds 3 ounces. And finally Caylee our drama queen, she will literally cry till you pick her up and then stops instantly, weighed in at 6 pounds 15 ounces. We are feeding them every three hours and they usually take about 3 ounces but at times one will finish what the others leave behind. People ask how many diapers we use a day, well we change them often and i think like 8-9 diapers per baby per day, but i am not counting what is in the diaper pail. It is obvious their parts are working, that is all that matters to us. Timmy is now on regular formula no more special mixing for him, when you make 24 bottles everyday it saves a bunch of time.

We have had a busy month between babies and graduation the month has flown by, Ericka graduated on June 13th. So that day we had family pics in the morning then graduation and then we had erickas party. long day but everyone had a good time. Allie has been dealing with all the commotion pretty well. She keeps saying someone else can watch the babies she wants to do whatever. it is not so easy to bring her across the street to play either. And now that she only goes to daycare one day a week she is totally bored with not having someone to play with all the time. I feel sorry for her, but she is an awesome big sister. The only time she complains is when all the babies are crying she will say she needs to go cause it is tooo loud and covers her ears. Some people know that we have two more frozen babies at the dr yet, and allie says we should go get them cause sissy's friends will help us with them. I am thinking that is not gonna happen. Calvin says maybe next year, when these three are one and running around he will be thinking twice about that decision. He will be thinking we need a bigger fence. We have started to count down the days for Ericka to leave, i don't know how i am gonna handle that. She went up north for three days and it was hard. We won't be able to talk to her for the first couple weeks of basic training. Some days i think she may be rethinking her decision, others she is all hyped to go. We will see what happens. The blank post are for me to go back and fill them in at a later time.