9 Months

9 months (and 6 days) ago my precious little miracles came into this world at 10:39, 10:39, and 10:40. As of their 9 month check up yesterday their weights and lengths are:

Alex - 17lbs 9ozs, 27.25 inches
Grant - 17lbs 12ozs , 27.5 inches
Ethan - 14lbs 8ozs, 25.5 inches
They are growing well. Alex and Grant are on the growth chart for their actual age weight wise!! Ethan is still not even close. However, they are all on it for their head size. We have big headed kiddos. Grant's head is in the 50th percentile, Alex's is in the 60th, and Ethan's in the 40th. This is all for ACTUAL age too!

Our pedi wants us to start working on finger foods, sippy cups, and everything that goes along with that. So, I have tried putting some of their purees on their trays to see if they will put their hands in it, and then in their mouths. So far, no luck with that coordination.

Plus, I have tried the Gerber yogurt melts with them. They can't handle the texture. They are all very sensitive to textures, so we'll have to work hard on that. I just don't know what to do.

Alex will "splash" around in his food, but doesn't get that he needs to put those fingers up to his mouth.

Ethan likes to paint! Still no fingers to the mouth though. He likes to put them in his hair though!

Then we have our thumb sucker. You would think it would be fairly easy for him to get this concept. However, Grant does NOT like to have his hands dirty...

So here are some random pictures and videos.

It was a nice evening outside, so before James got home from work, the boys and I hung out on the deck.


Grandma Rigsby came to visit/help take care of the boys while I went to Missouri for my friend Amy's wedding. When I got back, Grandma taught Grant how to purse his lips like a fish!! It is cute.



On another note... I have an announcement to make!! The boys are 9 months old now, and 9 months from now...

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The boys will be 18 months old! That's all!! Elizabeth got pregnant again when her triplets were 9 months, so I just had to joke!! :) (I hope I didn't give anyone a heart attack!!)

So, update on the mouse. We haven't officially caught it yet, but it is trapped inside our laundry closet right now. We just have to figure out how to catch it once we open it up!

Here are a few pictures from Amy's wedding weekend. She married John. He has a 2.5 yr old son we'll call B. I didn't get any pictures of the actual wedding, but I will get some from one of the other people that were there eventually. I'll post those when I get them, but here are the few I have.

Here is Krissy, Amy and I right before the rehearsal. We all went to highschool together.

Here are the bridesmaids and honorary bridesmaids. All of us, except one and the flowergirl, were from Colorado or Wyoming.
Here is the happy couple, Amy and John!!!! CONGRATS you two!!!
Here is the little family!!! B is so precious and he danced the night away with his dad and Amy.

Here are the centerpeices that John created. They are beautiful. The rose is sunk down into the rocks with a wieght and the candle is just floating above it all.

Darn Mouse!!! YUCK!!!

We have a problem. A mouse problem. Not a MICE problem, but A single MOUSE problem. This mouse has successfully avoided 12... count em'... 12 mouse traps since Thursday night last week.

So the episode of our comedy of life went like this tonight. We got the boys down to bed, after much fuss from Ethan. For some reason he did not want to sleep tonight. James and I ate dinner. Then sat to watch our recorded episode of Chuck.

Chuck finished and we started watching the news. About that time we hear a noise coming from Jet's dog food dish. James gets up and grabs the nearest thing to catch the mouse with... the small trash can by the changing table. As soon as he gets up though, we hear a splash (into Jet's water dish) and then James sees the mouse run into the laundry closet.

We try to come up with some ideas of how to catch the mouse, so we put down a couple of strips of duct tape on the floor (to stop the mouse, or at least slow it down.) YEAH.... that doesn't work!!

James pounds on the dryer and the mouse moves to under the washer. I grab the mop AND the broom as James is moving the washer to get the mouse. It comes running out at him and he jumps and falls over as he is trying to get the trash can (he should have had in his hand but didn't).

Meanwhile I am trying to find where the mouse is, as it comes running toward Jet and I. Jet, meanwhile is staring at James wondering what all the commotion is about and why James is on the floor. As that happens, the mouse runs directly under the dog and beside the dishwasher, where we can't get it!! I swear it did the whole cartoon slide thing when it was trying to get to the hole. I could even hear the screeching of the claws (not really but in my imagination...) as it tried to turn the corner into the hole!!

I know that if it was not for the fact that I HATE mice in my house, I would have been dying laughing watching that scene unfold!!! Lets just say, we now have that hole blocked with 4 traps and that is the ONLY way out from behind the dishwasher. Therefor, if the mouse avoids those traps, we will name him Houdini and call the exterminator!!!

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day!!

James let me sleep in today. It was so nice. We then took the boys and Jet to the park and the mall since it was so nice outside. I even got a sunburn, a really nice one!

Here are some pictures of our outing.

Here was our site at the park. We put the boys in their stroller seats as highchairs while they ate their lunch. It was fun.

We then put the boys down on blankets and let them stretch.

Grant did this to himself. He seemed to like it. He wasn't sleeping, just chillin'.

We then trucked down to the mall. We took the stroller off the back rack of the truck and put the blankets down and used the rack as a changing table. It was a great idea!!

Here is Alex and Grant being big boys and sitting up in the stroller. They love riding like this.

It was a good day.

One other good thing. Alex is getting his first tooth!! It should be popping through any day now. He really hasn't been too fussy, and we haven't had to give him tylenol a lot. So far so good on the teething thing! :) I hope the rest of them go this way. We'll see. I'll post a picture of it when it comes through.

Have a great week!!!

Failed... Again...

We want so much for Ethan to be off his oxygen full time. But as of this last test, which we did last week, he still has to be on it while he is sleeping. I am so disapointed. It is so nice for him to be off it while he is awake. But he still has to have it while sleeping, so that means when we go anywhere, we still have to take it along with us.

The tank is just about like another child to have to tote along. It is quite heavy, and you have to make sure you have everything that goes along with it when you go anywhere.

I think we need to "name" the tank. So, here is my poll for the day. Give me some names for the O2 tank in the comments. James and I will choose a few that we like, then we will do a poll with the 3 names we like the best for you to choose what name we give the TANK!! :) Just something fun to do. Any name, girl or boy, will do. (Might be nice to have a girl around the house though... :-D )

Boys Laughing at Jet

I got out the lazer light for Jet to play with today and the boys, especially Grant, loved watching him chase it. Listen for the boys laughing. Grant is the furthest away from the camera so he is harder to hear, but he has the best laugh!! You may want to make sure you have a kleenex next to you cause you will be laughing so hard you will have tears!! :)

Updated weights

So, Ethan had a follow up appointment with a doctor about the procedure he had last Monday. Everything looked fine. So, we are no longer having to see that doctor!! (I just am glad we dont have to go back to the hospital if we don't have to. I like the doc, but don't like the stigma....)

Anyway, they weighed Ethan, with just a diaper on, and he weighs 13lbs 12oz. He is still such a peanut!! He has only gained 2 ozs since his procedure last Monday, but some of that could be attributed to him not feeling well for a couple of days afterword.

I then took my liberty to weigh Grant and Alex, since they were there with me and I was curious. But they were weighed with their clothes on, so subtract some on their weights. Grant weighed 16lbs 15.5oz. Alex weighed 16lbs 11.5oz. I think Grant and Alex really do probably weigh within 1oz of eachother. Grant was wearing bib overalls and Alex was just wearing pants, so I am sure those few extra ozs of Grant's were attributed to his clothes.

Any suggestions of putting some pounds on these little boys? They are getting to be so active that I cannot feed them enough. Plus, they only eat as much as their little tummies can handle. We are feeding them a baby food "dinner" at lunch and some fruit or another veggie, plus a 2oz bottle of breastmilk. Then at supper time they get rice or oatmeal (mixed with breastmilk) and a fruit or veggie. They get 4 formula bottles a day with between 6-8ozs in them. Ethan is still getting the higher calorie formula, at 24cals per oz. I don't want them to be overweight, but it would be nice to be able to say that Ethan is at least ON the growth chart (right now he is not even close to being on it even for adjusted age).

Otherwise, the boys are all healthy, happy, very vocal little humans!! They love their toys, but are a lot like their mama. They like to get out and GO!! It looks like we will have a very full, fun summer of getting out and going places.

Alex can roll over!!

My babies!! The other day James and I loaded up the boys and took them to the Denver Auto Show. One of our friends gave us tickets, since she was working the show. During it, we had to find some place to feed the boys and let them stretch out a bit. So we created this little refuge!! Grant watching an Einstein video. Alex watching the video. Ethan watching the video on mommy's lap. Ethan was "tackled" by Jet. Ethan didn't mind. Jet just wanted to give some love to his baby!! Here is Jet with one of his other babies. Grant loves to look at Jet and would follow him around the room if he could!!!
ALEX CAN ROLL ALL OVER!!

My squirmy worms!!! Remember when they would mostly just lay there and look around??

Video of the boys playing yesterday

Alex was giggling so much at Grant that I had to pull out the video. Ethan was calling for his "dada". Watch...

Easter and weekly update

I hope everyone had a great Easter. We had an ok Easter. We gave the boys their Easter baskets in the morning before we went to church. They got a stuffed animal, some stacking cups, a pinwheel and a book. They are thoroughly entertained by the pinwheels. It is fun.

Well, not two seconds after I snapped this picture of Alex with his basket, I took the basket away and he threw up all over himself. I should have taken that as an omen not to go to church. But, alas, I trudged on, and we got ourselves to church. But as you can tell in the next picture, we had a little one that was not feeling well. The other two were on their way to not feeling good either.

Note Grant's extremely rosey cheeks. He didn't stay in the nursery at church because he was just NOT feeling well.

Well, it turns out that the boys all have a pretty good case of the croup! I took Alex in to the urgent care the other night because he was laboring to breath. He was put on some oxygen and watched for a while. They sent us home with some instructions on how to keep the coughing down and to watch out for dehydration. So far they are doing ok by not getting dehydrated, but that is about it. Here is a quick video I took of Alex at urgent care and sent to James. He was not a happy little boy most of that night.

On other, better news, Ethan has been developing into quite the little talker lately. As if we didn't know this was going to happen, since he hasn't really quit talking since we brought him home from the hospital. But now he is imitating. Watch this video. I was changing his diaper and we were watching some animal show. I roared at him, and he roared back. I had to get the camera, but had to be sly about shooting the video, since he usually stops what he is doing if the camera is out. Watch all the way to the end. He loves kissing noises, and he started imitating that too!

Best of all, the boys have all started saying "dada!" But, Alex and Grant only do it every once in a while, so it is hard to catch on video. Ethan, however, is saying it lots, BUT, it is only when his "dada" is around, so I think he knows what it means!! Here is a short snippet. (Note the coughing in the background. That is what we are dealing with right now!)

Well, I suppose I will go now. I HAVE to get some sleep before the boys wake up. I am exhausted and none of them have been sleeping through the night due to the coughing. I know it will get better, but I don't like them being sick AT ALL!! The days just drag and I am tired of grumpy, fussy, spitty babies. But then again, I wouldn't trade them for the world! Love to you all.

Happy Easter, but no pictures this time....

Happy Easter everyone!!! We are still alive, but just extremely busy. I am on my own with the boys officially now, so I am quite busy. Today, even though James was home, we had 2 sick little boys (Alex and Grant with fevers) that wanted nothing but to be cuddled, so we were juggling babies all day. We are exhausted, but we made it to church and home. We did get some pictures today and I have a few pictures and videos from the past week that will have to be uploaded eventually. I am not sure when that will be since I have a bunch to do, but I will work on it.

Well, I hope you all had a wonderful Easter! Check back in a couple of days and I should have the next post up.