Triplet playdate

On Tuesday we had a "double" triplet playdate. Melody and her trio came over and played with my trio for a few hours. It was the first time we all met and I'm sure it won't be the last time we get together.
Both Melody and I were too busy talking so we were only able to take a couple of pictures. Thought getting three kids to look at the camera was hard; try 6!!




More postings to come!!! I have a story to tell, it will almost be as funny as Brenda eating one of Bruno's glucosamine tablets.

One year stats

On June 20th the boys went to the pediatrician for their one year check up. WOW - let's just say that the dr visits have become very stressful. At this particular visit, we had Aunt Brenda helping us as well as Lauren. Unfortunately, we had to wait a bit longer than usual and the boys were wanting to get down and play in front of the door - of all places in that room. I'm hoping their 15-month checkup is a bit less trying.

But here are their stats:

Logan:
29 1/2" long (50% percentile)
18.25 lbs (less than 5%)

Travis:
29 1/2" long (50%)
18.7 lbs (5%) I believe this is the first time Travis has weighed more than Logan.

Ian:
30 1/2" long (75%)
21.9 lbs (45%)


We have successfully graduated from formula to milk and have left most of the bottles behind. We have a 4 oz bottle in the morning, but the rest of the time is sippy cups.

At this appt, we had the dr check out both Logan and Travis for movement in their palette as it appeared that their teeth were moving forward due to their pacifiers....YUP!! there is movement. We let them have their binkies at night and for naps only, but that will come to an end in the next couple of days. They drop their binkies in the middle of the night and in the morning when they are playing in their room, both boys will go searching for extras under their bed. It's quite funny to see these little boys with their butts in the air and their heads going under their cribs to find their treasure!!

We set up the swimming pool that Nana bought them for their birthday. They love being out there - it is a 2 person job to keep them all in there and safe. Travis took the first header out of the pool and we have learned to put a little more air in the top portion of the pool!!

No big plans this weekend, it's the last weekend before volleyball starts for Lauren. Once again our Saturdays will be scheduled with games and then before I know it, it will be time for school.

THE birthday party

It's almost been over two weeks since their birthday and birthday party. Things are finally slowing down here. The boys are back on their schedule..although I wish my days didn't start at 5:45 a.m. but we are working on that (yeah as I sit here at 5:10 working on my blog and listening to two or three little ones crying in their room)

The boys got some great gifts at their party and kept their tantrums to a minimum (right Travis???). It was nice to have most of my family here and all of Mike's family here.

Aunt Jess and Nana waiting for the festivities to begin
Look at this wonderful cake my friend, Christiane made for the boys. It was so yummy, it took us about 4 days to eat it ALL, but we did it!




The boy's individual cakes














Travis and Logan weren't sure what to do with their cakes.



Ian, on the other hand, knew exactly what to do and he loved it.

The carnage

Even Lauren got to "enjoy" some cake, thanks to Uncle Bob


Each boy sitting and opening their gift with Grandpa Johnson





Uncle Bob and Mom putting together the wonderful picnic table that Uncle Bob, Sonya, Keaton and Drew bought for the boys (while Grandpa supervises)

The end product - boy is it hard to get a picture with all three on there. There is usually one sitting appropriately, while the other two are either on the seat or crawling on the table itself.


It was quite the successful birthday party. I said to myself that I would not sweat the small (or even the big) stuff. What happened happened. BUT, I had lots of help. Brenda, Beck, Beverly and Sonya helped keep the house clean and really did all the prep work for all the food. All I had to do was make decisions and bark orders. Mike's Mom helped get the boys dressed - as they still weren't dressed 10 minutes before the party started. I couldn't have done it without all my family helping out.



The following day, when it was forecasted to be 102 degrees, we had family pictures scheduled at 2:00 p.m. After about 20 minutes we were all done. We got some nice pics of the family.







Have a great week everyone!!

4th of July

I'm getting ahead of myself since I haven't posted the boys first birthday pics and pics of the family while they were here, but I will get to that in a day or two.

We took the boys to the city's parade yesterday and set up the corral. It began with the firetrucks and ambulance and the boys were quite impressed. We got blasted with some water from super soakers that were part of the parade. I was quite pleased as it was already 98 degrees outside (at 10:00 a.m.) but the two little boys in my lap were less than pleased with getting squirted. Overall the boys enjoyed their first 4th of July parade.




We then took off to go to Target to pick up....MILK...not formula. We opened our last can of formula yesterday and will be done with it maybe tonight. Once we got home after our 4 hour trip outside the house, it was nap time.

Daddy put in the seat belts in their choo choo wagon and we took them for a walk at 6:30 p.m. holding off bedtime as long as we could. Big mistake, we should have waited for another time, it was 100 degrees at 6:30 p.m. and Mom pulling that wagon with three little boys sure made for a workout.



More updates to come.....

First year slideshow

The boys are now 1 and the birthday party is over. Family has come in and have already left. It was a fun weekend. I'll post some pics from the party and from my family's visit but for now ............

Here it is boys and girls, the surprise that I've been hinted at for the past few posts.
I made this video to be shown at the boys birthday party which was held on Saturday. I'm not sure there was a dry eye in the house and I've been busy making copies of the video for family members.




Hope you enjoy the video as much as I enjoyed making it.

Happy Birthday Boys

Wow - it's hard to believe that we made it through the first year. Look how far they've come.













Logan was the first man out weighing in at 4 lbs 4 oz at 7:45 a.m.













Travis was next in at 4 lbs 2 oz at 7:46 a.m. He had a few problems right away, but he quickly recovered thanks to the wonderful NICU nurses at Baylor Frisco.













Then came Ian in at a whopping 5 lbs 6 oz at 7:46 a.m.













We've gone through an enormous amount of diapers, formula and wipes. The diapers and wipes will continue, but now we move on to milk. How much will we use - we will find out very shortly. I'm sure I'll be saving money now even if we go thru a gallon of milk a day. I made my last purchase of formula last week and it was a bit sad knowing that the boys are moving on to another stage of their life. They are no longer babies, but now toddlers!

This year has been such fun. Sure I've had my days where I've been totally spent and didn't want to go to bed for fear of the following day - but all in all it's been a blast. Now the boys are all over the house as they are crawling. Everyone says "watch out when they start walking." Well this isn't my first time at the rodeo so I do know what to expect, but what I don't know what to expect is 3 of them all over the house. But I figure if I can handle three of them crawling in different directions, how much worse can it get?? (stay tuned - I'm sure I'm in for it now).

We wouldn't have stayed sane if it weren't for all the friends and family that have helped during these past 12 months. Pam, Mike's Mom, spent the first few weeks with us during the night and Mike and I would take turns (along with Pam) with the feedings and then continued to do that for about 4 nights a week until the boys were 3 months old. Dad, Bev, Bob and Brenda showed up right after the boys came home to help!! Thought we were going to kill Aunt Brenda with the 2 and 5 a.m. feedings but she survived. My dear friend, Robin, spent Sunday nights with us and did all the feedings in the middle of the night so that Mike and I could get a good nights sleep. Then there were several friends that came by during the first three months and helped with feedings and diaper changes. I had several people from my "mommy forum" at DAM or DFWAM's come by and drop off meals for the first few weeks - WOW what a life saver - a big thank you to Ms. Chantel for setting up the casserole crew!! She was a mama to 6 week old twins when she came by and dropped off the very first meal. We are hoping to have a BBQ in July to thank everyone that helped out!

Happy Birthday Logan, Travis and Ian. Momma, Daddy and Lauren love you all so very much. We are so blessed to have good little boys like you to hang with us all day long!!



**had to repost as the date was wrong!!

My little (big) softball player

Lauren has completed her first year as a softball player. On her third game, she recd the award of MVP. Both Mike and I really, really enjoyed watching her and her team play this year. The team ended up in first place and went onto the championship tournament this past weekend. They won their first game, lost their second, won their third, forth and fifth game and lost their sixth game on Sunday afternoon. I don't know what place they ended up but I'm sure we will find out soon enough. We have another tournament this weekend that the team is in - it's softball tourney but using a bouncy-type ball. Yeah....we will see how that one goes.

I can honestly say that I'm all softball'd out. We took the boys to a couple of the games and their schedule was shot - so today I'm working hard to getting them back on their eating and napping schedule.





here she is in action. You go girl!!