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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Our First Updo's

The girls bangs are getting soo long! I toyed with the idea of cutting their hair, then decided to try and put it up.
Zoey is such a ham! She loves having no hair in her eyes.
Abigail was patient enough for me to do pig tails on her. Sooo stinkin' cute!
Katrina was probably the least happy about this idea - but quickly caught on that it was easier to see with no hair in her eyes.They are really good at letting me put their hair up every day now. They typically don't pull it out of their hair - but do occassionally pull it out of their sisters - imagine that!
So for now - no haircuts - just cute new hair styles as their hair gets longer. Look out Locks for Love it won't be long before we can donate.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Triplets Squared @ the Zoo

We had our first outing with our triplet friends.
Count 'em - there are 9 children - all triplets!
Our three girls were joined by Meg's triplet boys and Danielle's mix of 1 girl and two boys.
We had such an awesome time! There were lots of spots that we could corner the kids and let them loose to explore and play. Above we're by the penguins.
The triplet boys are 2.5 and the others only 2 months older than our girls - it was awesome to see how well they interacted with one another.
Our girls were enjoying the nicer weather and the opportunity for more freedoms.

We had 9 wonderfully behaved children the whole day. All of us were surprised! No meltdowns, no blowouts, no whining, just 9 happy go lucky kids - what a blessing! Looking forward to more adventures down the road. Thanks ladies for a wonderful day.

Monday, March 29, 2010

Welcome Connor

The girls welcomed their new playmate Connor Richard Ingram on Wednesday March 10.
It was awesome to see how taken they were by his presence. We look forward to the months to come in seeing how their friendship blossoms.
Congratulations Kelli and Dale - he really is gorgeous (and you know we're not just saying that)

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Just our Size

Ryan bought the girls this bench the Christmas before they were born.
Josh was home and decided to put it together for them - they seem big enough for it.
Seems they really love it! Fits them just perfectly! sooo cute!

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Scootin' in Style

We've been rounding up lil' scooters for the girls at all the yard sales.
Zoey likes this one- it's the lowest one to the ground.
Abigail likes the four wheeler.
And Katrina typically runs everyone over trying to get to this low-ride three wheeler. We couldn't get over how fast they learned to tear around the driveway.
Lookout world - the Z.A.K. Attack is on the move!

Friday, March 26, 2010

Chillin' with the Tree

The girls LOVE to be read to.
The especially love when big brother Josh does the reading.
We often call the girls "squirrels" and Josh has been dubed the "Tree"
The squirrels are just nuts about their big brother.
Especially when he spends time just chillin' with them...
Pulling around the big new driveway.
or as Zoey says - hanging out and chatting.
Zoey can't wait til she's big enough to use her brothers long board.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Middle of the Night Madness

The photos used in this blog have NOTHING to do with the story. Thought you'd enjoy something else to smile at while you read about our adventure...

Abby was our middle of the night alarm last night. I started fixing bottles while Ryan went in and got her. I handed Ryan a bottle for Abby and went to get Katrina.Katrina was almost finished with her bottle when she let out a huge long melodiuos toot. Something that a man would gladly take ownership and pride in. Needless to say, Ryan was quite impressed with his daughter!I took Kat back to her crib and got Zoey to feed. Ryan took back Abby and proceeds to sit next to me while I finish up Zoey. As I'm gazing down at her precious face, something doesn't seem right. Mind you, it's the middle of the night - the lights are low and we talk quietly so as to keep the girls still.I'm trying to relay to Ryan my concern. It looks as if Zoey's face is broke out in a rash - there is something all over her face and I can't really tell if it's a rash or something else. Ryan turns on another light low and discover it's blood! Yikes, where the heck... how the heck... OMGosh! Ryan goes to the bathroom to get me a wipe for her face. As he's leaving the bathroom he laughs and says - Wow! you should've heard the toot Abby just let out! Sweet! As I wipe down Zoey's face, I can see it's not that bad. It looks to be from her nose. It makes sense, her nails need to be clipped and the girls recently discovered their noses. Zoey sucks a binky too - must have scratched either putting in a binky or playing with her nose. Nothing horrible - just a mess to clean up. It didn't seem to bother her, so we didn't worry.I'm still feeding Z and cleaning up her face when Abby starts to fuss. Hmmm... what's up with that? Anyone that knows our girls knows that when they go down, they're out for the count. Other then Zoey's occasional craziness - Abby and Kat only make noise when there is a problem. Not I said "problem". So... Ryan goes to investigate. He runs out - it's pretty stinky in there - we may have a blowout! He heads to the bathroom with Abby. I'm on the couch still with Zoey feeding. Then I hear a call - honey - it's really bad -I'm gonna need help.

I finish up with Zoey and settle her back down and go to rescue Ryan. Wow! Let's just say the mud flaps on the really expensive overnight guaranteed not to leak diapers- blew out in a big way! The kind of blowout you see going down the highway and there are pieces everywhere - yeah that kind. The kind that you didn't see coming then all of a sudden a big cloud, you smell it and you say OMGosh! I hope I don't get hit with the pieces - just like that - only 10x worse! Did I mention we're now on whole milk? Something we thought would be easier... ha ha ha!Four hands seemed like a shortage when trying to keep one little monkey from initiating a poop throwing contest! She just laid there, calm as could be smiling.... waiting for our guard to be down to get a hand in the mix. We were onto her game and worked like lightening to clear a path for the clean diaper, all the while wishing we had a gas mask to breathe through!

So here we are... in the middle of the night with a bloody face and more poop then we know what to do with - smiling, laughing and thrilled with the thought that God chose us to be the ambassadors of poop to three precious angels. Sure we're tired and would have liked to sleep in past the next call at 6:30 this morning - but hey - this is just a small blip in the big scope of things and we wouldn't change it for anything!

If we're not careful we'll blink and they'll be walking - O yeah- they are and the first year is already passed! I'm thinking after our adventure we're going to go back to the 50% formula 50% milk for awhile. So the next time you think your day is going poopy - think of us and all the poop we get to handle - maybe your day won't seem so bad afterall : )

(The last photo is of Kat - who slept through the whole adventure. We didn't actually bathe anyone last night - these photos were from last week and seemed appropriate for the story line)