They Just Keep Growing

We took the babies to their pediatrician appointment.  They had to get their ears looked at to make sure their ear infections were gone.  They are which I wasn't surprised.  They seem to be much better.  Collin is now weighing a little over 13lbs, Anniston is almost 10 1/2 lbs & Bailey is pretty much 10lbs.  They're getting big.  I reviewed some videos of when they were first born and even before then when I was admitted for my final hospital stay and had to cry a little.  I noticed how big the preemie diapers were on them and now Collin has grown out of the size 1 diapers:-(  It is definitely bitter sweet.  

We have been on a lot of walks in the past week.  The weather has  been great.  Grandma Bum, of course, has helped out a lot with that.  She lives pretty close by so whenever we get a chance to take them for a walk, she is usually able to come along.  We walked them to the park and also got to walk to Great Grandma Thompson's house.  She was excited to see them.  She says that Collin has changed a lot.  She couldn't believe it was him.  We also went to a park in Plainfield with their Aunt Tracy.  Jason roller bladed with Anniston and the other two hung out with Mom & Aunt Tracy.  It was a beautiful day.  We visited our friends, the Carrs, yesterday.  The babies, mom, Kelly & Owen went for a walk while the dads got to go and play some frisbee golf.  They were pretty happy to get away to do something physical.  We also visited their Great Grandma Foster and they showed off their easter outfits she bought them.  We plan to take them swimming for the first time late this afternoon.  I can't wait.  It is a heated pool so I am expecting them to like it but we will soon find out. 

Some great news is that we gave the babies a little rice cereal in their bottles last night before bed.  We decided to let them sleep through the 1am feed.  They haven't been eating much during that feed and haven't really been awake too much either during that feed so we knew they could sleep a little longer so when one of them woke up we would feed all of them.  My big fear was that all of them would wake up screaming because they weren't use to waiting that long for food and when they would wake up they would all realize how hungry they were.  It wasn't that way at all.  Collin woke up and then I had to wake the other two up.  I think the girls could have slept a little longer but we will wait a little longer before we let them do that.  Our babies are just great babies.  We really can't complain at all.  Even if they are fussy some in the evening, we are grateful that they sleep during the night and they sleep well at that.  Praise the Lord for that for I know their are families out their who deal with kiddos who can't sleep well at night.  The babies amazed us last night with their sleeping skills.  They slept through the 1am feed and all the way to the 5am feed (a straight 8 hours, Woohooo!)  Daddy was especially blessed because I got up to feed them all and he got to sleep till sometime after 8am.  It was a great thing for me too.  The 1am feed is sometimes rough.  

Well, I think that is all of the updating for now.  I will try to update the pictures.  The babies are napping right now but if they wake up I will have to upload them later.  We'll see how it goes.  

Thanks for all the prayers and support!

JKABC