We helped Grandpa celebrate a big birthday this weekend, he is 60 today!!!! We love spending time with Grandpa and he is always there to help when needed. Thank you Grandpa for all you do, we hope you have a wonderful day and many more to come.

11 Months Old

I'm a little behind on making post so I apologize now for the length of this post, I will try to add more pictures to make it a little less painful!

This last weekend was a busy one, the babies turned 11 months old, we went to two maifest parades and celebrated mother's day. At 11 months old they are beginning to eat more table food, they love to splash in their baby pool and follow each other like three little ducklings. If one takes off into another room or heads to another toy the other two are sure to follow. The babies will always have a special bond being triplets but I didn't realize how that bond would already begin to form. Anytime one is awake and they hear another baby crying in the bedroom they will crawl to the door and sit there until I go and get the one crying. They also love to copy each other, if one starts blowing bubbles, babbles dadadada, or makes clicking noises the others follow along. Addison and Bryce are ususally the leaders when it comes to making noises or blowing bubbles but Collin is usually the leader when they crawl off to another room. 

Last weekend we went to the Maifest Parades. On Friday Collin started screaming at the first sounds of the fire trucks, while Bryce just sat in my lap and took it all in. At Saturday's parade Bryce decided he wasn't a fan of the fire trucks and started screaming. Addison wasn't as upset as the boys but she had her momments that she didn't care for all the noise either.

Our cute niece and nephews after the coronation

On Sunday we celebrated Mother's Day with three fussy babies. We thought things would get better after a nap but as we packed everyone up to go out to eat for lunch all three babies were hanging on the baby gate crying for us, as Steven tried to step over the baby gate all three babies came tumbling down with the gate on top of them and then Steven lost his balance and fell on top of the gate and the babies. Needless to say there was a lot of crying. We survived the day and even though we had fussy children most of the day Steven didn't make me change one diaper!!! Too bad that doesn't happen more often.

11 Months Old

Addison

• likes to change the channel on the tv
• can turn the tv off
• can stand on her own without holding onto anything for 30+ seconds
• has discovered the boys have "different parts" than she does
• weighs about 17 lbs.
• and has 5 teeth (two on bottom and three on top)

Bryce

• can clap
• is a big bully and likes to take toys and bottles away from his brother and sister
• is a messy eater and ususally ends up with food in his hair, clothes, face, and neck
• will stand up in his crib and pull back the curtains and blinds to look out the window
• weighs about 22 lbs.
• and has two teeth on the bottom

Bryce was not in the mood for taking pictures for his mommy!

caught him playing

Collin

• likes to close doors
• fights going to sleep
• can stand on his own without holding on to anything for 10-30 seconds
• can open cabinets and drawers in the kitchen
• weighs about 17 lbs.
• and has 8 teeth (4 on top and bottom)

Happy Mother's Day

There were times in my life that I thought I was never going to be able to call myself a mother but in October 2008 my prayers were answered in more ways than I could imagine! Now that I am a mother I know it is better than I ever could have imagined and I have an unconditional love for our three babies that is unexplainable. This last year has gone by so fast but I think about how much we've watched the babies grow and change. It just makes my day to hear their laughs, listening to them "talk", sit with me when they are tired or trying to wake up, or to see them smile. Although somedays I feel like I have the hardest job in the world I feel so fortunate that I'm able to be at home with our babies every day. I hope that my mother and all the mother's out there have a wonderful mothers day. I also pray that God answers the prayers of others wanting to become mothers and that their dreams come true one day too!

Addison, Bryce and Collin you make life worth living and you will never know how much I love you!

Look what I can do

Just when we thought we had the house child proofed pretty good we find this....

Addison climbed up in the rocking chair, stood up and was beating on the wall. We didn't think they could get up in this chair by themselves yet but Addison obviously proved us wrong so the rocking chair is now put away! I have a feeling Addison is going to be our little daredevil so we will have a workout making sure she stays out of trouble! With Addison's low platelets the doctor may freak out if she knew we let this happen but atleast we caught her before any major falls. 

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!

One of things I love about this quaint, small town that we live in is the many community events that are put on in the downtown area. Today was the Country Flavors Festival which may be one of the best festivals in this town. There was plenty of cute booths, a lot of good food, and of course all the BlueBell Ice Cream you can eat. The weather was perfect, I enjoyed some time out of the house and the babies enjoyed trying ice cream for the first time!

We got a lot of looks and comments with our limo stroller but the ice cream was worth it!

What is this stuff? It's cold but I like it!!!

Homemade Vanilla!!!

Ummm....this stuff is good!!!

I want more Momma!!!

I'm really tired but this stuff is good!

Addison fell asleep but has her spoon ready for more when she wakes up!

After our trip downtown we had a birthday party for Landon and Landry.

The balloons were fun to play with

And we really liked the toy trains!

Update on Addison

Well I'm not sure I can call it much of an update but we took Addison to Texas Children's today for her monthly visit to the hemotologist. Since her levels were up (106) two weeks ago we tought this would be a good visit but unfortunately that wasn't the case. Her platelet counts were back down to 58 which Dr. Lakshmi feels is not much different from her counts in the 30's. I think Steven and I were shocked and the first question was "why was it better two weeks ago?" She said it was typical for levels to go up and down when someone has thrombocytopenia. They took about 7 vials of blood from Addison and she was not very happy about it. She screamed when Steven held her tight to keep her still, then she would look at the needle and the lady taking the blood and scream. Of course she was better after it was all done and sported her pink bandaid proudly. They will be running more test on her blood to check for viruses and other causes so we are still in the process of elimination. We will go back in another month and do more blood work and if things don't improve we will do a bone marrow biopsy in a couple of months. The doctor told us to pad any of her playing areas(easier said than done), hold off on any vaccines, and watch for any unusual bruising, nose bleeds, cuts or major falls. We were a little disappointed with the news but we know we are on the right track to finding a diagnosis.   

Addison and her baby doll waiting

Addison thought she was a big girl on the horsey chair!

Giving blood can make you hungry so Mommy and Daddy took me out to eat. I ate a lot of bread, a piece of daddy's chicken, some broccolli, and my yogurt bites.

According to Addison the elevator ride was almost as bad as getting blood drawn. To get to the doctors office we have to take two elevators from the parking garage to the 14th floor. We have taken these elevators many times before but this time was a little different. As the elevators began to move Addison started screaming, when it would stop she was fine, then it would go again and she would scream. I guess she didn't like the pressure caused by the elevator so it was an interesting ride with an elevator full of complete strangers! 

Bluebonnets and babies

Saturday we took pictures in a bluebonnet patch behind Steven's school. Bryce and Collin kept trying to eat the bluebonnets and Addison was so excited, laughing, and smiling.

It is pretty difficult to get three babies to all smile and look cute for the camera at the same time so here are a few individual shots that show their individual personalities!