Such a big day for a little girl!

It was a big day for Addison, this morning we realized she got her first tooth and then she got her ears pierced this afternoon. She was a brave little girl and didn't fuss until we held her down, once we let go she quit crying and was fine. Steven had to come along to hold her down and I have to say he did better than I would of, after looking at the pictures I think it hurt Steven a little to see his little girl having to go through that but she sure looks cute with her earings.

Her right ear had to be pierced twice because the lady made the hole to high (despite the markings she made), she assured me that it wouldn't hurt her and the first hole would heal quickly. It was obvious enough that Steven could see the difference and I figured it would bother me if we didn't fix it. I can't even tell where the first hole was so I'm sure it will be fine.

Tooth count:

Addison = 1

Bryce = 0

Collin = 2

Health update:

After 2 trips to the clinic, 3 trips to the pharmacy, and blood work we have discovered that we had our first viral attack. All three babies are finally starting to feel better but are still not 100%.

Tis the season

.....to be sick! I'm not sure if its something we caught from all of our Christmas visits or if its this cold nasty weather but by Christmas day Addison had a runny nose, cough and congestion by Sunday it turned into a fever. So Monday morning we were at the clinic, got antibiotics and on our road to recovery. Well not so quickly, with three little ones we do all we can to try and confine the illnesses to one child but by Monday evening Collin began to run fever! This morning I made the phone call to the clinic so they could call something in for us. Well of course it can't stop there because this afternoon I took Bryce's temperature and he had a little fever too. Surprisingly they all act like they feel fine, maybe not as many smiles as we normally get but still in a good mood. The hardest part is keeping up with all of the medicine, each of them have congestion medicine, antibiotics, and Tylenol so it can get a little confusing with three. Hopefully it won't last long and we will be back to normal soon!

Santa

Earlier in the month we took the babies to see Santa for the first time. We didn't get any smiles but we didn't have crying! From what I hear Steven was not a big fan of Santa when he was little so I'm affraid next year may be a little difficult. Santa wasn't able to hold all three at one time so the group picture turned into a family picture but I thought it turned out pretty cute.

Addison with Santa

Bryce with Santa

Collin with Santa

Merry Christmas!

We had a wonderful Christmas and hope that everyone else did too! We have celebrated with Granny & PaPa, Grandpa & Myrna, the Wellmann's and the Siemsglusz families, we missed the Schwartz family christmas but just weren't ready to make the long drive. We will celebrate one more christmas with the Wilde family on the 1st and thankfully everyone is coming to us so we don't have to make the drive with three little ones. With all of the Christmas celebrations the babies have had a lot of practice at opening gifts, they have been typical babies and prefered the paper and boxes over the presents but it sure was cute to watch them. The babies received a lot of great things for christmas including clothes, socks, shoes, toys, diapers, bibs and money. Steven and I weren't going to do much for the babies since they don't really know the difference and we thought they would get plenty from everyone else but Steven thought of a keepsake gift he wanted to give the boys so we decided to get each of them something "keepsake" that they will have for a long time. The boys got a set of 2009 baseball cards and Addison got her first pair of pearl earings and is getting her ears pierced. Steven has collected baseball cards for years and I think he was more excited about the boys gift than they were but hopefully one day they will enjoy them! 

Collin playing under the tree

Aunt Dee and Addison

Momma and Addison

Aunt Alison and Bryce

Bryce, Addison and Collin

Bryce enjoying the red tissue paper

Collin enjoying the red bow

The babies unwrapping their presents

The babies with their presents from mom and dad

More Christmas Pictures

Bailey and Collin

Jon and Bryce (right)

Jennifer and Collin

 Sheryl and Addison

Catherine with Addison and Lindsey with Bryce

Grandma Siemsglusz with Collin

Shelby with a happy Addison

 Grandma Wellmann with Addison

Blake with Bryce

Collin and Bryce opening gifts

Danna with Bryce and Grandpa Wellmann

Christmas with the Maurer's and Rau's

We celebrated Christmas with the Maurer's and the Rau's last night, we all went to high school together and now the four of them have become very good friends that we love so much! It is wonderful that we all have kids close in age and it will be so much fun to watch them grow up together.

Yes, there are 8 kids with one on the way! Kade with Bryce, Austin with Collin, Caleb, Avery with Addison and Brady (not pictured Melonie with baby Nate in her tummy)!

Avery, Addison, Caleb and Collin. Avery was so excited to see the babies she couldn't wait to get them out of their car seats.

 Dane with Brady and Bryce.

Kade and Avery helping Addison open her present.

Steven helping Bryce open his present.

Melonie and Addison

Jamie with Collin, Caleb and Avery

Frequent flier Mommy!

This morning we were all playing in the living room when Steven noticed Addison had blood in her ear. I immediately thought she scratched it because she scratched her other ear so I got a Q-tip and started cleaning it to see if I could see a scratch, well for a little girl it was a lot of blood and I couldn't see a scratch. She wasn't fussy so I didn't want to freak out but it was blood in her ear! Since we couldn't determine if the blood was coming from her ear canal we decided I should take her in. When we got to the Brenham Clinic the triage nurse took a look and thought that it was a lot of blood for a scratch but while waiting for Dr. Baker my friend Kristin came to check on us and she helped clean her ear a little more and took a peak at her ear drum. Of course when we got it cleaned up enough we discovered the SCRATCH! That's right I'm a new mommy and I freaked out over a scratch but this is some scratch because it is still bleeding. She just woke up from her nap with blood all over her ear again. I keep cleaning it but it is bleeding little by little. Dr. Baker said she would be fine. This is my second trip to the clinic in two weeks (Collin's bump was the 1st trip) so I'm going to have to learn not freak out so quickly because $25 a pop can get expensive for a scratch and I'm going to become known as one of those frequent flier mommies at the clinic! Good new is I got the finger nails clipped while waiting for Dr. Baker so no more scratches for a few days.