BES Fall Follies

Friday we went to Daddy's school to watch the Fall Follies parade. Daddy started off the parade by riding in on this school bus, its hard to see him but he is in the back of the bus! 

 Cousin Tegan was a cute kitty cat with a mouse and all!

 Cousin Colton was a scary pirate!

 The whole family with the Believe Bus

 Bryce, Addison and Collin with cousin Tegan

 Addison was terrified of Colton's costume so he took off the hat and eye patch!

 I couldn't help but look back at pictures from last years Fall Follies and thought it was crazy how much they have changed in just one year!

 Bryce with Daddy at the 2009 Fall Follies

 And I have to give a big thank you to Rodney and Jeri Maurer for helping us out during the program!

Well baby check up

Last week we took the babies for their well baby check up and shots. Everyone is doing good and growing like crazy, its hard to believe just a year ago they were tiny little premeeies!

Addison

Weight: 20lbs. 12oz (15%tile)

Height: 30 1/2 inches (40%tile)

8 teeth

For some reason I didn't get a picture of Bryce at the doctors office but this picture was taken the night before and I thought it showed his size compared to Collin and Addison. He is such a big boy!

Bryce

Weight: 27lbs 9oz (80%tile)

Height: 32 3/4 inches (85%tile)

8 teeth

Collin

Weight: 21lbs. (8%tile)

Height: 30 inches (15%tile)

10 teeth and 3 more are coming in

Pumpkin Patch

Tonight we loaded up the babies and headed to the pumpkin patch. They weren't as interested in the pumpkins as I thought they would be. They thought the small pumpkins were balls and would throw them, luckily we didn't bust any open. Despite the heat, having a grumpy little girl and two busy little boys we got some great pictures of all three!

"Mom do we really have to do this"

Collin just threw a small pumpkin and he was saying "uh oh", one of his favorite words right now! 

Our best attempt at a family photo

Thanks Myrna and Grandpa for coming along and helping out!

Happy Birthday x2!

October 24 is a special day because its my birthday but its also special because its my niece Tegan's birthday. Friday I had a great time celebrating my birthday by going out to eat with family. Yesterday Steven let me take it easy then we had a fun evening at the park celebrating Tegan's birthday. The babies had a blast running around, sliding and trying to keep up with the big kids.

The birthday girls!

Three worn out babies, they played hard!

Boys being boys!

Papa helped Collin and Bryce down the slide

Addison didn't like getting dirty and came running to me every time she had a little dirt on her hand.

Tegan and her friend Piper

Collin hanging out with Papa

My long time friend Lisa with Bryce stuffing his mouth with hot dogs

The babies splashing in the drink tub

Bryce being a big boy climbing the play equipment

Tegan and her friend Lauren

Brandon helping Bryce down the slide. Can you tell Bryce LOVED it! He would make a bumpy uuuuugggghhhh sound all the way down.

Collin coming down the slide like a big boy

Addison looked a little unsure about it but she kept wanting to go again and again!

296!!!

Yep you read that right, Addison's platelet counts were up to 296 today when we went to Texas Childrens! This is really good and means she is finally back in the normal range (250-450 is normal). Even Dr. Lakshmi had a big smile on her face when she got the results. We have not seen a high number like this since she was in the NICU and only a couple of weeks old so it is really exciting to see such a high number. Dr. Lakshmi wants us to come back in 3 months to make sure her counts are staying in the normal range but if they are still good then we can stop making the trip to TCH every other month! For now we are just going to celebrate the good numbers!

Addison had fun coloring in the waiting area!

She wanted Mommy to help

She didn't have as much fun getting her blood draw

Hiding from Dr. Lakshmi

I wanted her to take a picture with Dr. Lakshmi and this is what we got! Dr. Lakshmi looks great :) After seeing Dr. Lakshmi we had to wait around for her to get a flu shot.

Checking out the fish

Riding the horsey

Sliding down the slide!