3 Months Old!

I can't believe how long it has been since I did an update! Even more unbelievable is that our boys are 3 months old today. Where on earth has the time gone?!

Jackson, Tyler and Chase are growing into little men. I weighed them this morning and their weights are as follows.... Jackson 11 pounds even, Tyler 9 lbs 13 oz and Chase 10 lbs 13 oz. This weekend I started to put away their newborn and 0-3 month size clothes and pulled out the 3-6 month clothes. This afternoon while I was putting away more 0-3 month stuff a preemie outfit fell out of the bag. Oh my goodness, were my boys REALLY this small?! It looked like something that would fit a small doll.

The boys really interact more with us. They're constantly smiling and "talking". It's stinkin' adorable! We've taken a few videos, but it's hard for Nick to find time to edit them down to size and them upload them here. Maybe this coming weekend I can have him show me how to do it (you know, for all that free time I have).

Our first Thanksgiving as a family was a quiet one. My sister Laura joined us and then later on some friends of ours came over for pie. It was strange to not go back east, in fact Nick remarked during one of the football games that this was our first Thanksgiving outside of the Eastern Time Zone. We're looking forward to Christmas now and putting up a Christmas tree. We both would love to decorate the outside of our house but neither of us has the time for that. As it was it took Nick several weekends to get the leaves off the ground! For now we'll have to settle with looking like the scrooges of the neighborhood.

We're having their Christmas picture taken on Saturday. We have two little Santa hats and one reindeer hat - should be adorable! For those on our mailing list, you'll get one in the mail. Otherwise, you can check it out here :)

 

 

Jackson

 

Tyler and Aunt Laura on Thanksgiving

Health Stuff

It was an interesting few days for our family. On Friday morning I took Jackson to the local children's hospital to meet with a surgeon about Jackson's herniated belly button. The doctor said the actual hernia is very small (the belly button sticks up about an inch though) and he figures there's an 80-90% chance it will fix itself by the time Jackson is 4 or 5, so we're not going to do surgery now.

On Sunday night Chase was quite cranky and acting very uncomfortable. At 3am we discovered why. When Nick changed Chase's diaper there was blood mixed in with diarrhea. Then, to make matters worse Chase didn't want to eat (which is very unlike him)! I called the nurse line our insurance company provides and after explaining the situation she advised I call the on-call doctor from the boys' doctor's office. The on-call doctor decided Chase should go to the urgent care clinic at the local children's hospital, so at 4am I loaded up Chase and headed out while Nick stayed with the other two boys. After some tests and x-rays they determined he either had a viral infection or it was the beginning of lactose intolerance, but they were pretty sure it was viral and would work itself out in a day or two. I'm happy to say Chase was his normal happy self yesterday and so far today! My only prayer is that if it is viral that the other two boys don't catch it.

And now for a little growth perspective.... Below are two pictures. One is of Jackson & Chase together exactly 2 months ago (Sept 12th) and one of just Chase, taken today. As you can see, there's no way we could fit two in here now! They're getting so big (and by big I mean the size of the typical newborn...)!