8 months old

on the 18th of april our precious babies turned 8 months old....where has the time gone?!

madison

mason - madison

mason

madison

evan

*noticed the lack of pictures i have of evan this month. poor little guy. i'll try to take some more pictures of him to post soon.

Sleep

The babies turned 8 months old yesterday, on the 18th of April.

Sleep is still an issue.

Evan is our best sleeper and more often then not sleeps all night without any fuss. I even have to wake him because he sleeps in too late!

Mason is a hit and miss sleeper. Sometimes he sleeps more like Evan, other times he wakes up once or twice at night.

Madison is our trouble sleeper. She usually wakes up around 4 am and no matter what we do wants a bottle. Occasionally she'll wake up 2 times a night once around 1 am, wants a bottle, then again at 4 am and wants another bottle. We've tried everything we can think of to help her sleep all night. She still takes a binky and we try to tide her over until she won't let us anymore. We've been feeding her oatmeal right before bed in hopes it will keep her fuller longer. We still swaddle her.

What I'm getting at is...has anyone else been in this same situation? Any advice?

Another question....Do you know if their sleep varies depending on their size? Because Evan is our biggest, Mason is in the middle and Madison is our smallest.

I just can't believe they're 8 months old now and we're still fighting the battle of sleep. Our 1st little girl was not this bad. But then again with her we did the cry it out method, we can't really do that with the triplets because it wakes the others up.

A Name and a Blessing

He took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them. (Mark 10:16)

The church that we belong to has a special ordinance that is performed in which the father gives their child a name and a blessing.

Typically the blessings are usually done about a month after the babies birth. But due to our babies prematurity we held off taking them anywhere public until RSV season was over. We decided to bless the babies the Sunday after Easter.

It was an amazing day for our family.

The babies behaved just like the angels they are. They smiled through their blessings.

We feel so incredibly blessed that these special children were entrusted to us. They are miracles. They are such beautiful people. Every day we are reminded how special they are and how blessed we are to be their parents. We love our children and cannot imagine life without them.

We love our little big family.