Sisterly Love

Big sister giving Evan a hug...

(where is evan???)

This is a little better, but it looks like she's got him in a choke-hold...

Ahh....there we go. Much better...

Big Sister LOVES her baby brothers and sister. Not once have we seen her show jealousy or hit....although she is known to steal their toys if they look like fun.

holding our own bottles!

YAY babies!  Only took 8 long months...

mason - madison - evan

we're sitting!

mason - evan - madison

Sitting!

madison

Madison and Evan are official "sitters" now. They're still a tad wobbly but they're doing better and better every day!

*Oh, and a side note....They're almost pro's at holding their own bottles. Mason is the master bottle holder and Maddy and Evan are still working on it, but doing pretty good. You have NO idea how much this helps Mommy out! Yay babies!

Circumcision

mason - evan

Hopefully this isn't too personal for some of you. If it is then just skip this post.

Due to the boys prematurity and the Hospital's rules where they were born they were unable to be circumcised at birth.  When they came home at 4 weeks old there was the possibility of being able to do the circumcision then but our physician was too nervous about their age and that it might pose a bleeding risk. Our doctor referred us to a Urologist at Primary Children's Medical Center. Finally at 8 months old we were able to have the boys circumcised but it was quite the ordeal. Because of how old they were they had to be put under general anesthesia (or put to sleep) for the procedure.  Because of this they had to fast from midnight the night before until the actual surgery. They wanted us to come in at 9 and the surgery was scheduled for 10:30. We were there around 9:15 (it's hard to be on time when you have 4 kids!). We were in the surgery waiting room with plenty of time to spare before the surgery but because the doctor was running behind schedule they didn't get started on Mason until 12:00! Poor baby boys. I was SO nervous. Not only for the procedure itself, it's such a scary thought. We were also nervous for with-holding food from them for so  long. I didn't want to see them hungry, they didn't understand. I was SO nervous that the whole night before I layed awake in bed all night, praying and worrying. All the praying really worked because amazingly enough the boys didn't fuss, not ONCE before they were taken into surgery. They took a nap and then whined a little bit but nothing compared to the other kids we saw there kicking and screaming on the floor.
Anyway, the picture above, the boys are in their surgical gear waiting to be called back.
So the circumcision was done, it wasn't nearly as bad as we thought it would be, but we're VERY grateful it's all over with now!

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.