Alyssa can crawl!

Wednesday evening (8/24) Alyssa began to crawl, I am so excited and she is very proud of herself.

Mason's Surgery

On Wednesday, 8-24-11, Mason had surgery for a testicular hernia as well as a chordee repair. I think that this whole thing was harder on me than him. I was so scared because they had to put my baby under with general anaesthesia to do the surgery, but he was great. He was very groggy that day of but since he hasn't been in pain, even without pain medication. Everything is healing very nicely.

Below you can see Mason before his surgery. He looked so cute in his hospital gown. Poor little guy had to go without eating but he was happy because his nurse said that he could play with the call button (she just showed me how to turn the alarm off.

Mason in his hospital gown

She sat up on her own!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Over the past month or so Mason and Kyle have gotten fast at crawling and they walk along the furniture quickly as well. It is so much fun to see the two of them crawl after each other and they love it too. They race and wrestle which causes them to giggle (and sometimes cry). Alyssa hasn't really shown any interest in crawling and she just lays on her back and uses the back of her head and her feet to scoot backwards. When we sit her up she can sit for a long time and if she is near something she can pull herself up into a standing position and walk along the fence or the couch or whatever. If you haven't seen my living room the whole thing has a fence around it. It goes all around the furniture with the TV on the other side. On the inside we have all of their toys so the whole area is completely baby proof.  OK, back to my point, Alyssa wasn't really interested in crawling at all and I was convinced that she was going to walk and skip crawling, she may still, but today she finally was up on all four's and trying to go. That little girl has a temper and not being able to figure this our was pissing her off. In the process of getting angry she did figure out how to go from hands and knees to sitting which is awesome.

Happy 4th of July

American Babies!!!!!!!!!

Look what we can do! (Mason and Kyle stood up on their own and Alyssa got a little help)

Houseboat Pictures

Mason and Alyssa Swimming

Daddy and Kyle in his life jacket. They just got back from the ski boat

Mason- left, Kyle-center, and Alyssa-right swimming naked. The water bottle had peas in it and and that is the "toy" that they fought over so Great Grandma got them 2 more water bottles one with radishes and the other with peppercorn.

Pulling up

Mason and Kyle are both pulling themselves up into a standing position on everything now.
Mason 6/29
Kyle 7/1

Alyssa is starting to get frustrated because she see's her brothers doing things that she can't do. She starts early intervention this week so hopefully she will catch up soon.

Our life lately

Recently I changed our schedule. I am trying to get the babies to eat more food so that eventually they will eat less formula. Also I was tired of them staying up so late because I felt that I wasn't ever getting a break. All 3 of them love eating, especially taking bites of whatever I am eating.
8:00 wake/bottle
10:00 solids
10:30-12:30 nap
12:30 bottle
2:30 solids
4:00 bottle
4:30-6:30 nap
6:30 solids
8:30 bottle
9:00 bed
So far this is working out great.

The boys are now both crawling and are trying to pull themselves up on things. Alyssa is sitting really well and rolls all over. She is still scooting backwards while laying on her back. All 3 of them are all over thank goodness I have them pinned in. Christina let us borrow her baby fences and we have the whole living room surrounded by them so that they have an area that they are completely safe in. This is so nice because if I have to leave the room for a second they are safe, except maybe from each other.

Last Wednesday Auntie Emily moved back from Kentucky. They love their Auntie and she loves spending time with them. It is nice that they now have an Aunt that actually wants to be part of their life and they are excited to play with her.

On Saturday we went to the houseboat. The babies had to wear their life jackets for the first time. Mason and Kyle liked them, Alyssa didn't (this doesn't surprise me one bit). While on the houseboat they swam naked in a little pool, they LOVED it. Now we have a little pool at our house for them to play in.