It's Evan's turn

Evan has now joined the crawling club. We knew he was getting close, but his recent illness set him back a couple weeks. Not anymore - he is getting the hang of it. His style is like an army crawl. As the night went on, his speed increased and can now clear the room in just a few seconds. Charlotte now has a crawling buddy. Ellie's crawl video should be up by the end of the week. She gets up on all fours and does a froggy hop. We will give her a couple more days to master her craft. Enjoy the video.

Happy New Year

Bye Bye 2009! It's time to start another decade. 2009 has been a big year for our family. We got surprised with the early birth of our little babies and since then it has been nothing but babies. I can only assume that 2010 will be much of the same.

The babies have had a rough holiday. They all came down with a stomach virus. We think Evan has kicked the virus but the girls still show some symptoms. Evan has also come down with an ear infection and he has not been feeling well for the last few days. He cries and cries and cries. He wants to be held (while your standing of course), he does not want to sleep, and he is also teething. We got him some meds so hopefully he will be over this in a few days. Handling a sick and very needy child is very difficult under any circumstance, but add in the other two babies and we have had our hands full. We have moved Charlotte to another room. She has been getting up at all hours and just makes noise. She eventually goes back to sleep, so we moved her to keep the other babies from waking. Ellie is wanting to crawl really bad. She gets up on all fours but just can't figure out how to do much more than lunge, fall, and get up again. Sometimes she will take a quick thumb sucking break. Yesterday, Evan sat up on his - I was the only one who saw it, so of course no one believes me. If he had not gotten sick, he would be crawling by now. They got spoiled with a bunch of gifts. Here's a few (promised) Christmas pictures.

These were our presents!

Stocking hung by the chimney with care

Santa brought the babies a Choo Choo Wagon!

Coming down the stairs on their first Christmas morning

Getting ready for some Christmas Breakfast

Ellie hosted her first "Tea Party"

Putting their first miles on the choo choo wagon. I need to make a harness to hook up the dogs!

My Mom "Naw" and her man - Dennis

Granddaddy, Grandmother, and Michelle getting ready for presents in Conyers

Great Granny DeMore

The babies enjoying all their new toys!!!

Happy Birthday Jesus!!!

I got up early last Sunday with this in my head. I guess you never know what God will put on your heart.

True Meaning of Christmas

It’s not the crowds at the malls
It’s not the tree that’s ten feet tall
It’s not an excuse to watch football
It is GOD fulfilling his Greatest Call

It’s not parties with food so delight
It’s not eating so much my pants get tight
It’s not reindeer that makes Santa take flight
It is God showing His Love with all His Might

It’s not stockings hanging from the fireplace
It’s not your best dress all trimmed in lace
It’s not turning every corner and seeing Santa’s face
It is God showing His Holy Grace

It’s not the catchy tunes we all sing
It’s not expensive gifts and diamond rings
It’s not bells we all hear ding
It is the Peace only the Savior Brings

God loved us enough to send His only Son
And this is the day it all begun
Take a moment this Christmas Day
Hit your knees Thank God and Pray

Look past the ribbons and bows
And share the story a Christian knows
It is Jesus God sent to you and me
So that from our sin we would All be set FREE

Wishing you all a very Merry CHRISTmas!

(More pictures to come later)

'Twas the night before Christmas

Us in our new pajamas on Christmas Eve waiting on Santa!

"Merry CHRISTmas to all, and to all a good night!"

Getting Ready for Christmas

Even though I have had a couple days off, I have completely neglected my blogging obligation. I am sure the Christmas pictures I have posted will make up for my neglect.
Being off has been great. I have enjoyed the extra baby time and being able to get some odds and ends around the house completed. Most of the items are small chores I have been told to do for a few weeks now. Jennifer and I have been married for over 9 years and she may have finally figured out how to get me to do everything she wants - Make me a List. Yes, I am a list guy. I can do everything or nothing at all - just make sure it's on a list. She put a few items down, then some more, then some more. By lunch I had just about all of them complete along with a few extras.
We have been looking forward to these next few days for weeks now. Here's our holiday plan of attack.
Christmas Eve (tomorrow) - Get up feed the babies and off to Conyers to visit with Lisa, Joe, Michelle, Victoria, Grandmother and Granddaddy. We plan on timing the trip around their am nap time (schedule is key to having happy triplets). We have a couple stops to make on the way but should arrive just before it is time to feed them lunch. Our visit will last until after the eat dinner and then we will hit the road to come home. We have to beat Santa or he will not leave us any presents.
Christmas Day - The morning will be just our family. We will get up - check and see if Santa stopped by and then eat breakfast. Granddaddy and Grandmother will come by after lunch to visit. The PM is Feliz Navidad - a new tradition we are starting with my family. We will host this year and are expecting Mom, Dennis (Mom's boyfriend), Louis, Sabrina (Louis's girlfriend), Huck, Darla, and Joni. Jennifer made some salsa for the event and it is awesome!

Here are the babies Christmas Pictures - These were taken a few weeks back along with their 9 month pictures. These photos were taken by Jessica Beach (Easy Street Gallery - Clarkesville, GA)

I guess I better confess - I made the tutus for the girls.

Charlotte has fallen in love with her reflection.

Ellie is full of herself as well.