Family Time

We took the girls to the Pearland Town Center to have some ice cream after taking them to dinner at Don Picos. It was their first outting at a restaurant and they did great.

Mommy & Reagan. She is already holding her bottle! She is little but mighty. It only happened once.
Sarah and...hmmmm not too sure. It is very tough having identicals! You can't tell who is who in pictures!

Uncle Ronnie and Kara (I think), but it could be Paige.


Uncle Robert and Kara or Paige

Marble Slab! Mommy, Daddy, Brooke the triplets and Bubba (grandmom).

Daddy just relaxing and feeding a baby.

Gramps (Great-Grandpa Holub) came to babysit when our nanny was gone. He and Kara had a good nap. Thanks Gramps, we love you!

GG (Great Grandma Holub) is our angel. She has done so many night shifts, day shifts and comes over anytime we need her with her assistant, Uncle Jimmy. She has been our savior so many times. We love you so much! Thank you GG!

GG and Gramps came to babysit the girls so we could go to church! That is the best kind of babysitting. I have missed going to church so much and love any chance I get to go. I watched the services every Sunday on line while on bedrest for six months, but it is great to be able to be back in person. I can't actually volunteer in person, but have joined the prayer ministry so I can pray for people at home.

Uncle Robert & Aunt Alaina came over for church and dinner. They look like naturals!

Brooke is decorating some princess cookies.

Aunt Sandra came over with cookie dough, cookie cutters and decorations. They had a great time!

Brooke really enjoyed spending time with Aunt Sandra and wanted to know when she was coming back.

Waterballoon Fight!

We had a huge water balloon fight with our neighbors. The kids filled up big coolers with water balloons. It was a lot of fun, but I think they adults had more fun than the kids. They played capture the flag and then just threw the balloons at each other.

The neighbors

Brooke & Claudia having a great time.


The adults vs the kids. The adults were acting like kids again. It was great!

Brooke got out the big guns for the fight.

One month & many thanks!

I want to say THANK YOU!!!!!! We have gotten so much help for food and feedings through the carecalendar that it is wonderful. I started off when I was on bed rest sending thank you notes, then I would send an email or call and now I feel like time just slips away from me each day between feedings, preparing for feedings and Brooke. There is no down time, so I lie awake at night thinking of people I forgot to thank that day and feeling horrible. I want everyone to know how much we appreciate everything that you have helped with! We really could not do this without help or at least be sane. The food is just fabulous and we probably wouldn't eat if we didn't have it and we always have the leftovers for lunch. We really want to thank those of you who have helped feeding the girls, especially the 12am and 3am feedings. Sleep is so precious and it makes life manageable during the day. We don't get any naps during the day with Brooke home so if we get to sleep at night it is so wonderful. Even for those who come over and help at 9pm it is great because we can put Brooke to bed and give her some one-on-one time. We love you all and are truly blessed to have you be part of our girls lives. You are welcome to come feed anytime. We are home all the time and all weekends. They still eat at 9, 12, 3, 6, etc. Give us a call or sign up for night feedings on the care calendar. People seem to actually have fun doing it when they sign up with a friend. We also have comfy couches:)

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The girls are now one month! I can not believe it has already been a month since I delivered. A month on bed rest was like an eternity. I am so happy they are here and so happy not to be on bed rest anymore. We are very busy, but it is wonderful. I can kiss on them, walk around, breathe and even go check the mail. I also can do fun things with Brooke and missed that so much. It is great to get my body back. It is slow, but coming along. My uterus is still huge, so I look pregnant, but it is now a "cute" belly pregnant. My bells palsy is going away. I still am a little Popeye-ish, but it is much better. I can wear my contacts now for a few hours a day before they drive me crazy from being dry. I am still taking my blood pressure medicine, but it is better. I also don't have time to obsess about it. When I first got home from the hospital I checked it about ten times a day, but now I am lucky if I check it once. I hope to get off the medicine next month when I go back to the neurologist.
Paige, Reagan and Kara (with their monitor cords hanging out)
The monitors are a pain at times carrying them with each baby and they always come loose which is like a fire alarm going off, but it gives us peace of mind when the girls are sleeping. I can remember checking to see if Brooke was still breathing every five minutes. They will go off if a baby stops breathing for 20 seconds or if their heart rate goes too low. They have gone off a few times, but the babies have been okay. They should have them for three months.

Sisters!

The twins (Paige & Kara). We finally had to take the ankle id band from the hospital off of Paige because it was too tight. We can tell them apart because they are hooked to their monitors with their names on them, but we don't know what we'll do after that. I guess a tatoo is out of the question. I'm not up for piercing one of their ears, so I guess we'll have to paint a toe nail on one of them.

Paige is almost 7lbs and a great eater! She is a sweetie pie.

Reagan seems to be the most laid back of the bunch. She is eating so much better now and is almost six pounds. I forgot how much of a struggle we had just getting her to swallow when we first brought her home and it's only been two weeks. She has now passed up Brooke eating!

Kara is so sweet and eats the best. She now has a big round belly and a couple of chins. She doesn't like to sleep like her big sister Brooke, so Kara has been getting lots of attention and gets held the most. I guess she is our high maintenance girl :)

I gave all three girls their first real bath by myself on Saturday. I was so proud. I had to decide if I was going to switch the water out each time and if not who would get the "dirty" water. I decided to wait to see if the first one pottied in the water. She didn't so two baths were taken with the same water. You have to do what you can with triplets. I gave two girls a bath after the 12pm feeding and Kara had her bath after the 3pm feeding. I can remember what an ordeal the first bath was for Troy and I with Brooke. Now we think that having one baby was so easy. My how things have changed!

Brooke and Daddy at feeding time. Daddy is my hero, he is such a great helper. Brooke is adjusting well for the most part. She hasn't been getting to be early enough, so that causes her to be a bit whiny in the evenings.

We took the girls (and their monitors) on a walk in their stretch limo.
We got many looks from people driving by.

We dressed them alike before going to the doctor. It was so funny and they were little rolly pollies trying to take a picture. We have to go to the doctor often for weight checks and it is quite an adventure. Troy, myself and Bonnie (our nanny) bring the girls and their monitors on the excursion. If they are just getting weighed we have to take them out of their car seats, undress them, unhook them from the monitors take them to the scale and them get them dressed, hooked up, and back into their car seat. Whew!!

A day in the life of triplets...feed, poop, sleep, (repeat).

We made it home!

We have survived the first five nights with triplets! Many people have asked how they can help and we need extra hands, especially at night to help feed. Weekends are open as well. You can sign up now on our care calendar to help feed or give us an email. Just makes sure you haven't been sick and we can't have any kids over yet. We have lots of antibacterial soap and Purel to have clean hands. We especially need help for the 12am and 3am feedings, but any help is wonderful. We have a comfy couch you can nap on in between! We are just so tired and our nanny has been even helping with the 12am feedings along with all day. They eat at 9am, 12pm, 3pm, 6pm, 9pm, 12am, 3am, 6am, etc. We had so much food, but were either too tired or too busy to eat. Today I had an opportunity to eat lunch or lie down and I picked lying down. You can sign up to help at www.carecalendar.org

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The girls went to the doctor today for a weight check and all three are doing great, even Reagan. Kara is now 6lbs, Paige is 5lbs 12.5oz and Reagan is 5lbs 3.5oz All three got prescriptions today. Reagan for a diaper rash, Paige has a yeast infection and Kara has an infected finger nail from a hangnail.

Brooke and one of her BFF, Maci, at her VBS cook out. We could of picked up the triplets on Thursday, but we would have missed Brooke's special event. We didn't want to start off the babies coming home with disappointment for her.
Our babies were the last three in the entire NICU. It took the whole day to get them because their neonatalogist had a couple of emergencies. We were supposed to pick them up at noon, but we didn't end up getting home until 8:30pm. Since our nanny was sick she stayed the weekend with family. Troy and I thought we could do it ourselves until we saw how crazy it was just trying to get them out of the NICU. I sent an SOS text to my running friend Valerie for help and she and Shawna met us at home.

The car ride home! Reagan couldn't wait to get out of the NICU and see her house. Only one monitor went off in the car and it was a little tough to try to climb over the seat to figure out whose it was and how to turn it off. Brooke now rides in the third row seat which she loves because she thinks it is for big sisters and brothers. We used to have a huge car until we filled it up with so many little girls.

This is their set up downstairs in Nursery #2. Troy had to set up the crib quickly. We thought that they would be upstairs, so the poor dears don't have a bumper or bed skirt yet.

Daddy burping Reagan. He is such a great Daddy! Reagan is our slow eater, but is getting better.

Reagan getting her first "bath". We did all three girls in the same night!

Brooke has been growing caterpillars and this is her first butterfly. It has been very fun to watch them go from a tiny egg to a caterpillar to a cocoon and then a butterfly in just about a month.

Shawna to the rescue!!! Shawna and Valerie stayed the whole first night to help us and what a huge help they were. We didn't know what we were doing and Kara's monitor cable went out so it kept going off. A guy had to come out at 1am to bring a new cable. They have since been back to take on extra shifts feeding the girls. We love you!!!

Valerie feeding Paige. She stayed the first two nights with us and even had her husband come and help. It is such a blessing to get some sleep. Thanks so much Val and Mike!!!

Troy's grandmother and uncle have spent two nights with us helping out. Also, Alana, Sarah and their Uncle Ronnie helped out. Janet came over to learn what to do.

Brooke giving one of her sisters a kiss. The question of the day is, "Who is that?" We can not tell Paige and Kara apart at all. Paige still has her hospital tag on her leg and will until it doesn't fit anymore.

Brooke is such a proud big sister.

Aunt Sally came over to learn the ropes of feeding and is going to stay on Friday to help feed.

April feeding one of the girls and she even brought us Smash Burger for dinner.