Lathan Logan Lauren London: December 2006

Thursday, December 28, 2006

Christmas

A Late Merry Christmas greeting from our family to yours!!!

Logan

Lauren

Lathan

Wow...these past few days have been action packed!!! We've been out and about shopping, visiting family and friends and enjoying the holidays.

DECEMBER 24th...
On Christmas Eve we started out at Granny & Grandpa's for a get together that included Granny and Grandpa (of course), Baubka, Bob & Kecia and their son Gabriel.

(Granny & Lauren)

(Baubka & Logan)

(Logan & Kecia, Lathan & Bob)

(Baubka and Grandpa helped Lauren open up her very nice gifts.)

From there we headed over to Grammie's to have dinner and get ready for Christmas Eve mass. However, instead of church we ended up taking Grammie to the hospital where she would spend the night and await surgery Christmas day. Thankfully the specialist who saw her Christmas morning felt like the issue had a chance of resolving on its on so he sent her home for the week to see what happens. We're still waiting!!!

Since the surgery had been called off, we loaded up and made our way to Maw Maw's house to visit Grandpa and the gang!

DECEMBER 25th

(Lathan & Grandpa)

(Lauren & Maw Maw)

There were LOTS of new toys...

(Triplets in the Choo Choo Wagon)

And LOTS of good company!!!

(Logan & Uncle Jake)

(Lauren & Aunt Sandy)

(Lathan & Grandma)

After a short visit it was time to head back North to Grammie's for dinner.

Aunt Ju Ju and Aunt Pammie did ALL of the cooking (WOW) since Grammie was sick. Very impressive girls!!! We opened more presents and got to visit more of our wonderful family!

(Logan & Aunt Tonya)

Aunt Pammie bought the babies New Balance tennis shoes. Lauren's are pink like Aunt JuJu's.

And the boys' are gray like Mommy's and Aunt Pammie's!

And even though it seemed like the babies had gotten everything imaginable, Santa still hadn't visited! When Mommy and her sisters took Grammie to the hospital, Daddy had made a call to the North Pole and asked for a rain check on the triplets goodies. Instead of visiting our house on Christmas Eve, Santa was scheduled to arrive at our place Christmas night. So we dressed the babies in their Christmas PJ's and headed back home so we wouldn't miss him!

DECEMBER 26th
The babies aren't always awake at the same time, but since we wanted for all three to see what Santa brought together we had to wake poor Logan up. He wasn't pleased...

Daddy scooped the trio up and brought them downstairs.

Good babies indeed!!!

Lauren and her first baby doll!

Looks like everyone hit the jackpot!

Each baby got a chair from Pottery Barn, perfectly sized for their little bodies! These will be perfect for story time.

So after our three day gift extravaganza here are the toys and goodies that the babies ended up with. Not pictured are the Choo Choo wagon and the DVD players for their car seats!!! UNBELIEVABLE!

And as if that wasn't enough, we asked for sleepers and we got much needed SLEEPERS!!! Twenty seven to be exact!

Where we'll put all of this stuff is beyond me but it sure is a nice problem to have. (The "too many presents", not necessarily the "too small house"!!!)

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU to all of our family and friends who helped make this Christmas so special!

And wanna know one of the best presents of the season??? Grandma Wanna Be is now officially Grandma Gonna Be! Grandma and Grandpa got engaged on Saturday...we are SO excited for both of them!!!

(An outdated picture, I know. We'll fix that next visit!)

The End.

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Wednesday, December 20, 2006

We need your help!!!

We've entered our Christmas picture in a photo contest on Shutterfly and if you get a second we'd love to have your vote!!!

Just copy and paste the following link into your browser
http://photocontest.shutterfly.com/action/photocontest/vote?entry=171496

Voting ends December 31st...THANKS!!!

UPDATE...We've also added our announcement photo.

You can vote on both!

http://photocontest.shutterfly.com/action/photocontest/vote?entry=171508

Diamonds

Lauren got diamond earrings for Christmas from The Pool's...she's not spoiled or anything! And the best part, I really think she's excited! When I would tell her how sparkly they were or how pretty she was going to look she would squeal. Of course she became mute once the camera started rolling - silly girl!

Monday, December 18, 2006

Lauren

Lauren's bow is often a target for the boys to grab. Apparently all of the pulling has stretched it out a bit...

Thursday, December 14, 2006

TWHS

Here are a few of my favorite pics from today...

We woke up, happy as usual!!!

Lathan

Logan

Lauren

Then we headed to TWHS to visit some friends. Our first stop was at the 9th grade campus and then we made our way to the senior high. (We got to visit with way more people than I got pictures of!)

The girls all in red! Lauren laughs with Debbie and Debe...

The L's meet the P's! Logan and Lauren get fed by Patsy and Pam...

The babies got to meet Reanna for the first time. Here is Reanna with Lauren...

Lathan, Lauren & The Godwins...

The babies were pretty tired from all the attention. Here Lauren gets all wrapped up and ready to take a nap...

That's all for now!

Books

Aunt Pammie (the 1st grade teacher) should be proud! The babies are really starting to enjoy their books...

Sometimes we share...

Sometimes we don't...

***P.S. Logan got a book, too!***

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Adios!

Last week we said goodbye to the last bit of medical equipment still hanging around our house...the apnea monitors! They were incredibly helpful in the beginning, especially at night when the babies sometimes needed to be reminded to breathe but now that the babies are big and strong they are no longer needed.

No monitors, no oxygen tanks, no tubes, no IV poles, no NG tubes, no medications, no nurse visits...nothing!

Just three healthy babies!!!

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Pucker Up!

Lathan kept reaching for the lemon on Daddy's glass at dinner last night...

Monday, December 11, 2006

Whew...what a day!!!

This picture pretty much sums up today's experience at The Picture People...

The staff was incredibly nice and the babies were looking mighty cute in their Christmas Pj's, but the timing just wasn't right.

After our picture appointment we took a trip to the Galleria, where the babies met Santa for the first time...

(There was a little girl standing to the side of the photographer and Logan and Lauren never took their eyes off of her. Though this didn't make for a great picture, it may have been a good thing since they never saw who was actually holding them!)

We are incredibly worn out from our little adventure. Hauling the stroller, two diaper bags and three babies did us in! I lost count on how many times Patrick commented on how he wished Grammie and Aunt Pammie could have been with us to help. He tires easily from a normal day of shopping...its gonna take him a while to get over today's outing! And I'm not sure that I will ever get over how much attention we attract when we go places. It is so funny to me to hear just about every other person we pass make a comment or to stop us to look at the babies. They either have a new baby of their own and "can't imagine three", know someone who has multiples or are just curious to see triplets (not that I wouldn't have done the same thing a year ago!). A lot of people see us carrying one or two and say something about how cute our twins are...then they see the other(s) in the stroller and go nuts! One lady came over to tell us about her co worker's wife who is on bedrest pregnant with triplets (we told her of our lengthy hospital stay), another lady knew someone with preemie twins born recently at 29 weeks who are struggling, much like ours did in the beginning. She was relieved to hear that ours had too, been on ventilators, had brain bleeds, etc and that they are now perfectly healthy. Kind of neat!

So now I'm off to bed a little earlier than usual to get some rest and gear up for our 3rd round of RSV shots tomorrow...yuck!