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It's been 2 years and her hand feels just as tiny in mine as it did on their birth day.I remember the first night after they were born in the NICU...I made a trip down in the middle of the night while Christi was sleeping. I just sat with them. I didn't know what to do. They seemed fragile...even the slightest pressure would break them. But I held their hands and sat. I don't know how much

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After our busy days out and to the zoo, Christi and I thought we would take Sunday to relax and just do whatever we felt like. I just wanted to make sure that we got down to the pool b/c I'd been telling them that we'd go swimming forever (their only "swimming" experience comes in the crowded bathtub by putting their head back....lol).We ALL slept in until 9:00! We almost missed the buffet

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To start off by following up on yesterday's post, the kids slept very well...Paulie did wake up a little early (5am), but fell back asleep with us for an hour or two.We didn't really have a schedule for the day as far as when we wanted to get to the zoo (which is insane if you know Christi!), so we took the morning pretty relaxed. Everyone had breakfast from the buffet downstairs (Christi and I

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So I haven't posted anything in forever ! But I thought since we're on our first family vacation, I should share some of the first day experiences : )First of all, as a reminder - they're almost two ! (6/15 is their birthday) I say that to remind you (or warn you) of their current "stage" in life - some would argue not the #1 time to take a vacation : ) Not if you know me - some call it

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I've been trying to wait it out to write this blog about the kids' current speech and vocabulary! But I felt like I had to share some of their words and what we hear from day to day....Logan is definitely the biggest talker with English words....he has some semblance of many words like: da-da, ma-ma, ball, dog ("gog"), deer, brush (ba-baaaaash), shower (aaawashh), purple, baby, green, go, Ella,

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and her name is Reese Witherspoon.We've never been able to bring them in the living room and sit with us during a movie or TV or anything b/c their attention span is impossibly short. They're immediately off trying to push buttons on the TV or jump on the recliners...Tonight we decided to bring them in the living room while Reese Witherspoon's Sweet Home Alabama was on and the boys were hooked.

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Just a quick post about an article that I saw about a crazy environmental study. It argues that families with more than 2 kids will create too large of a carbon footprint and therefore should be "capped" at 2!....hmmmm, so what does that mean for our family and other higher-order multiples families? Having More Than 2 Kids Will Destroy Planet, Environmentalist SaysSorry, but this just bugged me

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I'm watching the season premier of Lost with Christi and thought I'd do an update to talk about the babies and our family's Christmas....First of all, I'm typing this on our new laptop that we got for Christmas (since our old PC crashed!).Next - we were added to the "Got Your Hands Full" Blog Roll : ) It's the best sorted link list of multiples blogs that I've found so far! Becky, the

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A couple of our friends told us about Christmas activities at the Lake FarmParks in Kirtland, OH (Santa, toy workshop, dancing elves, lights, etc.) so we went down to see what it was all about. Unfortunately, the activities required tickets and they were sold out, but we were still able to visit the farm and see all of the baby animals that have been born recently. Logan liked petting the lambs

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It's been awhile (again), but I thought I'd write since we're getting back into the groove after a great weekend of visits from friends (including kids!).We had plans to get out to the Lake MetroParks FarmPark, but the weather was just too chilly (especially for the Okies) to go out and see animals in the freezing cold! Instead we got all the kids bundled up in snowsuits and gloves and hats and

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Am I wrong in thinking that a duck Halloween costume is not nearly as cool and hip as a monkey? Or even a hippo? Christi and I had a debate over the masculinity of one of the triplets' costumes (Paulie's - see pictures) for their trick-or-treat adventure tonight.**In all actuality, looking at the pictures again - the costume may not be a duck, but in fact be a baby chick....but the point

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Just a quick update with some pictures from my cousin's wedding in Virginia. It was a beautiful setting and great to see all the family together for a great occasion. We missed Jeremy (the bride's brother) since he is overseas serving our country in the Marines, but we made sure that he was included in as many of the pictures as possible (see examples below!). My brother was also missing for

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I hesitate to write this as Christi and I are here in Williamsburg, VA for my cousin's wedding (congrats tomorrow, Janis and Joseph!) and I look to see when the last blog post was - and it was when we were in Florida! For a triplet family blog, the last few posts have been more about time away from home - trust me, it doesn't happen often - just a lot of things happening at once, I guess : )I've

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We made it out of Florida with no weather delays from Gustav!I wanted to post again to attach some pictures of the storm. We'll have pics of our visit with Uncle Lance, Aunt Lindi and Tanner on our website asap (www.paulandchristi.com).The storm that SW Florida got was just outer band rain,but you could certainly see the effects of Hurricane Gustav! Here you can see one of the storms coming in(

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So, we're in Ft. Meyers, Florida visiting Lindi and Lance ( http://web.mac.com/feazelnation/iWeb/Feazelnation/welcome.html ) and Hurricane Gustav happened to be barrelling toward the gulf coast. We're in no danger from the hurricane, but it is throwing some heavy rains and winds our way. Nowhere near the amount that New Orleans and others will feel in the coming hours, but it's here nonetheless

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We've finally done it !14 months and our first dinner out as a family. Granted, we cheated a little bit by asking Christi's parents to come along to help out - but it definitely was needed! We're glad they came along b/c they are still just a little bit too restless in the highchairs to give us the time to eat....but we made it and they were incredibly good. They are always absolute angels in

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Ella has been close to walking for a couple weeks now, but all of the sudden Paul caught up to her! They are both putting together 3, 4 and 5 steps at a time walking. Neither of them are as confident with it as Logan was when he started. He just took off and started walking everywhere. Paulie and Ella are more cautious with it and are still doing 90% crawling! But they both get soooo excited

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Wow...it's been almost 3 months since my last comments!Well, what's happened? We've had a triplet birthday party, Logan has been walking for over a month now and Ella still has no teeth! The nights are getting better - Paulie sleeps through the night most of the time (since switching to soy milk), Logan sleeps through ANYTHING and Ella makes it through most nights unless she loses her bink or

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So everyone is doing well - coming up on the 11 month mark! Both of our boys have broken through their 2 bottom teeth and are working on their upper ones now....it makes for interesting nights (meaning no sleep)! Ella still has no teeth, but we think that they're coming soon (but then again, we've thought that for months!)Some new things that they are doing:Furniture walking (shuffling along

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I can’t believe it’s been this long since updating on how the babies are doing! I guess there’s enough going on that it gets put to the back of the line, but wow! It’s been like 3 months A lot happens in three months!We have 3 crawlers….or should I say explorers? It only took a few days for Paulie to figure out how to do it (he started with the rocking on hands and knees, then took off). Logan

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wow…finally got a chance to drop a quick note on the babies! we got through all our December doctor appointments and already got their RSV shots for January…I made it through my pre-spring one week class and it went pretty well - thank you to everyone that offered help during that time…Christi and I appreciate it! the babies are doing new things all the time now…it seems that they’re going

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Well, the babies had their 6-month well visit and got their RSV shots for December (they will get their 6-month shots at the end of December. Everyone is doing well - we cleared up a lot of our questions with Dr. Jill and the babies have started solid food now! We also made it to the triplets’ cardiology follow-up from their days in the NICU. They wanted to have them see a cardiologist to

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