It’s one thing to consistently wake up at night by a shrieking or fidgety baby, it’s something else to wake up to a crazy racket happening downstairs at two AM.
First thought- that might wake the babies!
Second thought, the dog and the cat are trying to kill each other…I better go check!
I went downstairs, and there are bags and recycling stuff all over the dining room, and a very offended dog (Kalli, our greyhound) making a bunch of noise and running back and forth.
It turns out that since it was stormy and windy out, one of the wandering neighbor cats noticed our doggie door and decided to come inside. Our “guard dog” did not take it well, but couldn’t actually get it back outside.
Craig helped me hold the dog back so I could scoot our little visitor back outside, which it happily did.
But seriously, first I have a live mouse visitor thanks to my cat, and now another animal comes in!
And none of this includes actually getting up FOR THE BABIES! Which we do….a lot.
One of the bigger surprises (other than 3!!) for me was the fact that everyone was born with some hair on their heads. Granted, not a lot, but not bald either.
We learned at one of the last belly NSTs in week 31 or 32 that Baby A (Harper) had hair that was visible through the ultrasound.
Now that we are about 30 weeks out of the womb, we’ve been watching the girls’ hair start to grow in more places than on their birth day. They still have a solid bald spot in the middle of the back of their heads, but other than that it’s starting to grow!
Reagan’s hair coming in.
Emerie had a bald spot over her right ear for a couple months. We thought it was due to a birthmark, but luckily that doesn’t seem to be the case now and hair is starting to grow in the same spot.
Everyone has a “five o’clock shadow” and I think by Christmas we will see a lot more!
Oh and the color!
I was positive during pregnancy that everyone would be born bald and eventually grow into little toe headed blondes. That doesn’t seem to be the case; in fact, we are certainly going to have redheads of some kind! In the sun, the girls hair definitely shines reddish, not blonde.
I am so very excited to see the color!!
Craig still sporting the hair…the girls are working on catching up…
As I start writing this, Reagan is sweetly looking at me from her swing while her sisters obediently nap up in their cribs.
We made it to seven months!
Teething is tough
The past month is full of small developmental milestones. We survived leap four and are now onto leap five, which is basically about relationships and space. They can now tell when we walk away from them (super fun…) or when something is in their personal space (like a sister). Binkie use is progressing nicely and they hold them and chew on them, although not quite correctly. Emerie constantly takes hers out of her mouth and then screams, like “who did that!?”. We are still working on that one…
Everyone has figured out their feet exist, although I think Emerie likes to play with hers the most. She is also teething like crazy with a tooth peeking on the bottom right.
A yellow Baymax
Sleep sacks are still needed at night. Reagan still startles the worst of the three but is slowly improving. The next step is to try these adorable sleep suits that look more like the Big Hero 6 marshmallow guy than a sleeping bag.
Harper and Emerie have tried a few naps with it and so far so good.
Harper smiles
Not surprisingly, we are already entering the age of the princesses. In fact, YouTube has some great Disney princess compilations that the girls love to jump to. They are picky though and don’t like all of them. I guess they already have standards lol. Craig is singing along to them now, and I’m relearning many of the songs I used to know as a kid.
Reagan giggles and talks to them and it’s so cute; all the while standing (not jumping) in her jumper. She looooves Snow White but it could be that she has brighter colors than the others.
Everyone now really smiles back when you smile at them, or even if you just make a happy face, they respond and I love it!! Our photo ops are still working at well for the moment.
And the fingernails! Looking in the mirror this morning, I noticed I have a nice scratch on the side of my face from one of them. Not sure who but it’s definitely from a tiny fingertip. They grow so fast!
Speaking of growing fast, the girls are getting bigger! Harper and Reagan are currently .4 of an OZ apart, with Harper in the lead at 15# 14 oz. Emerie is catching up at 14# 3 oz. 6-9 months clothes are washed and organized and starting to be used.
And lastly, Mother Nature did smile at us once this week. It was windy enough that all the leaves in our front yard blew across the street so we don’t have to rake them. Pretty sweet.
Some people have cable television. Some people have digital. Some people have Netflix and Hulu (like us), or YouTube. Well, we also have something called “Jumper Cable”.
What is that, you ask?? Well, it is hosted by Harper and Emerie…not so much by Reagan, and goes something like this.
Sometimes you just need Jumper Cable with a little Disney princess music
Harper smiles
Who needs real TV when you have this action in front of you? Especially when they are happy and jumping.
Harper is our dancer for Jumper Cable. She sways and smiles and goes foot to foot. She gets the dancing side from Craig and the swaying from me. Hopefully everyone gets the rhythm from Dad.
Emerie smiles
Emerie is the aerobics instructor. She does more of a lift off to space type jump, and it’s full body. This generally occurs while she’s shrieking or telling you how to practice your aerobics.
Reagan smiles
Reagan is more of the talk show host than anything active. She more or less stands very still (feet on the ground) and plays with the toys on the jumper, commentating most of it and making the toys make sound. She certainly will NOT have any part in jumping. Same idea as Harper having NO part in even the concept of rolling over.
But really, who could dislike jumper cable. It’s so darn adorable. Not quiet or relaxing, but adorable.
Every October the NICU at the hospital puts on a reunion to see all the kiddos that started out life needing a little help and now are growing and thriving after being given the opportunity to!
We ventured over to the event today, through the very rainy day we were having. It finally looks crummy and cold out and more like the Alaska fall weather we are used to. That being said, we broke out the long sleeves and booties so the girls stayed warm.
The event was really cute and we saw some of our original nurses and doctors. Emerie had some snuggle time with our favorite doctor (Mary Alice) and we had the chance to catch up with a few folks.
A professional photographer took photos of all the kiddos and I’m really excited to see how those turn out. The girls did great and were in good moods and we even fed them while we were there and they did fine with the noise and activity.
