10 months old

Look at Eden reaching for Hannah's hair--she loves to pull it!


Eden (Edie-bopper)

Bella (Bella-boo)

Hannah (Hannah-darlin')

Can you believe my girls are 10 months old? Their personalities are becoming so distinct now! We call Bella the "little adventurer," Eden is the "party girl," and Hannah is our lovey-dovey "Hannah darling." They are starting to interact, giggle at each other, wake each other up from naps on purpose (much to my chagrin), and take toys out of each others' hands (and scream when that happens!). It's actually usually just Eden that takes toys out of the other girls' hands. And guess what...it's starting to get EASIER! But I don't want to jinx it by saying it. They even usually take their morning nap at the same time, and I can use that time to do whatever needs doing (I still use it most of the time to lay down myself because I'm still trying to catch up). It's beautiful. THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL!

Spiritual Thought

So my prayers recently have turned toward having help learning the lessons Heavenly Father wants me to learn from this experience. And today I heard the most incredible talk on BYUtv (which I rarely watch, but just happened to flip by today) given at Education week this year by Brad Wilcox. His topic was the atonement and if you are interested in feeling completely moved and understanding the atonement and its vast purpose I highly recommend you look it up. I think you can find in on byub.org. One quote has stayed with me throughout this evening so I'll share:

"Jesus Christ doesn't love us because WE are good, He loves us because HE is good."

It always feels good to be reminded that the Lord is listening to the yearnings of my heart and that He is willing to find ways to inspire me and nourish my soul. This talk for some reason was exactly what I was longing to hear today and Heavenly Father found a way to get it to me. I know that without Jesus I am nothing and that with Him I can accomplish all He wants me to do. I cannot deny Him, nor would I ever try. Jesus loves me, this I know! If I ever were to doubt it, all I'd have to do is look at the light in my babies' eyes. I have enough evidence of His love in my life to convince the harshest skeptic.

oops...forgot

So for this entire year I've been pumping breastmilk. If it makes you uncomfortable to read about it, you're reading the wrong blog. Anyway, I've been pumping. The milk flowed like crazy for the first 5 1/2 months while the babies would stil nurse, but once they decided they only like bottles and refused to nurse, the milk production steadily declined. Being the dedicated breastmilk provider that I am, I have perservered in providing it for them. Until the past week. I don't know what happened, something in me switched off or something like that. Okay, part of it is my fault since I was only pumping 3 times a day for the past couple of months and then I decided that I'm so tired all the time that maybe twice a day is okay. So I dropped to morning and night. But it all fell apart last Saturday when I went the entire day and PLUM FORGOT to pump! Woke up, worked out, did jobs around the house, etc., and even went swimming with the fam that afternoon. I even noticed that my breasts felt full when I put on my swimsuit around 5p.m. and it didn't even dawn on me then that I had forgotten to pump that morning! At about 8 p.m. it occured to me that I didn't remember pumping that morning. So I asked Dave if he'd seen any of my milk in the fridge. Nope. I felt like such a slacker! How could I completely forget like that? As if I hadn't been pumping multiple times a day for the past 10 months! As if I didn't have three babies crawling all around me all day to remind me that they need milk! As if I wasn't getting engorged from going almost 24 hours without pumping! Well, now I have proof that my brain is turning to mush.

new measurements

So the girls went in for their checkup and we got their new measurements!

Hannah: 19 lbs. 11 oz., 28 3/4 inches--she's in the 90th percentile!
Bella: 18 lbs. 3 oz., 28 1/4 inches--50th percentile on weight, 75th on height
Eden: 17 lbs. 1 oz., 28 inches--10th percentile on weight, 75th on height

My little girls are growing up!

family pictures

So we're getting ready to have family pictures taken and I don't know why but the stress of figuring out what everyone is going to wear is keeping me up at night! Finally my sister advised me that because of all that I've been through, what I should do is pick out my favorite outfit and then plan around that...BRILLIANT! Now, what is my favorite outfit...oh, it still doesn't fit because my triplet gut is still hanging out there! AARGH! I think I'll get off the computer and go make an appointment with a plastic surgeon!