So we've been a wee bit busy...

I'm sure no one will be surprised when I say we've been a wee bit busy these last few weeks. I'd hoped to have more frequent blog updates, but when you catch yourself trying to catch a quick nap at a red light, making blog posts tends to fall by the wayside...


Our time in the Special Care nursery seemed to fly by. Blake and Brian were released and allowed to come home on July 12th, just 5 days short of one month in the hospital. It was extra chaotic at first, although we appreciated the welcoming we received from friends and family!

Even Baldric (Our cat who thinks he's a dog) had to come check out the new members of the household.

It was emotionally difficult to leave Kaelynn in the hospital, but it did give us the benefit of getting used to caring for two infants before all three were here. Kaelynn had had another brady (Bradycardia) shortly before she was discharged, which meant she had an automatic 5 day extension of room service at the hospital. We struggled to split our time between the two boys at home, and our younger daughter at the hospital, while also trying very hard to not neglect our older daughter Kali!

Everyone's been pitching in to help, and it's been VERY VERY appreciated!

Finally, on July 19th, Kaelynn was deemed ready to come home as well, and our family was finally complete and whole.

All three were finally together again, for the first time since they were in the womb (Not counting the brief photo shoot referenced below, of course)!

Right before the boys were discharged from the hospital, the hospital contracted photographer wanted to do a photoshoot of them. Honestly, we were just going through the motions and initially didn't intend to buy the pictures. But, when we saw the proofs, we bought the prints, and more importantly, the digital images and their copyright. Following is a sampling of some of those pictures:

We call this one "Thirty Toes"

And this one is by far our favorite. We've started referring to it as the "Allstate picture"

Sorry for the disjointed writing in this update, but I had a lot of material to cover, and, well, we're all pretty disjointed right now! We're starting to fall into a routine, with my dad covering the morning feedings during the week (THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!) and Tarla, Tarynn's mother covering the EARLY morning feedings and most of the feedings during the day, with Tarynn and I getting evening, and spot coverage here and there (Admittedly, Tarynn is doing FAR more than I am!) I can't express my thanks enough for ALL that have pitched in and helped... Hillary Clinton was close. It doesn't take a village to raise a child. It takes a FAMILY (Of both blood and friendship) and I don't know what we would do without ours!

As is tradition for babies on blogs, we've given each baby a stuffed animal, and will try to take regular pictures of them next to their stuffie for a visual indication of their growth. Here is the first round of those.

Brian (Froggie) 7/24/2011

Blake (Horsie)

Kaelynn (MooCow) (She wasn't terribly thrilled with this idea!)

Also this past Sunday we attempted our first family outing of Tarynn, Kali, Blake, Brian, Kaelynn and myself just to see how it would go. It was definitely a bit of an undertaking, but went better than I was expecting it would.

Three baby seats in the van (Thanks to Tarynn's dad, David Meier for giving us the van!!!)

The triplet stroller drew MANY looks, comments, etc wandering around Babies R' Us!

We don't plan on making many trips out with everyone (Especially once RSV season starts. Ugh!) but it's good to know we can before we NEED to.

Okay, that's all for now...