Greenville Mothers of Multiples Winter Party at Pump it Up 1-26-08

On Saturday morning, January 26, 2008, we all headed to Pump it Up for the GMOMC winter party. Suprisingly we were the first to arrive, but were soon followed by Mary Clevenger's group. We all stayed in the staging area, watched the safety video, and then we were on to the party room. All the kids seemed to have a great time. Emily mostly wanted to go up the big slide. I took the babies into the circular jump house to let them play. They really enjoyed bouncing and crawling around. While we were in there the girls played with Maggie and Erin Makoseij. I knew Shannon, their mom, from back when I worked at E&Y. She was pregnant at the same time with Maggie and Erin as I was with Emily. Also, while we were in the jump house, the girls played some with a set of tripplets. After staying in there a long time, we got word that it was time to move over to the other party room, so we packed up our stuff and headed next door. In that room there were different slides and things to play on. We gave the little ones a snack and let them explore. However towards the end, the girls were getting too tired, so we headed home.

Snowy Night

On Thursday night, January 16th, they were calling for a winter mix here in the upstate. As most of you know, they can make a big hype about winter weather, that usually turns out not to happen. After getting Emily to sleep, I got a call from Katrina to let me know that they were seeing snow as they were leaving dinner. We looked outside and were amazed at the pretty steady downfall of nice powdery snow. It was so nice. It quickly built up a nice little cover over the ground and since it was likely going to turn into freezing rain by morning, I decided to get Emily up to play in the snow around 9pm. After all, snow is a rarity around here, especially nice powdery snow. It took her a few minutes to get going and then get bundled up, but she was so excited to see the snow. Before I had seen the snow, I had already gotten my jammies on, so I just threw on my big coat and a hat and we went out to play. John and her took turns throwing snow balls, mainly at me. We also got out the pull around sled and I pulled Emily through the yard. It was a lot of fun =)

As it turned out, the next morning it was mainly coming down as rain over the snow, so it was a good thing we played the night before =)

Bailey's One Year Well Check

At Bailey's one year well check today, John took her and Ansley to see Dr. Bass at Children's Medical in Greenville. He said she was doing well with her millstones, but would expect that she would be walking. Her stats were as follows:

Height:
30 3/4" 93%

Weight:
22 lbs. 14 oz 78%

Head:
18 1/4" 84%

Ansley's 1 Year Well Check

At Ansley's one year well check today, John took her and Bailey to see Dr. Bass at Children's Medical in Greenville. He said she was doing well with her millstones, but would expect that she would be walking. Her stats were as follows:

Height:
30 3/4" 93%

Weight:
20 lbs. 11 oz 44%

Head:
17 3/4" 51%

A New Year

We hope that all of you will have a great year filled with happiness!!

In typical New Years Eve fashion, we stayed home, although this year was very different that last year. It was a typical quiet evening (and for all of you that have not been to our house recently, that means uneventful, not free of loud noise =). We played with the kids, had a visit from Mom after she got off work, had a visit from Carmen, our close friend and neighbor, and then put the little ones to bed. After they were in bed, we broke out the few remaining fireworks we had from a pack we have been working on for about 6 years =) We love to shoot them, but usually do just a couple. Emily defiantly got a big kick out of them this year and was left wanting more. After fireworks, we got Emily ready for bed and she asked to be able to sleep with me, she loves to have one of us sleep with her. I agreed, even though I know going it it will be a long night =) and we headed up to bed. John stayed up for a while doing some work and watching tv since he was not ready to go to bed at 8:30. Emily and I settled in for the long night as expected (this is due to the fact she is all over the place in her sleep, kicks in her sleep, and winds up smother you). The next morning, we arose bright and early (translation into Emily time is pre dawn =) and got ready to visit the Jefferson side of the family. We made our way over to Gran's house around 9 and were greeted by Mr. and Mrs. J. Alli was just getting up and Gran was still asleep. We had a nice visit and exchanged Christmas presents since we had been out of town during Christmas. Emily enjoyed spreading out the sparkly tissue paper and the little ones enjoyed picking it up. Around 10:30, we packed up and headed to Mom's for a New Years traditional lunch. When we arrived, Emily was excited to see Mom. The girls had a lot of fun playing prior to lunch. We all sat down in the dining room around 11:30 for lunch. John and I fixed our plates with the traditional items, black eyed peas, corn bread, pork roast, and rice. However, nether one of us would touch the collared greens. I know the tradition goes that they will bring you money in the new year, but I have to say that if that is what it takes, I will be pretty poor =) In fixing the little ones plates, I thought I would give them some. When we sat down, Dave tried to coax us into eating them by saying it would be just liked fresh spinach. Not a good analogy in my book =) Ansley picked at her beans and corn bread. I tried giving her a bite of the collards, but I barely got it into her mouth before she started spitting it out and violently shaking her head no. Since she is my pickier eater, I still tried Bailey. Lets just say that she pulled the same routine as Ansley. Everyone laughed since she will normally eat anything. After lunch the girls played a little while but were really very tired so we packed up. Emily stayed with Mom since they were ready to catch up from us having been out of town a long time.