A fun day at the park

Today my mother and I took all three girls to the park. We took out the triple stroller for the second time and took Sarah to go and play. Hopefully this will become a daily routine.

Sarah absolutely adores the swings. She loves to be tickled everytime she swings by you.

We just got Sarah her own sand toys since she always plays with the other kids stuff when she is at the park. She had fun with them, although she is still unsure how to use the shovels and rakes etc. Sarah is definitely not afraid to get a bit dirty!

So much fun!!

What do I do with these?

Sarah and me!

Good Doctor's visit

All three girls went into the doctor's office a couple days ago. Everyone is healthy and happy. The twins are growing and have put on almost a pound each. Also Sarah's ears, which have been clogged for quite a while, are all cleared up. As you can tell, she is happy about this:

Twins doing well

Just a quick update to allay any fears that we might be drowning beneath a sea of children.

Everyone is doing well. Sherri and I are not getting quite as much sleep as we'd like, but other than that everything is good. Sophie and Shayna are extremely tiny, which wouldn't be pointed out too often, except that big sister Sarah is always there as a reminder. But they are doing what they are supposed to - lots of sleep and eating fairly well.

Anyway, here are a couple of pictures from today:

Sophie (not sleeping or eating but) looking cute (if not a bit worried about something)

Doing what they do best

Welcome Shayna and Sophie!

Shayna Maleah and Sophie Rose were born yesterday, March 27, 2010!
Shayna is named after both of Sherri's grandmothers (Maleah means peaceful, which is the same meaning as Frieda.) Also, Shayna is named after my grandmother Sylvia. Sophie is named after my greatgrandmother.
So far they are doing well. Shayna may have to be treated a bit for jaundice, but everything seems good besides that.
Shayna was born at 7:11 p.m. Weighing in at 5 lbs 11 ozs, and 18.9 inches.
Sophie was born at 7:23 p.m. Weighing in at 4 lbs 15 ozs, and also 18.9 inches.
Once things got going everything went very quickly. The hospital has a policy that all "multiple" births happen in the OR. Sherri was taken to the OR about 7:00 p.m. (Not that she didn't labor before that, but everything happened at once when she did get in the OR.) It was a natural birth, but Sophie was delivered "breach" (feet first).

Anyway, here's some pictures:

Sophie and Shayna

Here's Sherri and me with the new babies

Mommy and babies

Can't quite tell from here, but 90% sure that is Sophie.

Shayna

Family photo

Sarah has been doing very well with her siblings so far. She keeps wanting to touch them. When both the babies started to cry, Sarah jumped right in there and cried with them. They seem like they will get along just fine.

Long Blog of Updates

Okay... so it's been forever since we have updated the blog so this entry will be quite long. Sorry! A lot has happened since the last post.

We took Sarah to Disneyland for a few hours to play..

Daddy dressed up as the new Mad Hatter.

We went to a family friends wedding that was catered by In N Out burger! Yum!! They also had a sundae bar... Best wedding food ever!

Here is a picture of my sister and I with Sarah

All dressed up in her party dress..

Sarah turned 11 months old..

and then a year (I can't believe she is already 1 year old!)

We took her to have professional pics taken on her birthday but I don't seem to have those on my computer at the moment so I will have to post those separately.

Playing in her ball pit on her birthday.

We just about finished the nursery.

I am just waiting for letters with the twins names to come so I can paint them and hang them above each crib. We decided to go with something that wasn't to "baby".. so we opted out of the options I had previously posted of birds and butterflies etc and went with this more modern approach. I absolutely love how the room came out.

We met my sister and nephew for lunch and then went to a new park to play for a while. Sarah loves to play in the sand and luckily has not tried to eat it yet. The sun was in her eyes, but otherwise I liked this pic.

Daddy and Sarah at the park

I am sure there is much more that I am forgetting to post but for now this will have to do. :)

Sarah's B-day

A Day at Irvine Park with The McMichaels

Today we spent the afternoon with Amy, David and Cambria at Irvine Park. We met up and went to the zoo where Sarah got to pet the Goats. The goats decided to retaliate by eating Scotts shirt :)

The girls just "hanging out" on a bench

After the zoo we found a picnic table near a park and had a picnic lunch. Then it was play time on the swings.
Sarah LOVES the swings

Cambria enjoying the swings too.

Sarah got to crawl around on the grass and had a blast. Here are the girls playing together looking at leaves and sticks.

It was nearly impossible to get a shot with both of them smiling and looking at the camera

All in all, we had a great day and look forward to many more play dates! Thanks to the McMichaels for a great afternoon.