Another milestone.....

Yesterday marked another milestone in our journey, it was 26 weeks. My work had the baby shower and we were showered with many, many, many gifts. It was a true blessing. We received over 1000 diapers, soaps, powders, and many other things. I began organizing all the items. I thought our house was a decent size until you begin putting all this stuff in it.

Patsy is coming over this evening and putting up the border. I can't wait to see the rooms with the border up. I will put pictures up as soon as it is finished. Linda (a friend from work) is picking up a couple items for me in Columbus when she goes today. The Babies R' Us in Toledo did not have them. She has generously agreed to pick them up for us. Check back tonight for pictures.

How the appointment went......

The appointment went really, really well. Dr. Sunderji was very happy with our progress. Ethan was weighing 2lbs 1oz, Evan was 2lbs, and Olivia was 1lb 11 oz. He said that Olivia has had catchup growth and she was doing a lot better. I can't express how happy he was. We see him again in 4 weeks unless something would change between now and then. We will see Dr's Schutz and Perkins every week until then. Dr. Schroeder has called us everyday since last Saturday. He is also very happy with the blood sugars.

The border is now here and ready to be put up. My Aunt Beth gave us outfits for the kids. ACHP (my work) is having a big to do tomorrow for all the pregnant people at work. We have four. I take the grand prize with 3. I will have more stuff to put away tomorrow.

Specialist appointment today

We go to the specialist today at 1pm. Hopefully we are maintaining the status quo. There's a chance they could keep her in the hospital today. I don't know on what grounds he would do that, because it seems like everything is going good. Check back later to see how it went.

On another note, the crib was exchanged and the new one is perfect. All put together and ready for little Olivia. The border is getting dropped off tonight and is getting put up on Friday. Pictures by the weekend, I promise.

Paint, paint, paint, arghhhhhhh......The final part

I finished the boys room today. I got much more accomplished this weekend than I thought I would. The border has been picked up by my mom. Patsy is going to put the border up, hopefully this week. They are picking up a different crib tomorrow. I'll have to get that put together and then the organization work can begin. There is lots and lots of organizing that needs to be done.

This Thursday will be 26 weeks. We are just plugging along one week at a time. We see the specialist on Wednesday. I just hope she gets to come home. The uterine monitor activity has no shown much activity, so I think they will let her come back home. We will find out.

Paint, paint, paint, arghhhhhhh......Part 3

Thanks to my mother-in-law (Patsy) Olivia's room is totally painted. In her room the top half is pink and the bottom half is green. We will have border to put up as soon as we find it. Babies R' Us in Toledo was sold out of it yesterday. The boys room is half done. The top is a lite blue and the bottom will be a darker blue. They also will have a border in the middle but we haven't picked it up yet.

My brother-in-law (John) came over to help paint. However, we ended up putting together the dresser for Olivia's room. The crib was broken and has to be exchanged. It was cracked on the back part of the crib. Patsy and Jim took the crib to exchange for another tomorrow. Hopefully the new one will not be broken.

I will put pictures up of the rooms as soon as they are finished. I have two people looking for the border in Cleveland and Columbus. Lets hope they will find it. It is not available online currently. They have drastically reduced the price of the items and I am afraid they are discontinuing the line.

Received and e-mail today that said the crib and glider for the boys room is on its way. Should be here in the next few days. Of course tomorrow is Labor Day and that will add some time to the whole thing.

Babies R' Us and Wal-mart Registries

Here is the link to our registry at Babies R' Us and Wal-mart.

Babies R' Us:
http://www.toysrus.com/registry/search/index.jsp?_flowExecutionKey=_cA810B29A-6191-5536-012E-3DB5475EA107_k74907B73-3E8A-4888-3EDF-81878B4235B9&overrideStore=TRUS

Wal-mart:
http://www.walmart.com/giftregistry/gr_detail.do?registryId=86211879289

Wal-mart has changed some of their registry policies, we were only able to register for these items through walmart.com. With that said, many of these items are only available through walmart.com, but you can find some of them in stores.

Please remember, if you purchase something off the registry have them mark it as purchased. This will prevent duplicate items from being purchased. Thanks.

Paint, paint, paint, arghhhhhhh......Part 2

The room is now completely primed. I am very excited about that. I am thinking about starting to actually paint the room tomorrow. Went to Sherwin Williams and bought all the necessary paints.

We did go to Babies R' Us today, Nicole's mom bought the baby bedding for Olivia's room. Nikki and I bought some of the other accessories. They also had specials on clearance clothing, buy one and get a 2nd one for $1.00. We also picked up a few clothes. We finished up the registry.

Check back tomorrow for more updates.

Paint, paint, paint, arghhhhhhh......

The first coat of paint is on. I remember why I don't like painting very much. My mother in law has been a big help, but she doesn't like to trim. We are now getting ready to go to Babies R' Us to finish the registry and pick up some items. Wish us luck! Final prime coat is going on this evening.

Uterine contraction monitor..............

We just received our uterine contraction monitor. The gal has been here for quite awhile teaching us how to use it and what to do and expect in the weeks to come. She has been very good. She has really given us a lot of good information. The only problem is I am very tired and she is still here at 10:13 pm. I have been up since 5:45 am. We have to hook Nicole up to the machine twice a day and send the results by satellite once a day. She did a doppler to listen to all the babies hearts. They are doing well.

To update everyone on other fronts, we will be priming the bedroom tomorrow. I think I may let Nicole venture up to Babies R' Us to finish the registry and pick up a few items that we are going to need right away. My neighbor offered to help me with anything we may need. They are really good neighbors. I know the outdoor work has really suffered this year. I use to have the best looking lawn and house on the block, but this year I have not kept up on it. Hopefully, once my little helpers get big enough they can help me keep it looking good.

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25 weeks!

Today is 25 weeks. Just taking it one week at a time.

Dr's Appointment

We met with Dr. Schutz this afternoon. The cervix is doing well. No changes! Olivia is still lagging behind, but she is growing. They are going to be watching her very closely over the next several weeks. We begin the steroid therapy tomorrow. 25 mg of betamethasone over two doses. I always look forward to meeting with Dr. Schutz, he is always very informative, supportive, and caring. He is a truly great Dr. Every time we meet with him, we are with him for no less than a hour.

On another note, the small dresser is finished. Hooray! I am glad for that. My next short term goal is to get Olivia's room primed. It is on my agenda for this weekend.

Our next milestone is to make it to 26 weeks. That is in a little over a week. This Thursday will be 25 weeks.

My mother-in-law put a coat of paint on the small dresser today. She is going to put another coat on tomorrow and the small dresser will be finished. We see Dr. Schutz tomorrow at 4 pm. Hopefully everything will be ok. Will have update tomorrow.

The dresser is painted.

The large dresser is now painted. It turned out really good. Hopefully tomorrow we will get the smaller one finished. I am beginning to think about furniture placement for the rooms. It will help once the rooms are painted and I can actually place the furniture throughout the room. We have a lot of work to do, but I am confident that things will come together very shortly.

We see our regular OB this Tuesday. Hopefully we are maintaining the status quo. Next week on the 9th we go to the specialist in Toledo. I just pray that Nicole won't have to stay at the hospital.

Our cake from the baby shower!!!!!

Today was our Church's baby shower, we received a lot of gifts. The party was nice and the food was good. It was a co-ed baby shower. I had never been to a baby shower before. I lost one of the games that I was sure I was going to win. It was a "baby" game where you couldn't say the word baby. If you caught a person saying the word, you got their clothes pins that they may have on them. There were dots on the clothes pins and the person with the most dots wins. I had the most clothes pins, but lost by two lousy points. We were truly blessed to have such warm thoughts and gifts given to us. Now, I get to try to organize all this stuff.

This evening I bought paint and began to paint the dressers with the help of Patsy (my mother in-law). We have the dressers primed and ready for the top coat. I hope to get the top coat on tomorrow. Next weekend the plan is to get Olivia's room primed.

My dad was at my house this morning and took measurements to make new steps for our front door. Our front door only has one step and it is a little difficult to get into our house. Nicole's grandparents, mom, and aunts have been coming in the daytime and giving her lunch while I am at work. The grandparents have trouble getting in and out of the house. While he was here this morning we ordered the last bed for the boys room. In a few days it should be here.

Aidan (our nephew) stayed the night with us tonight. He thinks we should name the kids Skywalker, Scooby-Doo, and Shaggy. We told him those can be his nicknames for them.

Check back soon and maybe I will have some photos of the shower.

24 weeks today

Today is 24 weeks. Hooray!!!!! Not much has happened this week, it has been a very busy week. I did not accomplish much on the baby front. Our church is having a baby shower for us on Saturday. I hope Nikki will be ok going. She has been on bed rest for the last two weeks. We have a really comfortable chair for her to sit in and we don't plan on staying for very long.

Tomorrow is 24 weeks. The viability point, every week after now is great. I believe around week 28 if they were born then, they would have a 95% survival rate. We are doing well. Tired but we are getting geared up for that.

We received the double stroller today with the two car seats. Put it all together and did a dry run in the car to make sure they all fit...............................they all fit. Whew!!!!! Will have photos soon of me with the new double stroller and what our car will look like once we have our three little babies with us.

I hope everyone is enjoying the photos I put up recently of the babies. They are doing really good. Nikki got a very good report at her appointment today. We see the MFM (maternal fetal medicine) specialist on September 9th. Hopefully she gets to spend more time with me at home and doesn't have to go to the hospital to stay yet.

Send us your good thoughts and prayers.

Getting ready for babies........

We have been slowly preparing for the debut. Our families have been very generous with getting things we will need for the babies. We have two of the needed three cribs. The other crib is not currently in stock and we are waiting for it to get back in stock. Hopefully!

You need quite a bit for just one baby.... now multiply everything times three. Nikki and I have been picking up a few things as we find them. We picked up a dresser for Olivia for $51.00. A really good buy. Originally it was $300.00.

She has been on me to get painting. All I have to do is prime Olivia's bedroom. The people that lived here before had their daughter in the room and it is a brown color. I have a good friend of ours who is a professional painter that is going to do the final painting. We also have two of Nicole's old dressers that we are going to paint white and use in the boys room. The boys theme is a blue Nautica theme and the girls is some sort of flower type theme. It involves green and pink.

When we first found out........

I had my first ultrasound around six weeks and I was very excited for it. Harold and I go to the appointment get in the ultrasound room, and soon it was underway. The ultrasound had no more than started and the sonographer lets out a little chuckle. I said, "What?!?" She said, "There are babies." Harold I thought was going to fall off the stool he was sitting on. He said, "You said babies, as in plural?" Kristin (our favorite ultrasound gal) said, "There are three of them, one, two, three", as she showed us on the screen. I turned to look at Harold who I thought would drop to the floor at this point. He was grinning from ear to ear. He began asking the dumbest questions I thought I had ever heard. I earned myself a lot of u/s (ultrasounds) Kristin said.

The u/s ended and we approached the desk to make another appointment, we find everyone in the office staring at us with the biggest smiles. They were all very excited for us. One lady said, "Well he doesn't look like he is going to pass out, but he does look a little bewildered." We made the appointment and left the office.

We left the office in shock and amazement. The news of triplets was the most shocking news I think we ever could have gotten. I never in a million years would have thought that I would have triplets. Twins maybe, but never triplets.