I’m now 14.5 weeks and things are overall going well. I’m finally only occasionally nauseas and my energy is starting to come back. Although by 9:00 at night I am usually whooped. I think that has to do with the fact that I have 3, 3.5 year olds to run after, take to therapy, etc. Thus far I’ve gained 6 lbs, which is a pretty healthy weight to have gained. I feel like I am expanding everyday though!
On the 31st we go for the big ultrasound where they’ll check the babies heart, do all the measurements, and hopefully we’ll be able to find out the sex! This is also the day I will start my first P17 shot. B.J. has agreed to give them to me so we’ll see how that goes!
We have had a busy few weeks. This past Monday we had our March for Babies fundraiser at Buffalo Wild Wings and we raised $114.84 for March of Dimes! p.s. Thanks to the other families that came too, I had a pg moment and didn’t think to take pictures until right before we were leaving. : (
The weekend before I had my scrapbooking overnight and was so excited because I finally finished our wedding album and finally started on the trios books! I decided to start current with this year and will work backwards as I can. I’m hoping this way I can at least stay caught up on the current events. I really enjoy scrapbooking, it’s just hard to find the time to do it, too many other things always pressing me.
March 6th the kids participated in the Pinewood Derby at my parents church. They took 3rd out of 12 with their car Triplet Trouble. This year Mady and John were really into it!
The kids have been doing awesome lately! It amazes me how much Mady and John are learning in school and how they continue to develop in so many areas. Both of them do still have things they need to work on and are receiving OT and PT as needed. I am taking both of them to the Orthopedic Surgeon (who John has seen for his hip dysplasia) in April to make sure they are not developing scoliosis and to continue follow-up with her as I believe she is the doctor we need to see to receive the right diagnosis to continue receiving coverage for therapies. If not, we will soon be needing to pay out of pocket which is a lot of $ adding up very quickly. Hopefully it won’t come to this as these kids clearly still need these services. If they don’t receive them it will impact their future, specifically with reading and writing and overall functionality.
Annabel is in a major developmental stage! Her speech is coming along nicely. She’s trying to mimic many words that we say. It may not be exactly the word we said but she’s getting some of the sounds of the word! Some new words are coat, door, chair, straw, stick, and she definitely has her Da-Da down. She’s getting much better about saying all done when she’s finished with something and is finally starting to say up if she wants up! Her level of play is also improving dramatically! She is now independently, purposefully putting objects into a bucket and today her OT was able to hand over hand, help her stack things (she’d never allow this before). She’s also using her left hand to play much more often (if we restrict right). She’s also been wearing her glasses most of the time and we’ve definitely noticed her eyes not turning in nearly as often. All 3 go next week to Ophthalmology so we’ll see what they say. They all go the following week to Otolaryngology for hearing tests (hopefully Mady’s last visit). The other thing that has improved drastically is that she’s hardly ever gagging herself anymore! There’s times she may still attempt it but if you tell her we don’t gag and try to help her tell us what she wants, she usually gets over it. Her behavior in general has been much better, I’m guessing because of her speech coming!
Here’s a few pictures of the kids playing and being silly. Mady now likes to pose like I do for belly pictures, too funny!
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