walking...

Well we were very excited to learn that the March of Dimes is having a walk here in the San Antonio area on May 16... We do enjoy walking and but it seems this walk is particularly special... We got a call last week from Carolyn our Premiere Care tester stating that the Premiere Care group is organizing their own team of walkers and that we could join in on their team.. the exciting news is though that they are making up team shirts and they are going to put the babies picture on the t-shirt... It will be one they took at the Reunion party they have in October when we dressed the quads up as the Wizard of Oz!!! It isnt this picture, but thought i would put a picture up just to remind you... arent they CUTE!!!!.. im just so excited that they get their picture on the t-shirt... Bobby and i are very excited about it and cannot wait for the walk!!! MAY 16!!!!!



also we are doing the Race for the Cure walk.. that walk is on APRIL 4... we are not doing the competitive race just the fun walk since we are taking the quads on this walk as well... we are walking in honor of a cousin, but Bobby's grandma died of cancer...

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well that is really all that we have done this past week... but we are very excited for both the walks that are coming up!!! Both walks are very close to our hearts... that really is all the news we have from this past week... no major accidents THANKFULLY!!! WE will definately take pictures at these upcoming walks so i will post once we have walked!

me~

random pictures...

these are just some pictures i have taken this past month... thought i'd update with a picutre post...

here is Dr. Rath with the quads... he took their first "picture"... when i had just found i was pregnant, (i was working for him), i started to spot.. he did a sono and told me that everything looked fine but that he did indeed see three sacs... he told me that they may not all have heart beats but to just be prepared for when we go to the specialist we were seeing (needless to say i was in a daze the rest of the day)... well later when we found out that we were actually having four and that they all had heart beats.. Dr Rath later told me that he did see four, but just stopped at three because he didnt want to completely scare me... so here is Dr Rath with my babies!!!
here is Monica and Vivian with Dr. Rath...

and here is his other office workers Sandi and im ashamed to admit i forgot the other lady's name but she is very sweet... I AM SO SORRY!!!!!!

here is Evan in his daddy's rubber boots... he just decieded he need to put daddy's boots on... he needed help since they are taller than daddy's regular boots...

here is Carolyn our Occuptaional therapist... this is when we were discharged from all therapy services...

i am going to miss carolyn so much.. she helped me through so much!



and here is Maria, she was the speech therapist that tested them and found that they were within normal limits and didnt qualify for therapy...

here we are at Lowe's... they love these carts... and i must say i think bobby and i love them as much as they do... bobby acts like a little boy racing down the aisle with them... bobby is really good at steering them... im not so good at it... but the quads sure have fun riding in them!!!

here is bekah... she had a static problem this week in her car.... i thought it was a cute picture!!!

this is bekah after the ATTACK OF THE THIN MINT!!!! Bekah scraped by but she ate the competition!!! this is after just ONE cookie...

here are the babies this past monday.... my mom and i found some cups at target for a dollar and i thought they were cute and it would give them practice with an open cup... they did pretty good... for not having practiced with an open cup in a couple weeks... we gave them the cups as part as their valentines gift...

here is bekah and evan...

and here is seth and austin...

evan drinking from his open cup...

seth drinking from his open cup...

bekah drinking from her open cup...

austin drinking from his open cup...

and this picture is from this morning... we had cereal for breakfast and we use these bowls that suction to the table... i have a posted a picture of them after eating cereal before... welll i was cleaning up evan and bekah and seth decieded he wanted to help and was pulling at the bowl and before i realized it and before he did too.. the bowl came up and....

well this is what happened... he had milk on him but thankfully he didnt get drenched... just a little soaked! thankfully austin was so absored with his cereal he didnt see what happened or else i think he may have tried to get his bowl up too...

well thats all the pictures i have for this week... but if anything happens between now and next week ill definately post!!! have a great week!!

me

falls, spills, and talking

well we had a fairly slow week last week.... although a lot of things happened last week... first i'll update you about how our speech therapy went last week... they came on friday, both the speech thearpist and our regular therapist... they evaluated both seth and evan to see if they still needed to follow up on their speech therapy.... they pretty much tested evan and seth the same way PRemiere care does and they scored within normal limits... evan was a little bit below average but still within normal limits... and seth scored at average and also a little below average on his scores... but since they were still well within normal limits we have now been discharged from all of their therapy services... no more physical, occupational, or speech therapy... i did ask about when we go back in july for premiere care and they say they need therapy again what should i do... and carolyn said just to call her back and they will re-evaluate them... but she seems very optimistic about how they are doing.... i did get a little emotional saying goodbye to carolyn she has been in our family since the babies were 6 months old... it was hard saying goodbye... she gave me a lot of good information and also calmed my nerves about many things... i will dearly miss her but at the same time am glad that the quads are doing so well that they dont need thearpy anymore... its bittersweet!

last week we also had our first "major" accident... (although my doctor probably wouldnt say it was major) i guess major to me... scary for me... (not a car accident)... austin was playing in the living room and he was standing on a lap table... somehow he slipped and hit hos head HARD on the floor... (thankfully carpeted).... well he was crying (of course) so i went to go pick him up and then all of a sudden while i was comforting him he went limp in my arms.... i called his name to him and he opened his eyes very groggily and then shut them again... i screamed for bobby and was running for the door while holding austin (bobby was outside) he came to again and then went limp again... bobby said he had heard the bonk from outside but didnt think anything about it... when he heard me screaming he came inside the house.... i told him what happened and he held him... still coming in and out of consiousness... bobby got a flashlight and was checking his eyes... he had him stand up but he was so unstable i told him to pick him back up... i called the doctor and thankfully he called back within three minutes at the most and he told me that as long as he didnt start vomiting that he should be fine... sleepy and clingy but fine... well he was clingy for about an hour or so, then wanted down off my lap... he was active but not his usual self... and then when we were getting them ready for bed he was sitting on my lap and i dont know if he thought my hand was supporting him ( i was brushing seths teeth) he fell back again... poor baby... he never did vomit (thankfully) because then we would have had to take him in... he was back to his normal self by the next day... (i have since put those lap tables in the closet)... that was tooo scary to have a re-play on one of the others...

and i dont know whats going on this week, but they are REALLY clumsy this week... evan somehow bonked the corner of the kitchen chair and has a cut right between the eyes, seth has a bonk on the side of his head.... and all of them have fallen a number of times this week...

i also have noticed this week that they are starting to hit each other... im trying to stop that before it gets worse... so im really watching them now to make sure they arent hitting...

they have learned a new name this week.. Ryan... my friend let us borrow her sons birthday video and they have now learned his name...

thats pretty much all thats happened since last week after therapy...

hope ya'll have a great week...

me~

picture post (FINALLY!!!).... (semi-long post)

okay i have finally uploaded some pics... sorry it took so long... im still waiting for the pther pics, but i did have the few i was able to take with my camera before it was full and then my friend who was at the party thankfully brought her camera...
this picture was taken before the party started... they are sitting in front of their pinata in the shape of a 2...


this picture was also taken before the party started... see my kids do smile!!!

Austin hitting the pinata!!!

Evan hitting the pinata!!!

Rebekah hitting the pinata!!!

Seth hitting the pinata!!!

We had a pinata at their first birthday too, but this was the first time that they tried to hit it, so that was FUN!!!




Evan wearing a prize he got from the pinata!!!

Here are the Papa's.... Mr. Biddison is an adopted papa to our kids... Seth really loves him and always runs to find him... even at church!! Mr. Biddison with Seth.... Papa with Bekah... and Pawpaw with Evan...

Here they are fixing to blow out their candles on their birthday cupcakes... Bekah is fussing because she burnt her finger... Poor baby...

Austin enjoying his cupcake....

Seth really enjoying his cupcake....

Evan also really enjoying his cupcake....

Bekah not so much... She wasnt that excited about the cupcake after it burnt her.... But after she got a taste of it... she did finally enjoy it....

at their first birthday they didnt like the cake.... they cried the whole time... they did much better this time.... now they LOVE cake.....






Seth with Mr. Biddison.... He really likes him...

Here is the birthday crew with the Biddisons...

Here they are also with My friend Becky and her family...

we took pictures like these with everyone that was there... when i get the pics my sister took ill post the rest.... we didnt do this at their first birthday, but i think we will try to do this at the rest of the parties...





Here is bekah with her future husband Ryan... I think its a great match!!!

and here is Austin with Christy.... Christy's match just might have a bit of competition for her hand... watch out!!!!

and my Seth.... having his first kiss with his possible match Sarah.... any of the boys could go for her... so really its her pick... but Seths already making the moves... (this was during nursery at church)...

here are the pics that we took at the picture place... i think they turned out pretty good...


this was done on purpose.... i think they turned out pretty good..

here they are again in their birthday shirts...

here are my babies..er i mean toddlers... i cannot believe they are already two... time is flying to FAST!!!!

here is a version of the family picture...

here is another version of the family picture... (this is the one we got)...

here is their group picture....

Seth in his individual shot...

Austin in his individual shot...

Bekah in her individual shot...

Evan in his individual shot....

my main concern for the pictures was their individual shots... i am so glad that at least in those they are smiling.... i found out that the place that took the pictures was not really looking forward to our appointment... because the "2 Year Old" appointments are usually their hardest and here they were going to have four 2 year olds.... well they were pleased with how the appointment went and i was too....

well im sorry that it took me so long to post these pics... i dont have an excuse of busy weeks because these past two weeks have not been busy.. we do have a speech therapy appointment today and ill let you know how that goes....

i hope you enjoyed looking at the pics...


me~