a day in the life of QUADS plus ONE

moving!

2011-08-24T09:22:00.002-05:00

NO!! we arent moving.. Amelia has moved from bobby's and my room to bekah's room which has been called the girls room for awhile.. we did have the boys rotate sleeping in there so that bekah could have a Friend, but now we are officially separated into boys and girls!

here is the boys room.. a friend of my dads gave us this bunk bed.. we dont have the top bunk up yet, because they are still only four and we think not quite ready for a top bunk! so we have a mattress that slides under the bottom bunk and then the other bed on the other side of the room.. they love it!

and the girls room.. bekah has done very well adjusting to having Mia in her room.. we talked to her about Mia moving into the girls room for a week before we moved her in there so she was just as excited to her in there as the boys were to be together in their room..

i wasnt able to get a picture of Mia in our room her last night.. (just didnt think of it till bobby had the crib apart and moving it out) but now that i think on it, not sure that you would be able to tell it was our room anyway!

everyone seems to be doing well.. and now that it is officially Mia's room too, she does go in there more than she was, so i think she really likes it! she does walk into our room and look at the wall that her bed used to be on and look a little confused, but then walks off. now bobby and i have all this extra space in our room and we dont know what to do with it!

me~

Amelia's PARTY!!!! SUCCESS!!!!!

2011-08-16T09:49:00.003-05:00

well i apologize these pictures are all out of any order but these are some pictures from Mia's birthday party from saturday! we had a great fun time! and hope all those that came did too!! it was very hot so we got out our little pool and bobby made a "kid wash" car wash! he is so good to me!

so here is a picture of the car wash!! it was very cool! and it really soaked you!!

here is mia eating her supper

again these pics are way out of any order, but Mia did not really want to eat any cake at her birthday party! so we got some pics of her eating some cake yesterday! she loved it!!

here is her birthday cake that the store made!!! I was so very happy with it! i think they did a GREAT job!!!

here is her birthday cake i made for her, bobby thinks she was so full from dinner that she just didnt want to eat the cake...

Our princess!

hitting her first pinata!

My Mia!

going out to swim!!! and play!
well sorry for the order that these pics were in!! really need to figure out how to put these in a decent order! but we really had a fun time at the party and truly hope everyone did too! cannot believe my baby is one! we think it was a success! now to start planning for the quads party! :)

~andrea

getting ready to PARTY!!

2011-08-09T08:08:00.002-05:00

we are getting ready to celebrate!! my brother and his family are coming down on wednesday and staying for a few days!! so excited! the quads have been thinking they were coming for the last two weeks! now they really are!! so planning on getting as much time with them as possible!

also we are celebrating Amelia's birthday on Saturday!!! so we are pretty busy over here getting the house ready for all the party people!! working on party stuff and just getting excited myself!

the quads are definitely ready for the party! they have been anticipating it for the last two weeks! thought last week that my brother and his family were coming.. so they are very excited that my family and the party are this week!

well time for me to go make some lists!!! till next time!!

~me

My Mia is ONE!!!

2011-08-02T16:09:00.002-05:00

today is Amelia's birthday! She is ONE year old!! i cannot believe the time has gone by that fast. She definately looks like a one year old, but it doesnt seem like a WHOLE year went by.. maybe six months, NOT a year!!!! well we went early this morning for pictures and got some cute pics.. we were the first appointment so that was nice, although after the first picture she started to anticipate the flash and would squint her eyes! THANKFULLY my mom went with me to the appointment! she is such a blessing to me!

anyway here are the pics:

well thats my BABY! my big, little ONE year old! we are planning on having some cupcakes i made last night to celebrate her birth! well better get to work on her video some more!!

andrea~

family! fun! and spoons?!

2011-08-01T09:46:00.002-05:00

ugh! i did it again.. i loaded the pictures backwards so you see the end result first! anyway my uncle andy, aunt dora and my cousins have been down this past week and we have had a few tournaments.. tonight is actually supposed to be a horse shoe tournament! but this past weekend we went to my sisters house on friday and had day one of a spoons tourney!

i won the first and second round and my dad won the final round!

here is my dad with his winnings!! lucky guy!

we had a rule that if you grabbed the first spoon but you had more than seven cards you were out.. so here is my dad the winner after andy (who grabbed the final spoon) had EIGHT cards!

andy was so sly when he would grab the spoons.. so quietly but swiftly! He is really good! anyway here he is after he grabbed the spoon but realizing that he had the eight cards!

here i am after winning the second game. the first game we didnt play for money the first round, or else i might have doubled. but am just glad that i got some money! my winning cards!
we played again on saturday at my house.. didnt get pictures of it, but I was the big winner again! very excited! although i dont think my cousins were too happy about it!

here is my uncle andy and aunt dora with mia!

and heres a picture from sunday!
thats all folks! the plan was for a horse shoe tournament tonight, not sure if it will happen,.. bobby has to work late and my dad may also.. but my mom is the big winner in horse shoes! so i dont have a shot to begin with! we go for Amelia's ONE year pictures tomorrow, ON her ONE year!! her birthday is tomorrow.. so may have another post tomorrow! if you think of us.. please pray for us at 9am.. as we will be trying to get some good pics!

me~

family..

2011-07-26T08:19:00.004-05:00

i am supposed to be getting Mia's birthday video done and am almost done, have a few blanks up if i get any cute pics of her before her party! needed a break though so thought i would load up some pics from this weekend!!

my sister and i playing with my phone.. she took the picture before i was ready, but get a good laugh from this picture!

again my sister and i playing with my camera..

mmmm!!! the best food ever!! My Aunt Dora and Uncle Andy came down from El Paso and they brought my sister and I some Chicos Tacos!!! I was so happy and excited!!

my parents! Love them!

and a family picture! after working on Mia's video saw that we dont have many family pics so had to get a photo shoot in for her video!
well thats all.. for now! i really need to get back to preparing for Amelia's party! so many things to do..

~andrea

this week...

2011-07-20T08:30:00.006-05:00

apart from my aunts going back to their homes nothing has really happened lately.. so thought i would share some pics from this week!

Mia was hungry.. and ate her food.. then she got a bit fussy.. but since i was preparing dinner and bobby had just gotten home and was cleaning up.. she fell asleep in her high chair..

here is bobby with amelia. he was dancing with her and i wanted to get video of it, but every time i would get the camera up he would stop and smile.. i told him i wanted to get video of it and he said he knew.. i guess i have to be more inconspicuous...

here is amelia in a dress she got from my mom at her baby shower...

and my girls.. getting ready to go to church!!!

anyway we have had a pretty good week so far! have some family coming in this Sunday!! so yay!! will get some pics of them with the kiddos!

~andrea

fun times with family..

2011-07-12T09:07:00.008-05:00

well i hope everyone has had a great week!! we have had the excitement of having some extended family down.. a few of my aunts and one uncle.. we have had some fun times so thought that i would share!

my mom had given bekah an old lipstick and she put it on!

here is my fashionista girl.. wearing clothes and accessories that she picked out!

this was also just a really cute picture ( i think) of bekah with HER aunt jen!

we had some very willing models!!!

my uncle lee and aunt Kathy with the quads

Austin after being attacked, with kisses, by my aunts and his!!!

my aunts, mom and uncle with all my kiddos..

Amelia Leigh with Amelia (Mimi) and Lee

this past Saturday we had xbox fun at our house with my family.. we had a fun time.. well i hope everyone had a fun time.. i know i did!!

here is caitlin and mimi "boxing" see the different expressions.

bekah with Bertha

here is Jennifer and Juana getting ready to "box"

our spectators

and finally papa and maeghan "boxing"

these next pictures were taken this last Sunday... thought they were cute so had to share..

Amelia being a willing model!! she is wearing one of Bekah's dresses....

my girls!!!!!
at Easter time we took some pics here at home and bobby had the boys give me kisses as one of the poses! Rebekah decided that she wanted to do a pose like that too!! and of course i was willing!!!

hope everyone has a great week!! my aunts are leaving this weekend so i am planning on getting some more pics of them with the kiddos!! but also get to look forward to my uncle Andy and aunt Dora coming down!! its funny every time they come down something exciting always happens to me! i found out i was pregnant when i was pregnant with the quads... and last year Mia was born... so i wonder what will happen this year... :)

Andrea~

oops..

2011-07-05T10:01:00.000-05:00

forgot to add the pic from sunday!!

Happy 4th of July

2011-07-05T09:09:00.004-05:00

Happy 4th of July!!! We had a great fun time yesterday celebrating the 4th!!! I made some last minute shirts for them... Had decided on Thursday to make them. Really enjoyed making them! the quads seemed pretty excited about them too!!

regular pose

silly pose

another silly pose

windmills... they kept looking at them rather than at me! especially when they started to move...

Amelia

group picture..

the quads..

the quads at Mimi and Papa's house...

Jennifer found out that i made my kids some shirts and she asked me if i could make hers some too... i really enjoyed making them!!! didn't get all the way finished with them but the girls helped me finish some of them! great helpers!!!!
funny story, or at least i think so, on Saturday night getting late and starting to talk about getting the kids in the bath.. Austin came up to me and said "Mommy are THE QUADS going to take a bath?" I was so thrown, "THE QUADs?????" I didn't know that they were called that.. Bobby and I don't call them that. So i asked him "who are the quads?" and he told me "my friends!" (which they call each other their friends) I started laughing!!!! My quads know they are quads!! They are getting so big!! cannot believe they are 4 1/2 !!!!

andrea

one small step for man... four great steps for MIa-kind

2011-06-29T18:14:00.002-05:00

well i think we are very close to having another walker in our family! yay Amelia!!

introducing AMELIA LEIGH

2011-06-29T11:57:00.003-05:00

well sorry i loaded the pics in oppposite order... with the newest pics first... Amelia Leigh aka Mia was born on August 2 and she weighed 7lbs and 6oz... and now weighs ALOT!!! :) she is almost 11 months old.. and she loves her brothers and sister! and they love her back...

she is a very happy baby and very easy going... we love our new addition!

getting back into it..

2011-06-29T11:13:00.002-05:00

so alot has happened... and haven't been blogging about it... but have decided early this morning that i need to get back into it... so im working on revamping my blog site and will start posting on a regular basis.. and fix my blog site... still trying to figure it out... anyway hope you enjoy my coming back to the blog world..

update

2010-03-05T11:39:00.002-06:00

well this past Wednesday Bekah and Seth had their last evaluation from Premiere Care.. and they did wonderfully... i was with bekah as she got tested and she was surprising me! Bobby took seth for his testing and he said that seth did really well.. we were impressed and i think the doctors and testers were impressed with them.. my mom waited with evan and seth in the waiting room, since this was to be all of their graduation day! so they have ALL graduated from PREMIEre Care.. and it was emotional for me.. i didnt cry, but mostly because i didnt think about it.. when i was hugging our doctor and the ladies that tested the babies all these many months.. i almost did start to cry, but had to make myself think of something else... i did take pics.. but am still learning how to move the pics from my camera to the computer.. so will eventually post their graduation pics..

also we did find out in November that i am pregnant again... this time it is just ONE, and we are very excited!!! probably in the last two weeks i have started to feel the baby move A LOT!!!! which is exciting and reassuring! God has been good to us! since this is a "normal" pregnancy and i only see my doctor once a month, i have more time to stress about this pregnancy than i did with the quads.. so i had been asking God, if i could start feeling the baby move more... and boy has he answered... this last week i have felt it move more than ever.. we are planning on finding out what it is, but have not found out yet! and if the baby cooperates when the sono is done.. really excited for my appointment next week, although it is not a sono..

i think now that my tummy is starting to show that im pregnant the quads are starting to understand when i say i have a baby in my tummy... will post when we find out what it is..

today is bobbys birthday.. he is 32 today! we made him his favorite cookies and are planning on going out for a family dinner at the place he picks.. so am looking forward that tonight... have been singing happy birthday ALL morning so that they can sing it for him when he gets home!

well i will post pics once i figure out how exactly to move the pics from the camera to the computer, and i will most definately post when we know what the baby is...

me~

ALVINNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-01-22T09:42:00.003-06:00

well funny story and im sorry that i havent posted in a long while... holidays, birthdays, and just plain busy! anyway a couple weeks before Christmas my mom and i went to Wal-Mart.. i had to get some pictures developed for the sunday school class that i am teaching... anyway.. while i was there in line waiting to use the picture maker, my mom took the kids to look at the toys...

well they love looking at the toys... and then they found some Alvin and the Chipmunk toys... particularly an Alvin stuffed animals... well they have seen the show so they know how Dave yells at Alvin... so my mom comes back with the cart of kids who all were holding an Alvin.. Bekah had a pack of the girl chipmunks.. anyway she went back to the toy section a good walking distance from where i was printing pictures.. all of a sudden Austin starts to say "ALVINNNN!!!!!!!" very loudly and might i add very cutely... i laughingly tell him to use his indoor voice and he does... im looking around to see if anybody is annoyed that i cant handle my kids and no one seems to have noticed... well at least no one is looking at us... then i see my mom poke her head out from an aisle.. she sees me laughing then she starts laughing... she came over to me to see if it was who she thought it was.. and of course it was...

anyway.. i thought it was funny... we shared the story with my dad... and i guess he found it as funny as we did.. so he shared the story with his brother.. my Uncle Willie... (they work together)... anyway Uncle Willie and Aunt Stella were the hosts of the Hildebrand Christmas... and they had gotten the Alvin and the Chipmunks Christmas cd... they ended up giving us the cd... and we love it... in the main Alvin Christmas song.. you hear Dave yell "ALVINNN!!!" so of course when that comes on i have usually at least one kiddo saying it to... and i guess you can guess who that is.... AUSTINNNNN!!!!!!!

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my mom even recently told me that sometimes when Evan talks he sounds like a chipmunk... when she told me that i started to laugh, because i so agree... he'll come up to me and start talking and just go on and on and i have no clue what he is saying so ill start laughing and ill have to ask him to start over because i need him to slow down... in fact my mom and dad were watching the kids for us last night and she said Evan started talking to my dad and my dad started laughing because of how he was talking and because he didnt know what he was saying!

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we recently had mcdonalds for lunch and what are they giving away as their toy.... little chipmunks... so we have Theodore and Simon and Jeanette! and if you can... ask Austin which one he is... it is so cute how he says Theodore... its something like "feodoor".. so cute..

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anyway thought they were funny stories... they are still requesting to listen to the cd even though it is JANUARY 22!!!!

will be posting pics from their birthday soon! i cannot believe they are 3 years old...

me~

memories...

2009-12-24T10:49:00.003-06:00

memories... Last night i found out just how cramped my mom got when i would get scared of a thunderstorm and sneek into her room, and squeeze into bed beside her.. last night the storm blew in.. i woke up because even though im an "adult" i still do not like thunderstorms at night.. my mind starts thinking about tornados, and where would i go with my babies to get away from the tornado... anyway.... i was sitting there praying and i heard a little noise then i heard a small "daddy?" bobby woke up, i sat up, and we saw that evan was in our room... we asked him what was wrong and he said that the thunder scared him... i immediately thought of my mom and how she reacted every time i went into their room scared of a thunderstorm and said come here... and made room for evan on my side of the bed...

well i usually sleep in the middle of the bed crowding poor bobby out , so i had "plenty" of room for evan.. well... so i thought... but unlike me when i was little once i was in bed with my mom i could fall back to sleep regardless of what was going on outside... evan is a different story... he laid there touching my face very gently... then he started to sniffle VERY LOUDLY... well by that time the storm had already blown over... so i asked him if he wanted some milk and then he could go back to his bed.. so i got him some milk then took him back to HIS bed... i was still wide awake for some reason so i started to read my book again.. and just as i was about to fall asleep.. i hear again... "daddy?" bobby was like "what?!?" i grabbed evan and brought him to my side of the bed he said that the thunder was still scaring him, which i think was actually the traffic on the highway he was hearing, which was very loud last night and did sound like thunder so i made room for him again...

well he woke me up a few times during the night touching my face... or kicking my legs.. and i could only sleep on one side so my neck is very stiff and for some strange reason my back is very sore...

all i can say is "Mom, thank you for always making room for me when i got scared! you go above and beyond!"

anyway... just thought that was a funny, cute story to share... hope everyone has a very Merry CHRISTmas!!!!!

me~

new pics!

2009-12-10T09:22:00.003-06:00

my sister in law took some family pics a few sundays past! thought id share.. if you need a good photographer! www.photographybygeorgianna.com... awesome!

hope you enjoyed! remember www.photographybygeorgianna.com

me~

Aunt Juana and Aunt Bertha!!!

2009-11-20T09:15:00.002-06:00

My Aunts Juana and Bertha came down this past weekend. and the babies have enjoyed playing with them..

Aunt Juana with the quads...

Aunt Bertha with the quads...

Mimi, Aunt Bert, and Aunt Juana with the quads...

My aunt Juana got the antlers for the babies... and the kids LOVE them...

We have ALL enjoyed having my aunts down! So much fun!!!

me~

Noah's Ark night at Puggles

2009-11-04T09:17:00.002-06:00

At the quads AWANA group they had a Noah's Ark night where the kids can dress up as an animal or as a biblical person. So our kids went as animals.

Austin is a dog. Rebekah is a bunny. Evan is a elephant. Seth is a Lion. We "recycled" the lion outfit from last years Premiere Care party...

Seth the Lion!!!!

Evan the elephant!!!

Rebekah the bunny!!!

Evan and Seth laughing at whatever goofy thing my mom was doing to get them to smile!

Austin the doggy!

the group! again laughing at their goofy mimi!!!

showing their tails... i worked so hard on bekahs tail... i was so proud of it!

bekah showing her tail!

evan in his full costume!

well thats all folks! hope you enjoyed.. they had a GREAT time at Puggles that night!

me~

pics

2009-10-09T12:02:00.003-05:00

well yesterday was the PREMIEre Care Reunion Party. All babies that graduated from the NICU that my babies were in. Last year my crew went as the Wizard of OZ. This year we chose Star Wars. we are already planning for next years party. So here are some pics...

Evan is Han Solo... Austin is Luke Skywalker... Rebekah is Princess Leia... and Seth is Darth Vader..

these pics were taken while we were at the party... it was a lot of fun.. and the babies had fun too!

and this last picture is our crew ready for AWANA... our church has started the youngest class this year for 2 year olds.. they are called Puggles.. and my kids LOVE it!!! they get to go to class and learn about God and color and play. THEY LOVE IT!!!!

so these are my Puggles!

well thats it... hope you enjoyed.. and if you have any ideas for next year.. PLEASE let me know...

me~

PENELOPE!!!!! and various pics...

2009-09-18T11:33:00.010-05:00

well we were told that the kids were going to be singing a special on Grandparents Day.. i didnt realize that Grandparents Day was last Sunday, till they got up and sung... (well stood up there while all the other kids sang).... here are some pics of them "singing"...

the whole group...

my parents on Grandparents Day....

ok... so we got a new puppy... we have finally named her... her name. Penelope. aka Penny... she is so sweet... she is really starting to get really playful... she is at the biting stage... where everything (even dirty socks) go in her mouth... but she is adorable and added bonus she was free... Thanks Joy!!!!

so here is Penelope.

and here are the kiddos with Penny... this is the closest i have been able to get Austin to her... he just is not a dog person...

bekah holding penny...

Evan trying to get penny to look up at the camera...

not succeeding so he settles for him just looking at the camera and smiling...

again another group photo.. (sorry for the nudity, still trying to get used to regular undies)...

ok... so the next pics are pics the quads took... we were fixing to have the photo shoot with penny and they wanted to take some pics so we were in the living room (on carpet).. and we took pics... the camera did not get dropped once...

so these are EVAN's pics that he took

... a self portrait...

isnt that the cutest nose and mouth you have ever seen??????

and another cute nose and mouth... can you guess who it is?????

Austin....

so these are AUSTIN's pics...

a photo of evan...

and a moving picture of evans leg and our living room carpet.. thankfully i vaccumed this week...

so these are REBEKAH's pics.. i think she did really well...

a pic of Austin...

and a pic of Evan..

and these are SETH's pics...

i love this pic... look at how happy evan looks...

and another pic of bekah and evan... by seth..

so thats it.. grandparents day, penelope aka penny... and pics by quads... aunt georgi i think you may have a few assistants in a few years!

me~

painting rooms means sharing rooms..

2009-09-12T18:32:00.002-05:00

for the past couple of weeks bobby and i have been painting the kids rooms... we just were able to finish this week... so since we have been painting, all the kiddos have had to share one room.. actually that is much easier for us, especially when we tuck them in at night.. but we do intend to move the boys back to their room hopefully tomorrow.. anyway.. took some pics of them sharing the rooms..

we painted bekahs room first so they all had to share the boys room first... this was their first night ALL in the boys room..

here are evan and austin...

here is bekah and seth (also in the boys room)....

once we were done painting bekahs room and it was sufficiently dried and not as stinky we moved them all into her room so we could start painting the boys room...

they ALL seemed to really love having everyone as a roommate... instead of just one other person.... in fact so much so that im not sure the transition back to just one roommate is going to go very smoothly... anyway.. i will post more pics once we get the rooms all decorated and cute...

me~

new family pics...

2009-09-07T18:28:00.002-05:00

well for those of you that arent on fb, here are some new family pics we took this past weekend.. it was time for a new one.. my sister even told me i needed a new pic, so here you go... enjoy..

well thats all folks.. i will post later on this week if anything new happens, but so far it seems to be like a slow week...

me~

PICTURE POST!!!!

2009-09-04T11:51:00.007-05:00

okay so here is another picture post... pretty much from july and august... sorry again that it took me so long to pist pics... i do plan on just doing a weekly post again with pics.. so that i dont get so far behind...

here is bobby and seth and evan.. we went to the 3D movie at Sea World ....

and here i am with bekah and austin... pretty much as soon as it started the babies were crying since we had water sprayed on us fromthe get go... i eventually had to take bekah to the back because i couldnt calm her down... its not like they (sea World) didnt warn us before us taking them in.. it was posted and said about 4 different times... so oops...

here is bobby and the quads getting ready to put their flags in the ground... for the 4th of July!!!

and here they are posing... Happy 4th!

and posing yet again!

Evan and Austin..

Bekah and Seth..

and bekah thinking are we done.. YET??!!!

sprinkler fun....

Seth our professor... wearing his glasses... (mr. potato head's glasses)...

here is a pic from our quick trip to el paso.. me and my uncles... lee and ishmael..

babies supposed to be eating their supper so we can go to bed but mostly just watching tv... at ft stockton on the way home..

at the ft stockton mcdonalds eating breakfast... and i do have to say that they ate a TON!!!! they packed away pancakes, eggs, biscuits, hash browns and milk, like it was their last meal...

Aunt Jennifer, Bekah, and Cousin Caitlin....

FISHING!!!! bobby and i deceided we would take them fishing to Landa Park... it was their first time fishing... it was definately an experience... here they are waiting for their fishing poles to be ready...

here they are fishing...

fishing some more... i thought this pic of Evan was so cute... he is looking at the fishing line so intently... like he is a pro..

evan again being a "professional" fisherman...

okay i downloaded the rest of the pics WAY out of order... SORRY!!!!!

after fishing we took them to the spring-fed pool.... after about 3 minutes we were out! they all "dunked"... so it was time to call it quits...

ok.. heres a pic from when we are actually in the pool... pretty much after i took this picture they all slipped and were head down in the water... so thats why we got out.. those rocks are really slippery!

and here they are actually waiting to go in..

after fishing was over... but before the swimming escapade began...

asking bobby if he was having fun fishing... his reply.. uh.. yes???

can anyone guess who this is in the box???? let me know!

the box, by the way, was a box that bobby brought home from work.. they LOVE it!!

playing outside with the water.. and seth drinking from the water hose..

austin running away from and to bobby who was spraying him with the water hose... he LOVED it!!! (i mean austin not bobby)...

having fun in the wagon...

brushing our teeth..

well thats all folks... for now! but like i said i seriously am going to try to post weekly WITH pics, so it doesnt become such long posts.. anyway i hope you enjoyed!

me~

sorry!

2009-08-25T09:55:00.002-05:00

sorry for not posting in a very long while... we had a good July.. a very busy July.. we had PREMIEre care for the quads... everyone did well.. in fact evan and austin have graduated from the class and seth and bekah go back in march for their last visit.. bekah and seth did awesome at their visit. i was told the main reason they are going back is because of their birth weight.. so im pretty excited... we also went to El Paso at the end of the month.. it was a good trip ... the kiddos did great... very minimal fussing.. and thankfully NO GETTING SICK!!!! we rode with my parents, so it was a nice trip.. a FAST trip.. but nice.. it was great to see all my relatives and for them to see the kiddos again.. we did miss Bobby though.. he had to stay home due to work...

and now we are just preparing... we have a Reunion party with the PREMIEre care unit in October so we are getting our costumes ready for that.. last year we went as the Wizard of OZ... this year is going to be a surprise...

also getting ready for their birthday/family pics we take at the end of December or early January... and yes i know that is quite a few months ahead from now.. but i like to be prepared and look over the outfits in advance.. and thankfully because of this past weekends tax free... i was able to get our shirts without paying the tax.. so yay!

the quads are all doing really well... their vocabulary is really taking off... they are starting to say sentences, which is awesome to hear what they are thinking.. i also am going to start going to a bible study that my church is having and for this first semester the kiddos will be in the nursery, but come January once they turn 3 they get to be in the kids version of the bible study which is exciting... they will be able to get more interaction with other kids their age ... im very excited!

ohh other exciting news.. welll at least to me... we are going to be painting their rooms.. well i should say bobby is painting... he might let me help paint, but well see.. i am really excited about that... my dad also built rebekah this very cute book shelf in the shape of a dollhouse... so CUTE!! its not finished yet, but once it is i will post a pic along with the "new" rooms..

i will post pics later on this week.. have quite a few...

me~

busy, Busy, BUSY!!!!

2009-07-16T09:50:00.002-05:00

we have had a couple of very busy weeks... bobby and i went to the coast a few weeks ago for our anniversary... then we went to his family reunion in Aspermont with the quads... and we also had 4th of July and last week we had Evan and Austins Premiere Care visit... Bekah and Seth go at the end of this month... and i will be going to El Paso with the quads with my parents at the end of the month.. bobby isnt able to come...

okay so bobby and i went to the coast for our anniversary... we were able to get away for quite a few days... it was nice... although i missed the babies and called them everyday that we were gone... it was nice to get away though just with bobby...

Aspermont... bobbys dads extended family have a reunion every june so bobby wanted to go this year and so we went with the quads... its a five hour drive and wow it was an experience... i guess it was preparing me for the trip im taking with them to el paso which is a longer trip...

Premiere Care.. Evan and Austin went on the 8th... Evan did really well he chattered the WHOLE time... he was marked with a mild delay for his gross motor... but he is generally our more "careful" guy.. he takes his time... so im not worried... Austin was not at all a chatterbox.. but he did do good as well... he did very well with his gross motor... I wasnt worried about them before the appointment and im not worried about them now... Bekah and Seth go on the 29th for the evaluation... im not at all worried about them either... im not exactly sure how they will cooperate with the testing, but seeing how they are at home im not concerned at all.. im just so grateful to the Lord with how well they are doing... they are miracles!

well i will post some pics later on just thought i would do a quick update... i have some cute 4th of July pics... i dont have any from either trip (forgot my camera)... but will post some 4ths later on!

sorry it took me soo long to update.. will try to do better!!!

me~

we're here..

2009-06-29T19:00:00.002-05:00

sorry... we have had a few quite BUSY weeks this month... i will post more later on thsi week and also do another history post too... sorry about that... anyway.. i WILL post some details as tpo why this has been a BUSY month later on this week...

Anniversary...

2009-06-05T21:32:00.002-05:00

Today marks 3 years since our successful IUI... so that means the quads are 2 1/2... WOW.. time flies.. i cannot believe it... on the way home from the gym tonight i was thinking how it is June 5.. this date seems so important to me.. even more today because bobby and i are trying to get pregnant again... we arent going through any type of treatment.. my doctors all seem to think that i should be able to get pregnant again rather easily... well bobby and i have been trying for four months now, and from month one i have been scared that it wont be as easily as my doctors seem to think... i COVET your prayers that i wait PATIENTLY on Gods timing and not my own... i do so desperately desire to have another baby girl... or even twin girls... and i know some of you think im crazy for even wanting one more child, but i do...

anyway i cannot believe its been three years since the IUI... i know so many people prayed for me then and i am so grateful for that...

i will try to update with a history tomorrow.. bobby is on-call and we arent able to go out and about... so will try to do that....

me~

March of Dimes... March for Babies...

2009-05-18T10:00:00.010-05:00

this past saturday was the March of Dimes walk... our team the PREMIEre Program Families had the quads picture from the annual reunion party from October... my family came out for the walk...

here is my mom and my sister... waiting to walk..

my sister and brother.. still waiting to walk...

PICTURE TIME...

group picture... austin is wearing his cousins sunglasses... cool dude..

my family who came out to walk... my mom and dad... my sister and her girls... my brother, his wife and his kiddos, and us...

bobby's mom and his sisters boys...

still waiting to walk.. my dad and austin and seth..

dad and austin...

my mom and seth... my mom was such a trooper... she wasnt feeling her 100% self, but she still came out and walked... i could tell she wasnt feeling so great, but still walked regardless.. thanks MOM!!!!

evan and bobby.... still waiting to walk..

bekah and papa... posing and waiting to walk...

finally walking and my sister started off by toting bekah... we just started and bekah already looks tired from such a "long walk"...

this is my favorite picture... bobby and evan walking and my brother in the background...

now my brother is stuck toting bekah...

seths turn with jennifer...

daddy and evan having fun while walking...

at one point during the walk.. there was a polka band... they were playing the chicken dance... they had my sister dancing to the music, but i wasnt fast enough with the camera...

bobby and evan waiting for the rest of our group to catch up with them... the walk was held at Port San Antonio (Kelly AFB)... so they had this jet and all the kids liked looking at it....

finishing the race... notice now my kids are in Trey and Julie's stroller...

Finishing the race....

after the race... we look a little winded and STARVING!!!!

now we have to walk BACK to our cars so that we can go eat breakfast.. i heard Julie say " i thought the walk was over... why are we still walking?" i thought it was funny... and i couldnt agree more... HAHAHAHA...

as we are walking to the car.. i asked bobby.. "are you tired?" his reply.. "no not really, yea a little.."...

we went to breakfast after... ate a nice meal at cracker barrel... then went home... from what i heard we all pretty much went to sleep once we got home... us, my mom and dad, my sister, and my brother and his family.. bobby and i and the kids slept for at least 3 hours... yikes... usually naps make me wide awake at bedtime, but on this day i still fell asleep quite easily..

we had a fun time at the walk... and i am so grateful to all those that were able to come and walk...

i will post a history post later on this week...

me~

Outside FUN!!!

2009-05-15T10:57:00.021-05:00

Well as i said at the end of the last post, this is a non-history post... We have our March of Dimes Walk this Saturday and thought that this week should post our recent "adventures"... My mom, my brother and bobbys sister and mother all chipped in money for a swingset for the quads birthday this past January.. We finally got it all set up and ready a couple weeks ago.. and the quads LOVE it... it is a lot fun... and watching them have fun playing on it, is even more Fun..

here they all are swinging on it... we added that rubber horse swing which we got for them at their first Christmas.. finally putting it to use...

Rebekah, Evan, and Austin all swinging and singing "wee-wah"... which happens to be the song i would sing when i was little when i would go swinging... ahhh...

Seth on the horse swing...

Rebekah getting ready to go down the slide...

Sepie climbing up the stairs to go down the slide...

Evan also getting ready to go down the slide..

and now Austin... i have come to notice that if one does it, then so do the other three....

and Austin is naked because he took off his own clothes... he is learning to dress and undress himself...

Daddy and Seth swinging on the "motorcycle" as we have come to call it...

and of course Daddy and Rebekah on the "motorcycle"...

here is Daddy showing the quads how to hit the ball...

now its Evan's turn...

and Austin's turn...

Seth's turn...

and even Rebekah's turn.. (the ball hit me on the right side of my stomach, i had a whelp and it stung for quite awhile..)

now Bekah's turn by herself.... look at that determination...

and now here are some pictures i took this morning... we got them some running shoes for the March of Dimes walk tomorrow... and we are stretching them out today so that the shoes are good and stretched out so our feet dont hurt tomorrow...

Seth with his new running shoes...

Evan with his new running shoes...

Evan being silly while wearing his new running shoes...

My pretty little princess with her new running shoes... look at all that "bling" she recently has become a very girly girl and loves to wear necklaces, watches, bracelets, and her purse..

look at that "model" stance... such a lady..

and of course Austin with his new running shoes...

we are really excited about the walk tomorrow and i have already started to make my numerous lists for the walk... my whole family is going to be walking as well as bobbys parents... i will take my camera so that i will be able to post about it...

they have really taken off with their verbal skills i think... we sing happy birthday to pretty much everyone and everyTHING... lately it has been happy birthday Julie or Trey, or Maeghan... pretty funny... they are also learning who is a boy and who is a girl... Bekah will all of sudden blurt out "My Lady!" and we say yes, yes Rebekah you are a lady... then the boys will say that they are ladies and we tell them no you are boys... then they start saying " Im a boy!" or "Im a man!" or "Im gentleman!".. its very cute... and i do have proof... my sister was here during one of these conversations, and heard all of these things... so if you dont believe me ask her... they also like to sing their ABC's... and they get to at least "J" by themselves and then here comes "p" or "w"... and they sing "Jesus Loves Me".. that is really cute... and they are starting to identify numbers... they for sure know what is 8 and 2... sometimes 6 and 7... so i think they are doing pretty good...

my friend got me these cameras that we put in their rooms, they are kinda like surveilance cameras.. WE LOVE THEM!!! the other morning i saw Seth trying to take off his jammie pants, and saw Austin go over to him and help him pull them off then the sweetest thing.... I heard Seth say " Thank You , Austin"... ahh... then in Bekahs room Bekah and Evan were looking at books and i heard Evan say "lets sing songs"... then he started to his ABC's and then mixed it with Jesus Loves Me... so cute... it did my heart good, seeing them being sweet to each other... and helping each other.. not that they arent when they are up and playing outside of their rooms, but seeing it without my telling them sure felt good...

well thats pretty much it.. i will do another history post next week... and try to post pictures of the walk... thank you to everyone who has been praying for them, please continue to do so... i know it is through God alone that they are doing so well..

me~

History PART II

2009-05-03T20:28:00.003-05:00

okay so on with more history... yay!! right?? anyway.. We are in January of 2006.. my employer and doctor has now told me to stop trying and that he will refer me to a fertility clinic.. bittersweet... of course i want a baby and if that means with help, then so be it, but then it also means something must be wrong with me or its just not the Lord's timing..
so on January 9.. Dr Rath tells me to stop... it was on this day that i told him that i had prayed for quads.. whatever the Lord wants to give me... he said something like.. "I dont think you want to pray for that"... i did ask him if i got pregnant with more than twins if he would still deliver them, he said if i got pregnant with triplets and was doing good than he might, but they might also need to be airlifted for a NICU since the hospital that he delivers at doesnt have one.. he said anything more than that i would have to find a doctor who delivers at a hospital that has a NICU.. well needless to say i no longer prayed for quads but still prayed for at least one... im serious i maybe prayed for quads twice but thats it during my inferility, although if thats what the Lord wanted me to have ID TAKE IT!!! ...
i have an appointment scheduled for January 26 at a fertility clinic.. by the time we are going to the appointment i am seven days late... whats going on.. im never late.. my nurse did tell me that sometimes people come in and are already pregnant... HOPE!!! well they did a pregnancy test and sadly it came back negative.. they then scheduled me for a Hysterosalpingogram and Tubal recanulization... oh joy.. i remembered how my last one went.. im not looking forward to this one.. GREAT!!! so on February 6 was my procedure.. i was so nervous... VERY nervous.. bobby went with me because they, thankfully, we're going to give me some type of sedative... when the nurse was prepping me, taking my blood pressure, checking my pulse, she asked me if i wsa nervous, bobby looked at the machine that had the numbers and said my heart was going extremely FAST... she was very KIND and tried wholeheartedly to calm me down she got me warm blankets, because i had started to shake... and as she was getting the sedative ready bobby and i prayed... i guess i calmed down enough due to prayer and her prodding me that she was able to put the iv in... we went to the room that we were going to do the precedure... she gave me some of the sedative... she told me then that she likes to start with the most minimum amount and give more as i need it... so she gives me the minimum amount of sedative and im fine then all of a sudden its like im fighting sleep.... and laying there not usually in the most comfortable of positions and i am fast asleep... she came to up to ask me something and i was like " yeah.. i think its working.." i heard her chuckle... and then i was out again... the doctor came in... introduced himself to me, and i was like " uh huh.." so he started... and i was out again.. at one point he was like "mrs wright... mrs wright??? mrs wright wake up a little and lift your hips"... "okay".. and out with my hips raised.. then the next thing i knew he and the nurse come up to me and say they are done and that everything was good.. equal spillage and that he didnt think they were blocked to begin with... (of course i dont remember this, they later told bobby all of this too)... so the nurse is walking me out to get dressed and for me to see bobby... i see bobby right when im walking out the door... and im told i very loudly said " i didnt feel a thing!!!" both he and the nurse started laughing.. bobby and the nurse were talking as i got dresseed and she was amazed at how much the minimal amount of sedative affected me she never had to give me anymore than the first dose.. ... bobby took me to my moms house so that he could go to work... and as we were driving we heard a siren and an ambulance drove by and bobby taking advantage of my "drunken behavior" (i was later told)said " oohhh andrea look at the pretty lights!!" he said my reaction was "oohh pretty.." and then out again... i have never been drunk, but from what im told of how i acted it sure seemed like i was.. bobby said it was pretty funny sight to see..
so now we wait... we wait to see if we can do this one more time without "real" fertility help and to no avail we didnt... had another FC (fertility center) appointment on Feb. 22... i had started my period... they then start me on a fertility drug "clomid".. we decide that we are going to try one more month with the clomid but no type of procedures to get pregnant.. i have to go the fc now many times MANY times during my cycle... i go back three more times during this cycle which now has put us into the middle of March... March 20... negative pregnancy test... we're going to have to do a procedure now, again bittersweet...
so on my third cycle whilest going to the FC i start my period on MArch 22, go in to the FC on MArch 24 for my sono (not a fun pregnancy sono), start my clomid on the 26... am told i have two follicles (eggs) one 12mm and on 11mm, test my urine for a positve LH surge.. went in on April 2 for another sono... April 4 another sono... i am told that i have FIVE follicles.. April 6.. procedure day.. we decided with our Dr's advice to do IUI or AI or Intrauterine insemination or aka Artifical Insemination.. ... after our IUI bobby and i went to Cracker Barrel for breakfast and then to a movie and had movie nachos.. we saw a movie but i cannot remember which one right now.. but we had a fun time.. the theater was empty and we just enjoyed these little "dates"... had some bloodwork on april 12.. and on APril 19 a pregnancy test.. ... ... negative...
so start another cycle i went in on April 24 for my inital started clomid on the 26.. test urine for positive LH surge... go in MAy 3 for my first sono to check follicles.. May 5 our second IUI... we again went to Cracker Barrel for breakfast went to the movies saw Nacho Libre and ate movie nachos and again enjoyed our time together.. go in on the 11 for bloodwork... May 14.. the HARDEST mothers day i have ever had... so SAD.. i cried the whole time at church.. one of my friends, Rebekah, came over and hugged and prayed fro me the whole time i cried... my sister sat beside me holding my hand and cried... my mom sitting by my sister saw me and cried.. my poor husband sitting beside me sat there with his head down feeling lost and not knowing what to do... was afraid to put his hands on me for fear it would tear him up as well.. (i am crying again while i write this) May 18... pregnancy test.. ... .... ... negative.. each time i would get the call that my test came back negative i would call bobby crying and say draw out some more money from the bank.. and he would calmly say its okay baby.. it'll happen... dont worry... and i love you... it got to the point that if he saw the call was from me and then heard me crying he would say "ohhh... its okay.. well try again.." such a sweet and awesome husband... such a patient husband.. so we wait for my next cycle to start...
May 23.. start my cycle.. May 26 go in for sono.. 27 start clomid.. JUne 2 start testing urine.. June 3 sono for follicle sizes we have 2 follicles.. schedule the IUI for Monday June 5... But on Sunday JUne 4 as bobby and i are sitting at our house I CRY.. and i cry hard.. this will be our third IUI if it doesnt happen this time my doctor is saying we are going to have to do something different.. different drugs, different procedure.. something different.. GREAT.. in my own mind.. i have given up if we dont get pregnant, im not going back, but not just that.. i want to quit my job too, it is getting TOO hard seeing all the pregnant girls come in and out.. it was during my infertility i knew of at least 23 girls (that i know personally that got pregnant) not mention all the ones i saw at my place of work.. it was too much... in bobbys own mind, he has given up, but we dont say anything outloud, me because what if i change my mind and want to try another cycle, bobby because he doesnt want me to know hes lost hope.. so we go in on June 5 for our IUI.. go to Cracker Barrel for breakfast go to the movies see the Pirates of the Caribbean 2 Dead Mans Chest.. i remember this because one of the creatures i thought was ugly and would close my eyes whenever he was on the screen, and actually through some of it fell asleep... i go in for some bloodwork on June 12 for my Progesterone and Estradiol levels.. June 14 my stomach has this VERY tight feeling... June 15 2 years after we have decieded to try for a baby, and still no baby.. my stomach though is still feeling very tight.. kinda like a TIGHT bloated feeling.. June 16.. still feeling the tight sensation.. June 18 Fathers Day... at our church they have a baby dedication on fathers day and although it was hard on me and i still cried.. Mothers day was the hardest.. June 19.. pregnancy test day.. .. ... ... POSITIVE!!!!!! my number is 643... i was at my moms house waiting for the phone call... my aunt and uncle and their boys from El Paso we're down visiting when i got the call.. they didnt know where my mom had gone that morning (she went with me whenever bobby didnt to the FC)... so i ran to my moms room, went into her closet and took the call.. My favorite nurse who went through most of this time with me called me. Marisol.. I WAS PREGNANT.. I call bobby there in my moms closet.. im thinking im going to joke around and say that he needs to draw more money out of the bank for another cycle, but once i hear his voice im crying he hears this crying and thinks of great.. not pregnant... than i tell him.. IM PREGNANT!!!!! he says "really???" and i am so happy im laughing and crying and saying YES.. (although i do have to go back in two days to make sure my numbers double) but Marisol said i was pregnant.. so my mom hears my crying and is starting to come down the hall.. and i run out of her room, she sees that im crying but that im smiling... we go into her room and cry right there in the doorway hugging... IM PREGNANT... i call my VERY good friend who prayed and advised me through ALL of this Becky, then my pastor Mr. Biddison as he and his wife were praying for us as well... and my other friend Rebekah (who comforted me on mothers day)... and then my brother, my sister, my dad, then go out and tell my uncle and aunt... we still have caution because my numbers HAVE to double in two days.. so my mom and i go back on June 21... as we are waiting for the phone call, my mom, my sister, my aunt and uncle and the boys go shopping... i get the call as we are shopping that my numbers are 1666.. more than.. double... i again call bobby and tell him i am most definately pregnant... my numbers more than doubled and then start all my phone calls again to tell everyone that my numbers DID double... I AM PREGNANT!!! VERY HAPPILY AND EXCITEDLY HAPPY!!!

well this concludes History PART II... i know that this is really more for me so that i dont forget, but i do hope you enjoyed it too... PART III will be the pregnancy.. PART IV will be birth and a day in the life of quads..

i will probably post a non-history post this week, so watch out for it...

me~

History PART I

2009-04-16T21:24:00.003-05:00

I decieded to write our history because I want to write it down before i forget and because its been on my heart for the past couple weeks.. Im not sure how long it will be, but i will do it in multiple posts.
Well I guess I'll give just a little history before i start the history. Bobby and I were married in 2002. im not sure exactly when this picture was taken probably 2004 or 05. But this is my only picture I have of us that is on the computer and that I know was before the babies were born. Bobby and I had initally decieded when we were engaged that we would for 5 years before trying to get pregnant. But in June of 2004 while we were away to the coast for our Anniversary we started to talk about babies. I was ready! and to my surprise so was he (maybe not as ready as I was, but talking about it sure didnt scare him). We talked about names that we liked. What we wanted first, boy or girl? Mostly i just wrote names in the sand and he said yes or no. So we decieded that when we got back from our trip we would start trying to get pregnant. I had been on a birth control and after we had our talk on the beach i stopped taking them.
When we got back from the coast I heard of an open position at a OB-GYN's office. An Ob-Gyn whom, i knew. Well I got an interview and within three weeks I started to work for him. Dr. Rath. I have posted a picture of him with the babies before. He did know that we were trying and he and the Office manager took a big risk in hiring me, Im SO thankful they did. I loved working for him. I learned so many things working in that office. This was in July of 2004.
Move ahead a few months to October. Nothing happening and then October, I cant remember now, but for some reason I had thought i was pregnant.. I got so excited. I didnt tell Bobby because i wanted to surprise him with a test. Well when i found out i in fact wasnt, i was heartbroken. I then told Bobby everything. I told him how i thought i was and how excited i had gotten and so we decieded we would take trying more "seriously".
I started to moniter my cycles more carefully. Take careful notice of what time of the month it was and just be more observant.
November 2004.. a week late! not pregnant. ugh!
December 2004.. a Christmas present?? no....
January 2005.. a new year, a new adventure.. no but I really started to be more aware of my cycles and when was the right time. But still no baby.. (at this point yes im disappointed, but not really concerned)... i found out that one of my really good friends was pregnant..yay.. it was during this year that i became with one of my closest friends to this day.. my loving and supportive husband would encourage me to talk to her.. poor Bobby, he didnt know what to tell me..
February.. nothing.. Although during this month was one my sister-in-laws baby shower...
March.. i mention to Dr. Rath that I still (apparently) have not gotten pregnant.. He tells me to keep track of my cycles on a calender for several months and then talk to him again.. okay..
April.. my nephew is born... yay...
May.. another one of closest friends finds out she is pregnant.. yay.. but me.. still not..
June 2005.. one year after decieding we will try to get pregnant.. we arent.. (although not really overly concerned) i did start to temperature chart... thats a test in itself..
and then JULY 2005.. ahhh... our first inital feriltity test.. i will NOT go into detail... but this test was NOT fun.... and i had decieded that I did not want to do this test EVER again... it was horrible.. (sidenote: although i never wanted to do this test again, during my infertility trying with FC i had to do this test FOUR more times, but each time it got easier)... we were able to get the results the next day and all was well... Praise the Lord!!!
skip to September... my next fertility test.. agh... this one was called a Hysterosalpingogram... wow.. and although i had worked in my Ob-Gyn's office and had heard of this test from a friend of mine.. i was SO not prepared.. let me just say if you ever have to do this test take something.. tylenol, advil.. something... it HURT... the results to this test were not colclusive.. my mom thankfully went with me, and i am so grateful that she did...
October... my friends baby is born...
November.. two more nephews born..
NOW im starting to get concerned.... whats going on.. why is everyone pregnant but me....
December 18,2005: the elders of our church pray over us..
January 9, 2006: Dr. Rath said to stop... it was bittersweet, because the day before i had told my friend Becky that I didnt want to continue on this way, but if i did need help than that meant there was something wrong...

and this concludes PART I... I know this might be boring for you but i just wanted to write it down before i forgot... as past of my babies book...

me~

hey..

2009-04-15T10:27:00.004-05:00

hey guys just thought id let you know that the next few posts will probably be my history.. i will do it in multiple posts.. not sure how long it will be... trying to be thorough though.. i wish i would have written it down at the time for future reference but didnt so as this is my babies E book... i want it to be down... i will also post regular posts too, just thought id let you know that the history will be starting.. anyway just thought id let you know...

me~

How does your garden grow????

2009-04-07T10:15:00.007-05:00

Well obviously not with my help... I have the most brown and plant killing thumb ever... although the idea of this garden is hopefully bringing my thumb to life. Im pretty excited about the garden but nevertheless this is bobby's baby...

Here they all are planting the garden... Austin absolutely loved it.. Evan not so much.. and Bekah and Seth well they liked it, but Austin may be a future botanist... He loved getting dirty and "helping" daddy get the veggie plants into the ground..

Here is Austin helping hoe the garden.. Bekahs thinking "I dont think thats right..?"

Seth and Beks looking at the cucumber that just went into the ground... at one point i found the leaf of the plant on the ground... i dont know who did it though...

Still admiring the cucumber plant...

Austin still hard at work hoeing the garden... He saw both bobby and i doing this so i guess he thought he needed to do it as well... such a good helper...

Bekah: "i still dont think thats right, Austin..."

They LOVED these little crates we got from the nursery... Each of them played with them and with the sticks that say what the plants are... We saved them for when we are outside working in the garden so they can "help"...

Austin showing Bekah what you do with the plant labels... and Yes he got that muddy pretty much as soon as we got to the garden...

Can you find his right foot?? Do you see it??

Here is Bekah she wanted her picture taken... so of course i took one..

Austin and Maddie... Yes we had the WHOLE family out at the garden.. Even our big dogs Trigger and Astro were out there, but since they scare the quads, they were at a distance..

Seth and Austin... they had so much fun...

Austin's foot....

Austin playing with the label and crates...

Seth in the garden...

Austin at the "end" of the work day... he was covered in mud... he had fun and so did i and bekah and seth and Bobby...

but Evan... he so far does not like to get dirty... he has always been kinda a neat guy.. doesnt like to get food on his fingers... but he really did not enjoy getting dirty in the garden... i guess im gonna have to get him used to it... here he is when we are fixing to go inside and he is finally playing with one of the labels,

Here is Seth now working the hoe... Such a good helper too..

When i was taking all these pictures of the other babies evan stood by my side holding my hand... he did NOT want to get dirty..

Well we just put the garden in this past weekend so we have not seen any fruits to our labor, but seeing Austin and Bekah and Seth really enjoying playing in the mud and with the crates was fun for me... I think Evan will get more used to it especially when he sees how FUN it can be to get dirty...

me~

Seth and his penguin named Duck...

2009-03-31T13:04:00.002-05:00

This picture really has nothing do with the title and i downloaded it wronf.. I meant to download it so that it was the last picture... But Bekah has finally gone pee-pee in the potty chair... YAY!!!!

Okay now onto "Seth aka Sepie and his penguin named Duck".... Seth has a penguin that he used to call duck fo who knows what reason, but now he knows it is a penguin and his name happens to still be duck or Duckie... anyway Bobby and I got the penguin last August when we went to the coast for a belated anniversary trip... we initally gave it to Bekah and the boys all got a shark, but within the past six months Seth has claimed penguin known as Duck to be his own... He sleeps with it every night and plays with it every day... when i get them up from bed he hands me Duck and says "Hi Duck!" so i say "hi Duck!".... at bedtime he asks me to give Duck a kiss. so it is really his favorite toy... I have seen him brusch Ducks teeth, show him pictures in a book, read to him, and play peek a boo with him... he also will tuck duck into bed... if i tell him to go put duck on his bed if we are getting ready to go out, he will go put him on his bed cover him completely up and say "shhh... night night duckie" ... and recently he has started to teach Duck to pray...

Here he is teaching duck to pray... he tries to put Ducks wings together but they only go as far as his eyes... but he still prays...

showing me Duck!

Duck is still praying... he is a Christian duck... :)

and we dont allow toys at the table when we are getting ready to eat, but in this picture, he snuck Duck in to sit and pray before breakfast and "eat"....

I did let Duck stay there while we prayed because he did sit so still and was very quiet, but when i handed out the food i told seth that duck was going to wait for him in the living room while he ate so that duck didnt get any food dropped in him... he hasnt really tried to bring duck back to to the table, but last week he did try to take duck with him when we were going to go to the store, we told him that Duck needed to stay home because we didnt want to lose him and he was very good about putting him back to bed...

we havent had a very busy past couple of weeks... or rather eventful.. we did go this past weekend to a parenting seminar at our church... it was very helpful and we ar very glad we went... we spent the night at my moms house on friday night so that we could be there on time, although the babies didnt sleep good during the night... they coughed and were just not used to it... when they would hear a train.. they would sit up and say Choo choo train... but not happily they werent excited they were scared of it... they sleep there every sunday afternoon, but i guess overnight is completely different experience for them...

well thats pretty much it...

me~

Honoring Opie..

2009-03-12T10:10:00.002-05:00

This past Tuesday night, Bobby's grandfather Nolan Specht aka Opie passed away. When Bobby was younger he would spend his days at Opie's house helping him with his animals, and when he got older they hunted together... Bobby told me yesterday he shot his first buck with one of Opie's guns. Bobby has some wonderful memories of Opie while he was growing up. When Bobby and I got married I got to know Opie. Thankfully the babies did get to see Opie too.. Opie seemed to really like the quads. Although he never really gave praise to your face we had heard that he thought the babies were very good... He will be missed!

me~

It is Bobby's Birthday Today!!!

2009-03-05T10:22:00.013-06:00

Today in honor of Bobby's birthday..I am posting pics of him with the kiddos from when they were in the NICU and on.. I hope you enjoy! and Bobby if you ever read this... Happy Birthday!! I Love You!!

Here is Bobby with his Princess... She was the first one he got to hold! and he was the first one to hold one before anyone else... Lucky!

Here he is with Evan.. Proud Daddy!

He is holding Seth...

I think this is either Evan or Austin that he is holding...

Here he is with Bekah again... But she has been moved from her first NICU bed to her last NICU bed!

My baby with our babies!!

Our First Family Photo!!

Here he is trying to get Bekah to calm down so we can get a picture of them without her crying...

Didnt work! But still such a Happy Guy!

This is after Bekah's dinner and she is in a much happier mood!

Feeding Evan...

With Seth, Austin, and Bekah!

Seth admiring his daddy while Bekah and Evan look on.. and Daddy admiring Seth.

Trying to get Seth to burp!

Seth and Daddy admiring one another (again) This was our first road trip... Boy was that a long trip... (But very much worth it Adam!!!)

Daddy with his boys at Aunt Bertha's house!

Daddy with his princess..

I think this is either Austin or Seth and he had a very firm grip on Bobby's neck...

Bobby with his little senorita...

Bobby feeding bekah... mmmm yummy..

Bobby with his princess yet again!

Bobby home from work, laid down and the babies attacked him!

On the day of Bekah's eye surgery...

Helping get the babies situated for a good picture of them with Dr. Ramamurthy!

Bobby with Bekah at my cousins wedding!!

All my sick babies... (big and little)...

Our family picute from this year!

Helping Austin hit the pinata at this years birthday party!

Helping Evan hit the pinata..

Helping Rebekah hit the pinata..

Helping Seth hit the pinata..

2008 Christmas...

just another family picture...

Bobby with his boys... Such good looking guys.. (if I do say so myself)..

Bobby comforting Evan as he gets a breathing treatment while in the hospital the day after Christmas..

One more family picture...

Well I hope you enjoyed this picture journey... Im sorry that i got some pictures all mixed up but you get the idea... Bobby has been so much help to me with the babies... He helps in every way.. Changing diapers, fixing food, but i think his favorite job is keeping them entertained with rides on his back... He is such a wonderful daddy to these babies. I am so Blessed to have him as a husband... I look forward to many MANY more birthdays!!!! Happy Birthday Bobby.. I love you!

me~

walking...

2009-02-26T10:27:00.006-06:00

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...

2009-02-19T10:08:00.006-06:00

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

2009-02-11T10:28:00.002-06:00

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)

2009-02-06T10:18:00.009-06:00

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~

something i shouldnt have forgotten...

2009-01-27T09:24:00.002-06:00

well in my last post... yes the long one... i forgot to add something else that had happened.... after the quads birthday they started sunday school the next sunday... i havent taken a picture of them yet, just because we have been late every sunday since they have started... so when we are able to get to church before it actually starts so that i can take a picture with them, i will... just thought id let you know, i cant believe i forgot to add this in my last post...

also got a call from our therapist... we are changing speech therapist and we have them scheduled to come out in february to evaluate them again... well on the phone yesterday she said shes not sure that they are going to have enough of a delay to continue therapy... which i guess is what i really want, but having them come and helping me get them ready before premiere care has always calmed my nerves... so in a way im ready to stop therapy and in a way im not.... but we'll see... ill let you know how that appointment goes...

speaking of speech... they really are starting to mimic us on a lot of words.. so thats exciting... they also are starting to say each others names which is really cute... i think the cutest though is what they call seth.. to them his name is sepie... i used to call him sethie alot, but i really dont do that anymore, but i guess it really stuck with them.. so now he is sepie to the other babies...

we are still working on the potty training... getting them used to the potty... nowhere near trained yet, but getting them comfortable with it...

i will post their birthday pics and the professional pics probably next week... i have to get some more prints printed and a friend of mine offered to get them done while she takes her son to get his pics done, way better than waiting a year like i did this last time... anyway i will post some pics next week...

well thats pretty much it... we dont have ANYTHING going on this week... a very slow and peaceful week...

me~

busy past couple of weeks....

2009-01-20T09:58:00.002-06:00

Well im sorry for the late post... we have had a couple busy weeks these past few weeks... I was going to wait to post till i had pictures to post with it, but im still waiing on the pics (hint hint Jennifer)... anyway... i will post pics once i get them.... anyway this month pretty much started with the quads birthday.... we celebrated their birthday on the 3rd this month and and it was a nice little shindig.... most of my family and most of bobbys family was there and a friend of mine from church and her family and my pastor and his wife were there.... it was a nice little shindig... we had a pinata... balloons... and CAKE.... it was a lot of fun.... my wonderful sister in law made their video again this year and turned out wonderful.... very Cute.... we opened presents and now that they are a year older were more involved with unwrapping gifts... so that was fun.... took lots of pictures, but not with my camera... my sister thankfully brought her camera and i was able to use hers... so again once i get the pictures.. ill share with you...

next thing was since they turned two it was time for Premiere Care again.... so the first wednesday of the month we took austin and evan in for their check-ups.... evan did awesome... he cooperated... he talked... he did GREAT... he even tested on some things above his actual age.... austin... welll... he has inherited mine and bobbys shy genes and deceided that he was having none of it... he did good, just not as good as he does for me at home... bobby was with austin and i was with evan when they were testing.... i thought that evan might not do as well since he was in the hospital the day after Christmas.. but he warmed up after he saw that we were going to play and that he wasnt going to be pricked with a needle....

then the following monday we had our two year appointment with our family doctor for their regular check-ups.... oh dear... they all cried.. especially bekah.... and they didnt even get any shots... it was cute though... seth never left the door... he stood by the door till it was time to leave... very funny.... like i said bekah cried the whole time...... THE WHOLE TIME... even when she wasnt the one being checked.... but after the appointment my doctor told me that they ALL are healthy NORMAL!!!!! babies... hallelujah!!!!! premiere care didnt seem so scary even if bekah didnt perform well....

well that wednesday we took bekah and seth to premiere care... seth did great... he performed, he talked, he did great.... he too tested on some things above his actual age... bekah... ahh bekah... well i warned them that we had just gone the doctors office and that she might not do very well... well they also had a professional photographer their to take pictures of them for their brochure that they are going to send out... well i guess that made bekah shy also she did some things and some things she would have none of it... their was one test that bekah would sigh when she saw the tester bring it out... then it was time to test her speech cause up until now she has not said a word... well tester starts to ask what things are and shes not saying a word... she asks her where her nose.. eyes... ears... etc.. are??? not a word... so the tester starts to mark on her score card what she is and isnt doing... so i start to ask her what things are... whats this??? "spoon" she says.. this??? ball... this??? baby doll.. this??? dog.... yea shes talking... okay whats this??? nose... this??? eyes.... this??? hair... YEA!!!!! the whole time the tester is watching me and telling me what to ask her.... YEA!!!! bekah... so afterwards when we were talking to dr ramamurthy she tells us that she is very pleased with how they are developing and that she is not worried about them at all.... we do go back in july and then again in january when they turn 3.... and that will be last of premiere care... one thing though which is pretty cool my bekah and seth are going to be in their brochure... i thought that was pretty cool....

okay so the next hing on our list of busy weeks was we had their two year pictures taken on saturday... they turned out really good... my main concern was the individual pictures.. which they all smiled for... the group and family pictures they didnt smile for but i still think they are cute.... although i have to go back and get some more printed because i didnt get two pictures in the size i needed i need to write it down for next year.... i had the pictures cut and framed that same day... they are so cute...

and then today... today we have our monthly physical therpay coming out today.... its not really a hectic thing... she really works around our schedule and is very laid back... she really calms my nerves more than anything else... so looking forward to seeing her today... although after the good reports from the family doctor and premiere care... im not really anxious about anything with them, so this might be a VERY easy going appointment... speaking of which i better start cleaning the house and making it presentable for when she does come...

well once i get the pics.. i will post them...

me~

FRIENDS!!

2009-01-06T13:41:00.004-06:00

My best friend from high school was able to come down and visit her family for a few days and she was able to come over and see my brood and I... I am so grateful that she did... I also got to see her sister and her mom, not to mention her daughter and her sisters son!! So cute.. I had an awesome time and I look forward to the next time that we are able to see each other and hang out again!!!

here we are each with our kids... Melissa is in the middle with her daughter Rya, and Rebecca is on the right with her son Ethan.. They are so cute!

And here are the three amigos! We spent many a weekends together hanging out while we were in high school... awww the good old days!!

Well like I said I had an awesome time hanging out and catching up... Thank you Melissa for taking time out to come visit with us!

Me~

quick post...

2009-01-01T11:59:00.004-06:00

Okay so anyone who is one of my facebook friends already know this, and i do apologize if this grosses anybody out, but im a proud mommy.... evan and seth both went peepee in their potty chairs...

it started last night, when bobby went to our bathroom, the babies got upset because he closed the door on them so i asked them if they wanted to go sit on their potty chairs... well that got them excited because we have just introduced the potty chairs to them and we give them m&m's to get them excited about it... so they are sitting their on their potty chairs for i guess 10-15 minutes doing wonderfully, eating m&m's, and just giggling.... when im done putting diapers and clothes back on.. i went to go look in the pottys to see if anyone had indeed gone potty and lo and behold... my baby boy SETH had indeed gone potty... i was so excited and he got excited and i think you can tell in his picture he was very proud of himself...

then today... after we had just changed a stinky diaper on seth, austin was saying poopoo... he hadnt gone, so we asked him if he wanted to sit on his potty chair, and when the others heard that they deceided they also needed to sit on their potty chairs (of course to get an M&M)... anyway we again sat for probably 10-15 minutes.. and when we were changing diapers, i saw that both evan and seth had gone potty... so yea for them... i guess i know what this means... oh yea...

okay so this is evan today after he went potty... YEA EVAN!!!

and here is seth last night, his first time going potty in his chair... YEA SETH!!!

well i know the pics are a bit blurry i couldnt get them to sit still for the picture... but im still a very proud mommy....

me~

VERY Long post...

2008-12-28T13:36:00.023-06:00

TWO SUNDAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS:
okay so this is a long post, if you dont know already... i posted pictures from two weeks prior to Christmas...

this picture is our family picture taken two sundays before Christmas... but these were our outfits that we wore to my cousins wedding that we werent ever able to take picture of... so we had the opportunity and took some pictures...

we took this picture at church..

this picture was taken at my moms house after church... she wanted some pictures too... so who are we to say no.. so we took some more pictures...

the babies did very well for the numerous photo shoots this day.. they werent fussy at all... they didnt always want to smile for the pictures but they werent fussy... so that was good....

again another photo shoot.. of just the quads... they did very well..

we always do a quick little photo shoot if they have something matching or new on... so this day was no exception!! these were the outfis they wore to my cousins wedding in November....

SUNDAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS:
this next group of picture was taken the sunday before Christmas.... and of course we needed to take some pictures... we all matched to some extent... my red was actually my coat... so thats where my red is at...

the babies again did so well for these pictures... they werent fussy at all... the babies lloked so cute....

here are my HANDSOME men.... they all had black suits and red shirts... very sharp.... i had to talk bobby into wearing his suit again... but he looks so cute matching the boys... i dont think he minded after seeing how the boys matched him...

my HANDSOME GUYS!!!!!

my brother surprised us by showing up for church and we took some family pictures but my camera died before any good ones could be taken... my sister in law got some good pictures though.... i also forgot to take some pictures of just the babies in their matching outfits.. so they will have to have another photo shoot when i put them in these outfits again...

CHRISTMAS DAY:
now onto Christmas day.... this was breakfast on Christmas... we had muffins... very yummy... they hadnt had muffins before and they really enjoyed eating them... they had bluberrry and cinnamon...

here is Seth and Bekah enjoying their muffins... Seth preferred the bluberry...

here is Evan and Austin eating their Chritmas breakfast... Evan still looks a little sleepy in this picture...

here they are sitting in front of the tree in their Christams jammies before we opened our presents... they did really well and had a lot of fun opening presents.. they had to make sure that every piece of wrapping paper got off ofthe present befroe they could check out what it was they opened...

they are saying "cheese" for the picture... i dont know where they learned that at... i dont usually say "say cheese" before a picture, but it seems they enjoyed saying it....

Bekah opening up a present she got in her stocking...

A NEW BABY!!! YEA!!!

Bekah checking out very closely her princess panties... and deceiding that Aurora is her favorite princess...

they pretty much just got undies and socks in their stockings... they seemed just happy about opening up presents and not really knowing what exactly they were opening...

Austin opening a present..... he got an Etch-a- Sketch...

Evan playign with some bells he got for Christmas... they got things i thought could help them with their Premiere Care testing that is coming up in January...

Seth also playing with some bells he got... the boys also got pillows with their silhouettes on them... bekah got hers last year... i wasnt going to get the boys one but in the summertime this year i thought the boys needed their own pillows that are special like bekahs... they did lay on them and say "night-night".... so i think they liked them....

still Christmas Day AT MY MOM AND DAD'S HOUSE:

we have a Flick Football Superbowl every year... i think the only year we havent done the superbowl is the year i was in the hospital pregnant with the babies.. Bobby won the superbowl last year and i came in third... so here we are showing our team spirit... Bobby was the Colts... I was the Patriots... and the babies rooted for us both...

the babies shirts said one team on the front and one on the back...

bekah opening her present from Georgi... she loves her baby doll and all the things that came with it... i think her favorite is the high chair...

Seth cant help himself from helping Bekah open her present...

Seth opening his present form Jennifer... they really enjoyed just ripping the paper off of the present...

i cant wait for the to try out his t-ball set.. i think they will really like it..

Austin opening his present from Jennifer... again just enjoying ripping the paper off...

here is Evan.. i was acutally able to get a pictuer of him looking at me before he really dug into ripping the paper off the present...

we had a lot of fun with this Christmas... the babies actually able to open the presents themselves and enjoying the presents afterwards... it was a good Christmas...

and let me just say that the COLTS won the Superbowl again this year and the PATRIOTS came in second... so a good year for those teams this year!!! looking forward to next year!!

FRIDAY DECEMBER 26, 2008....

(i accidentally just deleted a picture and wasnt able to get it back) anyway... the day after Christmas... well Chrtistmas night Evan started to run a high fever and was coughing and having a hard time catching his breath.... we called the doctor and he asked us to bring him into the hospital...

here is bobby in evan's room watching tv... we had some very long nights and day...

Evan finally drinking his water and watching tv... we dont turn teh tv on while the babies are up and playing at home and watching tv in the hospital was a special treat that Evan got since he was sick...

he was finally starting to perk up here... he was talking to us and laughing... but the doctor wanted us to stay the night sine they seem to get worse at night so we did...

bobby laying with evan while he gets his breathing treatment... he did pretty good with getting treatments... the meds seemed to knock him out though...

Evan still getting his treatment and watching tv...

my brave boy...he did very well.. we were able to come home saturday afternoon.. it feels so good to finally be home after 2 long nights in the hospital... he is doing much better and very much back to his old self... laughing playing not clingy... thank you to everyone who has been praying for evans recovery...

we had a very busy week... and it appears that this next week will be just as busy... they are turning 2 on friday and we are getting ready for their party... im very excited... i will let you know how that goes...

well i hope you enjoyed this post.. and i do apologize that this post was sooo long....

me~

short post...

2008-12-24T10:14:00.001-06:00

i will post again after christmas with pictures... just have been really busy getting ready for the holiday which im sure all of you are as well... just thought id let you know..
me..

thanksgiving...

2008-12-10T10:51:00.003-06:00

well its been a couple of busy weeks for us... getting ready for christmas and such.. but thought i would post a quick note about how thanksgiving went for us... we went to my parents house for thanksgiving... in the evening as per tradition we (my mom, my sister, her girls, bekah, and i) went to garden ridge pottery for our annual shopping of the ornaments... this was bekahs first time, but me being very unprepared for it forgot to take pics of the event... but she was very good and had a wonderful time... my sister picked out an ornament for her, which i think my mom ended up buying... its just a pink ball... like a mirror ball... she loved it... so my mom got it for her... we had them help us decorate our tree, but thats for another post WITH pictures.. i need to get better at always having my camera with me, regardless of what it is... i promise ill get better at taking pics... anyway... i will put another post with pics about tree trimming and such... but just thought id post this real quick...

me

el paso pictures...

2008-11-21T20:19:00.004-06:00

okay so here are the pictures i was able to take from our trip to el paso...
this first picture is how the babies slept at the hotel in ft stockton... we took the matress off the bed and laid it on the floor and had them sleep together... if you look closely both seth and evan are smiling.... they chatted for about 30-45 min after this picture... and it was already 12:45... here is bobby with bekah before the wedding started... i thought i took that ball away from her before the wedding but i guess she found my hiding spot... while i was out in the hall with seth and evan during the wedding, bobby said she threw the ball but thankfully he caught it before it bounced or rolled down the aisle....

here is evan again this was before the wedding started... he was making his smiling face...

and here is how we slept both monday night and tuesday minus of course the "big" baby..... the blanket to the side was my "bed" they were all taking their afternoon nap...

well that is really all the pictures i was able to take... such a shame.... because for the wedding i would have liked to have taken a family picture.... but it didnt happen, oh well....

well i hope you enjoyed..

El Paso.... Fun?

2008-11-21T09:28:00.003-06:00

Hey all.. i know its been a long while since i have updated, and this one probably wont be so great so i apologize now... read at your own risk... well. we went to el paso this past weekend for a wedding for one of my cousins... well lets start at the very beginning... we left thursday night after work... they did much better this year than they did last year as far as fussing and such, but there was still a little fussing and who can blame them for sitting in their car seats for five hours just to reach ft. stockton.... when we got to ft stockton it was like they got their second wind and deceided they needed to chatter and play and fuss... so it took them awhile to fall asleep... they were up at 6:30 an hour earlier than usual, talking.... so we HAD to wake up too.... i went to go knock on my parents door at 7:30 because surely they would be awake, nope... lucky them... so then we went for breakfast at a place that i thought served a pretty good breakfast, boy were we all wrong.... we then had about a four more hour drive till we reached the grand city of el paso... no sarcasm there... alot of my cousins are there which is really nice and the most wonderful restaurant by name of Chicos Tacs is there... YUM.... anyway we were pretty happy to reach el paso, especailly for me because for the last hour and a half i drove and i hate driving.... anyway we got to my aunts house... bobby and i had to go to wal-mart because bobby had forgotten his coat and his belt... and going to wal-mart in el paso is quite an experience... then we went to one of my uncles house for the rehersal dinner... very yum too... one of my cousins went and got me some fast lane tacos which is like chicos but with more spice... YUM! anyway... went back to my aunt berts to go to bed... the babies slept better thid night but still woke up at 6:30 our time 5:30 el paso time... so.... again that meant it was time for us to get up too..... we delayed coming out of our room till about 7:30 so that my parents and my two aunts could sleep longer.... okay so now today is saturday the day of the wedding.... so we get to the wedding and the quads are doing pretty good... we got there about 45 mins early... my dad the planner did not want to be late... so then the wedding starts.... not two minutes into it seth and evan deceide they dont want to sit still or be quiet... so my mom and i take them out in to the hall... so i didnt get to see the wedding but i heard it was beautiful.... anyway after the wedding we changed the babies so they could be more comfortable and went to lunch with my uncle tom and aunt linda, my parent, bert, juana, and my brother and his family... and as we are loading up the kids to take them back to berts house i notice bobby forgot his belt we just bought.... oh well... so we get to berts and about an hour before we need to leave seth got sick... this was the first time any of them has gotten sick, and by sick i mean, you know SICK!.... so we debated about if we should go and he got sick again. so bobby deceided to stay at home with seth and evan and i would take bekah and austin to the reception... yes there was about a 4 hour window between wedding and reception... so we go to the reception with my parents and aunts... ate supper and then about three hours later and two babies falling asleep i tell my dad im ready to go back to berts, so my dad graciously takes my crew back home to bobby, evan and my little sickie... seth got up at 6 or 7 times during the night gettting SICK! poor baby.. okay so now the day is sunday and im pooped since i was up with seth the majority of the time helping him... we had family come over for a last dinner before we left at 6pm.... so now we are back on the road to our pit stop of ft stockton... seth being sick the whole time.... although during the night he did not wake up being sick so that was a blessing but they still woke up at 6:30... where is my sleep!!!!! okay so now monday morning and we are on our way back home about an hour to an hour and a half out from being home evan deciedes to get SICK! and majorly sick at that too.... then about 30 minutes later Bekah gets Sick... so we stop at heb when we got home for pedialyte and soup and cleaning supplies and then on the way home from the store austin gets sick.... i can laugh now that my stomach isnt quesy anymore but that 20 minute drive home i was passing the bucket from one mouth to the next... so we get home... thankfully after evan got sick the first time we put bibs on everyone, in case i wasnt fast enough for them... so as bobby and i are unloading the car bobby got sick! so by this time i am praying HARD for an iron stomach... and boy the Lord answered... i slept on the kitchen floor with my three sick kiddos on their mattresses and thankfully my mom came to help because im sure to have gone mad if i would have had to have done that by myself.... bobby stayed in our room... so the next day is tuesda and thankfully bobby still had the day off.. he was supposed to have gone hunting, but deer and such were a long way away from his mind.... so i had his help as he was feeling much better but weak from his long night.... tuesday i started to not feel so great and as bobby was cooking chicken noodle soup for supper for him and babies i thought i was going to be sick....thankfully monday night before my mom came she picked up a prescription for bobby and so i took one and it really did seem to calm my stomach almost instantly... so we slept again in the kitchen since it took two nights to finally leave seth so as precaution i slept in the kitchen with the babies and bobby slept in the living room... wednesday i woke up achey probably from sleeping on a hard kitchen floor and poor little bekah it seems to have hit her and seth the hardest.. seth seemed to have been sick longer but it seemed to have taken a lot out of bekah... she just acted so weak and puny.. poor baby... well okay so now today is friday.. seth got sick again yesterday morning but seems to be acting fine since and then again last night austin got sick, but is acting fine this morning. so i hope it has left us... anyway i know this has been kinda gross and yuck but ill post what pictures i was able to take later on.. there werent that many, and none of them are of the babies getting sick so you dont have to worry about that... this defiately has been a week id like far behind me, and an unforgetable trip... CONGRATULATIONS JASON AND DAISY!!!!

me

We're Off to See the Wizard....

2008-10-24T13:50:00.005-05:00

Yesterday the quads Premiere Care unit had there annual reunion party.. It was the first time that we have gone to the party... Our doctors and nurses and the testers all noticed last year that we hadnt gone... Well we went this year and the quads went as The Wizard of Oz... So cute... we had a lot of people come up and tell us that they were adorable... of course i already knew that... :)..... we also had quite a few people come up and ask if they could take pictures of them... so i think they were a hit...
i do need to warn you... i again some how loaded these pictures all out of order... so look at your own risk...
here is Dr. Ramamurthy.... she is their doctor at Premeire Care... she is very nice and sweet.. and so down to earth... we love her...

here is the cast of The Wizard of Oz.... Seth of course is th Tin Man.... Austin... the Lion... Evan.. our Scarecrow.... and little Miss Bekah... our Little Dorothy...

Here is one of the testers that tests the babies development... she is wonderful.. and at the last evaluation, she gave me the most wonderful compliment... so i greatly like her...

sorry i loaded all of the single pics like this... im so sorry.... i will do better next time...

EVAN.... our WONDERFUL and clumsy Scarecrow....

SETH.. our WONDERFUL and cute little Tin Man....

BEKAH... our WONDERFUL and sweet little Dorothy and Toto in the basket... (that dog actually very much looks like a rat!!!)

AUSTIN... our WONDERFUL and shy little Lion

so here they are again and i do think they are the cutest little kids in the WORLD... i know, i know.... tis only my opinion... but look at their sweet little faces... how could they not be... i am looking foward to next years party.. although we were asked how are we going to top this one... i have no idea... my inital plan was to be The WIzard of Oz till they had an opinion on what they wanted to be... so i have no clue... if you have any ideas will you please let me know... if not they will be seeing the same thing next year...

we had a load of fun... we got there a bit a late... and we were there for maybe thirty minutes but it was so fun... i really cannot wait till next year.... they did great... they werent fussy... they didnt want to smile for their pictures all the time... but they did really great... we were very pleased with how well they did....

after the event we went out to eat as a family again.. and got oohs and ahhs.... so fun... i think so people wondered why Austin had a braid at the back of his pants, but with bekah still in her dorothy outfit i hope they figured it out... anyway it was a lot of fun yesterday... i really am looking forward to next...

my sister asked me last night if i went as Aunt Em and Bobby as Uncle Henry... no we went as Bobby and Andrea the crew to the cast of The Wizard of Oz... (in case you were wondering)...

We're off to see the wizard the WONDERFUL wizard of OZ.... .

me~

i know i know.....

2008-10-14T21:10:00.002-05:00

well guys... this will probably be a short one since its getting late and ill do another one later this week with pics... we are all doing really well.... bekah went to her six weeks post op a few weeks ago.... he said everything looks "perfect" so it appears that her surgery was a success and she wont need any other surgeries... praise the Lord.... she doesnt have to go back till another three months... so yay... we're pretty excited.... we got flu shots on monday... so far so good.... evan also got his head remeasured (he has a big head) and the doctor is so far pretty pleased with it and has decieded on waiting on doing another mri... so im thankful for that.... and we got a bigger van a few weeks ago too.... so exciting.... we love it... its so nice and big.. and did i mention we love it... its wonderful... well i dont want to give anything away for my later post this week... so ill stop here... i just didnt want you to think i "forgot" about ya'll.... i will post another one later this week.... so ill "talk" with ya'll later...

me

"normal" fun?

2008-09-26T20:14:00.008-05:00

hey... im going to start out saying that is a really long post... and im sorry.... you dont have to read the whole thing... but feel free to linger over the pictures... just kidding..... okay.. so i loaded these pictures all out of order, but wasnt going to delete them and then re-load them.... so... anyway... this picture is of my aunt kathy and uncle lee when they were down from el paso at the beginning of the month.... we all had supper at my parents house since they were down and the babies really enjoyed playing with my aunt and uncle... this pic of bekah and my mom is right after my mom put her hair into pigtails... shes getting better about putting her hair up, but is still kinda fussy when we are in the process of fixing it... i thought that this was the cutest picture....
this picture i actually took today..... we went outside to play and i saw some ants on our porch so i sprayed them with water and they were loving it, so i thought well lets get the sprinkler out... seth was the biggest fan of it.. he loved it.... bekah on the other hand hated it... she barely got two drops on her and she started to cry... luckily about 3 minutes into playing in the sprinker daddy came home so we went back on the porch to play....

here is a picture of my babies with their friends from church... (they are twins).....they came over on thursday..... it was so fun.... everyone was sooo good..... i wasnt sure how my babies would do because other than sunday while in the nursery they dont see other babies... they did really good.. they shared their toys and were overall really good... so im pleased with that... i do need to get them out and about with other kids... just so they know that they arent the only kids in the world... we'll see.... anyway i had a really good time on thursday and i think the babies did too.... (thanks stacy for coming over)....
this is from last sunday.... this is my favorite dress for bekah right now... and they just look so cute...
this also is from last sunday..... these are the "miracle babies".... the little girl is one of my really good friends daughter.... i took i think 10 pictures and this was the best out of all of them... we're going to try another "photo op" again to see if we can get a better pic...
this is acutally a couple saturdays ago.... we went to the zoo.... it was soooo dead..... we went into the lory landing.... they absolutely loved seeing the birds so up close... this was the first time we went because every other time we go to the zoo it is soo packed that we do good just to walk around well when we went this time it was so unpacked that we were able to do that and take this picture on the lions... there was this nice lady who when we first came in saw us and asked about them... and we would see them as we walked through the zoo... then when we were leaving i was talking to bobby as this might be the best time to take the pic.. she overheard and offered and we took her up on her offer.... and im glad we did....
well.. like i said we have some very busy weeks... last week wednesday bekah and seth went to premiere care and did beautifully.... they scored on some of their skills at 22 MONTHS.... how exciting... but then on gross they scored at 16... still within limits.... i was greatly encouraged at this appointment.... the tester that tested seth was very impressed with how well he was doing and gave me some encouragement on how we are raising them.... the tester that tested bekah (bobby was with her) said that bekah behaved beautifully... so im really happy... our therapist was also very encouraging about how they are doing... so im very pleased and happy and excited.... that was really the only thing that happened last week, but it was such a major ordeal it really made the week seem packed....

this week we had speech therapy on tuesday with a new therapist.... she is very nice and has given us some tips on how to get them talking more words.. so im excited about that... our physical therapist came on wednesday... (she is the one who is very pleased with how they are doing).... she thinks they might not be in therapy for much longer since they are doing so well.....

thursday... my friend from church came over with her twins... it is the first time that we have had someone over other than therapists..... it was really nice and fun.... my mom, my aunt bertha, and i (with the quads) went to lunch at red robin later that afternoon.... i am greatly surprised with how well they did with eating at a restaurant.... this was like maybe the third time we have taken them out, but usually its my whole family... so each baby has an adult... this time it was just three adults... they were very good and ate very good...i did feed them a lunch before we left for the restaurant, but they still ate really well at re d robin.... it was fun to do something normal...

that evening bobby and i (with the quads) went to the fair.. i took my camera but didnt take any pictures... that did really good, huh.... it was fun.... we ran into a lot of people that we knew and a lot we didnt.... its funny when strangers are like " i bet your done with having kids" and im like actually i want at least one more.... its like they are speechless... its pretty funny.... it was nice going to the fair as a family... again something "normal" is just so nice...

and then today we ran through the sprinkler in the late afternoon.... so it was fun and busy week...

tommorrow we are getting a BIGGER VAN.... i am super-duper excited about that.... a family from our church is selling it to us at a great price and its just going to be so nice to have all that extra room.... i really am excited... im going to have to get used to driving a bigger van though... i have driven bobbys truck before so its kinda the same... but still... i already hate driving so... im just going to have to practice..... but im really excited....

im sorry for the late and long post.... but better late than never, right???? anyway we have some fun things going on next week so ill let you know what and how they go next week.... anyway thanks for reading....

hey all

2008-09-12T21:42:00.002-05:00

well we are all doing very well... bekah continues to heal.. we got excellent news from the doctor today at another one of her post-op check-ups...he said she is looking wonderful... i havent really seen her cross her eyes either... so im very happy... she no longer needs for us to put the ointment in and once we finish this bottle of drops we wont need to put anymore drops in... im very excited... i never had to put the ointment in, since we only had to put it in at bedtime, but i did try once and it wasnt not easy since her eyelids were slick from the eyedrops and if you did the ointment first her eyes were greasy...so im very happy.. and the bottle of eyedrops is halfway gone.. so woohoo... very excited... she also is teething she is getting two of her back teeth in... she hasnt been fussy or anything but this morning i noticed shes been biting on her arms.... not hard but hard enough to make them red... we have been very blessed to not have extremely fussy babies when they are teething... austin too is getting some back teeth in... and evan is getting one of his back teeth in....

today after bekahs appointment my mom and i went to the mall.... we have been numerous times and i thought peolpe were getting "used" to us... but today we got stopped so many times... i think we got stopped at least 20 times... there was even one time i thought we were taking the "different route" that others take to get to a department faster well we got stopped for about 10 minutes from i think 10 different women who would come over and talk to us... i dont mind... because i think if it were me i would be curious too... i used to when asked if we were done i would say "im not sure" now i tell them "no, i want at least one more" and then more conversation goes on... but oh well... if they're going to ask i might as well tell them... right???

last week evan and austin went to premiere care... development testing... i went in with evan for his and he did AWESOME.... he was scoring into his corrected age and above... i was very happy and excited for him... and so while i was with him bobby was with austin while he was being tested... i thought if evan is doing this well then surely austin is doing just as well if not better... well... not so much... bobby and i both agree that he seems further advanced then the rest but he is like me and he has to warm up to you before he's going to do anything you ask.... he is painfully shy when it comes to strangers.... bobby said it took austin between 5 to 10 minutes to warm up to the tester.. and after that he wouldnt do simple things that he did the time before and even the days before he did for me.... i do my own type of "premiere testing" about 3 times a week things that our therapists have told us we can work with them on.... he did everything i asked him to the day before testing... the next day (testing day) he wouldnt.. not couldnt... he scored in some areas around 16 months which they said is still within normal range for his corrected age which would be 18 months instead of his actual 20... the doctor was not concerned.... although when she was checking him... i guess he was nervous around her and he kept holding his hands very strangely and i could tell the doctor was seeing this and she asked me if he did that all the time... i had never... he fianlly relaxed and then so did she.... but even though he scored below the corrected age... both bobby and i and our therapists know what he is capable of and are not really concerned with his scores... they do ask us after the testing is over if how they were is how they are at home and for austin it definately is not how he acts at home... the minute we were left alone waiting for the doctor to come examine both evan and austin.. austin was chattering away... the minute she stepped in he stopped... just like me...... i am glad that they ask this.. because i know he can do better.... it took all morning.... after we left we stopped at wendys and ate a quick lunch... it was very strange to eat at a restaurant with children let alone only two of our four... it was fun though.... strange but fun.... it felt like we were a little family... it was nice....

bekah and seth go this coming wednesday.... seth in the past on premiere testing days has been like austin.... it takes him awhile to warm up but lately when our therapists come he warms up to them fast and plays with them and does wonderfully... so im hoping he'll do just as well on wednesday... bekah has done well in the past on testing days... i really have no concerns for her as far as warming up... shes an easy going kid.... i think she will do well.... i am really excited about these testing days.... i know what they are capable of and am not really concerned at all... i am praying that they will do as well on testing day as i have seen them do at home...

they are all going back for more premiere testing at the beginning of january because once they turn 2 they will not adjust the age they will go by their actual age rather than their adjusted age if they would have been a full term baby.... again im not concerned... not yet anyway...

well i am still a bit addicted to facebook.... i found my best friend from high school... or rather she found me... so i am very excited... bobby is doing well.. working ... getting ready for deer season.. also looking forward to dove season... im getting ready for christmas and the quads birthday.... i finally have decieded what they are wearing for their 2 year old pics.... so im excited for that... i found a pretty dress at kid to kid kinda like the one my sister in law got her daughter (which i absolutely loved) so i was very excited to find the dress i found.... very exciting..... oh... also a friend of mine gave me a blog site of another quad mom whose kiddos are just a couple months younger than mine and get this she too also has three boys and a girl.... very cool....

anyway.... i will try to update again next week after bekah and seths testing to let you know how they did.... anyway.. im missing the movie im supposed to be watching with bobby so... i better go... i was thinking of doing a blog about what it was like 2 years ago now, but if you dont want o read it let me know... im not too sure...

HEALING!!!!

2008-08-31T19:58:00.004-05:00

Well firstly thank you to everyone who has prayed and is praying for Bekah... she is HEALING!!! Praise the Lord.. her eyes are not as red anymore... in fact they are barely pink and she isnt swollen anymore.... i didnt take any pictures of her after her surgery until today, just because her eyes were very sensitive to light and my camera has a flickering flash so i didnt want to irritate her... these pictures were taken today... she is also getting used to us putting the eyedrops and ointment in her eyes which is very nice... we used to have to really fight her to open her eyes... she still kinda squints her eyes when she knows that drops are coming but not as tight as she was earlier this week... she doesnt even look like she had surgery a week ago... thank you so much to everyone who has prayed... we still covet your prayers for continual healing and for the surgery being a success and for her not needing anymore surgeries... she is acting like herself... im just so thankful for her progress and healing...

we start Premiere Care testing this week... (developmental testing).... im not nervous for it... im not sure how much they will cooperate with the testers but i know and my therapists know how well they are doing.. so im not concerned... i dont know how much they will "talk" for the testers, but im praying they will knock their socks off with their speech.... Evan and Austin go first... they test this wednesday... and Bekah and Seth test on Sept 17.. ... so im excited for the testing...

well i am offically addidicted to this little thing called "facebook" or as bobby calls it "facelift"... a friend from California told me about it.. then my sister in law got on... so i did to.. the first night i was on.. i was on for at least an hour and a half... i found one of my friends from high school and well im addidicted... i think ive gotten better... im not on it for longer than 30 minutes and not every night.... but it is very fun...

here are the babies once we got to mimi and papa's house after church today....
arent they the cutest.... we dont have any plans for this long weekend... bobby is on call... but we were able to mow the grass yesterday while the babies were napping... if he doesnt get any calls tomorrow i think we will finish the yard...

well i hope you have enjoyed this weekly segment... and according to my calander sunday is the last day of the week instead of the first day.. so im off the hook...

again thank you for your prayers....
andrea

Surgery DONE; NOW Eyedrops and ointment

2008-08-22T20:21:00.006-05:00

Well we have had bekahs surgery.... everything went very well.. the doctor even said it went "perfectly"... we also had her follow-up post-op appointment today... he again said everything looked "perfect".. we wont know if everything is indeed perfect until six weeks from now... between now and then if she crosses her eyes it doesnt count till after the six weeks.. so now it is days filled with eyedrops and ointment... which in and of itself is not fun.. for me or her... will you please pray that the applying of the eyedrops and ointment becomes easier and that this will be the only surgery she will need.... i dont want to go through this again... if i have to i will.... but i really REALLY dont want to..... this is bekah last sunday.... she again didnt want to smile for the pictures... but i wanted a "last" picture before surgery...

here is bekah and bobby... we had just arrived to the facility for the surgery on thursday... she was so happy... it was sad... i knew what was coming but she had no clue...

here she is a few minutes before they gave her some tylenol laced with somthing that made her drowsy so that they could start an iv and give her her anesthesia... she knew something was up but was still being such a trooper...

right of surgery when she started to wake up from the anesthesia she was so aggitated... i was struggling to hold her and trying not to drop her... i had to give her to bobby so that he could control her... she tried numerous times to pull out her iv.... i cried the whole time... even when we left the nurse gave me a hug and told me everything was going to be fine...

i cried the way home too... when we finally did get home she was still kinda out of it from the anesthesia so we put her to bed... i walked my mom out to her car when she was leaving and felt like crying... when i got inside i went to change my clothes and bobby came in and gave me a hug and i just broke down....im weary... not so much as yesterday, but still a little weary.... i really dont want to go through this again...

she is crossing her eyes in a little now, but he told us many times that is to be expected... it makes me a little nervous though... i just really dont want to go through this again... please pray for me... please pray for bekah... thank you for your prayers... we covet your prayers...

andrea

Olympic Dreams...

2008-08-19T12:42:00.007-05:00

Hi all... Bobby and i have been watching the olympics since they have started.... we record them and then watch them after the babies are in bed... and im really into it this year... i guess because we record it and then we are able to fast forward through events that we arent too interested in and then pause, rewind and slow motion things that we do want to see... I am so into the olympics i have had a few dreams that i am in the olympics with my best friend from high school.... we were playing volleyball... thats not a stretch for melissa, but for me that is quite a stretch.... anyway our lives have been affected by the olympics... seeing them i want to get out and start playing volleyball, running, swimming, and even diving... so i deceided to have a mini pre-pre-olympics for the babies... Here is the team USA... relaxing before the main event.... you can tell the stress isnt getting to them.... we had a lot of fun... they all want the GOLD....they each had a routine on the "balance beam".. our balance beam was the back of our sofa... theres a 3 to 4 inch space that became our balance beam...

Here is Bekah... she is doing her difficult routine with the assistance of assitant head coach Mimi.... she is going for the GOLD... I think she'll take it.... Maddie is the head judge... although she doesnt seem to be watching the performance...

Here is Evan... he has an equally difficult routine.... Maddie is watching him closely for any balance checks.... i think he'll get the GOLD....

Here is Seth.. also with an equally difficult routine... but is so relaxed he is able to smile at the camera for when he signs all of his endorsments... go Seth.... i think he'll get the GOLD....

Look at maddie... watching seths feet so closely to make sure he doesnt fall off the "balance beam"... the best head judge ever...

and Austin.... he also is doing an equally difficult routine.... but he does his routine with his hat on.... i think he'll win the GOLD....

well by ruling of our head judge... they all won the GOLDfish.... they did wonderful... and i think are the cutest little Olympians ever....

well we have done other things besides the olympics... we went to the dentist a couple weeks ago and we are happy to report no cavities.... the dentist was extremely nice and very fast... i wish i would have taken some pics but maybe at their second dental appointment... which isnt anytime soon.... they all also have some new teeth breaking through... so more new chompers...

we also had our first official speech therapy session... she was very impressed with how they have progressed from just the eval from early july.... she doesnt think she'll be coming for very much longer.... she was very impressed.... if shes happy.. im happy... we also are continuing to practice the open cup.... they are getting the hang of it.... just got to keep practicing...

and bekah.... she has surgery this thursday.... im still trying not to think about it.... my nerves are close to shot... we asked the elders of our church to pray over her on sunday... that alone seemed to calm my nerves a little... will you please pray that her surgery is a success and that their arent any complications... and that this is the only surgery.... and please pray for me... every once and awhile my mind runs away with me and i start thinking negativly... but i do think overall im doing pretty good...

i will try to update again this week.. possibly friday after bekahs appointment with the eye doctor.... just to let you know how she did and everything... thanks to everyone who has and is praying for her and us....

andrea

we're back....

2008-08-07T21:20:00.008-05:00

Hi all... bobby and i are back from our mini-vacation/belated anniversary trip... we went to corpus christi and we had a blast... we left friday afternoon after we ran a few errands and got to the coast around 5pm... it really wasnt a long drive... a trip that i usually sleep through, i read through this time... we ate landry's on friday... they have the best stuffed jalapenos there.... that was the best thing i ate whole trip.. i also got some stuffed shrimp wrapped in bacon, whish bobby thought was the best.. but i was hooked on a the jalapenos... saturday we went to the texas state aquarium and i got the babies some souveniers... i got the boys little stuffed sharks and a dolphin and bekah got a little stuffed penguin... (penguins were my favorite animal when i was little)... then we ate at Joe's Crab shack... it was good but not as good as landrys... (or maybe i was still thinking about those jalapenos since i could see landrys from joes where we were sitting)... we left sunday morning at check out... it was a nice relaxing time... we stayed up late watching movies, swimming, and walking on the beach... and we (or should i say bobby) slept late... i couldnt sleep late... i guess my "inner" alarm clock was still set during vacation... we had a blast.. i did think about my babies though... bobby would ask me what i was thinking about... look at my face.. see my eyes tearing up.. and he'd say "you're thinking about the babies arent you?"... of course... here is a picture of us... we were finally in our room on friday... i took one when we were in the parking lot... kind of like how we took one on our honeymoon, but the flash was wacky and it didnt turn out very good... the babies all did well with my parents... they stayed at our house... and i had no concern that they would be good or for my parents... my concern was for me missing my babies... but i had fun and am looking forward to next years trip...

bobby had off on monday too so we took the babies to the park in nb... we had our very first train ride as a family and it was the quads first train ride ever... afterwards we had a little picnic in the park and played for a little while... we had a good time.. and i think the babies did too... we finally took them to the playground part and let them play and run around after lunch.. but since it was after lunch they were ready for their nap.. so we didnt play very long...

here is evan and seth on the cunductor's seat for the train.... the conductor and the person that sold us the tickets were very nice... the conductor was the one who suggested the picture on the seat...

here is bekah and austin... i know that austin's arm is in bekah's face... but it was the only one of the two of them looking at us...

here is the conductor with the babies... this was after the ride and they were getting hungry but the conductor sat through 3 pictures like this... he was very sweet and i think this is a pretty sweet picture...

after the park... we left to get bobby and i some lunch and the babies konked out... they were exhausted... and i was too ...

here is seth... he was actually the last one to fall asleep... he was talking but when we were waiting for our food he fell asleep...

they were really out cold... my camera makes a little "ring" noise when i turn it on and that usually brings their attention to me.. but not this time...

austin... he is usually the first one asleep and the first one awake... and he held true to form this time too...

bekah... she was a little fussy before finally falling asleep... but she did sleep and isnt she just the cutest girl..

and evan... he was the second one out cold... they played hard.. had full tummys... and were ready for a good nap.. and they did...

they had fun... we had fun... it was just a fun family day... we dont get out very much as a family but when we do it is a lot of fun... im glad to be home.. back to the "daily grind" of breakfast, play lunch, nap, play, dinner, play, bath, bed, sleep.... im not sure bobby is glad to be back to work... maybe next year we can make take a longer vacation than just two nights... but the time we did have this year was perfect.. i was ready to be home but once we got back to the city limits i thought to myself we could have at least stayed another night... but it was my idea of coming back on sunday... well maybe next year... i am glad to be home though... even though i dont think that the babies missed me at all....

this is your weekly episode of "a day in the life of quads"... hope you enjoyed it... by the by... happy birthday papa.... we love you...

lists, Lists, and more LISTS....

2008-07-31T12:41:00.005-05:00

Well first of all i would like to say thank you for all of the encouraging words... so Thank You... as you can tell by my title i have been making a lot of lists this week... bobby and i are going on a belated anniversary trip to the coast for the weekend.. im looking forward to it, but it is the first time i will be leaving the babies over night period... thankfully my parents are going to watch them and stay at our house so that the babies have more room to run around... anyway.. believe it or not i actually had to put blogging on one of my many lists or it wouldnt have gotten done... bobby and i have mowed every night this week after we put the babies down to sleep... so we are really trying to get the house clean inside and out... i think that we have finally gotten the yard work done... thankfully.. i enjoy mowing.. it is a good work out... and i just enjoy it... all i need to do now is cut and bathe maddie (our dog), vaccume, wash sheets, and pack... well now that i have rambled sufficiently about lists and cleaning, ill move on the babies...
We had our physical therapy on tuesday.. it went well... we were given things to work on with them some easy and some... well not hard, just.... hard when you have four babies you are trying to teach at the same time...

Like our therapist wants us to work on using an open cup instead of using a straw cup... well with four babies all i can say is that the concept is good but actually trying this.... i am likely to go insane on training my babies to use an open cup rather than a straw... i have tried it a few times and each time i just get... i guess frustrated.. not with the babies, just with the water that is now in their laps, plates, and table... and then they want to play with the spilled water... so... i know i just need to keep getting them used to the open cup... its not like im filling the cup too much either... our therapist wants us to teach them the word "more" so its just a few sips of water in their cup and then they are "supposed" to ask for more water... well again this is much easier said than done... well i guess we will just have to continue to practice... im thinkinh it might be easier to learn the word "more" with food rather than water...

they did learn a new word yesterday... there was a tractor out mowing near our mailbox.. so now they all are saying tractor... i think austin might really like the way tractor sounds... cause sometimes he'll just say it... and also every truck or train we see in a book is now a tractor... so need to work on that... lets see i think last week or the week before seth started to say "happy guy" now every one says it...its so cute... when we ask him "seth are youa happy guy" he gets this funny grin and says "happy guy"... we also are saying apple and happy.. so they are doing really well with their speech and vocabulary... and i did have more pictures than this but i accidentaly deleted two of them... so maybe next week.. ill be more careful about the delete button...

anyway.. we do covet your prayers on their speech and vocab.. and our trip this weekend, and of course bekah's surgery...

nice "talking" to ya'll... talk to you later...

andrea

2008-07-24T20:18:00.004-05:00

Here is your weekly update on "a day in the life of quads"... not very much has happened this week... we were supposed to have a pt session, but there were some scheduling conflicts so we will probably be having therapy next week... i guess so far the biggest thing that has happened is i took bekah to her eye appointment... she seemed to have been getting better and not crossing her eyes as often... monday she did it only 3 out of 10 times.. the other two days it was around 5 out of 10... in previous weeks.. she would cross them 7 or 8 times... so it seems like an improvement (to me)... i told the doctor this and he examined her.... his concern is that 5 even though it has dropped is a lot... and also that when she crosses them they stay crossed for awhile.. they dont immediately return.... so we are scheduled for surgery for August 21 at 9am.... im trying not to think about it... i feel that if i do... i WILL start worrying... he says that their is a possibility that it will "fix" for awhile but then might go back to crossing them and have to do another surgery... he also said that their is a possibility that surgery could fix her eyes crossing out but might make them cross in... so again surgery... or their is the possibilty (which im praying for and ask that you do to) is surgery will fix her eyes from crossing at all... and of course their is the possibility of losing the eye... so im trying not to think on that... the good news in all this is... we are going back for another appointment in two weeks Aug 6... where he will measure her eyes again... just checking her near and far sightedness. we are still praying for a miracle that she wont have to have surgery at all... but knowing its already scheduled... is a little stressful... and again im really not trying to think about it... i just hope and pray that if she does have surgery her eyes will be corrected and not need another surgery...

for other other little ones... they are doing well... babbling and mimicing us so much... its a lot of fun to listen to them jabber and say words... very cute to hear how their voices will sound.... this pic is from sunday... everyone in jean and white polo... they looked so cute.. but i dont think our church nursery likes that we put them in matching outfits all the time... thankfully this last sunday my friend was in the nursery and she is able to tell them apart.... they are doing very well in the nursery.. pretty much every time we drop them off we have a crier.. and usually someone different every time...

they are doing pretty well... our baby fish are still alive but one of our original fish "little black" died last night... we gave him a burial at sea... it was a little sad.. cause we have had them since the fourth of july weekend.. he was or seemed fine yesterday but he was dead last night.... our other "originals" are still swishing.... so... my mom got bekah a doll stroller the other day but no dolls have made it in... the boys would rather sit in it and be pushed around than push around a doll... bekah too... as soon as i set it up for her.. she grabbed the doll out and pushed around an empty stroller till i think it was austin figured out he could sit in it... very cute ill post some pics of that at the next post... im thinking about our birthday pics we will be getting done in january... either black and white or i dont know... i keep going to black and white.. but bobby doesnt want to discuss it yet because its too soon... so he says... i like to plan and have lists... and i plan WAY in advance... i dont know... anyway.. im just rambling now sooooo ill "talk" to ya'll later....

i hope you have enjoyed this segment of "a day in the life of quads"...

andrea

TWINS....

2008-07-21T22:21:00.004-05:00

we have unknowingly added onto our family... it was not planned... and it truly was by accident... we have welcomed into our family... TWINS..... if you cannot tell... those two black spots are baby fish... the bigger fish was acting weird last week.. she would nip at all the other fish we have in the tank.. and i even thought about calling the store we got them at to see if this was normal.. because the fish we got were supposed to be compatible with each other.. i had even mentioned to bobby that maybe it was a girl and she was "pregnant" and he of course told me fish dont get pregnant... well we got them at the beginning of july... and know we are the proud parents of nemo and nemo II.... i know this isnt the best pic... but i thought it wsa pretty cool... we didnt see any fish eggs... so i dont know... well thats it... i just wanted to let out a "birth announcement" of our newest family members....

by the by.. i will be updating later on this week about another "day in the life of quads"..

me

PICS....finally

2008-07-18T13:26:00.006-05:00

hey all.... just thought i would put some pics on... we took these on sunday at church... needless to say our hams of children really didnt feel like being hams when we were taking pictures.... but we had planned on pictures and we were all matching so it was going to happen even if "we" didnt want it to happen....

obviously here is daddy with bekah who just didnt want to smile at all....... as an update we go back to the eye doctor next thursday... he said that we will probably be discussing surgery then... but he has said that 2 visits ago also... so we might stillbe watching her after that appointment.. thankfully and weirdly enough im not really worried... YET....

here is Seth with Mimi.... he is doing well... he and Evan had an evaluation on thursday from his Physical and Occupational therapists....i cant believe its been a year already from when they started.... it seems like ive known our therapists for much longer.... they are awesome... they are very pleased with how they are progressing.... the only reason they are keeping them in for "therapy" is because the speech therapist requested them in... so when our physical therapist comes she will really be working on speech... im really excited about this... im ready for them to be talking consistently.. and yes.. i do know what im wanting and asking for...

here they are with their cousins.... we just really didnt want to take pics... in fct the reason bekah is crying is because she wanted her Papa to be holding her.... also the reason we took these pics is because bekah's dress matched her oldest cousins dress.. so of course we had to take a picture... i forgot my camera, but my sister remembered hers... thankfully.....

and at last one big happy family..... we're doing well.... im definately ready for the weekend.... although nothing really planned... might go see a movie with my mom and sister.... yes that means bobby will have the babies by himself.. which i dont think has ever happened... but its during nap... but even if it wasnt he could handle it... he really is a GREAT dad... my sister taught me how to put pics on.. so ill try to keep up...

well i do hope you have enjoyed your weekly installment of "A Day in the Life of Quads" it really is much more fun than i can put into words.... and i am just extremely happy with how my life has changed since i learned i was even pregnant.... God is GOOD!

another day with the quads

2008-07-10T13:33:00.002-05:00

hey all ~ well bobby told me last night that i needed to update the site at least once a week... so here i go.... well we are doing really well..... we went to the park over the 4th of july weekend, bought a fishtank, and of course fish two days later... so far all is well... ill have my sister download some pics... today was another appt day for bekah... the doc thinks that she is not getting better... so we will be discussing surgery in two weeks.... i seriously am not worried (which in a way surprises me)... i am just praying that with or without surgery her eyes will correct and stop crossing.... anyway my mom watched the boys for me today when i took bekah to the doc and she gave them haircuts... she has deduced that austin is a sympathy crier... when she cut his hair he was fine, but when she cut evan and seths hair he cried but as soon as she was done it was like turning off a leaking faucet... no more tears... that does not surpirse me as he seems to be the most... emotional... we also had our 18 month checkup with our doctor earlier this week.. he seems very pleased with how they are growing and developing... evan and bekah weighed 26 lbs... austin weighed 24lbs.. and im guessing seth weighed 24-25lbs... didnt get his exact numbers... we are also having a speech evaluation today.... im pretty excited about this... i know that sounds weird but i am,,, im ready for them to really start talking... id say that their first word for all of them was Maddie (our dogs name).. not mama.. not daddy... MADDIE..... they are saying other words too... they have started to say mama, daddy, light, door, bath, no-no, ball, book, baby, uh-oh, and every so often cup.. or bekah sometimes says num for milk.... i dont know where she got that from, but at least she is saying something, right?.... well i will seriously try to do better on the posts... so far this is realy all that has happened this week in the life of quads... its been a crazy, fun, and draining week... but i love it....

Snack Time

2008-05-02T16:01:00.006-05:00

Here are the babies hangin' out at Aunt Jennifers garage sale with the big cousins.

Evan with big cousin, Little Man.

Rebekah, Austin and Seth all being obedient, sitting down eating thier snack like big boys and a little princess.

Snack time everyone, come and get it!!

Meet Our Babies

2008-05-01T13:23:00.013-05:00

Meet our beautiful 16 month old Quadruplets

Meet our first little miracle, Evan. He is our calm laid back baby who is always smiling about something .

Here is our second little miracle, Austin. I have to say is a mamas boy but that is just fine with me, for now! He is our sensitive little guy and can hold a boot lip for 20 seconds before he bursts out crying. His Aunt Jennifer can attest, she thought it was the too funny!

Next is our little princess, Rebekah, aka Bekah Boo Bear. Now she was born smiling and jibber-jabbering, no kidding, she's a talker. She is a free spirit and is very personable. And does she love her graham crackers!! :)

Last but certainly NOT least, is our Seth, aka

Sefers. He is our very mischievous little guy. Yet very lovable and personable like big sister EXCEPT when it comes to his doctors, yikes!

We are truly blessed and are forever grateful to our Lord for our four healthy blessings.

We look forward to sharing updates, pictures or just funny stories with you as we journey in

A Day in the Life of Quads!

Little Miracles

2008-04-30T13:04:00.005-05:00

Hello, I will be posting for my sister on this new blog we have started for her. If you have ever had a full day with four babies, you would know there is no time to blog so it is my pleasure to post and keep you updated as much as possible on what it's like with A Day in the Life of Quads. I would like to share what it is like to be the aunt of quads. First let me say it is a HUGE privilege b/c not everyone gets to hold that title. We usually get to see them on Sunday when we get together and we have so much fun.
The other day I had to take the girlies to the Dr. so mom had to watch the boys for me and they had a blast with all four. Little Man just kept saying how he just LOVES his new cousins. Yes, he calls them his "new cousins" though they are nearly 16 months old. Too sweet. For me to see my little sis with four babies just thrills me. I knew that when I had my first two she was MADE to be a mommy. She was and is so good with them and patient too. These four little miracles have brought so much joy to all there family and I look forward to see what the Lord has in store for each of these precious babies.

We are improving the look of the site so please keep checking in and take a peek and see what each day holds in A Day in the Life of Quads.

New Blog Home

2008-04-27T15:45:00.002-05:00

Hey everyone, I just wanted you to know I now have a new blog. Though it is not the way I want it yet, I will be posting here so check out my site and mark it as a favorite and be sure to leave comments if you can, I would love to see who checks us out.

Tata for now