Just back form the appt. No more pictures this time. The babies are growing like weeds! So much bigger than last time. They are each about 4 1/2" long.They look perfect again! We are dying to know the sex of the babies. As agreed with the TV show we are doing we are not going to find out until we tape the show. I must say it is taking every bit of restraint I have and the fact that I promised to not sneak a peak. July 16 we go for our detailed ultrasound appt. that is when usually they would tell us the sex. That is going to be the hardest. We are convinced that there are two boys and a girl.
We broke down and went shopping today. We were going to wait until we were 28 weeks but we just couldn't hold out anymore. We are so excited. We bought as if we are having two boys and a girl. I am keeping the receipts just in case. It really lifted us up to get some outfits and enjoy looking at all the "oh so cute" stuff.
We also have our names figured out for sure. That is something we (meaning Joe listening to me) have agonized over for months now. We will tell everyone once we know what we are having. I really am excited about the names we've picked. They have so much meaning to us.

Picture is 16 weeks 6 days pregnant! It was taken July 4th and I accidentally posted it here and haven't figured out how to remove it.

I feel like our lives this summer have become a crazy whirlwind. We are so unbelievably busy and going in so many directions that sometimes I'm not sure we can keep up with everything.
Brittni left for California this morning. She is staying with my sister in Chico. She will be gone almost a month. I am so proud of how mature she is. I have no fears that she will be fine. I will miss her like mad though. She is so fun to be around always making everyone laugh and smile. We really are going to miss having her when the babies come. They will love her so much. We have Brittni's graduation party yet the 16th of August and Keli's wedding and baby shower. Our baby shower and an entire basement to stock and arrange for baby storage. The nursery to start.
I am wondering how in the world we can get it all done in the short amount of time we have. Makes me feel very overwhelmed.
I did make it to see mom's belly last night at Keli's bridal shower. Oh my goodness she has started to pop out. I noticed her belly as soon as I saw her. She still is very small for 15 weeks carrying triplets I think. I am going to start posting her belly shots tomorrow now that she is showing.
In some ways it is hard not having the babies growing inside of me. I constantly am wondering how they are doing and missing them. On the other hand it is nice to be able to work really hard at getting everything we need to get done. I wouldn't be able to work as much or work around the house like I do. Joey and I have worked non stop the last month and are really feeling the effects of it. I wish we could get away just the two of us for a couple of days but it doesn't seem like it is going to happen before the babies arrive. Our expenses just went up incrediby and our work load to so I think maybe we will just have to hole up in the house, turn off the phones, and pretend we are somewhere else for a day. :)
We have a doctors appt. in the morning so hopefully I will have more pictures and a great update!
Thank you everyone that have been so supportive throught this journey. We are so appreciative. Your words of encouragement seem to come at always the right time.

The picture is mom 15weeks 4 days pregnant!

Mom felt the babies move for the first time last night! She thought for sure she would be able to see it from the outside with as hard as it felt but she couldn't. I'm going to go and visit her in the morning to see if her belly is any bigger. I can't believe tomorrow we are 15 weeks! Every week that goes by we get more excited and feel a little bit more reassured that we are going to make it. I have worked in the nursery at work lately a couple times and I am so excited that soon we will have three of our own to love. I really am ready for the craziness to begin!

Everything is ok!! We had an ultrasound and the babies look great. They don't see any reason why she might have bled. Possibly around the stitch from the cerclage or perhaps there is a little tear in the placenta area but they didn't see evidence of that. We were all so nervous that something would be wrong with one or all the babies. These babies are so important to us and we love them so much already. We feel so relieved that everyone is ok. Hopefully I can sleep tonight because I did not sleep last night at all.

Quick update. Mom had very heavy bleeding last night. It has stopped and we have an appt. in the morning. She worked on weeding the flower beds all day and the thought is that maybe she overdid it. This has happened before just not quite so much bleeding. It is common in multiple pregnancies. All we can do is pray that everything is ok with all the babies. We really would appreciate everyones thoughts and prayers. We will update everyone tomorrow right after the appt.

Today we went for our nuchal translucency ultrasound scan. All babies look perfect. This test looks for any indication of down syndrome and a few other chromosonal abnormalities.
The babies continue to grow at an even pace with each other and according to their age. This is very important for our babies because they share a placenta and one baby may start taking all the nutrients from the other. They are about 3 inches now. Mom just starting gaining weight. About 4 pounds I think. She is very proud of those four pounds though. She does have a little belly. It just became noticable to us that know how thin she was to begin with. She even thinks maybe she has felt them move a couple times internally. We are anxiously awaiting their movement on the outside.
Our next appt. is just a two week check. Then we have a detailed ultrasound scan two weeks after that to look at all the anatomy in detail to make sure everything is normal. We could find out the sex of the babies then BUT we agreed to wait until on the "The Doctors" show we are going to be on. Oh, the anticipation we are feeling!!! I want to go buy baby things so badly and decorate the nursery and it is so hard to wait until the end of July or begining of August. We have so so much to buy too. What's a girl to do I ask?
I keep dream shopping online and believe me as soon as we find out I'm hitting the baby stores.

For our other big family news our oldest daughter graduated from high school this weekend. I hope she enjoyed our weekend and her graduation day as much as we did. I will remember her graduation day for the rest of my life. Looking at her sitting there waiting to receive her diploma looking so beautiful and grown up. Such a bittersweet moment. The pride I felt I can't even describe. It seems like yesterday I was giving birth to her and now she is moving on to college and done with high school. A whole new chapter for her and us. We know she will be so successful in her life. She has made her whole family so proud of her.

Finally a day at home to get caught up with everything here. It seems to have been nonstop hospitals and doctor appts. the last few days.
Mom is feeling great. She will be off work on light duty thru tomorrow. Dr. Kiwi wanted her to be off all week but I think because she is feeling so good he will let her go back on Thursday.
Babies are doing wonderful. Had an ultrasound again and one of the identicals were waving at the camera and the other identical was literally doing flips in there. The fraternal is really more laid back kinda just hanging out. Not a whole lot of activity.
We are moving Colin out of his room and into Brittni's old room. He wants a Michigan University decorated room. We all think he was dropped on his head (He wasn't) because who that lives in Ohio would root for Michigan! Our family is all Ohio State fans and picking on Colin about Michigan is our favorite hobby.
The babies will go into his old room. There really isn't room for all three but somehow we will squeeze them in there. I had envisioned a really sweet nursery decorated perfectly. I guess God decided to show me that the nursery isn't the important part its the baby or babies in our case that we should be focusing on. Not all the stuff we can buy for them. We picked out our cribs at baby depot. They are on sale thru June 14th so we are going to order them. Not sure we have room for more than one dresser. We started our baby registry there also. We need to finish it as soon as we know what the sex of the babies are. It's very hard to shop for three babies when we don't know!
I really want to go to Babies R Us and look. I remeber how big their selections are. We will probably register there also. I'm off to spend a rainy day inside re-organizing rooms.

Joe & I are waiting for mom to return from the operating room.
She is having a cerclage done to prevent her cervix form dialating. I actually can hear Dr. Kiwi out in the hall talking so she must be done and in recovery. I'm sure all went well but it always makes me feel so anxious when she has to have any procedure done. I feel bad knowing that it should be me that has to go thru it not her. I am definately going to owe her for the rest of her life.
She is back and Dr. Kiwi said it went wonderfully.