Spooked by Santa!

We went to Mimi and Grandpa's house for what was supposed to be a fun Sunday night dinner to celebrate Grandpa's birthday. We were sitting around...just mindin' our own business...when all of the sudden...well, see for yourself...

Next time we're going to ask who's comin' to dinner before we show up!

Ho, ho, ho!!!

Love,

Maryn, Brynn and Leah

I Can't Believe It!

Oh no! You'll never believe it!
Leah walked before me! You know I LIKE to do stuff first. (I wasn't the first born...but that wasn't by my choice.)
Sitting up, crawling....I like to go first.
On Sunday night, Leah just stood up and decided to walk to daddy. Then she did it again, and again...
Well, I wasn't going to let her show me up so I stayed up all night in my crib practicing and by Monday morning, I was showing mommy my steps too!
I guess I have to settle for second on this one.
We're still practicing walking. We're not totally confident on our feet yet, but sometimes we decide to surprise mommy and daddy and walk.
(Maryn isn't really interested in walking yet. She says, "Why would I walk if mommy will carry me?" She can walk behind a push toy, but she just usually isn't in a hurry!)
Maryn is pretty smart though. If you ask her how old she is, she will tell you.
"Maryn, how old are you?"
(See she's one!)


Here's a picture of our superstar athlete! Go Leah go!


Us by our Christmas tree in our Christmas PJ's:


Well, Leah did walk first, but don't worry...whatever is next...I'll be sure to be first! ;)

Love, Brynn

Great Grandpa

Hi, it's Brynn.
We have some sad news to tell you today.
Our great grandpa died early this morning. Boy, was he a nice great grandpa!
He was so funny! See...here is a picture of him making me laugh.
Thankfully, we got to see him right before he got sick. We showed him our Halloween costumes. He thought we were so silly.
We're happy that we got to meet him and laugh with him.
We're going to miss him!
The good news though, is that he gets to spend Christmas with great grandma in Heaven instead of in a yucky hospital.
We love you great grandpa! We know you are laughing with Jesus and great grandma and you are not sick anymore. We love you!
Love,
Maryn, Brynn and Leah

So much to be THANKFUL for!

A note from mom:
What a year! My little girls have gone from 3 lb babies in Neonatal Intensive Care, to 20 lb healthy, lively, beautiful girls! How great is our God!!! Thank you for an amazing year!

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Hi,
It's Maryn...I'm officially a toddler. One year old! (and remember I am the OLDEST! Even if it is just by 2 minutes :)
Being a toddler is great!
On Thanksgiving, I got to eat turkey, potatoes, corn and my personal favorite...Sweet Potatoes!!! I even got to have some pumpkin pie. Yuuuummmmm!!!
We had Thanksgiving at our house this year...so the best part is leftovers!

On our birthday, we got to hang out with daddy and grandpa ALL DAY LONG!!! Mommy went shopping. When she got back, we went out and got a Christmas tree. It is beautiful, but if you try to touch it it feels kinda scratchy. I don't really like to touch it.

We made hand turkeys too. Grandma (Mimi) traced our hands, and then let us pick a crayon to color in the turkey. They are pretty if I do say so myself!

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!
Love,
Maryn

Party Time!!!

Paaarrrtttyyyyy!!!!
We had a big party celebrating our birthday! Our real birthday isn't until Friday, but we had a party a little early to celebrate!
It was so much fun! Thank you to everyone who came and gave us hugs and kisses and such nice gifts! We have such good friends!
Here are some pictures:

Brynn and her cake. She loves her candle!

Leah's not too sure of her hat, and actually preferred frozen peas to cake. Go figure!

Maryn is our dainty eater. So clean and polite.

The fabulous party spread!

The AMAZING women who made our party so wonderful! Thank you!!!

A picture of Leah with Bev. Bev is our good friend who comes to play with us every Monday.

We love her so much!

Some of our preemie clothes. Boy, were we tiny!

Good Friends!

Our friends and their Mommy's. (and our auntie Jenny!)

Maryn and Mr. Harry:

Maryn is a sucker for Mustaches!

Look at this neat present we got!

Go, go princess car!!!

A silly picture of Brynn!

What a great day!

On Friday at 4:58 a.m. (Maryn) 5:00 a.m. (Brynn) and 5:01 a.m. (Leah), we'll be 1!!!!

Love,

Maryn, Brynn and Leah

Our Week

Thank you for all of your prayers for me and my sisters!
Boy, being sick is NO FUN. Thankfully, we are starting to feel better.
You know the worst part about being sick? Having your nose wiped! Imagine, you can barely breathe and your mom comes at your sore, sore nose to try and wipe it. Seriously mom, just leave it alone! I don't really mind the boogers.
Second worst part of being sick is having to use a nebulizer. Here is a picture of our nebulizer.


Don't be fooled. He looks cute...but he's really no fun!

On a good note, we all had our cardiologist appointments with Dr. Baker this week and everyone has beautiful hearts. Brynn and Leah have a tiny, tiny PDA's (murmur) but it is so small the the doctor doesn't even think he would be able to close it surgically and it will have absolutely no effect on us anyway, so really there is no need. YAY!!! They made us lay on a table and watch Baby Einstein while they rubbed some jelly on our tummies. It wasn't so bad.

The highlight of our week was going to visit our friend Becky. She gave us our first haircut so we can be "stylin'" for our birthday bash. It was so fun! Auntie Jenny was there, and so was Ms. Peggy and Mimi. We love the salon! We didn't cry at all while Becky cut our hair. Want to know something else? Becky has cut my mommy's hair for as long as she can remember, and she gave our Auntie Lauren her first haircut too. Becky even gave us sparkly "fairy dust" in our new "do's". We felt like princesses!

In 2 weeks from today, we will be 1 year olds! Truly big girls!
So cool!
Love,
Maryn, Brynn and Leah

Prayers for my Girls!

We've had a bit of a crazy day!
Leah has had a horrible "croupie" cough, and I took her into the doctors office today to have it checked out. They sent her home on some antibiotics and a nebulizer. During her second nebulizer treatment, she had a terrible reaction. She coughed up so much junk that she quite literally choked on it. Talk about scary!!! (Truly, it was top 5 scary moments since I've had my kids...including the NICU) Once she calmed down enough that I knew she was stable, I spent the next hour on the phone with pediatrics trying to figure out what to do next.
We'll be watching her closely tonight, and heading to the E.R. at Children's if it gets any worse. Her preemie lungs just can't handle too much junk!
Please, please pray for her. Pray that her lungs heal and she is able to quickly work out whatever is going on.
(on top of all of that she also has a double ear infection!) My poor baby!

Maryn and Brynn have colds too, but so far, they haven't been too bad. Pray that their lungs stay healthy.

Our little bout of illness has reminded me how important hand washing is! For the rest of the winter, we'll be careful to stay as healthy as we can! (Back to being the germ patrol and on house arrest for the winter!)

Thanks in advance for your prayers!
Alison