31 weeks and 6 days, Happy Halloween!

Daddy and Mommy together!!!!!

32 weeks (well in 3 hours, LOL!)

Me Maw Patti sent cute 1st Halloween booties and hats and since the babies are not here yet we wanted to take a picture with all three on my belly so the kids could be apart of Halloween too!!!

Thanks Me Maw!!!!

31 Weeks 1 Day!

Hey everyone! Here we are at 3 weeks past our last really big goal of 28 weeks!!! Still on hospital bedrest and I am doing ok I have my ups and downs but for the most part I just keep thinking the longer these babies cook the better for them and less time away from daddy and I in the NICU. We now have a scheduled C-section date..............Our babies will be here on or before Nov.16th!!!! I cannot believe this time is here it's only 21 days or less! We are really hoping to make it to the scheduled surgery because that means our whole team of doctors will be there to enjoy this moment with us!

New stuff.....

*There really is babies everywhere in my belly, not one soft sopt anywhere!!!!

*The babies move almost constantly, it seems they never sleep! Hopefully that changes before they get here! Lol!

*Eating is still a chore, but I seem to be hungry all the time.

*Last growth scan will be on Nov. 5th!!!

30 Weeks and 1 Day!!!!

If someone would have said my body would hang on this long I would have laughed in their face! We have been in the hospital now for 6 weeks now and on bedrest for 10 weeks, the babies are doing extremely well! New milestones to report are:

*I can now feel when the babies have the hiccups, =0)

*Blake still finds room to completely flip over, under, around! How is that possible with no room in there!?

*NST's are going much better and take usually a minimum on 30 mins instead of hours!

*Weight gain is at 18lbs( which is almost all baby!)

We now have less than 30 days actually 27 days to be exact until our trio will be here!!!!

29 Weeks 4 days.....

Ben's chubby face

Blake's face

Brooke's Face

Brooke's profile

Brooke's Face

Ben has hair!

Blake looking up, look at those cute ears!

Alright everyone so today we had another growth scan, boy was it uncomfortable! The average weight for a 28-29 week baby is 2-2.5lbs, our babies weights are as follows:

Benjamin 3lbs 3oz, Brooklynn 2lbs 9oz, Blake 3lbs 1oz!

The babies are growing extremely well, both boys gained 1lb 1oz and Brooklynn gained 12oz in the past 3 weeks. We have another growth scan in about 2.5-3 weeks and that should be our last as we should deliver around 34 weeks. During the ultrasound we found that Ben is no longer head down he is breech (feet down head up right in the center of the belly), Brooke's head is in the center of the belly all the way on top pretty much under my ribs and her body, legs and feet curve down around the right side, Blake's head is right smack in the middle of the belly and his body curves down around the left side. All their heads are really close together. They of course were extremely stubborn for the ultrasound moving around like crazy making it hard to get measurements, but hey what can you expect from three little readheads! (Hopefully) LOL! Also both Brooke and Blake are bald but we did get a very cool picture of Ben's head and he has HAIR!!!!!! So very cool to see! Fluid looks good around the babies as well, still able to swim! We hope you enjoy the pictures today as some of them are VERY funny!

29 Weeks!!!!!!!

Here is a picture at 29 weeks, I don't think many people expected us to make it this far, but we are still trucking along hoping to make it to 33 weeks. Growth scan on thursday, hopefully babies give us cute pictures to share with you!

28 weeks 4 days

Well me and the babies are still hanging in there strong! I was able to have a very nice chat with Dr. Hill and we probably won't go past 33 weeks, so in the next 4 1/2 weeks our babies will be here!!!! I feel like it is so surreal, sometimes I look at my belly and cannot believe that Carl and I created 3 Beautiful miracles! I still feel like a grow more and more by the hour, lol! My belly was doing very well handing the the stretching but over the past 2 weeks or so I have gotten 3 stretch marks which is not so bad compared to some of the pictures I have seen of other triplet pregnancies, I just think of them as love marks from our TRIO!!! I am getting anxious for our growth scan next week, hoping that they are all still gaining alot of weight which with how much I have stretched and grown in the past 2 weeks, I have no doubt! =0) Hopefully during the growth scan the babies cooperate and we get some cute pictures to put up! Love you Ben, Brooke & Blake

28 weeks!!! Wahoo!!!!!!!!

We can't believe we have finally made it to our BIG GOAL of 28 weeks!!! Time has really flown by and I am hoping that it continues to do so. Everyday I feel like I am growing larger, which I probably am and getting more and more uncomfortable. Ben is still VERY low and it starting to feel as if he will fall out when I sit straight up or when I walk, Brooke seems to be moving to the very top and pushing herself up under my ribs which can cause extreme pain and Blake has moved so far to the left that his heartbeat is almost on my back! So I am really being stretched in every direction, I love them all so much and I love that I have been able to carry them for so long but I cannot wait until they are here!!!! I was able to open up our 28 week card today from daddy and he had a very special message for the kiddos:

Dear Ben, Brooke & Blake,

Another 4 long weeks, but the good news is.. You can come at anytime! We or at least I am hoping for another 4 weeks or so otherwise all my hard work on your "Goals Bottle" will be for nothing! I can't believe that soon I will see all three of you come into this world! I am so proud of all of you already. Being good listeners, especially you Ben!! Don't worry Brooke and Blake we will explain why we keep congratulating Ben on this accomplishment later! I love you all!! In the mean time hang in there alittle longer.

Love, Daddy

We have another growth scan on Oct. 15Th and our hoping for 2lbs 8oz or larger for all 3 babies! Right now they should be a little over 14.5 inches long from head to heel and about 2lbs 4oz! I have gained only 15lbs so far in the past 28 weeks and it is all belly, If you add all three babies plus fluid and placentas it would be around 15lbs! Not to worry since the babies are all growing great! I will update again if anything happens or right after the growth scan.

Fun with the belly at 27 weeks 5 days

Ok so Carl and I wanted to have some fun tonight since the last couple of days have been kinda stressful, we definitely succeeded! We bought some paint so we could decorate my belly on several different occasions, I don't think either of us knew it would be nearly this much fun! During the painting session Carl started laughing and I was looking at him like what is so funny and he told me that when I laugh my belly button also laughs!! So he grabbed the camcorder and started recording laughing hystericaly which in turn made me laugh so hard that I was snorting! I don't think either of us had laughed that hard in a long time! We hope you enjoy the pictures just as much as we do!!!