Triplets Update – Long time Coming

Owen, Noah (Vomit Action Shot) and Bella on Halloween

Okay, just realizing that it's been nearly two months since I've done an update on the babies, which makes me derelict in my blogging duties, but I assure you we've been busy around here.

Mr. Noah came home from the hospital on the god awful formula that smelled like fermenting potatoes (I suspect it also tasted like fermenting potatoes) and we went thru several weeks of hell where he crapped six times daily and he wasn't all together happy about the process.  While being regular is good for one's mood, there is certainly a case of taking it too far.

He also wasn't putting any weight on with that junk and the three hour feeds were making us miserable.   So we were happy a few weeks back when they finally put him on the same formula as his brother.  Within a week, he was doing so much better, and was really putting on weight.  Were it not for his unusually large cranium, his body would all but be caught up in size.  He is absolutely adorable and I love him even when he's screaming bloody murder at 2am every night and waking up the other kids (yes, really, every night).

Noah and Bella, Appetizers before Dinner

It's really amazing, Noah can fit both his hands in his mouth.  Bella tries to but Noah really has a big mouth.

Ms. Bella is our little star, and with that, sometimes the primadonna.  She amazes me everyday with her vocalizations already.  You can really see that she is trying to learn to talk by watching mom and dad (Note to self, now is the time for me to strike the "F" word from my vocabulary).  Her body strength is amazing too, and she was the first to coordinate both of her hands to grab at toys above her head.  She seems to be hitting every development milestone a little faster than the boys.

She has absolutely the most beautiful smile when you play with her.  Unfortunately, every time we try to take a picture she puts on her best Mona Lisa smile.  Of course, she can crank with the best of them too and it seems that mom is the only one who can regularly get her to calm down.  Nobody said it would be easy.

Bella at Tummy Time

The picture of Bella above is actually a couple of weeks old, and she now regularly raises her head when on her tummy.  The boys aren't quite there with this yet.

I'll end with a short note on Mr. Owen.  He's now the biggest of the babies and is really growing so well.  We were finally permitted to take him off his heart rate monitor last week, so that was a tremendous milestone for us.  One picture of him below, and that's it for this week's update.

Owen - Ummm...I didn't dress him