It's Christmas time!!

Today was another great day. I was able to put up our Christmas tree and get a few gifts wrapped. YAY!! I love this time of year. We put Christmas music on and Caden even helped me. It was fun. Caden was really excited about it and thought the tree was really pretty.

Caden playing with a musical decoration

Lorraine came to visit for the afternoon and fed and changed a baby. Thanks Lorraine! :)
Dylan and Liam were even awake for most of the visit which was nice.

Sherry and the kids came in the evening. Here's Beth - so adorable. The 3 older kids had a blast together. Caden was so excited he was jumping up and down when they came. It was really nice to see all of them.

Beth

Caden loved playing with Beth. I think he'll be glad when his brothers can interact with him.

Kieran and Caden spinning around in the chair

Kieran spinning Caden and Lana around. They laughed and laughed. It was really special.

So, ya, we all had another great day. I'm feeling a little tired tonight. I did the midnight - one a.m. feeding and then the 430 - 530 feeding last night. I'm not complaining though. They slept for 3.5 hours straight. That's not so bad. And then dad came up at 615 and I was able to go back to bed until 9 (even though Caden got up at 630! It figures that the babies longest stretch of sleeping seems to be those early morning hours where I won't even benefit from it because Caden will be up. HMMM! We'll have to get them switched from that!)

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Anonymous said…

Can you see me rolling my eyes at your tree...hehe. Kidding. It must feel really good to be able to be getting up and doing some of these things after 2 months of doing nothing!
I hear you on the night time feeding, early morning kid, no time to sleep feeling! It was so much easier with the first, just sleep when they do right!!
Anyway, looks like you guys are being pretty well taken care of!

Lots of Love
T

11:54 am

Anonymous said…

Look on the bright side. Even if you have to be awake and the babies are not, you will have some great alone time with Caden.
Sherry

5:19 pm

Anonymous said…

Awesome set-up guys. (I'm refering to the change station, lol). Looks like you guys are doing great and have had lots of visits/help. (Including one of our boys' girl friends, Maggie....but don't tell James)!

Let us know if you need anything. We'll try to send some more stuff down in a few months. Just watch how quickly those boys will grow!!

Cheers,

Steve (Fellow Triplet Daddy)

8:53 pm

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