A few baby updates

Cassie is crawling so fast now--can hardly keep track of her. She is getting her top right tooth, so that makes 3 for her. She sleeps a lot when her teeth are coming through---kind of nice :) Tonight I was in the kitchen making bottles and she crawled into the hallway and found a tiny piece of a candy wrapper on the floor and ate it. She started choking and throwing up. It finally came up. I wasn't too sure what I should do because I knew it was tiny, tiny, whatever it was. I figured it was paper or something. Anyway, after throwing up a lot, she was okay. I know we need to start making sure EVERYTHING is picked up off the floor.

Jimmy is still scooting on his butt, but moving a lot faster now :) Also army crawling and getting pretty good at that. Not sure when he'll be able to lift his chunky body off the floor for a 'real' crawl. He is so relaxed and happy. He plays forever all by himself and really only cries when he is hungry or tired. They have all been sleeping very good through the night the past few weeks.

Jenna is getting up on her hands and knees, moving backwards. She also rolls to get where she needs to go. She is pretty fussy lately, but I'm not sure why. Most of the time I guess she is tired. I think she just needs more sleep than the others. She is the easiest to put to sleep. As soon as I put her in her bed, she starts smiling and laughing. She loves her bed :) Sorry for the lack of pictures. Here is some video of Jenna eating like a big girl :)



I don't ever think I put up their 9 month pictures. Here is the link--I never got the CD yet. You have to enter in the password - clauser.

Allison turns 3!!!

We had a big weekend. I took off work on Friday to run some last minute errands for Alli's party. Me and Alli went to the hospital to see the Parkersons that night. Saturday morning, I took Alli to get her pictures taken. They turned out so cute! It was hard to choose, but I was being cheap and only getting the one pose, $10 package. We came home to pick up Daddy and she rounded up all of her papi's and the babies too (they don't use them) and put them in a Ziploc bag. Nana and Papa came over and we all went to Chuck E Cheese. Jason and Kristen met us up there also. We didn't eat there b/c Alli can't have the pizza anyway, so we got McD's on the way home. She was in heaven playing all of the games and riding the rides. Then it was time---she was handing over the papis to Chuck E Cheese(her idea). She knew she was getting rid of them when she was 3...I've been warning her the last few months. She did great with it. So far, the only issue we had was on Sunday, she found one and wouldn't give it to me...just kept it in her mouth. But we were able to tell her it was her cousin's and she hasn't asked again. She is NOT getting that thing back! Didn't do much Saturday night, just prepared for the party on Sunday. There were so many people that came to celebrate with Alli on her b-day. She got tons of toys and clothes and other gifts too. Actually, after opening about 10 gifts, she got up and walked away saying "I'm done, I want to go outside and play now!" and she walked out the door. It was pretty funny--we just all sat there laughing. I had to beg her to open the rest of the gifts that night. I guess she isn't greedy ;) I didn't get great pictures b/c my good camera's batteries died twice in two days! ARghh!

Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday Dear Allison! Happy Birthday to you. May our Dear Lord Bless You! May our Dear Lord Bless You! May our Dear Lord Bless Allison! May our Dear Lord Bless You!
She was a little tired...this was a face she made a lot that day :)
She really did enjoy the day and she had a lot of fun playing outside. Her and her cousin Cody.
The pinata....those things are stressful.....I think we'll skip it at the next party :)
Later on that night, opening the rest of her gifts.

Welcome Morgan Faye

My best friends Janet and Jamie had their baby on Thursday, October 16th. Morgan Faye 8lbs 1oz. She is adorable and was so alert. Alli and I (and Toni) went to the hospital to see them on Friday night. She is welcomed by big sister Devan (10) and big brother Will (5). I'm so excited that Janet has a baby close in age to mine so they can grow up together. We have been friends since I was in 2nd grade and her in 1st, so thats almost 25 years!
Congratulations Parkerson Family!!!!!

Comparison

Alli wanted to hold Jimmy this morning like a baby. I couldn't help to think back about the first time she held him when he came home from the hospital and how much he has grown!

Jimmy 10 1/2 mos
Jimmy 6 weeks
Oh, and Happy 27th Wedding Anniversary Jane and Ken! Hope you win/won big in Tunica!

It's Official!

Cassie is crawling! Jim said she was a few days ago, but I had to see it for myself before it becomes official blog-worthy news ;)


Also, I'm not sure if I mentioned on here or not, but Jimmy also has two teeth now, so they are all even on the teeth front!
We had a very busy weekend. My friends Sheila and Toni offered to babysit for Jim and I on Friday night. We were all dressed up with nowhere to go. Couldn't find anything that sounded too exciting and no movie we could agree on. So we went to Trailhead for happy hour. It was the first day of Pumpkin Spice beer, so that was yummy. We were gonna go to the Funny Bone, but were running late. So our cheap butts went to Ameristar and each gambled $10 on pennies. Oh, and if you ever need a babysitter, Toni and Sheila are better with cats ;) haha!

Saturday, Toni, Ann, and I did a 5-mile run (but we walked it). Well, we only ended up doing 3 miles, got lost in the Alton hood and almost got attacked by two Dobermens. That was fun! You can see all the other details that I would rather not blog about on Toni's. She couldn't resist ;) Then we had Cory's 1st b-day party. He is my great-nephew---doesn't that make me sound old??? We packed everyone up and went over to Katie and Cory's. That was fun and the babies were very well behaved. But, we paid for it that night--since they didn't have their naps, they did not sleep well. Funny how that works out..you think they would pass out from being tired. Here is Alli making brownies for the b-day party.


Sunday we went to Pawnee to visit with Jim's family and to go to our friend Sean's sons 2nd b-day party. We left Alli with Kelly to play with her cousins. She had a lot of fun, but she keeps telling me that Cody is mad at her. I heard they got in a little fight, but now she says they are friends again and Cody not mad at her anymore. I think the babies were sick of being out and about, because they started getting really cranky and probably sick of the car too. Two days of no naps really took a toll on them. Oh, and Kelly and Mike grilled too, so we had a good dinner. I can always count on getting fed when we're there ;)

Jim got a new bike on Friday (from our friend Dilla), so him and Alli went out riding (around the driveway and court, or as us rich people say, cul de sac ;) I think Alli is getting a new bike and helmet for her b-day :)

She gets her moves from her mama

Two down, one to go!

I took the babies to the helmet dr. yesterday and Jenna got to take hers off. We are so excited to be done with it. We go back in a month - hopefully Jimmy will get his off then. It looks good because he has so much hair covering it, but its not quite done yet.

My babies are 10 mos today!

Wow, where do I start? I know I haven't updated in awhile. Sorry! Last Friday night, Toni came over and helped me give baths. I really wanted to go to the Forest Park Balloon Glow, but we were getting 9 mos pics taken, so I thought my kids should probably be clean for them. And its always fun hanging out with Toni. I guess the baths wore us out because we started watching Baby Mama and we both fell asleep about 9:30. Wow, we're old! Not many bath time pics b/c I was too nervous to let go of the babies b/c I didn't want them to fall.

This is the first time I've given them all a bath at the same time. I'll probably stick to doing one at a time until they are a little more steady. (Jimmy, Jenna, Cassie)
Toni washing Jimmy's hair
Alli washing Jenna's hair
Toni gave Jimmy a faux hawk
Jenna doing her side sitting and looking like a model. Her physical therapist would be so proud :)
On the way to the park for pictures, we hit a 4x4 flying around on the highway and had a blowout and ruined our wheel. So, we sat on the side of 370 with 4 other cars that hit the same thing and all had blowouts. So frustrating. Luckily our photographer had a big Explorer and we were following her. She packed me and all the kids and carseats in and we still ended up going to a different park for pictures. I was upset we couldn't get family pics though b/c Jim had to stay and change the tire. It was just really stressful and a pain and the kids were tired. We did end up with a few good pics though. I'll post soon. The photographer felt bad for us I guess--she didn't even charge us!

So, then the next day we were going to watch Pearl Heart perform at Jefferson Barracks---luckily my family is so great. Ann let us borrow her van so we were still all able to go to the show. I think the suckiest part was that the van is my car and it wasn't getting fixed until Wed and I can't drive Jim's car.
Here is a pic of the babies in their new stroller (Jenna, Cassie, Jimmy)
Pearl Heart rockin' the stage (Angela, Court, Amy)
Alli had so much fun dancing to the music. She was so into it and everyone was watching her be so cute :)
Alli's "friends" (Angela, Courtney, Amy)
So, the week goes on...gets worse before better. My computer broke, but we had the warranty and all was good.

These pics must be during the week when "Ma" was watching them. You can see where Alli gets her funny personality :) And my mom says I never have pictures of her on here ;)
Alli wearing "Ma's" glasses
Alli and Jenna
I mentioned the babies are holding their own bottles now...here is a pic of all of them together
And this video of Cassie is just showing how much she enjoys her bottle ;)

We used to read to Alli all the time, but hardly ever read to the all of them. I think this might be the first time. I thought it looked so cute.
Story time
So, I think they are starting to act like 10 month olds now.....they are getting into everything! Cassie started crawling a little today. She has eaten two People magazines and a Scrapping magazine in the past two days and two of my scrapbook pages....that I put a lot of time into!!! Guess I need to start picking up after myself. Ann told me I should still put them in the book anyway b/c now it will have extra special meaning and memories :)

They all have their own different modes of getting around right now. Cassie is pretty much crawling. Jenna just rolls all over the floor, wherever she needs to go. Jimmy does some goofy looking thing on his butt. He just keeps bouncing and inches forward. But he does roll around a lot also. I also call Jimmy the bulldozer because he is constantly rolling over Jenna and Cassie b/c they are way smaller than him. He knocks them right over. Here he did it to Cassie this morning.
This video is of Cassie trying to crawl and Jimmy doing his thing...


When I was at church this morning, Jim said he was in the kitchen and heard Cassie and Jimmy cracking up laughing. He walked into the living room and Jimmy rolled himself under the table and then he was stuck.
Today I decided I think the kids are getting bored with rattles and 'baby' toys, so I brought up some of Alli's old toys. Her big house, her piano, some ELMO toys. Jenna was really into the piano.
Baby Mozart



Oh, and just for a side note....we went to the Counting Crows/Maroon 5 concert last night. Counting Crows has been one of my favorite bands for a long time and we were soooo disappointed! I think the lead singer was stoned or drunk or something. He didn't sing..he talked all of his songs and they each lasted about 20 minutes! I was so excited to finally see them b/c I never got the chance, and now I see I didn't miss out in the past. Good thing Maroon 5 sounded good. And of course, we still had fun because it was a night out away from the kids and a lot of our friends were there. My camera batteries were dead, so you'll have to check Toni's blog for goofy pics and I guess the rest of the crazy story after we left;)

No updates.....

Had a crappy weekend, car broke, and now my computer broke yesterday when I was going to update you all on my crappy weekend. So, I can't upload any pics and this short update is from work. Hopefully I'll get a new computer tonight.....

Just thought I would add a few pics. Today is a great day so far. All of the kids are being good and they all slept really good last night, which means I did too :)

Jenna got her first tooth on Monday. All 3 of them are holding their own bottles now for about the past week....that makes our life a little bit easier. I got our new cool triplet stroller. The other one we used was for the infant carriers and Jimmy doesn't use his anymore, and the girls won't be much longer. Too heavy to carry for the Mom.

Cool....Alli must have gotten ahold of my camera with my big babies holding their own bottles. I usually have to delete at least 50 pictures to get a few good ones. She made sure she got one of her best friends too!

Jenna

Jimmy
ELMO

This picture is for my friend Kelly.......Alli even goes outside not dressed! ha!
Cassie just hanging out in her car seat. Whatever keeps her happy :)

Nothing really too exciting going on here. We are getting 9 mos pics (a little late) on Saturday morning. Looking forward to the weekend...we don't have too many definite plans yet. Hopefully we will go to the Forest Park Balloon Glow on Friday night. I've never been, but I heard its pretty cool. Saturday pictures and Jim's parents might come in town. Sunday is my family reunion on my Dad's side of the family, which we probably won't make. Also I may do a walk for Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD). My mother-in-law and brother-in-law both have this genetic disease.

The one definite plan we have this weekend is to watch Pearl Heart (my nieces) perform at Jefferson Barracks Memorial Amphitheater on Sunday evening from 5:15 pm-6:00 pm. It is a free performance, but you must register here. It is a Republican picnic, but it doesn't matter if you are Democrat or Republican....who really cares about politics ;) Just come on out and show some support for Florissant's own....PEARL HEART! This is their only show in St. Louis this year. Hope to see everyone there!

Here is a video from last week. Not too exciting, but the kids are all cute in it :)

Dawn's (and Nathan's) Big Day!

This weekend was busy, busy! Friday night, I had the rehearsal dinner. We didn't want to get a sitter (although the kids were welcome, it wouldn't have been fun with them :)) So, Jim stayed home with the kids and I went to the rehearsal at the church, then to the dinner afterwards. The food was good and it was relaxing being out by myself :) Although, I talked to Jim a few times during the night and it wasn't so great for him.

Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Meyer

Saturday, I had to leave at 7am to get my hair done, so I was gone all day! The wedding was at noon. Everything turned out great--Dawn looked beautiful (and Nathan looked very handsome too!). I kept thinking when they were up at the alter how cute their kids are going to be--hopefully we'll find out soon!!!!! Yes, I'm one of them people that as soon as the wedding is over, the next focus is kids ;) We took a TON of pictures in different locations after the ceremony, so hopefully they turned out good for them and they have a lot to choose from. It felt like forever for the pictures, but I think it was probably because my feet were killing me from my too cute heels. The reception was a great time! Good food, good music, good friends (and family)! Thanks Mom for watching the kids during the ceremony and Kelly and Jenny for watching them that night. Oh, and my dress was very, very tight, but I think it looked okay and at least I got it on :)

Dawn's parents walking her down
The Vows
The happy couple!
Dawn and I
Ann and Tim
Gina and Brian
Janet, Kristen, and me
This was supposed to be a picture of Jim and I (those crazy girls! Amy & Amy)

Here we go! Me and Jim
Dancing on their own dance floor (Stacy, Sheila, Toni, Tracie, Jamie, Tim)

It's Electric ;)
Amy, Becky, Toni, Amy

The girls (Gina, Kristen, Ann, Janet, Me, Beth, Dawn, Sheila, Amy, Becky, Toni, Tracie, Amy, Stacy)
It's not a fall wedding without apple bobbing!
Dawn, Me, Jim, Nathan at the end of the night! Congratulations Dawn and Nathan! Have a great time on your honeymoon!

And if you are wondering what happened to all of the leftover cupcakes......Toni and Kristen!

So, today we didn't do anything. We had take-out from Chevy's (I thought about you Jack;)...that was yummy. Then I went to church at 5. Jim took Alli to see Wall-E, but he just called and said they left before it was over. It was a little too old for her, so she was getting restless. Here is his sob story for the night. Alli wanted popcorn at the theater, but she can't b/c it has butter on it (made with milk, and she is allergic). Then they went to Wal-Mart and she mentioned popcorn again. He then asked her, "Alli, when did you have popcorn?" and she said, "I never tried it." Poor kid has never tried popcorn. So, Jim bought an air popper there so she can start eating some popcorn. We are just used to eating microwave kind in this generation. Here are some pictures of Alli experiencing her popcorn for the first time---she loves it!
The babies have been soooo cranky lately. I'm guessing its b/c they are teething b/c they aren't tired, hungry, and don't need to be changed. Sure hope this doesn't last long!!!

This picture of Jimmy a few days ago...he was in the living room being so good for almost 45 mins with his sisters and when I came in to look at him closer, he had this bag on both arms like a backpack. It's hard to tell in the picture, but me and Ann thought it was pretty funny.