Busy Weekend and Dr.'s Appointments

Snuggling brothers.

Karter cheesing on her birhthday.

We  started off our busy weekend on Friday celebrating Karter's 2nd birthday.  Where in the world did the last 2 years go?  Our sweet little baby is now a wild, rambunctious, but still very sweet little toddler.  She is so loving and has made the transition of bringing 2 more babies into our home much easier.  Karter loves her brothers so much and has done extremely well adjusting to Mommy and Daddy giving attention to others besides her.  I can't imagine what it would be like if she was jealous or had a hard time being around them.  We had to quickly plan a little party for her because we hadn't made many plans with not knowing what was going to happen with the boys.  Karter was able to have her grandma's, papa, aunts, uncles, and cousins at our house to help her celebrate.  She did a good job opening her presents and we were lucky that it was nice out so we could all be outside so she could play with some of her new presents, like her bubble mower and her new trike. 

Saturday was another busy day as I took all 3 kids to John's cousin, Megan's, baby shower.  We picked up John's sister and our niece and headed to Ames for a nice shower.  A lot of John's family were  able to meet the boys for the 1st time, so they got a lot of love.  When we got home, we were very excited to have some good friends, The Otto's and The Steinfeldt's, over to also see the boys....and of course they wanted to see all of us too.  We tried to get a good night's sleep Saturday because we knew Sunday was going to bring yet another busy day.

Mother's Day this year was all about my Grandma Barb.  Almost all of my 1st cousins and their kids made it to see Grandma at the farm at some point this weekend, which was pretty awesome.  Grandma has taken a little turn for the worse.  This doesn't seem to very easy for any of us.  For any of you that know my Grandma Barb, you know that she is one of the most amazing women in the world.  It isn't easy seeing her sick because she has lives such an active, healthy life.  Grandma was able to go to church, so a lof of us joined her.  Our family filled 1 whole side of the church and part of the other side.  Someone asked Grandma at the end of church if she was tired from sitting up that long.   With a big smile, she said "I didn't really think about it with all of these faces around me."  I'm so glad that we could all be there to spend some time with her.  We are hoping she gets to feeling better and can get some of her pain relieved.  Our day ended by stopping to see John's mom's for awhile.  Karter had a fun time playing oustide and screaming with her "Moo Moo." 

After a busy weekend, it was time for all of the kids to visit the Dr.  Monday I took Karter to her 2 year appointment, and it was by far the worst appointment that I have ever taken her to.  Her dad is definately taking her next time.  If any of you out there have kids that scream bloody murder the whole time a nurse or dr. is in the room, I would love advice on how you got your child to get over their fear.  I'm not sure why Karter acts like this, but it is not fun.  Although, she was not happy the whole time, everything looked very good with her.  She weighed in at 27 lbs and is 34 inches tall, and developmentally right on track!  Today it was time for the boys to go in for their 1 month visit.  You would think that taking 1 month old twins by yourself to the dr. would be a little stressful, but today was a piece of cake compared to yesterday.  The boys are also doing awesome!  Kane weighed 7 lbs 7 ozs and Max weighed 6 lbs 15 ozs, and they were both 20 inches long.  The dr. said that they should gain a 1/2 oz to 1 oz everyday, so they are right on track.  The boys have to be on special formula that has more calories and extra iron.  The iron is very important since they missed out on a lot of that being born early.  This formula has seemed to make Max a little bound up, so he is supposed to get Karo syrup in every bottle.  I would think that would make things taste a lot better!  The only other thing she said we need to watch out for is if Kane gets a fever.  If that happens, we will probably have to get a urine sample.  He is more apt to have UTI's because of his kidney disorder, so we want to make sure we take care of it soon so he doesn't get any other kind of infection. 

So after a very busy, but fun weekend and knowing that all of our kiddos are doing well, we are hoping to relax a little before another busy weekend.  John will be helping tile his mom's kitchen and the kids and I have some graduation parties and baby showers to go to.  People ask if I take all 3 kids, and yes, I do.  I'm not scared.  :)  Four years ago I watched 5 kids all summer long, and I think that prepped me a little for this!