Summertime Fun Time!

Realizing it's been more than a month since I've posted, I'm going to absolutely assault your senses with cuteness.   It seems that the only time I have during the day to update the blog is during nap time, and now that Iris is "napping" (i.e. singing, dancing, reading and building couch forts) out in the office my access to the computer is limited to the evening hours, and Erik usually has real work to do on it.  Hopefully I'll get back into a better swing up updating soon!

To say that we've been busy is perhaps an understatement.  There's been a lot going on around here!  Erik's been traveling, we've had visitors, we've all had a good dose of a summer cold, and somewhere in there we have finished up a batch of swimming lessons, Iris has graduated from her first year of preschool (ceremony and everything!), the boys have COMPLETELY chubbed out, and now, both girls just started a summer preschool program called Summer Fun Bunch.  That's right...Eve has now joined the ranks of the preschoolers.  It's very surreal to me to say the least.

At the end of May I trekked all the kiddo's to the doctor for three well-child checks - which obviously was a hilarious and exciting few hours.  There were 10 shots and 2 oral vaccines between Iris and the boys, and we definitely all earned our milkshake on the drive home.  Iris is measuring in the 75th percentile for both height and weight, and is a whopping 3ft 6 inches.  HOLY.  MOLY.  Levi weighed in at 12lb 4oz, and Ike an impressive 13lb 9oz. Ike seems so big to me, so I went back and looked up Sprout to find that she weighed 14lb 12oz at her 4 month check.  I suppose my perspective has changed somewhat given how tiny the boys were in the NICU.  Eve, meanwhile, enjoyed some goldfish crackers and stickers.  But she seems to have grown an inch or two overnight and is suddenly wearing size 2T, so we'll see what she's measuring this fall!

The boys are even bigger now, and are officially 21 weeks.  We don't have specific measurements but the rolls keep on comin'!  We just started trying out some cereal this week and while the majority winds up on their faces instead of in their tummies, I hope they'll get the hang of it soon.  Our issue lately seems to be hunger, and it appears that the boys are beginning to demand more than I can supply.  Inevitable or not, I'm not quite emotionally ready to wean them, but nursing them every hour and  a half around the clock is no picnic either.  I'm trying to take it day by day, and we'll just see how it all plays out.  Fingers crossed!