My Little Turkeys

Grandma, Grandpa, Rori and the dog (Taylor) came on Wednesday before Thanksgiving. The kids were so excited! My kids love dogs until they get too close and then they are scared. They pray for Taylor everytime we say prayers as well as every relative and friend we have. I was very surprised when they wanted Grandma to bring her dog to our house. They talked about it all the time. It turned out the grandma's dogsitter couldn't watch her so Grandma got to bring her to our house. Oh boy! We had so much fun! Good thing our landlord doesn't allow pets, I have an excuse not to get a dog besides the one that I am just mean! My kids love Taylor!

Anthony, Jakob and Michael with Grandma, Rori and Taylor 

Grandpa and Jake

Michael and Grandma

Annie LOVES her grandpa. She always has like him, ever since she was a tiny baby. The have a special bond that I am sure will last forever.

My baby turkey.

Grandma brought turkey hats.

Aunty Rori being silly!

Grandpa getting loved on.

Poor grandpa getting jumped on.

I had to move the "dresser" because the kids thought it was so fun to jump off of. It is now in the entry way and sporting a new shade of stain.

Annie

Sisters.

Good night hugs and kisses.

Resting with Grandpa

Jake and Jaileigh

Thanksgiving Thanks

We have so much to be grateful for. We have so many blessings and so many miracles. What family can say they have 5 miracle babies! We live in this wonderful country of freedom where we can practice our religion and raise our children how we want. I am so thankful for this holiday to remind of us of all we have.

We were able to spend Thanksgiving Day with our wonderful friends the Millers.

Annie even sat down at the dinner table.

After dinner digestion was helped out by 4 wild children.

Bill giving the quads a horsey ride.

Jake, Jaileigh, Anthony, and Michael

Gina saving the day

Annie reading her book.

This was our first time to have Thanksgiving at our house. Usually we travel to our families houses. We had a lot of fun cooking. We are so grateful for the Millers. They have been such a big part of our lives. We hope that you will be in our lives forever more!

Year Check Ups (Again)

We went to St. George to visit my parents for Thanksgiving and Mike flew to Chicago to see his family. It was so nice to get out of the house and to visit family. The babies enjoyed it just as much as we did. We went to the pediatrician the day we got back from our Thanksgiving trip. We had to finish our one year shots. I asked the dr if he could split the shots up so that the babies weren't getting so many at one time and he was fine with that. We will wait until the babies are 2 to get the MMR because I had a severe reaction to it when I was an infant. (I didn't know they changed the MMR from 18 months to 12 months either. When did that happen?)

Also, some BIG news! Jakob and Jaileigh have graduated from the Early Childhood Intervention. At the year evaluations, beginning of November, they tested out. Who would have known that the two smallest would be the quickest to graduate. Our evaluators and teachers are amazed at how well the babies are doing. All of them were walking at 12 months of age, we were told they wouldn't walk until they were closer to 2 years old. Miracles happen everyday at our house! We are so blessed. Michael and Anthony are being kept for "observation". I personally think all the babies are on the same level and they are just keeping two of them to keep an eye on things. : )

So. . . .I have new weights and other stats on the babies. . . . drum roll please

AnThOnY JoSePh
Head circumference 19 in
Height 30 1/2 in
Weight 20 lbs 6 oz
Teeth 7 1/2

MiChAeL HuStOn
Head circumference 19 in
Height 30 in
Weight 22 lbs 12 oz
Teeth 8 and working on 2 molars

JaIlEiGh AdDiSoN
Head circumference 18 1/2 in
Height 29 in
Weight 17 lbs 14 oz
Teeth 6

JaKoB ThOmAs
Head circumference 19 1/2 in
Height 29 1/4 in
Weight 20 lbs 4 oz
Teeth 7 1/2

Anthony hamming it up

I told Anthony to smile for me and this is what he did
Michael and Jakob
Anthony

Jaileigh
Jaileigh loves to look "pretty"

Jakob helping Grandpa install baby locks on the poison cabinet

"Good job Grandpa"

Grandpa and two of his boys- Michael and Major

Look at Michaels face. He wants that bow off of her head so bad. Too funny!

Jaileigh and Michael woke up early from naptime one day and were hanging out like they were best buds. They are sharing a muffin at their little table.

Jaileigh all properly "accessorized" compliments of her Aunt Rori

Michael giving Jaileigh "loves"

Until next time, loves to all!

THANK YOU

We have had so many things to be thankful for this year. The list goes on and on. I decided I just needed to jump in and get started on a few of our "thankfuls".

The Bloomington Hills 6th Ward threw a block party shower for our babies and my brother quite awhile ago. At the block party a can was passed around and diaper money was raised. We were floored with the amount of money that was raised. Thank you so much. We are so grateful to all of you. Many of you we do not even know. Thank you Thank you Thank you

Our Rancho Cucamonga Ward also threw us a baby shower. This shower was a gift card shower. We have LOVED the gift cards. What a great idea. Again people that we don't even know showed up to the shower to show their support. We are again amazed and so grateful to all of you.

Mikes work, Allergan, had a pass the hat and raised $300 in Babies-R-Us gift cards. Also many individuals have sent us very generous gifts. Thank you again. Again, most of you we do not know.

And for those of you who are bringing and sending gifts we thank you too. I had grand ideas that I would be able to send all of you individual thank you cards but I have since come to my senses and realized I am already overwhelmed with just everyday life. I have a feeling that most of you will understand.

Also a huge thank you to all of our help that comes in daily. Our ward here in Rancho Cucamonga has organized a team of people (men and women) who come in daily to help out. Knowing that someone will be coming that day to help gets us through the tough hours. We also get dinner brought in 3 nights a week. What a relief!

Lastly, thank you to all the friends and family that have traveled long distances to help out. We REALLY appreciate you. Again I am floored by the outpouring amount of support we have received from so many. (When I say "I", I really mean "we" - Mike and I) I am currently working on a blog entry for all of our helpers. I am gathering some great pictures.

Having quadruplets has been the most difficult and challenging occasion of our lives. We wouldn't trade our babies for anything and we can't imagine our lives without them. The only way we are managing this life altering occasion and not going crazy is because we have all of YOU!

I was showing these diapers off and thought it would be interesting for you as well.

The largest diaper is Size 1. The diapers to the left of the Size 1 is the Newborn size. We are still in the Newborns but not for much longer. The middle diaper with the yellow band is a Preemie and the other 2 are the sizes smaller and then there is the cell phone to put things in perspective.

Jaileigh found her thumb. She has been trying so hard to find it and Sunday she finally did. Michael found his on Friday but we haven't caught him on film yet.

And the answers to the last blog are . . . . . . . . . . . .Michael, Anthony, Jakob, and Jaileigh. Thanks for playing. : )