Happy First Birthday!

Well, the triplets are now officially one year old. It has been a big three days for them. It all started on Sunday when we had an open house for all the people from church that have helped

us over the last year. We had around 45 people come for dinner and birthday cake. It was nice to be able to say thank you to all these wonderful people who helped all year.

Monday evening, our families came over to eat cake and watch the triplets eat cake for the first time. They got some fun new toys, including another John Deere riding tractor from Uncle Wes and Aunt Kara and another walking toy from Uncle Chad and Aunt Lisa. I made them cupcakes instead of a cake each, and boy did they love them! Grace dove into hers, frosting first and pretty much ate the whole thing like she had eaten one before. The boys loved theirs, too. It was a good thing we did this without any shirts on. We plopped them in the bath straight afterwards, then they played with their new toys while the rest of us ate birthday cake!

Tuesday morning was our 12 month visit to the doctor. It was a good visit, even though they were tired and cried while the doctor was examining them. He is switching us to whole vitamin D milk and they have the go ahead to eat pretty much whatever we want to give them. Still no things like raw carrots, popcorn, hot dogs or grapes because of choking. They got 4 shots each, three immunizations and their second flu shot. They will probably be sore for a day or so, because they got one in each leg and each arm. Their weight is good. Will was 23 lbs 7 oz, Xander was 22 lbs 3 oz and Grace was 19 lbs even. Their heights are all in the 50th percentile or below, but all of them have head circumferences in the 75th to 95th percentile. The boys can be forward facing in their carseats now, which we will probably change this weekend. Grace still has to be rear facing until she's 20 lbs, but we are also going to switch her from the baby carrier to the convertible carseat. We could have done that a while ago, we just haven't. All in all, good reports and we see him again at 15 months. More posts next week, if there's news!