May in Photos...

Friday Harbor, San Juan Island

Kayaks at Friday Harbor

Grandpa and Gracie

We call this one "Grumpy and Goofy"

The Grassmunchers

Feeding babies in the grass at Friday Harbor

I love Gerber Cheesepuffs!

Feed me, Tutu!

Our little snoozer zzzzzzzzz

Robert fell in love with this Dinghy

Lovely Roche Harbor

Oliver holding hands with his "girlfriend" Angela who he met at the parade!

Gracie and Tutu at the Victoria Day Parade

Playing with Mommy's stuff is SO FUN!

Love from Daddy

I love my spatula!

Our handsome captain!

On the water

Oliver and Mommy on the flybridge

Entering beautiful Victoria Harbor!

And this is what we call a "Daddy's special"!

Sidney wildlife

Our handsome little sailor boy

Our adorable peanut

Oh, did you mean "no touch" about this?!

Gracie stylin' in her new hat!

Our new hats are SO cool!

Audrey loves to play "Peek-a-boo"

There's nothing quite as joyous for a mother of triplets as a wall of free diapers...

The cake table!

My lovely "watermelon" cake!

Vegetables are out the window...

Stop taking pictures and BRING ME MY CAKE!

Mmmm....ice cream is good!

That was the best thing I've EVER tasted!

Audrey is pulling up on everything and soooo close to walking!

Birthday girl #1 and Birthday boy

The little birthday girl

So Grandpa, let me tell you what I want...

Grandma Terri is determined to get Oliver crawling!

Tutu and Gracie

Daddy on his way to make tri-tip sandwiches!

Grandpa and the Buttenhoffs

My little buddy Chase

Milena and me

Dade!!!

Kelly and sweet baby Halle

Tina and her little pal, Audrey:)

The lovely Lawson ladies

Ginger and Lucinda - these ladies have been such a huge help to me!

Lindsey and Lydia - so pretty!

Amber and "Joe Cool" - oh wait, that's Oliver!

Daddy had to hold Grace over the trashcan to get all the cake off of her!

Grandpa and Gracie are worn out after such a fun party!

Here are some photos from the babies' 1st birthday party and our two week boat trip through the San Juan and Gulf Islands with Grandpa Gene and Tutu!

April Babies

Mommy and Gracie at Lydia's 1st birthday party!

Gracie wasn't too sure about the party hats...

And Lydia wasn't too sure about the cake!

Luke couldn't keep his hands off of A&O's bottles!

What a smart boy!

There are some incredibly large plants in Sacramento!

Holly and Mary, 2010

Adorable babies (Audrey, Oliver, Luke)

Some of our friends at the March of Dimes Walk

(Robert, "Auntie Lu", Robert, Milena)

Grandpa Gene and Tutu came to cheer us on!

Playing with Grandpa at Red Robin

Gracie loves her Grandpa Scott!

Grandma Terri and Gracie girl

Playing with spoons in the bathtub

(maybe I should give them toothbrushes to "play" with!)

Grandma Marsha and Grace

Grandma Marsha and Oliver

Audrey was very interested in the Sea Lions

Grace took quite a few naps at the zoo:)

Mommy and Audrey pet the goats!

"Buds"

At the zoo!

This monkey was very interested in US!

Self-portrait of Daddy and Audrey in front of the Columbia River

My mom and I look like twins!

Grandma and Audrey

Oliver's so funny:)

Playin' in the park on our last day in Portland

April was a month full of activities! Baby Lydia turned 1 on April 14th, so I took Gracie to her first birthday party! On the 12th, Audrey, Oliver, and I went on a 400-mile drive down to Sacramento to see the Giudices (Ben, Mary, and Luke), while Daddy spent some one-on-one time with Grace. We spent 5 beautiful days in warm, sunny California, but unfortunately, the babies ended up getting their very first cold! We knew it would happen sooner or later, and thankfully we made it to 11 months! We were pretty worried about how the virus would affect Audrey's airway, but amazingly, she ended up tolerating the cold better than the other two babies, and poor Oliver was sick, had a rash, and was cutting several teeth:(

The following week a speech therapist and physical therapist from Early Intervention came to our home to evaluate the babies. Because the babies were born so very early, they are considered "high risk" and a priority for "early intervention". The babies put on quite a show and kept the ladies very entertained with their smiles, giggles, and other funny antics! Audrey was determined to be functioning at her chronological age (as if she had never been a preemie at all!), Oliver is right around his adjusted age of 8 months (what the babies would be if they had been born when they were supposed to be!), and little Gracie is a little behind. So EI is going to do some monthly physical therapy with Grace to try to work some of her little muscles and help her "catch up". But even though she isn't moving around as much as her big brother and sister, she scored very well in "social interaction": Gracie is one smiley, talkative little munchkin!

A few days later was the March of Dimes Walk for Babies! We were very excited to get out and walk for a cause that is now so dear to our hearts. The March of Dimes has done a lot of the research and has created much of the technology that helps keep micropreemies like ours alive! We were also very excited to see some of the babies' nurses from the NICU and other multiples families. It turned out to be a beautiful day and a lovely walk.

And finally, we spent the last weekend of April in Portland with Grandma Marsha! We thought Portland would be a fun place to meet for a visit since there is so much to do there! Grandma hadn't seen the babies for quite a while, so it was a very special time for everyone. We took the babies to the Portland Zoo, to Saturday Market, walked along the waterfront, played on blankets in the park, and did a LOT of walking around the city! Although our 4 days together went by really fast, they were filled to the brim with laughter, hugs, kisses, and baby drool:)

As I go through these photos from April, I feel so very thankful for each and every one of our parents. Our babies are so blessed to have 5 grandparents who adore them and love them to pieces. That makes my heart happy.