It feels wrong to be posting a normal post after my last awful one. Ah. Ugh.

So Mardi Gras. I took the boys to some parades on Saturday, and then George and I both took them to some on Sunday. It was great fun, even though they didn’t really know what was going on. The wagon was a big hit (as usual) and so were their shirts. I got them matching Mardi Gras t-shirts, and on the back wrote “This One” (Linus), “That One” (Oliver) and “The Other One” (Miles). Heh. We met up with the quads while we were there. We watched the parade in their neighborhood, so I got a lot of comments like “hey, you lost one!” and “oh, do you know the quadruplets” and so on and so forth.

Pictures!

 

In other exciting news, I got a gallery of all of the pictures my friend Amy took of the boys a few weeks ago. They’re amazing. The gallery won’t be up for long, so if you want to see, go here. The password is Triplets0209. It’s going to be so hard for me to pick which pictures to buy, since I’ve decided my budget will only allow for four. One of each and a group shot, I think! But which onnnnnnes???

Next week is me and Linus’s trip to Los Angeles. I can’t wait!

 

I need to post about Mardi Gras, but first I wanted to do a separate post about something very sad. Remember the twin girls, Sydney and Carynne, that I mentioned before? You see the graphic on the right that you can click on to make donations for her family?

Well, I was very sad to receive an email on Sunday from the girls’ mama saying they lost sweet Carynne that morning.

And then last night, I was devastated to receive another email saying that her sister, Sydney, had passed away as well.

Words cannot describe the unfairness and the sadness and the just all around awfulness of the whole situation. I’m not that eloquent, so I’m just going to leave it at that. These sweet girls were nearly six months old, their mama and daddy didn’t get nearly enough time with them. It’s just so wrong.

So please keep Carynne and Sydney’s family in your thoughts and prayers. It’s unimaginable.

It’s been a rough week, but we’re hanging in there…

Miraculously, Linus never got sick! Thank goodness. I don’t think I could have handled another ER visit, and another set of breathing treatments. Ugh.

I took Oliver and Miles to the pediatrician for a follow up, and Oliver is doing much better, but Miles is still wheezing. Poor peanut. At least they’re in good moods.

Mardi Gras is next week! Hooray! So exciting. Tonight I’m going to my first parade of the year, after the boys go to bed. It’s an all-women’s parade called Muses. It’s really fun. And my friend Alicia, the quad mom, rides in it, so hopefully I’ll get lots of goodies. Woo!

Saturday, I’m going to take the boys to their first parade. That will be fun. Must decorate the choo choo wagon, I think. And figure out what they’re going to wear. V important, that.

I’ve been feverishly refreshing my Google Reader for the last few days for this…looky!

My friend Amy, a very talented photographer, took some pictures of the boys and Emily on Sunday in the French Quarter. Aside from an Oliver-related mishap in the beginning, the shoot was really fun and I thought went really well. Amy is awesome! Yay Amy! I love them so far! Ack!

I know, I’m behind on posting. Sorry. Sue me. I have just been so worn out lately due to lack of sleep. Anyhoo. Fun weekend. Emily and Jenny flew in, so I took the boys to the airport to pick them up, and then we went to Baton Rouge.

Man, Emily is soooo cute. She is something else! She talks-talks-talks-talks, but only about 1 in 10 “words” is actually, you know, a real word. So cute.

Saturday night, Mom had family over. Lots of family. Which means lots of people to hand a baby off to. Woo!

Sunday, we had pictures taken of the boys in the French Quarter. I can’t wait to get them back! Emily was in some of them. They’re going to be so cute! Ack!

Now, instead of words, I will post some pictures…

And finally, a video of Linus demonstrating his “barfing fake-out”. I am so proud. 😀

One of the great things about being a mom of multiples is the communities you become a part of with other moms in similar situations. In one of these communities I belong to, there is a mom of sweet twin girls, just five months old, that we’ve all gotten to know. These beautiful little girls, Sydney and Carynne, have sadly been diagnosed with a disease for which there is no cure, Werdnig-Hoffman disease. Sadly, these sweet babies have the most severe form of it.

So we have started a collection for this family, so that Mom can spend more time with her girls, for the all-too-brief time they have left. Medical bills will be high, and we want to help with that too. So please make a donation if you can. If all of my readers donated just $1, it would be a huge help. I know times are tough for us, but nothing is tougher than what this family is going through.

If you can’t do it today, I have a link on the right side of the blog that you can use as well.

Original subject line, yes? Thank you.

I think today they are going to narrow down the number of babies in the contest to 400. Yeah, I’m going to be asking you to vote for Oliver for a lonnnng time.  I looked at the rules today and man, they really drag this thing out. But that’s fine. This week it’ll be 400 babies, next week 300, then 200, then 100, then 50, then 25, then oh man it’s never going to end, but eventually (I think in two months) you’ll be voting between two babies. Oliver and Millie. Hee! Won’t this make a great story at their wedding?

Kristina and Mike are in town right now. We’ve spent basically the entire weekend eating. I do mean that literally. They flew in Saturday night, and we went to Port of Call for burgers and baked potatoes. Sunday morning was breakfast at Brennan’s. And then last night, we had dinner at a place called Luke. They’re flying back this afternoon, but not before I meet them for lunch at Acme Oyster House.

Tomorrow, I shall eat salads all day long. For real.

On another topic, isn’t it neat that in the six months that I’ve had this blog on wordpress, I’ve gotten over 100,000 hits? I think I might be as big as Google. Just saying.

The boys are enjoying their new playroom. It’s the most awesome playroom ever, just in case you were wondering.

Admittedly, this corner is the only one that looks this fancy. I have a lot of stuff to get rid of before I can make the rest of the room this fun. Thanks to Lisa for helping me put up the magnetic board, and thanks to Grandee for giving the boys those neato bookcases for Christmas.

And from a week ago, my favorite picture from our trip to the zoo. We were trying to get all five of the babies who went (four year old Alison also went, but she was too cool to be in this picture.)

I just love the crawling legs in the bottom right corner of the picture. That would be Chloe and Miles, trying to run away together. And see Oliver and Millie conspiring together on the left? Hmmm…

Okay, SOMEONE or SOMETHING was conspiring against me to get to work this morning. GRRR!

First, while dropping the boys off at daycare, their teacher tells me that the traffic going across the river (where my office is) is horrible, backed up many many miles. So I decide to take the ferry across instead.

The road leading to the ferry is closed. Every time I try to turn onto it, I’m met with a large “ROAD CLOSED” sign. Grrr. Finally, I get in line for the ferry, pay my dollar, and ride across the river.

Then, I drive through a gajillion traffic lights to get to work. I swear, they time the lights so that you go through one, and the next one, a block away, immediately turns red.

I get to my office building. The entrance to the garage, where I park, is closed. WTF? Grrrr. I park in the side lot. Where I’m not supposed to park. Whatever. I go to the side of the building, swipe my card, and the door remains locked. ARGH! So I have to go around the building to get in.

Okay, fine. While typing it out, it doesn’t seem as irritating as it was in reality. It was very irritating, I promise.

ETA: One more annoying thing happened since I typed this post. My mom called, questioning some charges that showed up on her debit card. They were undoubtedly charges made by me, but what the hell? I didn’t steal my mom’s debit card! Turns out our bank is stupid and linked my new debit card to her account. ARGH WHY ARE PEOPLE SO STUPID???

Today had better end up better than this. I have a meeting at 1 at the Marriott for a work thing. And then tonight is my triplet mom’s group get together with wine and snacks. I do not want to miss wine and snaaaaacks!!!