First Father’s Day with Three Kids

First Father’s Day with Three Kids

Aptly enough, I got to spend a lot of time with my newest children this morning. They were awake and fussy from about 3:00 on. I guess I shouldn’t have talked about how well they did the previous two nights. Tristen got Phoenix at some point and I got Fawkes a little later. She switched […]

Milly’s Ninth Birthday Party

Milly’s Ninth Birthday Party

I would first like to say, before we get into the birthday stuff, that Fawkes and Phoenix have had two nights in a row where they’ve improved their sleep. I woke up to Fawkes making some noise at 5:59 AM. I put his paci back in his mouth, figuring it wouldn’t really last, and got […]

Fawkes and Phoenix Become Friends

Fawkes and Phoenix Become Friends

As I’ve mentioned recently, we usually have to get up several times after Fawkes and Phoenix have their late-night feeding and eventually put them in bed with us around 4 or 5 AM. Last night I think I got up once to adjust a paci for Phoenix. I remember thinking after I did it that […]

Milly’s Ninth Birthday

Milly’s Ninth Birthday

Milly was born at 1:10 AM on this day nine years ago. At 1:10 AM today, Tristen and I had just finished giving the boys their late night bottles and were taping Happy Birthday streamers across Milly’s door to trap balloons there so when she opened the door they would spill in on her. It […]

Four-Month Checkup

Four-Month Checkup

I suppose I could have held off on the four-month update to include the four-month checkup, but I did not, mainly because it would have been after their four-month birthday, so it wouldn’t have been very precise, would it? The boys are doing great. They both weigh in at 12.8 pounds, up 0.6 from just […]