Three Little Birds: May 2015

On May 30, 2015 the boys were baptized at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Birmingham by Reverend Mike Cleckler. Mike also married Jay and I at St. Luke's on May 31, 2008. Afterwards, we had brunch at Mom and Steve's house (across the street from the church). It was a very special day.

Archer

Andrew

Alden

Archer, Andrew, and Alden

Parents and godparents with babies

Jacob Archer Ennis with his godparents Elizabeth Mills Price and James Caleb Adair

Andrew Martin Ennis with his godparents Amanda Gail Ennis and Matthew Martin Ennis

Alden Scott Ennis with his godparents Morgan Alexandra Goss and David Scott Parks

The baptism

Archer's baptism

Andrew's baptism

Alden's baptism

Arnold Family

Parks Family

Gardner Family

Ennis Family

Altar flowers - an arrangement for each baby

The boys' hospital wreath

Four generations

The boys' only living great grandparent

Proud GG

Sweet friends

Aunt Rachel and Uncle Dakota

Stevo and Baba with Cousin Adelia

Aunt Pam

Aunt Tiffany

Mom and Andrew

Happy birthday Jeremiah

Mom and Grandpa

Archer

Andrew

Alden

Precious babes "marked as Christ's own forever."

Weights

Archer: 12lb 4oz
Andrew: 11lb 13oz
Alden: 14lbs 2oz

Lengths

Archer: 23in
Andrew: 23in
Alden: 24in

Food
Archer: Day 130ml, Night 150ml of half breastmilk and half formula
Andrew: Day 130ml, Night 150ml of breastmilk
Alden: Day and night 150ml of half breastmilk and half formula

On April 7,2015, Alden slept through the night! Also known as from 8 to 5. The other boys soon followed suite and now they sleep from about 8 to 4 consistently. They still eat every three hours during the day, although sometimes they all take a good nap and we go a little longer between feedings. We are so blessed that they have always had their nights and days straight. We are still following the eat-play-sleep pattern during the day. The afternoons are still a really fussy time for us, so we’ve tried putting them to bed a little earlier, which means feed about 7:30 and straight to bed afterwards. At our 4 month well visit, we got the go ahead to start trying some solid foods. Wish us luck?

So now the boys sleep in their own room

Diapers

Archer and Andrew: size 1s

Alden: 2s.

We still go through a minimum of 18 a day (3 boys x 6 feedings) - although lately it has been about 22 a day. We called Pampers, and they sent us some coupons through their multiples program. While we're on the subject, Similac's multiples program rocks! They sent us three cases (36) of quart size ready mixed formula of our choice and great coupons. I guess if you have twins, you might get two cases, but still an awesome deal.

Clothes

Archer and Andrew: 0-3 months
Alden: 3-6 months

I wonder if it will always be this way with Alden a size ahead of the other two boys. I follow a couple of triplet mom swap pages on Facebook and they are often selling two 2T items and one 3T item. I can’t imagine if we had a mix of genders. Then you would be worrying about multiple sizes and multiple genders. We would need more drawer space for sure.

Activities

This month has been all about play, play, play. The boys are staying up longer and doing more along the way. It is so funny how they each have their own little strengths. Alden is great with his hands. He is good at picking up and holding toys now. Archer has such a strong neck and torso. He loves to stand and is amazing at tummy time, when we can trick him into doing it. Andrew loves to talk and squeal. So many times now his noises have sounded like an answer to a question or an appropriately timed laugh. It is also funny how they all have their favorite seats (Archer – excersaucer, Andrew – crab chair, Alden – someone's lap) and toys (Archer – piano mat, Andrew – O-ball, Alden – O-ball orb or teddy).

After a feeding they usually start out at one play station like their walkers and excercausers (with books and Bumbos below so they can kick and move since they are just not quite big enough to use them in the traditional way). Then after several minutes they start to fuss and we move to a new spot, like tummy time. That only lasts a few short minutes, so they move to their play mats or their pack and play or Bumbos. They stay up at least an hour from the time they start eating, and then one by one they start to melt down and get swaddled (with one arm out during the day). Then they nap or sometimes just lay in their rock and plays and swings and look around the room or sometimes cry and demand to be held and/or entertained (but usually the first two).

Tummy time is a little more tolerable with the double Boppy.

Nap position - our teddy bears from GG help keep our packs in our mouths.

Video games with Daddy and Wrigley

Archer doing some light reading

Andrew LOVES his fist

Alden can sleep anywhere

Bottles and tummy time with Baba

We went to the doctor to check on Archer and Andrew's flat heads.
We're going to see a physical therapist soon.
Dr. Nelson couldn't believe how big we were in their big boy clothes.