Happy Birthday, Rich!

Seeing as I had no pictures posted of my dear husband on Father's Day, we will commemorate this occasion with a little photo slide show! Thank you Rich for being the wonderful man that you are! We love you!

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Happy Birthday, Daddy!

Happy Father's Day

It goes without saying that my kids have the greatest father there ever was. I realize this even more now that we have added three more to the bunch. Never in a million years would I have imagined us as the parents of triplets plus two, and now here we are. God sure knew what he was doing when he matched up these two best friends. We had a little nudging along the way (thank you Jamie and CJ!), but I couldn't have asked for a better father to my 5 precious children. Thank you Rich for being the terrific Dad that you are! We love you!

I am also blessed with a fantastic Dad, myself. Thanks for taking such great care of us. For all the grocery runs, carpooling, baby holding, guitar lessons, mystery trips,etc. You are the best!



Here are some pictures from the last week:

Grandpa D and his Crew

Emma at 6 going on 16!

Addie Roo

Elaina and Aunt Kari

Ava

Me and the girls
Grandma F

Five Months

Addison, Ava (remember the "Cesaer"cut?), Elaina

The girls turned 5 months old last Saturday, and what a week of firsts! Elaina started rolling over that same day and hasn't stopped since. Ava seems close, too - may be any day now. I fed Addison and Elaina their first bites of cereal just for kicks and they had no problems with it. I'm not making a habit out of it quite yet because it's just more work for me. I'll drag it out as long as I can for now!

Since we are still working on the sleep issues with Ava (since her ear infection), we started putting her to bed in her own little space in our nice, quite and dark closet. Wouldn't you know - she didn't make a peep until 7am! I couldn't believe that I woke up on my own at 4am and actually felt refreshed - what a change! It's amazing what 6 hours of sleep can do. I dream of the nights of 9 hour sleeps!

The girls are getting too big for their little tub now - so I gave them their first baths in the big tub. They just seem like their getting so old now! Won't it be nice when we can do them all at once! What a trip that will be!

We also took the whole family to church on Sunday for the first time! This was something we had been looking forward to for a long time, but didn't want to chance it over the winter months. Hello, SUMMER! It's a little tricky getting everyone in the door - but aside from that, it was great! I love having our whole family together after so many months of taking turns.

Another first was Luke learning to ride his bike without the training wheels last friday. I think he wasn't enjoying practicing on his sister's Barbie bike - so as soon as Rich took the wheels off of his own bike he took off within seconds. That's a boy for ya!

Summer is officially starting this friday at 11:30am. Emma will be done with school - and I will spend my days at home with our 5 kids. Let the challenge begin!

Elaina's 1st boyfriend

"Eat your heart out, girls!" Playtime
Elaina's 1st rollover