The Jones Girls

We rented a bounce house as a surprise for the girls for Easter.  Our friends, Eva, who was the night nanny for the triplets, and her daughter and grandson came over.  Also, our friend Cyn, who is a foster parent for 4 boys, came over.    My brother Ron came over too.

We had a fun Easter Egg Hunt and the kids played in the bouncy house.    We had a nice lunch of ham and the fixings.

I totally forgot to put the Easter baskets out.  They had fun bubble blowing stuff in them.  I will have to figure out a way to surprise them with the baskets…oops!!

I did make some yummy fudge Easter Eggs for everyone.   It was a fun and relaxing day.

I organized a fun day at Oeste Park for the La Habra Moms Club to celebrate Easter for our kiddos.   We all brought picnic lunches.   We had an Egg hunt and I brought some goodies for all of the kids and cupcakes for everyone.  The kids had a blast and also spend a lot of time on the playground.  

The weather was gorgeous today and it was so much fun for all of us!!

Up until now it has been an intimidating thought to attempt the difficult task for me to get the girls ready to go to church.    Morning services are just too hard to get to on a timely manner.

Our church, Morningstar Christian Chapel, which is a non denominational affiliate Calvary Christian church, offers Wednesday evening services at 7:00pm and Sunday services at 6:00pm.   

Today our church offered a 6:00pm Good Friday evening service.   So I got the girls ready and we all went to church tonight.  

Cliff and I took the triplets to their classroom and then we took Savannah to their classroom.    It was all of the girls very first time attending their classrooms at church.    They were all excited.  There was a fun playground, they had lots of toys, art projects and a lesson taught about Good Friday representing the day Jesus died.

Cliff and I attended the church service and the sermon ministered by Pastor Jack Abaleen was so inspiring!!  I teared up and felt the Spirit the whole time we were there.  The songs we sang were beautiful and I felt the love of Jesus our Lord in me and all around us.  It was His amazing Grace.

We are going to try to attend church weekly now.   The girls are old enough now to learn about the teachings of Jesus and Christianity.  I am so excited for them!!   It will also be good for Cliff and I to attend services and get involved in the ministry as well.

Today I took the girls for their follow up eye exams to see how Amanda and Miranda were progressing with their new glasses and to also get a full eye exam for Savannah, I want to get a 2nd opinion to make sure she really needs glasses.

Amanda is showing huge improvement with her glasses.     Dr. Fierson is hoping that the glasses will correct Amanda’s vision and then she won’t need them anymore.  I am crossing my fingers!! xxxxx

Miranda is also showing improvement but is still crossing her left eye.  We will need to patch her right eye (stronger eye) 2 hours a day while she is wearing her glasses.  This is to help her left eye get stronger.  We are doing this to get her optical muscle to get stronger to avoid surgery at all costs.    I have a feeling Miranda will be needing glasses for quite a while but the dr. is optimistic that the glasses are to correct her vision and cross eyedness too.

Dr. Fierson said Savannah’s eyesight has actually gotten better than last year.  He says she doesn’t need to wear the glasses and that they are too strong for her anyway.  He said most kids are farsighted and that it improves as they get older.  He feels the optometrist was negligent in prescribing glasses for Savannah and that it was a way for the optometrist to make money…grrrr…that really peeved me off.    All at the expense of my pocket book, my insurance company, and most importantly at the expense of my daughter’s eyesight!!

Maryssa doesn’t really need to wear her glasses so I am going to not have her wear them.  So now I am down to 2 girls in glasses and 2 girls not in glasses. 

We have a re-check for Miranda’s eyes next month on May 5th.  Amanda needs a re-check in 3 months.

Today the triplets had their first Easter party at Preschool.   I made cute butterfly snacks that were little goodie bags filled with Fruit Loops with a clothes clip in the middle to make the butterfly.  I also made cute boo boo bunnies made out of white wash cloths.    I boiled a dozen eggs because they were going to decorate and dye eggs today! 

Mrs. Darling had made everyone the most precious Easter baskets.   The kids got a glimpse of Easter bunny tracks that were on the playground!  They thought that was so cool!

I went to Savannah’s class and brought all of her classroom boo boo bunnies.  The kids were thrilled.   I spent some time with Savannah in her classroom today and she enjoyed having me there so much.  I really enjoyed myself too.  I helped her decorate her Easter Bunny art project.

A friend of mine, Isa, who I have been friends with online was traveling down from San Francisco and staying at the Disneyland Hotel, The Grand Californian.     We planned on meeting today for the first time in person!

Isa and I were pregnant together with our multiples.   She has twin girls, Tamsin and Audrey and they just turned 4 and are a few months older than the triplets.  I also met her husband.

They had already spent the day doing rides at Disneyland so they wanted to have a nice dinner at Downtown Disney.  So, we met up with them at Downtown Disney.  We put in a reservation at The Rainforest Cafe, but it was 1 and 3/4 hour wait!   We went to their hotel and Isa changed her girls clothes.  We talked and walked through Downtown Disney for a while.  It was a bit chilly and her girls were getting very tired.  It was about 6:30pm.     She decided that they would just go up to their room and we would go ahead and go to Rainforest Cafe.

So, my friend Britney, and my 4 girls had dinner at Rainforest Cafe. The girls thought it was amazing.   They loved the animated animals, butterflies and the rainforest storm that encountered us every 1/2 hour.    After dinner they all wanted a toy and I took them down to the Rainforest Gift shop which is amazing!!  They all picked out Crocodiles.    I tell you, it is really like I have 4 boys than girls!!  LOL!

Maryssa’s eyeglasses lasted her all of about 5 days and then they broke.    She needs to wear the glasses the least of the 4 girls thank goodness.

Last weekend, Savannah and Miranda were playing around, and wouldn’t you know it, the girl who needs her glasses the most, Miranda-her glasses broke!!   

I got these really cool eye glass straps that attach to the ear pieces behind the ear so the eye glasses can’t slip or fall off.    However, when the girls play rough, the straps don’t do a darn thing!

So on Saturday I took Maryssa and Miranda’s glasses back to the optometrist to get them fixed.   Ummm… guess what?  They told me they can’t fix the glasses!!  We have to order new frames for both of them.  Grrrr….    Apparently they broke at the part where they can’t fix them…  How dandy is that?    They said it can take up to a week to get them in.   Fun, fun, fun!!