The Jones Girls

Thursday, September 14, the triplets had their 2 year check up with Dr. Gonzalez.     They received their vaccinations and won’t require anymore until they go to Kindergarten  ( yay ! )

Amanda is in the 75th percentile and weighs in at 29 1/2 lbs and is 34 1/2 inches tall.    My tiniest baby at birth is not the tallest.    She continues to amaze us all and constantly shows us her strong will to live.  Amanda can talk in 2-3 word phrases and understands commands and instruction.   She says cute things like “No Way” for no and “Yep” for yep.    She always cracks me up when she talks.

Miranda is in the 100+ percentile and weighs in at 30 1/2 lbs and is 34 inches tall.    She is showing signs that she may have a little eczema.  I have to put a special cream on little dry, red patchy areas and use a heavy cream on her skin daily.  Miranda is the best communicator of the bunch.  She can speak in 2-4 word sentences and can understand instruction and commands.  

Maryssa is in the 50th percentile and weighs in at 24 1/2 lbs and is 32 inches tall.   Her size at birth made her the middle sized baby.  She is now the smallest one of my trio.    I expressed my concerns about how small she is for a 2 year old.  The dr. said Maryssa has the healthiest BMI and percentile for her age than the other girls and not to worry that she is smaller.    Maryssa doesn’t talk as much as the other girls.   She is passive and lets everyone speak for her.  She is very intelligent and blew us all away when she picked up a ABC book and sighted all of the letters correctly by their names as well as numbers 1,2,3.  She also doesn’t call animals by there names, but by the sound the animal makes.   When she sees a duck she says quack, quack.  When she sees a dog she says ruff, ruff.    

Things that we are looking into:

Miranda’s dry skin and little red rashes

Maryssa will be getting a hearing evaluation and a speech evalutation because when we call her name, she doesn’t come to us or turn around.  We want to make sure she doesn’t have any hearing problems, although, at birth in the NICU her hearing test came out fine and if I whisper something to her, she will repeat what I say.   This may be just selective hearing and not paying attention to what we are saying.     Also, I want to make sure she doesn’t have any impairment for speech. 

After 24 hours being in the hosptial, Savannah is now stable and oxygen level is 97%. The hospital discharged her and she got to come home. Yay!! They were very cautious and told Cliff that she is to be watched very closely and if she turns blue or if her cough gets so bad that she is struggling to breathe. She needs breathing treatments round the clock every 3-4 hours and is on Steroids and Strong antibiodics. I am hoping in the next few days she can overcome this, my poor baby girl. She starts school next Tuesday and she has been looking forward to seeing her friends and being back at preschool. We will see how she does, it is a whole week away so maybe she can kick this thing in the butt.  Her rash from the Roseola is beginning to slightly diminish and the fever is just about gone now.

Savvy has been dealing with back to back cold and flu stuff since we were in VT in early July. She has asthma and when she gets a respiratory illness, it takes her 5 times longer than the normal person to get through the coughing stage of a respiratory virus or infection. I have been giving her breathing treatments regularly but the cough was not getting any better for almost 2 weeks.

Then she came down with a fever a few days ago followed by a rash on her torso, back of her neck, behind her ears and on her face. I treated her with Tylenol and Benadryl. The rash got worse.

So today I took her to the Ped. The Ped. gave her a couple of breathing treatments and her oxygen level was at 90 AFTER the breathing treatments. Good oxygen levels are 98-100. So the Ped. diagonsed her with Rosella  and pnemonia. The Ped. admitted her to the hospital this afternoon. Cliff is with her and I am home with the triplets. We have no family to help us so this is what we have to do. My poor little baby. My heart just crushed as I had to kiss her goodbye and she whimpered through tears saying, Mommy I am going to the hospital to get better and see the doctors. It took everything I had to hold back the tears. As they drove away, that is when the tears flowed.

I have a very, very sick little girl. Please, please pray for my sweet Savannah. I feel lost without my baby,,,,my first born. I am so worried about her. She can barely breath.

She is on Extra Strength Augmentin  and Prednisone.

We celebrated The Triplets’ 2nd birthday and Cliff’s 50th birthday at our house with our close friends.   There was a really cool water slide (Little Tikes Crashing Waves), a Sesame Street Bouncy House, a Jumpolene which is similar to a trampoline, and a couple of baby/toddler pools.   It was so fun to see all 4 of my girls and all of their little friends have so much fun that day.  I was just amazed to see my 4 little girls running and playing – they are little people now.   Wow, I carried these precious babes in my belly and I have so many wonderful memories watching them all grow.

It was equally amazing to see my darling husband enjoy celebrating his huge accomplishment and what a triumph it is indeed to celebrate half a century!!   

I made my famous Kimberladas, lasagna, a Mediterranean dish and some other yummy dishes for all of our friends to enjoy.  It meant so much to us that they came to the party and celebrated with us.  

Blues Clues dropped of special goodie bags for all of the kiddos.   Cliff got a delectable chocolate cake that proudly displayed “50” and Happy Birthday Cliff.  The triplets got their favorite character, Elmo on their cake.    There were lots of candles to be blown out and it was so much fun.

Happy Birthday to the loves of my life.   And my dear Savannah, I am looking forward to celebrating your birthday in March.  I can’t believe she will be turning 5.

I want to thank God for blessing me over and over.  I am so grateful to Him for everything in my life and for showing me the way to Salvation.

Wow, I just can’t believe I typed TWO.   I have to say looking back a year ago, we have made so many wonderful memories and accomplishments this past year.

Today I have been reminiscing about the day I went into labor and all of the wonderful memories the day my precious trio was born.  The day they were born was so scary and concerning for Cliff and I.   To be honest, I don’t think that ever truly goes away if you have a preemie baby or a full term baby or a single baby or triplets.   You just worry all the time for your kids.   Also, the day they were born I was exhilarated and relieved that my girls in the world making history in their lives and ours.  Everyday doesn’t go by that I am in awe of them in what they do and the love I have for them as well as for my precious little Savannah. I just LOVE having 4 girls. Daddy loves having 4 little Daddy’s Girls too!!

I am so happy to see my 3 little girls turning 2 today. I can’t believe how fast time has gone by!! Just remembering 2 years ago I went into labor and told Cliff I was really sorry that I couldn’t hold them in any longer. It took him all day that day to sink in that he was going to share his birthday with his daughters that day and forever to come. For years to come his best and biggest birthday present was the birth of his 3 baby girls.  Speaking of Daddy, we can’t forget that today is Daddy’s birthday too.  Cliff has been on cloud 9 all day. He is thrilled to be turning 50 today. He feels like he is a lucky guy to get this far as a lot of his friends have passed away in the past 10 years and never made it to 50.

I am so grateful to The Lord for Blessing me with my precious girls.   They define me, and I define them.    I can’t imagine life without my girls now.

Happy birthday my darling little trio and Happy Birthday to the love of my life- my husband who has helped make this all possible for all of us. I have to say my dear husband Cliff, has given me the most precious gift I could ever ask for – CELEBRAING MY DAUGHTERS BIRTHDAYS.

Lots of cake and candles glowing in our house tonight!!

Lately I have been having to bathe all 4 girls every night before bed.  With summer here and long days, it just amazes me how dirt finds my girls bodies!!  Baths around here is a ton of work.  I do it all myself, bath, PJ’s and get ready for bed.  It takes me about 1-1.5 hours for the whole process with all 4 girls.

Doing these baths every night made me think… I hate the thought of them soaking in the bath tub and the bath water getting so dirty with them in it.  Ewwww!!  So I decided I would try to give them a shower.    Can I just say how much I now love showers?   It cuts the bath time in half and I don’t use anymore water than I did with the bath tub.  Also, It saves me from having to clean the dirty on the bath tub after the girls’ baths.   The biggest thing is I don’t have any more concerns about drowning because there is no water in the bathtub for them to drown in.  This is the BEST thing for moms of multiples!!  Shower, Shower, Shower!!  I introduced Savannah to showers about the same age as the Triplets are now…a little before 2 years old.   I had to because I was pregnant with the triplets and couldn’t bend over and bathe her in the bathtub.   So Savannah is a pro at showers.

I have one of those shower massager heads with the hose so it allows me to reach all 4 girls to wash their hair.    The girls at first didn’t like it.  They are getting more used to it.  Now I sing to them, It’s Raining it’s Pouring Pretty Soon We are all going to be Snoring!!

So no more baths for my girls…we are into showers now!!

Savannah has been taking swimming lessons at the YMCA in Whittier for 2 weeks now.   Her friend, Sophia, also is in the class with her.  I swear it looks like these two girls are twins!!  It is so cute.   My friend and I have to look really carefully to make sure we aren’t confused with each other’s kids.

Savvy seems to be enjoying her class.  She goes 2 times a week, Tuesday and Thursday mornings.  The 1st two sessions she was a little nervous and whined and was clingy to me.  Now she seems fine.

A few of the Thursdays after swimming lessons I am taking her to Knott’s Berry Farm Soak City in Buena Park.  She loves the Kiddie area.  It is so cool.   We also like to go on the Lazy River and relax.   What a really fun place!!