Moving!

We have so much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving!

We have 4 healthy kiddos

and

we are moving into a new house!!!

It was completely the Lord.

Today we are in the middle of a jumbled house but I am completely chilled out about it! Thank you Jesus!

Movers are here packing stuff up & we move tomorrow. We are having Thanksgiving at our house & I am so excited this year's celebration!!!

Also, I just wanted to let you know that I am taking a blogging break for a while. (Seems like I've already started it - haha). I will still be *twittering*, but we are going to go primative for a while... no TV, no internet! Crazy!!!

We will see how long it will last... hahah. I will be back eventually. I think. So, I hope that all of you have a Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, & Happy 2010!!! I will be thinking of and praying for you, all of my readers - especially those of you who have had a difficult time conceiving children. I know the heaviness of your heart, and I pray that this blog has been an encouragement to you. God is faithful. He hears your heart's desire. Make Him first in your life. Seek Him with all of your heart. He is good and loves you so much.

Thank you all for reading this blog and for commenting. I hope to make this blog into a book one day and give it to my children so they can see God's faithfulness, as well as, what great people are out there praying for them!

Love you all,
Mary Lindsey

Must get back to packing!

Go Look At These!!!

Want to see some precious pictures? Go HERE

By the way...

Happy Halloween. Did we dress up? Well, if you count...

...Harper staying in her pj's all day being almost completely covered in chocolate...

...Chris dressing like a crazy Georgia Tech fan (for the good reason that he went to the GT game)

...Me wearing my new apron & donning Persian Melon (like the 1940's house wife I am & in memory of my Mama Dot)

...And the boys acting like complete maniacs because it is a full moon & they are adjusting to new 4 hour schedule...

then yes we dressed up!!!! And ate pumpkin chocolate chip pakes (pancakes) for breakfast AND dinner

...it was quite the fun day... maybe next year we will even carve a pumpkin! I know... we're wild.

(And in other news... the boys slept through the night with out a peep from ANY of them last night. First time. It was delightful, but after my body tasted so much sleep... it only wanted more. Sheesh. Maybe I'll get some more tonight - hopefully!!! But won't gain an extra hour since babies don't turn back their clocks. Oh well. )

This Man of Mine

I just adore him so...

(note the baby's face... haha)

I am so blessed to be his wifey.

Meet Bekah

This is Bekah. Say hi.

Bekah helps me with life Monday - Thursday and a little on Friday and Sunday. She is amazing & quite talented... see...
This is her feeding 3 babies. She is really good at it, and it is nice to have a break from time to time! :-) She helps with all sorts of stuff around the house, taking care of the boys, and helping out with Harper. It is wonderful to have an extra set of hands around the house when Chris is at work.

She is newly married to Brandon (who might just be Harper's first crush), and they have become part of our family. So, now when you see her in pictures, you will know who she is :-)

6 Week PostPartum Check Up

Well this is running a little behind sched, but here is a pic with me & my nurse practitioner, Tracie.


Dr.K had to be in an emergency c-section so she couldn't be there... total bummer! We will go back and visit in the spring once the boys can get out more & this piggy flu is going around.

Speaking of... Harp's had a fever of 102 today. She has been acting fine, so I'm hoping it's just a fever thing. If you think of it, please pray that she doesn't have anything bad & that she gets well soon!

Thanks so much...

hugs & kisses

Sabbath

Today was lovely.

I woke up & had my morning prayer time with Jesus while drinking coffee.

Had eggs & 'pakes' with Harpie.

Fed the boys with sweet Arica (she comes every Sunday AM as her ministry to our family. She is one of the most precious people that I know. A true heart friend & sister in Christ)We had sweet worship time during this feeding. The boys were so happy & Harper was dancing all over.

Had Sunday School with Harps. (Arica prepares a little Sunday School lesson for Harper each Sunday. I want Harper to know that Sundays are different than other days, and because we can't go to church right now, I still want her to know Her Maker & Creator... and that we take Sundays to worship and rest in Him.) Harps made a 'burning bush' today with red coconut & glue. We studied Moses, except she wanted to talk about Noah. I guess her mind-processing is delayed a week...ha!

Took a nap (while Harper & Arica played and the boys slept)

Painted my nails red.

Drank Dr. Pepper.

Went to Trader Joes... alone. My cashier gave me a *free* bouquet of sunflowers because I am a mama to triplets. :-)

What a glorious day to enjoy my Jesus! I love him so much.

Home Alone

tonight I am alone.

by myself...

all
night
long.

and there are FOUR sleeping babies upstairs.

pray they stay that way!

yikes.

chris has gone to move the rest of our furniture out of our house because after almost 2 years of it being for sale... we have a contract on it!!!! Pray all will go through this Thursday.


Update:(I would have posted this sooner, but I didn't want the blog world to know i was home alone - never want to be too careful!!!)
All went GREAT! Babies slept until 5AM both nights he was gone! A little fussing but not too much! Harper did well, too. He got all of our furniture moved out of the house...

and is very sore from moving.

Git.R.Dun

while Harpie has been away making memories with aunt nancy...

I've been busy busy busy

-----> re-arranging rooms...Harps got a new bed (even though she will still be sleeping in her crib - can't risk her getting out quite yet), the boys are in separate cribs &
we added another rocking chair in the nursery * I heart rocking my babies*

-----> cleaning out & organizing our shed - can't believe i did this! i now
want to go buy some pumpkins and mums to make our back patio look
beautiful! i love fall...

----> fixing stuff with a drill - it makes me feel like i am really accomplishing stuff when I break out the drill!

It was wonderful spending almost 5 hours outside today. It makes me want to live on a farm and work outside, milk cows & collect eggs... I think I could do it.

Daily Schedule

6:30 am - Wake up to one or more boy(s) crying, go try to put in pacies, crawl back in bed and try to gather thoughts to wake up

6:34 am - Realize pacies didn't work, go grab bottles out of fridge and put in crock pot to heat up. Give medicine(prevacid for reflux) to Crews, maybe to Warner and Maverick (if it is their day to take their meds...we alternate every other day with them). Give them pacies. This usually helps them calm down and hold off eating a few more minutes for their medicine to start working.

6:36am - Get bottles out of crock pot and let cool. Set up feeding station. Go down stairs and start coffee pot.

6:50/7:00 - Change any poopy diapers. Leave 'em be if only wet... they are bound to poop if they haven't yet! :-) Start feeding. Once done with bottles, burp, clean up throw up...oh, I mean spit up, and play play play. Lots of tummy time, activity mat time, rocking, singing, smiling, and sucking on pacies!

8:15/8:30 - When getting fussy and beginning to yawn, swaddle 'em up & put 'em down. Turn on sound machines, walk around to make sure everyone has paci in mouth, gather up dirty burp clothes & bottles.

8:30 - start laundry, empty clean dishes, load dishwasher with bottles, make breakfast, drink more coffee. Harper wakes up between 8:30 and 9. Feed her breakfast.

10:00 - Same as 7am.

11:30 - Switch laundry, fold & put away, play with Harps.

12:15 ish - lunch with Harper. Sometimes she eats really slow and it will take her about an hour, but at least she can feed herself. She wants me to sit with her though. If I get up she will call after me and say, "Mama, sit!" and point to the chair. Sheesh...

1:00- Nap time for Harps and feeding time for the boys; however, I think that I may start putting Harper down at 2 because she knows we are up and having a grand ol' time in the nursery so she DOES NOT want to be asleep!

2:15 - boys down for nap. clean up, make bottles, laundry, dinner prep. Naptime for me (usually 30 minutes- hour) or reading/ emails.

3:30- Harpie wakes up, get snack

4:00 - back at feeding babies! Harper will watch a dvd during this feeding. In other feedings she will play with her toys. Most of the time boobie-trapping the nursery with sharp blocks & other objects that you have to watch out for. This is just the tired part of the day and everyone is switching into evening mode... not always pleasantly.

5:30 -dinner ready

6- Dinner time!

6:30 - Harper bathtime. Clean bathroom while she is in tub.

7:00 - Give boys bath every other night.

7:15/7:30 - Feed boys & put down. We feed them with the lights down low and Praise Baby cd Sleepytime Lullabies playing. It is so sweet b/c they are clean and cozy. We cuddle and sing.

8:00/8:15 - boys are night night. Harper goes night night.

8:30 -Clean the kitchen if hasn't been done at dinner time. Me Time/Relax/shower/check tomorrow's plans/ 5 minute room pick ups

9:30/10 - in bed & night night!!!

Mount Formula & Bottle Making

So, I posted some pictures on facebook and got hysterical comments about all of our formula behind some pictures of me making bottles. Well, the formula we use is Nestle Good Start in the purple can. Chris went to Kroger and found out they were closing out this formula there, so the price was reduced about 40%!!! We sent out an email to several of our friends to go to their nearest Kroger and buy them out! We ended up saving around $700 by doing this! Right now we are going through about a can & a half of formula a day. The boys are taking about 6 oz. and will eventually be up to 8/9 oz. Here is what most people see when they walk into our kitchen...


Chris building the masterpiece :-)
Bottle Making 101:

So, instead of mixing up 3 bottles every time we feed babies, I spend some time each day mixing up bottles for 24 hours. Here is my procedure and some pictures...

1. Line up all bottles with matching nipples and insert liners. We have just about everything color coded for the boys... Crews is blue, Warner is yellow, and Maverick is green.
2. Fill formula pitcher (a requirement for making mass quantities!) to 32 oz. with purified water and put in microwave for 2 minutes. (It makes it much easier to mix the formula when the water is warmed).
3. Add 16 scoops of formula and mix well. (Harper likes to help with this part)
4. Pour 6 oz into bottles, cap, and put in basket to be taken upstairs.
5. Put in fridge in nursery. (we have a mini fridge in there to keep bottles)

When feeding the boys:
1. Take bottles out of fridge.
2. Put bottles in crock pot filled with water (another essential for heating up bottles quickly!)
3. Leave in for about a minute.
4. During that minute (you have to count out load so you don't forget the bottles are in the crock pot!), lay out boppys, burp clothes, and bottle props on floor so that you are ready to go.
5. Get bottles out of crock pot & put on floor
6. Wake up babies, prop up in boppys, and have fun feeding!! Don't forget your sense of humor... it is a must! :-)

Sunday

I have a new goal! To sit and blog every Sunday :-) I will try to do several posts so then I can publish them through out the week. Hopefully, this will be a way I can record all that is going on in our lives!!

For now, it is Sunday morning and I have enjoyed being here by myself. I got up at 6:30 and fed the boys with Chris. They had some good play time until 8:15 when I put them down for their morning nap. I also went back to sleep for a bit. It was wonderful! I fed them at 10 by myself and enjoyed one on three time with them. I got to snuggle and sing to each one of them, and received lots of smiles in return!

Nancy, Will, and my Mom came to visit us last week. They took Harper with them to visit Boone, Raleigh, and Clinton for the week. She has had so much fun at my Mom's new house (Mama Dot's house, the house my mom grew up in). She has been playing with Shakie (my old cat) a lot. She also went to visit my Aunt Susan - who lives in walking distance of my mom. Everytime I talk to her on video chat, she has been running around like crazy. She has so much energy and is a full blown toddler - into EVERYTHING! I think tonight she is going to be visiting my Dad, Leslie, Ryan, and Reba. I know they will have fun with her. She is getting good and spoiled. I'm glad she is getting some love all by herself. I miss her so much!!!!! I can't wait for her to get home!

The boys are doing well...getting sooo big! They turned 3 months on Friday! The big news is that they are beginning to sleep through the night! Last night Maverick and Warner slept from 8pm - 6:30am, and Crews woke up at 2am for a little snack. He spit up most of his bottle at the 7pm feeding, so I was prepared that he would wake up. All three have yet to sleep through at the same time, but we know it is around the corner! They are such good babies and are smiling all the time now!


Warner, Crews, and Maverick (below)...my little duckies
and their big sister Harper laughing with me :-)
PS... go check out the identicals? update... I put who is who :-)

Big Sister

Harper is such a wonderful big sister!!! Everyone always asks how she is handling the change of 3 brothers. She really is doing great and adjusting well. She loves her baby brothers and is always giving them kisses and trying to burp them. We definitely have our moments of meltdowns when I can't "hold you" right when she wants me to. I love any time I get to spend with her alone, though. Here is a little fun we had outside one day... (her pj's were my pj's when I was her age)


















My beautiful girl

Spit Up

Can we say *laundry*?

Identicals?

Update: I talked to the doctor about dna testing & he said he wants to wait until they are a year old... grrrrr. I love our doctor, but he was clueless when it came to dna testing/ identicals. Said he had never done any testing before, but would assume it would require a lot of blood so we should wait until they are a year old. Hmmmpph! I looked into it and it actually requires no blood (just a cheek swab). I also talked to some other mamas who had their babies tested and am looking at some other options. So, I'm going to do some further investigating to see. I'll let you know what I come up with. However, the boys are looking more and more alike!

Original Post:
As you may have seen my twitter status a week or two ago, my ob/gyn is pretty sure that our boys are identical. Here is why... when they delivered the boys, there was only ONE placenta!!! I have the pathology report myself. There was only one! Two were not fused together - This is crazy ridiculous! One placenta bringing life to three babies without ANY complications only shows that God's mighty hand was on this pregnancy from the beginning to the end! This type of pregnancy resulting in identical triplets is so "rare" that doctors are divided on the actual statics of occurances saying it could be one in a million to one in 200 million! All I know is that I am so thankful for Warner, Crews, and Maverick and the health that God has given them. This is probably why it was so hard for them to find the membranes in the beginning, and why the ultrasound techs would always argue over how many placentas they saw... one or two. I am so thankful that the Lord sheilded me from the worry of an even *higher* risk pregnancy! I think my mind set was a huge part of why I carried the boys so long.

You may be thinking, but they don't really look exactly alike. In my research of this, I found you can have identicals and not have them look alike - crazy & it doesn't really make sense to me either ; -) However, they ARE looking more and more alike every single day! We have a game that we play called "nekkid baby" - haha - where we get the boys down to their diapers (the nail polish has worn off of their big toes now) and mix 'em up. Then, one person goes out of the room, we re-arrange the boys. That person comes back into the room to guess who is who! I got it right... thankyouverymuch... but, I should because I am their mother. OH, and you will probably enjoy the crying/whining in the 2nd video... the noise and chaos in a family of 4 under 2 can be quite loud at times!!! :-)








Would you like to play???


Warner & Crews

Warner & Crews
Maverick & Crews
Warner, Crews, & Maverick

Will update later this week with who is who! :-) We will be going to the boys' doctor this Friday to have their two month check up. I will ask our doctor when we can get a DNA test done to see if the boys are truly identical. I can't wait to find out!

We Are Alive and Kickin'

Just wanted to report in that all is well!!! Wonderful, in fact!!! These little men are melting my heart EVERY SINGLE SECOND of the day! I can't believe I haven't blogged in such a long time. My days are filled with feeding, burping, changing, singing, coloring, and watching The Wiggles. Any free time I have I usually spend sleeping - which is what I would be doing right now, but I drank a HUGE cup of coffee this morning. ha!

So, since I haven't blogged in forever, here are a few pictures...

Do you know who is who??? (...more on that later!)
Crews
Warner - looking a little worried
Maverick (or 'Macky' as Harper has named him)
Me and My Kiddos... Harper is making the face she makes to imitate the boys crying. She started doing it the day the boys came home from the hospital. Anytime one of them cries, she looks at us with this worried little expression on her face (like she has here), and says, "Aah- Waaaaaahhhhh" It's so funny!

The Blanton Six!!!
A tired Dadda
Hello Macky!
Warner's got his running shoes on!
Warner and Crews
My Three Sons - Crews, Maverick, and Warner
Feeding Time at the Zoo


Harper and Dadda watching The Wiggles. This is how Harper is entertained at one of their feedings - usually the 4 o'clock one :-)

My Cup Overflows!!!
Fresh and Clean Babies

Birth Story Part 2

Right before delivery... lovin' the double chin! :-)

Chris said "amen" and in came my team of doctors. Have you ever seen Father of the Bride 2? My favorite part is when Annie is about to deliver and they are wheeling her down the hall, the music is at the crescendo and all of a sudden Brian, her husband runs out of the elevator to make it just in time to delivery!!! You can't help but cry! It's my all time favorite movie! Anyway, I felt just like that! I completely felt the excitement of being wheeled out of the room down the hall! I felt like we were moving so fast, and had a team of 3 people pushing me down the hallway. Chris was walking (or floating) beside me, and everyone was telling me how excited they were to be delivering these triplets!!! I had such a peace and excitement in my heart. I was about to meet my boys. But first I had to have surgery...

We reached the OR and I had to kiss Chris goodbye for a little bit while they prepared me. I remember the OR being a very cold (temperature) room. It was so bright and the coolness felt so good to me... it's July and I'm pregnant! They had me crawl - I'm sure that was an interesting sight from the gurney bed I was laying on, onto the operating table. That was very surreal feeling. I had the sweetest and prettiest nurse who helped me sit on the side of the table while the anesthesiologist administered my spinal. It really wasn't that bad. I felt the sting as they numbed my back before they gave me the shot in my spine. As soon as they gave me the shot though, it was the weirdest feeling... my legs immediately felt warm and tingly in my legs and tummy. It was really relaxing. They wanted me to lay down, but I had NO control over my legs at that point and started laughing. The nurses had to pick my legs up and put them on the table for me.

One thing I was worried about was laying on my back. I hadn't done this in a REALLY long time because the weight of my tummy was so great it would cause me to get out of breath. Well, it wasn't terrible. They propped me up on my left side some, and then they tilted me down so my head was a little lower than my feet. This was the weirdest feeling and it was a little hard to breathe. I think that was a combo of the weight pushing against my chest plus the medicine. The nurses were just talking to me as they got me all prepped and ready. I felt fine and was amazed at how smoothly everything was going! They put this blow up plastic over my arms and chest, and a giant tube was connected to it. Warm air was then blown into the plastic to keep me warm. It was very snuggy and comfortable - even though I was about to be cut open... crazy!

Finally they let Chris back in. He looked so cute and doctorly :-) in his scrubs.

Funny story about him (among many)... He was given a mask to wear so he didn't get his germs everywhere. But, it was a mask with a plastic eye shield attached to it. Don't know why he needed the eye shield. It's not like he would be performing the surgery! Anyway, right before he came in to the OR, he had it where the mask was over his mouth and the plastic eye shield was over his nose. As he entered, one of the nurses helped him correctly move it into place. Well, I guess the combo of his breath plus the extreme cold of the OR collided and created instant fog on his plastic eye shield. He couldn't see but out of the side. We were both so stinkin' nervous to do anything that we didn't dare do anything about it! hahah! I kept asking if he had the camera and he was like, "I can't see anything, I don't know how I'm going to take pictures!" which then gave me the giggles. What made it even funnier is that no one around us would help him. Oh the peace of the Lord that was in that room... we were laughing and carrying on waiting to meet our 3 boys.

At that point, I figured I better ask when they were starting to cut me open... just wanted to make sure I didn't feel anything. Well, they had already started! Aaaahhhh!!!! I did feel some tugging and moving around as Dr. Kang tried to get boys out. I just sat there waiting and waiting for what felt like forever. And then I heard it. The sweetest sound in the world... the first cry of your baby. I didn't think I would be emotional, but I just started crying at the sound of his tiny voice. Then, all of a sudden, Baby A (Warner) popped over the curtain and Dr. Kang called out, "Hi Mama!" I started laughing so hard I was shaking! There was some pulling and tugging as I think Dr. Kang went for the origianl Baby B (on ultrasounds & stuff) but couldn't get him. So she pulled out Baby C, who became Baby B - is that confusing enough? :-) That's when I heard Baby B's cry (Crews) and he popped over the curtain and said "Hi Mama!" (well, he didn't, but Dr. Kang did). Then Maverick made his appearance just seconds later saying "Hi Mama!" Their three little faces over that curtain only last a second, but those seconds will be burned into my mind forever. New life that I was a part of Chris and I. The most amazing miracle.

I then asked Chris to go take pictures of the babies. He was hesitant and I thought it was because he didn't want to stand up or chance seeing my insides. I told him its okay, he didn't have to look... just keep his eyes on the babies. He told me it had nothing to do with that... he said he couldn't see anything because his mask was still fogged up... that was the funniest thing to me! He got it cleared up and then went to capture some first pictures of our boys.

Baby A (Warner William) 5lbs 7 oz
Baby B (Crews Christopher) 5 lbs 1 oz


Baby C (Maverick Miller) 5 lbs 12 oz.

And then of me and each boy...

Warner sticking his tongue out saying "ha ha I made it out first! I'm the oldest!" (just kidding... still debating on whether or not to tell them who came out first. :-D)

Crews wondering what in the world just happened!
Maverick being his old laid back self!

One of the most precious moments came when the babies were being taken to the step-down/ transition nursery (between the NICU and regular nursery) to be checked out. Chris and I had discussed before that he would stay with me and we would send the babies to the nursery with the nurses. The idea of being "repaired" freaked me out! However, once I was in the OR with the GREAT staff, I told him to go with the babies. And I am soooo glad I did! They put 2 of our boys in his arms and let that proud Papa carry them himself to the nursery!!! Chris was beaming as he told me goodbye and that he would see me soon. Right after he left it was only a few more minutes until Dr. Kang was done with me. One thing I never thought about was how I would get from the operating table onto the gurney. (remember I had climbed onto the OR table myself!) My lower body was completely numb... not to mention I had just had major surgery! Well, it was the coolest thing. They rolled me from side to side and put this mat underneath me. Then, all of a sudden they inflated it... poof! I felt like I was on a raft. They pulled me onto the gurney, deflated it, rolled me from side to side to remove it, and I was all nice and cozy again. They piled warm blankets on top of me, and they felt soooo good. The nurses wheeled me out 30 minutes after the surgery had started! We had expected it to take maybe an hour to hour and a half... 30 minutes and we were DONE!

The nurses wheeled me to recovery, and on the way we got to pass the room where I had done all my preperations for the c-section. Our family was still in there and was standing at the door waving and clapping as I "drove" on by! ha! We were all teary eyed at the miracle that had just happened!

So, then onto recovery... not quite as great as the numbed surgery! Chris and I were all smiles as I arrived! He came to report the boys' status to me. All were doing GREAT! Maverick & Crews (who we still hadn't named at the time) needed some help with body temperature. Warner was doing well on his own! Chris came and showed me pictures and told me how they are all so cute.

The nurses had to come in and put all her weight on my belly every 15 minutes to get rid of any blood clots... oh dear Lord! I have never experienced that kind of pain before, but I know it could save my life. I was given morphine for the pain which only made me loopy, but did not help with the pain at all! I had trouble putting sentences together, and Chris and Mom were teasing me because I wasn't making sense. Dr. Kang came by and had them switch drugs to help with the pain - she gave me toradol instead, and that to date is my favorite drug! :-) I got to hug Dr. Kang and thank her for helping us get to this miracle day, and thank her for delivering our boys!

I had to stay in recovery with the belly mashing nurses from 10 am - 2 pm. Usuallly, you only have to stay for 1 hour, but I guess with multiples everything takes longer. I had made a book of different scripture that was about dealing with fear and putting your trust in the Lord. Chris read me this while we were sitting in the recovery and I was in pain. It was so precious to have him recite this and claim these verses over me. Over the next few days I got to see what a precious man I am married to (in case I didn't know already! ;-)) After this surgery, I got to a place that even I had never seen myself. I was pale as a ghost, bloated from all the iv fluids, extremely weak, my hair had formed a "nest" in the back, and I hadn't showered in a good while... not exactly the beautiful bride he had married 5 years ago. Yet, he kept telling me how beautiful I was and how I was his hero. He would tell me I was doing a great job and that he was so proud of me! This man is a treasure! (Girls, men like these are treasures, and they are out there! You PRAY for God to bring you the one HE has designed for you! Stop looking for yourself. Stop trying to find him!!! Focus on Jesus and find out as much as you can about HIM! Fall in LOVE with Him. Oh, and also ask that God make YOUR heart ready. Also, remember that men aren't perfect... they have faults, but it is so cool to pray and watch your husband grow and transform into who God has called him to be!)

Also, while I was in recovery, Chris brought Baby A (Warner) to visit me! He was so alert and was just studying my face as I got to study his tiny features. It was so precious. I couldn't wait to meet the other 2 boys!



After recovery, I was wheeled to my room : 7725. I was sooooo incredibly thirsty at this point. My nurse brought me what I now know as the best ice chips on the face of this earth! I ate a cup very slowly to make sure I would keep it down (which I did). I was still sooooo thirsty that I went onto drink a cup of water, some apple juice, cranberry juice, and sprite. The rest of the afternoon was kind of foggy to me. I think I slept on and off. Later that evening, they brought Warner to me. While we were spending time with him, Maverick rolls his way in followed by Crews. It was so incredible to have all 3 boys with us on the SAME day that I delivered them. We praised Jesus for them as we snuggled and tried to feed them for the first time. My heart was so very full as I pondered all that the Lord had done.



We sent them to the nursery for the night as I needed rest and had started to develop a fever. I was given 3 rounds of 3 antibiotics over the next 24 hours. Thankfully, all was well, and there wasn't any bad infection. My time in the hospital was so precious and sweet. The nurses were amazing, and cared for me in such a wonderful way! I have such a DEEP appreciation for all that postpartum nurses do now! Wow, they are servants in the truest form!

We enjoyed time with our family over the next few days. It felt like time had stood still while we were in the hospital. It was so fun to see Harper meet the babies. She was so funny and precious as she met each one. She loves her brothers so much and always wants to make sure they are doing okay! Here is a video of the first time she met Maverick.




And, in closing, here is a video of our new additions on a quiet night in the hospital. God had done more than we could ask or imagine!




Praise be to HIM!

Love,
Mary Lindsey