I have to say thank you to everyone for all of your support.  I have been having a really rough couple of past weeks.  Everything has been going wrong.  I have been so sick for the past few months, but haven’t been in to a Dr, now the girls are sick.  I did take them in though.  They all have viral infections and Alyssa and Katie have that plus ear infections.  The Dr said it came from Lilly, when she was sick, probably catching it from school.  So we are all sick now, luckily Kerry isn’t sick yet, lets keep our fingers crossed.

OK, i have to tell this sad story.  Monday I put the girls down for their morning nap, i always change them before putting them down.  Well I was so busy with things, i forgot Alyssa likes to take her diaper off.  Well a big mistake.  They didn’t want to take a nap, but i had things to do, so i let them talk to each other up stairs, that was a big mistake too!  So after a about 10 min i went up there and was smelling the most awful thing ever, to my surprise Alyssa took her poop filled diaper off and threw it everywhere, I mean everywhere!  I had so much fun cleaning that up, while they were all looking at me, laughing in their own ways!  I never thought that could happen to me!  But it did!  Then everything from that point on was just getting worse.  I got them dressed and brought them downstairs, i had to go pick up Lilly early from school to take them to the Dr.  I was trying to pick up a little and i kicked a ball, trying to kick it into the playroom, boy that didn’t work, it ended up hitting my curtain rod just in the right place in the living room and hit it precisely in the right spot and took down the rod and somehow broke and snapped.  Needless to say so did I…things just got worse from there!  I was crying so hard I was laughing at all the things that were going wrong.  I had to stop and take a min out.

While my time out I called aunt elayne.  She is always there for me!  She had some great words of wisdome!  She always seems to calm me down and help me.  She is also coming to my rescue!  She is helping me this weekend.  THANK YOU!  I cant wait.

Then I also have my cousin Lea!  What can I say about her, well what cant i say!  She also is always here for me.  She is my best friend.  She goes to school full time and works part time, but some how she found a way to come over yesterday to help me clean up and take care of the girls.  It happen to be the right day because I cant believe i actually forgot my anniversary with Kerry!  Yes i have been so wound up with things, I forgot.  Its been 5 years that we have been married, but can u believe its going to be 14 years that we are together.  Dec. 27th this year!  Kerry is the best father and husband anyone can ask for!  We are so blessed to have each other and our 4 beautiful baby girls.  So back to my story.  Lea came to our rescue and helped with everything.  After we got them to sleep she stayed here so Kerry and I could go out.  We had a lovely dinner.  And Kerry surprised me with a dozen beautiful roses.  Thanks Kerry!  Thanks Lea.

Also to my rescue are some great women i never even met.  I belong to a wonderful moms of multiples group.  I had posted some of my problems and stated I dont know what to do anymore, so these women wrote the best advice and help anyone could offer.  They are all parents of multiples so they understand where I am coming from.  Most of them offered to come and help me out and stay with me for a few days!  What some wonderful women!  If I lived close i would take them up on their offer!  So thank you to all of you!  We have to meet some day!  Thanks, im doing better with all the support and help!

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Well for about a week now Alyssa has been taking a few steps by herself.  About 5-6 to be exact.  She is loving it.  She was the last to crawl, but maybe the first to take off walking.  Emma and Katie are not far behind her.  Emma has been walking around everything, she can walk around the whole room if there are things she can hold on to or be in her walker.  Katie was not too impressed until Daddy helped her out today, she didn’t want to stop.

They are technically only 10 1/2 months old, because of being born early.  So their right on track.  Since they are now a year old, they are starting whole milk, which they seem to like.  They still dont like their sippy cups, but I’m working on that.

I have to say a HUGE Thank you to Aunt Elayne.  She takes such good care of all of us, especially me.  I think we have been overstaying our welcome, but she seems to like it when we are there.  It’s good seeing Jason too!  Kerry and I get to get out for dates and have time alone with Lilly.  You don’t realize how much you miss that, until you don’t get to do it anymore.  I almost forgot what dates were like.  Kerry watches the little ones while Lilly and I go out.  That’s great bonding time for us, but Kerry and I don’t get time out unless we are at Aunt Elayne’s.

Lilly is so close on potty training, she goes all by herself and is so happy when she does.  Also she is so excited about her new car seat.  Its a booster seat which uses the seatbelt, she talks about it all the time and wants to go to the store just to use it.  But I cant go as much as I would like or use to since the girls like to be free…Can you imagine me pushing the triplet stroller with over 45lbs and pulling a cart with Lilly in the front and full of grocery’s?  Talk about stares, but not one person offers to help a struggling mom…I would probably laugh if I saw myself.

On the other hand, I have been trying to get her into preschool so she can make some friends and get away from me for a little bit, she it too attached to me.  Our Church helps pay tuition for a local Lutheran school if we get accepted.  That would be so good for her and I both.  It will be very hard taking her and picking her up every day or couple of days with the triplets, but it will be worth it.  Keep your fingers crossed for us.  Well that’s all I have for tonight if you followed it all, sorry its so long, but I don’t get a lot of time to do this anymore or call any of you, so please leave some comments or give me a call!  Goodnight!

P.S. I will post some pictures of their birthday party when I get some, my camera battery was dead at the time, so I’m awaiting some myself.

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Hi, I just wanted to post an over due thank you to the Girls wonderful Grandma Sue! She made the most beautiful curtains for the triplet’s room and Lilly’s room. Lilly’s room really needed them because all of the sunlight comes in, its the brightest room in the house. They are very cute, she put a lot of work into them. Lilly’s curtains are butterflies, flowers and a lot beautiful colors. The triplet’s curtains are Winnie the pooh. All the pooh stuff went to the triplets and Lilly has moved on to bigger girl stuff.

Dad and Sue got the sheers for Lilly’s baby shower and Sue made curtains to go with them. They are so cute. Makes the room look so much better and more like a nursery. Thank you. If you read this, I really thought I called you to thank you again, but I must not have. Ask everyone who has been here, that’s the first thing I tell them is to go upstairs and look at the beautiful curtains! WE all love them and Lilly now takes naps in there because the sun is blocked! Thank you so much.

I also wanted to write about the girls, but I don’t have any time anymore, they are up so much during the day, they are now playing on the ground with there big sister. They still don’t sleep through the night! So needless to say I am beat. Thank goodness for Aunts! We packed up the girls and went to Aunt Elayne’s for the last weekend. Boy was that nice, we got to see all the Aunts. Aunt Margie came over Friday night when we got there so Kerry and I could have a night out. Saturday—ALL DAY Aunt Mary came over and later that night she and I had a girls night out! Thank you so much for that and all the presents, (she spoiled me and the girls) And then there is my dear Aunt Elayne who puts up with us and lets us stay at her house, not to mention lets me sleep in and all night long! I don’t know what I would do with out these breaks. Thanks to all of you so much! We had a wonderful, very fun and relaxing weekend. Now its back to reality! Thanks sorry got to go, Emma is calling me. I will write again soon. I need to update more on the girls. Take care, hope to get some comments from this.

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My eye is doing much better. I can even see the clock now and some of the numbers on it! And I am driving myself again (mostly on the road) . The triplets are doing good too.

We had a nice weekend. Jody (my manager) and her husband and two boys stopped over for a visit. Lilly was going nuts all day- “my boys coming over to play- my friends coming over” . Lilly wouldn’t leave Ben or Bryant alone. But they were very good with her and the triplets. Much more patient that I would have been.

They each held the girls and helped with feedings. We had a nice time. On top of that Jody and her family made us some food for another day! Lasagna and a Tator Tot Hot Dish. We really appreciate it – and the dinners are so helpful as you could imagine. Plus lasagna is one of my favorites !

Thanks so much. We look forward to getting together again.

Jenell and the girls are up north for the week. Her dad picked them up on Sunday and I am going to pick them up with my brother-in-law on Saturday. So I am a bachelor for the week! I watched the packer game (the shutout packer game !) and I wasn’t holding a baby. It was nice. It’s nice to have a break and concentrate on one job for a while- but I do miss them. I have Colby to keep my company. It will be nice for Jenell to have some help for a few days- she has been going strong with little help for a few weeks now.

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Hi, this post is for Katie! You are awesome and so thoughtful!  She found me through craigslist.  When i was pregnant I posted things i needed. She has been sending me things for all of our girls ever since. This week I received in the mail a huge  container full of baby girl things, among which was hand made blankets and hats, 3 beautiful snowsuits, beautiful clothes, lots of toys, diaper bag with three cans of formula, one beautiful Christmas dress, the exact one I was going to buy for the girls.  So much stuff and this is not the first time she had sent us things either. She will not accept any money for shipping either. You are so great! Thank you so much. Some day we will have to meet in person! Thank you so much! We appreciate it so much!

The Mann Family

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Hi,

Jenell here, not to much time to write, but I wanted to tell everyone about my awesome volunteers. They are the best two helpers I could ask for. Mary Jo and Robin, if you read this, thank you so much for everything, I don’t know where me (or my house) would be right now. They help with everything, cleaning, playing with Lilly, helping me with the trio in every way, etc! You two help me out so much, more than you know…Thank you!

I am much to busy to sit down and talk to anyone on the phone, so I am glad I have some adults around to talk to. Thank you so much, your kindness will not be forgotten.

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