MannTriplets

We are going to aunt Elayne’s house this weekend- The girls can’t wait to leave !

(Kerry Here)

The triplets fell asleep before 8pm tonight ! With all my recent freedom I have been spending my time working on baby countdown timer widgets (currently have 1132 installs!) and tonight I finished a Wordpress plugin. My first not so crappy one anyways.. It allows users to input the URL of a google spreadsheet - and then the spreadsheet will appear on an admin page within the users wordpress site. It can be used to monitor a shared google spreadsheet- good for to-do list, a place to brainstorm blog post ideas etc..

Title: Display Google Spreadsheet

Description: Creates an admin page which displays a google spreadsheet. Allows you to input a google spreadhseet URL. Your google spreadhseet will display within an admin page of your Wordpress website. Great for To-Do lists, to brainstorm blog ideas, etc…

Installation:

1. Unzip folder
2. Upload `google_doc_wp_plugin.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
4. In your admin go to Settings –> Google Doc Setting
5. Input your google spreadhseet published location

Download: Google_Spreadsheet_WP_Plugin.zip

Screenshot: Click to Enlarge

Slept all night for a week anyways.(Kerry Here) Two blog posts in one night? How is that possible? The triplets are sleeping !!!

It only took 305 nights without a full nights sleep ! (not that we are counting)- That is an actual number - for Jenell anyways- she has literally been up every night at least a few times for the last 305 nights. Except for some nights at Aunt Elayne’s. Thank god for aunt Elayne and others. The girls were in the hospital for 30 days- if you do the math - they are almost 1 year old already.

Their birthday will be a celebration for all three girls AND a celebration for us making it through the first year. The girls are healthy and happy -it’s amazing how much they have grown… and we survived too! We are happy they are doing so well , and excited that they are sleeping all night.

Now for the diaper tally… Including Lilly (who was in diapers most of the time- but almost 100% potty trained now) … wait for it… wait for it. Triplets and 2-3 year old diapers for one year:

6500 Diapers… 2-3 tons maybe! (fully loaded)

Luckily our house is up high and far enough away from the Rock River- or we could be worrying about a lot more than a blocked a driveway.

Thanks Aunt Mary for the images ! and thanks for watching the girls. Thanks Elayne and Mom for watching the girls as well - this weekend. It was a nice break !

(Kerry here)

Last week I posted about a baby countdown timer I created in flash. In the last week my baby countdown timer widget thingy has really taken off. At the time I am writing this it has over 10,000 views and 366 people have installed it on their blog or website. All in about a week !

Its been cool to watch. As people put the widget on their blog others see it and put it on their blog and the rate of installs constantly increases. I just noticed this morning my widget made the front page of Widgetbox.com (as wel as Emma’s face !) see below.   I don’t have much time to putz with this- I created it while carpooling to work… I hope to spend some time on a new one shortly..

The downfall with widgetbox is the links are hidden from google in an iframe- so I added a button to send users back to my site to get my install code- where the links are not hidden from google. Trying to increase ranking for a new site we have that features info and news about free baby samples.