Our spring has finally sprung!  The girls are enjoying playing outside, and hard to keep up with. Elise still loves school and can write her name. Claire keeps busy being a terrible two year old, and loves making the biggest mess possible. Nora is doing great as well too. She is close to being able to sit up on her own, and still likes rice cereal. 

Nora has had a week of firsts. My friend set up a kissing booth so we could get some cute pictures of the kids. Nora was the only one of my three that cooperated. 

Her first time in a swing. 

And her first taste of rice cereal. She did really well, getting almost all of it down. She is growing so fast! 

Claire is doing great. We are slowly starting potty training. She goes as she see's fit. She wears underwear some days. She looks so cute running around in undies. 

Elise is still loving school. She had a small cold a week ago that has caused her to be on oxygen again. She has gone back to school, but is not aloud to run around. 

The weather has been beautiful the last fee days, so hopefully no more cold days. I hope you all have a great valentines day. 

I had a great birthday. My Mom came down to visit. All three girls got sick while she was here, so we had to stay home most of the week. But we managed to get by. 

Elise and her "parking garage."

Claire snuggling with Nora. The girls still fight over her. 

Baking, aka eating, cookies with Nana. 

We took another trip to Busch Gardens. Claire got to ride some big girl rides by herself this time. She loved them. 

Things are going well. Elise is loving school, and was not happy this week when she had to stay home because she was sick. Claire climbed out of her crib last week, and hit her head on something  causing a laceration on her eyebrow.   She's a tough girl though, and is healing great. Nora is the smiliest baby I have ever met. She is such a good baby! And changes so much every week. 

Nora looking cute in an outfit from Grandma Marcie. 

Mimi and Papa came for a visit last week. The girls had so much fun being with them. I'll have more pictures soon. Gary took most of the pictures, and I still need to get them from him. 

The girls were a big help yesterday while I did some yard work. Elise has been back on oxygen since Saturday. We think it's because we have been weaning her off her steroids. So we have started them back up so she can get off the oxygen, and get back to school. 

She has been doing really well in school, and keeps saying its "awesome."  Her teacher has made her a seperate lesson plan from the other kids, and says Elise is doing really well. I am so glad we found out about this school !!!!

Fun day at Busch Gardens

We had a great day at Busch Gardens today. The weather was perfect, and the girls had a great time. 

 

Elise started kindergarten today. What????? That's right. We found a private school that just started a kindergarten program, so there are only 4 students. The teacher has a degree in special ed, so she will be able to work with Elise one on one. We are really excited to give this a try, and keep our fingers crossed that she doesn't get sick. 

Finally got a pretty good picture of all three girls together. 

Nora is so happy, and a really good baby. She is 3 1/2 months old now. She smiles, laughs, and coo's all the time. 

We went to the beach in December with my parents the week before Christmas. The weather was cool the first part of the week, but was warm enough to swim by the end of the week. The girls had a great time and really enjoyed feeding the birds, and then chasing them away. 

We also took a trip to Disney in December with Leslie and Joel. 

The girls had a great Christmas. For some reason we didn't take any pictures of them opening gifts this year. I think we were enjoying watching them open them so much, we forgot to take pictures. Oh well. 

Elise is doing well. We have her taking steroids to help improve her lung function, and it seems to be working well. She has more energy than I have ever seen. She plays basketball and soccer on our back porch, and chases her sister around all day. It's really been a great month for her. 

Claire is also doing well. She wants to do anything Elise does. We changed her from her crib to a toddler bed this week, and so far it's going well. She is talking up a storm, and says new words almost everyday. 

Jason and I are just plugging right along with our daily routines. He is enjoying his fellowship, and we are anxiously waiting to see what will happen next. We still aren't sure what he will do after the fellowship ends. 

Hope you all are having a great New Years. My resolution is to post on the of more often. We'll see how that goes!

So I thought I posted this 2 weeks ago, but something happened so now it's getting posted late. Sorry. 

Wow this last month went by fast. Nora is now 11 weeks old, and loves to smile and coo. Elise and Claire are great big sisters, and actually fight over who gets to sit near Nora. Elise lost a second tooth and got a book from the tooth fairy. She is excited to lose another one so she can get more gifts. Claire is going through a fun two year old stage, where she tries to make the biggest mess she can when playing. It's hilarious and frustrating at the same time. Elise's doctors all met after thanksgiving to discuss her recent illnesses, and tried to come up with a game plan for figuring out what's going on. So currently she is taking oral steroids for a month, and then we will repeat her chest CT at the end of the month to see if there is any improvement from her CT last month. They still don't have a conclusive diagnosis, and have even consulted with her docs in St. Louis. I hope you all have a great Christmas. Love you all.