More pictures from our big outing on Saturday

Posing with the Golden Cowboy statue. David looks very interested; Marcie and Seth look scared (in Sam's lap)

We did this in honor of Isaac, since he knows about Dreamworks's Shrek and Fiona
Marcie is with Sam, David is with Chloe, and Seth and Will are in the stroller. Seth was tired!!

The whole CA and TX gang, left to right: Me, Chloe with Marcie, Seth in front, Sam with David, my mom, Julie and her mom Aunt Bev, Will in front of them 

What?! The golden cowboy's cheek is pliable and surprisingly warm! Leave it to David to mess with the scary "statue"
Will is also on my lap, and apparently Marcie decided the cowboy wasn't so scary after all - she's touching his sleeve.

Update on Will and Seth

I keep forgetting to mention that Seth is doing better as far as weight gain (He gained a whopping 7 ounces in just two days on continuous feeds!) and also with vomiting, but he did empty his tummy onto the cement overlooking the fountain in the cute picture I just posted. :} I think all the excitement got to him! So please keep praying he'll continue gaining weight and will be able to go back to bolus (all at once) feeds so he doesn't need to be hooked up to a plastic tube all day long. The other babies are WAY too mobile and interested in it! And please continue to pray he stops vomiting altogether.

Will remains kinda sorta sick, mostly just feeling warm to the touch, and now David and Marcie do too. I bet it wouldn't even register on a thermometer. I woke up with a slight scratchy throat and stuffy nose, so I guess that's what the babies are fighting too. The good news is it's extremely mild. I don't feel sick at all, and the babies are all really happy - hooray! :)

So thanks for praying! Prayer works, I am reminded over and over again - or rather, our loving, all-powerful and holy Father works through and in (and sometimes even despite) our prayers.

Love and gratitude,
Carrie

P.S. David's favorite place to be is under the glass-topped wrought-iron kitchen table. There must be a lot of scope for the imagination down there. I can see his little bald head as I type. :)

Another precious picture from yesterday

Marcie, Seth, Will, David 

It was sad not to be able to include Gracie, but no doubt she'd rather be in the mountains with her grandparents and Daddy. People kept asking if we had two sets of twins, or triplets, or quadruplets (clearly good guess), depending on how many of the babies they saw at once. 

Sunday morning cuties

Will and Marcie are sitting on their mat in the kitchen playing with my nesting measuring cups and "talking" to and laughing at each other. SO cute!!! I love the little delighted squeals and huge grins. They each think the other one does/has the most interesting thing. At first Marcie acted a little threatened that I was bringing Will over into her territory (her territory at that moment being the large lower drawer with baby safe cooking/baking utensils in it), but then she decided two was more fun than just one at the game of "bang the measuring cups together and squeal." I can't stand how cute my own babies are. I remember loving this age with Isaac too.

We had a very fun time yesterday at the Gaylord Texan Resort Hotel with its huge indoor atrium: like being outside, but with air-conditioning on a 100-degree day! Beautiful walkways, Texas-themed areas (like an Alamo facade) and fountains all entranced the kids. The shops were also entrancing to us adults. :)

Samantha with Marcie and cousin Chloe with David enjoying one of the smaller fountains

Marcie took a little snooze on the Riverwalk

David was not in the snoozing mood. He was all over the place!
Aunt Bev and the rest dealt marvelously with the craziness. I thought it was a blast!
(My brother says I write too much like Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair, but I can't help writing with all capitals and adding exclamation marks. I think in all caps and exclamation marks!)

Marcie LOVED my dad's rice

My poor mother somehow always gets left out of my pictures. Isn't that a lovely shirt she's wearing? ;)

Two more cute pictures of Will (this one is for you, Jenn!)

Taken by Lynnette, who was keeping him. Clearly, this child suffered in our absence. ;)

And a praise: He woke up today happy and with no fever, thank God! Thanks for praying.

Love and gratitude,
Carrie

Being good in church

We have hair!

Look how much at least Marcie has gotten in the past week or so! Seth, too, is getting increasingly hairy, just very much strawberry-blond and less noticeable than Will's. David is S-L-O-W-L-Y getting more hair. Same with Grace. She is still almost completely bald. I was bald until I was 2. :}

Marcie pulls herself up on everything now

It takes a village! Gavin's Aunt Bev, cousin Julie and her daughter Chloe bathed Will, David and Marcie tonight. David is the one in the towel.

Please pray for Super Will

Baby of Steel has something going on. Not only is he STILL cutting 4 teeth on top, he's got a fever and is just miserable when his Advil wears off. He had an awful blow-out diaper. Maybe he'll feel better now? Last night he cried inconsolably and didn't go to sleep finally until midnight, then was up crying off and on again from 6 until 7. We really don't want him to suffer, and we really don't want the rest of the babies to get it!!

Also, I should have directly asked for prayer for Seth to regain the weight he's lost and stop vomiting. He sure seems happy and is VERY vocal nowadays, so he doesn't act at all sick, although his eyes look more red and have visible bags under them. I think he might have gotten dehydrated. I'm praying he keeps down his continuous feeds tonight. That will get him well on the road to rehydrated, Lord willing.

Thanks!
Carrie