Cooking with Quints

Now that six months have gone by, I am finally resuming some work in the kitchen. I made three meals this past week. This was the most complex, and with two of the five babies really not happy I had to get a bit inventive. Thankfully we have two Snugli baby carriers. :)

David in front, Marcie in back. It was a challenge to stay far enough away from the frying pan that David couldn't get his patty hands into it! 

Empty crinkly bags are fun!

"Oh, was I not meant to get ahold of this?"

Link to photo for James Avery contest :)

Thanks for the tips, you savvy Facebook friends! Hope this works . . .

   A mother's love is multiplied, never divided. 

update Thursday morning the 2nd of May

No pyloric stenosis! Also, kidneys are doing great, functioning normally, and no high blood pressure, praise God! (Regarding Seth)

I just entered a James Avery photo contest, so Facebookers out there, please go and "vote" for me! You have to "Like" James Avery jewelry first, then look at the photos for "A Mother's Love is . . ." photo contest, and vote for us when they put the picture up. Here's the picture I submitted. Thanks, Jim Cartright, for being in the right place at the right time, and thanks to the Debs and Erin for helping and for Ashley being the impetus behind the "photo shoot" in the first place!

The pin I am wearing was my mom's Mothers' Day gift to me (early) - it's a James Avery pin with two little girls and three little boys dancing in a circle. How perfect!! When the salesperson heard why she was buying me that pin and that we had quints, she begged us to enter the contest. So we did. :)

And a couple more

FYI, I am taking Seth in today to rule out pyloric stenosis as the cause of his vomiting. He'll get an ultrasound to check for thickening of the pyloric sphincter. Thanks for continuing to pray!

Marcie enjoying Seth (that's his night nurse)

Seth calmly sucking oxygen. He's definitely self-weaning. He loves pulling his canula out!

My beautiful girls! Thanks, Lisa, for the outfits!! They wore gorgeous red taffeta and black velvet dresses on Sunday with matching patent leather Mary Jane shoes with ruffles, also thanks to Lisa. :) Alas, I didn't take a picture before they ruined them (for the day) with drool and spit-up.

Laughing together. Looking more and more alike! Gracie is on the left, Marcie on the right.

Could Gracie be any happier with her friend Vivienne? We had a wonderful time on Saturday morning at the Cowan Retirement Center where my mom works. LOVE you, Cowan residents! Thank you for praying!

Pool days!

Our new hot weather pastime. David, Seth, Marcie, Gracie and Will (left to right)

Thankfully the manufacturers included this warning on the side of the pool so we knew to intervene when Will tried to dive in head-first yesterday. (Really, how funny is it that a no-diving warning is required on the side of a kiddy pool?)

Close-ups of our precious quints in birth order

 Will Edward
2 lb 10 oz at birth, now 18 lb. 4 oz.

 David Stephen
2 lb 7 oz at birth, now 15 lb. 8.5 oz

 Marcie Jane
2 lb even at birth, now 14 lb. 13 oz

 Seth Jared,
2 lb 1 oz at birth, now 15 lb. 15 oz

And last but never least . . .

The small but mighty Grace Elise! 13 lb 14.5 oz, well above her birth weight of 1 lb 12 oz.

Update Tuesday the 30th of April

Seth and Will at Cranial Technologies yesterday - they get out of their helmets next week! It's remarkable how much their little flat heads (on one side only, in the back) have filled out! Will LOVES this car and loves to have me drive him back and forth. Seth loves to watch. I could never get them both to smile at the same time, hence the two pictures.

Gracie showing off her new little summer outfit from Donna and Florida! At least the quints got something from Aunt Samantha being gone for two weeks. We're SO glad to have Sam back!

Seth is SO funny, looking pleased as punch to have his pretty sister beside him! 

Dog-pile! The reality of multiple birth photo sessions.
Seth, Gracie, David, Marcie, and Will. The boys' outfits have sharks and the girls' have little crabs.

Five little munchkins in a row. Will, Marcie, Seth, Gracie, David. The boys are learning to sit well, so before too long we'll have some good sitting-up photos!

David exploring the picnic table with Will in the far background exploring the pepper grinder. We spend a LOT of time on the back porch and in the back yard now that the days are so much warmer!