We're alive

We are tired but still pushing through one day at a time. Will is loving school and telling us all about it. The girls are eating more food every day, but no less mama milk, so Patti isn't getting much of a break.

Here's the five of us when no one was crying (a rarity).

Here's Maggie and Stella enjoying some floor time with Patrick after work this week. It still boggles us when people ask if they're identical...

The girls are loving Will's old exersaucer and the one Patti bought from a multiples group. All of the extra stimulation is doing them well. Will, of course, wants to play with everything too - particularly the extra noisy pieces.

Maggie digs this one too.


Will inherited Patrick's love of Doritos. He definitely doesn't get them often so he treats them like a big deal. He even spontaneously thanked Patrick for giving some of them to him.

Watch what you say/do

Adding to our proof that we have to REALLY watch what we say and do around Will, Will tried to breast-feed his twin baby dolls this morning. Exactly like Patti. He sort of used the feeding pillow. Exactly like Patti.

Then he burped them both. Exactly like Patti.

Maggie and Stella thought the whole thing was pretty funny.

When Patrick got home from work, Will showed him all of the costumes in the magazine we received today. Driving the point home, Will repeated every description that Patti told him earlier in the day. Patrick's favorite is Will's description of a Ghost Buster's costume: "Dis guy help ghosts go away." Watch out...

Misery loves company

This weekend was a mess. Will caught a cold from a classmate at school (he's only been in school for four hours) and then he gave it to Patrick and Patti. Will was recovering by Friday and good by Saturday but Patrick and Patti were in bad shape by Friday afternoon and feverish by Saturday.

Topping it all off, Maggie and Stella had their 6-month shots on Friday morning (four shots each). Here's the before shot - one of Patti's coworkers made the sweaters for the girls.

Here's the after shot- eight band-aids between them. Stella had a bad reaction to the shots and had a fever of 102 by late Friday night. Maggie was wiped out on Saturday and both were hot, clammy unhappy girls all Saturday. Right when mommy and daddy were feeling lousy too. All the girls did was eat, want to eat, or want to be held.

Will, of course, was better by Saturday and enjoying cookies. The little guy is old enough to understand that we were all sick and I think he took it easy on us for a change.