Adventures in Quadville!

There is always something going on around here in Quadville!

My Mother and sister left Wednesday morning and that afternoon all four of the babies had appointments with the eye doctor. Amber has the best nanny in all the world! Her name is April and she is as good as gold. All three of us loaded the babies into the Suburban, squeezed ourselves in and we were off! The doctor was downtown so this was quite a little journey! Amber called the office as we were en route to assure them we were coming when - to her utter SURPRISE! - they informed her that appointment had been CANCELLED!! Good grief! Here we were - rolling along with a full load of quads! Apparently there had been a mix up in scheduling but they promised to work us in! ALL four! SO - now that were no longer trying to get there on TIME - the fuel gage dinged alerting us to the fact we had very little gas! Never fear! Amber found a station and we were back on track. That girl has learned to roll with the punches!

Babies all dressed up for the doctor visit!

Kailey, Trystan, Logan and Harrison

Upon arriving at the doctor's office we found the waiting room FULL of children - many of them with sneezing, runny noses! We decided to line up the strollers and wait in the hall. April was careful to keep the diaper bag and purses off the floor so we were juggling all sorts of things! Since this was their first visit to this doctor there were 5 pages of information to fill out FOR EACH CHILD! I took one of the clipboards and started scribbling info as fast as I could! Still and all - it took a while!

People passing by were curious to see FOUR babies in a row. We had shielded them with stroller covers but even so one lady asked if she could see them and another lady actually tried to move the cover and reach for one of the babies!

April and Amber were both on high alert!!

I've learned not to make eye contact and DO NOT chat with others when out with the quads! We attract enough attention without encouraging it!

After being there for an hour we were finally called into the examining room.

We barely fit!

April immediately started wiping down the chairs with sanitary wipes.

She comes from a nursing background and is vigilant about germs!

During the course of the appointment we had to change diapers and do a feed!

Not an easy task in such small quarters!

Amber came prepared, though, and except for Kailey doing a projectile vomit episode, all went well! Amber says the eye drops can make the babies nauseous.

When the visit was over we headed downstairs and Amber got the car while April and I stood guard over the kids! Amber pulled up to the curb and in UNDER 3 MINUTES we had all the babies snapped into their car seats (the seats snap into the stroller frames) and were driving OUT of the parking lot!!

Boy, oh BOY!!! We have GOT this!!

Other than medical appointments the only other place we get to take the quads is on a walk. Friday was a perfect day for this! Again - no eye contact or chatting up people.

Just keep walking! I did see some people look at us from their cars - eyes big and mouths open! I'm always surprised that people can say negative things. Amber isn't.

Only two people talked to us in passing and one was positive!

We are all so happy and grateful the babies are growing and healthy.

Harrison is the longest (25 inches) and the heaviest (11 lb 14 1/2 oz) with Trystan being the shortest ( 23 3/8 inches) and the lightest (10 lb 9 1/2 oz).

Tonight we are back over here helping Mike while Amber is having dinner along with other moms of Multiples! A dozen moms are meeting together. 10 are quad moms, 1 has quintuplets and 1 has sextuplets. Between them all they have 51 children!!

Talk about HUGE future play dates!!!!

So how are we spending this Saturday night??

Same as LAST Saturday!!

Watching football with Daddy and Granddad!!