Looking back at 2009...in pics!

This past year went by CRAZY FAST....Here is a one pic a month look at 2009 and how fast our kiddos grew...sniff sniff...tear. Just crazy to thing that last Christmas Trinity was just starting to crawl, and they were all just starting to sit up on their own. Now they are EVERYwhere!!! 2009 was definitely a year of firsts! Crawling, Walking, 1st words, attending church as a family, pool experience, going to work with Mama, restaurant experience, haircuts, 1st pair of shoes and jackets!

This past year was just amazing! Can't wait to see what 2010 brings! More times to laugh, smile, and love on each other!

January
9mos!
sitting up on our own!


Feb
10mos!
Milestone...Trinity started walking!
Started going to church together as a family! We decided to start 2mos earlier than what the dr said, but they seemed to do just fine!


Mar
11mos! 1st month in our new high chairs! finally graduated from the BEBE Pod!


Apr
12mos! Happy Birthday babies!!
Milestone...Gabriel started walking!


May
13mos!
...got our 1st haircuts this month!


June
14mos! - fun in the sun!


July
15mos! - 1st restaurant experience!! Bdubs!


Aug
16mos! - on a walk at the Promenade


Sept
17mos! - our new recliner
milestone....Asher started walking!


Oct
18mos!


Nov
19mos!


Dec
20mos!

Christmas

I would have to say that this was the most lazy Christmas we at the Howard house have ever experienced. Pretty much stayed in PJ's all day! Chris' dad had the flu as did my grandpa :(. My mom came over for a bit in the morning to watch the kids open their gifts and visit a little, then the rest of the day Chris and I just laid around, watched the kids play, watched movies, and ate some Christmas cookies....like I said...LAZY

Here is a very short video of Trinity pushing Gabriel in the baby doll stroller! We thought it was hilarious....it took him a couple minutes to get into it.....the baby doll was taken out, then the stroller kept rolling away...then he had to try and squeeze into it, but he finally managed...



Starting out the morning with some cereal!


Trinity playing with a DoodlePro they got Christmas Eve from great grandpa!!


Gabriel carefully unwrapping a present


Asher checking out his book


Trinity and Grandma


Gabriel squeezing into the baby doll stroller



SNOW!!!!!...well a sprinkling of snow anyways!








Our children crack me up! I love having entertaining kiddos!!! :P

We will have more pics after we have our Christmas time and dinner with Chris' parents next weekend! Really looking forward to some Turkey and mashed potatoes!!! yum-o!!!

Sweep Gabriel, Sweep!!

Gabriel just didn't want to nap today. I put them all in their cribs a little after noon. Went and took my shower, got dressed, made some tea, sampled my Egg Nog Pots de Creme I made for tonight's Christmas party and he was still singing to himself in his crib. Then he started TaeKwonDo-ing the headboard of his crib so I figured it was time to get him up before he woke up the other two.

Apparently since he was not in the napping spirits, he decided he better make himself useful and clean! he he.....

Fall Family Photos

Some photo's that a friend photographer took! Hope you all enjoy them! It was SO crazy windy that day. I was battling some crazy wind hair, and all the kiddos decided to have runny noses...But we had fun non the less :P 3 18mos old children, in a new place, surrounded by leaves, tree's, and more leaves, oh yes, and WIND = FUN....and craziness and running and chasing. he he he

Thanksgiving Weekend

Thanksgiving weekend! We were at Chris' parents on Thanksgiving and then visited my Papa the next day. Had a great weekend!

Togetherness!

Just a couple pictures today....
I just love seeing my children being loving with one another. Whether they are playing around, dancing, hugging, wrestling, having bath time....it really doesn't matter. Togetherness just makes my heart sing....cheese, I know. I just pray that as they grow they will stick together, get each others backs and continue to love on each other.

Stay Puffed Children!
This was right b4 going out the other day. I had to drop off a bill and it was bitter COLD!!! They find it quite entertaining to see each other with the hoods up ;P



This pic looks like they are dancing :)


Instead of Sumo wrestling we will have Puff Jacket wrestling


It's really funny 'cus the jackets are still a bit big. It looks like they have swinging nub arms. "It's only a flesh wound (insert British accent)!!" baahaa (for all my Monty Python & the Holy Grail fans....such a great movie).....anyways...

Some bath time!
I just love bath pics. Mostly b/c I know that the amount of time I have to be able to photograph and post cute stuff like this will only last but a short while.




The chair...
For some reason the three of them decided that their chair was more fun upside-down...maybe 'cus it is hard to fit each other together in it the right way...who knows....





And of course......Gabriel

Asher - Update after Pulmonary Specialist visit

We went for Asher's visit today with the Center for Children in Lowell which is a branch office for UAMS and Children's Hospital.

They took X-Rays of his lungs. His X-Rays looked horrible, but this was to be expected with his Chronic Lung Disease, being on the ventilator, lung blowing twice, etc... SO no surprise there. Our lungs continue to grow through age 7 at which time they will be deemed full grown, SO his lungs should just continue to get more healthy...it will just take time.

The GOOD NEWS is that according to Dr. Menendez, he looks much better than his slides show....which is good. His lung problems are not getting worse, it's pretty much just that he has this cold with wet cough/congestion that is causing the wheezing and faster than usual breathing.

To help this issue of a wet nasty cough we have to put him on another inhaler...Atrovent which is supposed to get rid of the wetness, congestion. The Albuterol is for the actual cough. Then we have also been using Flovent which is for inflammation of the lungs. We also got a new/larger chamber.

His food/drink calorie intake:
The nutritionist at this place was SO much more helpful! We have lots more ideas to help with his calorie intake and weight gain. Hopefully we will start to see improvements over the next few weeks. His weight gain will also help his lungs out.

The doctor also gave him an awesome car toy (shown in pic) that he could take home!!! Super excited about the car. It is soft and makes noise. Those things are expensive at the store, so we didn't get them one for Christmas like we were planning on...

...It's the little things in life :P

SO...
Thank you JESUS for the good report and wonderful visit and the awesome nurses, dr, and specialist...and the car toy!

AND...

Thank you to all of you who have been praying for our little man!!! You guys rock!! We couldn't have ever asked for a better support of friends and family in our life.

Love you all!