New Website...

For some reason this website of ours wasn't allowing me to use all of the special features (aka video) so I recreated a new blog website. I will no longer be posting on this one so please see our new blog at:

www.luchettas.blogspot.com

Day of Shopping

Ava got to experience her first of many days of shopping with Mommy and Meme! We went to the outlets that are about 15 minutes away from us to do some damage at the Children's stores. We spent about three hours there and only went to Osh Kosh B'Gosh, Children's Place, Converse, and Gymboree...Ava even got her first bathing suit for next summer! We had the perfect outfit to put Ava in for her day of shopping (Shopping with Mommy Makes Me Happy!)

First Family Outing...

So we had out first family outing, dogs and all, and it was quite eventful but successful! We decided to load everyone up in the car and head to Joe's town that he grew up in, Cold Spring for a walk downtown. Needless to say we learned quickly that putting batteries in my pump was a great idea for the ride home and we will definitely be investing in a rack for the back of the car to put the strollers on in the near future!

The back of the car with the strollers and dogs. Poor Brody and Sadie didn't have much room!


A look inside the car with all three carseats filled!

Daily Routine!

Many of you have asked us what our typical day is like so I thought I would humor you with our daily schedule now that all 3 babies are home!

Beginning in the morning:
7:30: Change, dress, and feed Ava first, put her in her lamb seat. Change, dress, and feed Gavin, put him in his lamb seat. Change, dress, and feed Brayden, put him in his lamb seat.

8:30: Pump and prepare the afternoons bottles
(Entire days worth of washed bottles that are ready to fill with milk)!

9:30: Eat breakfast and get dressed (ME)

*Lately we've had various doctors appointments for the babies in the late morning

11:30: Change and feed all 3 babies again

12:30: Pump

1:00: Eat Lunch and possibly take a nap, laundry (about 3 loads a day)

2:00: Play time for the babies


3:30: Change and feed all 3 babies again

4:30 Pump and prepare night bottles
(We put a small refrigerator with the bottle warmers in the room upstairs for easy access to all the prepared bottles)

5:30: Start cooking dinner

6:00: Joe gets home from work/ Eat Dinner

7:00: Feed dogs

7:30: Give each baby a bath, change diaper, put PJ's on, feed, put to bed.

8:30: Pump

9:00: Time for bed for us too!

11:30 My night shift begins. Change and feed all 3 babies and put back to bed.

12:30 Pump and go back to bed

3:30 Joe's shift begins. Change and feed all 3 babies and put back to bed.

5:30 Joe goes to work

7:30 OUR DAY BEGINS AGAIN!!

So that's our day in a nutshell minus the little things that have to be done throughout the day! We're going through about 42 ounces of milk a day, 30 diapers a day, 6 changes of clothes a day, and lots of baby wipes!! We can't ever say that our days are boring!!

Our Family Is Complete!

We finally got to bring Brayden home on Monday night so our family is complete!! He did have to come home on an Apnea monitor and caffeine because he has had some episodes of Brady's and Apnea's (which is a drop in the heart rate and a pause in his breathing for more than 20 seconds). This is very common in premature babies because they haven't quite developed their breathing yet so hopefully the pulmonologist will begin to lessen his caffeine intake soon and we'll be able to take him off his monitor. So we've adopted a beautiful new "purse" (just another thing to tote around) wherever we take Brayden. He's doing great though and hasn't had any episodes in almost 2 weeks! Here are some pictures of bringing him home and his monitor.

Sibling Love...

Ava and Gavin were fussing so we decided to try putting them together in their lamb seats...neadless to say, Ava is nicknamed our chunky monkey because she'll eat anything that comes close to her mouth!

Happy Father's Day to Joe!!

Father's Day couldn't get any better...Gavin got to come home! It was a bittersweet day when we arrived to the hospital to pick Gavin AND Brayden up to come home since they were BOTH scheduled to be discharged on Father's Day. Their Father's Day outfits were already picked out and we were so excited that this would be the last we would have to make that drive to see our babies! But...when we got there with all smiles they told us only Gavin would be going home because Brayden had, had a Brady/Apnea episode that morning so he would have to stay 5 more days and be monitored! We were so disappointed but we had to focus on Gavin coming home. So we dressed them up anyways and took some Father's Day pictures.