Well, I am not doing so well at reaching 4,000 calories a day. It is hard, but my appetite is picking up, so hopefully it will become easier. The doctor said as long as I had gained 10-12 pounds by the end of the 1st trimester (which I finished last week – yahoo!!) I would be doing well. I haven’t weighed recently, so I’m not sure where I stand exactly. We go to the Dr. next Tuesday for another ultrasound, so they will tell me then.

Here is my sample diet…

Waking Up
1 cup of coffee w/ creamer
1 cup of OJ

Breakfast
Bowl of cereal (usually Life cereal or Frosted Mini Wheats with 2% milk)
or
PB Toast (2 pieces)
(I was trying to do eggs, but now they are completely un-appetizing to me)

Mid-Morning Snack
usually a bowl of whatever I had for dinner the night before, or something just as hearty. I’m feeling well at this point in the day, so I try to eat something with protein, good carbs, and a veggie or two.

Lunch
Lately I’ve been doing soup with cheese toast & crackers… Clam Chowder has been my favorite most recently.
Lemonade… I LOVE lemonade!!! Sometimes I will just douse my water with a ton of lemon and no sugar… the sourness taste so good to me.

Mid-Afternoon Snack
pistachios
string cheese
appple
pickles ( cheese and pickles are so yummy together… I even liked this combo before I was pregnant)

Late-Afternoon Snack
2 spoonfuls of PB (sometimes on wheat bread)
glass of milk
carrots or celery – if we have it on hand.

Dinner
Whatever Chris brings home 🙂 We’ve had so many wonderful ladies cooking for us on Mondays and Thursdays!!!

Evening/Before Bed Snack
Yogurt
Tums 🙂

I try to drink water w/ lemon through out the day. I’ll drink Sweet Tea from time to time, but I mainly drink water, juice or milk.

I can’t do a lot of sweets though. They make me feel light headed. I would love to be able to get a milkshake, but it makes me feel yucky! I remember feeling this way with Harper, too. I never had gestational diabetes with her, and I’m praying I don’t get it with these 3.

Today I am feeling like Mary Lindsey. I’ve been wondering when she would make herself known again. Slowly but surely, over the last few days I’ve been feeling more and more like myself. Not nearly as nauseous as I have been, nor as tired.

Yesterday, I even drove across town after Harper’s doctor’s appointment to find me some Zaxby’s. Oh, it was soooo good!!! This afternoon, I think Chris, Harper and I are even going to venture out to Wal-Mart. Harper has been obsessed with magnets, so I think we are going to get her some alphabet magnets to play with on the refrigerator.

While mom and Nancy were here for Harper’s birthday, we started working on cleaning out the guest room and planning the re-arranging of our house for the babies. Very preliminary stuff, but still needed to be done. Jo and Randy took back a car load of stuff to be stored in our house in GA until it sells. Hey, that’s one positive about it not selling… free storage! 🙂

I’ve been busy at making a list of all the needed items for the triplets. Nancy created this fabulous list for us. We call it the “In and Out” list. She broke down each room, and wrote all the stuff we need to take out of it, and then the stuff we need to bring in… we are pretty much converting our home into a day-care type setting. 🙂 This is just the beginning of many changes to come!!

Living Room
OUT IN
filing cabinet 3 swings
desk & chair pack n play
shelves
picnic basket
desk stuff
(move contents of desk stuff to white cabinet in kitchen)

*desk area soon to be replaced by 3 swings

Kitchen
OUT IN
boxes desk contents
storage stuff

*this will become our “desk”

Master Bedroom
OUT IN
hope chest crib
sweater bins
old clothes

Guest Bedroom/ Triplet’s Nursery
OUT IN
queen bed twin bed
closet stuff cribs
bedside table recliner
TV

Harper’s Room
OUT IN
Old Clothes

Chris just finished building a shed for us. I must say how impressed I am with Mr. Blanton because he did this all by himself!!! We now have extra storage to make room for all the babies!!! When Harper would be taking a nap, I would go out and watch him and smell the wood… I LOVE the smell of sawdust… weird pregnancy symptom:-)

Here are some more pics from my camera… I don’t know why Nancy’s turned out so tiny.

The Cake

A girl and her tutu

Harper’s cake to destroy 🙂

The Beautiful Birthday Girl!!

The Audience

Before the Disaster 🙂

Headless baby… haha

All Better

I am a little late on blogging about this, but we have had an eventful two weeks. The day after the ultrasound, Harper and I came down with some nasty cold virus that about did us in!!! Harper had a fever of 102-104 for about 4 days. We had to cancel the big birthday bash, but we still had lots of fun with Grandma Dee Dee, Aunt Nancy, Grandy, and Jo Jo!!

I had all these grandiose plans for Harper’s birthday. I wanted a cupcake-themed party, with adorable invitations, plates, balloons, cups, etc. Well, it didn’t so much happen the way my mind envisioned it since my body was ransacked by morning/evening sickness. However, the day was filled with love and celebration of a precious little girl…. and really, what more could a mom ask for?!?

I did get to make her a giant cupcake for her birthday, though!!! It turned out pretty cute 🙂 And I must say, Harper takes after her Daddy and LOVES LOVES LOVES sweets!!! Just look at her face after eating some strawberry cake!!!

Nancy captured her big day with wonderful pictures, and she made her a sweet doll baby that Harper adores. Go to Nancy’s website to meet “Baby” 🙂 Thank you Aunt Nan Nan for this gift- we will love for a looooooong time!!!

Grandma Dee Dee got Harper a piano that plays all sort of music. It is pink and lovely, and Harper dances to it at least 3 times day!!! She also got some fun DVDs (Baby Songs) to help get us through the long days 🙂 Momma is greatly appreciative!

Grandy and Jo Jo gave Harps all sorts of books and clothes… the girl is ready for summer!!! One gift that they gave Harper was a baby doll with a cloth body and plastic arms, legs, and head. Harper squealed when she opened it. The doll was so secured in the box, it took two of us to get her out. Well, when we did, her head fell off and freaked Harper out!! We all laughed and laughed. Chris finally got one of his plastic zip ties, and rigged the doll’s head to her body. She works fine now, and Harper doesn’t seem to be too scarred by the event.

Daggy and Mimi Leslie couldn’t make it to the party, but sent a big box of goodies!!! Harper received some more adorable clothes as well as some fun videos and toys. She loves the blocks!

Chris and I racked our brains trying to figure out what to get her for her first birthday. Since we are trying to save some space, and we knew the grandparents would be getting her plenty, I decided I would make her a tutu for her first birthday!! It was so easy to do! And she was quite happy to wear it.

I can’t believe a year has gone by since she was born. This has been the best year of my life, and I am so thankful to the Lord for blessing us with such a sweet little girl. We had so much fun celebrating with family, and we look forward to celebrating with friends, too, next year!!

Thanks for making this day so special!!!