Hey Everyone:

Thought that I would give you a quick update about the babies:

Let’s get ready to Rumble!!!!!

Here’s the Tale of the Tape……

In the Pink Corner, weighing in at 11lbs, 11ozs, standing 23 inches tall, Hannah “the Banana” Johnson!!!

In the Blue Corner, weighing in at 11lbs, 11ozs also, and standing 22 & 1/2 inches tall, Josh “the Wildcat” Johnson!!!

In the Green Corner, weighing in at 11lbs, 9ozs, standing 22 & 3/4 inches tall, George “Deep in Thought” Johnson!!!

The babies have been doing great, as you can see from the Tale of the Tape, George is closing in on Hannah and Josh….. 

Hannah is still the laziest and most demanding baby……  she has been having a constant struggle with constipation lately, so I think if we can get that under control she will be a much happier baby.  The doctor said to give her more pear juice then we had been giving her, but alot of times she is uncomfortable and she let’s you know it…  she cries for many different reasons, she really only has one cry and it’s loud and piercing…  we put her on her belly for tummy time to strengthen her muscles, but she just goes to sleep… she loves to lay on her belly….  she started to suck her fist in the last couple of weeks when she doesn’t have her pacifier, Kathy just called and said that she finally found her thumb and is sucking it now, it will be awesome is she can self-soothe herself at night and go back to sleep.  She also loves the electronic part of the bouncy chair, she will stare at it for a long time and interact with it, but when she’s had enough she will quickly let you know, she also is starting to like the swing more and more… she has really started to smile and laugh and it is so cute it will make your whole day… 

Josh is still the most active and physical of all the babies, he also probably sleeps the least.  Kathy just called me and said that he rolled over from his stomach to his back for the first time shocking her and himself.  He hates to be on his stomach, but he really exercises his limbs when you lay him there….  we’ll have to make sure he’s always strapped to the changing table now that he is figuring out how to roll over….  Josh usually only cries when he’s hungry, sometimes I notice that he and George seem to squawk back and forth, maybe they have a secret language…. he has a new annoying habit of putting his hands in his face when you are trying to feed him, he will bat the bottle out of his mouth or away from his face…  something about Josh scares me a little, I have the feeling that he is going to pay me back double for all the bad things I did when I was a kid (which were alot)….  he is definitely the joker of the bunch….  he makes all kind of wildcat sounds, thus the nickname….  he also has an adorable new smile and can giggle and coo…. it’s very cute….

George is still the easiest and most serious baby….  he cry is not nearly as loud as the other two, but unfortunately he’s a sympathy crier….  he will cry for no reason at all anytime Josh or Hannah are crying, this makes it tough to get them all settled down when they start acting up….  usually he only cries himself if he’s hungry or sometimes lonely….  he loves to be held, which unfortunately we don’t have a lot of time to do since there are three babies….   George is also the only baby that seems to be bothered by what the other babies do, if Josh or Hannah wake up and cry it will wake George up and stress him out… George is a thinker, he will look at something a very long time and you can see his little brain just going to work….  he has the biggest head of the three, I think he is storing a lot of data up there….  George rarely smiles, I haven’t seen him yet, but it’s a beautiful smile when you see it (I’ve seen a picture)….  George definitely sleeps the most of the three babies, but he also knows when to stay awake for the action…..  everytime we go out somewhere (like the zoo), George will sleep before we go when nothing is going on and then he’ll be wide awake when we get there so he can see everything…..  Josh and Hannah on the other hand will stay awake when nothing is going on and then sleep through all the exciting times….  for this reason I usually always give George the front position in the stroller, so he can see what is going on.  One last thing about George, he is by far the chunkiest baby of all three, he has cute little rolls everywhere….