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Ellaina famously always pulls her cannula out and was wearing her hat like a beret!

Ellaina and Me

Jackson - you have to love this pose! So cute when he sleeps...

Jackson & Me

Chloe - This is her day at the beach pose!

Chloe & Me

We all enjoy our time resting on mama! Sometimes mom even wants to fall asleep! Thank goodness for those heated blankets.

Reese Triplets are Here

They are here born at 30 weeks. Born Saturday July 31, 2010. Please meet our new children.

More to come. They are all in the NICU and are doing well. Please keep us all in your thoughts and prayers. Also, the time on the camera is off by 12 hours, it is actually 11 am on 8/1.

Ellaina Abigayle Reese (photo at 23:07)

Jackson Robert Commons Reese (photo at 23:09)

Chloe McKenna Reese (photo at 23:16)

Julie & Jeff

Sets of Three

Well. We all know lots of things come in threes... Well here is what I knowabout our 3!

We may have 3 Bengals fans...

We may have 3 Buckeye fans...

for sure football fans. Good thing we will have lots to watch once they arrive since we will not be leaving the house to much.

We for sure have 3 Sweet peas!

Week 26 Ultrasounds

Week 26 ultrasounds. Here are some cute fuzzy grainy pictures of the babies.

Baby A - Supine as usual. At least we know his/her spine is developing well.

Baby B - We get to see her cute little profile again with her monkey pose. Her hand is at the middle of the right side of the photo above her forehead... right where the X is on the bar her little fingers are each of those lighter lines... She is so going to be a drama queen.

You can see her little nose, eye and each of her lips. What a cute profile.

Baby C - He is looking up at us this time. His head is on the lower left side of the photo. Look for an oblonged shape that has black dot towards the top. That black dot is the eye cavity. The white down facing L is his nose. If you look down his body, towards the right in the photo you can see each of his little rib bones, those white lines.

His little left hand is that small circular fist on the top of his ribs. I am convinced these will be great halloween photos some day.

Week 26 - Belly Shots & Happy 4th of July

Happy 4th of July...

We hope you were able to enjoy the 4th of July. No big parties or shin digs for us this year.

We had a bit of scare when we went to the doctor on Friday. My body had decided that it was going to show some pre-cursors for indicators of pre-term labor. Which was not an expected outcome given that things have been going so well. But thanks to modern medicine we can treat me. As for the babies... they are fine, still growing and active and completely unaware that my body thinks there is only 1 and that by all indicators my uterus is already past the size for one baby to be born. So the doctor prescribed some medicines for me and them and a lot more rest for me. Hence why all these pictures are getting uploaded and we went to see Eclipse yesterday and the pool.

Well like most things in life we are learning to be flexible and that I have no control. Please think good thoughts and prayers for us that we continue to hope and pray that these babies can stay growing safely inside of me.

Your turning Violet Violet

So I must say there are days I totally feel like this!

Have you seen Charlie and the Chocolate Factory... Well some days i feel like i am turning into Violet. :) All for a good reason, just entertaining. Enjoy!

Week 25 Ultrasounds

As you saw, my belly is growing mostly out at this point. Baby C is my most active. He loves to kick/punch. I have a feeling I am going to be chasing this one. He has now figured out how to get his feet up near my sternum and kick my stomach. He has also figured out to get his head in my ribs. Lucky for me he usually prefers to be upside down. Here is a great picture of his leg... growing nice and strong and the source of much of my belly jumps.

Baby B - Here you can see her eyelid and little hand above her profile. For those of you, who used to be like me and had no idea what the fuzzy colors were let me show you. If you look in the center of the photo with all the dots directly below those dots you see a semi oval shape with a squiggly oval in the middle, that is the eye lid just below that is a little half u or sideways L that is lighter - that is her nose and the dark spot below is the her lips. She is looking up at the camera... ( a sign of things to come i guess)

Where you see the bar on the right of the photo about half way in the middle by the X is her hand each of those lines is a finger. ( i promise) She is kind of doing a monkey pose with the hand above her head. I guess we will have to check the trees for her.

Baby B loves putting her head in my ribs...they are permanently bruised at this point, but at least it is getting bigger and she is going to be one smart cookie.

Baby A - He/She is getting more active especially when i am laying down. I guess it helps when you do not have your brother and sister sitting on top of you. Baby A is almost always facing my spine so we have plenty of shots of her spine and seems to be the most quite of all three. Baby A is also a little bit of a frog kicker. Good thing my organs are all basically mushed anyway.

This rare shot of Baby A's profile is adorable. It is amazing to see the nose & lips and eyes.

Each of them have their own little personalities, it will be interesting to see how they develop into little people.

Week 24 - Belly Shots

Here we are Week 24 - Papayas

I was so intimidated by the size of the papayas at the store I had to leave the first time and go home. How could 3 of these be inside me? So when I went back to the store I picked the smallest Papayas I could find. Strangely they are still huge but I felt better... Got to love those crazy hormones.

With 3 piled high this is my tribute to the juggling i am going to do. And look who is looking on in the background. I love this photo!

Now while it is Reeba i am concerned with jettisoning herself over the crib rail. It is Ty that will be the first to inspect everything and everyone. My only concern with him is his snuggling. He just might decide to lay on top of one of the triplets and if so i know for a fact he is going to outweigh them in the beginning. Should be interesting.... Well back to the photos!

Ultrasound shots- Week 23

Here are some photos from our recent visit to the Doctor on 6-11-10.

The first shot is of all three... well you can only see certain parts of each one since they are too big to all fit in one shot anymore. however you can see they labeled each baby so you can "see" (yeah right) each one. :)

The second photo is of Baby A's Profile. It is amazing to see their little profiles including nose and mouths.

The third photo is of Baby B's head and growing brain. It is a top down view.

Doctor says everyone is doing well. He asked me to reduce my travel going forward since this is a critical time for the babies. They passed the viability point, where if they were born they could survive. However, they go from having a 15% survivability if they were born at 23-24 weeks to a 90% survivability rate if they were born at or after the 28th week. So needless to say we will not be quite the world travelers anymore.

Week 21 -Belly shots

Well this week we went back to the doctor. Everyone is growing like gangbusters. They have doubled in size from the last trip a month ago. We are up to 14oz, 14oz and 13oz! This trip involved a 3 hour appointment so they could view every single organ. Now i am sure for a singleton seems manageable to check every organ... but well when you have 3.. viewing every organ, bone measurements etc... takes a really long time. Needless to say, Lynn (the ultrasound tech) and I are becoming good friends. It is worth it to make sure they are healthy. It was really neat to see their little profiles. Their noses and lips. Amazing what you can view these days. Hard to believe i have about 3lbs of baby inside of me. Oh and they are bananas... Decided not to do some photos with this fruit...

So depending on who you talk to... I am either huge! (thanks buy buy baby lady, geesh!) or tiny (thank you Linda, cycling instructor). They you look huge comment -doesn't that fall on what not to say to a pregnant lady?

Week 20 -Belly shots

This week they are cantaloupes! No wonder my belly sort of popped out this week. Those cantaloupes are pretty darn big. Glad the babies are growing. Another week down. These kids are pretty well traveled. I will have to make a list of all the places we have been before they got here! Can't wait to meet you. I am sure you are cuter than those melons...

Belly shots - Week 19

So this week the fruits are Mango's! Here are a few fun belly shots. Reeba wanted in on the action. She was checking everything out. She is the reason we will have to start locking the cats in the basement. Man can that cat get some air. I can just imagine her up an over into the crib!