I know, I know... It's been FOREVER!!

Wow! I can't believe it's been over 6 months since my last blog update!! Well, I must say that a lot has happened since my last update. My triplets turned one and are thriving! There's lots going on right now and I'm really excited about some of the things that are to come. I'm still a stay-at-home mom and I love it! Although it's always nice to go out by my self and take a break... :-)

Ok, so where do I start? Delilah officially has no more central line and no more g-tube, an no more NOTHING! It feels really great!! She's eating by mouth and doing great. She's receiving some PT and Early Intervention and she has shown a lot of progress these last couple of months. Our only little problem with her right now is that she has lazy eyes due to an ROP surgery when she was in the NICU. Her vision is good though so there's no need for glasses. Right now we're just patching her better eye so that her lazy will make an effort to stay straight. Her ophthalmologist recommended surgery for her in January to fix the lazy eyes and we are quite happy about that. He says that the problem should be fixed and he has no major concerns. Yay!! :-) Overall she's very healthy and we're blessed to have her here with us today. She also has two teeth and loves bitting into everything. lol

So now let's talk about little Hector. He was our main concern developmentally because his legs were a bit stiff and the pediatrician was having some doubts about possible mild CP in his legs. Well let me just say that he's now crawling and almost got sitting down! The physical therapy has really helped and he's doing great! Our main concern with Hector right now is his hearing. Hector was diagnosed with hearing loss after failing all his hearing test. He had ear tubes placed last April and they found out his problem is a nerve that didn't fully develop... probably from his prematurity. He's been wearing hearing aids, and although there are times when we think he can hear us, we still have our doubts. We took him to see a cochlear implant specialist this month and he sent him to do some preliminary testing to make sure his ear anatomy is normal. They did and MRI and CT Scan and so we're waiting on those results. If all is well then he qualifies for the implant. The specialist has his office in Jacksonville and only comes once a month to Nemours to see his patients. So we will have to go to Jacksonville for his pre-op testings and the surgery. They want Hector to have some Speech Therapy for at least 2-3 months before we take him up for surgery. They want to make sure that his hearing loss is profound before they go ahead and perform a cochlear implant. We are really excited about the implant because after making a lot of research on it, we learned that a lot of babies that have a cochlear implant go on to having normal lives and talking. We really want that for little Hector and we're hopeful that he will be one of those children that succeed!

On to Melody... Oh Melody, Melody, Melody!! She's definitely the leader of the bunch. Melody is doing absolutely great. She's sitting, crawling, walking holding on to things, and just thriving! She's very curious and quite the funny character. We know that she will be the one pushing her siblings to catch up and thrive along with her! Because she's the leader of the group, she also has the attitude to go along with it... lol She's very observant and will stare at you without blinking for a long time. She puts everything in her mouth and she's very energetic. She also got her first tooth coming out... so that might be the reason for her putting everything in her mouth. lol She's very healthy and doing great! We're truly blessed!

Well that's all in a nut shell... I know this is a long blog, but it's been forever since my last blog so I had a lot to update! :-) Hopefully I will be blogging a little more now that the babies have gotten bigger and have way less things to worry about now than before. Hope all of you have a great Thanksgiving! Until next time... :-)

Oh and I will leave you with some recent pictures of them... :-) Enjoy!