MBA Mission Complete!

Tomorrow marks a HUGE milestone for our family.  Kristen finishes her MBA from Indiana University-Bloomington Kelley School of Business!!!  This is an amazing accomplishment in and of itself, but that she persevered in this program and remained with her cohort while we had 3 babies in critical condition is absolutely incredible.  (She certainly had a ton of help from her classmates.)  On top of all that, Kristen works about 50-60 hours a week, too.  I just don't know how she does it!  So, Kristen presents her capstone project today to the IU faculty first and then to the top 300 execs at Ingersol Rand.  Then, ahhh... Then, she and we will have the weekends back.  Praise the Lord!

 

 Luke with Gma working on standing

 Ella driving a car that is also a piano.  Such a magical toy!

Ella taunting the dogs.  A favorite pasttime of both Ella and Will. 

So these triplets are busy these days.  Ella is crawling and pulling up to a stand.  She can entertain herself for longer periods of time now by simply inspecting a toy at length.  She is a vocal baby who does lots of screeching and lately says, "Bababababa!" over and over again.  

Will is a maniac.  That kid is on the go.  He Army crawls 100mph and goes all over the house.  He wants to get into everything.  It's out of control.  He is so bored with being cooped up this winter.  We'll all be happier when it gets warmer, and Will can socialize outside of the house everyday.  Will is in such constant motion that he can't be still long enough to develop sitting. We're working on it, but we're not worried about it.  

Luke is doing GREAT!  We're so impressed with him!  He is now rolling from his tummy to his back.  He reaches for toys, takes bottles much more efficiently than he used to, and is opening his mouth to take in solids!!  When he looks at you, he's fully engaged in that unspoken communication.  He's smiling, laughing, and expressing himself.  We're working on reaching across mid-line for toys and sitting.  Luke gets OT and PT once a week for one hour each.  He does stretches and core exercises every day.  The best news of all is that Luke's seizures have been controlled with trileptal since September!  We did go to the Cleveland Clinic back in October, and they confirmed he was doing too well to need brain surgery at this time.