Outing to the Pediatrician!

We took all four babies to the Pediatrician on Friday. The visit originally was for Audrey and Oliver's post-hospitalization follow-up visit, but we decided to take Melanie just to weigh her, and since we were taking three, opted to take all four with two parents rather than send one person out with three and leave one person home with one. We wanted Melly's weight because I was pretty sure she was over 5lbs, and that meant that we could ditch the clunky car seat that the hospital gave us and use the more narrow and user-friendly one that we purchased for the babies.


The visit went very well. No shots (always a plus). The doc said the babies look great, and everyone is over 5lbs (we stuck Teddy on the scale for a quick "unofficial" weight) and swiftly approaching 6lbs. Their weights, in descending order:

• Teddy - 5lbs, 15oz


• Melanie - 5lbs, 14oz


• Oliver - 5lbs, 9oz


• Audrey - 5lbs, 7oz

Teddy is still on top, but just by a smidge. Melanie put on a full pound in 10 days! If Teddy doesn't start eating as well as Melly does (she can down formula like a frat boy drinking Natty) she will outweigh him before the week is out! Audrey is also quite a good eater, and puts Ollie to shame. Both boys are at risk of being squashed by the girls!

It was a huge workout getting all four in and out of the van. Jim was huffing and puffing by the time he got all of the kiddos in. It will be a lot easier now that everyone is out of the hospital car seats, though, because the hospital car seats don't have an installed base that you can just lock them into, you have to thread the seat belt through them every time you take the kiddo out of the car, and since Jim is a safety zealot and works up a sweat making sure each car seat is TIGHTLY in place, getting them in and out with the hospital seats takes a lot of time and effort.

We also created quite a spectacle entering and leaving the office. Our pediatrician's office is located on the 5th floor of a medical building that is adjoining the hospital, so we saw lots of people coming and going. Since they are still fairly small, we just stacked them up two-by-two in our larger, single stroller. They fit quite nicely, and it was easier than trying to squeeze our honkin' quad stroller through small doorways. They were quite cute all bundled in there, and we got lots of smile and second takes. One lady saw the two kiddos in the front and said to me, "Oh, twins, boys? girls? or both?" I said, "Two of each." She paused, and then looked in the stroller..."OH! FOUR!" She grabbed me in a big hug and said, "GOD BLESS YOU!"

Yep, that's right, we are very blessed. We are so happy to have our for healthy little babies at home. They are definitely a challenge, and exhausting, but I'm so glad to have them!