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Merry Christmas & Seasons Greetings 2009

2009 In Review

I haven't been able to post much on this blog as it's been such a whirlwind of a year. Here's an update on what's been happening with the boys this year.

Josh Ethan & Noah had a great year and we had a great summer with lots of activities. Our favourite things to do were playing in the backyard and hanging with their cousins. We even made it to the beach twice this past summer.

BEACH FUN

BACKYARD FUN

We enjoyed our first 4th of July fireworks celebration and soon after that the boys got the chicken pox...Ouch! It wasn't that bad, they had a mild case and they had cabin fever for 2 weeks...that wasn't fun for Mommy or the boys. We went to the 4H Fair and had lots of fun there.

NOAH & DAD AT THE JULY 4th TOWN FESTITIES

BELIEVE IT OR NOT...THEY HAVE THE CHICKEN POX HERE

AT THE LOCAL MULTIPLES GROUP SUMMER PICNIC

HANGING AROUND THE HOUSE

The boys had the good fortune of getting some speech therapy and developmental therapy for their speech delays. The specilists that were assigned to us were such nice ladies and really helped me with tips on how to deal with the boys. Now they are in preschool everyday and on track for being on par with their peers. They love school and I have to calm Josh down on the weekends as he's so upset that he's not going on the school bus on Saturdays and Sundays.

The boys turned 3 this year and we are all amazed how quickly they have grown.

PLAYING WITH BIRTHDAY GIFTS

HANGING WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS

HANNUKAH & CHRISTMAS TIME IS HERE...

It's been a great 2009 and we look forward to many memories and great adventures in 2010.

Maureen

Aunt Sharon comes to visit...

Aunt Sharon comes to visit the boys in June 2007. She had a fun time getting to know the boys, and as their perosnalities emerged she thought it would be fun to write a song about the boys called "The Triplet Rap."

I put some pictures from her visit in a digital scrapbook and made a slide of the scrapbook pages which I wanted to share. Hope you enjoy them. We certainly cherish the memories.

Lyrics to The Triplet Rap:

The Triplet Rap
By Sharon Daniels


My name is Joshua
I’m one of the boyz
I don’t like diapers, pacifiers or toyz
I like my food and I like to eat
And at night I like to sleep

My name is Ethan
I’m one of the boyz
And unlike Joshua I like toyz
I like my Mommy
And when I cry
I like my Mommy to dry my eye

My name is Noah
I’m one of the boyz
I hold my pacifier and I make noise
I go to sleep when it gets dark
And when I sleep I dream of an ark

Meet The Grandparents

Nothing is more fun and than having grandparents oogle, awwww, and fuzz at their grandkids. Here are some photos spending our first moments with Grandma & Grandpa Daniels and Grandma and Grandpa Randall.

I Love My Boys

Introducing The Daniels Triplets

Hello World! The Daniels Trio are here...

After 5 years of trying to become parents and 3 rounds of IVF treatments, we finally conceived 2, no 3 baby boys. We say it like that because at first we were told we were going to have twins, and then a week later the ultrasound said there was a third. So after getting over that shock we settled into a pregnancy which was not at all normal. After bouts with severe nausea and black-outs and restricted to a long bed rest, we finally gave birth to beautiful baby boys on October 27, 2006, at St. Peter’s University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ.

We did not know what we were in for. This was a new experience for us; there were three of them, and they were so small and fragile, and they had tubes in their noses, and wires and leads seemingly everywhere. The alarms would beep and our heads would snap back at the sound. The care that the NICU doctors and the nurses gave to our little guys was extraordinary – but no less amazing was how they cared for us. I’m sure the glazed looks in our eyes and the concern on our faces were not new to them, but their patience with our questions, our clumsiness, our tentativeness in the face of this daunting challenge made everything seem alright. They told us we would all be okay, that we’d get the hang of it, and we did.

Now over a year and a half later, with three healthy, active, noisy boys running around, when we think back to the five weeks that Joshua, Ethan and Noah spent in the NICU at St. Peters, its not the wires and tubes and concern that we remember – it’s the warmth and caring that envelops that special place, and the reassuring faces that always greeted us there.

Maureen & Howard Daniels
Proud Parents of Joshua, Ethan & Noah

Our family started with just the 2 of us...

Wedding Day ~ October 1997