First Day of Spring and Houston Fertility Institute "Baby Shower"

Well, today was the first day of spring!!! And we wore our spring outfits for church. The girls absolutely LOVE dressing up! Every time you put Mollie in a dress, she immediately starts spinning around (or what we call "twirling") and Elise just smiles and does a little "curtsy" to me and Daddy. Preston walks around so proud and says, "Orange shirt, orange shirt!" Just like his Daddy, he loves to look crisp and well dressed. And all three love shoes (I'm thinking they get it from their Aunt Courtney!) They would walk around in nothing but a diaper.....and shoes if they could! Preston can't wait to grow into his new shoes that Aunt Courtney and Uncle Reed bought him. The girls are delighted every time Brooke, their cousin, has more shoes to hand down to them. Later in the day, we went to the annual "Baby Shower" held for all the patients of the Houston Fertility Institute. It's so neat to see all the babies born from the use of fertility treatments. Although ALL babies are miracles.....I call these extraordinary miracle babies!! And the multiples are always a blessing to watch! Last year there were about 8 sets of triplets and at least a dozen set of twins.

We had so much fun at the petting zoo! Mollie walked up to EVERY animal and started petting them. She is fearless!!! She is unaware of any danger around her. Bronson and I had to watch her very closely. I think her favorite was the Llama. She was amazed at the long neck and thick, fuzzy fur.

Elise was a little more reluctant to go up to the animals. However, she loved the chickens! She would ruffle their feathers (surprise) and tried to hold them. Apparently they were used to being handled by humans because they were very forgiving of all the children and didn't peck once. Elise sat down and spent most of her time oohing and aahing over them.

Preston was not into the animals at all! Daddy held him most of the time. He did pet the rabbit...probably because it was the most non-threatening thing there. He was okay with the goats, but was scared to death of the Llama. Mollie tried to get him to pet it. It reminded me of my brother, Jason and I, with dogs. Jason was scared of big dogs, but I was fearless. I always tried to get him to go up to them (sorry to use you like this Jason!).

All in all, it was a great time had by all. Our doctor was there and was pleased to see how nicely the kids have grown. And like every year so far, he joked with us saying now that my system has been "jump-started", watch out for baby #4. I don't think so!