Technical Difficulties!

My apologies for the large picture at the top of the blog, for some reason the blog program is making it VERY large! I am working on how to get it to a reasonable size. This is the babies Easter 2010 picture that Katie took of the babies. Good stuff!

Everyone here is doing well, growing and developing nicely! Have a wonderful Easter!

Love,

Todd, Katie, Claire, Drew and Matt

3 Sick Babies = Not So Fun!

Well, we had another first around the house this week! Three sick babies with the stomach virus. Katie and Claire got it first on Wednesday afternoon, then Drew and Matt got it right away. Claire had a doctor's appointment downtown Dallas to look at her eye and her eyesight due to the hemangianoma (sp?) on her eye lid. The good news is that her eye sight in both eyes is considered in the "good" range, her right eye is a little behind her left but we are going to watch her eyesight very closely in the coming months.

Katie barely made it home with Claire and I was already on the phone with the pediatrician and they wanted all the babies in the office ASAP. Shannel and I loaded Matt and Drew up in the truck and took them all to the Dr. We had a MESS literally in the doctors office but fortunately all three babies tested NEGATIVE for the flu and just had the virus. Needless to say we have had some pretty sick babies over the past couple of days. It was only a 24hr. bug thank goodness. I came down with it on Friday morning at about 4am and it really just took me down bigtime. I can't remember the last time I have felt that horrible, wicked stuff!

As of Sunday night, Matt is pretty much back to being the crazy, wacky, nutty baby that he is! He is eating better and not throwing up. Claire is still having a little diareha (sp?), but she is not throwing up and she is taking a little more formula every feed. Drewwas the sickest of them all and he is still feeling a tad wonky I think. Today he finally was able to keep formula down, the poor boy was living on Pedialite for the past three days and was hungry as heck! Let's hope and pray that we are on the downside of this bug!

Other than this little setback everyone is doing well! Claire and Matt are sitting up really good and Drew is getting there. They are all eating and taking solid baby food along with the formula real well too. Katie is doing her normal WONDERFUL job being the BEST mommy possible to these babies, the babies and I are so lucky to have her as their mommy, WOW! They better realize that someday!

We are really looking forward to another trip to Mason and to the ranch for Easter! Time is going so fast, is Easter really just three weeks away!? I think we are ready for another trip out of town, I hope! We are saving up for a minivan, my goal is to have it in the garage by the beginning of summer. Good stuff.

The Messerle crew hopes that the entry of this blog finds everyone healthy, happy and blessed! Spring is around the corner, we are so ready to smell the fresh air, green grass and warm weather that it is going to bring! Be well!

God speed.

Todd, Katie, Drew, Matt and Claire