Madelyn

Madelyn-

She has been doing great! She is the tallest of the quadruplets and she probably is the most advanced in speech. She is starting to talk about going potty. We have tried a few times with potty training but she wasnt too into it. Since she is in preschool, we are going to try and potty train her during spring break so that she can have consistency over that whole week! Mon. Wed. and Fri. Shis is home with Dahlia and Liana so it has been fun to spend more time with her with less kids at home. She is learning to count and loves to say prayers at dinner time!

Here she is pushing Dahlia around in the stroller! Such a little mommy!

The Chaos That I Love

Last week was a really hard week for us. Dahlia was admitted into the hospital with pnuemonia. It all started on a Wednesday when Dahlia very first woke up, she threw up. She kinda was choking while throwing up but then she acted fine for the rest of the day. My kids all kind of have a week stomach (they get that from their dad) so I didnt think too much of it. Friday she started coughing and running a fever. She didnt have very much energy and just wanted to lay around all weekend long. We were able to keep her fever low and we were just thinking that maybe she had a flu bug. On Monday, she literally would not get up off of the couch and she didnt even want to walk.. Liana also began running a low grade fever with a cough so I told Trever I would take them both in to the after hours care when he got home from work.

I took them that evening and both had ear infections. They hooked Liana and Dahlia up to an oxygen saturation monitor. Liana was doing fine but the doctor thought she had RSV. Dahlia was not good at all. She was satting at 80! As you are reading this, you are most likely satting at 100. Doctors do not like to see anything below 95 for a normal healthy person. When the nurse saw this, she ran out of the room to grab the doctor. Without doing an actual swab, she diagnosed Dahlia with RSV as well. They hooked her up to oxygen machines and they rushed Dahlia in an ambulance to Dell Childrens.

When we got to the hospital, they did the actual test for RSV and it came up negative. But xrays showed her lungs were completely filled with fluid and diagnosed her with pnuemonia!!! They were very very worried and they admitted her into intermediate care (very serious). Long story short we were there for 3 days trying to delicately balance keeping Dahlia hydrated without overloading her with more fluid, getting the fluid out of her lungs, and also making sure all of this increased fluid wasnt putting more stress on her heart (remember she has a hole in her heart)

It was very very scary. We had a ton of friends and family covering the kiddos at home so that Trever or I could stay with Dahlia the whole time in the hospital. The children had a really hard time with Dahlia being away in the hospital and they were all very very worried about her. It was a really trying 3 days and poor Dahlia was really ready to be out of there... She finally was able to keep her oxygen saturations up on the 3rd day and was able to come home! Honestly, I thought we were going to be in there alot longer as her lungs looked terrible.

What all of this made me realize is that my day to day life is chaotic. Very very chaotic. 6 kids 4 and under is really really hard. There are very few minutes in the day for Trever and I just to sit. We spend all of our spare time cleaning. After this past week I realized that I really do love my chaos! By not being with my children at home, or my husband, or the thought of being without Dahlia made me realize that the chaos I live with is what defines me, its what I love and what keeps me going each and every day! I love each one of my kids so much and I feel so blessed for each and every one of their precious lives! My life is a daily challenge, one that I feel so proud I am able to accomplish each day!

Thank you for all the prayers we recieved for our children! I know they truly would not be here if they hadnt been blessed by those who have been praying for them!!

Eva was really really worried about Dahlia and had a really hard time at preschool. Her teacher sent this picture to us that Eva made:

Here is Dahlia getting ready to leave her room! She was sooooo excited to go home!

Happy Birthday Trever!

Mark and Julie
Justin and Jenny

Sheri and Matt

Trever and I on his Bday

Yep Trever turned 30 on January 14th and has the gray hair to prove it!

I am so proud of him and his accomplishments! He is such a great father and husband. We work so well together in our home and we are best friends! I threw a big 30th birthday bash for him and for some reason took only one pic of the night ugh! We had a full house of some amazing friends and we were never short of laughs! Luckily my really great friend Sheri threw a 30th birthday party at her house for her husband Matt that next weekend so I was able to get some pics there :)

Happy Birthday Baby Cakes :)

Our Christmas Sunday Best 2011

Liana

Madelyn

Dahlia

Eva

Preston

Parker

The King Family Christmas Day 2011

We had a wonderful Christmas this past year! My mom has moved down to Austin so we were able to spend it with her! The kiddos were visited by Santa and they sure were on the "good list" I just love how it fell on Sunday so that we could go to church and remember what Christmas is all about!

WE ARE 3!!!

The King Quadruplets!! We are 3!!!

Dahlia Colleen King

Birthday weighing in at 1 pound 11 ounces!!!

Look at me!! I am 3!!! -Dahlia

Parker Elden King

Birthday weighing 1 pound 10 ounces!!!

Look at me!! I am 3!!! -Parker

Preston Wayne King

Birthday weighing in at 1 pound 12 ounces

Look at me!! I am 3!!! -Preston

Madelyn Lila King

Birthday weighing 1 pound 9 ounces!!!

Look at me!! I am 3!!! -Madelyn




My sweet Little Miracles are 3! After all they went through to be in this world, I feel like I owe them so much! They were all born at 25 weeks.

We had a long long journey with lots of surgeries, infections, and life threatening scares but I am so glad we have 4 healthy toddlers getting into mischief, always wanting to be cuddled and progressing daily. They sure do keep us on our toes but we are loving every single minute of it!! Happy Birthday my amazingly sweet miracles!!!

Quick Recap and My New Year's Resolution

Ultra Quick Recap:

Halloween: Kids had a blast! Eva was a fairy, The Quads Wizard of Oz (Parker- lion, Preston- Tinman, Dahlia- Wicked Witch, Madelyn- Dorothy), and baby Liana was Minnie Mouse. We had fun, we went trick or treating and to the Ward Trunk or Treat.

Thanksgiving- We went to Grammy Jones and had some nice homecooked turkey and fixins!

Preschool has been going great! The boys now go MWF and the girls go T and Th. Eva goes everyday and they all love it! Its nice to only have 3 kiddos at home during the day as I am able to take them out and do "normal" mommy stuff like grocery shop or playdates :) They just had their Christmas program so that was so much fun!

For my New Years Resolution--- So besides all of the normal stuff that never happens like losing weight etc lol, My blog is my main focus for 2012! I am sooo bad at it and I aspire to be more like my good friend Holly and make posts more often. Maybe I can actually make a journal book of sorts to be able to print out at the end of next year like she does. My problem is that I am really weird about needing to keep everything equal between all of my kids. So if I have a post about Parker and Preston, I feel like I HAVE to post something about Madelyn and Dahlia or all of the kids for that matter. I know, its weird... So I am letting that go! So bear with me if I cant post pics of all 6 of my children every post :) Also, I do not know why but the simple thought of having to pull out my camera bag and download pictures and wait for them to post exhausts me too! So I am getting over that and I make a promise to crack down and get the blog going again!

Love you all and thanks for bearing with our busy family!!

Preschool fun!

I wanted to post a quick post as I just got a bunch of pics of Eva at Preschool! I have loved watching my 5 oldest children grow by leaps and bounds since they have started. They all love going to school and they are growing in all areas! Eva can now write her name by herself :) Here are some pics I got from Eva's teacher:

Donuts with Dad Day

Her fireman hat. I love this face lol

Lunch time!

I love this little girl!

Her whole class