The Salvateenies: 15 Weeks

In case you missed it last post, we weighed the babies yesterday and they are all in the 11-12 pound range. Daniel is the only one who is probably above the 5th percentile in weight (12lbs 11oz), but Max (12lbs 5oz) and Caroline (11lbs 4oz) are showing steady growth as well. Considering they were all under 5 pounds at birth, they have grown about a half a pound a week, which is right on target!

Highlights of Week 15 have included Caroline's love affair with Tummy Time. She now rolls over at will and to either side. Today she was having a grand ol' time until she spit up on the mat and rolled her face around in it. Apparently it's not too much fun to get milk in your eyelashes. Poor Caroline. Max has also continued to roll himself over during Tummy Time. His newest trick is to screech at the top of his lungs until he is fed, at which point he will fall asleep nearly instantly with the bottle in his mouth. Needless to say, we are not necessarily fans of this stage. Daniel's highlights have been slightly different. He has taken to raising his little right hand to his head and resting it there, as if he's thinking deep thoughts. It is so adorable that we haven't wanted to disturb him with the flash by taking a picture, but trust me...so adorable. Tummy Time has not yielded any roll-overs for Daniel yet, which makes sense since he is the heaviest of the babies and thus has the most to push over. He tries mightily but just doesn't quite make it, which proves very frustrating to him. Today he compensated for this by displaying a different trick:

That's right, he is LICKING HIS BROTHER'S HEAD! And it's hard from the pictures to tell just how Max feels about it all (#2 and #4 are my favorite Max expressions - first shocked, then sort of amused). We've been seeing this week that the babies are just starting to notice each other - I guess this seals the deal! In fact, we were really glad for yesterday's visit from Baby Jenna, because we worried that Caroline would start to think that all babies looked like her brothers (which would stand to reason - if the only two other babies you saw were identical, wouldn't you assume they all looked like that? maybe she thought SHE looked like that too!)

They were so happy during play time that I decided to take their 15 week old Myrtle pictures there:

They were in a good mood because they'd taken a good afternoon nap, perhaps tired out by their visit from the Evans family. This time, Quynn got to hold all the babies. And Ian didn't seem quite as bored as he was the first time they visited.