Family and Friends time! Come on down and you too can have triplet...

Over the last 2 months we have had an incredible number of helpful visitors (about 2-4 visitors a day have been super and needed).  Family and friends from near and far have come to help us keep the triplet household functioning!  If these pictures inspire- you too can come and hold babies, feed babies, wash bottles (30 a day), change diapers (30 a day), help with perpetual laundry and burp cloths (at least 40 a day). 

Wanting to put triplet time on your calendar?
Just call/text us or click this link : http://vols.pt/NtWd7a to sign up for Food and/or Household for Triplets (recently updated)! If you live near- or even happen to have a layover flight in Atlanta or want to come stay at our neighbors guesthouse-  you'll be welcome (anytime day or night but dinner time evening visits and midday visits are VERY helpful).

 Laura and Hannah with Peggy in her "Hatched by 2 chicks" onsie!

 Laura and Grampy dad Wayne on his visit- having Swedish pickled herring...

 Our first family story hour and tummy times together with the Norlin grandparents.

 Nana Jana with John and Peggy...

 Time with Godparent Lewis (who comes over often for long shifts of baby care) and Godmother Roanna with Nana Jana having a summer brunch on our deck... Come over and you too can enjoy such feasting and baby fun!

Laura's Cool Aunt Kim being incredibly helpful on her layover flight visit from Indiana.

 Laura says oooh with Charlie after visiting with counselor friend Beth-Ann (who captured the moment for us).

 Our wonderfully helpful doula childcare houshold helper extraordinaire Friend Becca who's here Tuesdays and Thursdays to show you how to be helpful with chores!

 Sally took this picture after she and her daughter Elizabeth (pictured) came over with lunch and helpful hands one day!

 Laura with Charlie and Peggy!

 In the swing is where it is at...

 Peggy's God mother Roanna with the three beautiful babies.

 Laura with Roanna, her closest friend since birth, who spent 2 weeks full time helping all the way from California.  Thanks Ro!

 Hannah and the boys...and the boys doing tummy time exercises...or napping instead...

 Peggy and John doing their power to the people move!

 Mark and Mary Linda all the way from Nashville Friends.

 Hannah's "Quaker God parent" and "Quaker Goddess momma" Daryl and Sara at their land trust eco community and solar home in Alabama.  The babies 1st road trip...

Special Friends Chris and Sadie showing off a colorful wedding quilt to Charlie.

Family time!

Hannah is about to finish her family leave time and return to work.  Here are some images of our family from the last month!  This post has us and the babies at our homemade photo shoots, and the next post will be about our family and friends helpful visits!  

Adoption day for Hannah to legally become the second parent to our babies!

Hannah's second parent adoption was today!  Because there are still so many states, including Georgia, that don't recognize our marriage, Hannah had to adopt the babies in order to be a legal parent to them.  We are glad to live in a county where this process is not only possible but also relatively easy.  The final hearing for the children's second parent adoption was today, Thursday, August 21st at 9:00AM with our fabulous lawyer Barbara E. Katz.  Hannah is now the legal parent to the triplets with Laura.  Fees for the adoption were raised by our community in full.  Our children's adoption by Hannah was celebrated and witnessed by friends Sadie Forsythe, Chris Pifer, Roanna Cooper and Lewis Fuller.  Friends from our care committee Georgia Lord and Lynn Leuzler put on a congratulation brunch for us at their home. We are very overjoyed to be co-parents to these babies and very much blessed to have our community to lift us up as our journey continues!  

Our week of firsts...Home with our babies and out in our community!

We've entered our second week of being home with our babies and had many first already.  It was the first visit from Grandma Turtle, the first out of the hospital time with Nana Jana and Grampy Wayne, our first tummy time play on the floor, our first home sensory experiences of everyday life from cooking to nature.  We had our first visit to the Atlanta Friends Meeting for worship where our children were greeted by a loving and enthusiastic crowd after silent worship with impressively calm and peaceful babies!  The first doctor's visit with all three babies and first shots happened this week also.   Here is how well we are growing-  Peggy 7 pounds and 6 ounces,  John 7 pounds and 13 ounces, and Charlie 8 pounds and 7 ounces.  All babies are 20 inches long!

Pics below of some of our favorite first few days with all three babies home, followed by some photos of our first moments out of the house together in our community.

 At our first meeting for worship being welcomed into our community, held in the Light by all, and held in the arms of our moms and John's Quaker Godfather Lewis.

 Here are the three orchids Hannah helped to flower- interestingly with three flowers that began to open just after they were born and continue to be a symbol of the of the amazing creation before us!