It's been quite the week, I must say. We spent last Saturday evening in the emergency room to discover that Emilie has gallstones. She had a nasty gallstone attack, which she did not enjoy. We had assumed that she was having complications related to her c-section surgery, but this turned out not to be the case. At this point it appears that she may need to have surgery at some future point, but she needs to wait until she's a little better healed from the delivery.

Baby Bryce is doing well. So far he's been a good baby. We're still working on reversing his days and nights. He's still got a thick, luscious head of hair that all the other babies in the nursery would die to have. The fact that he has survived two weeks with his brothers is truly commendable. When he starts to cry he sounds like a whimpering puppy, though. We're working on manning-up his cry.

Jaxon is quite the daredevil. I blogged a bit ago about the twins' obsession with climbing on the kitchen chairs. Mason seems to be a "convenience" climber. If the chair is there and he wants something then he'll climb it. Jaxon, on the other hand, constantly climbs anything he can. He likes to climb on the couch and then stretch over to the end table, then to the other couch and then the recliner. He falls a lot, too, but it doesn't seem to deter him.

Mason is talking quite a bit. Most common words are "I stuck", "get down", "thank you" and his favorites "book" and "cracker". He absolutely loves reading books, much as Chase always has. You can guarantee that anytime you sit or kneel on the floor Mason will come walking up with a book and make himself comfortable on your lap.

Chase is in the I-can-do-everything-all-by-myself stage. This includes picking out clothes, getting dressed, brushing teeth, washing himself in the bath, etc. I put him down for a nap today and when I went back up to check on him he had taken his clothes off and put his pajamas on. The other day he got mad that I dressed him so he took his clothes off and put different clothes on, but inside-out and backwards.

Chase had his birthday on Monday and we had a small get-together. Chase declined to blow out the candles. This was the first year that he kind of understood that there was something special about his birthday and Christmas.

Enough for now - I'll continue in a separate post to make reading easier...