Comparison Pics!!

Ok I have been ask by a few of my online friends to see pics of what I looked like when I delivered twins and what I looked like when I delivered quads! So here you go.

37 weeks with Brent and Bradley

Every inch of me was swollen from head to toe. My feet were so swollen I could not wear shoes. I remeber going to the hospital in a pair of flip flops of my sisters and they would not go on my feet but part way.

And this is me at 29 weeks on the way to the OR with the Quads. I was WAY bigger!! I did not know my stomach would ever stretch this big but apparently our bodies can do a lot more than we think it can.

Now I am in the mood for a few more comparison pics. I started looking at my online album and found this pic of Madyson. She was about 1 1/2 in this pic. What a little angel or should we say "DIVA" she loved these overalls and sunglasses. She actually still has the overalls and will not let me get rid of them. I am going to have to sneak them out while she is at school, and that is on my list. Cleaning closets.

Somethings Never Change!! She is still our "little diva" and still likes to wear sunglasses.

Happy Labor Day

Happy Labor Day! I hope everyone is having a wonderful day. We went to Hawaiian Falls today and this is how it all went down!!

I have always thought Miles would be my adventurous child. All summer long he has been going to the water park and having a blast in the kiddie area. He is not afraid of any of the slides in there and will play for hours. On his birthday he adventured out more and road the "big kid" rides, granted there is not many but he still road them. All week long he has been asking me to go to Hawaiian Falls, he wanted to go there instead of school one day!!LOL!! So today the last day they are opened, we went and he had a blast along with the other kids.

Brent and Bradley are at the age they really don't want to hang out with mom so they took off with their cousin Abby and Abby's cousin Drake. So that left Miles, Papa, and me to ride the "big kid" rides. We started out on the slides that everyone could ride just outside the kiddie area. This was the first time I had been on these slides so I figured they where not much to worry about since any size child could ride them. It started out with my dad going down so he could be at the end when all the kids came down. Well he got stuck going down so I figured ok, this is more for the little guys. Next all the kids went down and they went down slow. When it was my turn, I literally flew down that slide. When I got to the end my dad said I came down the fastest. Well that would be my first and last time on the slide it scared me to death. I would have thought Madyson would have gone the fastest but I was wrong.

After that we took off to the wave pool for some more adventure!! Marshall was jumping in the waves and going underwater like a little fish. He has become very adventurous in the water the past few weeks and has showed a big interest in diving off the side and swimming to one of us. So today was no different, except he was jumping belly and face first into the water. The kid can do some major belly flops!LOL! I wish I would have had a water camera with me. Just imagine a little boy his size doing belly flops and you will just laugh thinking about it. Madyson had fun in the wave pool until the waves started crashing against her inner tube at that point she decided she would just watch from the side. The waves where no challenge to Miles he kept trying to go further into the water. Marshall started jumping the waves and then jumping into the waves face down. It was hilarious.

After that we decided to go ride "the toilet" or the correct name would be "Blow Hole Bowl" but the kids renamed it "the toilet" Gotta give them an "A" for that because it does look like a toilet bowl when standing at the top looking down. Miles road with me and Brent road with Papa, that left Abby to ride by themselves. We all had a competition to see who could go around the longest. Miles and I went around 1 complete time then got flushed down on our second round. We went down backwards and Miles laughed all the way down. Abby went around 2 times and then Brent and Papa won the reward they went around a full 4 TIMES! I think that is a record!! Anyway we all had a blast. After that it was time for a break and to each some lunch. While eating lunch all the kids keep going back and forth to the slide we started out with. Now I am pretty sure Miles was cutting because he managed to make it down faster than anyone else. I finally ask him and he told me "YES" like it was no big deal so we had a talk about waiting our term and not cutting in line in front of someone else.

Finally we where off to the "orange slide" that Miles had been begging me to ride. He would have been happy with just riding that because he had Mommy to ride with him. Him and I went down the orange slide and we both laughed all the way down. After that adventure it was time to get everyone together and leave. That was fun because as soon as I would have 4 one would leave to go find the other and then someone else would return. I finally told the 4 to stand still and the 5 would eventually come back. I think it was all a trick just to go ride one more ride!!LOL!! I have to give it to them they are all smart.

They will probably get one more chance to go to the park in a few weeks. Our school district is having a school Olympics there for elementary and intermediate students so we are going to try and go to that. That should be fun.

We are now resting and going swimming at the pool when Andrew gets home. Well at least the kids and Andrew are going. I think I might stay home and enjoy the peace and quiet for a short period of time.

5 Year Well Checks

WOW! Time has gone by fast. Yesterday we had our 5 year old well check appointments. 5 years ago we where all still in the hospital facing another 4 weeks before the boys came home and other 7 weeks before Ms. Priss decided to finally join us.

Let's start with Madyson.


At birth she weighed 1lb. 14 oz. and was 12 1/2 inches long. So imagine a ruler and she was a 1/2 inch longer than the ruler. That is small, you could hold her in your hand and when you looked at her compared to her daddy's hand she just seemed so tiny. Her hands where small but she had what seemed to be long skinny legs. All though she may still seem small she is actually not the smallest in her class!! Can you believe that? We are finally not the smallest. Ok her goes her stats as of yesterday. She finally weighs 30lbs. YIPEE!! We have waited for that moment for a LONG time. She is 39" tall and if she continues to grow on the current curve she is on she will be 5 feet tall and 100 lbs. Can you say PETITE!! And here is even BIGGER NEWS!! SHE IS FINALLY ON THE GROWTH CHART!!! YIPEE!! For 5 years she has not been on the growth chart and FINALLY we hit a milestone! Ok enough of my enthusiasm. But I am one happy mom. Finally she passed her eye and hearing test with flying colors. One funny note, while doing the hearing test Nurse Marsha told her to raise her hand every time she heard the beep. After the third time, Nurse Marsha ask her if she heard it again and Madyson looked at her and said " I have alread done it three times" We both just started laughing and her hearing test came to an end. She is such a prissy thing. Even her teacher told me that yesterday. Andrew says I have created a monster. I say I have created the Prissiest Girl ever!! She likes anything that has to with girls, especially Prissy girls!! Madyson will also be seeing a therapist because she is pulling her hair out. Yes, she has pulled all of it out from the back and is working on the front. Before long she will be completely hairless. She is big time into covering it up and wants to wear hats every where we go. Thus the increased focus on hats and other accessories.

Now onto Miles!!


At birth, he weighed 2lbs. 14oz. and was 14 1/2 inches long. He was the longest and weighed the most. And has been that way every since birth. He is going to be on tall kiddo. The doctor told me yesterday that if he where to stop climbing on the growth chart, which is not going to happen, he would be at least 5' 10" tall when he stops growing. But over the past year he has made some leaps and bounds on the growth chart and has made it to the 50th percentile for height. Now I know that may not be much to some of you. But I have never had a child in the 50th percentile for height. So I was SUPER excited. I knew he was getting tall but I had no idea he had grown so much over the last year. He went from the 30th percentile to the 50th. Ok so here are his stats. He officially weighs 36lbs. and is 42 1/2 inches tall. He did not pass his eye test so we will be seeing the eye doctor sooner rather than later. We still see the eye doctor once a year for being preemies and we are scheduled to see him in October but we will be seeing him in September now. I will let you know how that goes.



Before I move onto Marshall does anyone know what birth order I did??


It is REVERSE BIRTH ORDER!!


Madyson was "baby D", Mckenzie "was Baby C", Miles was "baby B", and Marshall was "baby A". Everyone always thinks Miles was "baby A" because he is bigger, but no he was "b", I remember his birth by laughter from all the nurses and Dr. Tabor. Miles made sure his plumbing worked. And as I learned on Thursday afternoon his plumbing still works. You will ALL find this funny. I picked them up from school by parking the car on the street that goes to our house then walking to the school because I was running late and did not have time to get across the street and walk back. Anyway, after I picked them up we got in the van and came home. I was trying to unlock the door and I hear Bradley and Brent laughing and yelling at me to turn around. I turned around to find Miles and Marshall water my grass with their "PLUMBING" Miles had his pants dropped to his ankles while Marshall just had it pulled out. To make matters worse they were not facing the house they were both facing the street so that anyone who drove by could see them. I was so embarrassed. I am sure my face was blood red. But as my doctor said yesterday "BOYS WILL BE BOYS" And I have 4 so I should be blessed that I have never seem Brent and Bradley do it. I am sure they have just not in front of me.



And Finally Marshall!!


He weighed 2lbs 10 oz. at birth and was 14 inches long. We always called him "our little old man" because he still had a ton of soft white hair all over his body. He did not liked to be messed with. I remember nurse Courtney always suctioning Marshall out while he was on the C-Pap. I would come in to that boy screaming at the top of his little lungs. And yes, he could scream loud. Nothing compared to his sisters whom you could hear all over the NICU, but he still had a loud cry. Marshall is not going to be much taller than Madyson. POOR BOY! Boys are not suppose to be this small if he continues on the same growth pattern he will be 5'5" and 125lbs. Now he has falling slightly off the growth curve so our doctor wants him to see the endocrinologist again and make sure nothing is going on. Madyson already seems him so he is just going to go when Mady goes in a few weeks. She thinks he may want to put him on growth hormones as well. If so it is no biggie. We already have Madyson on them and look what it has done for her. Marshall weighs 32lbs. and is 39 1/4 inches. Maybe next year he will be able to ride all the water slides. Miles is the only one who currently can and he loves it. He rides everyone of the slides and laughs all the way down. That doesn't surprise me since he has that dare devil look in his eyes. Madyson and Marshall love the kiddie area but are scared to go down in other slides. That again is not surprise they have always been that way. Besides going to the endocrinologist Marshall is in excellent condition and had no other problems.


Brent and Bradley go for their 9 year well checks next Friday so I will update you all then on their check ups. Have a good weekend!!

We Made it Through the First Week of School!!

Our first week of school is over and we all made it!!! Including Mom and Dad!! The afternoons after school proved to be hectic. They all came home HYPER you would have thought they had eaten a ton of sugar. But by about 7 the little ones went to sleep without any problems. This is what they looked like at night!! Oh how we love these moments. Nice and quiet and everyone fast asleep!!

Marshall is on the left and Miles is the one with his bottom up in the air! As far as their sheets. Well Marshall decided he needed to pull them off instead of sleep on them. And I was not waking them up to put the sheets back on.

After seeing the boys fast asleep and so cute.I decided to try and sneek into the princesses room and see what I saw. Now opening up her door you have to be very careful because she wakes up to the slightest sound.

What a sweet little angel! She had put this hat on sometime after I put her to bed.

And this is what happened when the flash went off!!

Little stinker!!


Madyson's first day of dance. She would not let me take her picture without having my sunglasses on so here you go!! She also got a new dance bag that I made for her out of some ballerina fabric I had left over she was super excited because she got a new bag and new tap and ballet shoes.

The little guys have a color chart system for behavior. Green means they have been good all day. We have a deal, bribe whatever you want to call it, with Miles, Marshall and Madyson. If they come home with a green on their folder everyday for the next six weeks Miles and Marshall are going to get more pieces to thier Geo Trax system and Madyson is going to get a new hat(she is into accesorizing right now)LOL!! As far as Brent and Bradley if they do well the first six weeks of school on their report cards they will get to buy a new game for thier PSP2, which they bought with their money they got for thier birthday. They are smart boys! They put all their money together ,and even tried to get the little ones to go in on it, so they could get a PSP2 and the guitar hero game. Andrew and I pitched in a little so they could get both. So now I hear a guitar being played all the time. They are bot very good at it, and have told me I suck at it. Which I do but I don't want to hear my 9 year old tell me that so we had a talk about telling people they suck.

5 Little Ducklings!! I mean 5 little Turners!!

Well today while walking home from school with the kids, I had this vision of what we must look like coming across the cross walk. First off I am sure someone is looking at all of us and thinking she has twins and triplets. I always get that comment. Anyway, I looked at Bradley, Brent and Madyson who where in front of me and then Miles and Marshall where holding my hand and I just thought we must look like a mother duck with her ducklings crossing the street. Which reminding me of a song the kids like I think it is called 5 little ducklings or something like that. Another funny thing is how they call the kids when I get there to pick them up. I refuse to drive because it would take forever and the school is just behind our house so it makes more sense to walk plus it gives us all some exercise. What you have to do when you walk up to get them or drive is you have a sign with the kids name on it and the teacher name and grade. Well I got smart on that one I was not carrying 5 signs with me so I put all of them on one sign. Yesterday Mr. Skinner the assistant principal called them "The Turner Triplets" and "Turner Twins" and then rattled off their names and teachers. Now Madyson gave him a funny look and I though "oh no" she is going to say something to him about being a "quad" and not a triplet. But luckily we escaped that and she just walked on out to us. That is something we really have not talked about with them that people are going to call them triplets because they don't know or they just don't know what to call them. I just let people call them triplets because it is easier than trying to tell someone about Mckenzie or getting that I am sorry conversation going. Anyway, today when I went up he decided he was going to try and say all their names and teachers names, he gets an "A" because he rattled them off better then I can when I am trying to get their attention. Kuddos to him!! Now I just need to get his air horn to use at home. That is what would get their attention!!LOL!!

Today was also Madyson's first day back at dance. She was very excited. Last night at 5:30 I decided to try her shoes on her and found out the child had actually outgrown her tap and ballet shoes. Now that is a big deal for her because she can normally wear shoes for a while. She went from a 7 1/2 in tap to a 9. I about fell over. I will try and post a pic tomorrow of her in her "new" dance outfit that she just had to have. Andrew called me a sucker, but I know if he would have taken her she would have walked out of there with the leotard and the hair bun she was trying to get me to get her. I told her she could get that when she let her hair grown long. Our goal on that is to have longer hair by December so that when our Christmas dance performances come along she has enough hair to put in a bun and slicked back like all the other girls. We are working on it. Keep your fingers crossed that she stops pulling her hair out and starts letting it grow back. Well check appointments are Friday so I will definitely post that evening with our new stats. Madyson I think is finally taller than Marshall. They will never catch up to Miles! He just keeps getting taller and skinner every day. I think he is going to be the tallest of all 5 considering he comes up to Bradley and Brent's shoulders currently. That boy is just tall!!