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Well, we made it! I cant believe how fast it went…I can actually look back and say i miss it. I never thought I would say that, but I do. WOW that was a very hard road, but they are healthy and beautiful. We are so blessed! Thank you to everyone who helped us through the girls first year of life. I am counting down the time that they were actually born.

Alyssa Lynn Mann first to be born at 10:34pm at 3lbs 13oz

Katie Sue Mann second to be born at 10:36pm at 3lbs 1oz

Emma Elizabeth Mann was third to be born at 10:39 at 3lbs 10oz

All born today July 9th of last year 2007

Very happy and healthy girls. And have a Big Sister who loves them so much, Lilly Kate. I am anxiously awaiting tomorrow for my cousin Lori and her two beautiful kids to come to my busy house for the weekend…I cant wait! HURRY UP! And also for the girls birthday party at Aunt Elayne’s House! See you there!

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Looking at the last post can you tell who daddy’s favorite is?  Its always been Emma.  He named her so I think that makes it even better.  I love them all the same.  But I cant believe how they are changing so much.  They are all crawling now and waiting to start walking.  They love standing unassisted and walk around in their walkers and around furniture.  I’m having a hard enough time keeping up with them, i don’t know what kind of trouble they will get into when all four are walking.  One more obstacle we are looking forward to.

Their 1st Birthday is coming up so quickly too…I cant believe in 5 days they will be one!  I remember being in my hospital room watching the fireworks from my window.  I actually remember talking to my dad while watching them.  And how sore and tired I was.  Believe it or not, I miss being pregnant with them, it was a long hall, but worth all the pain.  We are so blessed with four beautiful, healthy girls.

I just cant believe they are almost one already, boy how does time fly.  Really, i don’t remember Lilly’s first birthday going this fast, but then again, she is three already!  Will time go triple fast for us?  It seems like it!  All I can say is we are so blessed!  I cant wait for their party.  Cant wait to see you there!

Goodnight for now.  I have been so busy I have had no time to get on here and update you…Hopefully can make time!  And FAMILY when you read this please leave some comments!

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We are going to aunt Elayne’s house this weekend- The girls can’t wait to leave !

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(Kerry Here)

The triplets fell asleep before 8pm tonight ! With all my recent freedom I have been spending my time working on baby countdown timer widgets (currently have 1132 installs!) and tonight I finished a Wordpress plugin. My first not so crappy one anyways.. It allows users to input the URL of a google spreadsheet - and then the spreadsheet will appear on an admin page within the users wordpress site. It can be used to monitor a shared google spreadsheet- good for to-do list, a place to brainstorm blog post ideas etc..

Title: Display Google Spreadsheet

Description: Creates an admin page which displays a google spreadsheet. Allows you to input a google spreadhseet URL. Your google spreadhseet will display within an admin page of your Wordpress website. Great for To-Do lists, to brainstorm blog ideas, etc…

Installation:

1. Unzip folder


2. Upload `google_doc_wp_plugin.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory


3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress


4. In your admin go to Settings –> Google Doc Setting


5. Input your google spreadhseet published location

Download: Google_Spreadsheet_WP_Plugin.zip

Screenshot: Click to Enlarge

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Slept all night for a week anyways.(Kerry Here) Two blog posts in one night? How is that possible? The triplets are sleeping !!!

It only took 305 nights without a full nights sleep ! (not that we are counting)- That is an actual number - for Jenell anyways- she has literally been up every night at least a few times for the last 305 nights. Except for some nights at Aunt Elayne’s. Thank god for aunt Elayne and others. The girls were in the hospital for 30 days- if you do the math - they are almost 1 year old already.

Their birthday will be a celebration for all three girls AND a celebration for us making it through the first year. The girls are healthy and happy -it’s amazing how much they have grown… and we survived too! We are happy they are doing so well , and excited that they are sleeping all night.

Now for the diaper tally… Including Lilly (who was in diapers most of the time- but almost 100% potty trained now) … wait for it… wait for it. Triplets and 2-3 year old diapers for one year:

6500 Diapers… 2-3 tons maybe! (fully loaded)

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Luckily our house is up high and far enough away from the Rock River- or we could be worrying about a lot more than a blocked a driveway.

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Thanks Aunt Mary for the images ! and thanks for watching the girls. Thanks Elayne and Mom for watching the girls as well - this weekend. It was a nice break !

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(Kerry here)

Last week I posted about a baby countdown timer I created in flash. In the last week my baby countdown timer widget thingy has really taken off. At the time I am writing this it has over 10,000 views and 366 people have installed it on their blog or website. All in about a week !

Its been cool to watch. As people put the widget on their blog others see it and put it on their blog and the rate of installs constantly increases. I just noticed this morning my widget made the front page of Widgetbox.com (as wel as Emma’s face !) see below.   I don’t have much time to putz with this- I created it while carpooling to work… I hope to spend some time on a new one shortly..

The downfall with widgetbox is the links are hidden from google in an iframe- so I added a button to send users back to my site to get my install code- where the links are not hidden from google. Trying to increase ranking for a new site we have that features info and news about free baby samples.

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The girls (all 5 of them!) are visiting Grandma and Grandpa. Apparently I am not capable of seperating myself from babies- While “Bach’in” I completed this baby countdown widget in flash. It was pretty tricky but I learndteded alot figuring it all out.

I don’t plan to use it myself- but hopefully someone out there will. It does not predict triplets.

Just select a date (one time) and copy the code - paste it into your blog. It will countdown automatically and self destruct when your due date is reached. Below just generates the code- paste the code into your blog to see what it looks like based on your due date.

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