26 week ultrasound pictures

Hello everyone!

Sorry we have been behind on updates. Here are the 26 week ultrasound pictures for everyone to enjoy. The babies are getting bigger so it is harder to get some good pictures but these are the four we have.

This is a picture of Lilah and Aina. It is a pretty good twin picture. At the time of this picture they were the opposite way so the picture shows one of them with their head and the other one is their belly.

This next picture is a picture of Baby A's face.


This one is a picture of Baby B's face.

Paige was lying on her belly for the ultrasound. Getting a face/profile picture was hard to do. Instead we have a cute little foot picture. Here is Paige's picture.

We hope that everyone is doing good. We would like to thank everyone for coming to our triplet shower. It was amazing how much love and support we felt that day. We are still working on organizing and putting stuff away from the shower.

We would also like to give a BIG thank you for the people who helped plan the wonderful shower. Thank you Julie (my sister), my mom Sandy, Max's mom Laurie, my cousin Brenda, our friends Jodie and Jacki. It was an amazing shower and all of the hard work that was put into the shower was beyond words. We will try to get some of the shower pictures up for people to look at.

Love you all,

Max, Rachel, Lilah, Paige, Aina, Bear and Bo

26 weeks and only 8 more weeks until July 1st

Hello!

We wanted to send out an update because we do know that people are waiting to find out news about the babies. Yes we have a couple of pictures and we will work on getting them uploaded pretty soon - we are also bringing the pictures to the shower so everyone can see the little girls!

The babies have grown. Baby A is breech and she weighs 2 pounds 2 ounces. Baby B has her little head down already and like her identical twin she weighs 2 pounds 2 ounce. Baby C figured out last weekend (by causing me a ton of pain) that she can spread out. She is right now stretched out laying on her belly in a horizontal position. Baby C (who we call Paige) now weighs 1 pound 11 ounces.

The ultrasound was really cute. Max's Aunt Ruth took part of the day off to come down and watch the ultrasound. We kept looking to see if we saw anyone of them sucking their thumbs. We thought we saw Baby B doing it but we couldn't be sure because of the position of the baby.

Our doctor is extremely happy over the health of the babies and Rachel's health. She is now working part-time and resting more and her health is showing the results. The babies are growing and developing like they should be and they are completely on track in development. So even though there are three of them, the pregnancy is coming along great!

We are still hoping that the babies at least wait until July 1st to make their appearance in the world or later. The longer the babies wait the healthier they will be.

We are really looking forward to seeing our family and friends this weekend at the shower. We hope you will be able to make to help celebrate with us!

We hope everything is well!

Love,

Max, Rachel, Lilah, Aina, and Paige also Bo and Bear

24 weeks and hopefully 10 more to go!

We are so excited to be at the 24 week milestone now. We are hoping that the babies still wait another ten weeks (or until July 1st) to arrive. Hopefully the babies are listening to us and will wait until then.

Rachel and her dad went to the doctor today for her 24 week check up. This was just a basic checkup with a bedside ultrasound so there are no pictures to share. The babies are doing great! All of the heartbeats are doing good and things are looking good for the babies.

Rachel who is getting larger because of the three babies has been told that she has to rest a little bit more than she has been. This means that she will be working from home part time now so she can relax more and take more naps! Right now it is very important that she stays relaxed and comfortable so the babies stay where they belong for hopefully 10 more weeks.

Max has been very busy keeping the house going. It is amazing on how he has stepped up to make sure Rachel stays on the couch and reclined. Besides doing the babies room (which is starting to look really nice now) he is also taking over all of the chores in the house. He has been such an amazing and big help in this time and it just goes to show you how great of a dad he will be with the little girls.

So basically we are in our countdown to meet the little ones. Hopefully they will wait as long as they possibly can for their arrival. We want them to be as healthy as they can be.

The baby shower is coming up on May 8th. If you have any questions about the shower please email us at mholm96@gmail.com. We are hoping that everyone will be able to come.

Love,

Max, Rachel, Lilah, Aina, Paige, Bo and Bear

Week 22 and babies have grown!

We are so excited to be on week 22. Today we had another ultrasound to see how the babies are growing. Sadly they were not that good picture takers today and since they are larger we were not able to get a picture of all three of them.

Baby A weighs 1 pound and 2 ounces. She right now is our largest baby. She is doing great but was really shy so you will not see her picture here.

Baby B weighs 1 pound. She has always been our most photogenic baby. We have two pictures of Baby B for everyone to see. She is doing great just like her identical twin sister.

Baby C now weighs 1 pound and 1 ounce. She is doing very well too. We were able to get a nice profile picture of Baby C.

Nana Holmquist was at the ultrasound today. She was very excited to see the three little girls move around. They were very cute even though they were not good for pictures today.\

Rachel is now going to be working from home full time now. This is not because of issues with the babies but so she is able to rest easier and relax more. She is now in the "third" trimester so the babies are bigger and cause more discomfort and pain while walking and sitting during the day.

There will be another ultrasound coming up again in a month. Hopefully the babies will take better pictures that time and we will have more pictures to post. We are still hoping that the babies will wait until July to make their grand appearance.

It was a great doctors appointment and it was so nice to see the little ones again on the screen moving around. We are so excited and so happy that our three little daughters are doing great! More news to come!!!

Love,

Max, Rachel, Lilah, Aina, and Paige (and we cannot forget about Bear and Bo)

20 Weeks and 1 Day along

We are now just over 20 weeks along. If we were having just one baby, we would be 1/2 way through our pregnancy.

So we had our 20 week doctor appointment today. Everything is going along great. The doctor said that Rachel is "All baby" and that was a great sign. The weight gain and the belly growth are all going along great. Now at 20 weeks a lot more of the restrictions start. Right now the doctor wants her to limit her walking completely. So now she will have to spend even more time on the couch.

Rachel started working from home a couple of days a week to help relax and to limit her walking. This schedule will continue for a little bit longer.

Now to the babies... We are so excited to see our little girls soon. Triplets average 32 weeks and we are hoping that they will stay in their home for a little while after that. 34 weeks right now is Rachel's goal - that is July 1st.

In two weeks we will have another big ultrasound. This will allow us to have even more pictures of them that we will be able to share.

Max is so excited about his little ones coming along. Rachel is convinced he is going through the sympathy pregnancy since he seems to have more strange food cravings than she is. He is busy getting the upstairs of the house ready for the babies arrival. He has made some great progress in decluttering the upstairs.

We hope that everyone is doing great! We hope to see you all soon with the triplets!

Love,

Max, Rachel, Aina, Lilah, and Paige
And of course our fat little dogs

Daddy's Little Girls: Lilah, Aina, and Paige

Babies galore! We are now having three girls. Our identical twins will be be named Lilah Sandra and Aina Ruth, our fraternal will be named Paige Laurie.

All babies are healthy and developing well. The ultrasound pictures have a variety of feet, heads, hands, legs, spines, and hearts. The identical are 9 ounces each and Paige is 8 ounces.
We will not be assigning the identical names until they are born. Rachel and I will just "know" who is who.

We are completely registered now (babiesrus.com and store, target.com and store, amazon.com)
thank the lord and the upstairs/nursery renovations are also going well. I think I will just have enough time to get everything done that needs to be done by the time babies come home.

On to the pictures!!!

Triplet A's feet!

Triplet B's profiles

Triplet B's right foot! This is soooooo cute!!!

Paige Laurie's big debut!!!

The Holmquist triplets, coming soon!!!

Save the Date

Save the Date...

We wanted to let everyone know that our Baby Shower for the Triplets is going to be on Saturday May 8th in the afternoon at our church's educational center. Invites will be coming.

We are registered at Target, Babies R Us and Amazon.

Now onto the important thing... the babies....

The babies are doing great. They are moving a lot now. We enjoy being able to feel them move. Hopefully this Friday (the 12th) the babies will be good and tell us if they are boys or girls or a mix a both (we are hoping for a mix of both). Grandpa Jim is going to come along to see the babies on the ultrasound.

Rachel is getting bigger and bigger everyday. She is grateful that the weather has turned warm since she cannot zip up her winter jacket anymore. It is amazing to see the changes that are going on.

In preparing for the babies Max has been working hard on getting the upstairs ready. He has been redoing the closet in the main bedroom so both of our clothes will be able to fit in that closet.

We did pick out the theme for the babies room. It sort of came upon us from registering. We were noticing that we liked a lot of the animal theme stuff so we are doing animals/safari. The room will be a light green with a yellow ceiling. Hopefully those little wonders will like it as much as the parents do! Max has been very busy with updating the babies room to get it all ready. Rachel is not much help right now since her doctor has limited what she is allowed to do and declared that she has to rest and relax in order for the babies to grow happily and healthy.

Max has also been spending his time reading parent books and pregnancy books. He has now read more books on the babies than Rachel has.

We have been very grateful for our family and friends and their support during this time and in the future with the babies. You will never understand how much your support and love has meant to us.

Hopefully this next weekend our update will be more information about the babies and who they are! We should hopefully have more pictures of them too this next weekend to upload!

Love,

Max, Rachel, the Triplets and the puppies