Please Don't Feed the Animals

Folks, its a ZOO around here lately! (I LOVE it when my babies are crawling all over me--one of the best feelings in the world!)

The quads and I headed out for a nice friendly drive to Waco this morning to spend some quality time with Granna & Papa. Friday we will be driving to Austin for some Grandma & Grandpa Steece luvin' as well. WOO HOO!!!

Now that we have EXTREMELY mobile quads, it is imperative that we travel with this nifty contraption. It is hard enough keeping ONE child safe...let alone FOUR!



If any of you are looking for a high quality, durable, safe, sturdy superyard...I would definitely suggest this Metal 3-in-1 Superyard! We bought two of them to create a bigger space for the little quaddies and couldn't be happier with this product.

Not MY Idea of a Fun Saturday...

Our good friends Katie and Adam, gave us their freezer (we're talking old school, the size of a refrigerator freezer! It rocks! MUCHOS GRACIAS!) My brother and Joe went to pick it up Saturday morning. During the unloading of the freezer to our garage, Joe somehow managed to slice his arm open from his wrist to the top of his forearm.

I am upstairs feeding the babies, when Joe walks in and says, "Suz, I MAY need stitches..." As I go downstairs, I see Joe in the kitchen with blood from his wrist to his bicep...several lacerations about an inch WIDE and deep enough for me to see pearly white tendon. (HOLY COW! I am thinking in my head) "YES Joe, you most definitely need stitches. Go to the ER immediately!" (in a calm, but firm voice)

At this point, Joe is packed full of adrenaline and is not really feeling the effects of his sliced open arm. In my head I am thinking, "OMG! I saw tendon! That is a deep cut! Will he have function in his fingers? Will he have nerve damage? It is his RIGHT arm! Oh NO!" I am trying not to freak Joe out, so I pull my brother aside and say, "COLLIN! GET HIM TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM PRONTO! He is going to start feeling the pain any second now!"

Thank the LORD Collin was there and took him to the ER while I finished feeding, diapering and putting the quads down to nap. I made some calls and had friends come to watch the babies so I could be with Joe in the ER. (THANK you Linda and Joyce!)

Joe wouldn't let me take a pic of the doc sewing him up :( but it was awesome! This was Joe...going on hour 5.5 and getting a bit delirious...


So...after it was all said and done, Joe had managed to miss every tendon and nerve by the grace of God. He was 1/2" away from severing his radial artery (which was the first thing I thought of when I saw the cut on his wrist!) He got a tetanus shot, 12 sutures (not including the subcutaneous stitching beneath the skin--it was DEEP!) and bandaged up....ALL WITHIN A WHOPPING 7 HOURS! jeeeeeeeez. Well, at least we got to spend some one-on-one time in the waiting room! Hee Hee...and managed to get back in time for all of our friends coming over that night for a BBQ! Yep, Joe would have to be in a coma before he would cancel a get-together with friends! Good times...

Joe modeling his gimp arm the day after...(can't pick up the babies for a while)


I told the ER staff that I'm sure we would be visiting quite often with 3 boys! (4, including their father)...

Its not ALWAYS sunny...

...in the Steece House!

I just wanted to make sure you guys know that we DO have our "bad days". I am trying to get some action on video for you. Here is a small taste of what some days are like:

As soon as the quads see me pull their bottles out of the refrigerator, they will immediately start crying! (Even if they have been totally fine before) I usually try to hide them as I place them in the crock pot to warm. This morning, they saw me...



I LOVED watching Ben stare up at the bottles...so sad! And absolutely melted with Drew's widdle puppy dog face at the very end!

No less than one minute later, we have happy quads again!




Oh yes, here is the new bow site I promised you:

Sweet Daisy Bowtique (Great bows that are SUPER comfy for Sav's little head made by GREAT gals! She was modeling one of her new bows in the July 4th pic below)

Happy Belated Independence Day!!!!

Hope you all had WONDERFUL holidays! We have definitely been busy over here in the Steece house--trying to get ready for the 1st birthday! (nothing crazy huge, just a nice little party for close friends and fam--more later).



I cannot believe how big my babies are getting! They are so much more alert now and have grown so much--both physically and developmentally. It is the best feeling to watch them interacting with each other--such an incredible thing to see!



Thanks to the Harris Quads for the adorable outfits! They were perfect! Here is little miss "Bow Head" (btw- have a GREAT new bow site and will give you the details soon! Miss Priss is modeling one in this pic!)

A Classy Steak Dinner

During our quad-couple trip to Lake Tahoe a few weeks ago, we ended Saturday night with a classy steak dinner grill-out on our patio. It was an amazing ending to such a wonderful week with friends! And to top it all off, as we were pouring A1 sauce onto our plates...we happened to notice something very peculiar......an odd thing to have on a bottle of steak sauce for sure...


Click on the picture and read very closely...







I love how Joe summed it up in an email to our friends:

The A-1 bottle…I don't even know what to say other than "somebody" already had
this all planned out for us and it was His way of saying "you're welcome"

Awwwwww (tear)!.....There is no such thing as coincidence! I love you guys!