Life

The babies are amazing me everyday with all that they learn new. We have started to read different books to them each day and they love it. They watch you so intently. I also put on a baby Einsteins movie for them while they eat there morning Cheerios. They Crack me up, watching them be so very involved in a little movie. Its amazing to me that they are 10+ months because they seem so much older with there BIG personalities.

Gracie- She is a firecracker! She definitely thinks she is the dominate one. If her brothers have a toy and she wants is, She will get it. She is very demanding, but yet so independent. Her hair is growing so fast. Some days she wakes up with the greatest bedhead.



Blaine- He is such a lover. He will definitely be our cuddler. He is starting to dance to music. Which by the way makes my heart smile. His smile can melt a complete strangers heart. He is getting his 2 top teeth in and surprisingly taking it very well.




Collin- He is our goofball. He has this crazy laugh going that sounds like woody the woodpecker. He claps at everything and giggles to the touch. He loves his baths and going swimming. He is like his father when it comes to sleeping. I have to wake him up every morning or who knows how long he will sleep.



On another note! I had to make a hard decision to get rid of one of our dogs. My heart still hurts over this. He was starting to get nippy at the kids and I couldn't take the chance at him biting one of them. It still doesn't make it easy. He was my dog for 5 years and I feel like I gave up one of my kids. Its been a week now and its still not getting easier. I wish I could just get past it! :(

Aaron and I are getting ready to celebrate our 2nd Anniversary. Very excited and I am still madly in love with him. He is such a wonderful father and despite that he drives me crazy at times he has been a great husband. 1 month and 1 day after our anniversary it will be the babies 1st Birthday. WOW I can't believe it 1 already. Time flies by too fast.

"Learn to be patient and cherish every minute"

Just an update

Life is getting so busy. The babies are growing so fast. They are all sitting up and Gracie and Blaine are Crawling. They had there 9 month check up a little over a week ago. They are all doing great and they are all right on track. We started giving them finger foods. It is so entertaining to watch them. Gracie actually picks it up and eats it. Blaine will pick it up and chew on it and then spit it out. Collin will put one piece in his mouth and gag. He will not shut his mouth until what ever it is dissolves or he spits it out. They are all so different.

I have nights where U just wish I could go crawl in there cribs with them and snuggle and sleep with them. My husband calls me crazy. Its funny because some nights I cannot wait for them to go to bed just to so we can relax. But by the time we go to bed I miss them like crazy.

On another note today my husband and I went to the hospital do to something that happened to my knee about 3 weeks ago. I woke up one day and my knee was hurting. A few days after that it was swelling. It has only gotten worse since so today I decided to get it taken care of. Well I was told that my Meniscus is inflamed. That is the joint under my knee cap. It takes up to 6 weeks to heel if it is taken care of properly. I have to wear a knee immobilizer. Yeah right I hope that i am able to function with this thing on my leg. all I can do is try to take it easy. That taken it easy is not in my vocabulary.

Well until next time

Comments when we go out in public

So I thought I would write about all the rude and great things we here when we go out in public. We either feel like a freak show or like celebrities. So here are some of the rude things we get, and the responses we normally give.

*Are they Natural:

Well obviously they are not plastic.

*Did you take fertility pills:

We normally just tell people there spontaneous, But inside i am thinking Why does it matter how they were conceived.

*Are they Twins:

Nope there are 3 of them which would make them Triplets

*Are they all Boys:

I just point to the highly PINK car seat Gracie is sitting In.

I know this doesn't sound like a rude Comment but I get so SICK of hearing You have your hands full. We here it about 100 times when we are out and about. It just gets extremely old. Like we don't already know that we have our hands full.
I normally just say Our hands are full of blessings.

* Are they born on the same day:
or are they the same age:

Triplets normally are.

* Glad its you and not me:

Me To obviously you couldn't handle it.

*I feel sorry for you:

Well don't. I feel sorry that your weren't blessed with such a wonderful thing.

I truly cannot believe the nerve of some people. I am sure there are some I am leaving out but these are the ones that get to us the most.
Now for the positive.

* You are so blessed

* They are all adorable, Cute ETC....

Yep that's about it for the Positive. Its amazing to me that the first thing that comes to peoples mind is always something rude. I guess I just have to tell myself that they don't know any better and that it is always shocking to see triplets.

Our Schedule

So I know I haven't blogged in a while, I have been sitting here thinking about what to write. So i decided many of you that don't have triplets might be curious to see what our daily schedule might be like. So here we go.

7:00 am we all wake up. I bring one by one down the stairs normally Blaine first then Collin and then Gracie. I change diapers and place them in a swing or a bouncy.
We play for about and hour then they get there bottles.

Gracie- 6 oz
Blaine- 8 oz
Collin- 7 oz



After they are done eating I place them in the numerous toys we have for them.



After about an hour of playing & yelling. Its time for a nap. They sleep for about 2 hours and that's when I try to get some stuff done around the house. 11:00am I wake them if they are not already awake talking in there cribs. Again bring one by one down the stairs change diapers and time for there solid food. They normally get a fruit with some kind of cereal in it. Once again it is time to play.
12:00pm is bottle time. After bottles They again play for an hour or just chill in there chairs with some toy in hand.
Around 1:00 it is nap time again. This is when I take the time to relax and catch up on my shows that recorded the night before. I do also make there bottles for the next day.
Around 2:00-2:30 they wake up and again play. 4:00 is bottle time. Around the time they finish bottles Daddy walks in the door. He around 4:30-5 helps me take them upstairs for there last nap of the day which is about an hour long.
6:00 We go upstairs and bring them down for there solids. They normally get a Veggie and a fruit of some sort.
They play for a while around 7:00 we bath them if its bath night which is every other night. By the time we are done with baths its there 8:00 Bottle and off to bed we all go.
By bed time I am exhausted I pick up the toys and clutter from the day, And sit my butt on the couch. We are in bed by 10:00 and the next day its starts all over.


This is the amount of food we go threw a day with them.




Here is a ruff estimate on how many bottles I have made since they were born
4,989

This is a really rough estimate on how many diapers we have gone threw.
4403
I averaged this about 17 diapers a day

Growing so fast

So we made our first family trip this past weekend. I was so nervous about taking them to a strange place for the weekend, But everything went great. I threw a baby shower for my best friend in Grand Junction which is about a 4 hour drive. The babies were wonderful. They slept great at a strange house and even did well with all the people there on Saturday. My sister took Collin and Gracie over night on Saturday. It was so nice to have just one baby. Don't get me wrong I missed the other 2 like crazy. Aaron and I both went to bed with something tugging on our hearts. Needless to say we were so glad to go pick them back. All in all it was a great trip. We definitely will be making more trips this summer.

Gracie is Miss Independent she will be the first to do it all. The other day I found her on all fours and rocking back in forth. This means we will have a crawler soon. Although I can't wait for them to be mobile I am sure I will regret saying that some day. LOL She is cutting her bottom 2 teeth, they haven't made it through yet but there working on it. She figures she will out do the boys and get both at once. She finally is sleeping through the night now yayyyy me. Although we had to put her in a different room then the boys. We had to let her cry it out, she has learned to put her own binky back in so we leave 3 or 4 in her crib so she can find one easily.

Blaine is our eater. He loves his food and will eat anything. I think that he may pass up Collin here soon weight wise. He is taller then Collin now but not quit as chunky yet. He is our most active one when it comes to playing. He loves his walker and he takes it very serious. He chases anything that moves in the house and if he wants something he knows exactly how to get to it. He thinks everything is a Jumper when he is standing on you he will start bouncing like you are going to make him bounce. He has his first tooth and he wasn't grumpy when it came through so we will See how the next one goes.

Collin is my lazy little man. He will sit in his toys and look around but doesn't do much beyond that. Lately he has been running a fever hopefully do to teething. He also has one of his bottom teeth. I think he is getting the other one because he has been a grumpy boy lately which is so out of character for him. It so cute to see him smile with his little tooth showing. I am so in love with all of them.

I can't believe they are already 7 months old it felt like yesterday they were still in my tummy..

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