A Few Pictures

Time For A Trip.....

to Seattle. Crazy? Maybe. But in all reality, we have to get used to this triplet thing. Out of the house. In public. It's never going to get easier, just different. Or at least, that's what I've been told. So, why not start trying now? Joseph and Juliette's soccer teams made the state cup finals! That's pretty huge over here in our soccer minded family. And I wanna see them play. Last weekend when Aaron was gone overnight, and I was alone, with triplets and toddlers, was NOT fun. So, I figure, if it's going to be miserable, I would rather us do it together. :) Sooooo, it's off to Seattle we go. I'll be watching my first soccer game in months. Stay tuned for pictures. We'll be home Sunday night. Wish us luck. Lots of it.

Nicknames....

Poor baby girls. Annie has nicknamed them.

Emilia: Big Chunky Girl

Rosalie: Pound Puppy

Gwendolen: Floppies Around

I must admit that Aaron and I are probably at fault for the nicknames. We talk about how much bigger Emilia is than her sisters (even though it's just 8oz, it seems like a few pounds). So we say she is "chunky". Rosalie was given the nickname Pound Puppy because a friend said she resembled one. It stuck. Gwendolen likes to flop her body around when you hold her. She arches back and is very wiggly. Aaron and I say she "flops around alot". Thus, Floppies Around is her new name.

I really hope they don't stick. Poor baby girls.

3 In The Bed.....

"and the little one said.....Roll over, I'm crowded. So, they all rolled over...."

does anyone else know that song?

Anyway...Thought I would share a little of our nighttime routine. Remember that post about "How in the heck is this breastfeeding thing even possible?" We have it perfected. Feeding totally on demand day and night. And I'm not going crazy. It works. Perfectly for us. I was so used to demand feeding a single baby, 3 isn't that much different. Just more. And since these are our last babies (*sniff, sniff*) I want to breastfeed as much as possible. I also get alot more one-on-one time with each baby, which I love. I've obviously gotten very good at tandem nursing. I can hook up 2 babies in about 15 seconds with no pillows. It's great. It's not the most attractive thing ever but it serves the purpose.

So, how goes the night your wondering?

Notice the spacing between the babies? That space is for me. When we start the night, all 3 babies are in the crib. As they wake up, I move them in with me. Luckily, so far, its been just one baby waking at a time. When they join me in bed, I feed them. As the next baby awakens, I move that one in with me and feed her. And the 3rd. Thus, creating the spaces. Throughout the night, I just move from space to space and feed whatever baby is hungry. This means I don't lose much sleep since I hook a baby up and go back to sleep. Once in awhile, 2 will want to eat at the same time. I do have to stay awake for that but I don't get up. How is that possible, you ask? Well, I stack them. Really. I lay on my side, feed that baby laying down, with the bottom boob, then lay another baby on top of that baby and hook her up to the top boob. I'm sure it is quite a site, but it works. Well. Very well actually. In the past week, I've had to use a bottle twice. TWICE. 3 babies, 7 days, 24 hours in each day, TWO bottles. Total. I'm very proud of that, can ya tell? Which also means, I don't have to pump. Thank God.

Meet Donna....

Hot Donna, that is. She is my new van. Ok, well, new-to-me van. And I know your wondering about that name. If you watch That 70's Show, you will get it. If you don't, then just laugh and go with it. Hot Donna. I love her. I figure, if I gotta drive a huge big ol' f-uly van, it might as well have some character. Right? And I'm pretty sure that I'm rocking the van. I mean, brown and orange have always been my colors.

And who doesn't love tweed?

It goes for mile and miles back there. Seats 12. More than enough room for the fam!

My seat. :)

So, you love it right?

*The Picture Post*

Gwendolen

Emilia Rosalie
Finally. All edited. The girlies are almost 3 months. Actual age. Adjusted age is 5.5 weeks. I've noticed that socially, they act their actual age and about 8 weeks adjusted for everything else. Basically, they are doing AWESOME. And while it's not been easy, I wouldn't change anything for the world. They smile and coo and are getting to be so much fun. I'm even starting to regain some sort of normalcy. I even got a pedicure yesterday! It took me, Miranda and Amber to go but that's ok. It was so awesome to be getting a pedi, drinking a mocha and nursing Gwendolen. Talk about relaxing. Gwendolen even got her first little manicure. lol. The lady noticed that her nails were long (I hate cutting them) so she cut them for me. Rosalie and Emilia soundly slept in ring slings with their surrogate mommies. Because, you know, with triplets, it takes more than one mommy. :)

Me. The Photographer. Not.

This is the perfect example of why I hire a photographer. 3hours, 300 shots, 3 crabby babies and 1 sweaty mama later, the majority of the shots looked like this:




I did get a select few good ones. I'm working on editing them. I'll be back to post them when I get done.