Breakfast with the triplets

Here are a few cute photos taken this morning at breakfast and playtime.

More food please, mom! Ryan loves to eat. He shovels it in as fast as he can, usually taking fistfulls of food at a time. When he runs out of food on his tray, he screams at the top of his lungs for more... it's precious! I always say that his scream "literally hurts my ears!" Sometimes he'll laugh with a mouth full of food and he's got like 10 little pieces of chicken in there! He is usually the messiest of the three, but he's always smiling and waving "hi" while he eats.

I'm saving that piece of banana on my nose for later!

Megan is little miss manners when she eats. Well, except for the occasional burp she lets out after guzzling her milk or juice cup! She eats one piece of food at a time and she barely needs to be wiped up after the meal. She is very neat and seems to enjoy foods with bright colors. If I give her a little piece of bread, she always wants the brightly colored cheese or fruit instead. She loves to play peek-a-boo with daddy and laughs hysterically if Bailey or Brandy is close to her highchair.

Dylan is the cutest eater of the group. He'll crunch snacks with his front teeth and he started the saying "ah da" which is "all done" in 1 year old world. He hates it when Ryan steals his bedtime sippy cup of milk (and I don't blame him!). Dylan is starting to pass up Ryan in the volume department. He can put the food away just a fast, but he'll do it one at a time. Dylan has struggled with ezcema since he was about 4 months old (as you may be able to see in his photo) so we try to be careful what he eats. But so far, he seems to love everything!

This is the babies favorite pastime. They love playing at the train table. The train track isn't set up, because they constantly take it apart. But they love pushing the trains or just playing with all the other toys. Oh, by the way, this is in our livingroom, in case you were wondering... :o)

Cutie-pie Megan playing in Jacob's Spider-Man chair. She loves to sit in this chair and read books.

Dylan walking!!

Common questions

Last night the kids and I went to Jon's softball game and we got all the usual stares and comments. For some odd reason, people are shocked to see a mother pushing a triple stroller, constantly telling her 3 year old to "hold on to the stroller!" (because God forbid he would take off, what in the world would I do?!) and carrying what feels like the largest diaper bag on the planet! So I thought it would be fun to share some of those good comments and questions (and what we think about them!) ...

"Do you have twins?" Aahh, did we forget one at home? Nope, ok, well I guess it's triplets then isn't it? And to be honest, forgetting one at home crosses my mind every time we leave the house. There have been a few times where we get about 2 miles from our house and I have to whip my head around and make sure we got everybody in the back of the 'ole minivan!

"Do you have a nanny?" Yeah, and a housekeeper and personal chef! Nope, it's just the two of us. "How do you do it then?" Lots of organization, planning, praying and teamwork between the two of us.

"How is your 3 year old handling the change?" In my opinion, I think Jacob has adjusted very well. He's your typical 3 year old with jealousy issues, tantrums and whining. But he's also very loving to all the babies and extremely helpful (when he wants to be :o)).

"Do multiples run in your family?" Nope, they run at the fertility clinic.

"Did you nurse them?" 2 boobs, 3 babies ... you do the math.

"Wow, instant family. You guys are done now, right?" This one kind of bugs me. I remember one time Jon and I were out with all the kids and someone said this and Jon's reply was "no, we want to see how many kids we can have so we can get our own show on TLC!" I loved it!

That's all that I can think of now. It's getting too late (9:54pm) and my brain is slowly shutting down!

Signing off for now,
Lisa

Home from preschool

Success! Jacob made it through his first day of preschool! Miss Kathy said he did awesome. He played well with the other kids, he painted his first picture, he had Goldfish and juice for snack, he followed directions and he was a good listener... if only I could get those last 2 things at home more! Jacob and I picked up Taco Bell for lunch, which is what my mom and I would do after my preschool when I was a little girl ... sniff, sniff again :o) ... and heading home to tell daddy and the babies all about his day. We can only hope every day at school will be this easy!

First day of school! First day of school!

Today is Jacob's first day of preschool. We started the school year with a new Lightning McQueen backpack, that looks adorable on his back! Such a big boy now!

This morning we had special "first day of preschool pancakes" shaped like an apple. Then it was time to get dressed and head off to school. He wore his favorite red baseball t-shirt and his firetruck light-up sneakers. I have to admit, my stomach hurt all morning, just with excitment and nervousness for him. It's hard to think that he won't be here, even though it's only 2 mornings a week.

After kisses and hugs for daddy, Megan, Ryan and Dylan it was off to school! When we got to his school, he was a little hesitant... saying "stay in the car, mommy". But once I grabbed his new backpack and said "let's go to school, buddy", he had no problem. I got him signed in, his backpack went in his cubby and off he went to play with toys... sniff, sniff! It's so hard to believe our little Jacob is off to school (even if it is just 2 mornings a week!). He said "bye mommy!" and went to play with some other kids. After I said goodbye about a hundred times, I headed out the door with a stiff upper lip, trying to hold back the tears. I did pretty good, no actual tears, just a little sadness knowing our little buddy is growing up! After leaving the school, I headed to the grocery store by myself (which is always a treat!), got home to Jon giving the triplets a bath (yeah!!) and unloaded my groceries. Now it's already almost time to go pick Jacob up! I have a feeling the time that Jacob is at school is going to fly by! I'll post more later on how the rest of the day went!!

Let the craziness begin!!

As if I don't have enough on my plate right now, I've decided to dive into the world of blogging! I have no idea what I'm getting myself in to, but it seems the internet is my main connection to the outside world right now, so why not!

As most of you know, we have a wonderful 3 year old boy named Jacob and 14 month old triplets - Megan, Ryan and Dylan. My goal for this blog is to keep some what of a journal to remember stuff that happens during our crazy life and share it with whoever cares to hear it! A lot of our family is spread out over thousands of miles, so hopefully this will help them get to know us and our kids a little better.

So here goes ... :o)