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Something Worth Biting For!

- 11/02/2020 07:30:00 AM

Recently, as part of the adjustment to our new move, my trio have taken to new eating habits. Usually, they will sit in their little feeding chairs and eat whatever it is that I serve them. As of late, it has become my habit to sit at our tiny table and have my lunch while they have theirs in the feeding chairs. Today, they finished earlier than I did. I very innocently let them out of their chairs and moved them out of the way to the cubby-hole next to the buffet. I sat back down to finish my lunch, only to find myself mobbed by my tiny trio. Kian looked at me with his very huge baby blue's and said in his sweetest little voice, "May I try?" Vivie just stood there with her hand on my knee, looking up at me with her baby blue's saying, "Mmmm." Kai figured out that they were basically begging for food and being that he preferred to know what it was that he was eating BEFORE actually tasting it, he wandered off in search of his truck. I ver...

Getting Bigger & Growing Up

- 10/30/2020 06:30:00 AM

My triplets are officially 17 months old now. They have come quite a long way from the tiny preemies that they were when they were first born. They can talk, cruise, and of course bite and pull hair and blow air kissies. Along the way, they have reached many milestones, some of which I thought would never come. They learned to drink out of a bottle, they cut their first teeth, and started pulling up. They even finally started getting bigger. In fact, once they started growing, apparently there is no stopping them! They have outgrown everything from their clothes and toys to the most disconcerting item, their play-yard. It is one of those "Rug-rat's" type play-yards that look like a bunch of baby gates linked together. It even has an extension in it to make it big enough for three, or so I had thought. With the birth of our triplets, we officially out-grew our 2 bedroom home. We have made it work for much longer than anyone had imagined pos...

Triplet Time Out!

- 10/29/2020 06:30:00 AM

Everything is different when you have multiples. Because they are born early and with their siblings, they develop at a different rate than a single-born baby. This means that they are smaller and do not do the same things at the same time as other babies that are the same “Age” as they are do. My trio rolled over later, learned to sit up later and didn’t even cut teeth until they were a little over nine months old. Actually, only one of my triplets can even walk and they are currently 16 months old. I don’t know if it is because they are tinier than normal babies, or if it is because I have babied them too much, but this go-round I have been a bit more lax in the discipline department. My eldest was disciplined from the beginning as I could recognize that he understood what it was that I meant. My triplets have been different in that I just haven’t thought that they would understand the concepts of right or wrong yet. Don’t get me wrong, I hav...

That Early-Morning Singing Song of Kian's: "Each Morning I GETUP GET UP GET UP!!!"

- 10/02/2020 06:30:00 AM

Such is the song I am serenaded with EVERY morning by my Good Little Kian Guy, care of the Shrek public service commercial. This morning was no different. If you have ever watched Sprout or Nickelodeon in the morning, chances are, you’ve heard the jingle. My 14 month old has managed to pick it up as his morning mantra somehow. For some reason, Kian is overly fussy this morning. The past few days his siblings Vivie & Kai have been sleeping in until about 10 each day (why I don’t know-growth spurt maybe?) Who knows? Anyways, I found myself feeling sorry for the little guy who had systematically and very sadly tossed all of his bedding along with every stuffed animal out of his crib, even his most beloved teddy… So I went ahead and took him into the living room so he could play with his toys by himself a while (a real treat when you must share everything you own with your same-aged siblings!) Sadly, my other two babies figured out that they wer...

Diapers: Diapers EVERYWHERE

- 10/01/2020 06:30:00 AM

One of the biggest expenses that mothers who have multiples will have is that of diapers. In fact, we go through so many diapers, that sometimes I think I should advise all of my friends and family to buy stock in our diaper company. Before our triplets were born, we could only guess how many diapers we would go through in a day. There just isn't any way to fathom how many a family with multiples will use during the diaper wearing years. That first week after the babies were born, we would get some idea as to what was to come. Once they were allowed to begin bottle feeding, we were advised to change each baby prior to every feeding as a general rule. The baby's quickly learned to suck, swallow and breathe all at the same time and were soon on a four hour feeding schedule. This meant that they would eat five times each day and be each changed before given their bottles. That added up to fifteen diapers per day, one hundred and three diapers...

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Something Worth Biting For!

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That Early-Morning Singing Song of Kian's: "Each Morning I GETUP GET UP GET UP!!!"

Diapers: Diapers EVERYWHERE

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