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All About Us: Triplet Life In Shreveport, LA

- 12/08/2020 07:00:00 AM

I thought I would add a little blogginess for you to read, repost & enjoy! 1. Age of your child? Bregon Byron- 13 as of Thanksgiving Day Kaiden Ashe- 20 months Kian Loki- 20 months Vivienne Emmalene- 20 months 2. Name? See #1 3. Birthday? Bregon-November 22nd Triplets- March 13th (Friday 13th Parties here I come!) 4. Time of birth? Bregon- 107pm Kai- 856 Kian 857 Vivie- 901 (when they took her brothers, she turned tail & went up as far as possible into my tummy!) 5. How long did labor last? Bregon- started noticeable @ midnight & he was born via c-section @ 107 the next day- so a little over 12 hours (would have been sooner if they had believed me when I told them that he wasn't turning from being breech) The triplets- You don't have labor with them if you are lucky like me! 6. Who was in the room? Bregon- it was like a cocktail party with ice cream & drinks-then they threw everyone out for the actual c-section- only husband and ...

Mini-Van 101...Installing 3 Toddler Seats

- 12/04/2020 03:02:00 PM

It has finally happened. No longer shall I have to drive around town feeling like a circus clown driving one of those tiny clown cars where the clowns keep pouring out of it even though it seems quite impossible for that many people to have ever fit inside in the first place. Gone are the days of being forced to drive with the trunk bungeed shut to accommodate the super-huge, extra-long, limo-sized stroller. I will just have to find a way to break myself of worry about someone rear-ending us and totally the stroller (a bigger worry than totally the car, actually, as they aren't easily obtainable and replaceable!) I have entered into the realm of the "Mini-van Mum." Yep, you guessed it, on Friday, I became the proud owner of a Mini-van. You are probably groaning at the way I am embracing my fate, but seriously, when one has triplets and a 12 year old (I know he is almost 13,) a car becomes far too small for comfort. People were forever staring at me funny wh...

The Further Adventures of Kai: Future Performer Extraordinaire!

- 10/20/2020 06:30:00 AM

My morning started of about 4:30 with Kaiden crying in his sleep thus waking up his lightly sleeping sister. Husband and I both tried bringing them into our bed in hopes of a few more hours of sleep, but alas it was not to be. Cheerios and milk and a good cartoon were the order of their day. Breakfast went as well as could be expected given the hour and the obvious absence of their brother. My kids just don't do well without their usual Dora, Blue and Backyardigans on the television! Because Kian had been running quite a fever the night before, we let him sleep late. Late turned out to be nearly 10:00 a.m. which is normally everybody’s nap-time. I gave him his little breakfast on his “Sick” schedule and let the others play in the play-yard until they couldn't stay awake or pleasant any longer. Once the hair pulling and fighting started, it would be nap time for babies! Playtime turned out to be the root of baby troubles for the...

Stuck In The Slats of My Bed…Not Just Another Country Lullaby!

- 10/19/2020 06:30:00 AM

Lately, I have been having a most peculiar problem with my triplets. I don’t remember ever having had this problem with my eldest son. The odd thing is that only one of my triplets has managed to evade the situation entirely and that is Kian. It would seem that at least once a day, I find myself having to pry tiny baby body parts out from between the slats of their baby beds. I just do not understand this. Vivienne always did have this habit of sitting on the edge of her mattress with her legs dangling out and over the “Side” of the bed in between the slats. She liked to sit there and talk to her brothers and swing her legs back and forth. Kaiden is always jumping up and down in his bed. He doesn’t let any opportunity to boingy go by without having a go at it. I used to worry that he would hurt himself if he slipped and fell and accidentally straddled the bed slats. Luckily, we haven’t had that problem YET. I expect it any day now. T...

Save Your Mommie-Sanity: Baby Bliss & Happiness

- 10/14/2020 06:30:00 AM

Babies can be so funny sometimes. NO really, not funny as is in weird, but funny as in hilarious! For one, they are easily amused and love the simplest things. Right now, my babies are sitting in their little feeding chairs, singing along with “Steve” from “Blues Clues,” rocking back in forth in baby dance mode. Every now and then, a giggle slips out. It doesn’t take much to make them happy. Something as simple as allowing them the privilege of getting to walk around the coffee table for a bit can make their tiny day (normally playing is reserved for the play-yard.) Their most favorite show in the whole world is about to come on. They are “Backyardigans” number one, two and three fans, in no particular order! Everything stops at my house in triplet-ville when that show comes on our television set. They have developed a love of music and dancing from watching that show. I know that some mom’s don’t like to let their kids watch the television, but...

Sometimes Babies Do The Strangest Things!

- 10/13/2020 06:30:00 AM

Sometimes children do the strangest things. You know what I mean. I bet you can think of a zillion silly stories about your own kids, or grandkids, or even the neighbor’s kids. Some are funny, some are downright frightening, and some are definitely sharing penalties, but we share them all just the same. After all, what would the world be like without silly children stories? Right now, my kids have this bouncing zebra that spins when you sit on it. The #2 son, the eldest of my triplets, but the smaller of the two boys, has a nasty habit of climbing the corners of the play-yard in an attempt to try and use one of my end tables as a race-track for his car collection. We have tried everything we can to stop him from doing this, yet he keeps on climbing. Even falling over the edge hasn’t deterred him from his habits. One day, he had climbed up and was balancing on his hips, playing with his car on the end table, feet happily kicking in the air behind...

Momsquad Friends & Friend-Friends Are the BEST!

- 10/12/2020 06:30:00 AM

I have been reading about all of these mommies that are lonely after having their kids. It seems that once we have our kids, we seem to lose track of our social lives. This makes me wistful for my friends. I haven’t seen most of mine in quite a while. After all, many of my friends just so happen to live in other states. After working for Renaissance festivals for the past ten years, I have friends spread out literally all over the place. I don’t attribute that to the birth of my triplets, although I suppose it must have a little to do with it. F or obvious reasons, I no longer work for the Renaissance festival. We were asked to come back and work, triplets and all, however I just felt that the festival might have some child labor problems if I decided to try and lug my trio out there and work in the lanes as performers. I suppose I could also go back to work for my friends who have several stores on the site, but I am just not so sure tha...

Doctor Day: Healthcare Blues

- 10/08/2020 06:30:00 AM

This morning, we had our fifteen month well-baby check-up with our pediatrician. In spite of the rain, we managed to get there on time, somehow (By now, y'all KNOW my track record isn't very good in this department!) The poor desk lady was very confused when I explained my insurance dilemma to her as I have been having trouble getting my LAHIPP renewed. As it turns out, the Medicaid office still is listing themselves as secondary insurance only even though the new representative with the LAHIPP office has said that my trio isn't considered premature now that they are a year old. My doctor is so very nice about everything in spite of all of the trouble I have with my insurance. They even giggled when the insurance company insisted that they were triple charging my child for visits even though the charges were for three separate children. In some attempt to aid us in our plight, she wrote three statements, one for each of the trio, defining prematurity ...

Dining Dilemma: If ONLY I Had Known Then What I Know Now (Autism & Sensory Disorder Trait Presentation)

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

Today is my trio’s fifteenth month birth date. They are good little babies and drink only from their sippy cups and eat in their feeding chairs like real toddlers (even if they can’t quite toddle just yet!) They drink whole milk instead of formula and eat real table foods. That’s the problem, really. They are old enough to eat real table food, not the pureed variety that comes in a jar or little plastic container. In fact, they have stopped eating anything that remotely resembles baby food. If it’s soupy or mushy, they simply will not eat it, won't allow it to pass their lips. Also, they have apparently made some uniform decision not to eat anything that they cannot pick up all by themselves. I know this should be a phase and all, but we are going on three weeks of this (le sigh: those were the days, we're on year 14 of this, actually!) All they seem to want to eat is chicken tenders or ham chopped into tiny bite-sized pieces. They will eat cheese cu...

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...

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