tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87105693975176927152024-03-05T23:38:17.116-08:00The Triple(t) ThreatThe adventures of two moms and triplets!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14516058501296620345noreply@blogger.comBlogger343125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8710569397517692715.post-39313089227926321962017-06-26T07:42:00.000-07:002017-06-26T07:42:11.344-07:00Summertime Well, I read a little blurb on writing today. It recommended that if you're having trouble writing something, you just sit down and write for 20 minutes straight about another topic. It helps get the writing flow going. We'll see. I figured the blog would benefit from this exercise and the triplets are the easiest writing topic for me!<br />
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I know everyone always says summer goes by so fast, but this year, it feels like the speed has been multiplied. Of course we've been enjoying the pool. Our little swimmers get braver with the pool everyday and are always experimenting with new things. Ellie's been working on diving down to get dive sticks and other trinkets off the bottom of the pool. Avery's been working on backstroke and smoother arms in her crawl, and Isaiah does a little bit of everything. One day, he decided he was going to dive down to the deep end to retrieve a dive stick, and to our surprise, he did it! He hasn't done it since. Kids are funny.<br />
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As Mari mentioned in a previous post, I've been working a lot and not spending as much time as I'd like with the kids. I also face a dilemma that I didn't know was a <i>thing</i> until I experienced it, but have since learned that it is the plague of parents who work a traditional schedule. When the only time you see your kids is in the evening from dinner until bedtime, it's not very fun. Kids are GRUMPY at this time. Especially kids this age who sometimes don't take a nap. Seeing cute pictures of their day and spending daytime with them on the weekends helps me remember that they are pretty great most of the time! :)<br />
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I should probably attempt to switch writing gears now, but here's a few pictures of our summer fun, and a video of Avery's backstroke at the end. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Avery experimenting with frisbee, light, & fountain</td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05417003247727969752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8710569397517692715.post-34305938218211352082017-06-26T07:20:00.002-07:002017-06-26T07:20:53.050-07:00Day to day life with threenagers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
NOTE: Mari wrote this in February and it is now June. I was needing a little inspiration this morning, so I was looking at the blog and saw this sitting in drafts. It seems complete enough to me, so I'm publishing! -- Michelle<br />
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Ah, it's been months and months since I've actually sat down to blog. I miss it! When our kiddos were little babies we used to read other triplet blogs and they always fizzled out when the kids got older and I thought it was sad and didn't understand why....now I do! It seems impossible that life is busier these days than when they were infants, but in some ways it sure feels like it is! <br />
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In December it really felt like they were on the verge of dropping their nap, but then when we traveled for the holidays we got them in a nap routine to help them settle in and they got back in the habit I guess and have been back to napping fairly consistently again since then thankfully. Most days it's still not easy to get all three to nap, but it happens more often then not and if only one (usually Ellie) doesn't nap, we typically enjoy a little one on one time. We have been playing around a bit to find the "sweet spot" for naps because if they take a long nap bedtime is hard and they might not fall asleep until 8:30 or 9. Right now it seems like if we wake them up after 45-60 minutes it works out the best, but waking them up, particularly Isaiah is hard! I sure am thankful for those 45 minutes of quiet in the middle of the day! But instead of sitting down to put up a quick blog post I'm usually doing some frantic cleaning or prepping dinner. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">napping with our little foster kitten Hamilton =)</td></tr>
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We had some fair warning from other triplet moms in our big Triplets Born in 2013 Facebook group that 3-3.5 was a rough time, with most of them starting to turn the corner around 3.5-4. It is true...having three "threenagers" is tough stuff! Emotions run very high these days and the sibling battles can get pretty intense. We have been working on a family "problem solving plan" for the past 6-8 months to try to get them talking before battling it out, but it's a struggle! Step 1 of the plan is to use their words with each other to solve the problem, step 2 is to get a grownup or someone to help mediate, and step 3, if the other two steps fail, is to resort to hitting, etc to take care of themselves (knowing that in theory, they should never need step 3). We miss Step 2 a lot! =) Knock on wood, but I think as we are nearing the 3.5 year mark, things do seem to be getting a little better as far as the physical conflicts, or at least it seems like the resurgence of biting has fizzled. The extremes of emotions can be rather amusing, but only if, as the parent, you are in a place where you can detach a bit...otherwise, whew, they are exhausting! We have been listening to a RIE parenting podcast called "unruffled," which focuses on acknowledging these big emotions while staying calm and confident and unruffled, which is a great goal, but man is it hard to do in the moment!<br />
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We are certainly seeing another round of that strong need to be independent, which has it's pros and cons. On the "pro" side of things, Isaiah has been wanting to wear underwear the majority of the time (this is also a con because he's still not consistent about initiating getting himself to the bathroom...but at least he has a pretty recognizable "potty dance" if we are paying attention). The girls, particularly Avery, are really big on going to the bathroom "all by myself" particularly when we are out and about. This backfired a few weeks ago when someone locked the stall door and then couldn't get it unlocked! Michelle tried sending the other two under to get it, but I guess it was stuck so she ended up having to crawl under...EW!!! Isaiah and Ellie have both been pretty independent lately with getting dressed. Avery can do it herself too, but she would stay in PJs all day or be naked so she lacks the motivation! =) For the past month Isaiah has been on a navy long sleeve kick and has just 2 or 3 long sleeve shirts that he wants to wear, with leggings of course. So sometimes in the morning he will disappear for a good 15 minutes and then come out with sometimes rather interesting outfits on. =) Here's an <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TherrienTripleThreat/photos/a.1405990809657369.1073741828.1403681769888273/1874508912805554/?type=3&theater" target="_blank">example</a> in case you missed it on Facebook! Ellie reminds me of my sister Kate when she was little because she probably changes clothes a minimum of 3 times in a day. I don't mind for the most part, but we are working on getting the clothes she is changing out of back in the closet/drawers. Ellie was so disappointed with our selection of long sleeve dresses in December that one day I managed to convince her to try a sparkly grey tutu with a long sleeve xmas shirt by calling it her sparkly snow skirt...and boy oh boy did it work. I think she wears her "sparkle skirt" at least 5 days a week now! Avery still loves to cook and again really wants to be independent, which can be tricky! But she is really a good little helper and can pretty reliably crack eggs, stir things on the stove, and of course sample anything and everything. Of course this independent streak has it's downside when you are trying to get out the door with three three year olds who all want to put on their own shoes, climb in the car by themselves and do their own top car seat buckle!<br />
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I think the other thing making it harder for me to sit down and blog is that I've been working more lately. I'm seeing more early intervention kiddos, still doing a bit of work for the research project I was helping with at Penn State, and now helping with an early intervention parent coaching research project at FSU. I am still trying to figure out the right balance with all of this and still safeguarding my time with the kiddos. I know this semester has been tough for Michelle because she has been working more and still feeling behind so she feels like she's been missing out on time with the kids. Sometimes it feels like she's back in school and having to give up weekend time with us, which is a bummer for all of us. =( Other than spending too much time working lately, for the most part Michelle seems to be generally enjoying her work so that is good. Hopefully next year, when she doesn't have as much class prep work to do, she'll be able to find a little better work-life balance. We have also been working on house projects since July and the list of things to do still feels pretty long! But we have done a lot, cosmetically re-doing both bathrooms and the kitchen as well as painting the kids room and the main living area since we moved in. Still need to work on our bedroom and the guest room. My next big project is getting a wall mounted shelf/desk combo up on the guest room so that Michelle and I can work in there sometimes.<br />
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Well, I should probably wrap up here so I can get some breakfast going and take a shower before the kids wake up. Today's blog post is courtesy of Isaiah waking up around 4:45 and me feeling too awake and deciding to just stay up. I haven't done this in a long long time and I might pay for it later when my energy starts to flag, but these two hours of "me time" this morning have been lovely! =)<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14516058501296620345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8710569397517692715.post-49207851655112843372017-02-24T02:16:00.000-08:002017-02-24T02:16:01.534-08:003 year old snapshot<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Well, their birthday month has passed already so I thought I better get up early with Michelle and try to get a few thoughts captured while I have the chance. So here's a quick "snapshot" of the kiddos as three year olds. <br />
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We just had their three year well check on Saturday and the doctor was very happy with how they are doing. Both girls are now just over 37" and Isaiah is 36.5". Ellie weighed in at 31.5lbs, Avery 30lbs, and Isaiah 29.5lbs. Naturally they also "passed" all the questions and tasks the doctor asked of them (colors, jumping, how old they are, etc). When asked what her favorite vegetable was Avery said mushrooms. =) Bedtime continues to be a challenge, but I think part of the issue is that they are getting close to dropping naps, which is a major bummer for Mommy! I do insist on some quiet time every day even if they aren't sleeping, but it's never as long as naptime used to be! On the plus side, they have been sleeping until 7 again instead of getting up at 6. We have also been having more night wakings lately, but they usually go back down pretty easily.<br />
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We have just been loving watching their natural curiosity and all the learning that they are doing despite not being in school. They are all picking up numbers and counting and I love listening to them count to 20 (1-12 is pretty consistent usually followed by a string of various "teens" before hitting 20). The other day Avery was counting and said "eleventeen, fourteen, fifteen, nineteen, twenty!" and Ellie chimes in with "No, you forgot eighteen!" Just in the last few weeks they are really into learning about the sounds and letters that various names and words start with. They've known our immediate family's "letters" for a while, but now they are working on extended family and friends' names like "H is for Hopey" and then someone will chime in "and Heather and Humphrey."<br />
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We closed up our pool this weekend, but I really need to put together a compilation movie of their incredible swimming skills. Dr. Koeppel asked this weekend if we'd put them in swim lessons yet and was super impressed that our answer was no, but they can all swim across the entire pool. =) They continue to try new things with their bodies too, jumping between their beds, trying to hang upside down on any bar/trapeze they see (including at the grocery store!), and Avery in particular has been wanting to get up and put on a yoga video like she sees us doing sometimes and has gotten pretty good at imitating the poses.<br />
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Their pretend play has just exploded in the last few months. This time last year the only pretend play scheme they really had was playing restaurant and some simple baby play. Now their pretend play runs the gamut from firefighters to princesses to dragons to doctor to dogs to who knows what! <br />
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If there's one thing to say about Avery at 3 is that she is a HUGE aminal lover, and no, that isn't a typo...that is how she currently says the word animal and it is about the cutest thing. =) She is particularly obsessed with all types of babies (both animal and human) and talked non-stop about the kittens and baby bunnies she has been able to hold at a couple of local farms we have visited. There is a farm about 20 minutes from us that has open farm days at least once a month and Avery LOVES to go there to see all the animals and will hang out in the petting tent for as long as the other two are willing to hang at the farm. She is dog obsessed and can't see a dog and not get to pet it without a meltdown. She particularly loves small dogs, probably because they all seem like babies to her. It can be tricky when we are out at public events because either one of of is just following Avery around meeting ALL the dogs, or she will sometimes just take off and head over to a dog she sees, so we have to do a LOT of coaching about making sure she lets us know before heading off! On the plus side, Avery has worked through a lot of social anxiety and will now walk up to every dog's owner and very politely ask "Can I please pet your dog?" Avery is also the first one to walk up and introduce herself to kids and adults at parks. If you ask Avery what she wants to be when she grows up she says "a doctor for babies, moms, and dogs!" Avery has probably been the most interested in the first letter sound learning the past couple of weeks and both Michelle and I have been astounded with how many she is starting to figure out on her own. If we drag out the first sound a bit she can pretty consistently identify M, H, P, T, & L (and probably a couple more I'm not thinking of) the majority of the time. And although I might wish to forget this, I can't talk about Avery at three without a quick mention about her "spirited child" non-stop limit testing behavior. She is most definitely an experiential learner who will not take your word for it and HAS to find out for herself!<br />
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Isaiah's favorite pastimes right now sword fighting & torturing his sisters, especially Ellie, with some imagined form of violence (fire, spells, etc). This from the little boy whose favorite color is still pink and who, at least 50% of the time still prefers to wear dresses and if not in a dress insists on wearing tight leggings. We are struggling a bit with how to support his need to work through all this "rough play" without having to listen to Ellie squealing as the "victim" constantly. Taking a wrestling break where we take him to the bedroom for some good horseplay or pillow fighting seems to help, but sometimes that isn't an option and then it's a struggle. Not surprisingly, Isaiah wants to be a knight when he grows up! =) This little boy is also our best snuggler and just loves to snuggle, particularly right after he wakes up in the morning or after nap. The other day he said to Michelle "I just wanna snuggle you. That's all I want!" Isaiah is usually a little slower to approach people, but if the girls are feeling shy/anxious, he will usually be the one who responds to questions people ask. At Michelle's office when one of her coworkers asked his name he said "Avery, Ellie, & Isaiah." =) Isaiah enjoys seeing the geckos and little frogs we have been finding in the pool skimmer this summer. He has gotten progressively braver and will sometimes hold them on his hand. Isaiah seems to be a whip with numbers. I haven't "tested" him, but I would guess that he can recognize maybe 50% of the numbers 1-10 and seems to be picking up the early math concepts quickly like simple addition and subtraction. Isaiah also has an incredible imagination. He can really get going on a pretend play scheme, often blending multiple different themes/stories, so much so that no one else can keep track of his ideas! This active imagination might have something to do with his occasional night terrors. The other night he was screaming in the middle of the night, climbing up me when I went in to settle him, convinced that crocodiles were in his bed trying to eat him! Poor guy!<br />
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Ellie is still pretty obsessed with all things princess though her favorite princess has rotated a bit over the past few months. She really wanted to be Tiana (princess & the frog) for Halloween, but she had a specific idea of what the dress should look like (long and full!) and the ones we could find online did not meet her specifications, so she settled for her old standard, Elsa. Ellie will tell you she wants to be a princess when she grows up. Ellie may be technically the youngest, and was baby C from the get go, but more and more she seems like the oldest. She is the biggest and a lot of times she takes on the "leader" role amongst the trio. Yesterday she and Avery were playing in the sprinkler and Ellie was reminding me of myself, clearly trying to direct Avery's play and saying things like "these are the rules" and "you have to do this, but only I can throw it." But on the flip side, all Isaiah has to do is look at her with his "mean face" and she melts into this weeping little victim. All the kiddos love to look at videos on YouTube about things we have been talking about, but Ellie loves videos and TV shows the most I think. She will often ask us to do her hair, but really it's just because she wants to watch a little video and that's been our routine since they were much younger. Ellie is the first one to answer any question about shapes. She also seems to be picking up the letter sounds quickly, but as has been her MO for a while now, she doesn't like to guess at them and tends to keep quiet until/unless she is sure. Ellie's funny little quirk is that she usually adds an H to some E words like "hedward." Thankfully she doesn't do that for her name! =) Oh Ellie is so cute lately because she will just randomly offer up a slew of kisses. She's super empathic and if she notices I'm getting frustrated sometimes she'll just come up and give me a hug. So sweet! Every night at bedtime we have a "huggle" with each kiddo so they get a minute of one on one. Every night Ellie says "what do you love about me?!" <br />
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It's official, we now have three three year olds! Happy birthday Isaiah, Avery & Ellie! It's both hard to believe they're already three and also incredible that it was only three years ago that we were anxiously waiting to meet our Babies A, B & C! We are all very lucky to have our good friends from PA visiting to help the kiddos celebrate their third birthday this weekend! Heather takes great pics and I'm sure she will have more pics to share with us so I'll post more later, but here are a few birthday pics!<br />
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After breakfast we took our friends up to the neighborhood park to burn off some of that sugar!<br />
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Avery & Ellie refused to nap so the afternoon was a little tough, but Heather got them all painting while I finished the sandbox and Michelle made dinner...<br />
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And then finally the sandbox was ready to be unveiled!<br />
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Then we Facetimed with Grandma Rae & Grandpa Mark while opening gifts from them.. </div>
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Since we moved to Florida we have been busy busy working on the house and getting settled so I haven't done any update posts and I want to capture a few things that Michelle and I want to remember about these three little people at age three (since we both know that unless we write them down, we will forget!) BUT I'm WAY too tired to do that tonight! So I'll post more pics and try to write little "snapshots" of our kids at three sometime this week!<br />
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We are back in Seattle this weekend for our dear friends' wedding. It's a great opportunity for us to come back and see all our friends! And everyone had a part in the wedding so that was fun too. The kiddos were part of a "kiddos parade" and all three were very excited to wear their "wedding dresses." (Isaiah was not having the idea of wearing a bow tie and vest when his sisters were getting fancy dresses and sunflower crowns.) Michelle was a bridesmaid and I did a reading so it was a full family affair! <br />
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It was fun to meet a few family members and friends who said "we feel like we know your kids because we read your blog." It was good inspiration for me to try to get a couple of blog posts up after a long hiatus!<br />
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Anyway, here are some highlight pics from the wedding!<br />
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Well it has been a LONG time since I updated the blog. We have been busy busy getting settled in Tallahassee. We have checked out a bunch of parks and done a ton of projects at home. It feels like a bunch of projects remain to be done, but it's getting there! Here are a bunch of pics of our little Floridians. This weekend we are in Seattle for a wedding and I asked Avery if she wanted to live here and she said "no, it's too chilly!" And none of them want to wear shoes here! Anyway, here are some pics from our first couple of months in Florida!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ellie enjoying a fresh spring</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mommy & kiddos on an IKEA trip</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Avery LOVED holding the kittens</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">fun in his "tree house" at Food truck Thursday</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">watching the ducks at Lake Ella</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">family coffee treat at Lucky Goat</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">baby wearing in the playroom</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">nice outfit!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">race car drivers in the riveway</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">AJ Henry park</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">painting bookshelves for their room</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">spinning fun at Railroad square park</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">splash pad fun at Railroad Square</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">soaking wet and happy girl</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">trying to get me all wet</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">splashpad rainbow</td></tr>
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All in all we are settling in well and enjoying our house and a lot of things about Tallahassee. We haven't made too maby friends yet but hopefully we will start building a community over the next few months. It's great to be heading into October knowing that we are coming into the best part of the year instead of dreading winter!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14516058501296620345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8710569397517692715.post-31042011867386855622016-07-07T05:09:00.000-07:002016-07-07T05:09:12.597-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Quick summary of our first day/night in the house in bullets because I don't have Internet at the house yet and kids will be up any second...<br />
1. Get to the house with 3 keys, one on a ring, the others loose. Neighbor comes over to say hi and in the course of that time I lose the 2 loose keys. The key we do have unlocks the top knob but not the doorknob so spend 20 minutes looking for the missing keys, eventually find both and neither is for the knob. After a little wiggling find that one key opens the side door and eventually get in the house.<br />
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2. Discover that kids'/guest bathroom toilet is leaking. Try to self diagnose the problem and realize our toilets are wall mounted and leak appears to be coming from the wall mount part. :(<br />
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3. Ellie is grumpy/sick/overwhelmed and falls asleep on Denise's lap and takes a 2+hr nap while Isaiah and Avery play. We hold them off on swimming so we can all go together. Those 2 eventually nap and by the time all three are awake thunderstorms have moved in.<br />
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4. We wait out the thunderstorms and finally get everyone in the pool and 5min later Ellie has a coughing fit that makes her puke in the pool. Everyone exits the pool.<br />
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5. Bedtime is the usual debacle but all are asleep in their new beds by 9. We follow shortly after. Avery wakes up screaming at 3:30 and when I go to check on her she is burning up. Bring her to our bed, get her some ibuprofen, but she keeps squirming and yelling about bugs crawling all over. Not sure, but seems like it was probably a fever-induced hallucination. So I spend the treaty of the night in the living took on the futon with her.<br />
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Welcome home Triple(t) Threat! Let's hope things settle down soon!</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14516058501296620345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8710569397517692715.post-10893815650351903542016-07-01T18:17:00.001-07:002016-07-01T18:17:17.859-07:00The LONG way to Florida<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Well the first leg of our journey from PA to FL is complete. The movers arrived around 10am on Monday the 27th and after some final packing and cleaning we were on the road by 3pm. <br />
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We made it to just outside Toledo Ohio the first night and got into our hotel room around 11pm with three two year olds who were all awake! Two-thirds of those two year olds were still awake at midnight, which we knew was going to mean a long day the next day. <br />
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What we didn't anticipate was Avery waking up screaming her head off at 2:30am and not being able to be soothed by either of her moms. In order to preserve the sleep of the other two (and the people in neighboring rooms!) I took Avery outside and walked her around the parking lot in a carrier for an hour. Needless to say, when everyone woke up around 7:30/8 we were all pretty weary and a little grumpy.<br />
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If you have even a general sense of direction you might be wondering why the heck we were headed north and west when our new house is south. But like I said at the top, we are going the circuitous route to Florida, via Chicago! We arrived in Chicago on Tuesday afternoon after a nice little lunch stop in Sturgis MI with our good buddies Deirdre and Clodagh. We are spending 5 or so days here in Chicago before starting south, with the bonus of having Denise join us for the drive. Totally worth the extra time to have some time with family and to pick up extra hands for the rest of the drive and the first week or so in our new digs. <br />
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Kiddos have been having fun with Grandma and the rest of the fam since we arrived. Here are a few pics and a cute video of the kiddos squirting Tracy with their new water guns that Auntie Jess bought them today (note Jess conveniently stayed inside when the water guns came out!)<br />
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This morning we officially became home owners again! It's been a while since Michelle and I owned a house and we are looking forward to making the new house feel like home. This morning was super stressful trying to make everything happen as quickly as possible because the moving truck was already in Florida and they were telling us if we didn't have the key by noon they would have to take our stuff to storage. But before we could get the key we had to have all our mortgage docs notarized and sent off to the title company who would send to the lender, who would fund the loan and then once that was done the listing agent would release the key to the title company. And we are in the midwest, ie CST, and Tallahassee is in the eastern time zone so that put us at a disadvantage. We had a couple technical difficulties and actually missed our goal time by about an hour, but thankfully the moving company agreed to hang tight for a little longer and didn't take our stuff to storage! <br />
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Except for the craziness of this morning, this time in Chicago has been kind of a nice respite from the madness of moving. Of course the kids are still a little out of whack from not sleeping enough and the overall stress of moving, but it does seem like a little mini-vacation. Can't say any of us are looking forward to getting back into the car on the 4th!</div>
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Wow, I didn't blog the entire month of May! That is the first month I have missed in the past three years! To be fair though, this past month has been insanely busy around here. I was anticipating that my workload would be gradually dropping off before the move since I wouldn't get new referrals when we were moving in just a couple of months, but we've been so busy at work that I have gotten a couple of new kiddos. So I've still been working about 25hrs a week and then trying to pack, take care of things for the home-buying process, spend quality time with our friends here before we leave and just keep things afloat here. I really need to find some time to get things moving forward for my business once we move, but that hasn't happened yet. Oh yeah, I haven't written in so long that many of you probably don't know that when we move I'll be starting my own pediatric therapy business, Little Explorers Pediatric Therapy. I'm excited, but also a little overwhelmed.<br />
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I've been anticipating a surge of toddler insanity around here because of the stress of the move, but so far the kiddos have been doing pretty well with it. They are very excited about having a pool at our new house in Florida! And most of the time they are excited about getting "big kid beds" when we move too, though this week Ellie has been saying she wants to take her little bed. =) We've been talking with them a lot about the move and things that will happen so they can be prepared. Certainly, the hardest thing for all of us is going to be missing our friends here. Once or twice one of them, most often Avery, has said "I stay here with Hopey and Aimee when you go to Florida." We are all really going to miss both of our nannies! And I am going to miss our amazing group of Moms of Multiples here! We met because we all have multiples, but it's so great when somewhere along the way you realize you would have been friends with these people anyway. Our friend Lindsay who has two sets of twins is moving at the end of June too so we are all feeling the upcoming loss of our friend group! The kiddos are definitely going to miss their little buddies too! So we've been spending a lot of time together lately.<br />
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Okay, so I wrote those first two paragraphs before the weekend! This weekend I got a ton of packing done, but with that chaos came the much anticipated surge of toddler insanity. Michelle and I have been calming ourselves with reminders that "we are moving. they are stressed. this tantrum/whining/etc is not about xyz in the moment" over and over again. It helps to have someone give you that verbal reminder or even to say it out loud to yourself! After this big round of packing I'm feeling a little better about our ability to be ready when the movers come on the 27th but I know there is still a lot to do. Last night I spent the post-bedtime time researching the steps I need to take, forms I need to fill out, etc to formally launch my new business too so that feels good. <br />
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Even amidst the chaos of packing this weekend I do have to give the kiddos credit for some really nice independent play this weekend that certainly helped me get more done! They also helped me pack, decorate, and tape boxes!<br />
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Hard to believe we have less than four weeks here in PA. I was ready to leave ten minutes after we got here four years ago and while I am actually very excited for our new adventures in Florida I am really going to miss a lot of things about this place, especially the great community of people we have met here!</div>
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Early in March Michelle and I were really debating whether to bring the kiddos down to Tallahassee with us for our house hunting trip. We were actually leaning towards bringing them since we didn't know who would want to hang out with them for four or five days (or rather, who would feel up to the task!) and we thought maybe it would be good for them to see where we were moving and get a quick visit in with Kate. We were on the phone with Tracy one night and she actually volunteered to fly down to watch the kiddos for us. We must have asked her ten times if she was serious and was really up for it, but she insisted that she was. <br />
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We left on Wednesday afternoon and Hope took the first shift watching them that first night and the next day until Tracy's flight arrived. We haven't left them since that very first time last November and on that trip the one time we Facetimed them it made them sad so we didn't do it again. This time they were just fine with it so we got to hear about their adventures with Auntie Tracy over Facetime. All in all it seems like they had a great time with Tracy and Tracy took it all in stride. In fact, she was very brave and took them out to a restaurant by herself multiple times and drove them an hour and half to the mall in Harrisburg to go to Build-A-Bear!!! Michelle and I both thought she was nuts for making that trek, but she did it and they LOVE their bunnies & bear.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">eating out at a mexican restaurant with Tracy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">not so thrilled about the pic, but they do love their creations!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">showing off their bunnies</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">silly boy who let Tracy spike his hair</td></tr>
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It is no easy task to be solo with triplet two year olds (as Tracy now knows first hand!), but she rocked it and the kids had a great time. We can't thank her enough! Hopefully as they get a little older it will get even more manageable and Michelle and I will be able to get away for a fun vacation sometime! The trip to Tallahassee was anything but relaxing, but it was productive and that's what matters!<br />
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Tracy stayed for Easter too, which was more fun this year. Avery LOVED hunting for Easter eggs! Here are some cute Easter pics:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">dying eggs with toddlers means eating 1/4 of all the dyed eggs five min later!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">our little egg hunter!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">cutest little easter bunny!</td></tr>
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Oops! These pics have been sitting in an unwritten blog post for over a month now! Early in March Grandma Stephen came to visit and the kiddos had a blast with her as always! I didn't take enough pictures, but here are a few that capture some great moments!</div>
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This first series is of all the kiddos re-enacting the story of the three little pigs with Grandma over breakfast:</div>
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<span id="goog_700257377"></span><span id="goog_700257378"></span>We also went to gymnastics with Grandma to show her all the things we are learning. Grandma & Grandpa gave us money for gymnastics at Christmas time!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"big jump!"</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14516058501296620345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8710569397517692715.post-55854054700353886712016-04-14T18:08:00.003-07:002016-04-14T18:08:54.178-07:00The Triple(t) Threat is flying south<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Wow! It is already the middle of April and it's been a month since the last time I actually sat down to write a blog post. And as usual, I had to get up before the kiddos to do it. Likely I'll only get ten minutes before at least one of them wakes up.<br />
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Many of you already know this, but Michelle accepted a position as a professor at Florida State University so this summer we will be moving to Tallahassee, Florida. We never saw ourselves living in Florida, but this job sounds like a great fit and after getting two inches of snow here last week, the idea of warm weather year round sounds pretty darn appealing! Michelle and I went down to Tallahassee a month or so ago on a house hunting expedition and found a great house. It has a mid century modern feel and is nice and open. It still needs some updating (kitchen & baths) but I think it's going to be a great house for us. And if you ask the kiddos about our new house in Florida, the only thing you will hear from them is "It has a pool!" They are already so good in the water, but now I have new incentive to have them truly swimming by the time we move! Yesterday I took them to the pool in the morning and when I mentioned going to the pool Avery says "my pool in Florida?!"<br />
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This impending move is probably the biggest reason that I haven't had any time at all to blog lately because it feels like every spare moment is being spent comparing/contrasting mortgage estimates, homeowners estimates, answering emails, scheduling moving companies for estimates, or selling things on Facebook mommy swap sites. I am in major purge mode, trying to get rid of toys they don't play with anymore or have outgrown, clothes that don't fit or that we won't need once we move to Florida (good bye snowpants!), and generally trying to pare down our "stuff." What I really need is a weekend, probably more like a week, of kiddo and work free time to really be able to focus on this, but that's not likely to happen so I just keep doing little bits here and there. <br />
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Michelle is in the middle of collecting data for her dissertation and there is never enough time in a day for her to do everything she needs to for school either. I have a feeling that we aren't going to see much of her this summer as she comes into serious crunch time and I know she is already feeling sad about it. But hopefully, once she gets this done and gets settled into her job at FSU we will get more family time. <br />
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8:45pm Well, that wasn't too bad...I actually got to write a little bit this morning! And tonight Michelle is at a friend's house writing so I am letting the laundry sit unfolded in the basket and ignoring the mess on the train table to take a bit of time to finish this. <br />
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When we were in Tallahassee house hunting I had a meet-n-greet with a pediatric clinic in town. An hour later they called and offered me a job. (note: they did not ask me a single question, which confirmed my assumption that this was NOT an interview!) Anyway, after a lot of thought I decided not to accept the job. They were very willing to work with me on a part-time schedule, but a few things just didn't feel right to me. I was struggling to figure out how to write a "sure I'll take the job, but I don't really want to" email when I got a call from the Early Steps coordinator for the area and after that conversation I felt very confident that the best plan is for me to start my own business seeing early intervention clients and billing the state directly. It will definitely take a bit of additional work up front (just what I need, right!?), but in the end, I know it's the best plan. It gives me the most flexibility to do what I want to do, when I want to do it, and how I want to do it. I am excited about this new venture, but now I need to add "start a business" to my already long to-do list!<br />
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We are planning to move towards the end of July. We will close on the house in June, but our lease here goes through July 25th and we aren't in a rush to leave, especially since the weather in Florida in July is going to be super hot and sticky! And we are trying to eek out as many fun adventures with our friends here before we leave. We are so going to miss our Moms of Multiples crew here and the kiddos are going to miss their friends. Thankfully, the new house has lots of room so we're hoping they will come visit! <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14516058501296620345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8710569397517692715.post-28931530892843927432016-03-20T03:46:00.002-07:002016-03-20T03:46:46.933-07:00Random fun pics from February<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I started this post weeks ago and just can't seem to prioritize blogging even though it's something I really like to do. Aaahhh. I have more posts in mind so we'll see if I can get to them in the next couple of weeks! But here are some cute pics to tide you over!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Ellie was more than a little excited to have her friend's Sky costume on</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">excited Avery!</td></tr>
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Ah, how are our kids almost two and a half already! I think this year I'll try to write these little summary posts every 3 or 4 months since it seems like I NEVER find time to blog anymore unless I get up before the crack of dawn like today. I have been wanting to do a little summary post like this so we don't forget all the cute little things they've been doing over the past few months, but a million other things have been taking priority lately. As I was going through pictures to add to this post I couldn't believe that I never posted these! These were all taken on a crazy warm day in mid December and are in my top five pics of the year, maybe of all time!<br />
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The TerrificTripletTwos as we have dubbed this year have definitely been super fun, but also super challenging. If you follow our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TherrienTripleThreat/?ref=hl" target="_blank">Facebook page</a> then you have probably heard about our recent naptime (aka toddler party time) challenges and a smattering of "reason #125,678 that my child is crying" pics, and there are lots of trying times, but there are also sooo many fun times too. If you aren't already, you should follow my channel on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8MFF-1tEvEtFUKptBreffQ" target="_blank">YouTube</a> because we post quite a few videos of them there and don't always remember to post a link to Facebook or the blog. Here's a quick recap/snapshot of each of the kiddos at 28 months.<br />
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Over the past few months he has really had a language explosion. There are still times when he is harder to understand or he'll bust out a string of gibberish, but he now regularly uses 5+ word sentences and is much easier to understand. I think this has helped with his frustration (and ours) so that has been nice. Isaiah is still our "arts & music" guy. He sings A LOT, often busting out a verse of Frosty the Snowman, or whatever his song of the week happens to be, just because. Lately he's also started making up songs a lot which is super cute too. Last night on the drive home from our friends house where they read a book about Otis the Tractor & his puppy he made up a song about that book. These made up songs are where we hear the gibberish come back for sure and only a smattering of words are intelligible in these songs, but it is pretty adorable. Oftentimes, Isaiah's singing is rather, well, loud and this has a tendency to drive the girls nuts, especially Ellie. Ellie will say "I don't like that song!", which of course just makes him sing it even louder. Isaiah is the first one to start dancing and participates the most whenever we catch an occasional music type class. <br />
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A big development for Isaiah is that he decided to take ownership of potty training and just declared "no diaper!" one day. We still have our moments, but for the most part he is doing really well and now rarely wears a diaper except at night and naptime. He's so cute because sometimes I'll ask him if he needs to go potty and he'll say "no, I being 'sponsible" (aka responsible). It is funny to hear these little people using the big words we use with them over and over throughout the day like responsible and cooperative. The other day I think it was Isaiah who said "I cooperative-ating." <br />
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Isaiah's favorite color is still pink and on any given day there is about a 30% chance he will choose to wear a dress, though lately he's been really wanting to wear sweaters and sweatshirts on top. And for the past week or so he's been on a kick where he wants to wear one of his shirts with tights, though we insist on pants on top for outings. It actually works out pretty nicely since we're not quite ready to add the undies into his potty training and the tights give a nice layer under the pants without feeling like a diaper, so I've been very supportive of this new interest!<br />
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Let's see, what other little tidbits do I want to make sure to remember about Isaiah at this age?! He is still our best and most consistent counter, now pretty consistently counting to 12. He's taken the longest so far to pick up on letter recognition, but is getting pretty good at recognizing A, E, I & M now. Though, in all fairness, "I" is the hardest one because it looks so different depending on the font and it's confusing at two that sometimes it's just a straight line and other times it has a top and bottom. He often sees a T and calls it an I, which is totally understandable! Oh, Isaiah is pretty obsessed with the cartoon Paw Patrol. We don't really do character clothing, etc, but made an exception and told my sister she could get them Paw Patrol PJs and Isaiah wanted to wear them pretty much every day. He LOVES the rare days when they get to watch an episode on Amazon Video. I ended up buying a full season a few weeks ago when all three were sick and Michelle was out of town interviewing. They don't get to watch much TV and didn't used to care about it that much, but recently have become much more interested. It's fine, we aren't super anti-screentime, but lately he & Ellie have been having little meltdowns when a show is over so we're taking a little movie break this week!<br />
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Ellie-belle is still our little fashionista. She gets up in the morning and often within five or ten minutes says "I want to go get dressed!" I think I could probably count on one hand the number of times she has voluntarily chosen to wear something other than a dress in the past four months. This girl just loves her dresses! Occasionally we've tried to hang up a long tunic shirt to try to expand her wardrobe choices and she'll choose them, but as soon as they are on her body she's grabbing the bottom and trying to yank it lower saying "no, I want to wear a long dress!" or "No, this is a shirt not a dress!" And she is still a pink lover, though recently she's been a little more interested in wearing her non-pink dresses. I think if she had it her way we'd find a way to lower the bar in the closet so she could reach the dresses at will and if that was the case she would change dresses four or five times a day. Occasionally she'll try to work the system and if she's been denied an outfit change she will quite intentionally spill water on her current dress and say "my dress is wet, I need a new one!" And wearing any wet clothes is like the end of the world for this little one. <br />
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Ellie loves to read books and having us read to her is often a leisure activity of choice for her. Her vocabulary is huge! The other day Michelle had to practice giving a receptive vocabulary test so she practiced on the kiddos. You are supposed to be two and a half to take the test so they are a little young, but for a 2.5 year old Ellie scored in the 99th percentile with an age equivalent score of 4 years 9 months. I laughed because just the other day Aimee, our nanny, said "I talk to your kids like they are four year olds." She didn't know how spot on she was! While Ellie loves to read she also loves, and really needs, a lot of movement in her day to stay regulated. She is often the one initiating running circles around the couch or going down to jump on the trampoline, which I moved to the basement a month ago. She'll say "I want to go jump on the trampoline a couple minutes, okay?" Adding "okay?" to the end of her statement to make them questions is a relatively new development for her and it's pretty cute. Ellie has also become quite the little negotiator lately. She's big into asking for "one more minute" or "just a couple more minutes, okay?" whenever it's time for a transition. Of course, she's two, so those couple minutes go by and she doesn't believe me when I tell her it's time to leave/do xyz, and then starts whining "no, I said a couple more minutes!?!" <br />
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Ellie has picked up on the letter recognition stuff the fastest. I'm sure that if we had letter flashcards she'd learn her whole alphabet in no time, but that's not really our style and certainly isn't a priority. Right now we just point out letters in the course of our daily routines, on signs, books, etc and she's just a sponge. She loves pointing out "E for Ellie" anytime she sees it. She surprises me sometimes with knowing letters. Yesterday we were reading a book called "Blue Goose" and I pointed out all the letters in the title and after I pointed out the G, she told me the rest of the letters independently. Ellie is a good counter too, but Isaiah tends to dominate group counting opportunities and she just lets him have at it. As I mentioned earlier, Ellie is sensitive about sounds and doesn't like it when Isaiah gets too loud. She's also very sensitive to tone and silly voices. Sometimes Michelle or I will just say something in a silly voice and she'll say "Don't say it like that" or "Don't use a monster voice."<br />
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Avery is a really big helper and LOVES to help cook in the kitchen. If she's awake and a meal is being made there's a 99% chance she say "I want to help you make dinner" or "You have a job for me?" And although sometimes it's tough to come up with jobs she can actually help with or do by herself, she is actually the most helpful and has proven to me that she can do quite a bit. She is really into dumping/pouring lately so that is a favorite kitchen job, but she's also been very responsible about understanding the safety issues and can be trusted to stir things on the stove and cut with a sharp knife with supervision. (If I ever get to sit down to write it, I have a "how to let toddlers help in the kitchen" post in my head & lots of pics/videos to include!) <br />
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She continues to be our little grammar kiddo, always the first one to explore the next step in grammatical structure. Lately she's been really working on pronouns. She has "me" and "you" down now and is trying to sort out him and her. She will say "Ellie not listening to me. Her just walking away from me." She also has a big vocabulary, testing just below Ellie in the 98th percentile. About a week ago Avery asked the first "why" question so Michelle and I are bracing ourselves for the coming onslaught of why questions times three. Avery is definitely big into demonstrating her independence and figuring out how to do new things. She can get herself dressed and undressed the most successfully of the three and likes new challenges like figuring out how to get her socks on. She is the most likely to say "You not help me. I do it by myself!"<br />
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Avery works the hardest at making friends. When we are out and about she will go up to other kids and sometimes even adults and say "hi, what's your name?" It's pretty adorable. The tricky thing is figuring out how to expand the conversation. If they ask her name she will tell them, but then she's not sure what to say next and will often ask their name again. The bigger kids say "I already told you!" And if they walk away she gets super offended/hurt. Avery continues to be the biggest lover of babies and animals. She is so nurturing and sweet to babies and wants to pet every dog she sees. Avery is also the most likely to share with her siblings, often offering without prompting. And to balance out all this sweetness, she is also the most likely to willfully do the exact opposite of something Michelle or I ask her to do or not do, which is totally age appropriate, but nonetheless maddening! <br />
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Avery has a great memory and strong associations. We will go to a park and she'll say "Lindsay come here with us last time!" She's also good about reminding us about things we said like "You said after lunch we get to have nuts" and things like that. She also puts her good memory skills to use finding lost items. Seriously, when something goes missing, like Ellie's froggy, we always ask Avery to help us find it. And if you ask Ellie or Isaiah "who is good at finding things?" they will both say Avery. I've even heard Ellie ask Avery to help her find something completely unprompted. It's fun to see them learning each other's strengths. <br />
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Oy, it's now the end of January and I still haven't caught up on pictures from our trip over the holidays! Time is flying! Here are some highlight pics from some of our family outings in FL. Grandma & Grandpa treated everyone to a trip to the zoo for zoolights (round 2 for us!) and a trip to the "gulfarium." And one weeknight the local mall has free carousel rides so of course we HAD to take our three little carousel lovers there!<br />
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For a tiny little zoo, the Gulf Breeze zoo sure did a great job with zoolights. There were TONS of light displays. The kiddos asked if there was a carousel since they remembered riding the one at the Brookfield Zoo. We prepared them that there wasn't, but then saw this while we were waiting for the zoo train! If it's a carousel, they love it, no matter how tiny it is!<br />
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Couldn't see many animals since it was dark, but the petting zoo/animal feeding part was the exception and was a big hit!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ellie had her tongue out in every one of these pics!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grandma, keeper of the food, was a popular person!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Avery was a little obsessed with the goats but particularly this one!</td></tr>
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The next day we went to the gulfarium where we got to check out lots of sea creatures!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">holding a seastar with Mama</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">turtles!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">checking out the penguins with Grandma</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">watching the dolphin show</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">waiting is soooo hard!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the triplets aren't the only ones who like carousels!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Isaiah loved that pig, which of course, he named Sally!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">cheese!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">after the carousel Grandma treated them to DQ!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">this guy knows how to do it!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"I have some of yours Grandma?!"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">love that pure joy!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">peekaboo!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">:"I see you Mommy!"</td></tr>
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We also tried to get a family photo taken, but at the last minute the photographer canceled so we tried some ourselves...we didn't get much, but these pics of the kiddos with their grandparents are decent!<br />
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This post is chock full of cousin pics. Now that the triplets are older and talking so much, Abigail was WAY more interested in playing with them. And for whatever reason Abigail and Ellie really hit it off! And of course, this was the first time we all got to meet Kyria. And man, oh man, "baby Kyria" was a huge hit, especially with Avery, our super baby lover! Here are some of the best pics and a couple videos!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">so proud!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">holding on tight! "she's heavy!"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Abigail helping Isaiah learn how to fly the kite</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"I love baby Kyria"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Avery, whatcha doing?"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"aw, I gotcha big girl, I gotcha"</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14516058501296620345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8710569397517692715.post-75541068676303921312016-01-12T20:43:00.000-08:002016-01-12T20:43:29.428-08:00First Snow of the Year<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Avery has been asking "When's the snow coming?!" for weeks. She finally got her wish today! Here are some pics from our first outing with two year olds in the snow. Hope had them outside when I got home in whatever snowgear she could find in the closet. They really wanted to go sledding, but we don't have a good sled so we had to make do with the boogie board and some thin little sleds. They didn't mind!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Isaiah was less sure about this sledding thing...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">but then decided it was pretty fun!</td></tr>
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We went in for a warm up and then they decided they needed to go out again. So this time I dug up all their snow gear! Of course, Ellie was nakey when she put on her snowpants and then did not want to put on a shirt underneath. I was not going to fight that battle. Then she told me she didn't want a coat. I figured that would last 30 seconds once we got outside, but she stuck by her plan for at least 5 minutes, only relenting when I pointed out that if she had a coat on she could climb over the fallen tree!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">silly kids!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">happy boy on his first outing to the beach</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">a boy and his grandpa</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">they were a little wary of the waves at first so I was trying to be<br />
REALLY enthusiastic! =)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">that fear didn't last long! "Grandma, run with me!"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grandpa built a sand snowman!</td></tr>
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Isaiah just LOVED the waves. He always wanted a hand held because he was still a little nervous, but he was soooo excited! It was adorable.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"OH it's a BIG one!"</td></tr>
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I had fun playing with the camera on the beach too. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">mama & Isaiah</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">this is my favorite of my artsy shots =)</td></tr>
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It was great to get to meet our new little niece, Kyria on this trip too! Don't worry, you'll get to see lots more pictures of her because the kiddos were obsessed with "Baby Kyria!"</div>
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As you left the beach there was a shower and that was one of Isaiah's favorite parts of the trip. He could've played there for an hour I think...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"okay I spray YOU Mommy?!"</td></tr>
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Then we finally got a legitimately nice day. Sunny and 70 in December...yes please! As you can see, this helped Ellie get into the beach frame of mind...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">love this pic! If you only saw this and the one above you'd think <br />
Ellie loved the beach! But the video below paints a different picture...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In reality she booked it out of there as soon<br />
as possible most of the time!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">waving goodbye to Avery & Isaiah</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">not the greatest family shot, but it was the best of the bunch!</td></tr>
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And we had fun playing in the sand too...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Where are our legs?!</td></tr>
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There was a guy near us with a boogie board and Avery really wanted to try it so we asked to borrow it for a few minutes. Then Isaiah had to try it too. It was all going really well...and then the big wave came!<br />
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These next few pics are from our last day in Florida. It was a pretty chilly, windy day, but we couldn't not go to the beach one more time...<br />
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I'm finally getting caught up on the holiday happenings. Here's a quick photo heavy recap of our time in Chicago. We arrived late on Saturday, thanks to the first of many flight delays on our holiday journeys. Thanks to that and the excitement of traveling the kiddos got off to a rough start when it comes to sleep. They were basically a wreck at night until our second to last night and then it was time to head to Florida. Sadly, but not unsurprisingly, the not-so-great sleep resulted in crabbier and whinier kiddos than normal. Thankfully there were lots of extra hands to help entertain and soothe them. Sunday morning a few of our friends from college came over, including Laura and her two month old twins. Everyone enjoyed getting some baby time, but no one more than Avery. =)<br />
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Then on Sunday after nap we loaded up the whole family and headed to Brookfield Zoo to catch the last night of zoo lights and take advantage of the zoo membership Denise bought this summer when we went. Sadly despite being a pretty mild day, by evening it was windy and pretty cold. We sought out refuge in some indoor exhibits though and it was fine. And as far as the kiddos are concerned the whole night was worth it for the two carousel rides!<br />
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We celebrated Christmas with the Stephens a day early since we were flying out at 6am Christmas morning. The kiddos opened their stockings from Santa before breakfast.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This place is intense! Even has a Santa<br />movie projected on the window!</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14516058501296620345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8710569397517692715.post-50731799978671499792015-12-23T13:14:00.002-08:002015-12-23T13:15:34.652-08:00Holiday travel with three two year olds<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Saturday was our first two of six flights we'll be taking with our
three two year olds over the holidays. We have flown with them before
at <a href="http://therrientriplethreat.blogspot.com/2014/04/plane-travel-with-6-month-old-triplets.html" target="_blank">6 months</a>, <span id="goog_1063826897"></span><span id="goog_1063826898"></span><a href="http://therrientriplethreat.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-long-journey-to-hawaii.html" target="_blank">9 months</a>, and <a href="http://therrientriplethreat.blogspot.com/2015/03/air-travel-with-triplet-toddlers.html" target="_blank">18 months</a>,
but every time has been different because they change so much in such a
short time. And we knew that this time was going to be different too
because now that they are two we had to buy five seats! Talk about
making traveling more expensive! In March when we went to Seattle we
took one car seat on board for the kiddo who wasn't in one of our laps.
The car seat was nice to have for containment purposes and also
napping. But as we started planning for this trip we just couldn't wrap
our brains around how we could realistically get three car seats on and
off six airplanes, while also managing three toddlers. We thought
about just bringing one, knowing we could contain the other two if need
be, but that just seemed like it would set us up for battles over who
had to (or got to) sit in the car seat. So in the end we opted to just
check all three car seats and trust them to be big kids and sit in their
own seats. When we bought our tickets we got the Delta credit card
which got us a free checked bag with each seat, which was perfect for
this trip because we had to pack clothes for cold and warm weather,
presents for two families, and hand-me-downs for baby Kyria! This was
our load to check when we checked in in State College!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">checking everything meant a much lighter load through the airports</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the past they've always been in carriers through security, but this time they said they wanted to walk</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We insisted on the carriers for boarding though!</td></tr>
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When
we bought our tickets we had to strategize seating arrangements because
each leg of our journey had different size planes, some with two and
two, others with three and three, and a couple with three and two. In
the past we haven't been able to be in a row of three because with lap
babies there weren't enough oxygen masks, but now that they're in their
own seats we can do that. The trickiest to figure out are the tiny
little two and two planes in and out of State College because we either
had to have two kids sitting together with a mom across the aisle and
one behind, or have a kiddo sit alone across the aisle and next to a
stranger. It was a last minute decision, but we ended up having Ellie
sit by herself because Isaiah was cranky and in "mama mama mama" mode
and Avery was a little anxious and wanted to sit with/next to me. Ellie
was so brave and was 100% fine with sitting by herself next to a
stranger.<br />
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were really good and for the most part stayed put in their seatbelts
with only a handful of reminders. The snack helped and kept them
occupied for a good chunk of time. Sadly, on our second flight there
was no snack/beverage service because it was such a short flight. That
and the fact that it was their bedtime when we took off meant the kiddos
were much squirmier on the second flight. Ellie and Isaiah were pretty
content watching a video with headphones, but Avery wasn't digging the
headphones and isn't as into movies anyway so I had to work more to keep
her entertained! But all in all they did very well and I am very happy
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had a layover in Detroit, which worked out great to burn off some extra
energy. They loved the moving walkways and were nervous, but intrigued
by the escalators. A big bonus in Detroit is that there is a little
light rail in the airport so they got to ride two trains and two planes
in one day! We found an empty gate near ours and just let them all run
around. Of course, then we almost missed our flight because just as we
were packing up to head over two out of three suddenly had to poop!
Thankfully we made it on the plane!</div>
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was pretty happy that I'd brought a little chico expandable bag to
carry their backpacks in when they were over the novelty of carrying
their own bags.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detroit had a little "letter to Santa" station that occupied them for a bit</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">asking Santa for a baby doll</td></tr>
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Months ago we bought tickets for the Santa train with a group of other families with multiples. We had it in our heads that we flew to Chicago on the 19th so doing the train on the 18th seemed like a great idea. Then we realized that our plane was actually the afternoon of the 18th! Thankfully, the train ride was at 10am and our flight wasn't until later so we just had to be ready to go the night before. Then our flight got pushed back a bit, which meant the kiddos got a nap after the Santa train, which I'm sure made our flights better!</div>
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Here are some highlight pics from the train ride...</div>
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So, looking back on it a few days later, I think the kiddos had a good time on the Santa train. In the moment, Michelle and I were not so sure. Sometimes it feels like the saying "there's no such thing as fun for the WHOLE family" is so true. In the past when we've been on trains they've been a little more enthralled with the overall experience, but they were super antsy and wiggly for the whole train ride so it wasn't super fun for the moms. Also, I'd love to give the organizers some feedback that they should have the characters just wandering around for the whole ride. As it was they didn't start until halfway through and then just came one after another, rushing through to make it through the whole train before we returned. Oh well, it was an experience and they've had fun talking about it for the past few days.</div>
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We had a fun weekend with friends this past weekend. The kiddos BFF Clodagh and her mom (their other BFF Deirdre) were back in town and stayed with us for the weekend. Friday afternoon we met up at the Nittany Inn on campus for happy hour to celebrate Michelle's classmate's dissertation defense. We beat the party there so we ran around in an open area and the kiddos had a blast. So much so that Avery asked to go back the next day!</div>
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After the happy hour celebration Deirdre & I headed over to the arboretum with the kiddos for their winterfest. Unfortunately it was not nearly as interesting/exciting as we'd imagined it would be...</div>
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The next day we went to Talleyrand Park to take advantage of the beautiful and very unseasonably warm weather!<br />
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Later on Saturday we hosted a cookie making party for 11 toddlers!!! Yes, that is right, 11 children four and under, 8 of them two and under! <br />
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Well, actually we left town to go see Santa, but those are minor details. We haven't talked a lot about Santa, but they have really been picking up on the idea and have been excited (or anxious) to see him. Ellie has been spontaneously saying "I love Santa!" When we talk about going to see him Avery got a little anxious and sometimes said "I scared," but other times would be excited to talk about him. So we figured she would be pretty nervous. We hadn't decided what our Santa plan was going to be, but a fellow rugby coach gave us a heads up that his law firm had a great Santa today our in Millheim so we decided to go for it and met up with some friends in the area and grabbed lunch.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">surprise! Look who was helping Santa today?! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">"Hopey!"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">proud boy who can blow his new train whistle from Santa</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">making coffee</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">mmm...Ellie & Isaiah must make some good coffee!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michelle was REALLY happy for this one</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">watching Santa's Christmas train</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">wishing they were a couple inches taller =)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">watching with friends...note the potato chip riding aboard the train...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bernie made lots of little friends by sending chips around on the train</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14516058501296620345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8710569397517692715.post-25238728513315434902015-12-02T19:20:00.000-08:002015-12-02T19:43:16.415-08:00The Brave New World of Toddler Beds<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I’ve been trying to get this post written for close to a
week and just keep getting distracted by ten million other demands on my
time. Shocking, I know!<br />
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We are in the midst of yet another big transition in our
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themed thanksgiving dinner with friends...</div>
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and then right after we bid them adieu
we also said hasta la vista to the cribs! Let me preface the rest of this post by asking all the parents reading this...when your kids were two, did you ever once think "Hey, we should invite their two best friends over for a sleep-over!?" NO! I didn't think so...</div>
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This was NOT the plan! I was in
the “cribs til three” camp, but realistically was really really hoping we could
make it until we moved next summer. Then
we could have big exciting big kid beds in the new house. But alas, it was not meant to be. They have been able to climb out of their
cribs for close to six months; you may recall seeing these pictures in
June. But after putting them in sleep
sacks for a couple days (which made it too hard for them to swing their leg up
to the top bar) they kind of got over it and the novelty of climbing out seemed
to wear off. And since then I don’t
think they have climbed out more than a handful of times, and even then, only
one at a time. I don’t know what was in
the air on Wednesday last week, but as I was trying to put them down for a nap
all three were repeatedly climbing out of their cribs. And they are so quick that by the time I’d
put one back in, the other two were out and running around the room like wild
hyenas. Now, if you had to guess who the instigator of craziness was going to be, who would you guess? Avery, right? But no, it was actually Ellie both at this nap and at a couple of bedtimes since who has been the most hyper and uncooperative! It was truly naptime
mutiny. Thankfully I was in a good
mental place for this trip to crazytown.
I feel like I tried everything. I
tried positive reinforcement for the two seconds one of them would stay put, I
stayed calm, I tried removing special things like a blanket or a stuffed animal
but nothing was working. And then I
walked out of the room because they were being so ridiculous and also so
hysterical that I could no longer keep a straight face and I couldn’t let them
see me laughing about it! I took this
video after I collected myself and prepared to walk back in. As you can probably hear in my voice, I was
still struggling to keep a straight face.
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I thought maybe if I put all their mattresses on the floor
they would think that was cool and would buy in to laying down. They did…for half a second! But they were being so cute rocking and
singing to their babies/animals that I left them alone and just hoped that
eventually they would give in and crash.
That definitely did not happen.
And when Avery gets really tired she can get on quite a mean streak and
that is exactly what happened. As you
can see in the video she’s laying on the futon and then seemingly out of
nowhere she goes over and bites Isaiah on the back over and over again. So I went in and we had a little chat and I
got everyone settled down before leaving again.
That’s where the video picks up again and you can see her being so sweet
to Isaiah, patting him and then going to steal the elephant from Ellie because
he asked for it! She’s like Jekyll and
Hyde when she is tired! Unfortunately
she reverted back to biting later so I removed her and put her in a peapod tent
in the guest room where she promptly fell fast asleep! The other two never gave in and just didn’t
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Naptime on Thanksgiving Day was shaping up to be just like Wednesday, and we only had two peapod tents as back up, so we opted to convert Avery's crib to a toddler bed and put the other two in the tents. Without the other two to interact with Avery settled down in her "big girl bed" right away. </div>
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So, after we finished our delicious Thanksgiving dessert the next night we proceeded to convert the other two cribs to toddler beds too. In hindsight, doing this on a night when the kiddos ate hardly any dinner and ate two desserts may not have been the best choice, but it went fairly well. Isaiah did end up sleeping in a tent in the guestroom and Michelle and I definitely stayed in a little longer than normal to help the girls settle, but they did it. We did have one teeny tiny little issue...</div>
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And the next night Isaiah decided to get on board and since then they've slept every night and naptime in their "big kid beds" and have excitedly showed them off to everyone who comes to visit or that we Facetime with. We started a sticker chart and that seems to be helping when they are testing the waters with getting out. I don't have any illusion that this streak will continue, but I feel okay about it knowing that we have the peapod tents as back ups. I think it was Thursday night that Michelle and I panicked about the fact that we only had two of those tents and promptly got on the internet and ordered a third! It will be good to have them for traveling anyway because they are so much smaller and lighter than pack-n-plays, so even if we don't really need it as a toddler bed back up, it will still be useful. In fact, yesterday at naptime Isaiah asked to sleep in the tent and then both girls joined in. Fine by me! As long as they nap I don't really care! </div>
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I have to say that this transition hasn't been nearly as bad as I expected, at least thus far, but they do seem to be having a little more trouble settling if they wake up in the middle of the night or too early in the morning. This morning I was in their room settling one after the other from about 4:30 on. I'll keep you posted!</div>
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So, I never wrote a follow up post about our first trip away
from the kiddos. All in all, it was
great. Michelle was pretty exhausted
from all the time spent networking and presenting at the conference and spent
most of the trip limping from a combination of blisters and too many hours
standing on cement. I spent a lovely
morning sitting at a coffee shop working with our friend Marty who flew in from
Seattle to hang out. We ate a ton of
delicious food, enjoyed a couple of happy hours with Marty and classmates from
Michelle’s program, and even did a bit of shopping. The hardest times for me were when I would
see other little ones in passing. But
honestly, it was shockingly easy to slip back into my pre-kids, big city
lifestyle for a few days. And we kept
getting cute pictures of the kiddos off on a variety of adventures with Grandma
and texts that they were doing well, which made it much easier to just relax
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On Friday
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but the internet was iffy at the convention center so we lost them multiple
times. And I think they realized we
weren’t coming home right away and got pretty sad, especially Avery who just
started crying. (Michelle and I were right that she would have the hardest
time.) That was the hardest moment of the trip for all of us I think. Denise said overall they did really well, but
generally missed us the most whenever they were waking up in the morning or
from naps. They had a great time with Michelle's family and went on lots of adventures!</div>
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We got home from Denver on Sunday afternoon and all three
were napping so we didn’t get a joyful “run to mommy” welcome home, but
they certainly were happy to see us when they woke up. We got lots of good hugs and snuggles that
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We weren’t about to start a
10hr drive at 4pm so we drove home all day Monday making for a long long
day. And because I missed Monday and had
a couple of quarterly review meetings my work week was jam packed Tuesday
through Thursday. And of course,
Michelle has been trying to get a ton of work done this week too. Between that and just having been out of
routine for a week, this past week has been a rough one. I’m sure it is a combination of factors, but I completely
lost my parenting groove making this past week feel even harder. I’m sure some of it is that we’ve all been
off our normal routine for a week but I also think being completely “off duty”
for five days seems to have reset my
sense of “normal” or made me forget how much energy a typical day with triplets
requires. I have just been off my game
all week and even just having the mornings and evenings with the kiddos has
felt so hard. I’ve been more easily
frustrated with their typical toddler refusals, constant dawdling, whining or
crying for what they want, and what feels like constant fighting. When I’m not completely immersed in it I can
see that it’s really just typical two year old behaviors and no different than
before the trip and that there are lots of cute and fun moments too. But in the moment, it’s hard to see and feel
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when I'm "off my game" I can't step back enough to take a picture so all I found where cute and silly pics and videos like these two!</div>
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I started writing this post on Friday or Saturday. It is now Tuesday and I am happy to report
that on Sunday things started to turn around.
I’m starting to get my groove back and can feel myself having more
patience and having an easier time staying calm amidst the chaos. That is the key to sanity I think when trying
to parent triplet two year olds…finding a way to find, be, and model calm
amidst the chaos. I think I just found
my own new internal mantra. =) Here’s to
a better week and lots more calm amidst the chaos!<o:p></o:p></div>
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