Ten years ago today, Travis and I had our first date---who knew how wonderful our lives would be 10 years later!
I cant believe this year just keeps flying right on by. We had our first official playdate this week with the Orr triplets, Harper, Jack and Caroline. The Orr babies are about 3 months older than Braden, Brooks and Kate and will hopefully make for great playmates in the next few years. I think it will be good for Braden, Brooks and Kate to have peers in a similar family situation and I know it is good for me to have contacts with other mothers of triplets. I was also able to go to dinner with 3 other mothers of triplets this past week and am thankful for these new women in my life. They truly "get it" when I have questions or concerns and will hopefully be a great support for me in the next few years. From the dinner (there was a mother of 3 year olds, 2 year olds, 1 year olds and me), I concluded that life will most likely get harder before it gets easier. It is interesting hearing the different struggles that each of us are currently going through and helpful/scary to hear what lies ahead.
Stephanie, our TEIS teacher, made her second visit this week. She observed that Braden is "very strong" and will be walking sooner rather than later (not that he is close to walking yet, he just pulls himself up any chance he gets). He is able to scoot all over the floor, but has not yet conquered a true "crawl". Brooks is doing much better at sitting independently and is able to transition from sitting to quad position. He is also able to scoot himself in all directions. Kate has also improved her sitting and is rocking on all 4's. She scoots as well, but no crawling so far.
Baby food is going well. They are now getting 3 meals/day with 5 bottles. After talking with the other mothers and Stephanie, I think it is time to move them up to stage 2 foods. I am a little nervous about this progression, but I am sure they will be fine.
We had our second set of professional pics last week which I think went really well. It is very difficult to keep 3 babies happy long enough to get all individual and group shots (esp if you want them in more than one outfit). You can see how big each of them are getting.
We are going to take them to church at Grandmothers tomorrow for the first time, so they should get good and spoiled from all the attention :)
