"T & D + 3": This Time Last Year...

This time last year, Cameron, Evan, and Sophia were still baking away, and now here we are...

Eleven Months, two weeks later and counting!

I was thinking back to a year ago...I can honestly say I had no idea what I was in for. I remember being so worried about the pregnancy and birth, and not even able to think about what comes next. Now I know! In exactly eight days my sweet peas will be a year old! There's so much to celebrate-not just having three beautiful, healthy, and happy babies, but also the mere fact that Dave and I made it through the first year! Plans are underway for the first birthday party. I suppressed the urge to throw an over the top "My Super Sweet Sixteen" type bash...most first birthday parties are more for the adults than babies anyway. It will be a Sesame Street theme, because whenever it comes on the babies freeze and glue to the TV. It's kind of sentimental, since my first birthday was Sesame too. My aunt is going to make a Big Bird cake, and I am going to attempt to make small individual cakes for the babies. Hopefully the weather will cooperate so we can have a cook out in the back yard. The babies are moving around like crazy...all crawling and climbing like mad. Sophia was the first to pull herself to standing, and the boys soon learned from her. Cameron decided to reach this milestone at 3am...I heard him fussing and walked in to see him standing up in his crib smiling at me! They are also getting harder to keep "out" of stuff. As you can see from some pictures below, if they can get on it or into it...they will!

Sophia

Grrr...why can't I pull Daddy's hair out in clumps like the cat's?!

Evan and Sophia with Grammy
We went out for a belated Mother's Day brunch with my mom and Tim. Very classy place in Woodstock called The Harvest. They didn't really know what to do with three babies, so they stuck us on the porch and closed the door. Fine with us!

Cameron
As you can see, he is now "sans helmet". There was a very noticeable difference after the first month of wearing it, but little change after that. Now that it's getting hot, we called it quits. It's not a perfectly round little melon, but it's close enough.

Evan

Sophia

Like Father, Like Son
Dave and Cameron

Hey, how did you get over there?!
Sophia and Evan

Evan seems to think Daddy's belly is a bongo drum

Let me out of here mommy!!!!!
Sophia

Sophia helps Daddy change her brother's diaper.

We took the babies out to a dairy stand. This ice cream tasting went much better...Evan loved it of course. We're finding there's not much he doesn't like to eat-he is getting rounder by the day. We call him our little meatball.

Yummy...more please!

Jail Break!
I took down the baby gate and let em' loose! It was too funny...and nerve-racking!

Quick, let's make a run for it!

Sophia finds a cozy place to hang for a while

I did it!

Daddy and his boys

So ever wonder what it takes to feed one year old triplets? Besides three 8 oz bottles each day, they eat about 1 1/2 cups of cereal, 8-9 containers of baby food, a cup of yogurt, and an uncountable number of puffs, yogurt melts, crackers, cheese bits, and other finger foods. Wal-Mart was having a sale on Gerber foods, so I stocked up. When the cashier saw me coming with a cart full of baby food, she said "Looks like you're feeding an army!" Of course, I laughed and told her close enough, triplets. Anyway, when I got home and unpacked the bags my counter looked like a Gerber store!

Our stocked up pantry...this MAY last us about two weeks.

We got our first haircuts! Some of us (Evan) were LONG overdue. Here is Sophia waiting her turn.

Cameron peruses Sports Illustrated while he waits

Evan looks a little nervous..."Just a trim, right mom?"

Evan's hair is gorgeous, think, shiny, and even a little curl to it. However, he had TONS of it, and it was long enough to be considered a "baby mullet" so it had to go.