However, today......was NOT a good day. And it's not over yet. I still have a cryer/whiner (Morgan) upstairs at this very moment and it's 9:15pm. The girls are usually all OUT by 8pm at the latest. I'm kind of losing it a little today so I thought I'd come and get my thoughts out here instead of punching a wall. I really want to punch a wall too.
So here it is...... A day in the life of being a stay at home mom to triplets!
6:15am I start to hear the girls wake up. They usually go in and out of sleep between 6 and 6:45 when we get them out of their cribs.
6:45am Bob got the girls out of their cribs and closed the master bedroom door so I could sleep until 8am. Good man. (We take turns being the one that gets up early with the girls. Today was his day.)
8am I got up and Bob got ready for work. I played with the girls then changed their diapers (because they always seem to go pooders after breakfast) and got them dressed for the day and did their hair.
9am We went for a long walk around our neighborhood.
10am Played in the front playroom and had a snack
10:45 Brought them back into the family room so they could watch tv while I prepared lunch.
11am Opened the gate in the family room so the girls could get into the kitchen for lunch. We're practicing how to "follow mommy" and to walk/crawl to their high chairs on their own. Sophia and Rachel followed me and I had to get them into their chairs as fast as possible because Morgan had taken off for the tall staircase and was halfway up the stairs by the time I could get her.
11:05 They were all in their chairs and I fed Rachel while Sophia and Morgan fed themselves. We worked on "not throwing our food on the floor" which is a constant struggle.
11:30 Lunch was over. We went back to the family room area and played and looked at books.
12pm Changed diapers and took pony tails out so they don't pull them out and eat the rubber band in their cribs.
12:15 They all climbed up the stairs and no one tried to get away. YAY!
12:30 Girls were asleep!
12:30 Washed dishes, started a load of laundry, and filled the girls' swimming pool so it wouldn't be too cold for their afternoon swim.
1:15pm Ate lunch and relaxed for a little while
2pm I'm working on organizing the master bedroom closet so I worked on that.
2:30 Rachel woke up and woke everyone else up a half hour early. UGH!
2:45 Got them out of their cribs and gave them a snack and a juice sippy
3pm Put on swim diapers and swim suits
3:15 The girls played in their pool for the first time and LOVED it! I sat in a chair with my feet in the water and played with them.
4pm The girls started to try and climb out and grab things around the pool so I got stressed out and brought them inside. (The pool is right in front of our sliding glass door on our patio.) They all screamed and cried because they wanted to stay in the pool. I just couldn't keep it up alone though.
I got them all dried off, changed diapers and got them dressed.
4:30 Loaded the girls into the van for a drive because I didn't want to make dinner. We drove around a bit and then went to the Jack in the Box drive thru for grilled cheese for them and a coke for me!
5pm Got them out of the van and into their high chairs. Gave Sophia and Morgan their grilled cheese. Made Rachel's food..sweet potato and chicken puree with potato flakes to thicken it and olive oil to add calories. Then I heated up some peas and carrots for Sophia and Morgan to have with their grilled cheese. Then they snacked on Grandma's banana bread and a few cheerios before they were done.
5:40 Turned the tv on for the girls and then got their bath ready. Had to drag the pack n play upstairs to use as "the holding tank" for when they are waiting to get into the tub or when they get out of the tub. Got diapers and wash cloths and everything ready. Got them all upstairs, undressed, and in the tub. Bathed them all at once.... yeah I'm cool like that.
6:10 This is when our day started to fall apart. I let the water out of the tub and then get the girls out one by one as the tub is draining. Got their diapers on them and put them in the "holding tank" hahahaha) one by one. Once they were all diapered, I brought them back downstairs. I started brushing Rachel's hair and getting her dressed when I started to smell poopers. Then I saw a naked Sophia crawl across the room in front of me. I looked down where she had been before and there was a diaper on the carpet filled with POOP and poop on the carpet! I put Rachel down, grabbed the poop off the floor with my bare hands, grab the nasty diaper, then grabbed Sophia before her poopy butt was spread all over the room. I cleaned her up and re-diapered her and put a onesie on her immediately. This was the first time she'd ever taken her diaper off. Lucky me!
I still smelled poop and sure enough Rachel and Morgan had pooped too! I had to re-diaper all of them! At least only one dirty diaper got on the carpet right??? haha....I got the girls all dressed and ready for bed and gave them their bed time milk. We read books and watched Sesame Street until about....
7:15pm The girls all climbed the stairs and walked into their bedroom. Bed time YAY!
7:30pm Morgan started in on the "I'm in control of mommy and I'm throwing my paci around" game. Her game goes like this.... Throw paci out of crib. Throw herself down in her crib and kick and scream for her paci. Mommy gives her the paci back and within 30 seconds she does the routine again. I waited 10 minutes before I went in again. She was hysterical. I gave her the paci and walked out of the room. She did it AGAIN! We did this over and over again until around 8pm.
8pm I put the pack n play in my bedroom and put her in there where she did it again and again and again. She FINALLY just settled down now. It's 5 minutes before 10pm.
Now I need to transfer her back into her crib without waking her up.
Mommy needs a drink!
What happened to my wonderful sleepers? We've had almost 5 months of easy bed time and sleeping all through the night. It's been pure bliss. Is there some sort of crazy shift at this age? I thought I was going to lose my mind tonight. I'm mentally drained from this evening. Last night at 2am, Rachel woke up and thought it was party time and was bouncing up and down in her crib. The night before that, Sophia had woken up from 3-5am. What in the world is going on? I'm exhausted!
So that was my day. Bob is out with friends for a while tonight so I've been alone since around 8am. It's just been such a long day! Ah well, tomorrow is a new day right? Right????
Oh and I have some SUPER cute pics of the girls in their pool which I will post soon. I would have uploaded them tonight if I wasn't so focused on NOT punching a wall. I seriously ate half a bag of chips tonight while Morgan was screaming her head off. I guess that makes me a stress eater. No wonder I'm at my fattest weight ever other than while pregnant. Ugh... That's a whole different post altogether.
Ahh, I feel a little better now. Morgan is asleep. I didn't punch a wall and all is well for the moment. I think I'll be praying for a better day tomorrow :)
You're a hero to your family and to moms alike! I hope today was better.
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