Oh no she didn't.....

Oh yes she did!

The girls have a little activity table that is about a foot off of the ground. Today, Morgan found a new way to use it. I watched her for about ten minutes while she figured out how to get where she wanted to be. Like any mother, hahahaha... instead of trying to get her to stop climbing, I just whipped out my camera!

Here she is in action!

New rule......

Never leave the room if that little activity table is in their play area.

Watch out world. We have a climber!

Jamie Oliver doesn't have triplets!

You would think feeding the girls would be a simple task.

Yeah. I wish!

They can be such little stinkers when it comes to what they will eat. I am so tired of supplementing their meals with baby food. At 14 months old, I feel like we should be done with those little jars. The truth is, we are far from it. Well, at least Rachel is.

Bob is in charge of their breakfast. He usually feeds them oatmeal mixed with fruit. The fruit is usually baby food. We're working on just putting fruit in the food processor so they will still have a fruit serving with breakfast and something to sweeten their oatmeal.

For lunch, I've been doing whole milk yogurt mixed with banana and strawberry. I'll make them toast, french toast sticks, or grilled cheese to go with it. They'll snack on Cheerios or Kix while they wait for me to prepare their food.

Snacks.... we do dried fruit, goldfish crackers, cheese, puffs, cheerios.. whole grain organic animal crackers... whatever.

Dinner... Well, sometimes its scrambled eggs, ravioli, pasta, grilled cheese, meatloaf, meatballs, chicken..... I always give them a grain and veggies to go with it.

The problem is getting them to all eat the same thing. Rachel is usually the only one who refuses certain foods. If she doesn't like what I put in front of her, it gets thrown on the floor faster than you would ever think possible. I've noticed lately that she is only picking up crunchy foods. She will touch whatever food I put in front of her. If it's soft, she tosses it aside. If it's crunchy, it makes the short trip into her mouth.

At least I thought that was what she was doing.

I'm tired today........okay, also was feeling lazy. I didn't feel like making anything for lunch. So I loaded the girls up in the van and headed to Sonic. I had a plan to conduct a food experiment! (And yeah, I realized making them lunch would have been easier than loading and unloading them in and out of the van.)

At Sonic, I ordered a reliable grilled cheese sandwich. But instead of ordering two to share, this time I also got them a hamburger, some popcorn chicken, and some french fries too.

Jamie Oliver would not approve, but he doesn't have triplets. He can bite me! I don't give them fast food more than MAYBE once a week......and that is ONLY a grilled cheese sandwich and nothing more. I'd like to see him try to satisfy 3 one year olds! This was simply for testing purposes. LOL!

Anyway...So we got home and I put everything on a plate. It looked like a total fast food binge. My plan was to give them little pieces of each type of food to see what they would eat. Whatever they would eat, I could make a healthy version of at home to give them at another time. I've messed up my kitchen and wasted food cooking for them in the past, so I thought my plan was genius!

Yeah not so much....

They loved the grilled cheese. We already knew that since I tend to get them a Sonic grilled cheese at least one time per week when I really NEED a coke and am going there anyway! Oh and even Rachel, who has been on somewhat of a food strike lately, ate the grilled cheese....even though it's not crunchy! Totally ruined my theory. haha....

The hamburger...... They all tried it. MUCH to my surprise, Rachel loved it and ate it up. Sophia and Morgan chewed it and spit it out immediately.

The chicken... I thought Rachel would eat it since it's "crunchy," but she wouldn't even put it in her mouth. Morgan and Sophia tossed it on the floor too. I think its because by that time, they just weren't hungry anymore.

I gave them each 3 french fries. Sophia spit them out. Morgan was testing gravity and threw them all over the kitchen. Rachel.... ate em up and loved em!

I know it sounds like I fed them nothing but crap at lunch. Between the three of them, they shared one grilled cheese sandwich, a few fries, and a couple bites of hamburger that was spit out. I also gave them banana and strawberry to round it out!

I did this experiment mostly for Rachel. She has been so picky lately. One day she'll eat something and then the next she'll toss it aside! I was happy that she was eating almost everything I put in front of her, but not happy it was fast food. lol.... But at least it gives me some ideas of what she'll eat.

Oh and the whole....feed them what you eat thing... does NOT work in this house. If it's not baby food, I am not allowed to put anything else on the spoon. They spit it out and act like I'm trying to kill them. Foods other than baby food must be finger foods. See my dilemma!

Although....I am starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel. We are getting there!

I've been so busy.....

I don't know where the last week went. It's just.....gone.

I spent so much time sorting through clothes and tagging clothes and preparing for my moms club clothing and equipment sale that was this past weekend. I didn't realize so much work goes into these sales. I volunteered to help all day long too. As exhausting as it was, I did have a good time. I always enjoy being around my friends from my club. I wish I had made a little more money from the sale, but it's not a big deal. I really didn't have much to sell anyway since I had either given things away or sold them previously.

So that's what took up my time last week.

A lot has happened in the last week too.

Morgan took her first steps. She's not walking yet, but she is taking 1-3 steps at a time. Not often, but she's doing it! She's also starting to stand on her own without pulling up on to anything. She'll just get herself on her feet and then she'll slowly stand up! She does it so carefully too. It's so cute! We're so proud of her!

Rachel finally caught up and started to pull herself to standing. The whole "walking on her knees" thing has caused delays in other areas! She's improving though.

Sophia is sitting up in the proper position to play without me having to put her in that position. Her therapy is really going well. I've been working with her at home as much as possible. Erin, her therapist, taught me how to help the girls with learning to walk. I've been working with all three of them!

I'm so proud of my girls!

This week is also a busy one and I have some big plans for this weekend!

More later........ I will try not to let another week go by without an update!

What was I thinking?

Rachel had her first hair cut today. She and Sophia's hair has been growing so fast and has been in their eyes for weeks. I've been using pony tails to keep their hair out of their sweet little faces. Recently, Rachel started to pull her pony tail out. She's done it a couple of times when we've been driving too, and I have no idea where those little rubber bands went. She is not a big eater, so I'm about 99.99999999% sure she didn't eat them. Since I can't have her randomly pulling little rubber bands out of her hair, it was time for a cut to keep the hair out of her little brown eyes!

Here is her "before" pic!

We thought we were brilliant when we decided to just cut her hair ourselves. I went out and bought scissors with rounded tips just in case Rachel moved her head.... we don't want to go poking eyes out... LOL... Turns out, cutting a 14 month old's hair is NOT SO EASY.

Bob was holding her head still and I was doing the cutting....Although, I should call it butchering! It was so crooked. I kept trying to "fix" it, but I just made it worse and worse as you can see!!!!!

Here is Rachel, with her cracker in her mouth (that I gave her to keep her sitting still hehe...)...... saying.. Doh! Mommy, what did you do?

I was so mad at myself. Why did I think that I could cut hair? I started thinking about all the pictures I'd be taking of the girls tomorrow on Easter and....oh my... her poor hair. It was around 4:30 in the afternoon on a day before a holiday! I wasn't sure what to do. So after freaking out for about 5 minutes, I called the kids hair salon that is so close to our house that we could walk there. Bad news.... They were closing at 5pm. Good news... They were sympathetic to my panicked voice and told me to come right over since I could get there within 5 minutes.

Oh and I'm a bad mommy........When I put Rachel in her car seat, I smelled poop but didn't have a minute to spare to change her diaper. Ugh...... We got to the salon 10 minutes before they were closing. Whew! I wanted to hug the girl who fixed Rachel's hair for me. Most people would be so annoyed to have someone come in at last minute 10 minutes before closing time before a major holiday, but our stylist was absolutely wonderful!

Rachel was such a good little sport! (poopy diaper and all... lol) She sat still and just smiled and flirted with the girl who was doing her hair.

Here's a pic of Rachel's bangs..... all straight and nice! A little shorter than I wanted, but that is MY fault.

So lesson learned! Sophia needs a hair cut too. There is NO WAY that I will even attempt it. I'll be taking her to get hers cut next weekend.

I have many talents.......cutting hair.... NOT one of them! :)

Chugga Chugga Choo Choo

Last weekend, we finally whipped out our Step 2 Choo Choo Wagon! It's the most coveted item in the triplet community. We were lucky to score one from another local triplet family who had outgrown it. The wagon has been sitting in our garage since last Summer. I was so excited to test it out. I have been hesitating for the last couple of months because I was worried that Sophia would throw herself backward out of the thing since she has not been a fan of the sitting position. She has been doing so great and the wagon has seat belts, so I decided to try it out. She did just fine with it. Yay!

The girls LOVE their wagon.

At first they weren't too sure of it and were holding on for dear life, but then they relaxed and giggled and smiled the whole time. The second time we took it out, Rachel said her, "yeah, yeah, yeah." She says that when she is excited about something. It's so cute!

I never understood the hype of the wagon until we took it for spin. This baby handles like a dream. I was afraid it would tip easily like the wagons I had growing up. But this thing is made very well and is super sturdy! I can see us using it all over town!

The best part is that the girls are just so happy riding in it!

Happy toddlers = happy Mommy!

Sippy Cup

Well, that's one way to do it. Here is Sophia..... learning how to use a sippy cup.

People can be so stupid....

This afternoon, Bob and I took the girls to Lowes and a local nursery (plants haha) .

At Lowes, I was pushing the girls in the stroller as Bob was shopping. We were stopped by the paparazzi so many times! We had one woman come up to me and say, "OH MY.. My daughter has one baby that she can barely handle and you have three." Then she touched my arm and leaned into me and said, "Is everything okay?" After I got over my shock, I started laughing and said, "Yes, we are fine."

I mean, what was I supposed to say to that? It was actually pretty funny though.

But then when we were in line, one woman was lucky I didn't smack her upside her head. She looked at the girls in the stroller with a look of disgust on her face. Seriously, how can you look disgusted with three cute toddlers in front of you!? She asked me... Did you do this on your own? I knew she was trying to find out if we used fertility treatments. I wasn't going to answer the way she wanted me to. So I looked at Bob in front of us and pointed to him and said, "I had some help and he's right there." LOL... Then rude no class lady said, "My daughter works at a fertility clinic and I was so afraid she was going to have "that" happen. And when she said the word, "that," she was pointing at my girls again with her ugly rude face.

Thankfully, we were done paying so I just gave her a dirty look, shook my head, and walked away.

She's lucky that I've decided NOT to respond to rude people. There are a million things I could say, but I don't want to get into the habit of snapping at people or saying something that I would later regret saying in front of my children. So I'm just not saying anything!

When we went to the nursery, we got nothing but smiles and nice comments. I love it when the good outnumbers the bad! :)