I accomplished absolutely nothing today. I had plans to clean the kitchen and then start organizing and pricing things for our upcoming yard sale. Instead, I woke up with a big fat swollen eyelid. Bob said he punched me in my sleep. It must have been some punch because you should see my face. I look like some sort of swollen eyed freak from the planet "psycho triplet mom." It was so weird to just wake up like this. I immediately sent Bob to
CVS for some
benedryl because I was sure it was an allergic reaction to something (perhaps waking up at 7am?). I took 2 pills and promptly passed out for about 4-5 hours. When I woke up, my eye was even bigger than before and I couldn't see very well out of it. I was close to visiting my friend in the ER who happens to work there. I finally ended up calling her instead and it sounds like I'm going live. I'll have to see if I am any better tomorrow. Otherwise, I'll try to get in to see a doctor. The difference between seeing a doctor in clinic vs. the ER is about $90 and 6 hours of my time. I'm hoping my eye is just better tomorrow!
So enough whining about it. I obviously can see enough to be able to type this.
Bob and I had a really fun little vacation in Lake Tahoe. Unfortunately, we don't have any pictures to share. I brought the camera, but we just didn't use it. We started at our favorite local breakfast spot and then headed out of town. We had the BEST dinner at a restaurant called the Tahoe Grille. The food was so delicious I'm seriously still thinking about it. The next day we went to the lake and relaxed. While we were walking around on one of the trails, we saw a map that showed "things to do in the Tahoe area" on it. There was an ice arena around the corner from where we were. Bob asked me if I wanted to skate. Of course I did. I hadn't ice skated for years, but I had so much fun. They had public skating, but a lot of their figure skaters were practicing. It was fun to skate around with them. I didn't do too bad either. I pooped out after about a half hour though. Plus, I wanted to quit while none of my bones were broken. I do have three toddlers to care for. (With my one eye hahaha..) After skating, we did a little gambling. Bob actually won $90 at one point. We left only $20 in the red, but we had plenty of free drinks so we say we broke even. We acted like such old people because we were in our hotel room by 5pm. We ended up watching movies and ordering room service for dinner. We really know how to party. When we woke up Thursday morning, I was so ready to come home and see the girls. I missed them so much. We really did have a nice time away though. It was great to have that alone time as a couple. We're better parents for it.
Let's see...what else.
Morgan is walking pretty well now too. I'm so proud of her. She's so funny. Her favorite thing to do right now is dive head first off the couch. She scares me every time she does it, but she just does it over and over again. Silly girl.
Oh! Sophia was released from physical therapy. She had her last appointment last week. She is doing so well she doesn't need Erin anymore! I'm so proud of how far she has come.
Rachel has her food therapy evaluation this week. I'm really looking forward to it. She can be such a little stinker to feed. She's also so much smaller than Morgan and Sophia. I realized that the baby food she is eating doesn't have nearly as much fat and calories that the foods that the other girls eat does. I started adding a little bit of olive oil to her food at dinner time to add some fat and calories. She is definitely still my peanut!
My mom had her 60th birthday party last weekend. (Happy Birthday again Mom!) When we arrived at the party, Sophia had an immediate meltdown and cried for 20 minutes straight. I ended up having to call Bob to come and get the girls. (He was at home working....again.) He came and brought the girls home with him so that I could stay and enjoy the party.
The next day we were supposed to go up to my dad's for a family reunion. I ended up leaving Sophia behind with Bob and just brought Morgan and Rachel with me. We didn't need a repeat of the night before.
Well, I think I'm going to go rest my eye. Hopefully, I'll be as good as new tomorrow.
Oh and a big shout out and THANK YOU to my mom and neice. They stayed at our house with the girls while we were away.
Until next time!
Do you see what we have here? I'm calling it sweet freedom! We're no longer tied to our stroller to shop. Yay! A couple of weeks ago, I sent out an SOS for help..... to my local triplets group asking them for advice on how to shop without the stroller. I can't even tell you how hard it is to push a stroller and try to pull a cart or carry a basket. One of my friends told me that her favorite place to shop was Costco and Sams club since they both have double carts. Then she told me to strap a booster chair on the inside of the cart. Genius! It worked great! 
