Days Alone with 4 children

Are really TOUGH!

Emmalee is really challeging. Of course she wants attention, she's 2 for goodness sake! I give it to her when I can, but for most of the morning, I'm feeding babies, then getting bottles ready (I do this also when she goes to bed and during nap, it's something that has to be done many times a day with 3 babies!!) She loves to watch movies, which makes it easy to turn one on, then do what I have to do with the Trio and even have some time to get a few other chores done! When her movie is done, she usually eats, then wants to nap! (The morning goes by way too fast!)

Most mornings she's the one that wakes me up. She screams "Mommy Mommy Mommy" until I come get her at around 7-7:30 am! The babies are on a good sleeping schedule. They eat around 10-11 (give/take an hour depending on the day) and then they stay asleep, in our room in their bassinets until about 3-4am! It has been a quick transition to get them to sleep thru the night (if you can call it that at this point.) so I'm happy about it! They go for about 5-6 hours, which is AWESOME for preemies and 2 month olds! Then they sleep til I get them up around 8-9 depending on the day! It's starting to get a lot better! I usually don't get in bed til about 11pm so I'm getting about 4 hours of sleep, ALMOST uninterrupted, sometimes Noah has little spit ups in the night, so that breaks up my sleep.

They're eating about every 3-4 hours, 4oz for Owen, 3.5oz for Noah and Lyla just barely takes 3oz! She's one that gives a fight everytime she eats! She just doesn't wanna take it all! She usually takes 2oz, then she's done, ready for more in 2-2.5 hours! It would be fine and dandy if she was the ONLY baby! But c'mon Lyla, didn't you get the memo? There are 3 of you!!!!

My weeks fly by, but the days seem long. I am alone Mondays and Thursdays, and most weeks I have help from my cousin Julie on Tuesdays and Fridays, she's awesome! On Wednesdays my sister-in-law Heather helps out after she gets done with her job in the late morning and stays til my niece, her daughter, gets out of school. Tuesday nights my parents bring dinner, and the past couple weeks we've had dinner with Heather and Bob and Nicole. Thursdays my In-laws were bringing dinner, but that quickly changed. We are going to be going to my parents every other Sunday for a family dinner with my siblings and then the alternating Sundays we are going to have Andy's parents over, and they'll bring dinner. It's such a HUGE thing not to have to think about dinner, and actually having the time to make it is almost impossible. Once I have longer stretches, I'll have time to prep meals, and even get crockpot dinners going the day before, but right now, it's too chaotic! We also have frozen meals from friends and family, which really come in handy as well! I'm so grateful for all the people in my life that are always there in these HUGE ways, just willing and able to help! THANK YOU ALL!

Pictures for today are the babies trying out the Bumbo chair for the first time! LOVE IT! Emmalee is digging into a box of Cornflakes, and of course spilled them everywhere!!! Then proceeded to crunch them under her feet saying, "Mommy!!! Feet!!!" Yikes!!!

2 months old!

Owen, Lyla and Noah are 2 months old!

The time has flown by, and yet the days are LONG! It's really hard living life in 3-4 hour intervals! But I'm getting the hang of it, and will be on my own this coming Monday for the first time! I've had help from my mother, family and friends everyday since the babies came home, and before that for the month that I was on bed rest. It's going to be a whole new world being alone with 4 children under the age of 3!

Emmalee loves her baby brothers and sister. She coos at them and pets them so gently. She sometimes forgets that they're here, but that is totally expected, because she is a toddler and her world is all about her! She is going to be the challenging part of my day. Keeping her occupied and entertained while I feed each of the babies is going to be difficult. I know she'll sit and watch TV all day, if I let her, but I don't want that to become a habit. Of course at first, it might be the only way to keep her out of trouble. We will see!

At the triplet's 2 month checkup, they have made excellent growth! Owen is 10lbs, Lyla is 7lbs12oz and Noah is 7lbs11oz! They are doing amazing. They boys had their circumcisions, and the Dr. who did it put rings on that were way too tight, so they had to be removed at their appointment (thank God we had it!) because they were swelling up so bad, and starting to look infected. Poor boys, they were so upset and sore, and to top things off they had to have 4 shots for immunizations! They are healing very nicely though, and are no longer in pain. Thank goodness!

Andy has been home all week, it has been nice having him here. Unfortunately during his week off our van broke down, and had to be repaired all week. The dealer that we got it from had to cover all the work, because they gave us a 6mo extension on the Lemon Warranty, and we are still within that time frame. They were really giving us a hard time about it though, so Andy spent 3 of his days off playing phone tag with these jerks, arguing about what they need to do for us. Luckily we got a loaner van, so we could get some running around done that we had planned.

Life with triplets is amazing. Never a dull moment, and they each have their own personality. Emmalee is already an amazing big sister, and I can't wait until she can start really communicating with them! That will be amazing! Noah really responds to her when she talks to him, it's so adorable!