Happy Halloween!

Today was the Trio's first Halloween, and Emmalee's first time Trick-or-Treating! The babies wore their BLT shirts that my sister Rebecca made them. They looked so cute! Emmalee was a pretty pink butterfly!

The cycle of taking care of infant triplets is becoming "easier" but monotonous. It's a never-ending cycle of feeding one, then the next and then the next, wait a couple hours (if that) and then repeat. Once and awhile I get to have some one-on-one time with each of them, but most of the time, when I'm alone for the day, I rarely get that because once I'm finished feeding one, one of the others is ready and waiting. (aka screaming and crying!)

Also inbetween feedings and cuddling, I do have to entertain Emmalee. The TV has been doing overtime, and I'm really feeling horrible about it! So I've started BLACKOUT periods. Sometimes first thing in the morning up until naptime, I will not put the TV on at all, then when she gets up from nap I put on a movie. Thing is, as soon as she wakes up, from a full night of sleep, or a nap, she asks to watch something. Sometimes I turn off the TV after watching first thing in the morning and don't turn it on again until after dinner, or later. (Andy has a hard time with this!) She's been so glued to the TV it's really BAD! She's not suffering intellectually, but she doesn't really PLAY anymore. So we're fixing that!

Here's a little bit about each baby: (more for my benefit when I have time to start their baby books)

Owen: taking 5oz in a bottle most feedings 4-5 times a day. He is being a horrible eater. He won't suck on the bottle right away so he chokes on the formula, and then upchucks all over me! I've figured out how to minimize that, but it's not failsafe, YET! His hair is growing so much! I would say he's got the most hair out of all of them, and it's still a little red, but it looks like it's going away. He's smiling up a storm! He has this quirky half-smile that he turns into a whole smile if you make the right face or noise at him. He LOVES the animals on the mobile on his swing. He talks to them all the time, and he even started talking to me (and Mimi) a little too! He's a coo-er. "Ahhhcoooo" is what he says a lot. He sleeps 10hrs, but I've been bringing him in bed with me when Andy leaves, I think he wakes him up!

Lyla: we are offering her 4oz in a bottle, she takes 3.5 or less, usually 2oz and then she's eating every 2 hours. She's a DIVA! The past couple days she's been really whiny and crying so loudly if she's not attended to right away. Today I was feeding Owen (just started) and she woke up crying for a bottle. She had to wait the 20 minutes or more that it takes for Owen to eat, and she screamed the entire time. I tried, inbetween burps, to give her a pacifier, but she kept spitting it out, she wanted the real thing. Then she only took 2oz. What the heck!?!?! She's smiling a lot more, she's a tough one to crack sometimes. She coos once and awhile, but she STARES a lot. Also when she's on her tummy on my chest, her head wobbles so much that we started calling her the bobble head. It's very hard to get eye contact with her when she's in your arms. When she's in the swing looking at me, then she really sees me. She sleeps about 7 hours.

Noah: taking 4oz in a bottle 5 times a day. Still taking meds 6 times a day. He is so alert and into talking to us, he's going to be just like Emmalee. I really think he'll be our first talker of the trio. He's cooing, gah-ing, sometimes even a mahhh or baahhhh sound. He squeals with laughter and has the brightest eyes when he smiles! I just can't get over how much he connects with us! He was the smallest of the 3 so I guess we assumed he'd be behind in everything, boy did he prove us wrong so far!! He wants to get up and walk! It's hillarious! I put him in an exersaucer the other day, he barely reached the bottom, but he loved being upright like that! He's sleeping 10hrs, even when we make him take his meds early, he'll continue to sleep for a few more hours!

Emmalee is up at 7:30 or 8 usually. She's always got to take a stuffed animal, currently a little bunny that she named Mimi, and as of yesterday a pony that Mimi got her for Halloween. She loves her movies, Tangled, "Belle" (Beauty and the Beast), "Gru" (Dispicable Me), and newly Coraline. She is starting to play more now that I'm doing the BLACKOUT every couple days. So hopefully she'll get her imagination going more!! She says new things everyday that kill me!

All my kiddos are amazing and I love watching them grow and change every single minute of every single day!

Having a bad day...

So I usually look forward to Tuesdays. Julie comes over, so I have help all day, and the day flies by because of that. Then my parents come bring us dinner.

This morning I woke up to dog poop in the basement, smelling up the whole house. Lyla was screaming to eat, and I couldn't move fast enough. Then Noah was crying while I was feeding her. It's hard to listen to one cry while you're busy with another. Also, Emmalee was calling me from her crib, so I felt bad I couldn't get her! I ended up grabbing her quick before I got Noah ready to eat, so she didn't have to wait TOO long. But listening to her beg and plead for me to get her out of bed is tough!!!

Noah was being a difficult eater. He didn't even finish half of his bottle and fell asleep. So of course he's going to be off for the rest of the day. Owen was next and he was fine. Julie came after I was done feeding everyone, which is usually how it goes in the morning, but today I was just hoping she'd be early!!!

I needed to call to schedule an OB appointment for February for my 6month post partum checkup. So before I found out I was having triplets I had all my files sent to Unity OB/GYN because they work out of Parkridge Hospital, and I thought it'd be nicer to deliver closer to home, since we have Emmalee. When we found out we had triplets, we had to go to a specialist from the beginning, so I didn't even go see the Dr. at the new OB office. For my post partum, I was trying to schedule with Unity and they were giving me a runaround. I kept having to call next week, and then the next week, because they didn't have the schedule for next year up yet. So I finally get ahold of them, and the Dr. is off the week I can come in because my mom is off for February Break. So the first lady I talked to said I could schedule an appointment with a PA instead...which was fine with me. Their schedules weren't up yet, so I had to call back again. So this morning I decided to call. The lady I talked to said that I could NOT see a PA because I am a new patient and the Dr. has to see new patients for their first visits. This is fine, whatever, but I was mislead and this is the 10th time I've called this darn office. I hung up on the lady because she was talking to me like I was an idiot.

I lost it. I got really emotional and had a meltdown. Luckily Julie was here so I could go in my room and just get it all out. Awhile after I decided I would call up my old OB's office and schedule there if I was still on their patient list. I had to switch to a different Dr. there because the Dr. I originally saw left the practice. I got an appointment and am having my paperwork from my pregancy sent over, so it's all good. Just a stressful freakin' process.

Then I get my CD with all the pictures from our photoshoot last week, and it's BLANK! I tried it in every machine we have, there's nothing on it. Luckily it was free, if I had paid for them and they showed up blank, I'd be real upset. I emailed her and she's sending another one. Sucks I have to wait again.

My babies are 3 months old!!!

Can you believe 3 months has gone by since I had the most eventful day of my life!?!? I can't. It's really flown by so very quickly!

Kiddos are doing amazing! We are getting about 6-7 hours of uninterrupted sleep SOME nights! I LOVE it! Of course the nights we only get 3 or 4 are ones that preceed a day that I'm alone!!! It's good though, once they're doing this more regularly, we'll see about moving them to their cribs in their own room! I worry about Noah when it comes to this transition. He's sleeping in his Rock'n'Play sleeper, and it keeps him VERY elevated, so that he's almost in a sitting position. This will be a big change if he's moved to his crib. I'll have to see what our options are at that point, or he might just be with us a little bit longer. The actual move may not even take place for another month or so...I'll write about that when we make the first attempt!!!

Emmalee is such an amazing kid! She's talking in 'almost' complete sentences! Other people are starting to understand more of what she's saying, and she is singing songs from the MANY movies she loves to watch! I still feel that she watches too much, but it's an easy way to occupy her and keep her HAPPY, while I feed babies and clean and such. It would be really nice if I could just spend her nap time cleaning, but the babies always eat during that time, so there goes an hour or more... Doesn't make things easy!

I hope to get the Wii hooked up this week and weigh the babies. So I'll update if that happens too. Here is a teaser from our photoshoot with Liz Colombo, a photographer from Pittsford, who gave me a free photoshoot! She did an amazing job, and was very patient with all my little ones!!! Following that is a picture I got of all 4 of my babies!!! I love them all so very much!