Boy, with those stipulations the triplets are in for some stockings full of coal.
They are into everything these days, and "No" does not really stick with them. They love to climb onto the dining room chairs (which are actually stools), pull baby wipes out of the package every chance they get, find a phone, remote, or anything with buttons and run away with it, and clammer at our legs to be picked up, even when you are already holding one.
Gabbi is still ahead of the game and likes to "help out" whenever she can. She'll bring me a diaper when I have one of hte other kids down to change them, even if I already have a diaper. She'll point out when a door is open that shouldn't be, and she is now refusing to eat with her fingers and demands a spoon/fork and plate, even though she really can't use them yet.
Nate is hot/cold, he's either all smiles, or he's pounding his head (literally pounding) on something, the floor, his crib, a toy... etc... It's quite awful to witness and I can't help but wonder if he's killing some much needed brain cells for later. The doctors say it's normal and that it's a self soothing technique... but when it happens at 3:30 in the morning... it's all but soothing for the rest of us.
Jack is a tank. He rumbles and stumbles around the house with little regard for how he will stop. He'll often bowl one of his siblings over and take a nose dive himself. But he just gets up smiling and keeps on rumbling around.
Sophia is in first grade and doing great! She's been a really big help around the house lately, I'm hoping once Christmas is over it continues, and it's not just a ploy to brown nose Santa. She is reading really well, and likes to read everything... EVERYTHING... signs on the road, contents of packages in the pantry, your e-mail over your shoulder.
We took them for Santa pictures, and of course none of them wanted anything to do with Santa. We then took them to dinner afterwards at the Cheesecake factory, and they finally made it uncomfortable for us to go out for dinner. Jack was quite content, but Nate was anything but happy and was tossing his food left and right, and Gabbi was doing the same thing until she got a plate and spoon, and then she sat perfectly content, even though there wasn't much eating being done.
Snow came heavily here, especially for Western Washington and while Sophia has had a blast, the little ones really aren't that keen on it. Probably because we don't have the right attire for them all yet, and so one false step and their little hands are submerged in a snow bank, and then it's no smiles from there.
They are wonderful and I love them to death, but they have definitely reached an age of self declared independance and stuborness. Serentity Now!!
I'm going to try and post a compilation video of the pictures we've taken recently over the holiday vacation.
