Bedtime Play

The triplets love having another kid their age to play with. Though after this shot of them in the tunnel, Adam quickly backed out, ran around to the side, and did a pile-drive jump onto Coraline, who was still within it. Oh, and Arthur got a new tooth!

Tooth count: A-7, B-16, C-12

Cold Weather Activities

This vacation is turning out colder than planned, so we're finding it difficult to think of activities four 15-month olds would enjoy. So we've fallen back on our staples. Here we have drawing time, and Arthur managed to actually scribble up his entire page. (The girls still only gently apply their pencils/crayons on portions of the page)

We then bundled up everyone to go outside. It was still only 36 degrees, but we had fun playing with the leaves and the rakes, until the triplets found a half-frozen puddle of water. We then rushed them back inside to change their wet shirts and warm up their hands.

Arthur's Antics

Arthur started the day by learning how to climb up on top of the radiators. We're not certain how we are going to break this habit. And as we expected, he wanted to do everything today that Nathan did (including refusing to eat lunch until he had a similar meal). Here he climbed up on the chair to help with making apple dumplings with Nana.

And of course, four out of five kids enjoyed playing in the leaves today.

Our Cousins Visit!

The triplets' cousins, Nathan and Adam, finally came to visit (we hadn't seen them since last Christmas!) Arthur is excited to have some more boys in the house, and he has started following his big cousin around - it won't be long before he learns new things from him.

We also had a lot of fun playing in the backyard, but it is colder here than we expected. All of our planned outings were outdoors :(


And of course, bathtime is much more fun when you have a bath buddy.

Milk Lady

Today Erin had a snow day (though there was no snow....). Cora the Collector gathered together the three milk cups from lunch, and pushed them around the kitchen in her shopping cart. And then we got out a new toy piano to play with, so Arthur composed his first complex performance piece.

Nine Shots

We took the kids back to the doctor's office today, as we were fairly certain that the girls' ear infections had cleared up. Thankfully they were all healthy (and the doctor didn't mind Coraline's runny nose), so they could finally get their 15-month shots, and the first dose of the flu vaccine. With nine shots coming between the three of them, we didn't blame the kids when they started hiding underneath the counter in the room (Coraline hoped having the blood rush to her head would dull the pain of the shots). Anyways, after waiting an hour and a half in the doctor's office, and nine shots later, we were finally done. And in the process of all the children screaming, we happened to see that Arthur had gotten his first molar.

And so after a rough day at the doctor's office, we tried to relax tonight with some pizza.

Tooth count: A-6, B-16, C-12

Wild Monkeys

The other day Arthur realized that he could push out his high chair, climb up the front, and get into the seat by himself. He now does it when he's ready to eat. Then today, we turned our backs on the kids for a minute while they were watching their Signing Time video. When we came back, Coraline and Arthur were seated together in the rocking chair. We still don't know how both of them climbed into it on their own.

And then during snack time, Arthur and Betty found themselves standing on top of the coffee table. This confused me for a bit, until I later saw that Arthur had found a new use for the shopping cart.

And then Arthur ended the day learning how to climb up onto a kitchen chair without any aides....