The Chase

Continuing the series of videos showing how the triplets are learning to interact with each other, here's a video clip of a game all three of them play. Usually Arthur is the chaser (he plays this game with Sophie the dog, too), but occasionally the girls get tired of being the chasee, and take the offensive instead. The game usually ends when they get distracted, or until Arthur catches a girl and starts pulling her hair...

(During this video, Coraline was working on feeding herself lunch)

Father's Day

For Father's Day Betty let me sleep in until 6:45 in the morning! It was nice. Here's a quick video we captured today of her signing "doggie" while looking at Sophie outside.

Comedy is Easy. Raising Triplets is Hard.

Now that the triplets are interacting more, they are finding themselves to be hilarious. Small things, especially things out of the norm, set them off into peals of laughter. When Arthur sees one of the girls crawling across the floor carrying a toy or their wubanub in their mouth, he stops to watch them and giggles the whole time. Today, Arthur was playing with a bunch of newspaper advertisements, and Pop Pop tried to take them away from him, one page at a time. Betty, observing the brief tub-of-war each time, thought it was quite amusing. Also, Betty and Arthur are "backseat buddies" in the mini van. The other day Nana caught them holding hands on the way home. Betty would stretch her arm over to Arthur's carseat, and scratch on its denim cover. Arthur would giggle, and then grab her hand with his. They would swing hands for a bit before letting go, and then start the game all over again.

Tonight, after dinner was mostly over, Erin let Coraline try feeding herself, as she was showing interest with the spoon. Notice Arthur again finding this hilarious. Also notice about midway through Cora's victory cry of "I did it!" (or something of that sort) when she finally scoops a tiny bit of food onto the spoon by herself.

Dinner Show

On most days, the triplets require some form of dinner show in order to capture their attention and have them focus on eating (rather than, say, playing with their food, spitting their food, tugging on their neighbor, etc.). Often it consists of having someone wave toys in the background, or play drums on various glasses and pans in the kitchen. Tonight was a rough night, so we had bubbles.

In other news, Betty consistently and accurately used the "doggie" sign twice today, in the morning, and when Erin came home in the afternoon. The girls had been eating a snack in the playpen in the kitchen, and Sabine was furiously pacing on the outside, eager to eat they dropped. Sabine even cleaned off Betty's hands for her, as she stuck her fingers through the wall of the playpen. She realized Sabine wanted something and thought hard about what it was. Eventually she crouched down, grabbed an empty box of macaroni (the box was a play toy), and threw it over the fence for Sabine. Close, but not what the dog wanted. So after I picked her up, we talked about it, and Betty repeatedly made the sign for doggie while she looked at Sabine. Evidently signing comes easier once you've learned to wave, which Betty now does all the time. We'll see if she remembers the sign tomorrow.

Arthur's First Steps!

So this morning, Arthur decided to take his first steps. I was in the kitchen fixing their morning bottles and missed it, but Erin luckily got to see it before she went to work. Arthur had been standing holding onto the edge of the couch (his favorite cruising location), and he let go and took two steps towards his mom. Then he promptly fell on his face. But it's a start. And since I didn't capture it on video, here's a quick clip of a new toy he loves. We had intended it for him to walk behind pushing, but it goes a little too fast for him.

End of the Day

What do you do for bath-time on a hot day? Why, have a bath in your pool, of course!

And then at dinner-time, Coraline had a bit of trouble with the rice puffs...

Making Waves

Betty has been steadily progressing through developmental milestones. Today we noticed her eighth tooth has come in, so maybe she'll take a break for a while for her siblings to catch up. Betty (along with Coraline) has also been standing more often on her own. Hopefully I will get a picture of it soon. And finally, she has begun waving at us. Not only will she wave back at us when we wave, but she'll also be the first to wave when she sees us. It is quite cute as she flails her chubby little arm in your direction.

(This picture was taken after Betty decided that there was quite a bit of food left on the table from dinner, and the best way to pick it up would be to use her tongue...)

Tooth count: A-2, B-8, C-4