Life is great!

It has been so long since I have posted on here, so I am sure nobody even checks it anymore! But I will post just in case someone stumbles onto it again!

The babies are about 9.5 months old now and are doing great! It amazes me how quickly the time has gone by-it seems like it was just yesterday that we were feeding them every 2 hours and they couldn't move anywhere.  Now, they eat three meals a day and are getting into everything!

MOBILITY-Everyone can sit on their own and get into sitting position unassisted, which has made them much happier, (me too)!  The boys are crawling quickly around the house.  Sam has been moving on his own for a couple months now and Logan was a couple weeks after him.  They are doing real crawling, not "army" crawling anymore! Lauren has just started crawling in the last week or so-although she doesn't go far, she is able to get to toys that would have been out of her reach previously.  She gets so mad when the boys take off without her, but at least she is motivated to follow them!

The boys are also pulling up and cruising along the furniture, which was cute-now they pull up and start pinching us, pulling leg hair (Daddy's, not mine), and start fussing to be picked up.  Sam is our climber, while Logan is usually content to just stand holding onto things.  Lauren wants to pull herself up, but she isn't quite strong enough.  If you are brave enough to sit on the floor with them, you will be attacked, (which is actually pretty fun now, even though they pull my hair and slobber all over me)!  We had to buy some toys that they can stand with since they are not happy in the exersaucers or jumperoos anymore. More stuff-our house looks like a toy store!

TEETH- Lauren just started cutting the first tooth of the three babies! They have all been drooling and chewing on things for months, so it is nice to actually see something now! I have a feeling they are going to get a lot of teeth at once since they are almost 10 months and just now getting teeth!

SPEECH- Lauren is our most vocal child still.  She loves to babble throughout the day, but her favorite sounds are na, la, and da repeated over and over and over! The boys are starting to make more noises, but not nearly as often as she does.  When Sam is upset or frustrated, he babbles mamamama-guess I should get used to that when they actually understand who that is!

ROUTINES-So everyone sleeps 10-11 hours at night now-wonderful!! They take 5 bottles and 3 meals a day.  We are still working our way through different fruits and veggies, but we haven't seen any allergic reactions yet.  The boys seem to enjoy their food more than Lauren so far, but we are working on it.  She seems to dislike different textures of foods-pureed vs. bits of fruit, but the boys don't seem to mind when we change it up!

They nap 3 times a day still, although it takes them longer to fall asleep now that they stand up in their cribs! In the mornings, they have fun "talking" and laughing before we go in to get them.  It is so great that they have each other and now that they are interacting with each other, I know they will have this special bond for their entire lives. 

Well, I know they shouldn't watch TV until after the age of 2, but sometimes our television randomly changes the channel to Sesame Street! Actually, we do turn it on for that show for a little bit everyday (about 10 minutes) because they love some of the songs and characters.  I have a couple shows on DVR so we can fast forward to certain parts-the opening song, the letter of the day with Murray, Abby's Flying Fairy show song, number of the day with Murray, and Murray has a Little Lamb song.  Murray is the big favorite here, along with Abby's song-Lauren squeals with delight during that! Anytime they are getting fussy, we flip on that and they sit and watch-a few moments of peace for us!

And we try to talk them for walks in our Choo-Choo wagon on the days it isn't too hot out-much easier to walk them in that instead of hauling out two strollers! Lauren yells and talks most of the time, while the boys sit back and chill out. 

I love each stage these babies are going through, but it's a little bittersweet each time they pass a stage.  I love this stage because you can see the wonder and excitement of new things in their eyes, and their innocence too.  I can't believe I am so blessed to have three babies at one time-I wouldn't trade this life for anything in the world.