NICU Reunion

It's hard to believe that it has been almost two years since we first entered the NICU. Today was the NICU reunion that is held every two years. They have pony rides, water ice, music , games and just all around little kid fun. The girls had a great time. They jumped int he moon bounce and played music with the band (see below).


We got a chance to visit with several of the nurses that took care of the girls. They were all obviously happy to see how well we were doing. We met about three other triplet families, only one did we know ahead of time. The only drawback was that we missed pictures with Elmo. The girls wandered around the place saying "Elma, Elma, Elma." At one point, Lisa was talking to a friend of hers when Lila walked up and pulled on her pants saying, "Mommy, mommy, mommy," "What, Lila?" "Elma."

Overall, it was a real nice day and we look forward to being back in two more years.

Some new pics!

I love this picture of mike and the girls!! They were watching cartoons in our bed and mike jumped in with them.
Ava covered head to toe in sand!
Liv with the windswept look!
Lila carried her chair all around the beach with her!

We have to say a belated Happy 2nd Birthday to Anna and Sophie!! We had tons of fun at their party. As you can see in this picture the girls loved the pony ride!! Don't think so! But they calmed down about halfway through the ride and even went for a second go around.

We have waited two years for the girls to talk and now I can't get 5 seconds of quiet in the house!! They started saying elmo. I have to reward them by putting an elmo movie on every time they say it! Lila is still the most vocal and repeats everything you say, including "hang ten dude". Trash day is a big day in our house. We sit outside and watch the trash truck go up and down the street. After it goes by, they girls sign and say "more". We have a very busy fall coming up. Sad to see summer be over but looking forward to some cooler weather. I broke down and allowed the girls to have playdoh. They love it! We play 2 or 3 times a day with it. Of course, our living room carpet is multicolored now!! Next weekend is the NICU reunion. It will be strange going back but good to see all the great nurses who took care of the girls. We are also planning to meet up with two couples who had kids in the nicu at the same time as us. I can't wait to see how big everyone got!! I'll let you know how it goes!

Bathing Beauties!!

Because we aren't busy enough, we are now on vacation at the shore!! Aunt Pip, Uncle Chuck and Chrissy are here from CA. The girls are loving the beach! We can't keep them out of the water and sand. Ava was actually rolling around and army crawling through the surf! We are pretty sure she should have been our boy. Livi just loves to run around chasing seagulls. She hasn't gotten one yet but she is very persistent! Lila is a natural clam digger! Literally, she sits in the surf and picks up the tiniest little clams and shells from the sand. She loves to collect shells. I haven't heard the girls laugh this much in a long time. They run up and down the beach, chasing each other and laughing! We have video but I will have to leave that up to Mike!

The girls got their first glimpse of AC today. We went shopping at the outlets and then Mike and I walked them up to the boardwalk. There is a store in the new peir at Ceasar's that is a huge candy store. They have these big tubes of colored M&Ms that you can mix. We let the girls pick their own colors and put them in bags. Lila picked silver, white and tan. She didn't feel very colorful today. In her defense it was kinda rainy. But they all taste the same and the three of them made short work of thier candy bags!!! Ava sat in the stroller and pointed to everything! Lila just wanted to run out onto the beach. And Liv, well, Liv has fun where ever food is involved!!

Here is the word count for the girls:
Lila - leads the pack with : baby, corn, car, more, ahchoo (as in a sneeze), Joe (as in my dad), go, fruit, Pip (as in my aunt), cheese, turtle, nana, cookie, two (the only number she knows so she apparently always has two of something)
Olivia - baby, car, go, nana
Ava -nana (as in banana), dat (that - as in everything she points to)
They all pretty much have the mommy, daddy, poppop, mommom stuff. Although sometimes I get called momma, which makes me think we are raising the girls on a plantation!! We are really good at animal sounds too. I will be curious what the pediatrician says at our 2 year check up. Oh, I have a birthday party to plan!! The fun just never ends around here!

Here are a few pics. We have more but have to get them off the camera. These are from my phone.