Tiff's Turn

In teachers' terms, "Summer is over." School enrollment has ended, teachers are slowly starting to dig through their classrooms and parents are rejoicing. I feel like our summer is just now beginning. All of June was spent tending to sick children. Virus, extremely high fevers, then ear infections. They passed it around to each other one by one and one week at a time. Everyone became healthy just in time for their birthday, thank goodness. We finally had the triplets' one year check-up this week, which had to be put off due to sickness and fevers. Here are their stats: Livi WEIGHT: 20 pounds, 4 oz. (28 percentile) HEIGHT: 30 and 1/4 inches (75 percentile) *Yay! She finally hit the 20 pounds mark! She's my long and lean child. This photo is a close snapshot of Livi's personality. Ra-ra-ra... throw your hands up and dance. She is still the first one to do everything. She started walking this week. Just a couple days ...

I can't believe I'm writing about the babies ' triplets' first birthday. Yet, here it is.   The day they were born seems like forever ago, but just last month all at the same time somehow. It's kind of all a blur how we went from this to this: I had a heck of a time planning a party on top of taking care of four littles, but it all came together! I planned for the party to be an outdoor bash, but the weather had it's own plans. We still had a great time with Dr. Seuss indoors. Thanks to everyone who came to celebrate and to those who couldn't be with us and still wished us well. Triplet life is pretty much what I expected it to be as we were awaiting for our little trio to arrive. Here is my survival guide to making it through the first year of life with triplets: Make new friends, but keep the old. Lean on your family. Don't have high expectations to be able to visit them often, but be open t...