Tiff's Turn

Good Sunday, everyone! Have you hunkered down for the scary ice storm that wasn't as bad as the majority of the meteorologists scare us into thinking it would be? We have, which has led me to a bit of cabin fever, which led me to cleaning out my closet. Did you know that Turbo Tax has an app called "It's Deductible" that helps you track your donations to keep track for your taxes? I have started it and it's super easy. It will even give you an estimate on the worth of each item donated and the value that it adds to your tax return. Last time we had a "snow day", we decided to get out of the house and go to Old McDonald's, as Aria calls it. The weather has been nice enough to us, though, that we have been able to have two play dates already for 2017.  We rang in the new year with Aria's favorite girls, and a couple weeks later we got together for a triplet and siblings play date. You can't tell by this picture ...

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 ...