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 ...

Did you know if you write down three things you're thankful for everyday, you will notice a positive difference in your level of happiness within three weeks? (I leaned this in church this week.) Psalm 100:1-5  Since I am on Day Three of Whole30 today, I thought this practice of writing down three things that make me happy every day would go well with my new diet. Yes, there is no shame in being thankful for watermelon on a hot day like today. Really, all three go hand in hand after spending a couple hours at the zoo with friends. We tried to stay inside as much as possible, but Aria loves the train rides. People always stop and ask us, "Are they twins? Oh they're triplets? How do you do it?"  I usually respond about drinking wine every evening, but now that I'm on the Whole30 challenge, that isn't happening. More than wine, though, I miss the Mio Energy drink. Sure, I can have black coffee, but ...

Summer is in full swing at the Gilmore house. Eating outside twice a day is one of the many perks of summer. Vitamin D and easier clean up? I'll take it! We're already making a gagillion family memories this summer. 1. Summer projects: putting together a new grill Happy early birthday and Father's Day, Levi!    extending the swing set before: after: building a pergola A work in progress. repairing the deck all the play in between                                                   We did make time for family play, too by going to Worlds of Fun.   The babies did great! They were fine with their only ride being their wagon. ...