Tripletville Adventures : I'm a mom now, I get it...

Those are the words that came out of my friend's mouth this weekend as we were frantically trying to pack up our triplet island (that's what I've now decided to call the huge area we take over anywhere we go) as the boys were TIRED and needed a nap NOW! She looked at me in the eyes and said "I'm so sorry I was a terrible friend to you... I get it now, I'm a mom". It's funny how things start to change the minute you hold your tiny little person in your arms for the first time. Going from being a non-mother to being a mother is probably the most drastic change a woman can go through in her life. There's a whole chasm of difference between the two worlds. We were at my friend Alicia's son Alfie's birthday party and all around us were families with toddlers or younger and where we used to socialize as adults, that becomes pretty difficult. I know once the kids are a little older, it'll get easier to socialize again but for now, being a mom is what I do, what I am. My friend Hilary was saying she had to go and I was like "Ok, we'll see you later!". It hit me right there that when most of us were "non-moms", the first thing we would say would not have been "Ok!", it would have been: "Oh no! But why do you have to leave?" "Don't go! Aren't you having fun?". Now, we get it, we don't question... a simple look is all it takes. I had hoped to stay a little longer as I had thought the boys may have been ready to skip their third nap but that was NOT the case... The moment I said we had to go, it was "Ok, what can I do to help?". It's nice to know my friends are where I am and they understand my life as I understand theirs. It's a pretty special feeling to know I'm in this very special MOM club that only people who are part of will ever truly get it. One day, when my boys are teenagers and have no longer "use" for me, I'll be able to socialize with my friends once again and the talk will most likely still be about our children, but at least we'll be able to drink wine while we bitch about them ;) haha...

Gabe had his first misstep as a dad last week... it wasn't a huge one but he told me he thinks it should be in the blog so here goes... this all actually happened while I was writing last week's blog so I didn't have my mom goggles fully on... My in-laws take the boys for a walk after their supper pretty much every night now which is nice because it gives Gabe and I about 45 minutes to be able to enjoy sitting down to supper together. Anyhow... as they were about to leave for their walk last week, Zachary spit up all over himself (babies!) so Gabe came in to change him. He asked if he should just put his pyjamas on since it was getting close to bedtime and I said that it was fine. So away they go for their walk and on Sundays nobody gets a bath, so they got back almost just in time for their bottle. They were hanging out outside while waiting for the time to come to have their bottle and I told Gab that it was probably time for them all to get changed. Now normally, when the boys put on their pj's, we also change them into their overnight diapers. Some of you probably already called what happened... Zachary, already in his pj's, never got his nighttime diaper on. The next morning when I go get him, he was soaked... poor little fella! He had been in the SAME diaper since about 4pm the day before!!! Thankfully he wasn't chaffed and wasn't too unhappy. Oh daddy!!

This week, we spent time with Mamie, taking some 8 months pics photos, we also went to my Aunt Marie's pool. As much as Sam hated the ocean, he LOVED the pool. I was really apprehensive before we put him in, but he didn't even bat an eye. He immediately started bam bam-ing the water splashing everywhere! Jacob was in heaven! I'm sure I could have taught him to swim right then and there the way his little legs and arms were moving! Zachary was just being my chill guy as always. Although for some odd reason, he loved dipping his face right into the water... little silly goose!

We also went to mommy group on Wednesday morning. I thought I would attempt it one more time since the last time I went it had gone fairly well. Not this time! My little guys didn't fall asleep on the ride over so their morning nap was messed up. By 10 o'clock, they were all cranky so I left mommy group and they were dead asleep in their car seats within 2 minutes of driving. We were also supposed to go see my friend Véro and her son Sébastien after their 11 o'clock feeding but that visit got delayed a little bit because I didn't wake them up until 11:15... anyways, we still go to go and they had a good time! They had mum-mums for the time and they loved it! If you don't know what those are, they are rice type cakes that dissolve very easily in the mouths of babies. I've added a few videos on their YouTube Channel, one of which shows them eating the mum-mums for the first time. (https://www.youtube.com/user/tripletadventures)

I think mommy groups will have to wait until they're a little older... it was more for me than for them anyways... sometimes mommy needs to see adults her own age!! hehe... I guess it just has to be at the perfect time to fit into the babies schedule and that's hard to match!

It's been a while since I've updated their daily routine so just in case you're curious, here goes:

(I'll do it in Jacob's voice... just for fun)

5:45 to 6:15 : wake up mommy while chit chatting/crying in our cribs
6:45 - 7:00 mommy deems it an appropriate time to actually get up and gets us up
7:00 - Morning bottle (my favorite!!)
7:15-7:30 : digesting time in our vibrating chairs while "reading" our chewable books and "talking" to mommy
7:30 - 8:00 - play time while mommy loads the dishwasher and prepares our breakfast
8:00: FOOD!! Normally consisting of gooey stuff that is pretty sweet tasting (cereal and fruit mommy tells us). It actually looks like the slop they serve on Big Brother (oh yeah, I watch that with my mommy)
8:20 - 8:30 - Singing play time in our high chairs with mommy while we digest our food
8:30 - 8:45 - We play while mommy cleans us up one at a time and puts on our day clothes
8:45 - Nap time! We love our cribs!! (Most of the time anyway)
10:00 - 10:30 - Wake up and play on the floor and try to learn new things like crawling (I already do that), sitting, grasping, etc...
11:00 - Bottle!!!
11:20 - 11:50 - MICKEY MOUSE CLUBHOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think Mommy eats during this time... I sure wish she'd give me some of what she puts in her mouth, it looks much better than the gooey stuff she gives us...
12:00 - FOOD!!! Normally we have some veggies and sometimes meat and sometimes we even get fruit and yogourt!!! When mommy wants to be nice... maybe if I smile more...
12:20 - 12:30 - More high chair play digesting time with mommy
12:30 - 12:45 or 1:00 - We play for a little bit but we're getting tired again
12:45 to 1:30ish - We wake up and wake each other up... some of us would like to sleep more but Samuel really doesn't like to sleep in the afternoon so he wakes us all up!! Mommy would sure like for us to sleep more... I think she may start letting Sam cry... THAT will be annoying!!
1:30 to 3:00 - Play time, sometimes we go for a walk, sometimes we go to Costco (that's fun, there are so many people to look at!!), sometimes we go to Wal-Mart.
3:00 - Time for us to have another bottle! Sometimes we're a little cranky at this time because we didn't get enough sleep and we're hungry. After the bottle, you guessed it, more time to sit and digest with the vibrating chairs. It's like a massage for us and it's soooo relaxing.
3:45ish - Time for another nap! Me, Sam and Zachary talked it over and we're not a huge fan of this nap so we decided we give it 20-30 minutes tops, then we boycott by crying our little hearts out until someone comes and gets us.
4:15ish - Yay!!! Daddy's home from work we have lots of smiles for him and lots of things to tell him about our day but I'm not sure how much he really understands of what I'm saying because it mostly comes out as bla bla bla booo booo ba ba bla bla bah.
4:15-5:00 - Lots of time to play with daddy while mommy tries to get a little break from being our sole entertainer for the day. We play lots of fun games like daddy pretends to bite our tummy and it makes us laugh. Or daddy throws a blanket up over us like a parachute and it makes us laugh. And our new favorite game...daddy bounces us on the couch cushions as we lie on our backs and makes us bouce like popcorn and we laugh! This is also the time where mémère and pépère come and visit us and play games with us also.
5:00 - Time for some more gooey food. I LOVE TO EAT!!!
5:30 - This is something new that started about two weeks ago and I have to say that this is one of our favorite times. Pépère (and mémère when she is around) takes us out for a walk for about 30-45 minutes. We get to go outside and relax after our meal and cruise around looking for cute little baby girls! I'm not sure what mommy and daddy do while we're gone and I don't want to know.
6:15 - Back from our walk, time for a quick bath in our GIANT YELLOW RUBBER DUCKY! I only get to play in it twice a week but when I do, all I want to do is eat the giant yellow head!!
6:30 - We get into our pj's so we know it's time for our last bottle before we go to sleep. We like to give a hard time to mommy, daddy, pépère, mémère, mamie, matante and whoever at this time because we know they'll put us to bed after this... so we fight them! I like to take a few drinks and have a chit chat to kill some time, and I like to throw in some crying in there for good measure... so does Zachary... Sam just likes to chew on the nipple...
6:45 - 7:00 - Bed time... I normally go down pretty quietly and then ten minutes later... BAM!! I hit them with a crying fest! I DON'T WANT TO GO TO SLEEP BUT I AM SO TIRED THAT I WILL CRY BUT I WILL KEEP MY EYES CLOSED WHILE I DO IT...

Jacob eventually falls asleep and we start over again the next day... Of course, every day is a variation of this same thing but as far as the schedule goes, I pretty much try to stick to the same one daily because if not, this triplet mom would have cranky babies on her hands (like it happened Wednesday when the routine was messed around with...).

The boys are developing so fast that we decided to lower the cribs this week. Knowing Jacob, he liable to climb out of his crib and onto the bathroom counter and proceed to brush his teeth... all within a week! He actually almost sat up on his own this week... he's the littlest but he's developing so quickly! He's so eager to get everywhere and into everything that I can't even put him in a Bumbo on the floor anymore... he fell out of it yesterday trying to reach for something! Pish posh to the physiotherapist who said Samuel was the furthest advanced... Jacob just wouldn't show his stuff that day! haha... We also added gates to our living room situation so that the boys (Jacob really for now) don't get in to the printer or mess up my PVR somehow. I can't have them deleting my Kardashians now!!!

A little snippet to finish off... I've been trying to teach the boys basic sign language so that they'll be able to show me what they need in the future when they still can't talk and I think my little Zachary did the sign for milk this week!!! It's so exciting!! I think if I'm consistent, they'll get it!

Ok friends... here are some pics of the week