Snowmageddon

Well what a start to my going back to work!  I saw my students just about every two days since going back to work last Monday!  I guess it's eased me back into it.  I'm not sure if I can handle a full 5 day week!! They're not calling for much snow so maybe I'll have to find out!   I brought the boys to daycare on one of the two days we had off this week and I did so more cleaning and it felt so good to finally feel like my house was actually fully clean since my mother left (who was always a big cleaning help!).  I swear if this Jamberry business of mine takes off, I'm buying us some cleaning lady time!  Anyone know a good (and inexpensive) cleaning lady???

The boys went to a physio appointment on Wednesday morning with Gabe and my father in law and as usual, the boys are doing great!  The physio lady is not too worried about the fact that Zachary is not walking yet as she's still counting on the fact that they were born two months premature and he's got time to get there.  She is concerned that his feet are a little off kilter so she's prescribed him some braces to put in his shoes to correct it.  We had to go and buy some shoes for him that would fit the brace but not be too big or too small as we don't want them to be too tight for fear of hurting him nor do we want them to be too big to really mess up his feet.  I highly recommend Pop Shoes (by Carter's near the power center).  The guy who works there was super friendly and super helpful, they had a special place for kids to sit with a tv on the wall for them to watch while we tried shoes on AND they had toys for them to play with!  What service!  Yes, the shoes cost a pretty penny but if that's what's needed to help our little guy out, that's what we'll pay.  I'm just happy we didn't have to buy THREE pairs!  Anyways, the physio lady keeps being so impressed by how the boys are progressing, so it's nice to hear.

Daycare bugs are creeping into our kids... Their nose is runny and they seem to have mild fevers that come and go.  Hopefully they won't catch the flu again anytime soon.  Something was off with our little Jacob last night as he woke up crying at around 10:30 pm and normally when they do that, they fall asleep within 5 minutes.  I let him cry for 5 minutes and when he didn't let up, I went to check on him to make sure he was ok (he looked fine on the monitor but you never know), and he hadn't pooped, he had his soother near him, he didn't feel warm and he stopped crying the moment I picked him up so all of "let's make sure the baby is ok" checklist was checked off so I put him back to bed with full intention of letting him cry a bit (at this point, I was thinking it had been a bad dream or something).  Anyways, 10-15 minutes later, he's still quite upset so I go pick him up and bring him in the bedroom with us and soothe him.  He falls asleep on me within minutes.  I leave him there for about 15 minutes and ask Gab to go put him in his crib.  He starts freaking out the moment Gab even starts bending over to put him to bed, like freak out freak out.  I'm a huge believer of the CIO (cry it out method) when I know they're fine and to me, everything seemed fine... so again, we let him cry but he was crying harder than we had heard him in a long time so there must have been something wrong with him that we hadn't put on the list so our little guy came to bed with us.  He cuddled up to me, and then Gab and then back with me where he fell asleep in my arms (still so sweet though right?).  I rolled him off my numb arm (as cute as it was, I wanted my arm back) and he woke up for a few minutes where he made the cutest noises (while Gabe and I tried hard not to laugh) and drifted off to sleep while clinging to my shirt.  I let him sleep there for about 2 hours until I woke up to my cramped self who couldn't take it anymore so I took a chance and brought him to his crib.  He cried for about 1 minute and thankfully fell blissfully asleep.  Maybe he just needed extra love last night, and that's ok.  I'm a little tired today though and I'll be hitting the bed pretty hard pretty early as 5:30 will come quickly.  Hopefully, tonight won't be a repeat of last night because my students will have to deal with my already twitching eye!

**UPDATE** So we just put the boys to bed and now it's Zachary that's crying... he was perfectly fine when we put him down... eye won't stop twitching... please go to sleep little buddy... 

In other triplet news... Jacob is still a kamikaze accident waiting to happen!  I swear the daycare will think we abuse him!  He's got two new cuts/bruises on his forehead!  The first bang happened when Gabe play scared him and he got real scared and fell head first on a cube shelf.  The second is when he tripped over his own feet and fell head first on their little toy car.  Tonight, Sam fell and hit HIS forehead on a kitchen chair... nothing needing stitches yet, thankfully!!  The boys have been acquiring new skills lately too which is neat to see.  I don't get to see much of their new developments anymore as I went from being with them 12 hours a day everyday to only having about 1.5 hours of playtime with them a day so this weekend was fun to see new things already happening within the last two weeks!  They're starting to put toys IN stuff instead of taking everything out of everything so that's fun.  They can now fill and empty on their own and they love it!  They are starting to give things to one another or I should say Jacob is starting to.  Samuel doesn't share.  He gets soooooo angry when either one of his brothers takes a toy from him.  He'll sit there and cry his eyes out the moment it leaves his hands.  Zachary will only get upset if it's food or his water bottle and Jacob will just take it right back.  Gabe was telling me that Jacob brought a toy over to Sam today and a little later, he took a toy from him and Samuel started chasing him around the living room to get it back.  So maybe he'll get over his crying fits and stand up for his rights to his toys!  It's fun now that they're both fully walking pretty well.  People said I should be scared as the moment they start walking, it's over!  I think it's great!  I can't wait for Zachary to join the party!

**Update #2** You can all rest easy, all is quiet in the nursery... can I still call it a nursery?  Anyways, the boys are all quiet (asleep? but quiet is good).

I'm sure many of you are wondering about my tenant situation... no good news there I'm afraid.  Can you believe the little witch IS STILL THERE!!  Tomorrow is her last official "legal" day that she can stay.  We are getting the authorities involved tomorrow.  Oh yeah, and the money she promised us we'd get last Wednesday... not a cent my friends... that's now two months rent she basically stole from us... that's almost a full month's daycare fees!  I'm trying so hard to understand how someone could do that.  I've never known anyone in my life to be so deceitful and dishonest and it's really difficult to wrap my brain around it all.  Anyways, hopefully by next blog post she'll be gone!

On a happier note, here's some pics!  There are less and less of these because I just don't have time anymore  :(

We started a little project this weekend...

...a little chalk wall to put up our menu/groceries etc.  All that's missing is the frame!  Update on that next week!

My niece Alexie forgot her sweater here so we did a mini photo shoot with Jacob wearing it.

Sam and momma having a laugh

It's tea but whatever, the caffeine still did its job

Zachary and mommy went out alone this morning, it was both sweet and weird to be out with just one baby (and and EASY lol)

At Pop Shoes trying his new shoes on while eating a Mum-Mum

Sam is the fastest eater ever so when he eats his snacks in half the time it takes his brothers, he tries to steal 

Zachary is trying to give me some while Sam is upset that he's not giving it to him

Samuel and Alexie having a cousin moment.  Samuel must have laid there with her for 15 minutes, it was super sweet

That's NOT how you play the piano Zach!  We'll never get on Ellen if you don't learn properly!! 

You can clearly see his first cut on his head and the other one is by his eyebrow (a little fainter).  Still cute as all getout though! 

And THAT's how accidents happen... 

That blanket is his new obsession.  I've been calling him Linus all week. 

Zachary checking out the Cars decals on his Cars couch... none of us have ever seen that movie... 

Ready for our date mommy!  I even put on my awesome jean jacket!  

Have a good week y'all!