Tripletville Adventures : New routine? No!!!! What to do??

So we just got back from a family reunion on my father in law's side of the family. It was a quick turn around to see some of those folks who haven't met the boys yet and back home so as not to mess up the routine because believe you me, that is not something I'm ready to start messing around with! We left just after their afternoon nap (well I had to wake up Zachary poor little dude) and made a feeding pit-stop at Gabriel's aunt's house and then to the reunion we went. We stayed for an hour where many older folks oohed and aahed over the boys. We fed them supper, hoped in the van and came back home right in time for their night time bottle and straight to bed! It was a tight fit but we made it happen. We really wanted my father in law to be able to show off his grand offsprings to his family. I think he was mighty proud as he practically ran into the building with one of the boys as soon as we got there :) Samuel had another first while we were at the reunion. There were these two kids playing with toy cars and Samuel was super interested and couldn't look away. When the boy made the car jump from the stage to the floor, Samuel burst out laughing! It was the first time we had seen any of the boys laughing at something other than us making them laugh. From that point, he just kept laughing at whatever the little boy did with the car. It was the cutest thing! I've uploaded a small video so you can see if you want. We missed the really good laughter but it's a taste! Just click: Samuel laughing.

Stopping at Matante Charline's for a quick formula top up

Sitting in Mononcle Noël's chair

We had our 9 month visit with the pediatrician this week. We weighed the boys and Jacob now weighs 14lbs 14oz, Samuel weighs 16lbs 10oz and Zachary weighed 16lbs even. Although they are still on their corrected age curve (7 month), they are growing steadily so the doctor isn't worried. I had to laugh when the woman I ran into on my way in to see the doctor told me her 4 month old son weighed 18lbs! So crazy how tiny my babies still are! Jacob would probably still fit into 0-3 months if I hadn't packed it all away! He's floating into some of the 3-6 months clothes I put him in. He's just a skinny little thing! When I asked the doctor about making the transition to milk, he said I could start right away. He even said that I could finish the formula I had and go fully on milk! All I'd ever heard was 1 year because they still need all the goodness in the formula and etc. but he said that since they're healthy and growing well and that I'm feeding them good healhty food that there was no need to continue on formula. He even said that I should give food first, then formula as the food is what is going to give them most of what they needed now. That threw me off as I wasn't ready to switch my well established routine around! So I'm back to being completely lost as to how to establish a new routine... It's mostly up to me to figure it out as I'm the one who's home with them most of the time but I honestly really don't know what to do so I'm trying different things and seeing what works. What I've discovered is that my boys aren't as good at drinking milk in their straw cups as they are at drinking water. The straw cups I have, although great as they have a weighted straw that catches the liquid no matter where, are very leaky. I've also learned that the boys don't like milk in their regular formula bottle and that they won't drink their bottle even if there's even a little bit of milk in it. I don't know if it's because it makes it colder and they like their formula warm or they just don't like the taste or they're just saying WTF MOM?!? WHY YOU MESSIN WITH MY BOTTLE?!? Whatever it is, they won't drink it so me being paranoid that they won't get what they need, I dropped the whole idea of mixing milk and formula and just gave them formula in their bottle and milk in their straw cups. So now I'm back at not knowing how to make the transition... It won't work as they doctor recommended as I'm not ready to take the chance that the boys won't drink at all and I'm not ready to start heating up milk. If anyone out there have any ideas, please let me know because I really don't know what to do... Jacob and Samuel love milk in their straw cups but Zachary won't even drink it there. I think he knows what I'm trying to do and he's protesting... so that sucks... I'll update next week. I know I can normally figure it out and I'm sure I'll get there but right now, things aren't clicking...

Zachary, although a current milk protester, has started getting on all fours so he's on his way to being my third crawler. Samuel is still crawling all over the place and I think that he'll be sitting and/or standing by the end of the week. Jacob has increased my grey hair growth this week... he's a little kamikaze standing everywhere he thinks he can hold himself enough to do so. He's fallen more times than I can count and nothing stops the little daredevil. Because of this, we decided to limit their play area to the blue gym mat so that they can fall without my fearing that they'll crack their skull... I mean, they can still fall and hurt themselves on the various toys in the play area or even on each other as I can't protect them from everything, but at least it's a little safer for the boys.

New play area

It's like a big play pen

My friend Alicia had her twin girls this week! She made it to 38 freaking weeks and delivered them completely naturally!! What a super woman!! I'm so proud of her and I get to meet the girls tomorrow so I'm hoping to get a cuddle picture with them but here's a look at their beautiful faces:

Piper and Phoebe... welcome to the world little ones...

How beautifully powerful is this picture? She's such a trooper!! xx

Pics of the week:

Loving my mum-mum

Hanging out while mom finishes her workout :)

Their favorite toy this week... a diaper box!

Daddy making Jacob laugh

Release me from this jail

Oh, hi mommy

Jessie and Olivia came for a visit and they visited triplet jail

I don't think she liked it... what a cutie though eh??

Josée and beautiful Dia also came to visit! We love visitors!!

Seriously mom...

Please?

Samuel loving all the areas he can now explore

So Jacob also loves stealing his brothers' toys... this is him after a Samuel throwdown for the box

He can only push himself backwards so far, but he'll get there

This might be the best way to keep him out of harms way

Seriously the best toy ever...until I had to take it away as they were eating it...

Papa and Pépère watching the boys as they eat. Ready to help

DIY 9 month photo shoot

Hey look! I can climb on this too!

Sam

Zachary

Mel came over to help me on Thursday. She loved this part!

She's the best :) Thanks Mel for the help!! xx

Humm... I don't think that this is how you soother Jacob...

Leaky cups :(

Samuel loves the mirror but he always rocks back and forth in front of it, hitting his head on it all the time!!

Snack time!

We also decided to return to where we got married to take some pics with the boys. If you have me on Facebook, then you would have seen these already but I thought I'd add a few of my favorites: