We had our 6 month check-up with the doctor yesterday and the babies are doing GREAT :) I love our pediatrician and he is always very reassuring that we are good parents and aren't screwing them up--or doing any psychological damage :) The babies are now weighing in at:
Ethan: 16lbs, 4oz (30%) and in the 70% for height
Naomi: 12lbs, 15oz (3%) and in the 50% for height
Levi: 16lbs, 1oz (25%) and in the 10% for height
Poor Levi may of inherited the Wood gene of being short until about 8th grade and then shooting up into the sky. My brother was the same way and I was taller than him for a long time. The doctor was not concerned about their weights, heights, or heads (Michael is always concerned about that).
We also talked with the doctor about a new feeding schedule. We have a little more flexibility now which is great and not-so-great at the same time. I thrive on a schedule so we are still playing around with how we want to reorganize our feedings now that the babies are eating food. We have started feeding them 2x a day and they love it (for the most part!). We have eaten brown rice, oats, barley, sweet potato, pumpkin, butternut squash, applesauce, bananas, and today we ate carrots. We are leaving the cereal behind us (mostly) because it was clogging everyone up so we are headed for the veggies and fruits. We are also buying a used triplet feeding table off of someone and we are SUPER excited! It is going to be great and help us out A LOT! It can also double as a craft table for when they are able to be more crafty :)
Everyone is trying to sit up and Naomi has mastered the backwards scoot. Naomi is our "mover child" so whenever she figures it all out we aren't sure that we are going to be able to stop her. She is little but she is fierce and stubborn--she gets it from her daddy ;)
Everyone is laughing and smiling more often which makes life more enjoyable. They love to laugh especially when we are undressing them--it is so cute! The babies have finally realized that Michael and I are people and not just "blobs" so it has become more fun to play with them and do things to make them laugh/smile. They have also become quite the bouncers--we have an exersaucer that they love and we recently bought an over-the-door bouncer that is in the kitchen so they can help us cook.
We also got a Radio Flyer Triplet Wagon that I am SUPER excited to use! They are too small for it now and may not be until next year until we get to use it but nevertheless I am still excited! It was on sale, and then had another HUGE discount on top of that, and it had free shipping so we couldn't pass that up. When you have triplets (or probably multiple children, I assume) then you are always looking for ways on how you are going to transport them. Its a tricky situation. We also have a triplet stroller that we use. We went to Macy's last week with the stroller and we had to use the elevator which we conquered. We did have to carry the stroller sideways down a hallway and into the elevator but we did make it! We have discovered, in some ways, that the world is not made for triplets yet we are slowly conquering them and sometimes we have to eat outside a restaurant because the stroller doesn't fit through a single door :) Or we have just taken to eating in the car.
We are also approaching the teething stage--blah! There are a few things that just aren't quite fair that you have to go through at the same time such as teething and shots at the doctor. We did master the shots this time though by bringing along some milk. It's just difficult when the third child gets the shot--because one of us (Michael) has to hold their arms down so they don't move and then one of us comforts (me). So, after the 2nd baby I have 2 screaming babies while Michael holds the 3rd and then we have 3 screaming babies and only 2 adults. But we did great yesterday! We brought them some milk which calmed them down pretty quickly and we were able to move along. We were at the doctor's office for about two hours though but, have no fear, we are charged 3 co-pays :) Okay, back to teething. It is pretty exciting though because we can see them in their gums they just need to pop up! And then there is probably a whole other world waiting for us...
We are also in the process of mastering bedtime. I'm not a big fan of the cry-it-out, yet I know we might have to brave it one day. We tried one night and Michael made it maybe 1.5 minutes before he went in :) BUT last night it worked perfectly! We didn't cry it out and we tricked them into sleeping in their cribs. I fed them the last 1oz of their bottle in their cribs and everyone was fed, in their cribs, and asleep in 15 minutes and no one cried! Yay! Hopefully it works again tonight!
Well, I feel like that was a bunch of jumbled up rambles but I had to type quickly! I wasn't planning on writing a blog--I actually need to be printing out some paperwork to fill out for my dreaded school loans but Ethan is sleeping and I'm afraid if I print something he would wake up. And I am willing to do just about anything to have 3 sleeping babies at the same time! I'm going to work up uploading some pictures at some point so I can show how much they have grown! Hopefully the next blog will be sooner than later :)
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