HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!

Boy did we have a fun-filled weekend! We had no idea what to expect for the 4th of July. We didn't get why mommy and daddy didn't do anything special for the 4th of May or the 4th of June? Anyways- all week they had been telling us that we were getting to go to a festival at a park to celebrate. When we woke up Saturday morning mommy & daddy told us "Happy 4th of July!" and had matching shirts for us to wear with flags on them. After our usual playtime, nap and then bottle we headed to the park to meet up with the Traaseths, Tjeltas and Grandma & Grandpa. When we got to the park we couldn't believe how many people were there! Daddy had to park so far away. Luckily we had our strollers with us to make the long walk.

At the festival we watched our cousins do the Cake Walk. None of them won us a cake though. Too bad because we were pretty sure daddy would've snuck us a bite of it if they would've won. Well, maybe 2/3s of us (Jack is allergic to milk so he probably wouldn't have gotten to try it!). After the cake walk we enjoyed time under the shade on our blankets with some toys. We also got to eat our peas outside, too. That was sure not how we usually eat our veggies.

After the festival we headed for dinner at a restaurant nearby. There were 20 of us all eating together at one table! Boy was that the longest table we'd ever seen. But guess what?! We all three got to sit in big kid high chairs and eat big kid finger foods. We ate bread and puffs and played with our toys. Addison seemed to have the most fun throwing her toys and food off of the table and watching mommy & daddy go get it. Jack was much more well behaved. He just ate and ate and ATE anything that was put in front of him. Meanwhile, Jordan got to go hang out with the really "big kids" at the far end of the table. After dinner, we headed home and to bed but we all overheard the rest of the table talking about going to watch "fireworks" whatever those were. We were so tired after a long, fun day outside we all passed out right when we got home. Although, Jack told us he swears he woke up because someone was bombing our house. We told him he was just having a bad dream.
Today we finished off our weekend by driving to our friend's (The Brunkow's) lake house. We spent the entire afternoon sitting by the lake on our blanket playing with a bunch of new toys mommy brought us and watching daddy jump off of the rope swing. We had such a fun time because we even got to taste beef jerky that Uncle Mark and daddy was eating. Mr Brunkow had made it and boy did we think it was good. Okay so Addison says that we can't say "we" because she didn't want to try it. Not to worry though, she was eating and eating all of the puffs and cheese crunchies mommy brought for all of us. I guess we've learned not to leave Addison alone with our snacks. She doesn't really like to share.

Here are more pictures from this weekend...Enjoy!

Little Miss Independent

We've been prepping for the 4th of July this week by becoming VERY independent from mommy. Addison seems to be the most independent (Jordan BEGS to differ). She decided this weekend to stop letting anyone give her her bottle. Instead she fusses and hits and pushes everyone's hands away that try to hold her bottle for her. So mommy told her "fine. hold your own bottle but don't make a mess on my floor!" So sure enough she holds it and tips is up really high when its getting towards the end. Sometimes she even tips it too far and it falls behind her onto the carpet...and dripping! Addie also hates sitting and playing with toys. Well, not the playing with toys part just she hates sitting. She always wants to be on the go, which really annoys the rest of us boys. We just want her to play like us. Instead she takes every, single toy we are playing with and then tosses it over her head. What is the point in that?! Then she'll usually lunge out to grab them and fall onto her tummy. She ALWAYS hollers when that happens. The rest of us just look at her in shock because we know the outcome before it happens.


Anyways...Jordan does not think that Addie is the most independent. Infact he wants all of you to remember he's been holding his own bottle for months and she's just getting it now?! SO...just to prove that he is one up on her he started holding his bottle one-handed. He also decided to show us two that he can stand! Can you believe that? We are only 8 months old, we should be trying to crawl not stand. But...we all know Jordan. He hates tummy time and hates being on his hands and knees so standing just is one step closer to walking first.







Jack tells us he has no urge to compete with us two on bottle holding and crawling or walking. He says he knows he'll be doing those things and why push it along? He did however show mommy he can hold his bottle but just chooses not to. Why waste the energy? Instead he puts all of his talents into eating. He definitely takes after mommy's side because boy do they like their food. He's the human garbage disposal of the group. He eats and eats and eats his jarred food until its gone or mommy finally stops feeding him. He never seems to give up! He also LOVES to try foods that need to be gnawed or chewed on. He loves his puffs and he loves the chunkier dinners mommy & daddy give him. He also LOVES his sippy cup...especially when mommy puts cold water in it. YUM! Here's a picture of him mommy gave us for the blog. Its him eating at his high chair for the first time last week.


Here are a few other pictures of us from the week. Mommy again was snapping like crazy so she doesn't miss a minute of the action. Everyone enjoy their 4th of July! We three can't wait to celebrate on Saturday...oh and Jack says "AND EAT A LOT!"

Jordan standing for the 1st time

All three holding their own bottles

June just flew by!

We can't believe June is coming to an end! Between pool days, baseball games (our cousins all play), moving and visits from Memere & Pepere our summer is going by so fast. We have really been making improvements on our schedules for mommy. We all have been trying to sleep for her during the day without giving her a lot of grief. Jordan (who used to be the BEST at this) seems to be having some difficulties wanting to fall asleep though. We told him to just suck on his binky like we do and close your eyes, but he's not really into binkies. Jack told him to snuggle up with his blankie and lay on his side and that might help. Jordan HATES laying on his side though. Mommy says he's probably "teething" but she's been telling us all we've been teething for the past 5 months and no teeth yet! We think this "teething" thing is just an urban legend.

Mommy has also been giving us more meals of veggies and fruits...yummy! (Well all of us but Jordan thinks its yummy at least). Addison's favorite is usually fruits. She especially loves anything with blueberries in it. Jack loves it all but really goes wild when he gets sweet potatoes. Jordan told me if he HAD to choose something that isn't a baba he'd choose bananas. Jordan really just would prefer a baba all the time. We think its because he's always showing off his muscles and he's one of those body builder type guys who only drinks protein babas or something.

Well, since its the end of the month we asked mommy to go through all of our pictures she took of us (she's kinda like the paparazzi she takes TONS of pictures of us all the time) and show you some that didn't make earlier posts. So here are a few more June pictures for everyone to enjoy.

Daddy and Jack on our new deck

Jordan and Addison

Addison sleeping...notice the feet up?!

Muscle boy before his workout

Jordan and Pepere

I love Jack's face looking at his brother!

Mommy & the Riplets on a walk

Daddy and his kids on the same walk

8 MONTHS OLD!

We turned 8 months old yesterday, yay! Boy were we busy leading up to our new milestone. Mommy and daddy moved all of our things to our new place this weekend. We were really worried on Saturday because we woke up after our naps to see all of our toys (we thought) were stolen!! We had no idea who would've taken them but we suspected that Isaiah or Eli might have wanted them. Jonah seemed a little too old to play with them but the other two were pretty suspicious. Luckily, mommy and daddy took us for a drive and we found all of our things at our new house! Of course Jordan thought that we had just found the "thief's" house and he was ready to steal them back. Luckily Jack (the brains of the group) filled him in that we had actually moved there.

Memere and Pepere flew out to help us with our move. We had such a fun time with them. We showed them all of our new tricks including sitting up, playing with all of our new toys, and Addison showed them all of her new goofy faces. She seems to be a ham whenever they are around, showing them her "Larryboy" face and her big cheese grin with squinty eyes and all.

Of course Memere brought us a bunch of new clothes. They also got us each a floaty for our trips to the pool. On Monday we took our floaties and memere and pepere to the pool with us. We had such a great time playing and splashing in the water. Mommy even went down the water slide. Jordan really thought he should go down it too but mommy was too afraid he'd drown on the way down. Jack had NO INTEREST at all going down the slide, in fact he wasn't that interested in the water either. Addison had a fun time wading out in the water with Pepere though. She liked having her legs dangle in pool because it was a really HOT day.

Here's the pictures from our weekend and from our 8 month old shot. We hope you all enjoy!

out takes from 8 month shots...

The Benefits of Being a Triplet

Sorry for the lack of posts, mommy & daddy took away our Internet privileges! Just kidding...but really we've had issues getting online (really bad Internet service) AND we've been busy packing up and organizing for our move across town this weekend.

The past week has been exciting for us. We've all been practicing sitting and playing with our bucket of toys. Addison (the show off) has sitting down to a science and seems to think she needs to make sitting more of a challenge. She now decided to start throwing her toys out of the bucket and immediately trying to retrieve them herself. This always involves a wind up and then throwing her entire body either to the side or forward towards the toy she just threw away. She's a pretty tough cookie though (don't ever tell her that her brothers said this!) because she's been landing on her head A LOT doing this move and she usually doesn't cry.

Jordan is more of a "klepto sitter". He great at it as long as he can sit next to Addison. Why you ask? So he can take EVERY SINGLE toy she is playing with out of her mouth and into his own. He waits for her to retrieve it and then its time for him to make his move. He also has an issue with sharing, once he gets one of Addie's toys he will won't let it go, so he's usually two fisting toys at all times.

Jack has just got the whole sitting concept down. He still uses a boppy pillow behind him to make sure he's steady. He usually chooses NOT to get involved with the other two and their toy wars. Instead, he chooses to talk and talk AND talk away to each rattle and toy he picks up. We're pretty sure he's taking after mommy in the talking department.

Besides sitting, we've started to realize that being a triplet sure has its benefits. Like earlier this week, Addison decided she needed to give Jack a back rub...so nice of her! But after about 10 seconds she pushed him on his face and took his toy.

Here's Addie giving Jack a back rub...

Here she is right after pushing him over!

Also this week we've realized that we don't need to walk ourselves in our walkers if Addie is in the other walker. She seems to have mommy's angry driver issues and always pushes the other walker out of her way (with our without one of us in it!) when she wants to get by. If she can't move it she starts yelling at whoever is in it! (Geesh she's got a temper) Jordan really picked up on this and now he gets in his walker and immediately looks behind him hoping Addison is coming to give him a push! See video below:

Mommy told us she's really behind at adding pictures, so here are some random pictures from the past few weeks, too. ENJOY!

Jordan

Addie & Jack

Jordan clowning around

Mmmmm...flavored baba!