Oops, I almost forgot about the rest of my questions! Let me see if I can answer the rest…

Megan asks…

What do you and your husband do for a living? We have one 18 month old son and I can’t imagine being able to afford THREE of him at once!

We both work in IT for a large non-profit. You could call it that. He’s the IT director for a school, and I work in the administrative offices. So no. We’re not rich. And it’s scary to think of the future and how we’re going to make it work. All I can say is, I cannot WAIT until we don’t have to pay for daycare anymore! Man, we must’ve been RICH before then, and I just didn’t know it!

Angie is curious about this:

I’ve always heard about multiples developing their own secret language or code. It may still be a bit early for them. Although, I’ve heard also that multiples can be later to talk because of their own code.

I can’t really tell if the boys have their own secret language. They definitely communicate with each other somehow, that’s for sure! In the mornings, before I go in their room, they’re babbling and giggling, so that sounds like communication to me, eh?

That said, they are in speech therapy right now to work on their expressive language. Their receptive language is great – you can tell them to do something, and they do it (generally.) They understand what we’re telling them, usually. But it’s hard for them to tell us what they want. Hence the unending whining in our house. So we’re working on sign language right now. So it’s improving a bit.

They have three strikes against them, with regards to their speech. They’re boys, they’re preemies, and they’re multiples. So they can’t help being a little behind in their speech!

Ann has a few questions:

Of the boys, who is closer to you/needs you more?

I’d say in general, Oliver is a bit of a mama’s boy. But Miles has taken over the mama-barnacle duties lately. Linus seems to be more of a daddy’s boy.

If you spood feed them by sharing the same bowl, how do you know who has eaten the most?

Well, I generally go down the line….Linus gets a bite, Oliver gets a bite, Miles gets a bite. (This is when I still spoon-feed them stuff, which is pretty rare nowadays.) Sometimes they don’t get equal amounts, because Linus might not want any of it at all, and Miles might want more. In fact, this is generally the case. But they’re all growing well, so I don’t stress about it.

Why will you need to separate them in different classes when they’re in school? To avoid confusing the teachers? or another reason?

I think mostly it’s so they can develop as individuals and get one-on-one attention. So they can excel in their own special areas, and so that they’re not lumped together as one kid. So they can make their own friends and develop their own interests. But the teacher-confusion thing is part of it too, I’d think!

Kitty asks:

I’ve always interested in the “hand-question” about multiple pregnancies. Do you think any of your boys is/will be left handed?

Hmm. I have no idea! If it’s genetic, I guess it’s possible. My mom and brother are left-handed. I think it’d be interesting to see if one is left-handed and the other two are right-handed. That would indicate that two might be mirror images of the other one. Which would be neat…

Lindsay wants to know:

Will you send your kids to Catholic school? Or maybe one of the new NOLA charter schools?

As I said earlier, I’m looking very forward to the day when we won’t have to pay for daycare anymore. And I don’t want to have to pay for private school – I can’t imagine how we’d do that, anyway. So we have a few (free!) charter schools that we’re hoping they’ll get into. But that’s still a ways off, so that could change!