They’re just so…exhausting. So funny and so smart and so cute, but so tiring. So loud. When they went to bed, I just laid on the sofa and let the silence wash over me. Until I could hear, "Mommy…Mommy…Mommy! MOMMY! I need to TELL YOU something! MOMMY!!!!!

Good night."

One more vestige of their babyhood bites the dust…without any prompting from me, the boys took a shower tonight instead of a bath. Sniff sniff. Don’t get me wrong, I’m thrilled, but not so much about leaving my babies behind…

(and even worse, no more bath pictures?)

Tiny sink at the library. Love it!

{Note, this should have been posted, um, on January 28, but I missed it.}

A breathing treatment picture to document what hopefully will be one the last ones we have to for a while! We get to stop the daily inhaled steroids in a month or so, after over two years. Every night, all three boys get a breathing treatment. What will we do with all that time?!?!

I had a really hard time picking today’s picture, because I took some fun ones. But this one’s the most fun, don’t you think? Look at the air George got? And I love the boys’ expressions.

*Someone* didn’t get his way this morning…

And this is why we are probably separating the boys into different classes next year.

(And look at that poor kid by the tree who just wants to play with them. Funny thing about that is, he’s a twin. Ha!)

Today was the boys’ four year well visit, which included one of their first experiences with a blood pressure cuff. (I think maybe they’ve had it done at the ER, but I can’t remember.) Miles and Oliver (shown here) did great, barely flinching, but Linus freaked out so badly we had to skip his reading. Ah well, presumably it’s close to his brothers’.

This sweet monkey doing Blue Steel is the sixth baby I’ve photographed in the last eight days. Whew!

He was born on the boys’ birthday, so he’s about seven weeks old now, and makes the cutest faces. (And yes, he yawns cute too.)

Clearly, I have a thing for yawning babies. I can’t help it, they’re so cute!

Soooo, I gave them different hair cuts. It’s not easy to see here (which I suppose kind of defeats the purpose) but in person it’s a bit more noticeable. From left to right, we have more to less hair. Miles only got a bit of a trim around the ears and neck; Linus got a longer cut all over; and Oliver got shorn.

Hopefully it will help with the questions, at least in person. We’ll see…

The boys have these little bears that they love. This, bee tee dubs, is Mama Brownie. Linus had Baby Bluey and Miles has Daddy Bluey. In case you were wondering.