71 months
My boys are almost 6!
More info on their strange outfits tomorrow.
Category: triplets
Costco is fun.
The pumpkin patch
Took the boys to the pumpkin patch on Saturday. We met up with Ren and her girls, and afterwards, Oliver was diagnosed with strep. As you can see, he was feeling fine at the pumpkin patch. It came on very suddenly. Weird. Anyway, he’s fine now.
With me!
Picking out a pumpkin
I wish Linus was doing that too.
On the zip line
THIS is how you coordinate triplets
Oliver
Miles
Linus
Whee!
Jump!
A seated jump!
Jump!
Oliver, feeling fine
Milking a “cow”
Sweet brotherly moment
So, as predicted, Miles had some costume regrets after he decided on a Luke Skywalker costume (actually, it’s an Obi-Wan Kenobi costume, but whatever) while his brothers chose to be Power Rangers. I was so delighted that he chose something different, on his own, that I didn’t push him very hard to reconsider, and maybe I should have. Or not, because then I wouldn’t have witnessed this disgustingly sweet moment…
The other morning, they were playing in their costumes, and Oliver and Linus both came up to me in private, separately, to suggest that I tell Miles how cool his costume is. “Don’t tell him we told you to say that.”
A little while later, after I effusively complimented Miles’s outfit, I heard his brothers say, “Woah, Miles, that costume is SO COOL. It is WAY cooler than ours. Woah.”
And then I melted into a puddle of goo, the end.
Our weekend, in pictures
Picking out their favorite outfits at Dress Barn
On our way to Boo at the Zoo
Laser tag!
Trick or treat
Candy!
With the whole Star Wars crew
Poor Ernie
Mirror or Window?
Science!
Tiny volcano
With their cousins Carson and Eli
With their cousins Carson and Eli
RIP, Rupert
I wanted to share a really sweet post my friend Heather wrote about her puppy Rupert, who died earlier this week. You know I’m not a dog person, but Rupert was special. I mean, the boys adored him. And that is really something.
A few random cute pictures
Well, that’s kinda weird.
I’ve seen other people doing it on Facebook, so I thought I’d give it a try. I didn’t think it would look this…uncanny. I don’t know. Weird. Kinda creepy. But fun.
Weekend in pictures
Friday: Picnic at school, complete with a maze for the kids that I got lost in. Hmm.
Saturday: Heather and I went to pick up our race packets for the half-marathon on the 12th. And then we went to Costco! The new one! It was terribly exciting. Gas was under $3 a gallon! And I was ridiculously excited about the giant boxes of Oatmeal Squares cereal for $5.
I did some product photography for a catalog, and while I had my backdrop set up, the boys had a little photoshoot, at George’s request. That’s his shirt and toy (and I’ll freely admit I photoshopped them together in this picture.)
More fun with backdrops!
Okay, that last one is a little disturbing.
Sunday:
The fire hydrants on our street were open (yay for no water pressure) so George went to show the boys, and they all basically ended up soaked. Woo hoo, free bath! Regretfully, I didn’t have my camera with me.
After that, I went to the gym and ran 10 miles on the treadmill. Two hours on a treadmill is more about mental stamina than physical, I think. Glad I did it, but I just pray it’s cool on Saturday morning for the race.
Later, I took the boys to see Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2. I have a friend who worked on the first one, so I feel kind of disloyal saying this, but we loved it! Of course it wasn’t as good as the first, but it was definitely entertaining. We decided if Oliver was a foodimal, he’d be, um, and olive, and Miles would be Marshmiles, but we haven’t figured out Linus. Something with limes? Not sure. Any ideas?
This morning was a bit nuts with Linus being sick (he had weird croupy cough Saturday night, but no other symptoms, and still doesn’t, but we thought it best if he stayed home today) and therefore that made me forget the other boys’ lunches, so today they’re getting a ridiculously expensive lunch from Whole Foods that they’re probably not even going to eat. Sigh.
70 months old
Ah, how naive I once was, thinking as the boys got older, the monthly pictures would get easier. For a time, I guess it did. But now…not so much. I can’t rely on yelling “POOP!” anymore to make them laugh. Even an M&M bribe only got me this. Sigh. I gotta up my game.
Yet more controversy
At least this time the controvery is limited to my Southern readers. I’m guessing everyone else will wonder why it’s a big deal at all. Ha!
This is what I get
…for asking my kids to just, you know, stand by the pretty ivy wall and let me take a picture with the fancy lens I rented, if you want to go play laser tag after this, dangit!
Linus is the only one who deserved to play laser tag.
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