I very rarely dress the boys alike. My reasoning used to be something along the lines of “they need to be individuals”, but really it was “I can’t tell them apart.” Now that I’m better at telling them apart, it’s “I’m too lazy.” And really, digging out three of the same outfits is not easy. And I don’t have many, anyway. But yesterday at Target I got three of these shirts for the boys (because they have elephants on them and the boys loooove elephants) and then I thought, let’s go the whole hog and mess with their teacher’s head today at daycare and dress them exactly alike. Heh. Nice, eh?

(For the record, I know their teacher will be able to figure out who’s who.)

(I hope.)

It’s cute, isn’t it? I wish I was brave (and not lazy and better at telling my kids apart) like Sarah, who dresses her girls alike most of the time, I think. It is awfully cute, after all.

But I will have to make sure they’re in different outfits when I pick them up, because they’re going to my boss’s house for a slumber party with his 10 year old daughter. Fun!

I’m back! Man, it’s been a while. Since a real post, that is.

Work conference
It’s done! Man, what a relief. I have literally been planning this conference for over 4 years. We almost had a few debacles (like, I didn’t get a priest for the closing mass until about 3 hours before it was supposed to start) but it’s over and people seemed to enjoy it and get a lot out of it, blah blah blah. (For anyone who doesn’t know, I work for the IT department of the Archdiocese here and we were hosting a conference for other diocesan IT people.)

The boys
Are 18 months old!!!

And are v cute. 🙂

Linus:

Oliver:

Miles:

Miles and Linus and our friend’s dog:

Our klassy wagon:

My friend’s husband
My friend Alicia’s husband is doing better. There is a light at the end of the tunnel, even. It’s been a pretty big deal locally, because he’s a pretty prominent chef, so he’s been on the news and stuff. It’s good for me because now Alicia’s keeping a blog about his condition. I haven’t talked to her personally since it all happened. I wish I could. Next Sunday is the benefit at the Ritz for him. I wonder if she’ll be there. I hope so.

Random stuff
Coldplay is Tuesday night! So excited.

The boys were finally observed by their speech therapist (next step is actually scheduling the therapy) last Tuesday and she called me with her observations. Of course, I was in the midst of conference stuff, so I don’t remember everything she said, but she does want me to work on signing with them. First one will be “more”, which they’re pretty good at. Well, they do the sign when I say “more”, but I’m not sure they understand what it means yet. Also, she said their receptive communication (or something like that) is good, meaning when we say something to them, they understand us, but their, um, the other kind of communication (where they try to tell us things) is what they need work on.

I’m really not all that worried about their speech, but it’s good to know we’ll get some help with it.

Okay, back to work for me. I have a ton of catching up to do!

I mentioned briefly in a previous post about a friend whose husband is very sick. Well, it’s now made the local news, so I guess I can post more about it. Especially if it means getting some help to the family. Here’s an article that was published today in the New Orleans paper. (Her husband is a well-known local chef, hence the news coverage.)

Please pray, or help, or donate, or give blood, or do whatever you can.

I am the featured blogger on the Multiples and More website. Which you are all very familiar with, as it’s where we won the “cutest multiples” contest recently. Woo!

Okay, this was weird.

So my mom and I were at the mall in Baton Rouge today with the boys. As we were leaving Dillard’s, we were stopped by someone asking if they were triplets. Yeah, yeah, that never happens, right? Well, THIS never happens….

It was a mom with her identical triplet daughters! Looky! Isn’t that amazing? What are the odds? (And they have an older sister too, so mom is extra awesome in my book.)

I was too dumbfounded to ask the girls the questions I really wanted to (including their names) but I hope they will read this and leave a comment so I can bombard them with questions about school and their childhood and all that good stuff. I mean, seriously. What are the odds?!?!?

Sunday was rainy, but I was determined to take the boys to the French Quarter for Family Day at my friend Teresa’s place of employment, a museum. Plus, I needed to get a “New Orleans-y” picture of the boys for something for work. So the rain eventually slacked off and we (me, the boys, and a few friends) headed over. We got caught in a few scattered showers, but overall it was a decent day.

Here are some pictures from the beginning…

At first we just had Linus,

but then George’s parents brought the other two home, so I had all my boys together. Here are my attempts at a group photo…

Oliver is crying. His brothers are wondering why.

Okay, this is not meant to be.

Linus got a lot of mommy time this weekend

He was having a hard time letting go…

Love this kid…(my friend’s son Liam)

So anyway. We go to the museum. Right before we left, they gave us all the balloons they’d used to decorate. Because, you know, we’re not enough of a spectacle…

Finally, we stopped and I got a decent pic. Not sure if it’s really New Orleans-y, but whateverrrrr. Also, I had to photoshop three pictures together to get this one. Heh.

Still need to post about Saturday – me and Linus went and ran some errands. I was so delightfully normal with my one kid! And then we went to my friend Mandy’s house where he played with her daughter Annabel and I got to have girly chat with Mandy and our friend Melissa. But I need to retrieve the pictures off my camera still, so that will be a later post.