Nights

About a week and a half ago, we decided it was time to start putting the boys down in their cribs at bedtime so they could put themselves to sleep. I always did that with the girls and would have liked to have started sooner with the boys, but with triplets you can't do anything the same as with one kid. They have either liked to be rocked or held to fall asleep or in their swings. Well not anymore. The first night we tried it they cried for an hour and a half. Each night gets better. One night there were no peeps from their room. That only happened once. It seems that each night there is one upset little boy who cries and cries and the other two are fast asleep. We are making progress at least. Now we have to tackle the during the night sleeping habits. Aiden does really well and seldom wakes up. If he does I put him in bed by me for a few minutes and then he goes right back to his crib. I know, you shouldn't put them in bed with you. Once again I have never done this before, but in the middle of the night when one wakes up crying it is so much easier to rush right in and get him up and take him back to my bed. If I'm fast enough I only have one crying baby and not three. Brock is hit and miss. Some nights he sleeps good and other nights I get him back to sleep and everytime I put him in his crib he wakes back up. Collin is the same way. I wish I could just leave them in their room crying when they wake up in the middle of the night, but they wake each other up. Sorry for all the nighttime drama. I am just ready to have them all sleep through the night in their own beds every night. They used to for awhile and then I don't know what happened.

Paige finally lost tooth number 10 last night. She has wiggled and wiggled it and she finally got it out last night. She has started going to jump rope once a week. I am so excited to have someone following in my footsteps. She really wants to be on the team and she has started passing tricks off. I have told her that it takes alot of work and practice and I am hoping she can stick with it. She is a good jump roper if I do say so myself.

Kayla continues to be super busy and very demanding. She wants me to play barbies and polly pockets with her all of the time. I would rather do other things with me time while the boys are sleeping, but we manage some play time into each day.

The boys are staying so busy. Aiden loves playing with the Fisher Price zoo. He stands there and plays with the animals and pushes the button continually. Brock is so close to walking. I put him behind his little walker bike and he cruises around the room. I stand him up and he can balance for a few seconds and then I try to make him walk and he justs tips forward towards me without even moving his feet. Collin is my little jabber box. He is always jabbering and being noisy. He is finally walking around things and doing stairs but he isn't quite as speedy as the other two. We are trying new foods all the time. Last night they ate Macaroni and Cheese. They thought that it was pretty good. I can hardly wait until they will eat enough that they won't need a baby food as well. We go through 6 jars a day. Yikes!!

Aiden playing toys, to busy to smile for the camera.

Brock cruising around with his walker bike.
Collin finally smiling. It is really hard to get him to smile for a picture.

Well, sorry for such a long post. It has been crazy around here and I needed to catch up.