Our crazy climbing beautiful girls

Isobel is lying on my lap in bed and Daria and Aurelia are playing in their room. I have spent the night dreaming that they are lost or that I have acquired an extra similar girl.
All anxiety dreams because I am so scared of losing them.
Yesterday they got ready for their birthday party, and I put them in their room to be safe. I heard a loud thump. My heart pumped the big pumps of a terrified mummy as i ran to their room, and then I heard the awesome noise that every terrified mummy wants to hear after such a thump, loud crying, thank goodness no one is dead, and then on arriving in the room, no one is broken. The ingenious wee beasties had pulled all the toys out of their toy buckets, and using the radiator, and climbed on to the window sill.
The window sills are very deep and high up as they are in a sloping roof part of the house.

Cue the mummy emptying the room of buckets and chairs, this is after already last week turning half the furniture around when I found Daria on top of a 5 drawer Malm chest of drawers, after another loud thump.
I am wondering how long it will be until their room has no furniture and nothing that can be climbed on. A padded cell is probably thoroughly appropriate for triplets.

The girls had a wonderful birthday I will get Richard to say something about that later...

We then came home had tea...
Fast forward to bedtime...
Obviously it takes 12 times longer than putting a single baby to bed because Aurelia takes her clothes off and everyone else copies. We repeat this cycle until until we put them in their beds with milk, switch the light switch off and run for the door. Wedging it shut behind us.

The girls are quite good at going to be usually but tonight we can hear running and giggling and then a slightly pathetic sob. Usually if there are a few tears at bed time there is a twisted logi to our response, and on occasion we know if we go back to their room. All of the girls will be up and out of bed, and there will be a chorus of sobbing if we try to leave. So a choice has to be made on the basis of how the crying sounds. But the pathetic sob intrigues me, it isn't the usual sound.

I creep into the girls bed room quietly switch on the light, and call for Richard to quickly see what has happened.

At this point I should correct myself and say strong ingenious wee beasties, because they have put two hands on the windowsill and, actually pulled themselves on to the windowsill, using a packet of nappies for extra height and the radiator for a knee up..

I reach my arms out to Aurelia and Isobel on the windowsill who leap into my arms.
Cue another panic and the window area being filled with boxes to make it inaccessible. A step closer to a windowless padded cell!

I wonder what our triplet troublettes will be in to next.
None of my friends babies seem to have shown much interest in climbing.
Callum apparently lies in his cot calling mummeeeee.... And doesn't even bother to stand up.
This is where I turn into my mother and say "why can't our girls be like that?"

Actually I wouldn't have them any other way, but I am worried they will collectively be six steps a head of us in completely different directions.
We only have to get to Tuesday for us to congratulate ourselves on keeping them safe an healthy for 2 years.
And then we can worry about the next 50 years. One year at a time. And then maybe they will look after us!
xxx

Beds

The girls have been in beds since about October, I was dissuaded by everyone from moving them too early, but Isobel climbed out of her cot onto the window sill.
I wasn't there but the story is legenday and I feel like I was there :-)
Beautiful girls xxx

Tractor

The girls are so full of words bursting to get out :-)

Happy is the most beautiful with the ppeeee as a rising crescendo , perfect and beautiful.

Tractor and copter are the most recent what is that all about of all the words the girls could choose. Tractor. A two syllable word which they have absolutely no problem with.

Apart from those there is row row...row row...... As in the boat. But we are yet to get to that bit.

Mu mu mu which means more.
Sha sha which means "give it to me". Derived from a little understood word "share" :-)

Mummeeee, Dadeeeeee
hello, bye bye and dropped it, which may have been their first phrase. Daria is a little behind in her speech, but that is to be expected with the ear infections she had last year.

I used to worry about her most as she seemed less interactive, but she is the most interactive baby :-)
She and Aurelia have run ins because despite her lesser vocabulary she knows how to alert the grown ups if her beloved cups have been taken. And it is usually Aurelia who is running quickly, arm swinging left to right with a furtive glance back at the purple faced Daria, and wide eyes to the Mummeeee and Daddeeee. Usually with a big smile. I hate to smile back when she is being a bugger but she is so funny. Daria gets her own back anyway screaming blue murder when Aurelia has something she wants, and of course everyone can't be sure if Daria had it first but could probably guess!

Isobel is still very naughty for her climbing, she is also very affectionate, she loves to come for a big hug facing me on my lap it is wonderful.


I love the girls so much, I simply can not imagine my life without them :-) :-) :-)

Izzy Bella

Isobel seems to going through terrible twos several months early. She is so funny. She won't be fed she must hold the spoon, or should I say all the spoons. She silks and drops her bottom lip when she doesn't get her way. All this from a 15 month old tiddler. She loves playing and is a fantastically fast runner. When the girls are put to bed they play chasing games. Isobel also loves to play boo. The others have started to play boo too. But chasing is the game that they play with each other, although Daria is sometimes a bit little to join in properly without getting sat on.
Isobel loved playing on the train in the library

Aurelia pickle

Aurelia has started to communicate. She loves "the horn on the bus goes beep beep beep" and she knows where her nose is. She has started using everything as a telephone. She holds everything to her ear and says herrro it is so cute.
She has even learned to go up and down the slide on her own, mostly she likes to go up the wrong way but she is very good at it.

Daria's teenth of a tooth

Daria started properly walking just about a week ago and now she is trying to run. She is so funny she smiles and gurns her gummy smile all the time she has three quarters of a tooth or one half and one third or two teeth depending on whether you are a "the mouth is half empty" kind of mum or you just love the gums.

Walkers

Daria's has taken her first steps.
Aurelia has been walking since April and Isobel is now running everywhere with her arms in the air. The funniest thing is when they play "chase me chase me"
I swear Daria only stood up so she could play.






She is very funny, she was climbing before she could walk, and she is a fantastic climber.
The other day Richard left the girls in the livingroom on their own and Daria climbed on to the sofa over it's arm and on to a table, Richard was a bit fraught when I got home :-) Isobel and Aurelia seem to have learned climbing from Daria, I suspect they will be out of their cots soon.

As for their teeth Daria's one tooth has finally come through, and the chubs have 8 teeth each, they are dribbling like I can hardly believe, but they are good humoured.

Love the girls.
Love the daddy.

Teeth

Last night I dreamed Daria had 5 beautiful teeth. But it is not so so we will continue rubbing her gums with the
tooth brush :-)

Isobel has 7 or 8 teeth now and Aurelia has 6 or 7 one of them bit daddy the other day he was not impressed. I'd like to think it wouldn't catch on. But they are babies and there are 3 of them. So it's almost the rules they should practice bring cannibal zombies for a while.

They have just recovered from the worst stomach with liquid yellow pooh. Nasty pasty. It took a week to go.

But they are all good now :-)

1 year and one day

I can hardly believe how lucky we are.

Next door are 3 loud mouth one year olds, singing (after a fashion) to each other.
They were such tiny dots when they came home and at last weighing Daria is still smallest at 16lb 12oz, Aurelia and Isobel were over 18lb quite amazing when you consider a baby is apparently supposed to triple their body weight :-) in a year.

Yesterday we took the girls to a play day at thr village institute with tiys, music and singing and many other babies. Then we went to Wood Green animal shelter where we saw some lovely woofers, Vermin Kay, Ben and Roland's Rat cousins with some Floppsies and Cotton tails. The girls were slightly intrigued by the animals but not too much.

When we got home Rachel came to visit with Jas and Joe which was lively and we belatedly traded Christmas presents :-)

On Sunday we had a lively party at the social club in Longstanton.
The local newspaper came and made a Rosie appeal video and took some pics that were in the girls very own birthday issue of the newspaper.

Round down get around, we get around

Here we are in our Choo Choo Wagon for the first time just after Christmas, mummy does not like to talk about how much the shipping cost!






Daddy calls these Darleks but of course we know they are bumper cars.







This is us in the quad trolley at Tesco we only did a little bit of hair pulling in it.






Mummy wants one if these fabulous Kettler trikes but they don't get sold in England :-(






Mummy also thinks these Bakfiets bikes are good but very very expensive

Anyway we will walk soon and take everyone by surprise