Bootcamp Begins Tomorrow

It's time to do something drastic or else mealtimes around here may send me to the looney bin. Picking up plates, forks, bibs, endless amounts of food and sippy cups got old a long time ago but I'm still doing it, mainly because we only have so many plates and forks and we don't have a dog to clean up the leftover food. If I put too much food on the trays everything gets thrown off. So what I do is feed the babies one course at a time: protein, starch, veggies, fruits and then milk at the end. But what happens throughout the duration of the entire meal is they throw what they don't eat or want of the food (each kind of food), plus at some point their plates and forks get thrown as well. They also often will rip off their bibs and throw them on the floor. When they throw something they don't get it back (food, plates or forks), but what I have been doing is then moving on to the next food because I want to offer them a well rounded meal and don't want them to be hungry.

Well after today I am saying, too bad so sad. If you throw anything, you're done. I got the idea to do this from another triplet mom on the Triplet Connection forum where she said that she did this with her kids. If anyone threw any food or plates/utensils they came out of their chair and didn't get to eat again until the next snack or meal. She said it took a few days of some crying and whining but after those first few days there was no more throwing. A little additional crying and whining in our days won't even be noticed so now is as good of a time as any to try this.

I know that I just need to relax and let go of things a little, if they are really hungry they will eat. I think my mentality around this came from the beginning when they were discharged from NICU and the nurses stressed to us how important it was to get them to take their bottles to catch up on their weights. Well, obviously that was a long time ago and no one here is fading away. So we'll see how boot camp goes tomorrow.

Last weekend we went to the lake again. We try to get at least one weekend out of the summer where everyone in my family can get together out there. It was a great weekend! I think the biggest hit with the babies was playing in the tubes and being pulled around.




I think Mitchell liked being pulled around the most. We heard lots of his famous giggles.



Mitchell gave Brennan a thank you hug for all of his hard work pulling everyone around. Thanks Brennan and Brett!

Casey and Maggie did take their turns doing some pulling.



Maggie also took a little time out to pose with daddy.

My niece Ava was another passenger in the tubes.

Here are a few other pictures of our little Roughrider fans.




They slept through almost all of the game, but our littest fan Calder turned the game around for us once he put on a jersey.