Children's Festival

I was SO excited to take the kids to the Children's Festival this year - I pictured them having so much fun and enjoying all of the activities. And they did - but what I didn't consider was that I would have whiplash from constantly turning my head to see if all 3 of my children were still with me.

When we first got there it was fine, they stayed pretty close to me and it actually wasn't busy yet so it was okay for them to wander a little ways in front of me. But as the morning went on and more people filled the park, the crazier it got. Despite my occasional stern, but trying not to yell in public calling of their names to get them to come back to me, it was a good morning.

The kids did some crafts...


...played with a ton of Lego...



...got their faces painted...





...watched a Sylvia Chave singing show. This was the Pizza Head song. The boys were right into things clapping along, but Maggie was more hesitant.

After a while I put their Elmo harnesses on which was better because I could at least know they weren't going to get away. The harnesses worked well except for the poor few people who we basically clotheslined.


We met our buddies Jen, Jordyn and Luke there which was great. The boys told me ahead of time that they were going to hold Jordyn's hand and Maggie said she was going to hold Luke's hand. They had it all figured out.



I am beginning to feel a little more "normal" in terms of the things that we can do with triplets as they are getting closer to being 3. However, this day was a reminder that some outings are still quite the undertaking. And I thought to myself after we left, "What if they were not in diapers anymore and I had to take ALL 3 OF THEM into one of the outhouses??" That's just another reason for me to procrastinate this potty training thing a little longer - the ease of peeing anywhere in diapers and also the fact that I am in total denial my babies are actually old enough to not be in diapers anymore!