Nice weather

Here are the triplets enjoying a book with grandma Pam last Friday. The weather was kind of icky, so we stayed inside and tried to occupy them. The weather has been great this weekend and week, so far, so we are enjoying plenty of quality outside time and with that, good naps (that makes me very happy). They have also been enjoying quality time on their swingset, and while they are doing that, I've been able to get some yardwork done. So, it's a win win situation as far as I can see.

I had thought over the weekend that our bad attitude from last week was gone, until Grace's attitude reared it's ugly head this morning in the form of a 45 minute tantrum over who knows what. She sat in time out and screamed for exactly 45 minutes and then was done. Of course, that made us late for our playgroup this morning, but we finally got there and they had a good time. They're to the point where I can let them play around all the older kids and not worry about the getting trampled, the hold their own pretty well. They're coordinated enough to play on the swingsets and not get hurt and they know pretty well not to walk in front or back of moving swings. They had a good time this morning, it was a nice outing on a nice morning. We've also been to the library, museum, mall and lots of church time in the last week. They love going to the mall lately. There's a big carousel in the middle that Xander calls is "up and down" (for the horses that go up and down) and Grace calls it the "round and round". Last time they rode it Xander spent 5 minutes after it was over saying "up and down all done". He also calls the ceiling fan a "round and round." and calls jeans "blue jeans". I don't know who taught him those.

We've found a new way to combat the picky eater syndrome that was sweeping our house. We first tried it with green beans. Brian will get a spoonful of the food and pretend to eat it saying "that's my green bean (for example)." They will laugh and say "no, my green bean." Brian then says "you'd better not eat my green bean" and then they laugh and eat the bean. It then becomes a huge game to eat food that isn't theirs. And this works almost 100% of the time. They are now eating broccoli, green beans, avocado, meat loaf (grace and will) and many other things they weren't eating before, just because it's funny to eat mommy or daddy's food. So, kudos to daddy for solving our problem. Hope you are all enjoying the spring weather, more updates next week!