Sock Puppets

With the triplets' birthday coming up, we've been looking at lots of toys, electronics and other gifts. It's always fun to see what's new and exciting, especially for a couple of techies like Gretchen and myself.

Even with all of the high-tech options out there, sometimes it's the simplest things that get the biggest and best reactions. Such was the case with these cute little sock-puppets that my Aunt and Uncle got from American Greetings. They came in little cards that told the story behind each puppet. They are really cute and the kids have loved playing with them.

Juli's puppet's name is Footloose the Dancing Sock and she dances to the beat of the spin cycle at the laundry room sock hop. Elisha's is Princess Slipperfoot, who got lost on her way home from the ball, but Prince Fuzzyboot rescued her and they lived happily ever after. Finally, KJ got Arrrgyle the Pirate Sock, who spends his days avoiding the footlocker and searching for booties to line his treasure chest.

Of course, no one is smiling in the pictures because I made them stop playing to take pictures. I'll have to try to capture some video of the kids playing with them, it's adorable.

Triplets At Pre-School: Day 2

The triplets were dragging this morning when I tried to wake them up. KJ and Juli just stayed in their beds as I was turning on lights and opening windows. After I got their clothes out I told them that they had to get ready because we needed to get to school.

Right then I knew we were going to have a problem. As soon as Juli heard me say school she started to whine "but I'll miss you". That continued through getting dressed, and breakfast, and hair brushing, and teeth brushing (yes, she was whining while I was brushing her teeth).

Then as we were heading outside to get in the van the tears started. She continued to cry the entire ride to school, thankfully it's a short trip. During all of this KJ and Elisha were just fine. I walked them into the school, got them into their classroom and started to say goodbye. Then Elisha started crying. KJ was already almost too busy to notice I was saying goodbye.

With both girls sobbing, I walked out of the room. Thankfully mine weren't the only ones crying, so I couldn't really hear Juli or Elisha crying as I walked out of the school. I'll say it again, those teachers are saints. Hopefully they settled down as quickly as they did yesterday. And hopefully Juli gets over this bit of separation anxiety soon.

Update - First Day of Pre-School

The triplets did just fine on their first day of pre-school yesterday. There was a little crying, but the teachers reported that it didn't last long, and they were there usual adorable selves the rest of the day. Hopefully today is just as good... with less crying.

Triplets' First Day of Pre-School

Today is the Triplets' first day of pre-school. Despite having to get up earlier than they are used to, they did pretty well, right up until we left their classroom. I think Juli was the first to start crying, then Elisha joined in. It was sort of a chain reaction between a lot of the kids in the room. All I have to say is the teachers are saints for dealing with all of those crying kids. I hope ours settled down.

I don't think KJ joined in on the sob-fest. He went right for one of the doll houses and started playing. He didn't seem to mind that we weren't there anymore. I'll have to post an update after we pick them up and let you know how they did after we left.

PT Update: I Think We Are Done!

This might be my last post about potty training! We have had no major accidents for a few days now. KJ and Juli are still in pull-ups overnight, just as a precaution really. It's been a long process, but I think we've finally done it!

We did it just in the nick of time, too, the kids start pre-school next week! Can you believe it? We took them to meet their teacher on Tuesday. Even though we explained over and over that we were just going for a couple of minutes to meet their teacher and get a quick tour, they were all pretty upset when we left. They were very excited to be there and wanted to stay.

Yesterday they all got post-cards from their teacher welcoming them to the class. They were very excited to get them. They're pretty excited to get any kind of mail.

I also let them play with the iPad yesterday. Well, I was going to let Juli play with the iPad since her iPod needed charged, but it turned into all three playing with the iPad.

And since I had the camera out, I decided to take some pics of them playing with their Legos. I can't wait until we get regular Legos and can start building more complex things.