Ground Zero

So I have been meaning to post some pics of what our house has become since the babies came home. I used to joke while we were in the hospital, if you came to our house you would not know we were having a baby, better yet three. Well that is not the case any longer. Below, our dining room has become our nursery/changing area. This is to save us walking up and down from the nursery a 1000 times a day. Then the kitchen, this is our bottle staging/drying area. To transform both of these areas took some convincing, I had to use a phrase which has become very common "The world is not made for triplets" to get AJ to make the necessary adjustments. The last picture is our family room which on most days you are lucky to find a path through. Swings, bouncers, bobbies, activity gyms, babies (because they prefer the floor to any of the above mentioned). Which leads me to a rant, man these companies are making a killing with their baby items. Honestly the only way my kids enjoy the swing is if we lay them on the ground, turn the swing on and face them towards it so they can simply watch it move. Put them actually in the swing and melt down time. Bouncers are a little more useful but, like most things meant to occupy his time, Logan hates his, and he has the Cadillac of bouncers! And the girls both only play one song, its the same on each, and will get stuck in your head. Within two days AJ's mom was already humming it. Overall I found kids are a lot like cats, give them a $2 laser pointer and they would likely watch you run that thing all over the wall for hours. Stupid Fisher Price.

Tuesday we decided it would be wise to get some professional photos taken while the babies are still small and cute. You know, before they turn into house destroying toddlers. Wow this was a mistake, big mistake. First, we decided in the interest of trying to get it done sooner we would use one of these in the mall photo places. They could get us in quick and they seemed to excel in the more "artsy" photos we were hoping for, not the plain school photos. And they did a great job with the photos I will post a link later so you can check them out. The big issue was the length of time it took, 4.5 hours. Yes 4.5 hours, with triplets, in the mall, by ourselves. Dumb. Just dumb. We had good intentions, get there early (9AM) before the mall opens to stay away from crowds. The shoot took 2 hours (there is THREE of them after all). And this particular place wants you to stay after to select you photos and packages. I thought this could be done in 30 min or so, otherwise I would have just ran the kids home. Instead we all stayed and it took over 30 minutes just to upload the pics from the camera. Another 2 editing, selecting and paying. All while we tried to feed three hungry babies, during which there was crying lots and lots of crying, but once AJ smacked me around a bit I stopped. But then the kids started crying and that made it harder.

Probably the funniest part of the day was the 5 minutes we spent trying to get the family pictures. Let me just set the stage a bit. We took mostly naked baby pics, so we had the diapers off for about 1:45 min while they did the individual and all three together shots. All this time no accidents. Then the photographer has this great idea for a family shot, and its the one you will see in the link. All three babies sitting on our lap, without diapers, oh did I mention 1:45 without an accident, what could go wrong? Ya what, first Lizy started in with a little tinkle that hit both AJ and myself. Really not to bad, but only seconds later Madi hits me and she had a full bladder, really full. I walked around the mall with a 9 inch wet spot for the next 45 minutes, fun stuff. The only silver lining is Logan used this time to relieve himself as well, but hes a boy and he can hit things standing 3 feet away. So take that Mrs. Photographer Lady, payback is a.....

Anyway, here is the link to check out the shots. They really did a great job.

http://www.holdmymemories.com/Sather