The Lawry Crew (Declan and his Triplets): Where's Dada?

Monday, October 14, 2013

Where's Dada?

All weekend when the doorbell rings (yes, I've already started buying Christmas presents) or the phone rings, Aven points, runs and yells "DADA"! I think they all miss having their Dad and big brother around... Luckily they are coming back tonight and they will have Dad back with them all day tomorrow :-) It's been nice to have my girls all to myself. A few things I've discovered being with them this weekend...

They are getting more teeth. They went from temper tantrum central each 20 minutes on Friday to normal almost two year old triplets every 45 minutes by Sunday. I saw one of Stevie's eye teeth coming in and she's usually the first to get them. And I also feel like there are 2-year molars - am I right? Regardless, it would explain a lot about their attitudes this last week or so...
They talk to each other and know absolutely what the other is saying. It goes a little like this... Aven - "hey Bria, you run one way and I'll go the other," Bria - "yea okay, hurry, she's on to us, I gotta get to the neighbor's door before she sees me so that you can run out into the street!" Stevie - "hey guys, wait for me." They seriously are out to get me, and it's only going to get worse.
You have to master the loading and unloading of the car... I think I have the loading down pat, but the unloading gets a little squirrel... The loading part is pretty easy as they all walk to the car and want to get in (basically so they can run around in the car). You just have to make sure to open only one door, not both sliding doors - I made that mistake and almost lost one! The unloading gets to be a bit like point #2 above and they really don't want to go inside, which it makes it more challenging.
They think me telling them "no" is funny. This also goes to point #2 in them being out to get me. They think it's funny when I tell them no, and then they do it and then they all laugh about it. It's not funny (usually) and I'm not a fan. This too, will only get worse. I don't think they are quite there with time outs yet, and honestly I haven't quite figured out how those are going to work - because now when Declan has to go on one, they all laugh and mess with him... It's going to be a challenge for sure.

So those are my life lessons for the day... I also took the opportunity to take a bunch of candids of the girls - I just love taking their picture... I just wish they loved it as much as I did :-)

Aven is a hugging machine... It's hilarious... She just hugs and hugs and hugs... Here she is hugging Bria...

This was Stevie's reaction to my "no" to her spilling her gold fish and then me telling her to pick them up - this is her attempt to pick them up :-)

And her still mocking me...

Aven is crazy...

And this tantrum was brought to me by her taking her barrette out of hair and her hair kept going into her face... If she would actually leave something in her hair, then we wouldn't have this problem, now would we???

Bria stuck...

Happy Bria!

Happy Stevie!

Bria looking innocent...

Bria is really into putting clothes on (like in this picture) and taking them off... Last week I went into their room to get them and I noticed that Bria was sitting there smiling in just her diaper. After I had the moment of "oh crap, did we put clothes on her before she went to bed," I noticed her PJ's in a nice pile at the foot of her bed... She is really into zippers these days - let's just hope I don't wake up to her with poop all over her one morning...

Bria doing her best to create a double chin...

They are such big girls now, they don't even want to sit on anyones lap for their night bottle... I've also come to the realization that after this weekend, they really don't need a nighttime bottle... It's time, they are too big now and don't like it as much as they used to (sniff sniff)...