The Triplets of Fernwood: Mutiny!

For about the past week, the trio has started boycotting their bottles. I'm not sure if it's the hot humid weather or just a natural change that was bound to happen, but we actually had all three of them not wanting their bottles starting on the 4th! Normally they each drink about 24 oz each day - broken up into 4 feedings, but lately Olivia and Tony have only been drinking 2/4 bottles. Amelia has been drinking her bottles really well and eating her solids as well, but not sure what's going on with the other two. They eat their solids easily, but worried about them getting dehydrated. The past two days, Olivia's diaper smells so badly of ammonia, I know she's not getting enough water. She's been getting her sippy cup with some apple juice and water. Actually, they've all been getting sippy cups, because if they don't all get one, they fight over them. Who am I kidding, I saw Amelia try to take Olivia's from her, even though she had her own! Olivia and Tony are the best with the sippy cups - Amelia still needs to work at it.

We had a nice 4th of July - we spent the afternoon with Beth, her husband Jay and Melanie - their daughter and our three day a week baby sitter/helper. We had some hot dogs and hamburgers that they brought and Tony grilled. The trio had some great pool time and the rest of us didn't even mind getting splashed because it was pretty hot outside. We didn't go to see any fireworks - it was after their bedtime and figured they'd be scared by the noise if we did keep them up. I was worried that they'd wake up because of the noise, but they didn't and all was well. I'm thinking for the years to come I might as well purchase hearing protection for them - for occasions such as this that I want to protect their little ears.
We didn't actually have 'matching' outfits for the 4th, so no real photo op, but we did receive a cute little outfit for little Tony from Uncle Kevin and Aunt Natalie.

check out that pose!!! Mr. Independent!

Just a few pictures of the other 'mutiny' that I witnessed this morning as I entered their room to get started for the day. All three of them work up early this morning, but neither Tony or I was ready to get up at 6:30 when they awoke, so they just played (mostly quietly) in their cribs until I went in their room at 7am.

So basically what I saw is all of their stuffed animals and pacifiers on the floor in front of each of their cribs. I just started laughing out loud and then eventually picked everything up and tossed it back into their crib.

Not much else this week - that I can remember but here are a few other pictures from the week.