My name is Pam. I am married to George. We live in New Orleans. We have BBB spontaneous identical triplets, born December 4, 2007 - Linus, Oliver, and Miles. This blog goes back, waaay back. Back before babies, before weddings, even before George. I used to write about running marathons and knitting and weight loss. Now I mainly write about my three sons and life with them. 
WOOOO HOOOOO!!!!
(Sorry I have to post this AGAIN, but until I can post my pictures from yesterday, this will have to suffice.)
Help a Mama out…
Not me, but my friend Katie, who has twins, is participating in her local news stations’ Biggest Loser-type contest. I love Biggest Loser, so I’m really excited for her.
But she needs our votes! It’s really really easy to vote, no registering required. And you just need to vote once today and once tomorrow. 
Go here:
http://www.ksdk.com/sales/splash/lose_ton/winter_2010/vote.aspx
And vote for Katie under the “Determined Divas”. Voting ends tomorrow.
Thanks all!
1 is easier than 3
With the very important caveat that you must have three in order to appreciate how much easier one is.
This weekend I took one kid to my mom’s for the weekend, while the other two spent time being spoiled mercilessly by Granny and Grandpa. As it happens, I took Miles with me. I plan to do this more often, and yes, next time Oliver or Linus will come, and then the time after that, whoever hasn’t been yet will come with me.
It was just so awesome. At the risk of sound unappreciative of my other two children, it was just so nice to be able to really focus on just Miles. I feel so often like I don’t know them well enough, as individuals. Is it because they’re identical? I don’t know, but I read so many triplet blogs where the mom or dad can easily reel off a list of differences between their triplets.
I mean, I know they’re different, but I have a hard time describing it, you know? It’s like when we had them evaluated for Early Intervention last year. They’d ask “is Miles pointing to objects?” and I’d confidently say “yes!” and then wonder to myself, “or was that Linus?” People will ask me “who’s the leader?” and “who talks the most” and things like that and I honestly have a hard time answering.
Hopefully these one-on-one weekends will help.
At least if someone asks me if Miles loves Teddy Grahams, I’ll be able to answer with confidence…
My mom enjoyed the one-on-one time too. But don’t worry, Linus and Oliver will get their share of Grandee storytime too…
[And can I just go on more about how fast it is to get one kid in and out of the car? And how nice it was to be driven around by my mom, who can fit one carseat into her car, but not three? And how it was great not to even have to bring a stroller with me? And how shopping was manageable? And bathtime? And mealtime? Okay, I'll stop now.]
01/30/10
This picture may not seem very exciting to you, but consider this…in it are 27 pairs of pants, 15 shirts, and 2 winter coats…all purchased this weekend for $2.99 each. (Okay, the jackets were $9.99 each.)
Thank you Children’s Place for outfitting my children for next winter for practically NOTHING!
Oooof.
As if falling down some stairs wasn’t bad enough, as I was pulling out of my parking space at work yesterday, I totally scraped the corner of the bumper of the car next to me.
Ugh. It looks pretty bad, but hopefully it won’t cost too much to get repaired. Of course my car is fine – I wish my car had gotten scraped up and the other car had been fine. I’ll be driving mine forever, so I don’t care about a few scrapes.
Fortunately, the woman who owned the car is very nice and is being cool about it. But still. Not what I needed.
And to top off the spectacular day, Oliver woke up screaming at 11:30 and would not go back to sleep. Not until we brought him to bed with us. I don’t know about you, but I don’t sleep well next to a two year old. At least he slept. Last time I brought him to bed with us, he tried to talk to me about his DVD all night long.
It wasn’t all bad, though. We found out we’re closing on our refinance on Friday (woo!) and our friend Lindsay came over to work on wedding invitations (I love that kind of stuff) so we watched Biggest Loser and drank wine while cutting cardstock and punching holes in stuff.
Lindsay helped George pick out my engagement ring many moons ago, so it sort of feels fitting to be helping her with her wedding stuff now. And she was George’s best woman. Awww!
And the boys were in good moods at dinnertime. They ate PEAS! That’s TWO green vegetables they’ll eat!
They danced after dinner, but that’s hard to get pictures of. But it’s cute. Speaking of dancing, I got a call from daycare yesterday that Linus bumped his head in a freak dancing accident with Miles. Hee hee! (He was fine.)
Ouch.
Am totally posting this for sympathy. Heh.
This morning, I was bringing something downstairs and slipped and bounced down the last four or five stairs. Ouch. Good thing I’m padded. Hmm. Now I’m sore, though, and I’m sure it’ll only be worse tomorrow. Thank goodness I wasn’t holding a kid.
Okay, enough of that. How about some more cute pictures?
This is one I almost used yesterday as my picture of the day, but I decided I thought the other one was more interesting. But this one’s neat because it looks kinda like a mirror.
Linus making crank calls:
Decisions, decisions….
Love this:
And I find it interesting that I can tell who is who just by looking at the way they hold their heads. Miles on the far left, Oliver on the right. Aww!
