Well...it's not very often that we have an outside influence keeping the girls up at night. Usually I'm a bear about people not making too much noise when the girls are sleeping. But last night someone was having a party and there was LOUD music playing until 1:00 in the morning. Hannah & Hailey kept waking up. At one point Hannah said something along the lines of 'music too loud!' After the music stopped - the rest of the night was peaceful.
The girls woke up around 6 and we got up and had some milk and cereal. Followed by some playing and then a nice breakfast that Pete made. After breakfast I went out to cover the grill and clean the porch off (lots of leaves and stuff from the recent rain). I figured the girls would just follow me out there in their socks. Emily & Hailey did - but Hannah of course needed to go and get her shoes and kept saying 'wait for me! I coming!' Lol...she IS a diva after all. The girls had snack outside and then it off to nap.
While they napped Pete and I took showers and got ready for the day. Pete had a wake to go to so he left around 11:30. The girls and I had a picnic to go to. So once they got up around 12:30 we had lunch and headed out to the picnic...with Little Brother in tow.
The girls had SO MUCH FUN on the trampoline. But insert mom 'bitch' here now. This where parenting to triplets becomes a challenge. A: the girls are very small (Hailey is still at only 21lbs, Hannah is only 22lbs and Emily is 25lbs). B: They have problems with their legs - remember the day I had to bring Emily to the ER because she stopped walking??? C: They don't do well in the heat. So the everyone at the picnic wants to see the girls on the trampoline. I finally said ok as long as the big kids got off (no way was I going to let them get jumped on). So they jumped and jumped and jumped. Having so much fun. But I soon realized they were hot, all red in the face and sweating. It was time for a break. So we took a juice break and not 5 minutes went by before someone else was taking them back to the trampoline. Ugh. So you can imagine how the afternoon went. It was ok - but this is where people don't realize the challenges we're faced with. The girls were hot and sweaty and had jumped for a very long time throughout the afternoon.
We said our goodbyes, they were fine in the car on the way home. We got home and Pete was soon behind us because he went grocery shopping. We gave the girls a quick bath - by this time they were extremely tired and Emily was complaining about her legs hurting. I'm sure they did! I'd love to see YOU go jump on a trampoline for ONLY 15 minutes and see how much pain you're in!
These girls are pushed by people because they're cute. It's not fair. It's not right. And I just hate being the person to have to follow around people saying 'please don't ____, no no..._____ is not allowed, they're not ready for something like that, they can't really handle something like this......' You get the point. Or maybe you don't. But in any case - this is our life.
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