It has been simply amazing watching these 3 little boys grow and develop right before my eyes. They've gone from babies to toddlers in the blink of an eye. Lately they've been doing a lot of "growing up" and I love seeing how happy they are to learn new things.
We've reached the age where they are obsessed with owies. Aiden especially loves to pull up his pant legs and point out every scratch, scab and scrape and says, "owie", with each point of the finger. Yesterday I burned my hand and had an ice pack on it. That led to lots of kisses for my owie. So sweet. :) Aiden is also our no fear child. He decided he should be old enough to just walk off of a step instead of turning around to go down on his belly or holding our hand. He made it at first, but then fell pretty hard. He will break a bone at a young age. Mark my words.
They are also really into singing and counting. Reese can easily count to 10 and sings his abc's. The letters get a little jumbled at l,m,n,o. He's very much our child who studies everything and learns from observation. He studies me when I sing so that he can learn a song. He sings "Row, row, row" and "Jesus Loves Me" a lot too. Some words are not even close, but it's the best sound to hear his little voice singing. He loves to do puzzles, read and do anything academic. It makes a teacher's heart happy!
Their vocabulary is really beginning to increase now as well. They pretend to drink coffee and can say it, although sometimes it comes out with p's instead of f's. Noah is definitely our most verbal at this point. He repeats everything. One day I got into the van and from the back heard, "Hi, mama" in his sweetest voice. That same day I said, "Hi, honey" and he repeated it back. Melt. my. heart. Most recently he's started saying, "Please, Mama!" which Reese then picked up. All day long that's what I hear. I love it! They also ask me to "rock baby" which means to rock them in the rocking chair and sing to them.
Yesterday morning I went to get them out of bed and Noah and Reese were laying at the ends of the their beds holding hands through the bars. When I got them up all 3 of them were hugging and kissing each other like they hadn't seen each other in weeks. It was a nice change from the "Mine!" and the hitting that tend to go on more often.
All of this has reminded me to never take for granted how special it is to have triplets. I sometimes forget how incredible it is, because to me it's normal life. I also have to constantly remind myself how fortunate we are that none of them have any delays. As a matter of fact they are ahead in many ways. Today I am 32 weeks and 5 days pregnant. That is when the boys were born. That thought is not lost on me. I am amazed to think that they were so early and did so well. Praise the Lord for 3 little miracles! I was often told how much of a miracle it was that someone my size and my age (that I was very young) got pregnant with and carried triplets as far as I did. A miracle they are.
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