EI evaluation today.*

It went really well, the evaluators were very nice and had a fun time "playing" with the trio. Hayden and Lily are great, they did not need or qualify for any help. Xander was in the 'OK' range with his communication, but by just a smidgen. They felt he was close enough to 'not OK' that they approved him for help. I will be hearing from someone in the next week or two and get a schedule of when and how often they will be out to our house to work with him. I hope it helps him, they did say he was not bad off but that by doing it now instead of waiting for a recheck at 2 we may be able to nip whatever is holding him back in the bud.

A couple funny videos from today.

Now that we have started hiding our hands (only sometimes) from Lily the walk monster, she is pulling Xander to walk with her LOL. He didn't seem to mind, only problem they had is they both wanted to lead :)

Here is one of Hayden playing with her food.

A few pics...

Xander talking to his sisters.

His eye is looking so much better!

Miss Hayden, I swear I am going to try to get her hair in a pony tomorrow.

The girls really seem to be getting so close...I love it!

My 'babies' are a year and a half old today!*

When did this happen?!?! Got some pics but I am too tired to add them today, a momma of triplets too tired...I'm being a wuss :) I will be back to flesh out this post tomorrow. OK so I'm still tired but here are the pics and a funny little movie clip.

Silly girls :)

Kisses from my girls

Xan having a little fun in the kitchen too... and O.J. not having much fun with Xan LOL

More playing...

Yeah this sleeper is a tad big...it's a 2T that I accidently grabbed and was too lazy to go find a smaller one hahaha

His eye is looking better.

Miss Hayden in a 24mo sleeper...big kiddos!

Happy Bug

She still doesn't have this lets take a walk thing out of her system yet. I have to admit at times we have started hiding our hands from her LOL

First couple days of the remodel.

A lot of remodel progress was made this weekend, I wish it was done already...3 weeks is going to feel like forever! I am so silly, one of the biggest things I am excited for it to paint LOL I am also excited to get us moved in the new room, then paint and decorate our old room for the trio.
Xander's eye seems to be done getting worse, now I think it is on it's way to getting better. The girls have been chasing each other back and forth in the living room every night this week, they really love that game LOL. Lily has started saying bye bye and waving, so cute.
I am making some progress on the 2nd blog book....it is slow going though.

Remodel pics.

My beautiful blue eyed boy...that shiner is starting to go away.

My girls...in their brothers sleepers LOL.

Giving loves.

Bug taking Xanders truck out for a spin. They loves chasing after each other with this car.

Yes, this is Gangster trying to sleep in the trios chairs.

Day 1 of the remodel...and my clever son.*

Most of the tear down for our little remodel was done today, it is amazing how different a space can look in just 3 or 4 hours. It's going to be a semi long road to completion but it'll be worth it, I can't wait! It will be really nice to get the trio out of their small room and into our current, and much bigger, room. Xander wanted so much to be in their with his Daddy and our friend Larry doing man work...it was funny to see him all interested in something while the girls couldn't care less about all the hammer and crowbar work going on in the other room.

Xander surprised me today, he likes to get a hand and a leg in behind their play kitchen and push it away from the wall, then he gets back behind there and plays. We have to put the kitchen back against the wall at least 5 times a day, so today he was trying to get back there yet again and by this time I had already replaced the kitchen 5 times. So when I saw him move into pushing position I held my hand on the counter of their kitchen and used my weight to keep him from moving it. He looked at my hand, grunted and then tried to pry my hand away. When that didn't work, I am not at all kidding....he looked at me, almost smiled, and started clapping. Jason and I always clap when they do so though I wondered if he was trying to trick me I played along and started clapping with him. Sure enough as soon as my two hands were busy clapping and not holding the kitchen against the wall he made his move. He was about to push it away so I quickly replaced my hand on the counter and thwarted his attack. He looked at me, smiled, and started clapping again. I played along and began clapping with him, that little sucker tried as fast as he could to push the kitchen away while I clapped. I have a feeling he would have tried it a few more times but I let him win...he was so clever how could I not!

The EI people called today and will be out to the house on Thursday to evaluate the trio and see if there is any need for speech therapy. Jason and I sat down and tried to think of all the words they say and this is what we came up with.
Xan only says momma, dadda, and something like hi. Though he rarely says even these few words.
Hayden says momma, dadda, dog, kitty kitty, book, juice, up, tickle tickle, baby and is trying to say banana, chicken and grapes.
Lily says momma, dadda, tickle, up, down, all done, baby, no and bam. How bam came about is a funny story. Since putting up their little basketball hoop Jason has been shooting more baskets than anyone and every time he makes one he says BAM, so Lily has started throwing things and saying BAM hahaha. They all know a lot more words than they say, like they know body parts, and they know what sippy cups are but they don't use words for those things yet. Lily picked up a new sign, sleep.

I got the book I made today, the first 6 months of this blog are now a hard back book...and it looks really nice. Still working on the next 6 months...it's bigger and giving me some trouble.

Before pics of the remodel.


After day 1

What we will be seeing for the next 3 weeks.

Xander's black eye continues to get more color :(

I caught the girls actually sharing nice and playing together today, it only lasted a min or two then stingy Miss Hayden pulled the toy from it's spot and took it when she turned her back to Lily LOL

A quick thumb through of the blog book.