The End

Yep. That's about it. If you want further triplet news, Ashlee's blog is the place for you. If you want more news of me... well, I'll be starting up a new blog soon (I'll edit in the link when I have it), but I can't guarantee that I'll post any more regularly there than I have here.

So we meet the end of this blog. It's been fun for me to write. I hope it's been fun for you to look at.

EDIT: That new blog link is right here.

I Leave you with Cuteness

Abby and Mia: Yay pillow!


Charlie: Silly sisters.

Jared and Ashlee

I got to know these two goofballs a lot better in my six months with them. I shall miss them very much too.

Altogether

I miss these girls already. I can hardly wait til my next visit.

Mia

Mia Bia

Six Months ago:


Now:







Six months ago, Mia was just starting to crawl. Now, she walks and runs and dances, she knows several signs and is the first to begin saying words other than Mama and Dada. She likes to comb her sisters' hair with the shark finger puppet, and prefers being in the midst of her sisters than off by herself.

Abigail

Abby

Six months ago:


Today:







When I first arrived, Abby was just getting the hang of crawling, and could concentrate like no other on movies and books. Now she walks, runs, hides under the jumper when Daddy plays "Get 'em", can sign as many signs as her movies show and loves to sit with a book and flip the pages. She's gonna be a bookworm like her Aunt, just wait.

Charlotte

Charlie

Six months ago:

Now:








My sweet Charlotte. The mischievous angel. When I first came to help Jared and Ashlee, she was leading the pack in crawling. Now she walks, runs, walks backward, plays fetch, signs about a dozen different words, gives her sisters hugs, and is in all ways adorable and smart.

Wait! It's Not Over!

I write this from a comfortable seat on the couch at home. We flew home this morning, waking up at four in the morning, taking two planes (one sitting by very pleasant young people, the other sitting by not as pleasant old people) to get here.

As you might imagine, having awakened at four am, I am exceedingly tired, but I wanted to post to say I'm not done yet. I'm going to do a few more posts to round things up, so I hope you'll stick around!

Grandpa's visit

Kay, so Blogger is being completely and utterly annoying and won't let me see what I've done and the pictures aren't showing up, they're long strings of gibberish words and... *calms self down*

Anyway, rather than just stew and consider throwing my laptop across the room, I shall just say what I meant to say here and you'll just have to decide for yourselves where it should have been in the post. Okay?

Dad is here to visit/take me home on Monday. Of course I have mixed feelings about going home, but we'll discuss that another time, preferably when Blogger isn't being so aggravating. The girls have loved having him here. They were a little shy at first, but within a few hours of his arrival they were covering him in their toys and books, showing off their treasures. Pretty adorable.

The Cuteness

My sweet Abby.

Charlie has a new hat.

You like?

Mia is so curious about my camera.

She wants it. Wants it now.

Belly button show by Mia. Picture by me.

New fences; new hangouts

We recently rearranged the gates in the downstairs. We got rid of the clunky chair/bag of rice/chair trio that was guarding the way between the couches and put up gates at the base of the stairs and at the entryway to the kitchen.

The girls have loved the extra space. In fact, they now spend probably 60% of their time out in the hallway instead of in the family room/play area. And of that 60% spent in the hallway, 60% is spent on the little linoleum square before the front door. I don't know why they like it so much -- it's cold in the mornings and slippery to walk on in socks -- but they do.

By the way, do you like the sweatpants? It's been getting colder, so they spend lots of time in them.

The little red ribbons they are wearing are actually connected to the bells they received at the Polar Express themed ward Christmas party we went to last Saturday. Sadly, I did not take my camera, so I've no pictures. Ashlee does though.

If you look closely, you will find that all three girls are in the above picture. Charlie is hiding behind the corner, sitting (of course) on the linoleum square.

All that room to play in, and they are all three congregated right there on that little four by four patch of slippery, cold linoleum. *shakes head and grins* Silly, adorable girls.