Of Triplets and Turkeys

It's been eons since Jody and Matt last posted--chalk it up to the holiday season and the impending move to Bloomington, Indiana, where Jody will begin teaching at Indiana University School of Law in January. The move is scheduled for December 14, and then the five of us will hop in our two cars for the convoy from Boston out to Indiana. Matt will drive the Rav-4 with our dogs, and I'll drive the van. We'll get as far as we can as fast as we can! It will be a zoo--there's no escaping it--and we hope that we have good weather for the drive.


But meanwhile we have been having triple the fun as usual, and have lots of pictures to show for it!

Here's Ty, packaged and wrapped for loving...

Ty wearing his bib as a hat...

And Ty in his bumbo seat...

Jacen sitting in the bumbo...

Alex sitting in the bumbo!

Someone's peeping out from underneath a towel!!

Jacen's eyeing that turkey drumstick on Thanksgiving...



Aunt Lynne gave us 3 pea-in-a-pod costumes...Jacen proudly models one, but looks like he's "bean" martyred...



Matt and Ty hanging out together...



One of the cutest things that happened Thanksgiving weekend was that Alex and Jacen finally discovered each other when they were on the play gym together! They stared into each other's eyes and kicked their legs madly. Quite cute!



Grandma Madeira with Ty.



All three snuggled in the arms of Grandpa, Aunt Beth, and Grandma.



Aunt Beth with the trio...



Grandpa gives all three a squeeze!



Ty in his swing, looking rather bored...

In the Middle of a Triplet Mess!

We're learning that nothing clutters up a house like triplets! Here's Jody in the middle of the triplet mess, with the three excuses for a messy house:



On the other hand, these guys are seriously cute, and give us many laughs as well as sleeplessness. All three are gaining weight at an incredible rate...we have to take tons of pictures just to keep track of their growth! Here's some of the highlights of the last two weeks!

Jacen has decided he likes to do fish impressions. That's why he's now nicknamed the Big Tuna! Matt and Jody think that this picture looks like that Billy Bass singing fish that was such a disgraceful success about three years back...it's still sold at Cracker Barrel, right next to the eerie assortment of John Deere souvenirs.



The triplets also like to make goofy faces waiting for their bottles...here's Alex, Ty and Jacen hamming it up...Ty is exhibiting some very fat cheeks--the cheeks attempt a takeover of his bib every feeding.







Alex sits in his bouncy seat after supper. He looks like he doesn't have any legs. Those jokes about the men with no arms and no legs come to mind...



We continue to have fun with the boys on their Rainforest play gym every night too!





And finally Saturday night is bath night...these guys need it!