We are One!!

On September 15th, Alex, Jacen, and Ty turned one!! Preparations were all set for a groovy outdoor party in a local park with a tot playground, but the party had to be moved indoors because the remnants of Hurricane Ike came through Bloomington. Luckily, the faculty lounge at the law school was free, and it made an excellent party site. With decorations and ribs from Texas Roadhouse, we couldn't go wrong!

Here are a some pictures from the big event!

Grandma and Ty are excited about turning 1!



The party action is hot (but the weather outside is not)...

We ordered a special cake for the day, and it was still cute, although our bug theme didn't make quite as much sense indoors as it would have in the park!

Everyone thought the ribs were yummy...

Jody's fellow professor Aviva and Alex are getting into some mischief...

Alex loves his birthday ballooons.

Time to demolish the cake!

Ty gets his first taste of icing...


Alex just grabs a handful and looks mystified at what it is...

Ty is worn down from all the partying!


Back at home, it's time to unwrap presents...but first, it's time to put on birthday hats!

Birthday hats are more fun when they're OFF your head!


YEAH! Bring on the presents!


Ok, it's time for the smash cake. Everyone ready? What? No one likes to SMASH???



Ty apparently is Mr. Clean!


Then again, Jacen and Alex aren't too keen on mess either.


Daddy shows them how it's done...

A Birthday Around the Corner...

This past month has been action-packed for the boys. All three are now crawling; Ty started to crawl around the time we moved into our new home. Alex and Jacen have been pulling from sitting to standing for quite a while now, and Alex is very good at standing by himself for short periods of time. It won't be very long before these guys are walking!


Here are some pictures from this past month. There sure are plenty of cute ones!!


Ty is sporting some cool new specs...

Alex doesn't look particularly happy with his...

Jacen is reaching up to take his off!

Ty doesn't look thrilled about helping to fold the laundry, does he?

Alex loves his new push toy!

Here's Alex crawling happily around the new house...

Jacen's got places to go, and cool wheels to get him there...

Here's Ty on his wheels...

Rub-a-dub-dub, three men in a tub...

Here is the triplets' composite picture that Matt made for their first birthday announcements...

Babies in boxes!

Alex is trying to put the toy on top of his head like a hat...

Ty looks like he is begging for coins!

Jacen proudly sports a plastic bowl hat as well!

We've Moved!

Meet our new home!

This is the reason that we haven't posted in a while. We moved on August 28th, and it was a very long, very hot day. We did move all of the large items and much of the smaller clutter, however. Since then, we've been going back and forth between the old home and the new home (which fortunately are about 1 minute apart, in the same neighborhood) to move the rest of our belongings. We never knew it was possible to have so much in cabinets and closets!

Jody's fall semester started on August 27th, and we have also kept busy with replacing the carpeting and countertops in the old house and hiring landscapers and fence builderes for the newe house. And then there's the little matter of the triplets' first birthday. We've never been busier, but we continue on our merry way and get a little bit done each day.

"Wagon" Our Tails!

Tonight Matt left for the weekend so Jody, who is taking care of the boys alone (Disclaimer: like Matt, who is SuperDad, has many times before!), got very bored and decided to take strange photos before taking a walk. Luckily, some of them turned out very cute! And yes, all of them involve the Choo Choo Wagon...with some four-legged passengers, too!

Here is Ty...



And Alex the goofball...




Jacen is proudly displaying his four teeth!




All three boys are finally looking at the camera (after lots of strange sounds from Mom).



And here Orc and Hobbit, our Boston Terriers, decided to hop in on the photo fun as well.

Happy Birthday!!

The triplets begged me to post this next photo, to wish Tiffany a fabulous 30th birthday! They wanted me to send her a celebratory bottle of formula, but I nixed that idea. It's the thought that counts though, right?

August Adventures

The triplets have been getting into lots of things lately...standing up, drawing pictures, demanding to be taken for walks, you name it! So I thought I would post pictures of our latest adventures.

Alex has taken to sleeping with his rear in the air...



Alex and Jacen are peering out from the walls of their play yard (a.k.a. "baby jail").



Here are the boys in their Choo Choo wagon, ready to go for a ride...



Ty looks confused, as if he needs to ask directions!

A Perfect 10 (Months)...

The triplets turned 10 months on July 15th...it's hard to believe that their 1 yr. birthday is just a short two months away. Jody loves being at home with her little men! But just the same, she is so happy when Matt gets home from work and it's time to play together or go on a walk. We found this great walking trail near our house known as the Clear Creek trail. We try to go out there about 3 to 4 times a week. Lately, it's been too hot and humid to get out, however; the boys are little sweat machines in their car seats.

When we were going through baby clothes, we found a caterpillar costume that was adorable, and so we had to pop each of the boys into it and have a photo shoot. We were laughing so hard that it was a difficult task to take any pictures at all! We decided that each boy should be introduced to the grass, since that is where caterpillars are usually found, other than trees (and it would be a terrible idea to put the triplets in a tree, of course). The boys didn't like the grass at all, as you'll see...

Alex loves to read baby books...apparently here he's about to discover an exciting story about a leaf.



We decided to put Jacen in the caterpillar costume first--this led to a lengthy photo shoot. Jacen seemed to like the torture!



Here he is, meditatively crawling along...



But he's not a big fan of the grass.



Now it's Alex's turn for some humiliation...he doesn't seem to mind. Any attention is good attention when you have two brothers!



Daddy loves his little worm...



Alex takes to being a caterpillar like a fish to water...



Until you put him on the grass, that is.



Finally, it's Ty's turn. He turns to Dad and says, "I'm cute, aren't I?" Of course Dad says yes.



Ty reveling in his buggy-ness...

Ty says, "C'mon, guys, this grass stuff is lame...and this outfit is hot!"

Ty's not going to stick around to become a butterly.

We took the camera to the Clear Creek trail, and took some photos of the boys on a rock by a creek. Apparently Jacen decided to do his best impression of a frog on a rock; perhaps it's the green hat...

We thought this was a cute picture of Ty...

And last but not least, here's Alex with Mom, investigating the intricacies of his finger...