On Tuesday, Steven, Sammy and Amaya returned to school! This year the’re in the 4’s class (whaaaaat!?!?) with Miss Eugenia. Miss Bree is their assistant teacher until she has a baby in November. (One of the kids asked me how teachers have babies and how teachers go to the doctor. 🙂 )

The big change this year is school 5 mornings/week. There were tears the first day when I helped with drop-off but, every day since, the kids ran into the room to get started playing.

Steven wants to be a police officer when he grows up!

Sammy wants to be a ghost when he grows up!

Amaya wants to be an ear infection doctor when she grows up!

I can’t believe the difference a year makes. They were babies last year!

Here’s their room. It’s a 1:8 ratio and, right now, there are 13 kids in the class.

Last week and this week Anna is taking the kids to school for 9am drop-off but, starting 9/25, Jason and I will be taking them for drop-off shortly after 8am. They’ll get to play in an all-purpose room until their class starts at 9am. We’ll have to get moving earlier once that transition happens so this has been a good few weeks getting used to the 5 day/week routine before we have to adjust to the earlier, faster morning routine.

On Tuesday Steven got his new orthotics. He said that he wears them so he can run FAST! The transition back to this kind of braces was a non-event, fortunately. Hopefully he likes the support like his PT suggested he might.

The first day of school wrapped up with a make-your-own pizza night!

In the mornings, the classroom is set up with different stations to help immediately engage the kids. Mission accomplished!

Steven says this is a fish.

For the next few weeks, Mondays and Wednesdays will be busy.  Steven is rounding out this cycle of physical therapy and it’s scheduled for 1:45pm on M/W. Megan is going to bring lunch to pick up SSA at school and then try to nap them briefly in the car between lunch and PT. It’s only 5 more PT sessions so they’ll all make it work.

This week, Tuesday was even busier because Megan and the kids went shoe shopping after PT! Steven’s orthotics didn’t fit with the shoes he had so we had to get to the store as soon as possible.

Steven loves the camouflage on the bottom of his sneakers.

I remember when I did things like decide what shoes they’d wear, lol. I love their choices, tough!

I’m getting better at doing hair! I’ve always relied on Megan but I won’t be able to do that anymore. See that even part? 🙂

Hands on hips. ♥ Still a work in progress.

Randomly, Steven had a fever on Tuesday night (gone by Wednesday morning) so he had to stay home from school on Wednesday. Jason and Steven got in some special Daddy/Bobes time while Anna took Sammy and Amaya to school.

Amaya and Sammy were right at it!

At home, Steven completed an arduous 3 year pregnancy and gave birth to a bouncing baby bear. He gave Anna very elaborate instructions on how to remove the bear from his belly. I love this so much!

On Thursday morning, Amaya didn’t want to pee before school because she said it hurt. By naptime she still hadn’t gone despite drinking  a LOT so off we all went to the doctor.

Poor girl was so uncomfortable and so scared to go. We were there for well over an hour and only the really threat of catheterization got her to finally go, after lots and lots of tears. It was awful.

BIG, BIG SMILES once her ordeal was over. All of the nurses and medical assistants got high fives. (No UTI by the way. Not sure what the issue was but she was totally fine after she peed that one time.)

After the appointment Megan took the kids out for frozen yogurt.

By Friday morning everyone knew the routine – wash hands and then PLAY.

The busy, busy week ended with lunch at Olgas with May May.

Worn out from the week!

Here’s a sample of first week school drawings. Jason and I can absolutely see Steven and Sammy reflected in these statements about their art. (Sammy loves to look at “paths” on google maps.)

Saturday morning we met up with 5 other triplet families at Kensington Farm Center. For the first time, Steven, Sammy and Amaya all pet an animal.

Amaya said the sheep felt like cotton candy.

After the farm we went out for lunch with Ashley!

The rest of the weekend was spent at home, a good part of that outside. I feel like we’ve really turned a corner and the kids can play so nicely in front of the house. Sammy had the idea of riding their scooters down the driveway! We ordered elbow and knee pads for everyone because they pick up some real speed! The cones have been great markers for everyone whether it’s how far they can wander/ride their bikes or a reminder not to go into the street. (Megan – they elbow/knee pads will be here Tuesday. Hang out at the bottom of the driveway in case they have any trouble stopping. Everyone is so excited to get outside and try again.)

In sequins, as you do.

And that’s it for the week! Have a great one! Next week’s blog will probably be delayed because Amaya and I will be in Texas to celebrate Grace’s end of Leukemia treatment. ♥ ♥ ♥