Oh, baby! We had a quiet start to the week which ended with Mommy in Vegas. But we’ll get to that…

Steven, Sammy and Amaya are quite the cooks! The make a mean soup and they’ll even feed it to you.

At music this week it was the first time I pushed Sammy on the see-saw. I love how much he’s exploring and how much more he pushes himself. “Up and down, Mommy. Going up and down.”

Monkey needed a ride, too.

This was so cute. Steven was pushing Amaya and Big Monkey around and around and around.

Then they tag teamed.

Steven took Big Monkey in the swing with him.

The way the class works, the kids play for 20 minutes, then they have 20 minutes of music followed by another 15 minutes of play and 5 minutes of goodbye songs. When it’s time for music it’s sometimes hard to drag them away from playing. Amaya, in particular, has not wanted to come to the music circle when it’s time. I think it’s more a control issue than anything else so I’ve stopped forcing the issue. I turns out, if everyone else is in the music circle, she’ll follow on her own almost immediately.

Earlier in the year, Savta gave the kids money for a hannukah gift and birthday gift. I wanted to save it to use for outdoor activities and it’s time! On Thursday, Megan and I put together this outdoor climber. Steven, Sammy and Amaya don’t climb much, which has served us well, but I’m hoping they’ll get comfortable with this climber over the course of the summer. Right now, though, they’re not quite sure what to do with it. Good thing it’s only May 2nd! We have all summer to play.

Some photos from school on Thursday…

Steven – shaking his pom poms!

Sammy bouncing.

Sammy, working on putting pipe cleaners in a colander.

Steven and his cars.

Amaya, with popsicles and play-doh.

Megan reading to the kids.

SSA call their vitamins “vitaminutes”. Here they are looking carefully at my sour skittles which they are convinced are mommy’s vitaminutes. Works for me!

Thursday night, life continued as usual for the kids while their mommy jetted off to VEGAS for a triplet mom getaway. It was 24 triplet moms from my 2014 triplet group coming from all over the US plus a mom from Mexico!

See? Not missing a beat!

Friday fun times with Grandma Sunshine.

On Saturday morning, Stephanie came to take care of the kids.

Saturday afternoon, it was all Daddy time! Says Daddy, “Is this heaven? No, it’s Saturday afternoon snacks on the couch watching the Tigers.”

Dinner time with Daddy!

Super Amaya, sleeping.

Sunday, Anna came by to help hold down the fort.

Says Anna, “They were making a game of taking turns laying on my arm and saying, ‘Head stuck on Anna’s arm.’ and cracking up.”

To keep everyone happy when Daddy left to run some errands, Anna busted out our first ever snap chat filters. So much fun!

I know this blog is about the kids but the week recap wouldn’t be complete without some photos from my amazing Vegas getaway. It was so much fun! Just 72 hours of relaxation and laughter.

The front of our shirts say “Tearing up the strip without the trips” and the back says #freefromthree.

With three of my January mamas.

My roomie, and one of my due date buddies, Cecilia. <3

I’ll never stop saying how lucky I am to have such an incredible group of women to share this journey with.

Just a few more photos from the week.

Amaya has taken to removing her clothing after naps. Sometimes, like she did in these photos, she tries to redress.

Pants back on inside out.

Shirt back on. Sort of.

Turns out a bulk delivery of paper towels are great for stacking. Until the kids learn how to tear open the packages!

And, finally, I just received a quilt I had made with clothing from SSA’s first year. I absolutely love it. It’s an amazing keepsake.

Have a great week!