Hi! So the girls started gymnastics and they LOVE it! They get SO excited for it every week and then proceed to try to do all of the things at home that the older kids do. It's so fun watching them take it all in. Here are Hailey and Emily on the trampoline...
watching the bigger kids on the floor...
Helping each other out on the higher beams :) I love that they have each other!
Let's see - they are LOVING school two mornings a week and I love it too! The time flies by but they are doing really well and come home with loads of stories every day. It's nice when they're all in the same class because one of the three usually feels like telling me what happened during the day! :) It's so cute how they'll sing all the songs they learn in school and do these little nursery rhyme type things all the time. I'm amazed at all that they are learning already. So far, they are doing well being in class together. With multiples, a lot of people think they should be in separate classes. I honestly can't imagine that! For one, we really value Christian education for our girls and so their school doesn't have 3 separate classes. And, they are just so close that I think when they are together, it gives them the confidence to be themselves just knowing that their "comfort" (their sisters) are in the room with them. Does that make sense? It's just mind boggling to think that they have never known life without each other. Most of us "singletons" can't even comprehend what that would be like. I think it's a pretty special, pretty neat bond that they have with each other. Yes, some days I know they need space from each other since they wake up together, eat together, play together, and go to school together....and that's something that we constantly struggle with - like HOW do we give them individual things to do. For instance, if I were to sign one up for gymnastics, that would just be torture for the other two to have to sit there with me and watch! :) And usually there aren't 3 different classes at the same time for their ages group. Oh man - they really are best of friends though and we'll just keep hoping and praying that they continue to be such good friends. :)
The girls are SUPER into Strawberry Shortcake. That is pretty much THE only cartoon they ever watch. And they love playing with her and pretending to be her. I'll hear them say "Oh hi Raspberry Torte - would you like a strawberry souffle?" Makes me laugh because they know what a souffle is at age 4 and I didn't even know that word until like last year. :)
They also are addicted to playing Uno and Go Fish. We play these games probably 15 times a day - each. :)
The girls are still napping 2 hours a day. I know - I am spoiled! And we are SO THANKFUL! :) We usually start the bedtime routine around 8....then we get back downstairs at 8:30 and then they talk in bed until 9 when we tell them to stop. Then they usually wake up around 7. It's great! Although Addison has been waking up quite a bit lately in the middle of the night saying she's scared.
And yes, we still do give them baths in the tub together. They've just always done it this way so we don't really know any different either! But they are definitely getting a tad too big to do 3 in a tub. :) Sometimes we do showers instead now but they love playing in the tub together and practicing their swimming . :) (Emily, Addy, Hailey)
I see everyday how different my girls are....but then when I look at this post, I see how similar and how "sister - like" they really are too! The fact that they ALL love gymnastics, they ALL love Strawberry shortcake and school and Uno and that they ALL still nap is crazy! I constantly flip back and forth with what is more amazing - how completely different they all are even though they were born at the SAME time with the exact same upbringing and experiences? Or how similar they are because they are all DIFFERENT people! Ah! Either way - I LOVE THEM for who they are! :)
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I just showed Grant their picture in the bath tub. He says, "Mom, they are like the same!"
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