Triple Play: 5 Years Old

How old?   5 years 

Our weights?  S:  38ish lbs T: 38ish lbs M:  38ish lbs

Heights  S: 41 in  T: 41 in M: 40.5  in

They are wearing size 5t  

Shoe size:  S: 9  T: 9/10  M: 9/10

Our sleeping patterns?  The girls dropped naps all together about 6-8 months ago.  Occasionally someone might fall asleep in the car.

Putting the girls to bed has gotten so much easier.  Brian, the girls, and I have the routine down so every night everyone knows what to expect.  Baths, pjs, teeth, hair, one book, and one song for each, then Mom leaves the room.  Dad stays for 5-10 minutes and then done.  I still haven't had more than 4 consistent nights of full sleep.  Maybe when they are 10?  Recently they are waking up from nightmares or growing pains.

They wake up between 7:30-8 most days. 

 Our eating schedule?  The girls have breakfast around 8:00 AM, Lunch around noon, snack between 3-4, and dinner around 6:30.  Times vary a lot more than they used to though.  

 Our favorite foods?  S: Noodles, String Cheese, Bananas. So picky.

T: French fries, pickles and olives.  Really picky.

M: Peas, Peaches, Pears, Steak, asparagus, french fries, chicken nuggets.  Not picky.

Our likes? Watching movies, playing with princesses, dress up, barbies, setting up "birthday parties", swimming, dancing, singing

 Our dislikes?  Clean up time.  As soon as Mom says its time to clean up, some one's leg hurts, or someone needs some rest, or someone needs to poop.  Any excuse to not clean up.  Sam and Taylor dislike trying new foods.

Our favorite games/toys?  They like board games like Candy Land, new Kindles they got for their birthdays, Barbies, dolls, Shimmer and Shine

Our milestones? 

S: Letter sounds, adding/subtracting, confidence in the pool, cartwheel, forward roll, pull over

T:  Identifying letters and some sounds, coloring in detail, good handwriting, forward roll

M: Counting to 100, counting by 10s, letter sounds, pull over, forward roll

Things we do to make Mom and Dad smile?  Days without crying, goofy jokes, family time, sister love, being nice to one another, being polite, having good manners

Our pictures

Triplets 4th Birthday Party: Arts and Crafts Party

For my girls 4th birthday party we decided to do something they love... arts and crafts!  It was a theme I knew they would all be happy with, and since they have lots of friends that are boys, a princess party wasn't going to cut it.  We had it at our house and set up stations for different activities.

Please ignore the fact that I misspelled Samantha's name (and I didn't even notice until after the party!)

We are all about picking our battles at this moment with the girls... and when Mallory didn't want to wear her "messy" shirt, she got to wear plain white.  Compromise.

We set up a couple stations in the living room.  

Coloring sheets they could pick out of binders, color, then decorate a frame to put them in.

This station was tissue flowers.  The tissue was already cut, they just chose 2 pipe cleaners to wrap around it  and peel open the tissue.

In the downstairs playroom, we set up 3 more stations.  The kids were free to go to whichever activity they wanted to.

This station they made a fish.  Using a paper plate with a triangle cut out of one side and glue it on the other.  Then they used a glue stick to glue on the scales (folded circles) and a googly eye.

The butterfly station was a hit.  They decorated a coffee filter, added beads to each end of a folded pipe cleaner and put them both in a decorated clothes pin.

We served fruit cups, chips and dip, kids snacks, pin wheels, and Rice Krispie Treat paint brushes.

CREATE sign by All Wrapped Up Decor.

Outside we had the painting station set up.  I cut out decals for the kids to choose to stick on their canvas.  They painted over it and once it was dry, removed the vinyl decal to have a pretty painting.  All the kids went home with their aprons and crafts.

We sang to each kid separately.  Our first born, Samantha, went first. 

The middle child, Taylor, was next.

And our baby girl, Mallory, was third.  I loved that they each got their special moment.  And it was nice to see each get excited for her sister to be sang to.  They love to see each other happy.

I made their birthday cakes.  They requested their own cake (not a cupcake).  I made the rainbow cake and iced it with white frosting.  I used a stencil to sprinkle their initial on top.  They loved the surprise rainbow cake in the middle.

After cake, everyone finished up crafts or played outside.  Then the girls opened their presents.

Their party was so special this year.  I believe the guests had a nice time and the atmosphere was pretty calm (not something I'm used to involving something around the girls).  Most importantly, I think the girls' had a wonderful time celebrating their 4th birthday.