Hand in Hand

These are the days I know that I am undoubtably blessed!

Laundry, Laundry, Laundry

Honestly does the laundry ever end? I thought it was bad in the baby days of spit up, but it seems to be getting more and more ridiculous! I guess the kids clothes are getting bigger (unfortunately mine too) and taking up more room in the washer. It also doesn't help that S changes her clothes about 4 times a day. If this is what I have to look forward to with A and C I am done for! Is there such a thing as a professional laundry maid? If so where do I find her and how much does she charge cause I want one! Oh well off to do another load.

G's Hat Fetish!

Okay I have decided the kid has truly lost it (and so have I for that matter). I spent most of the summer plopping hats on the kids heads to protect their little faces from the sun only to so lovingly in return have the hat thrown back at me with yelling and whining that no one was going to wear the darn things! So when we got several different hats this Christmas from my mom I honestly thought to myself what a waste that would be even though I hoped it wouldn't be so. No one was going to wear them for sure (except maybe S if it happened to match her outfit, little diva!). Well G now has this fetish with hats. Doesn't matter what kind but the kid is constantly wearing one now. I think he might even sleep in them if I let him.
Today I wish I would have snapped a picture because he looked like a little garden nome. You know the one from the Travelocity commercials? He had a stocking cap on pulled up at the top and this impish little grin so proud he can put them on all by himself! I did however snap a picture of him in his big sisters hat. He does not discriminate when it comes to hats. Any apparently will do.
Now what's the likely hood I can get him to wear them this summer? I am guessing the novelty and fetish may wear off by then, but a girl can dream right?

San Diego

How crazy are we? We finally decided to do a little more California exploring this weekend and ended up in San Diego for the weekend. What an absolutely beautiful city. Honestly if Walter's fellowship had landed us there we may never be leaving California. The weather was perfect and we had a wonderful time. We took the kids to the San Diego zoo and they had a blast running all over the place and checking out the animals (monkeys being the crowd favorite). S even got the chance to feed a giraffe. Of course she would tell you the highlight of our trip was staying in the hotel, silly girl! (even the triplets seemed to really enjoy this temporary home away from home).We are trying to cram in all things California between now and July but I think for sure it will be impossible. One thing we learned on this trip is that I will be flying back to Dallas with the kids come July and not making the long drive with Walter! They were great for the 1st hour in the car (a two hour trip to San Diego), but come the second hour they were bored to death and so the whining started. Other than the car drive though it was a great time.

The Rose Parade

Okay so there are some definite advantages to living in California that we will truly miss. For one the amazing weather. The last few days the highs have been in the low 70's. Pretty close to perfect. The other is being so close to the world famous Rose Bowl and all that goes along with it. Yesterday we got to get up close to all the amazing floats that were in the Rose Bowl Parade. Each year after the parade they park the floats on Sierra Madre Blvd (the end of the parade route) and open it up to people to come and see them (2 miles of road lined with floats). Words cannot describe the amount of work that goes in to these floats. The detail and enormous amount of natural material is truly something everyone should get the chance to see at least once.
What made yesterday more special is that I got to meet up with some other triplet mom's from around the LA area. We were a sight to see for sure. People weren't quite sure what to think of us. Were we a daycare? Oh my gosh sextuplets (mind you my friend Steff and I have very different looking kids who are a year older!) and lots of other interesting comments and questions, but the kids were oblivious to all the onlookers and enjoyed the day.
Days like this are when we realize we have really grown to love California and although we can't wait to be back "home" in Texas we are really going to miss it here.