Hey Everyone:

The triplets had such a big weekend, I thought that I would write to everyone to share it before I forget….

Biggest news…..  we are now onto a 6 times a day feeding schedule….  YEAH!!!!   We now feed 2:00 AM & PM, 6:00 AM & PM & 10:00 AM & PM.  This is down from 7 times a day and is a huge change…

The babies have changed so much in the last couple of weeks, it’s been pretty exciting….  They are all in the percentages for normal babies and they have all started to smile (and actually mean it)….  Josh smiles much more often than the other two, with George smiling the least, he still worries the most though…. also, they really look at you now, they will watch you and where you go or what you do..    They are all starting to put on some baby fat and their little arms and legs are starting to get chubby.  Hannah and George love to lay on their stomachs, it also helps deafen their cries during our suppertime…..

Saturday, Aunt Carrie, Kathy and I went to Minnehaha Falls Park for a little picnic and the first official public outing with the triplets, the new 4 hr feeding schedule will make it much easier to get away from home for awhile.  We found out that right after the 10:00AM feeding and back before the 2:00PM feeding works pretty good..  Anyway, the weather was absolutely beautiful and we had a little picnic.  We had no sooner sat down when a lady from the next picnic table came over with a baby in her arms and asked if those were triplets… (we had the triple decker, so it’s a little obvious)  she said that she was from AZ and had 6 month old triplets (2 girls and a boy) and was visiting her best friend from high school who had 3 year old girl triplets.  They had all the little triplets there so we took a picture, though not very good, of all three families….  Anyway, we got many stares and comments as we walked around the park that day…..  mainly you would hear “Oh my God, are those triplets?” or “Mommy and Daddy look at that stroller, they have three babies”….  we were told by everyone in our triplet group that people would flock to the triplets like they were rock stars and alot of people did, they got a lot of attention that day…  we stayed and watched a military band at the bandshell before we left.

Sunday, Wayne and I took the triplets for a walk around Lake Nokomis….  it was fun, alot of the same thing….  looks, stares and comments…  Kathy, her Mom, Carrie, Aunt Sandy, Aunt Ronelle and cousin Lindsey and her baby Gavin all went out to lunch a Forepaughs and then hit the shops on Grand Avenue in St. Paul… 

Monday, Wayne, Marlys, Kathy and I went back to Minnehaha Falls Park… it’s a really nice park with good facilities, great scenery, a huge waterfall, food and usually something going on at the bandshell…  yesterday it was a Bluegrass Festival, but it didn’t start until 2:00PM and we had to leave at 1:30PM to get back home for the 2:00PM feeding…..  the weather was beautiful the whole weekend…

I’ve included a link to some pictures Carrie took on Saturday, hopefully it works… 

http://www.kodakgallery.com/BrowsePhotos.jsp?collid=354150128105.677868825505.1188937925502&page=1

Here’s a slideshow taken in Austin at Wayne and Marlys a couple weeks back…  It was the first out of town trip for the babies and they did very well….  there are some cute pictures with Winnie the Pooh….  There is a mistake in the labeling, George is in white with the Winnie the Pooh sleeper on….

http://www.kodakgallery.com/BrowsePhotos.jsp?&collid=703852492205.910727205505.1188941050666&page=1

I’ve sent a Kodak invitation of these two albums also if you can’t make the link work…

Love,

Jay, Kathy, George, Josh and Hannah Banana