The triplets are now nine months old. Wow... Three quarters of a year have passed since they entered our lives. It feels like they've always been here, and yes, they're growing incredibly fast!
All three are now mobile to varying degrees, holding their bottles when they drink, and eating stage 2 baby foods quite well. All three have started practicing making sounds as well.
Tarynn's dad David came for a visit in early January and got to spend some time with the triplets and Kali.
A while back we finally put those stickers on the back of the minivan for the members of the family. Wow. Kinda scary looking when it's put like that!
The whole family went to the North Texas Irish Festival as well, along with the triplets good friend Megan Gilchrist. She, with the triplets help, charmed the stage manager of the children's stage (Who is also an author, and a recording artist!)
Rickey Pittman into posing for a picture with them, and gave Megan a free copy of one of his children's books! (Megan promptly donated it to the Ecton Child Library, thanks Megan!)
Kaelynn and Blake both cut their first teeth around 7-8 months old. Kaelynn likes to show her teeth off!
Blake is the first to figure out how to pull himself to a standing position in his crib. However, he hasn't quite figured out how to get back down without just falling, so sometimes gets quite upset when he's been standing there for a while.
My old friends Kevin and Katy Crumpton of
Just Have Fun Photography came over last weekend to do a nine month photo shoot of the kids. Here are some samples from that. (Disclaimer - These are the raw, unedited photos, not cropped, color corrected, etc!)
Somehow out of the pandemonium of this:
They were able to distill some shots like these:
Blake, Kaelynn, Brian
Kaelynn & Kali
Brian
Blake
Kaelynn
Kaelynn, Brian & Blake
Brian & Blake
Blake
Kaelynn
Brian
Blake
Thirty Toes! (Brian, Kaelynn & Blake)
And with big sister Kali, FORTY toes!
Big sister Kali is growing up WAY too fast!
Don't let the halo fool you, it's being held up by horns! ;)
Brian Kaelynn & Blake
Kaelynn grinning
Kaelynn just being cute
Brian has officially worn a tie more than his daddy has in the last five years now!
Another of Brian dressed for success
Blake too!
Blake had people to see and places to go and wanted to get moving!
Thanks again to Kevin and Katy for the photo shoot, they came out beautifully! Also, we have to continue to thank everyone that's helped us in this journey, Megan & Betsy Gilchrist for always being willing to come keep them company (And even change an icky diaper!), my mom Jean for helping out when she's able to, my dad Roger for coming over and helping every single work day, and most of all my mother in law Tarla who gives of herself endlessly. I don't know how we'd make it without all of ya'll's (And countless other unnamed people!) help!
...and the adventure continues...
