June 28, 2007 – 1 year old checkups

Today we went in for our 1 year checkups. The doctor was very pleased with our progress! Skyler is our biggest boy and weighs 21 pounds; Ava jumped into second place at 20 pounds 11 ounces; and Connor has moved into third at 20 pounds 4 ounces. The doctor’s office was complete chaos. They were rolling and crawling around the doctor’s office, digging out all of the toys, opening the drawers, trying to put their fingers in the outlets, pulling themselves up on the examining table, and then, grandma got out the cheerios and they ended up all over the floor. Oh mi! Janice, the nurse, tripped over the mess and the baby scale ended up tipping over too. Yikes! I guess that’s what it’s like when you have triplets at the doctor’s office – chaos. Dr. Nau was okay with switching the babies to whole milk (which is good b/c I had already started mixing ½ formula, ½ whole milk already). He said they can continue to eat table food and to increase the amount of food and decrease the amount of bottles. He also said that within the next 3 months we should try and wean them off the bottles. I don’t think that should be a problem as they love drinking from sippy cups. They each had to get 3 shots and a finger poke for a blood test, ouch! Ava was diagnosed with ear infection and he ended up putting all 3 on an antibiotic since I have been sick and in turn passed my cough and cold onto them. We’ve all been sick now for the past week. By the time we got out of the doctor’s office, everyone was exhausted. I looked back in the mirror before I pulled out of the parking ramp they were all 3 asleep. Whew!