Triple treat!

April 14, on the plane missing three darling little ones, Alex, Bennett, and Ruby. Here are the things I loved about my trip:

Loved hearing their little voices say animal sounds- they know quite a lot!

Loved seeing their eyes light up when they said a word they knew and were saying it for me.

Loved Bennett’s belly laugh when I tickled him. Loved Alex’s hehehe when he was enjoying a moment with a sibling.

Loved Alex's proclamation of ‘whoa, numm-ee” when Emily fed him chocolate cake.

Loved the way Ruby reads books to herself and talks with all kinds of voice inflection and googley words.

Loved seeing the triplets wrinkle their noses for ‘what does the bunny say?

Alex looking at me when I said the turkey sound – “gobble gobble gobble” and then he said it too.

Loved when Bennett signed ‘grandma’ and then he and Alex said ‘grandma’ – at least that’s what it sounded like to me!

Loved when Ruby knows she is doing something not allowed and she whines and looks at you for approval. Loved when she lifted up her arms to be picked up, or backed up to me for a book reading in my lap.

Loved how she piled the books on me – all of them.

Loved how she shared her bottle with me – milk drops and all.

Loved Bennett's cheer "yay" and hand clap when he did something successfully.

Loved tickling Alex with the ‘knuckle’ and hearing him belly laugh. Loved creeping up on him with my fingers and his belly laugh and squeal without me even touching him.

Loved how they figured out the new bath toys and Bennett says ‘yay’ when the water trickles out – and he tries to catch it or drink it.

Loved the way they splash in the tub and Alex lays on his belly and kicks.

Loved the way Ruby wants to climb on everything and go higher and farther than last time. Hence, the bungee cords around the chairs and table!

Loved the dinners by Emily – she makes it look so easy and it was always so tasty!

Loved looking at KC holding his babies and how they loved to say ‘dada’

Loved the children as they completed Emily’s song with the last line “What does the Mommy say?”and they reply ‘I a yu’ (I love you). Loved all three voices coming from the car seats with animal sounds to the song Emily sang – What does the (Horse, cow, cat, insert any animal here) say?

I tried to write down all the words they said over the past 5 days. There are so many!

Light, fan, up, down. Car, cold, blankee, milk, airplane, bus, Truck, cow, dog, cat, lion, hippo, elephant, duck, chicken, giraffe, mouse, horse, pig, bear, dada, mommy, I love you, team, bowl, juice, outside, sock, shoe, pretzel, cracker, car, red, blue, green, yellow, purple, all numbers, all alphabets, night night, day, go, bottle, avocado, bean, book, moo, neigh, quack, meow, woof, hoo,hoo, cock a doodle doo, cluck, ribbett, wheee (elephant sound) eye, mouth, nose, ear, toes, belly, baby. Hat, hair, play, toy, ball, pillow, bungee

Home for 12 hours, then off to see my dad in Denver.

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