Our life is crazy, often out of control,
but always filled with love and lots of laughter!
Welcome To Our Crazy Life
We are the Colls and this is about our life with our triplets. My name is Sandi and my husband's name is Kevin. We got married on Feb. 7, 2004 and instantly started trying to have a baby. 5 years, many tears and loads of help later we found out we were having not one, not two, but three babies!
Braedan, Teagan and Sean bounced into our lives on Nov. 12, 2008 and everything has been turned upside down, flipped sideways and scattered about since then. I’m not going to sugar coat it....it wasn’t easy in the beginning. The NICU, late nights, screaming babies, being thousands of miles from our families because we were stationed in Hawaii, exhaustion and then Kevin deploying to Afghanistan for 6 months the day the kids turned 6 months old......not fun.
But now they are getting older and Kevin has been medically separated from the Marine Corps and we've moved to NY to be closer to family. It's great to finally have family around...... especially now that we've hit the TERRIBLE TWOS triple time!
Even though we are close to family now, we are still learning to survive life with triplets.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Quack, Quack, Waddle, Waddle
We take the babies to feed the ducks most Sunday mornings. We started this when they were really young and none of them could walk. Slowly, one by one, everyone learned to walk. We've been using our wagon to haul the babies down to the pond about a half a mile up and down hills. It can be quite a walk pulling 60lbs of babies (plus the weight of the wagon.) Once the wagon got to be too much we tried the double and single strollers, but that was exhausting as well. Today though, we decided it was time they try to walk to the pond on their own. Sure, it took a lot longer than usual, but the kids had so much fun running all over the place and exploring the area. Once we got down to the ducks Kevin began feeding them as usual. Suddenly though, the babies decided they wanted to feed the ducks themselves. It was so neat! They are growing up so fast! Sure, they would take a bite of bread/cereal and then toss some to the ducks, but it was so neat to see how far they have come since we first started coming to the botanical gardens.
The ducks were eating right from their hands
Teagan LOVED giving them cereal
Sean giggled whenever he fed a duck
Kevin made a friend
4 different groups in all stopped to ask if we had triplets
The boys
We were singing songs on the way home and B was having a blast!
Here is a video of the kids feeding the ducks:
After the ducks we came home for a quick nap before heading out to a birthday party. Once the party was over though we headed home so the babies could splash in the pool while watching the last Blue Angels show.
In their swim diapers watching the planes fly over the house
Pretending they were flying the planes
Nice shot as they went over the house
Monkey see, monkey do
We had a great weekend and hope that there are many more like this one in the future. It's amazing how much the kids have grown and changed.....I can't wait to see what's to come!
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