Surviving Life With Triplets: NEW YORK

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.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

NEW YORK

Um, it's cold! This weather is a shock! It's really not as cold as we thought it would be, but it certainly isn't sunshine and beaches here! The kids are not too happy with not being able to go outside whenever they want and since our furniture and household goods wont be here until mid March....they are BEYOND grumpy! I think my mother-in-law even referred to them as the "triplets from hell" and that's rough knowing how much she loves these peanuts!

We moved into our house and it's a nice home. The homeowners didn't leave the home in the nice condition that my father-in-law viewed it as, but it is what it is. We will paint it and decorate it and love it for the time being!

We've picked up some items since we've arrived and even bought a play kitchen for the kids (hoping to calm them down!) Tomorrow we should have a couch and chair arrive that we ordered this past weekend. We've been sitting on the floor and on patio chairs that we found in the basement. Kevin's shoulder is killing him and I'm getting back spasms and neck cramps...so we had to do something! We are so excited about these couches arriving...that is if the Blizzard of 2011 doesn't delay them!

For now though, I'll overload you with some pics from the past weeks and I'll try to keep up with the posts more now that we have internet and something to sit comfortably on!

First night in their new toddler beds in their new house: