Happy Birthday!

To my favorite nieces and nephew! Your 3 year old birthday party was a blast!

Cooper

Isabelle

Sophia

And, if you are looking for ideas as to what to get Charlie...
DON'T get him a drum set... we would never sleep.

DO get him a doctor's kit... it was a big hit!

Famous family

The Leclercq's are famous... at least in OKC. How cute are the triplets in the clip? SO proud of the whole fam and so sad that we can't be there on Monday night.

OKC

The weekend before Memorial Day Patrick went to Charleston for a buddies bachelor party. So, Charlie and I went to OKC for the weekend. It was a fun filled weekend with a lot of parties. The kids had a blast playing together. Unfortunately, I was really bad about taking pictures, but we did manage to get this one:
The kids headed out on the town on a Friday night!

OKC

The weekend before Thanksgiving was the one weekend of the year that Patrick would be out of town. (He was in a wedding in Bainbridge, GA.... aka: his "guys" weekend.) So, Charles and I decided to go visit the Leclercq's. We hadn't been there since mid summer when they had just moved into their new house. This time around it was like walking into a larger, much cleaner house. It's amazing what paint will do! Julie had a list of projects for us to work on which included painting some rooms, making a chandelier, making a wreath and rearranging objects in the house. In between all of that we took the kids to the park and on some shopping expeditions. I only got a few pics...

Another triplet weekend

We've been seeing a lot of Julie and the triplets lately. Ever since Julie, ahem, got laid off she has been able to travel to Dallas quite a bit. Works out great with my family!! They rolled into town last Thursday and we immediately set of to the Arboretum. It was super fun. The kids loved the pumpkins (including throwing them... why do they have to look so much like a ball?) and pulling each other around in the wagon.

Isabelle trying to pull the wagon. So serious!

All 4 Peek-a-boo Sophia
Is
Hay time.
An attempt.
Other fun activities over the weekend included catching a movie with Uncle PeePee.
We went to the SMU tailgate on Saturday. The triplets really enjoyed the parade. Charlie didn't see a bit of it since he was off running all over SMU campus.
Picnic at the park. Again, Charlie is already off and running.
Thank you to my brother Jay and, especially, Genna for coming in from Shreveport to watch the foursome all weekend. Patrick and I got to go the Rangers game on Friday night. On Saturday, our TCU Homecoming plans got ruined by the rain. But, we made up for it by staying at the Magnolia Hotel downtown and going to a nice dinner. It was an awesome night!! (Side note... if you are ever looking for an easy night away the Magnolia is great. Free open bar from 5:30-6:30pm, you get milk and cookies at night, great free breakfast in the morning, super reasonable, and across the street from Neiman's! Perfection.)

Trips Visit

Julie and the triplets got here last Wednesday and stayed through Sunday. Patrick, very kindly, babysat so that Juls and I could go to dinner on Wednesday night. This is something that I am not sure we've done since the babies have been around... and even long before given both of our bedrests during pregnancy. We had a wonderful meal at York Street. Delicious!! Friday night we took the babies to the TCU/SMU tailgate. Lots of fun, but crazy! Charlie and I had to leave early because all of the triplets where going into the bounce house. No bounce house for Charlie these days.

The highlight for the babies was the Airplane Museum on Saturday morning. We've never been, but it was SO fun that we will definitely be back!

And look how well Charlie is getting around these days:

Thursday

The trips and I spent the morning in our p.j.'s and playing around the house. I even got out of the house a little bit to run errands thanks to my mom and Patrick's mom for taking over baby-duty for a little while. For the afternoon, I went and got Charlie from daycare before our friends Emily and Lauren came over for a play date. Everyone had a good day!

Those kids are not supposed to be on the fireplace.

Or in Uncle Patrick's dressser!

Hi Charles

And Cooper
And baby Lauren!
This is how I felt all week... in a house of fun and chaos.

Wednesday

Everyone was up at 6 am Wednesday morning... bright and early! Charlie went to daycare. He told everyone "bye" and was ready to go. Although, his daycare workers said that he spent the whole day saying "Bubba, Bubba, Bubba", which is what we call Cooper. SO cute. I took the trips to the park in the morning... nice to get out of the house. The threesome slept from noon to 3:00, we then played indoors and visited with our friend Lee (thanks for coming to see the little ones!). I went and got Charlie late in the day and then we all went down to the Hamilton's for some fun. The bounce house was up, there was chalk, cars, old phones and the best part was that it got us our of the house again! Thanks Hamiltons!

Tired ladies!

Rocks at the park.
Oh, hi Hank!
Phones are fun.
Clocks, too.
Chaos at the Hamiltons
Chalk!
Cars
Bounce, bounce
Hi mom and dad!

Tuesday

Today has been a LONG day! Charlie and I typically go to a Kindermusik class on Tuesday mornings, so this morning all 4 came with me... including Patrick's mom and my mom. (THANK YOU!!) Although, all 4 babies just wanted to be in my lap pretty much the whole time, so the extra help was great, but would have been even greater had the babies gone to them. We then came home for a LONG day of playing inside and out. Remember my last post about the different schedules the babies are on? Yeah, Charlie was up at 5:40am this morning and during nap time at least one baby was up at all times. No breaks for me today. Thank you again to the two grandmothers who have gone to the store for us, carried babies when they could, cleaned up dog poo outside, fixed meals, and cleaned up after 4 toddlers... yall were a HUGE help!!

Milk cheers at dinner.

They are a mess. All in the pool fully dressed.
Snacks.


Doing something that is a no, no.

Peek-a-boo. This was a favorite among all kids.
Where's Isabelle?
Oh Charles, don't you look cute.
Snack time.