The Mooney Clan

The sun is actually shining in my windows today. Thank goodness. I was feeling pretty gloomy from all that cloud cover. And maybe it will motivate me to get out of my pajamas. I'm actually having a bit of an internal debate. I'm wondering why we bother? I mean the little kids never leave the house (unless we leave town and then they just stay in the house wherever we've travelled to). It makes me want to cry. But, back to my point. I get the kids up and changed and dressed for the day most days. Then at night we take off their clothes, throw them in the laundry and put their pajamas back on. So, each day I have that small chore AND we make all this laundry. Then I do a load or two of laundry per day. SO - If we just stayed in our pj's all day (no one really sees us anyway) we'd have half as much laundry. HMMM. It really is tough though - that my kids have so little variety in their life. We can't go swimming or skating or sledding. We can try ...

We headed to Estevan to celebrate with our 'people' down there. It was lots of fun. We got to spend time with people, we had cake (store bought - no transporting home made cakes for us this time) and opened lots of gifts (thanks everyone!). Here are a few pictures. Liam and Grandma Gabby and Liam Beth and Evan Avis and Jilena Store bought big cake and the boys' little cakes blowing out candles spitting on cake and almost burning his eyebrows off!

I came across some interesting info about triplets today. Well, interesting to me but not necessarily to you. I won't put it all on here but I thought I'd throw a few up here. The most sets of triplets born to one woman was 15 sets to an Italian lady in the 1800's (WHAT!!). Of modern times it's only 6 sets. The most premature triplets (all 3 surviving) is 24 wks. Lightest total birthweight was 3 lbs 3/4 oz. Heaviest total birthweight was 24 lbs. Each baby was about 8 lbs. (ours totaled about 16 lbs. I cannot even imagine 24 lbs of baby in my belly. WOW!) Longest gestation with triplets was 41 wks. (oh my!) Oldest mother with triplets was a 66 yr old in India. Oh my goodness. Talk about being tired all the time!! Since 1989 there have been an average of 1802 sets of triplets born each year in the US. 150 or less are identical. That's all. I will put up pics from my triplets second birthday very soon!

Dylan, Evan and Liam turned 2 on wednesday!! We sang to them at moms and tots and then had them try to blow out their candles. Auntie Jacquie and Uncle Kenny were here from Calgary so we were able to celebrate with them in the evening and open some presents from the Mooney relatives. We are having their big party on saturday with cake and stuff (just store bought cake this year!). Here are some pictures from birthday party #1: Dylan was doing a little dance to the music on one of their new toys. He was on fire! So, the day has come and gone and the boys are 2. I can officially say that I have 3 two year olds. Good times!

My friend Kim invited us to the Pats Game for Breast Cancer Awareness so Caden and I went. They played Spokane and they beat us quite spectacularly (11 to 1) but Caden had lots of fun and keeps asking to go again. I really didn't think he'd stay interested until the end but he did! Then last night we dressed everybody up and went out for our first family trick or treating experience. It went better than I thought. Liam (as you can see in this first picture) wasn't too sure about it but in the end he enjoyed himself and cried when we went home! They pretty much followed each other to each house. Dylan figured out pretty quickly to hold out his bag and then he'd say BYE as we left each house. It was really fun to do this together. Again I had a flash of the days when I was sad about not having my own kids to dress up. And with that thought, as always - many times a day - I shake my head with the awesomeness of how wonderfully we have been Blessed!