Three Babies Movin!

This past week with Caleb has been rough. He's been crying a lot and getting frustrated at his inability to keep up with his siblings. The other two would be playing with him, then leave to play somewhere else. That's when the screaming ensued. He just felt like everyone was leaving (he has severe separation anxiety as well).

Then....

one day he crawled and pulled up. Like he had had enough and just decided to do it! He's really good at crawling too...seems like he's been doing it for a while now. HOWEVER, he's pretty bulky and has problems moving quickly. His reaction time isn't great either so he has a ton of bruises on his face from falling on the tile. I was actually embarrassed to take him out today thinking someone would assume I had hit him. No one turned me into CPS luckily.

Here's the big guy on the move!



Now that all three of them can crawl, story time feels like Planet of the Apes. They are crawling up my arms, clawing at my face, pulling my hair, sucking on my shorts, biting me knee, drooling all over, etc... It's pretty wild. Really though, they usually corner me and I have to hold the book high in the air so they can't attempt to destroy it. We always have a good laugh and Clark snapped a picture of the chaos.


Here's a picture from our latest swimming adventure. Lately the babies like to sit on the edge more than be in the pool. We're teaching them how to lean forward and fall into our arms. Leah WILL NOT do it. Not a risk taker. Zachary is all over it. You barely have time to set him on the ledge before he's leaning toward the water! Caleb will do it with a LOT of persuading. He's pretty cautious. Amazing how different they are from each other!



Crawling has instilled a new sense of independence for the babies. Unfortunately, this independence has made our swimming outings miserable. They HATE to be in their swimming floaties because they can't really move at all. They have no freedom...they just have to sit there so after about 10 minutes of crying, we call it a day and get the babies out of the pool. They are fine if you hold them one at a time but that still leaves a third baby crying to get out which ruins all the fun. After our last swim of ten minutes, we got the babies out and got them dressed. They were all super happy to be out of the pool so we snapped some photos.



Swimming has been fun but seriously, this heat is insane. After 7am we don't go outside because it's suffocating. Please please send some cooler temperatures our way soon!

P.S. One more month of formula...HALLELUJAH!