A Series of Firsts

It wasn’t long before we got the babies out and about.  My family isn’t much for sitting around so when we could, we would take the triplets to new places.

One of the first things we did was take them to Shelley Jensen to get their pictures taken.  This one turned out pretty sweet.

Within a couple of weeks of being home, we took them on their first walk around the neighborhood.  Mom is a bit of a workout fanatic, so you really can’t keep her from moving.  We took this first walk with two double strollers, but about a year later a friend gave us a quad stroller.  After dad put it together, all of us couldn’t even wait to get it out of the living room before we climbed into it for our first ride!

Dad’s birthday is exactly a month after the triplets.  He wanted to go to Tacos El Sol so we loaded up the whole family for the first time to make that trip.  We had recently purchased a 1997 Dodge Grand Caravan from our neighbors.  Dad took out the middle bucket seats and replaced them with bench seating like the back seat.  Now we could fit all 8 of us in one vehicle.  This was officially our first trip out in public.

This picture is of the triplets first trip to Orange Leaf.  I was making a crazy face and mom was pretending to feed one of the babies some frozen yogurt.  Bronze just always eats like that.

This picture was taken at during my brother’s first trip to the doctor’s office after they were born.

Our family is kind of a spectacle every where we go.  It must be kind of like watching the circus parade through town.  In the beginning we traveled with quite a bit of baggage.

In fact, when we went on our first road trip to Branson on Labor Day weekend just three months after they were born, we were really loaded up.  We squeezed the eight of us and all of our luggage into the minivan.  We also had three pack-n-plays, the strollers and all of the other baby gear like bottles and diapers.  I think we filled up Bubby and CiCi’s (my grandparents on my dad’s side) van with our stuff as well.  I can’t believe we all got into one hotel room.  I’m not sure it was real relaxing for my parents.

It was always a big production for us to pack up and get ready to go anywhere, even if it was just to the mall.  A lot of times people will tell my parents, “I don’t know how you do it.”  They always have had lots of help from other people, but I have also heard them say, “We just do what we have to do.”  However, I kind of think my mom is a superhero.  Today is her birthday and so be sure to wish her well!

(written from Journey’s perspective by dad…but partially typed by Journey)