Happy 1st Birthday!

How can one year seem to have passed so quickly and so slowly at the same time?  I remember my time on bed rest in the hospital and the girls' delivery like it was yesterday, but there are so many moments over the last year with the girls that are a blur.  There were so many times in those first 10 weeks that I cried and was so scared.  I felt as though I had failed because I didn't carry them longer.  We are so blessed to have such healthy girls. 

Overall, this last year hasn't been nearly as bad as I anticipated.  There have certainly been moments that tried my patience.  My personal experience with having triplets is that the first year was pretty easy.  Everyone says the first year is the hardest, but I'm finding that it's getting harder and harder as time goes on.  The first several weeks that all three girls were home was hard.  Once we got in our groove, things went incredibly smoothly.  The girls have been sleeping through the night since they were 12 weeks old, and I have been getting plenty of sleep too.  Now that they are on the move, I really think it's getting harder.  I'm also getting extremely frustrated with my self-imposed quarintine (flu season).  I cannot wait to get out of this house.  At the same time, I'm scared.  I hate the attention.  I just want to have a "normal" life and be able to go somewhere without being accosted by strangers. 

To celebrate the girls' first birthday, I ordered a cake from Costco.  My mom came over, and we opened presents given to the girls by my friends and my parents.  Then we let the girls dive into the cake.  Katie LOVED it!!  She dug right in and squished it around in her hands.  It took a minute for her to realize that she could eat it.  Once I felt she had enough, I took it away.  She was NOT thrilled that I took it away.  Maggie was very delicate with her eating of the cake.  I had to push her hands into it and show her that she could eat it.  She loved it too, but didn't go as crazy as Katie.  Izzy-B also took a little while to figure out that she could eat it.  Her enthusiasim and mess was somewhere in the middle.  It was so much fun to watch the girls enjoy their first taste of sugar.  After cake, they had a bath.  We'll do "one year" pictures later this week, and I'll post their official one year stats on Friday.  It was just too much to get it all done tonight. 

Here come the pictures.....

 Thank you Karen!

Thank you Cherrie!

 Thank you Kathy!

 Thank you Aunt Dodie!

 Ohhh - soft.

 Are these my size?

 Thank you grandma and grandpa!

 Thank you Aunt Novita and Uncle Paul!

 This is fun!!

 See the cake on the wall behind her?

 Where's my cake?!?!?!

 Such beautiful red lips!

Happy 1st Birthday to Katie, Maggie and Izzy-B!