PAMOM holiday party!

Here are a few more picture from the PAMOM party last weekend....

Brooks with his "other girlfriend"...yes he already has 2 girlfriends! Our family:

Reese

Last night before bed...Reese was playing with a baby doll. When I asked her the name of her baby she replied "Jesus". It made my heart melt! :)

We like to party!

We like to party! Lately it seems we have at least a birthday party or a holiday party....so fun!

The weekend after Thanksgiving, our friend, Ethan, celebrated his 2nd birthday. Brooks, Reese and Sloane enjoyed a bounce house, as well as face painting!
Steve and I were shocked when Reese asked to have her face painted...if you keep up with our blog you will understand. :)

Here is Reese with her "butterfly face"...

Brooks the "tiger"...

Sloane wanted to join with her sister as a "butterfly"...notice Steve holding his beer and my wine...ahh "kid" birthday parties! :)

The next weekend, my local Moms of Multiples group hosted our annual holiday children's party. We attempted another family photo with Santa. Notice that Reese is sitting on Steve's lap...and is far away from Santa. He had to quickly slide into the picture while holding Reese.

I guess Reese is now into face painting because she asked again to have a butterfly painted on her face!

I love this picture of Sloane! She just ran up to Santa and started talking to him. Maybe she was telling him what she wanted for Christmas....so cute!

Brooks, Reese & Sloane looking at the Christmas Tree. This seems to be one of the only pictures I have of Brooks. He was all of the place the day of the party! Such a boy. :)

Later that night, I had to bake Christmas cookies for a cookie exchange party. Yes....write down the date (12-5-09)....I actually baked something!!! These are my candy cane cookies......before:

After! I was up until 1:00 a.m. making these!

Christmas Tree, ballet princesses & snow!!

Well, it very rarely snows in Texas but last week, the Trio awoke early for preschool to see snow falling in our yard.
Words can not describing the emotions of our three little ones as they witnesses their first snow....all the way to school all I heard from the back seat was "Mommy snow...Mommy snow"!
A couple of nights before the snow, Sloane and Reese decided to play ballerina dancer.
They would not take off the ballet tutus at bedtime, so needless to say, they slept in their tutus.....
Here they are the next morning!

The ballerina princesses decided to help with the Christmas Tree too!

Sloane and Brooks "fluffing up" the branches on the tree.

Reese loved helping with the tree...

Holiday photo shoot with Betsy

It is hard to believe that another year has almost gone by....time for our annual holiday photo shoot with my friend Betsy.

This picture was taken after the shoot...we went out for lunch...Brooks decided to make a mask from a tortilla. He did this all by himself (we think he remembered back from the summer when Steve did the same thing at lunch)....anyway, he was very proud of his mask... I took a few pictures with my camera while Betsy was shooting photos of the children.
Here is Reese...not too happy...

Reese...

Sloane...

Sloane...likes her lollipop!

Brooks and Sloane climbing the stairs...

Our attempt at a photo of the children....Reese was not in the mood for pictures....thus why she is not in the photo. :(

Santa at the mall!

One of the malls close to our house just remodeled their play area. For the grand opening, Santa was there to greet all of the children!

There was also, food, face painting and balloon animals!

Here are Brooks, Reese and Sloane watching the "balloon man" in action. Sloane seems very excited! Sloane....

Reese did not like Santa...

Sloane

Brooks

Thanksgiving Feast at school!

Brooks Reese

Sloane

Football game!

We took the Trio to their first junior football game.
My friend, Tina's son, plays on the team. His name is Logan the team is The Colts.

Here's Brooks holding a team helmet....future football player? Brooks, Reese and Sloane with Logan after his big win!

Chilling on the lawn chairs....watching football and eating snacks.

Daddy and Brooks watching the game...

First meeting with Santa

Well, I took Brooks, Reese and Sloane to play in the mall play area....only to find out once we arrived it was closed for remodeling! ugh! They were screaming and wanting to go play...
Luckily, the Santa display along with the Polar Express and "snow" was already up and running so we decided to check it out!
Sloane 's expression is priceless in this picture. She walked into the area where a snow machine was hanging from the ceiling...sprinkling snow down on her....so was so surprised and and made several "ooh" and "ahh"..so cute. Wish I had video! Where is the snow coming from?

Maybe I can catch some snow!

Reese decided to strike a pose near the water fountain.

Sloane and Reese in the "snow" room...

The Polar Express train engine room. Complete with wheels to turn and a break stick (to the right). It makes a loud noise when you pull it!

Santa came out to greet us...so exciting! Brooks was not too sure about him...

Sloane giving Santa a high five...

As you can see, independent woman, Sloane, loved Santa!

Santa playing in the snow!

While taking many of these photos I became teary eyed.....my babies are growing up and experiencing things for the first time! Sloane really made me cry with her excitement and expressions about the snow and Santa.

Keeping the Trio busy

Well, the weather is finally nice again so I have been keeping the Trio busy!

They attend preschool on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Sadly, most school days they do not nap!

Here is Brooks on Thursday at home. As you can see, he basically fell asleep partially standing up. Guess he finally decided to move into the chair!

On Friday, I took Brooks, Reese and Sloane to a local train museum for story time. It was great and they actually sat and listened! There were stories and puppets, followed watching a small train set and then off to walk inside a caboose train car.

Here are Brooks, Sloane and Reese eating on a bench outside of the museum. There was also a playground!

Brooks driving the caboose!

Later, myself along with another triplet mom and two twin moms decided to ride our local public train system....the DART!

Here is Sloane...she is so excited to ride on a train for the first time!

We rode down to another station and had lunch! Yes, 10 children and 4 moms!