The Hickey Triplets

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Brooks' imagination

Brooks makes me laugh everyday! He loves to role play and use his imagination.

Here's "Cowboy Brooks"...

My little handsome man...

Brooks also love the build "bad guy" castles.

Here is one of his recent creations....very detailed. You can almost see the wheels turning in his head as he places each piece....Brooks is always deep in thought when he builds his castles.

I think he may be a future architect!

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Our new kitchen

I entered a contest on Facebook for a Kid Kraft kitchen and...I won!

Sloane, Brooks and Reese love the new kitchen....

Hooray for the new kitchen!

Sloane and her apron and Reese with her Polly Pocket....so funny...

The girls immediately began organizing the food and cooking...it was so cute!

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Dance class

The girls have started another year of dance class.

They are very excited because this year they are taking ballet and tap dance!

I took Reese and Sloane to the dance store to get fitted for their ballet and tap shoes. The girls were in Heaven!

Here they are just before dance class:

My sweet girls...Reese and Sloane

Brooks decided he wanted to be a part of the pictures and wanted to include Avery, our dog.

Sisters!

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Three busy little people

It seems like we have been on the go the entire summer. I have found if I do not keep Brooks, Reese and Sloane busy they will fight and argue with each other.

Therefore, every day we leave the house for an activity or a trip to the store.

One of their favorite activities is visiting the local frozen yogurt shop.

Brooks really loves frozen yogurt. As you can see he is attempting to get every last drop from his bowl.

The yogurt shop is very close to our house. Every now and then we will treat the trio to some frozen yogurt....notice that Reese is eating a sucker because she does not like frozen yogurt.

We have been so busy this summer that we have not had time to take Brooks in for a hair cut. One night before going to the frozen yogurt shop we stopped in for a hair cut....

Reese, Brooks and Sloane playing with their friend Lucas...

Brooks LOVES anything sweet....including cookies! He enjoyed this cookie while shopping at Costco.

This photo makes me laugh! We were driving to a friend's birthday party and at one point all 3 of them were asleep. It sure was fun trying to wake all of them up when we arrived at the party.

We love shopping at Costco!

Now that they are 4 years old, Brooks, Reese and Sloane are very interested in dress up and pretend play. Here is my little man...

Playing in the backyard....Sloane organized all of the ducks in a line!

Brooks loves ranch! I will eat it with everything....and even lick it off of his plate!

Sunday, July 31, 2011

It is so cute to see Brooks, Reese and Sloane interacting with each other...talking...laughing...fighting....they are TRUE siblings! Now that they are 4 years old, they are developing into 3 different individuals. Some days they get along with each other, while other days it is constant arguments and battles over anything from a toy to being the first in line to go out the door. It drives me crazy but makes me smile all at the same time.

Here are Sloane, Brooks and Reese on a "good" day enjoying some playtime in the backyard. Notice they are each holding a squirt bottle....thus no fighting! LOL

Reese and Sloane share a bedroom and lately they have been up talking and giggling when they are supposed to be in bed. Apparently they wore themselves out while playing in Sloane's bed and crashed in the bed together...

Sloane is holding her flashlight in one hand and her Polly Pocket car in the other hand. Even asleep she is holding on to her things....so cute!

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Summer Fun!

It has been HOT in Texas this summer! The average temperature has been 100 degrees...

Therefore, we have to be creative when planning activities for Brooks, Reese and Sloane.

Splash parks have been a life saver!

Here's Sloane sitting in the middle of a fountain. She makes me laugh!

Reese striking a pose in the splash park!

Brooks cooling off in the water....

The big squirt water gun!

On this trip to the splash park, we met up with some other sets of triplets and quads. Sadly, my trio is now too big for the choo choo wagon!

There were a total of 4 choo choo wagons that day....3 other sets of triplets and 1 set of quads! We took over the splash park!

Here are Brooks, Reese and Sloane eating lunch...

With the Texas heat, we have had to play indoors many days. Brooks has become obsessed with building his "collections" as he likes to call them. It is amazing to watch his little brain work to create these collections. His creativity and attention to detail amaze me. Then he will explain why he set up things the way he did, etc. I think we have a future architect or artist!

Brooks, Reese and Sloane are really getting into dress up and dramatic play. I love to listen to their dialogue and the scenes that they act out together.

This summer, I have also continued to work with Brooks, Reese and Sloane with letter and number recognition. Our kitchen becomes the classroom while we sit at the table and work.