The Huber Triplets: Smiling, smart Babies

As I am scrambling to get in a quick blog entry while the boys are occupied in the living room for a second, I can hear Konrad in the living room saying "moo, moo" to the animals video that I have playing for them. So far every animal that even remotely looks like a cow says moo in Konrad's world. And he is always so proud of himself. We say "Konrad what does the cow say", and he says "Moo" and then claps for himself. Although anytime you ask him what anything says, he says moo so we are working on that, lol. All of the boys clap for themselves and each other whenever one of them does something that we would normally clap and say "yay" to, so we have a lot of clapping going around over here. Their baby language is advancing so fast, they sit in their high chairs or their cribs or in the living room and they make noises back and forth and nod their heads and laugh and then they say something else and it happens all over again...they remind me of birds...or something...because if one is apart from the others and he calls out, the others will shout back the same noises in response...and then they all get excited and smiley like "we found him!", it's really very intriguing to watch as they progress. So far Konrad is the only one who even tries to translate for adults. He will pause in talking to his brothers, look right at us and say whole sentences of baby garble and nod his head and smile like he knows we understood just what he said and then he looks back at his brothers and goes back to playing. Its amazing, I just wish I knew what the heck he was saying, lol.

Zachary finally pulled himself up to a stand a few days ago, Konrad and Mike are standing and cruising along the fence or along their crib walls, but not quite ready to let go. Zach actually has the best balance of the three so he may be the first to walk, wouldn't that be impressive. Mikey is so hesitant, he will let go of the gate or the couch but then he stands for a second and slowly lets himself sit down without trying to walk, I think he knows that he might fall. Konrad gets so excited when he realizes that he is standing on his own that he starts bouncing and dancing and he usually face plants before he can take a step. Zachary is so happy to be standing, but he has absolutely no concept of consequences. He will just let go and start running head long and then of course he falls right over on his face...hopefully he figures out the part where he needs some balance to walk or else I am going to get a CPS file against me for all of his bumps and bruises, lol.

We had a couple of weeks of passing around croup, then the GI flu and then teething, but for a brief moment, we are in the clear and they are actually smiling, happy babies. For a while there I thought I just had whiney, annoying children, oops, turns out when they are healthy they are actually quite pleasant. Konrad is sleeping in his crib and they are so funny to watch at night and during naps. They just talk and play and laugh in there until they fall asleep. Lately we have had to give Zachary 3-4 pacifiers in his crib at night because he has been pushing his pacifiers through the bars so that Mikey can grab them and then pass them back...the problem with this game is that Mikey might pass them back a few times, but in the end he gathers all of the pacifiers in his side of the crib and then plays with them in front of a crying Zachary...not nice. Zachary steals Mikey's blanket in response and then they are both crying. Smart babies, sad mommy who has to go in there and redistribute all of the items and put the babies back to bed. So we moved Zach to the crib across the room and put Konrad in Zach's old crib. Konrad is too smart to pass his stuff through the bars to Mikey and so far Mikey thinks this is very funny and he spents hours reaching through the bars to try to get Konrad's pacifier and/or his blanket away from him...when he succeeds, Konrad is furious and Mikey laughs and laughs...luckily he does not succeed to often. Zachary is still passing his pacifiers through the crib bars, the problem being that there is no one to take them so they all end up on the floor and he still ends up crying...I haven't come up with a plan to solve this one yet...We really are kind of a zoo right now.

Lastly, I have to eplain the bottom picture. It used to be that when it was time to eat I would go up to the wall and motion the boys over and they would all race to the wall and we picked up whoever got there first...but that was almost always Mikey because he is really fast. The other boys started to stop and cry instead of crawl over to the wall when Mikey started crawling because they knew that Mikey would get there first and so he would get picked up first. If they did come to the wall they were always crying to be picked up first in hopes that I might choose them over their brothers. All that crying and whining right before meals got a little old...So now, we make them all come over to the wall and line up and whoever is quiet and can motion "all done" in sign language to show me that they aren't crying or whining gets picked up first. Most of the time, it works!

Mikey is thinking something sassy