Triplets' Love

13th months old (corrected age 11months old) Cubbies showing their care and love towards each other.

Triplets 1st Lantern!

Mooncake festival also known as mid-autumn festival falls on 12 September (八月十五).  Last year, triplets were too small to celebrate this festival. Now, they are 1 year old, have better understanding.

I was searching around for lanterns which are suitable for them to play. At last I found these Angry Birds Lantern.  It is not that we are a great fan of it, but I find it some how suitable for the cubbies.  The handle which holds the battery operated music and light can be easily removed from the bird, this means that cubbies could play with the bird as if it is a balloon.  Inside the bird it has a small bell which makes it more attractive.  But the boys are not interested with the bird-head balloon.  Finally, I gave in and allow them to play it with the handle.  Surprisingly, they knew how to hold it and walking around with it.  Although they had just mastered their toddling skill, they are walking quite well for a 13mths old preemie.  They enjoyed it better with the handle esp biting onto it :)

Here's a short video clip of the 3 little cubbies playing with the battery operated lantern.  Hope you like it!

Fan of The Week!

Was surprised when I visited Mum Centre Facebook Page and saw I was selected as their fan of the week.

No gifts or prize, but I'm still very glad and Happy!!

Do check out the Picture of the Week & Mom of the Day posting too.

Picture of the Week!

Thanks everyone for all the online voting, our picture was successfully rated as the Picture of the Week (Sep 12, 2011 - Sep 19, 2011) - Family Category on the Mum Centre Website.  What did we won?? Not sure yet, Have to wait for the prize to arrive.  Hope it is something useful :)

By the way, I also got selected as the Mom of the Day & Fan of the Week by Mum Centre Facebook Page.

Triplet's Nap Time

"What time is their nap time?" is one of the very common questions people tends to ask.
They will usually followed by "Do they all sleep together??"
"They nap for few hours??"

When Do They Nap?
I did not make a fixed schedule for them to follow.  Hence, they will nap whenever they feel like napping. :)

Advantage:
Flexible for adults in a way, whenever we feel like bringing them out, we'll just do it without worrying it affects their schedule.

Disadvantage:
When they are excitedly playing, they can over-tired themselves without us or them knowing it.  The next thing we know is that they start to be cranky and fussy.  When they are over-tired, it's not easy to put them to sleep.

Nowadays, they usually nap twice a day (1 year old toddler).  Once before lunch time and once in the afternoon.  The timing can be still vary.  For the morning session, sometimes they can fall asleep right after the breakfast (about 10-ish), sometimes not until 12 noon they fall asleep.  For the afternoon session, it is worst. For example, today one nap at 230pm, and by 3pm, all fast asleep.  Sometimes, they refuse to nap till it is 6pm.


How Long Do They Sleep/Nap??
Usually they nap for 30mins - 2hours.  Once again, the timing is not fixed.  We won't know when they wanted a longer nap.  3 of them might have different schedule, for example Triplet 1: 30mins - morning, 2 hours - afternoon; Triplet 2: 1 hour - morning, 1 hour - afternoon; and Triplet 3: 2hours - morning, 30mins - afternoon.


Do They Nap Together/Same Time?
They DON'T!  Sometimes you can have 1 napping, sometimes 2 napping.

Advantages of napping at different time:
You get to spend some personal or 1 to 1 time with one of the triplet while the other 2 are napping.
Less strenuous for new parent.  Handling 1 or 2 crying babies are much easier than 3 crying babies.

Disadvantages of napping at different time:
There's no time for you to nap together with them.  You have to stay awake the whole day and not having any 'me' time.

I will try to make all 3 of them nap together.  However, if each boy needed 10mins to put to sleep, there's a high chance that after the 3rd triplet fall asleep, the triplet who napped first might be time to wake up.  End result, three of them are not napping at the same time too. :)

Today, consider a bonus... the boys slept almost together in d morning and in the afternoon.

11am: cubbySyuen found his favorite spot - next to the sofa (sometimes under the sofa), one finger in his mouth, another hand holding d corner of the pillow... fall asleep without patting :)

11:10am: cubbyJuin also found his favorite spot and position, lay down next to me, thumb into the mouth, one hand holding onto my hand.. fall asleep without patting as well :)

11:15am: cubbyHung still active and busy playing...

11:20am: cubbyHung found his favorite pillow, 2 fingers into the mouth, one hand touching the pillow... fall asleep without patting :) and in the center of the toys too...

11:22am: Carried cubbyHung onto the bed, lights off... and I have free time to cook up their lunch. 

11:40am: cubbyJuin wakes up, followed by the other two at 12pm.

To reward them for their good nap time.. I've converted part of the sofa into a climbing platform for them... will blog about it another day :)

MOM OF THE DAY!!

Yippie!! MumCenter Malaysia had published my photo as Mom of the Day for their website on 5th Sept 2011

Thanks to MumCenter Malaysia !!

Cubbies are Toddling ! ! !

What is 'Toddling'?? 

From thefreedictionary.com/toddle

"toddle [ˈtɒd^əl]vb (intr)1. to walk with short unsteady steps, as a child does when learning to walk"

3 weeks ago during cubbies 1st Birthday, cubbies were only able to toddle few steps.  Within 2 weeks, they are able to toddle for quite a distance before falling down.

Only manage to take a few shots of cubbySyuen when the other 2 was taking their nap (cubbySyuen refused to nap).

Was shocked with his strength, he could lift up my tumbler (filled with water) and toddle with it. 

From this progress, I guess they should be able to walk when they are 13 months (corrected age 11 months, cos they are 2 months preterm).

Before this, we were still thinking to get them a push-walker...

But now, we can save $$ on that!!!  

However, it is time to consider 'Baby Harness'.  I'm sure they will start to toddle or walk around when we bring them out.

Should we get the one with backpack??

               Or just the normal safety strap harness??   

Any recommendation???

Pasta: Cheesy Macaroni (Elbow Pasta)

 

Suitable for 1yr old toddler

(My triplets love it very much!!!) 

Ingredients: Macaroni (Elbow Pasta), Carrots, Apples, Cheese

Method:

1. Boil the pasta for 15mins (to get it really soft)

2. Boil carrots & apples, in the photo below, I boiled the carrots and then add on frozen apple puree

3. Blend the boiled carrots & apples into puree

4. Rinse the cooked pasta will cool boiled water

5. If your toddler is able to chew the pasta, then skip this step.  I find the pasta quite difficult to chew apart with the gums, so, to make my life (feeding time) slightly easier (the triplets tend to choke quite often), I'd decided to blend the pasta as well.

Do add in some water while blending it.

6. Finally add on a slice of cheese (while the puree are still hot)

7. 'Ta-Da'.. The final result after mixing all up

Could frozen up the pasta & carrot puree sauce.  Add in cheese when heating up.

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