Revel Yell!

This past Friday, a couple of friends and I decided to take the triplets and head downtown for a lunch date and to hear Trout Fishing in America play.

My friends are VERY brave for agreeing to an outing with the likes of us! I did try and be somewhat prepared for the outing, promise!

I went ahead and put my tiny trio down for their morning nap even though everyone had agreed to meet at my house at 11 to head downtown.

The babies didn't feel the need to actually sleep, however. They did anything but sleep up there.

I heard singing, jumping and even had to peep upstairs to make sure that nobody had decided to jump out of bed when I heard an awfully loud noise of something hitting the floor.

As luck would have it, it wasn't a baby that had hit the floor, but the original version of the Tickle Me Elmo toy which probably weighs about the same as one of my kids (or sounds like it does when hitting the hardwood floor, that is!)

Once my friends arrived, we each headed upstairs to grab a baby and start getting them ready for our day.

I managed to assembly-line diaper and dress each baby while their chicken strips heated in the microwave.

I made a 32 ounce container of apple juice and water to take with us while the babies munched on their lunch and my friends looked on in amazement at the silliness of my tiny trio.

We actually did make it out of the house on time, believe it or not. There was just a slight delay as we stopped to meet and visit with my new neighbor from next door.

Because nobody else really could fit into my tiny car once we had the tiny trio loaded, we ended up taking two cars.

It was decided that I would lead the way downtown and once there, my friend Deneena would take the lead and find us a parking spot (she had been having pretty decent luck on Commerce and I tend to just park in the casino garage.)

We tag-teamed our way downtown and wound our way around the parking areas. EVERYTHING was packed (we had quite forgotten about it being Friday!)

As luck would have it, we ended up in the parking garage after all. At least we could park side by side that way!

I think my friends had a good giggle at the huge ordeal that it appears I go through just to get the babies unloaded into their stroller and everything squared away before we can go anywhere in it.

Mat even offered to push the very heavy, over 100 pound load of a limo that I call a stroller. He was awfully sweet about it, but I thought that I should at least give it a go at least at first!

We actually made it to the right stage and managed to find a place to seat all three of us and the mondo-limo laden with the babies under the crowded tent. It was even up front where the babies could see the band, too!

My friends had quite an introduction as to what it's like being out with my triplets. Lots of folks stopped to say, "Hi" and meet the babies.

All sorts of things were said, the funniest being, "What did you do, go to Kinko's and make copies?"

Then there was this one man who stopped and gave the babies a sort of baby stand-up routine of jokes, which was really cute of him.

Once the band started to play, the babies started boogieing in their stroller. Every time the band called for audience participation, Kai would clap his little hands, the babies all did the wave, and even had their little bunny foo-foo ears ready for the "Window" song.

Kian was the first to start to whimper (I think it was because he was getting hot sitting in the middle.) Of course Mummy is a sucker and just had to get him out!

We really started boogieing then! Kian likes to be spun around in circles, too, as it turns out!

Deneena and Mat couldn't stand it any longer and just had to grab the remaining two babies and dance with them, too.

We boogied the afternoon away and sang a bit too. We found out that Kian adores chocolate ice cream and that Kai and Vivie adore funnel cake.

In fact, Kai likes funnel cake so much, that every time Mat tried to take a bite, he found Kai redirecting it into his own tiny mouth!

The babies got a bit squirmy, so we finally let them get down and dance by themselves in front of the stage.

When it came time to go, each had tiny, black and very dirty little dancing feet to show for it. The babies didn't seem to want to leave, and let out little cries to prove it when we tried to load the stroller back up!

On the way back to the car, Mat got to push the limo for a bit. Everyone helped me load the babies and the limo back into the car and we had to go our separate ways.

My friends are so very brave to go out with us like that! I am really lucky to have such good and understanding friends.

I think we all had a great time. I know the babies were tuckered out! I had to put them directly into their beds for a tiny nap once we got home.

Over baby dinner, I let them watch their new DVD of the children's show that the band had released. They babies loved boogieing over their dinner, too!

They had such a great time at the Revel on Friday, that they all managed to sleep through the night without waking up for midnight tea!