Breakfast In Bed

 Mornings are very peaceful at my house. Each day I wake up to breakfast in bed. Not you’re usual breakfast mind you, but one for my triplets.

My husband gets up for the day and turns on the baby monitor so he can listen for the baby’s to wake up while he gets ready for work each day.

Once he hears them begin to stir, he makes their bottles for them and brings them to me in bed.

Next, he will deliver my daughter to me for her morning bottle while he picks up both of the boys and lays them side by side on the bed.

They usually will all lie in bed with me together and have their bottles while we change them and cuddle and play with them.

It’s really the most peaceful way to start off a day. After they eat, the baby’s will sit there and play with each other while they wait their turn to be burped.

This is the time when they will usually say and do the silliest things. Each day brings new baby tricks!

Kian usually starts his day saying, “I get up! I get up! I got up!” This is something my tiny couch potato picked up from an early “Shrek” promotion commercial about good habits.

Kai once actually told me not to call him by a pet name, saying, “Not Doodles, Kai!” Now he has decided to create a persona for himself and prefers to be addressed as “The Dude, Doodles!”

Kian replied to this by accidentally banging his head on the headboard of the bed while nodding his head up and down in agreement (he now addresses his brother in this way.)

This led Kai to say, “He can’t help it!” while shaking his head side to side as if to say, “How silly!”

It was one of these mornings that found Vivienne frantic for her bottle, but when my husband picked her up to feed her, she wouldn’t eat.

Because the boy’s were hungry too and needed some cuddling, he put her down in between us and turned to pick up Kai.

She had this look of total shock on her tiny, beautiful face as she gasped and said, “Bad Daddy!”

My husband laughed so hard he almost fell off the bed. My triplets really have turned me into a morning person with our breakfast in bed ritual!

Originally published TUESDAY, MAY 15, 2007

Originally published THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2007 BY MIMI RANKIN WEBB

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