mobile! the very first auto of her own! and just like with the inventoor of the automobile, it is the lady who drives first! well, for different reasons than back then, but a fact is a fact...

so, now we are there: the foundation has been laid - for expensive dealer bills, beautifull summer night cruises, radar traps and the dreaded search for parking space. luckily vicky doesn't need a driver's license for the hot red convertible!

but now it won't be long until she discovers roads. and slopes... hopefully the boys can hang on to that pace! :))

well, the time has come: the dragon is going to have to keep growing and developing in separation for the next 4 weeks - mommy has left for the clinic this morning with the boys. we recall: study eating in maulbronn, the town of "maultoschen" and 11 fingers. the first status report on the phone sounds promising: everything is well prepared and nicely arranged. even the weatherman is on our side.

now all hope is with the therapies and therapists, but with that we got quite some experience. well, boys, pay attention how that whole eating thing is going to go down - upon your return vicky, daddy and gramma are going to want to see some progress! make us proud! :)

wow, as time goes by! the dragon is growing and developing, getting securer by the hour... which relaxes us parents in more ways than one: less worries, lower pulse & blood pressure, more faith, more balls! and this is beginning to manifest in visible and feelable instances. means, the dragon is sleeping alone in their kids' room, since the weekend - and the parents' bedroom is again one! naw, really, after more than 2 years! hopefully that's not gonna be another three-headed dragon, soon! :)

it would appear somehow that our youngster takes the whole drgon and flying thing a bit _too_ literal: as if "falling out of bed" wasn't bad enough, he climbs straight for the window! a second story window, i might add! with a solid brick yard underneath! maybe i have to bolt the window shut, just to be on the often-mentiioned safe side.
but seriously, since this morning he is pulling himself up on sides of the bed! just one short little weekend after starting too crawl! at the moment 'only' to his knees, but it sems about high time to readjust the floors n the bed and play penn a whole lot lower. well, my and mamas back won't exactly be happy about that, but if we leave everything unchanged, he will have fallen out within two weeks' time, and we obviously cannot allow that! :) least of all now, when at the horizon becomes visible, how many helping hands round the house i'm going to have, very soon! :)

* kaleidoscope. * shake. * look. * new image. *
collin, the bug. well, because he is crawling! unwearily. slowly, but super coordinated. though the little hero weighs in at only two thirds of his rowdy, one minute older sister, he pushes himself up with his little arms and moves with determination towards his goal. it doesn't matter whether it iis a cell phone oor a bottle or some other interesting thing of the moment: if he wants it, he goes and get it. what can i say: third chapter of life for the second dragon head (the one where you don't find them anymore, where you put them...)

with benny, there are similarly good news: as his sister and his brothher before him, he starts (slowly) to hold his own bottle, while feeding. a little shaky and still needs some assistance, but this is how it started with vicky, as well, last november.
so we can estimate that from a motoric standpoint, he is about 9 months back. so, no time to rest, but also no time to panic. the advantage of triplets is, we always have the comparing samples right in our very own house... :)


summarizing: not through the finish line, yet, but on the right way. a hard way. but a beautiful one.

vicky has kinda had it with the crowd stroller. where the seats are backwards because her brothers still need it this way. where the sun roof always blocks the sight on where the journey is going to....
therefore she was on the lookout for some more exciting, prestigeous means of transportation and found - surprise! - our good old toy wagon. yepp, that one. insiders will remember: this is what our lucy once came to us in. long, long story...
in any event, "carriage" to vicky is loads of fun. if for nothing else, that horse - named grampa - makes it so... can you say "getty up", vicky? :)

hard to believe, just _HOW MUCH_ the mother of invention distress really is! since we unfortunately still can not report sustainable success of collin's weight gaining mission, despite well oiled scales, we had to keep searching for ideas to finally break through the 6 kilogram barrier and stay beyond. now we officially arrived at space technology.

no, really: astronauts - or as they were called in my youth: cosmonauts - eat everything from a tube, because of gravity, or lack thereof, to be exact. and what is good for astronauts can not be bad for "normal" babies, as a milk girl would summrize. so, when i saw this tube of "sweetened creamy milk" in the supermarket yesterday, i obtained a little mission supply: honey-like consistency, all good things of milk, plus extra calories from the sugar, what more do i want? and the whole thing's name translates to "milk girl", which should add a sufficiently funny and lovely touch. well, let's see where it will go.

being the parent, one has to always have one more idea than the brood. means: it doesn't matter whether the chicken or the egg was there first, what matters is, who will make it to through! :)

* kaleidoscope. * shake. * look. * new image. *
because that whole eating diploma thing in maulbronn is slower than we all thought, we decided to find an intermediate solution for the meantime, a QRF (quick response force) so to speak, in the shape of a very nice logopedist, who has visited the dragon for the first time today. first to get to know them, but not without giving the first advice and hints. after all, it would be impossible if the boys would not take after their dad, even as far as external appearance goes! it would not be for a lack of will or determination: solid food is long-since not only watched and fixated anymore, but actively grabbed for. with hands or mouth, depending which happens to be closer at the time. and they never let go of any food anymore, once they secured it! i really wish it would stay in... *sigh* but unfortunately we can not really report substantial success from the weight gaining project, yet...