Triple treat

Hello! Everything has been going good here in the Klein household. The high chairs are finally assembled and last week we introduced solid foods to the babies for the first time. It was a fun occasion! We started with rice cereal and all 3 babies seemed to like it (what food ended up in their mouths that is). As always, Madeline seemed to catch on the fastest. She quickly grasped the concept of the spoon and begin opening her mouth to food without much difficulty. Caleb really enjoyed the taste of the cereal but his darn tongue kept getting in the way and was pushing the food out of his mouth! Funny little guy. Mischa wasn't too impressed. She took a few nibbles but after that she was done and wanted out of her high chair. I started making their baby food at home and it's actually been pretty fun. As most of my family knows, I've never been much of a cook so this is a special occasion for me to actually prepare food. I'd much rather clean the kitchen than actually cook! Ha ha :) But I have to say, I'm actually impressed with myself. This week we moved on from rice cereal to a delicious pear puree and then a sweet potato puree...all prepared from scratch. The idea of making homemade baby food is actually wonderful and not as time consuming as I thought it would be...but then again these little munchkins are only taking a couple teaspoons of food each so the time consuming part might change as they begin to eat more! The best part of introducing solid foods to the babies is that they are all sleeping better at night! In this first week we have cut out one entire bottle feeding session at night which is wonderful for us parents. To our surprise, even Caleb, who never skips a feed at night, has been sleeping more than ever. We really didn't expect to see a change so quickly but by adding a solid food feeding in the evening, the babies seem to sleep longer at night which is fantastic! Another factor to them sleeping longer is the addition of kids blackout curtains to the nursery. Wow, these curtains really do work in keeping the room darker. Normally Caleb is up every morning as soon as the sunlight hits the room which at this time of year is as early as 5 am. However, with the curtains, he's sleeping in until 6:30 am...hallelujah!!

Not much else going on here. Here are pictures from the past couple of weeks. Hope you enjoy!

Me and Mischa at the park - poor thing got my ears :)

Madeline sucking her favorite finger

Seth and Mischa

Hard to see but this is a picture of a rare annular eclipse seen from Reno

Caleb was prepared with his solar glasses

Madeline and Seth (Madeline wasn't sure what all the eclipse hype was about)

Group photo with our friends Zeina and Chuck and their twin girls

Caleb in the bumbo chair looking like a big boy

Mischa with her keys

This is Caleb first thing in the morning...always SO happy! Poor Seth looks tired.

Caleb trying out the newly assembled high chairs for the first time

Madeline playing

Caleb & Madeline

Mischa in her car seat

Mischa, Caleb & Madeline

Madeline

Mischa

Caleb

6 months old today!

It's official...the babies are half a year old now! Wow, the past 6 months have gone by really fast! Although the last 6 months have been challenging in many ways (sleep deprivation mostly), it's also been the most rewarding and enjoyable 6 months, as well. I recently read that parenting is "the best job but the hardest job" - SO true! Seth and I celebrated the babies turning 6 months old by scheduling a mini photo shoot with our favorite local photographer, Huong. She captured the most beautiful pictures of the babies as newborns so we knew she was the perfect person to take pictures of the babies now at 6 months old. We did the photo shoot at a local park here in Reno last Saturday. The first 15 minutes of pictures went good - no crying, babies all seemed pretty content, but then disaster struck and Madeline had a little bit of a meltdown...okay, actually a major meltdown with big crocodile tears, snot, red eyes, the whole nine yards. Seth and I have noticed that she does not like to be out and about very much. When we go to parks and take walks, she is content for about 30 minutes but then begins crying inconsolably. She doesn't do this at home so we've finally decided she's happiest at home. Caleb and Mischa on the other hand LOVE to be outside. In fact, they love all the attention they get from people, especially Caleb. We recently had some friends visit from San Diego and Seth and I mentioned to them that Caleb tends to be the fussiest baby (or the biggest cry baby as Seth puts it) and boy did he prove us wrong! He was an angel the entire weekend and our friends thought we were lying about Caleb! He sure knows when to flash those dimples! Anyways, we should be receiving our DVD with the professional photos in the next couple of weeks, so we will be sure to post pictures from that day here on the blog.

We are getting ready to introduce solid foods to the babies. First, we need to put together the 3 high chairs which are still in the garage in their boxes. Neither of us have had hardly any free time during the day to get to this task but hopefully we can this week. We recently purchased a baby cookbook and I'm looking forward to pureeing vegetables, fruits and grains for the babies. We can't wait to see their little faces when they take their first bites! We will be sure to post pictures from the day. Here are a couple of recent videos of the babies that Seth took. Since these videos are a bit big, Seth used the Box website to upload these videos so just click on the links below and then click on the download button to view each video. I will upload a few photos later today.


Baby video

Reno River Walk

Another Babies video