The Kleins: Happy Fall!

Hello everyone! Everything has been going well here in the Klein household. The babies had their 9 month check up on Friday. I'm so bummed that I forgot to bring my camera to the appointment that day. They are all getting so darn big! Madeline weighs 19 lbs and is in the 50th percentile for weight and 80th percentile for height (she must have got her height from me and not Seth...ha ha); Caleb weighs 18 lbs 2 oz and is in the 25th percentile for weight and 50th percentile for height; Mischa weighs 15 lbs 9 oz and is in the 10th percentile for weight and height...she's still our little peanut! The babies are meeting all of their developmental milestones so the doctor was happy as are we. It's been so exciting to see them crawling all over the place, pulling themselves up to standing and even using their thumb and forefinger to pick up pieces of food. I know we are partial but we sure do have some extraordinary, amazing, smart and perfect babies!

Seth and I decided to make a few changes to their daily routine these past couple of weeks. Up until recently, we were still giving the babies their pacifiers and helping them fall asleep by rocking them or giving them their bottles. Sometimes we were getting up multiple times during the night to soothe one, two are all three babies, so it made for some tough nights. Now, however, we are "training" the babies to self soothe and to resettle themselves back to sleep when they wake up in the middle of the night. The process started out a little rough. Let's just say there was a LOT of crying. Fortunately, as the days and nights go by, the babies are falling asleep on their own and not requiring the help of a pacifier or me or Seth, so we are so happy! Now when it is nap time or bedtime, we simply say goodnight to the babies, kiss them, and lay them in the crib and let them be. They are able to fall asleep on their own for the most part and that means more sleep for me and Seth! We also changed their bedtime to 7 pm so that they are sleeping for 12 hours until 7 am and let me just say it is AMAZING!

Here are pictures from the past couple of weeks! Enjoy :)