le mile hauts triplés: 6 months

As the triplets get older I'm finding these blog entries harder and harder to do. But here goes. This month we once again had a lot of visitors and a lot of holidays! I can't believe we even got it together to get a Christmas card out! They had their 6 month doctor appointment and they are doing great! They did have their first real sickness. Connor and Evi both got ear aches and somehow Max avoided it. But we were ALL sick for awhile. No one slept and there was lots of mucus and grossness in the Haggerty household.

Here are their most recent stats...
Max: 12lbs 6.9oz and 2ft 0.8in!!
Connor: 12lbs 5.3oz and 2ft 0.9in!!
Evi: 13lbs 6.3oz and 2ft 0.9in!!

(guess who?...it's Max)

and Con Man

and sweet little Evi-cakes

some favorites...

songs: frere jacques and the itsy bitsy spider

books: on the night you were born and 5 little monkeys

toys: the 5 little monkeys , captain calamari, and basically anything that will fit in their mouths

activity: playing in the exersaucers and jumperoo

soccer team: tottenham and QPR(just Max)

body part: hands. they love to stare at them, chew on them, and sometimes stick them too far down their throats.

sounds: Evi has a deep growling roar. Connor has high pitched squeaks and Max make "llll" sounds using his tongue a lot.

ticklish spot: upper back

Linnea also came to town! She got to spend some quality time with her god daughter!

They are definitely getting little personalities. Evi is such a happy baby. She laughs at all our jokes, songs, dance moves, etc. no matter how terrible they are. I'm sure one day this will stop and we will embarrass her horribly. Even when she first wakes up and sees you she'll give you a great big smile. It might immediately turn into a screaming cry but her smile makes your day! She's starting to get a little scared of strangers especially of men with facial hair for some reason. It just takes her a little bit to get comfortable, I guess.

Connor is sorta a flirt. He'll shyly smile and then quickly look away like he's embarrassed that you saw that but that he thinks it's pretty darn funny. He still loves to talk especially in the morning. He'll calmly babble to himself all morning long. Sometimes he even lets out really high pitch squeaks and squeals. He's pretty ticklish too and once you get him going he can't stop. He's very close to crawling too. He currently is mastering the backwards army crawl.

Max is still the thinker. He really concentrates on toys and you can just see his wheels turning. Then he figures everything out first. He's a master at the exersaucer and moves around to all the toys and figures them all out. His laugh is quite hilarious too. (a little nerdy) He takes in really deep breaths as his laugh. It's adorable but hard to explain. I can totally see his Haggerty-ness when he gets older of being the one that's always asking questions, reading encyclopedias for fun like his dad, and asking why, why, why? He also seems to grab things more with his left hand. Maybe a future lefty??? like his uncle mike?? He's a talker but more so in the afternoon. I guess they gotta let each other have their own time to shine.

Max and Sophia really hit it off!

Our friend Shiela has twins, Blake and Sophia, that are only 2 months older. She's made the trip from Boulder to hang out with us a couple times. It's so fun seeing all the babies together and just laughing at how crazy all of this is. It's no big deal watching 5 babies...heehee. At least when they leave I sorta feel like, "ah, it's just the three...phew!" :)

And then there was Christmas! They had so many cute Christmas outfits we had to have multiple outfit changes!

Max rocking away

Christmas morning was so cute. There were sooo many present under the tree for these lucky kiddos. They attempted to open presents too. Evi really really "got" it. She loved ripping up the paper. Max and Connor needed some coaxing and some help. Maggie "got" it. She always has though.

For new year's AJ (their godfather) and his fiancé Kris came to town and spoiled us like crazy. AJ made the most amazing meal and brought the most adorable outfits for the trips.