4.3.10: Relatives

(left to right: brant, daphne, fiona, stella)

We started off the morning skyping with nana, great nana, Evan and Melissa who were all in Kentucky for Easter weekend. It was the first time great nana skyped and you could tell the girls were excited to see her. They even figured out that pulling on the towel the computer was on, brought their relatives closer.


(left to right: kelly, daphne, rob, stella, fiona)

Here is a picture of the Kochmans before the chaos of more visitors began. They were really good sports. Not once did they complain of anything and trust me there were plenty of opportunities as we consumed their entire home.

Our next visitor was Brant's friend from college Matt. Unfortunately, the girls got a little cranky in between their naps so we didn't get any pictures of Matt with the girls. It was wonderful to see Matt and I think he was excited to see the girls in person even though they were having a tough day.

Thankfully after the afternoon nap, the girls seem to have recovered from their moodiness in time to meet their Aunt Michelle and Great Aunt Janet. We also got to see and play with Michelle's kids Stephen (4) and Paige (2). I am often asked how hard it is to handle triplets and honestly, I just wonder how hard it is to keep up and entertain kids of different ages. Michelle does a great job but I have to wonder which is harder....I suppose it really just depends on the kids.


(left to right: kelly/paige, kari/fiona, michelle/stella, stephen, janet/daphne)


(left to right: kelly, daphne, stephen)

Stephen really likes babies. Let me repeat, Stephen REALLY likes babies. Now imagine how happy he was to have three babies appear. He desperately wanted to hold the babies but I am still a little nervous to have kids hold the girls, so Auntie Kelly came up with the idea to have a 'group hold'. You can see that Stephen was pretty excited about it and Daphne took the opportunity to lick him.

After all the wonderful company, the girls were pretty exhausted. Brant and I desperately wanted to go out to our favorite restaurant (Bamboo Garden) while we were in town. Last time we were in Seattle, there was a huge snowstorm so we weren't able to go. This is a special place to us. We frequented the restaurant so much while in high school and college that we held our rehearsal dinner there - subjecting our family to an entirely vegetarian cuisine accented by tons of fake meat! We had two willing babysitters (thanks again Kelly and Rob) and decided to make a date night out of it. After putting the girls down for bed, Brant and I escaped and enjoyed our big night out. It was wonderful and extremely yummy.