Two years ago...

Two years ago yesterday the first triplet came home from the NICU. Melissa came home on March 28th, Claire on March 30th, and Amanda on April 4th. Here's what our schedule looked like then:

5 am Feed triplets bottles, done by 6, go back to sleep
7 am Wake to get bottles ready for the day
(9 of them, half of what we'll go through today!), shower
8 am Meredith wakes up, drinks juice, eats breakfast
(which she gets out of fridge herself while I...)
9 am Feed triplets bottles, they go back to sleep by 10,
wash bottles in dishwasher
12 noon Meredith and I eat lunch
1 pm Feed triplets bottles, they go back to sleep by 2
2 pm Meredith nap. Make 9 more bottles for rest of day
4 pm Meredith wakes up
5 pm Feed triplets bottles, they're awake for an extra hour or two
6pm The rest of us eat while the triplets watch us (or sleep) in bouncy seats
8pm Meredith to bed
9pm Feed triplets bottles, done by 10 and bedtime. Turn on dishwasher to wash bottles
Sleep!
1am Feed triplets bottles, done by 2
5am Repeat, repeat, repeat

The first picture of the four sisters together!
Amanda, Meredith, Claire, Melissa

And here's what our schedule looks like now (on most days!):

5:00 I wake up, get things ready for day
7:00 Meredith wakes up, juice and Blues Clues
7:45 Amanda, Claire and Melissa wake up
Everyone gets dressed and heads down for breakfast
8:00 Breakfast - Bananas and waffles
8:30 Ready to play! (unless it's Tues or Thurs -
then we leave to take Meredith to school)
9:30 Snack time! If I have to run an errand, we go now
and the girls eat their snacks in the choo-choo wagon.
11:30 Lunch
12:30 Naps for Amanda, Claire and Melissa
1:00 20 minutes of rest time (HA!) for Meredith -
which usually consists of jumping, loud singing, and stomping
1:30 If it's Tues or Thurs - wake the triplets to go pick up Meredith
3:00ish Triplets start waking up from naps
3:30 By now everyone is up - snack time again! Then play!
5:30 Dinner time
6:30 Start baths about every 2-3 days
7:00 Pajamas on - some milk to drink
7:30 Start bedtime routines
8:15 Hopefully everyone is in bed by now!