Short and sweet

Just a few quick sweet stories...

Greg had the girls outside playing and looked up to see Meredith standing at the door to the playhouse blocking her sisters from going inside. "You can't go in there! There's ants inside!" Upon further inspection, Greg discovered a huge fire ant bed under the brick floor.

At the lunch table on Tuesday...
Amanda: Why Claire no like mac and cheese?
Melissa: I ate MayMay's apple! (this happened over a month ago)
Amanda: Lissa ate my papple. Mommy gave me a new one. Lissa, no eat my papple again.

Yesterday at about 3:45 am, I awoke to crying from the triplets' room. After the volume continued to increase over a couple minutes, I went in to find Claire crying. I picked her up and took her out to see what was wrong, and as I rocked her Amanda started crying. Her volume continued to increase, so I went to get Amanda. Nothing was wrong with either one, and they are usually wonderful sleepers. So after a few minutes of rocking, singing and talking they said they were ready to go back to bed. One at a time I laid them down, and never heard another peep. I had to wake them up early the next morning for a 7:30 doctor appointment, and they were all still sound asleep. After they were a little more aware of their surroundings, I commented that Claire, Amanda and I had a little party in the middle of the night. Amanda said, "It was my cat's birthday. I sing happy birthday to my cat." (her 'lovey' that she sleeps with is a cat)

Meredith is my little encourager. I guess sometimes she can tell I'm a little worried about something and she will say, "Great job, Mommy. You're good at that!"

There's more, but it's late, and 5 am comes awfully early! I will try to post more soon (with more pictures too!)...