The Miles' Trio: ETEWT: Estimated Time of Exhaustion with Triplets... 45 minutes.

Why having an odd number is a good thing you ask? No ties... However, in our household, it also means that Ryann typically (as in almost always) gets the deciding vote.

Tuesday and Thursday mornings are my mornings with the girls - well, for an hour or so anyway! Mollie comes in after breakfast on those two days, so I usually try to do something kind of fun for breakfast (also for leftovers the other days of the week). Anyway, mornings have become especially tiresome since commencing potty training... Between pottying and getting breakfast on the table - these girls don't eat until 9 or so! Anyway, this morning I asked them what they wanted for breakfast... what follows is fairly typical of how most conversations go in our house:
Bryn: "Pancakes"
Hadley: "No, Eggs"
Bryn: "No, I no want eggs. Pancakes"
Hadley: "No. Eggs. I wan eggs."
Bryn: (beginning to cry - typical) "NO! I no want eggs"
Hadley: "Both? Eggs and pancakes"
Bryn: (crying), "NO! I no want eggs",
Me: "Let's see what Ryann wants. Ryann, what do you want? Ryann? Ryann?" (she was watching TV and despite sitting RIGHT NEXT TO ME, continued to tune me out).
Meanwhile, Brynley is chanting "I no want eggs, I no want eggs"
Finally... Ryann: "Eggs." at which point Brynley started bawling.

I'm a sucker - I've been gone the last two nights, and won't be home again tonight, so I made both - whatever. As I made the eggs, Brynley reminded me several more times that she didn't want eggs (I promised her she didn't have to have any), while Hadley told me she wanted "bof".

While making breakfast, we had three successful potty trips - they refuse to wear pants as soon as they have undies on in the morning, so they can actually go by themselves (we have the potties sitting in the hall outside our bathroom... don't judge us). However, I am pretty sure our water bill will be going UP instead of DOWN - despite not laundering our cloth diapers nearly as often any more. They all like to flush the dang toilet and I cannot convince them that we don't have to flush every time (seriously people - I swear Hadley and Ryann will squeeze out three drops of pee to get a sticker... or marshmallow).

Back to breakfast. Finally ready at about 8:45 (pretty good considering they got up a little after 8). True to her word, Hadley did eat both, two scrambled eggs and two pancakes. Also, to Bryn's creidt, she didn't eat any eggs - only pancakes... as for Ryann, little stinker didn't eat any eggs, just pancakes... go figure.

I was exhausted within 45 minutes of them waking up! However, I can't complain one iota - after looking at the potty chart from yesterday that Mollie keeps... Hadley and Ryann had each peed 11 (ELEVEN) times BEFORE their nap... no wonder I feel like I live in the bathroom when I'm at home these days, I might need to start keeping tabs too... at least I'd be able to explain my time!