Baby Houdini
Beth and Steve both had to work this Sunday...Steve normally has the day off but with the tensions in South Central L.A. he had to go in to work on his day off. They needed someone to babysit the triplets for Sunday night and, of course, we volunteered...
Beth was asleep when we got there (she worked all night until 6:00 AM) and Steve was out with the triplets...we made ourselves at home and it wasn't long before he showed up with them...they welcomed us with smiles and Kiley came up to me with outstretched arms...what a nice welcome!!! We put them down for their naps and it wasn't long before Beth woke up...It was hot, not much sea breeze, and fans didn't do much good.
Steve got ready for work and Beth showed us all the formula formulations for the kids...Steve's partner showed up and the babies really reacted to him...they smiled, let him hold them and Kiley even managed to wave "good bye" to them...We took the babies to Hof's Hut for lunch...what a bunch of fun that was...they got more food on the floor than they did in their stomachs...and the only way we could keep anything on the table was to move their high chairs away from the table...then they started climbing out of the high chairs...we finished lunch just in time.
Jane was born with club feet, mostly because there wasn't enough room in there for her so she had to curl her feet over her stomach...the doctors cut her achilles tendon, had her in casts a number of times and now they insist that Jane wear a pair of shoes to bed each night...the shoes are angled about 45 degrees and are connected with a steel bar...they even look uncomfortable...
Beth went into great detail about how we have to put her shoes on her at bedtime...first we had to loosen the laces to the max, put her feet into the shoes (right foot first), pull the strap tight up to the seventh hole, lace the shoes up as tightly as we can and then double tie the bow so it won't loosen...she might curl her toes so we have to make sure that her foot is flat and the heel is all the way into the shoe...One way to make sure is to pull on the toe edge of her sock so her foot flattens out...
My Bride is very detail oriented and these instructions were burned into the deepest recesses of her psyche...the steps were very clear...and followed to the letter..."hell", my Bride said later, "I broke a sweat doing all this...I was sure it was done perfectly"...and indeed it was...We put the kids into their car seats in the back seat of the pick up truck and headed down to the harbor so they could cool down, relax and be able to fall asleep when we got home.
The ploy worked perfectly...The kids were quiet and wonderful...not a peep out of them...not even any fussing, shuffling, moving...nothing at all...What beautiful, well behaved babies...we went all the way to the harbor, all the way to the Crab Pot and we decided that maybe we should turn around and get the kids home before they got too much of a nap and couldn't fall asleep...
As we made the U turn at the Crab Pot I happened to look into the back seat at Jane...I laughed until I started to get tears in my eyes...There sat Jane, asleep, holding her shoes, steel bar and all, in her lap just like she'd hold her stuffed bunny...How in the world, after all the effort checking, double checking, double tying and pulling at the toe of her sock, did she get out of those shoes and put them in her lap...and we never heard a thing...We both laughed until we almost cried.
Beth later told us that she will co-operate and keep the shoes on during the night like a good girl...HOW did she get out of those things without a sound?...Kids are amazing!!!
Beth was asleep when we got there (she worked all night until 6:00 AM) and Steve was out with the triplets...we made ourselves at home and it wasn't long before he showed up with them...they welcomed us with smiles and Kiley came up to me with outstretched arms...what a nice welcome!!! We put them down for their naps and it wasn't long before Beth woke up...It was hot, not much sea breeze, and fans didn't do much good.
Steve got ready for work and Beth showed us all the formula formulations for the kids...Steve's partner showed up and the babies really reacted to him...they smiled, let him hold them and Kiley even managed to wave "good bye" to them...We took the babies to Hof's Hut for lunch...what a bunch of fun that was...they got more food on the floor than they did in their stomachs...and the only way we could keep anything on the table was to move their high chairs away from the table...then they started climbing out of the high chairs...we finished lunch just in time.
Jane was born with club feet, mostly because there wasn't enough room in there for her so she had to curl her feet over her stomach...the doctors cut her achilles tendon, had her in casts a number of times and now they insist that Jane wear a pair of shoes to bed each night...the shoes are angled about 45 degrees and are connected with a steel bar...they even look uncomfortable...
Beth went into great detail about how we have to put her shoes on her at bedtime...first we had to loosen the laces to the max, put her feet into the shoes (right foot first), pull the strap tight up to the seventh hole, lace the shoes up as tightly as we can and then double tie the bow so it won't loosen...she might curl her toes so we have to make sure that her foot is flat and the heel is all the way into the shoe...One way to make sure is to pull on the toe edge of her sock so her foot flattens out...
My Bride is very detail oriented and these instructions were burned into the deepest recesses of her psyche...the steps were very clear...and followed to the letter..."hell", my Bride said later, "I broke a sweat doing all this...I was sure it was done perfectly"...and indeed it was...We put the kids into their car seats in the back seat of the pick up truck and headed down to the harbor so they could cool down, relax and be able to fall asleep when we got home.
The ploy worked perfectly...The kids were quiet and wonderful...not a peep out of them...not even any fussing, shuffling, moving...nothing at all...What beautiful, well behaved babies...we went all the way to the harbor, all the way to the Crab Pot and we decided that maybe we should turn around and get the kids home before they got too much of a nap and couldn't fall asleep...
As we made the U turn at the Crab Pot I happened to look into the back seat at Jane...I laughed until I started to get tears in my eyes...There sat Jane, asleep, holding her shoes, steel bar and all, in her lap just like she'd hold her stuffed bunny...How in the world, after all the effort checking, double checking, double tying and pulling at the toe of her sock, did she get out of those shoes and put them in her lap...and we never heard a thing...We both laughed until we almost cried.
Beth later told us that she will co-operate and keep the shoes on during the night like a good girl...HOW did she get out of those things without a sound?...Kids are amazing!!!
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