Daddy Daycare

This has been a busy last couple days.  My beautiful wife is out of town for 5 days, 5 loooong days...  I am into day 2.  So that means I am in charge of the Karlovich house hold and our 4 year old triplets.  I think all husbands who have at least 3 kids should try this at least once in their child rearing days.  Especially in those early days around the toddler years when the kids are especially needy and take lots of supervision.  I am learning the true meaning of multi-tasking.  Currently as I blog the kids are sitting behind me playing with Play-Doh while the TV with Tom & Jerry cartoons is going in the background.  If your going to be stuck watching cartoons with your triplets you can't beat these classics.  I picked up a DVD of T&J this morning while grocery shopping at my local wholesale club. 

So the long lists of tasks I have enjoyed the last 3 days are as following:
packing lunch boxes, washing endless ammounts of clothes, making breakfast and dinner meals, giving the kids baths, grocery shopping, brushing triplets teeth, feeding the dogs, forgetting to pick up the dogs food off the floor, ironing, cleaning the house, shuttling the triplets to and from school,  administering medications for colds, and having to somehow keep the natives entertained so they don't conspire a mutiny against me.

It is similar to running a Naval vessel with a crew of 1 (me of course being the crew who jobs have included; maid servant, cook, butler, captain, and taxi driver) while having 3 guests on board who have to be waited on hand and foot.  I have no idea how my wife has done this in past while I traveled out of town.  On top of it she didn't get any breaks when she did it.  I of course have scheduled a couple baby sitters on two of the evening to help give me a sanity break.  Also my awesome father-in-law is coming to help me with the kids over the weekend until Dawn returns home Sunday.   So in reality I am sure any mother reading will not have any mercy on me.  But I do want to acknowledge the am mount of work I know my wife does on a daily basis running this ship and she deserves a medal of valor.

 

It's a Poopy Party!

It has been an exiting last week at the karlovich residence.  Logan, our last born triplet, finally started to poo poo in the potty - YAHOO!!!!!!  We are so so so proud of him!  F-I-N-A-L-Y!!!  Only took the boy 4 years and 3 months to go poopy on the big boy potty all by himself.  He has been doing the #1 in there for some time but had been crapping in the olé pants everyday for a while. 

We never thought he was going to grasp this concept.  Dawn and I were also nervous he was going to get booted from daycare / preschool one of these day for landing a stinker in his drawers.  He always managed to keep it in until he got home.  Then like clock work as soon as he hit the front door it was stinky ville in the olé underpants.  I know I know many of you will say, "well put him on the potty as soon as he gets home".  It don't work like that with this kid.  He is a stealth pooper.  You never see it coming.

The other two triplets grasped this toilet concept probably about a year ago for #1 and #2, but good old Logan wasn't quite ready to venture onto putting his touché on the tall cold toilet seat.  Yet all this changed last week when we picked him up from school one day.  The teacher said Logan had pulled the teacher into the bathroom that morning to show off his prized poopy he of he had left in the toilet.  I guess since Logon had never bragged about a #2 to her she figured this was a momentous occasion. He had flown under the radar all fall.

I don't want to count our chickens before they hatch.  Logan has had a couple #2 accidents since then, but almost everyday for the last week he has climbed the porcelain mountain and mounted the cushy Elmo toilet ring and taken care of biz.  And rest assured if he does we will know because he comes running down the hall wanting everyone to come see the handy work he left for all to see. Don't worry I flushed the potty before taking that picture even though Logan would have prefered you had seen his master piece.  He wanted to take out a Super Bowl add, and show off his super bowel.

I Tawt I Taw A Puddy Tat...

Recently my kids were out of school for two and a half weeks for the Christmas holiday. However there was one problem and only a Florida resident would understand.  It was what we southerns like to call freezing outside.  We had maybe one day that got above 55 degrees the entire two weeks. So as a result we raided the DVD stash on many afternoons to pass the time and not put on out winter jackets and brave the 40-50 degree weather.  Like I said, anyone reading this from the above the Mason-Dickson line will think I am crazy.


Well one of the nuggets in our DVD closet was a collection of Looney Toon cartoons I scored off eBay about a year ago.  These are the best when it comes to quality cartoon entertainment!  Especially when your on lock down with 3 - 4 year olds.  It was really cool to lay around and watch these with my bambino's.  These are the same cartoons I watched on Saturday mornings growing up 30 years ago.  What's even cooler is the fact that I enjoy them even more today than I did when I was a preschooler.  In addition the trips enjoyed watching them which adds to the fun when your laughing with your 4 year olds.  Liam likes to ask to watch the duck and Logan likes Tweety.  My favorites are the Road Runner ones.

I think my next eBay investment will be the entire Tom and Jerry archives. I have DVR'ed several of them for the kids the last couple years, T&J's are classics, Liam calls it Cat Funny. Might also have to do a some searching for the Little Rascals those were on the top of my fav's list also growing up.