BockTriplets!

First Birthday

David Bock — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:42:00 -0400

This Saturday was their first birthday, which I didn’t realize until it was upon me, combines three of my favorite things – the kids, cake baking, and photography.

No matter how many pictures I took, I couldn’t get one with all the hats on and all of them looking at me. After about 500 shots, I stopped trying.

I baked and decorated the Elmo head cake too – although it was the first time they had ever seen something like that, so I don’t think they realized it was food. Not that it matters much, as everything ends up in their mouths anyway. I wanted to just sit them around it and have them make a mess of it, but Lorna wouldn’t let me.

Visiting the Great Grandmother

David Bock — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:43:00 -0400

A few months ago we took the kids up to the Philadelphia area to see their great grandmother, Gee (Joan Simonin). Here are pictures of Anthony and Christopher, and a video of Daniel.

More Steps

David Bock — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:15:00 -0400

It has been about 2 weeks since Christopher took his first steps, but he still gets around most of the time by crawling. If we stand him up, he’ll take a few, but he gets back on his hands and knees after a step or two… it is simply faster, and he can’t let his brothers get to toys ahead of him. In fact, they are all pretty much doing that now.

Yesterday, Lorna took the kids to “Born to Read”, a class at our local library with a bunch of other kids at various ages. Today she tells me he is getting up and walking around more, apparently because he saw the older kids doing it yesterday.

First Steps

David Bock — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:45:00 -0400

The kids have all been standing for a few weeks, shimmying along the rails of their cribs, and once or twice even took a step in order to keep their balance… but hadn’t actually taken a step with the intent of getting somewhere – until last night.

I was holding Christopher, and he was fussing a little. Every time Lorna would walk by, he would outstretch his arms and cry. So Lorna sat down about 5 feet away, outstretched her arms, and called. I stood him up right in front of me.

He stood there, teetering for a second, doing his upset-sounding cough-cry. Then he stepped forward. He took three controlled steps, at which point he put his hand in hers and sat down.

Parenting Advice Videos

David Bock — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:49:00 -0400

Last year I started a company with a couple of friends. One of the coolest things we have done is build MonkeySee.com, a how-to video website.

I was just showing it to my mom when I found they had created a whole bunch of parenting how-to videos. One series is all about beach safety, which is going to be cool to have when we go to Long Beach Island this summer.

I think I’m going to submit my own video though, “How to chase down three crawling babies at once.”

Like Father Like Sons

David Bock — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:28:00 -0400

I’m putting them to work early. Anthony, Christopher and Daniel are seen here building a playdate scheduling application with Ruby on Rails.

Playing With the Camera

David Bock — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:00:00 -0400

Here’s a video of Anthony and Christopher from this weekend (Daniel was up getting his bath). They are at the age where they make a beeline for whatever is interesting them and put it straight into their mouths… so I wondered… what would happen if I put the video camera on the floor?

Update: I updated the video with 2 clips from Daniel, although he has to compete with Anthony in the first take and Christopher in the second.

More Teeth, More Moves!

Kelley — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:37:00 -0500

Anthony and Christopher now each have four teeth! The two on the bottom, and two new ones up top. Daniel has two on the bottom, and is preparing to cut a top tooth any day now.

Also, Christopher is now crawling full force. He will be on the floor and he will look over at something, decide he wants it and crawl over as fast as he can! He also is becoming increasingly curious about standing up. Yesterday the boys were napping and when Christopher woke up, he pulled himself up on his crib rail and just looked at me as if to say, “Hi! I’m awake now!”

Anthony is getting up on all fours and rocking back and forth. He is getting close to crawling. Until then he can still get around by rolling, creeping and scooting.

Daniel is also beginning to get up on all fours, but mostly he moves around by army crawling on his tummy. If you put a toy in front of him just out of his reach he uses his feet and arms to push himself forward little by little until he gets it!

It won’t be long before I am chasing all three of these boys all over the place!

Daniel Waved

David Bock — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:33:00 -0500

Yesterday Daniel was sitting in the high chair in the kitchen while I stood on the other side. Lorna stepped into the other room, and I looked at Daniel from across the room and waved, saying “Hi Daniel”. He raised his arm and it looked like he waved back, but I thought he was just stretching.

“You should see what Daniel just did…”, I called out to Lorna. “It was a fluke, but it looked like he waved at me.”

I left the room for a minute, and he did the same thing with our friend Karen.

Twice.

“I don’t think that was a fluke…”, Lorna called out to me. “He did it again.”

I came back in the room and he answered my wave a second time, waving back. By now Lorna, Kim, Karen, and I were all in the room waving at him – he decided he was tired of that game and started wiggling his feet.

The kids have been doing a lot of imitating – facial features, noises, and so on – but this was the first inkling of imitating communication. It seemed like a milestone moment.

Notes from the Nanny:

Kelley — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:04:00 -0500

Hello everyone! Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Kelley, and I am the triplet’s nanny! I have been here for just over 3 months now, so I am starting to get a pretty good feel for the boys: their moods, different faces they make, sounds and their individual personalities. Anthony is my big growly bear, he loves to jump, and make as much noise as possible including some pretty adorable growls. When he smiles he melts my heart with those dimples of his! Christopher is my rascally rabbit, he is all over everywhere and into everything! All three boys roll and creep around a lot, but Christopher has started getting himself up into the crawl position and rocking himself forward. Today he was getting up on all fours and pushing himself up into a sitting position! It is really exciting watching all of this growth and movement! And, last but not least, Daniel my little lamb. He has such a mild temperment, and he is so patient. He also makes an adorable face when he is happy, he crinkles up his nose and exhales a few times. The family has dubbed it “Snorkie nose”. I might be slightly biased now since I have been here this long, but these are possibly 3 of the cutest babies on the whole planet!

I hope that gives you a small glimpse into my job, and I will post more soon!