friday is myday x 3

without a doubt friday is the triplets favourite day of the week. we start talking about fridays on monday.

what makes fridays so divine? playschool in the morning. oh how important they feel, being able to announce to their uniform clad older friends "i go school". if you are jasper you say, "thcool" but you know what he is saying, mainly because he repeats himself five or six times until you say, "yes, jasper, you do go to school". and then he nods, satisfied. "yeth".

so playschool. exercises, snack at a tiny table, cantonese stories, counting, playing...oh the excitement. the playschool is perfect for the triplets in that they aren't the focus of attention at the school. their great friends charlie and tallinn are there, and charlie and tallinn live in our building and are blonde and caucasian as well. there are two chinese kids in the class, and they have no idea of triplets, they just know there is a blonde infusion into their classroom, which amuses them to no end.

so, playschool. very grownup, very entertaining.

but after playschool, and after lunch, and after naptime is

gymnastics.

saying the world gymnastics sends the triplets into the throes of excitement. the word is pronounced anywhere from 'nastics! to gynsticnastic! always always with an exclamation mark at the end. gymnasics, the BEES KNEES. the final word. the perfect way to end their work week.

gymnastics. i love going, it makes me so happy to see my kids so enchanted.

sela has a bit of hero worship for sally, the patient and kind teacher. every time sela accomplishes a new task, she looks up, "sally! i did it!" and sally pops her head up and says, "yes pet! im watching!" sela has great upper body strength and can pull herself up and over the box horse and other apparatus very well. she also jumped two levels by herself and landed once on her feet! the other from her feet to her well padded caboose. (SALLY! i wear knickers! was from last week's conversation).

carys, with those long legs, is great at scaling and climbing. she liked having sally nearby today when she kangaroo jumped ten spots and then climbed a ladder. she's good at the "balance beam" as well, more adventurous than jasper, the same confidence as sela. (that's saying something). carys is also learning to turn somersaults, which she enjoys. its interesting though, at home they flip somersaults on the couch faster than you can say DON"T!, but at gymnastics, our little lulu is not as willing to do it.

i mention jasper last because of the three, he enjoys 'nastics the least. however, he enjoys it more than he enjoys any other physical activity, which makes gymnastics therefore, his favourite sport. today he really liked balancing the beanbag on his head and walking, mainly because it wasn't too physically taxing, i think. sally gave him the opportunity to be the "mouse" in the warmup game of cats and mice...she tucked a "tail" into his shorts and said, "jasper is the mouse, the rest of you are cats, come on, grab his tail!"

he frisked about the gym giggling. enjoying having the other kids chase him. but after a few circuits, he slowed down, pulled the tail out of his pants, and handed it to his instructor, with a smile, "here, thally."

they love gymnastics.

Comments

[Mum aka Mo (grandmother) aka Maureen Lyons]

Ohhhhhhhhh, what a great blog - can visualize the 'nastics' scene so well :-) Way to go, triplets, and way to go to you, Tess, for making it possible for them to enjoy themselves so much.
M xox

[Tara]

"BIG SCHOOL" as Tallinn calls it is so much fun. Although 98% is in Cantonese they are starting to realize that the bean bags are for sitting on and listening to a story they have no idea what it's about and snack time is really cool because the Chinese girls bring chocolate biscuits. All five of our gorgeous blonds love "big School" and Tallinn comes home saying mummy I shared with JJ and I want JJ tome come to my house so I can give him a Buzz stamp (like yesterday when just Tallinn, JJ & I came up from the playground to have little a quality time whilst I made Zahlia her bottle). The triplets make Tallinn's day, each one of them.xx

[Cristy]

I'm always so enthralled to hear that your babies are learning another language. I'm so sad that around here we don't seem to have places that teach that sort of thing. Seems weird to ask a different language speaking person you don't know: Hey can you teach my kid your language? I'll pay you. What kind do you speak anyways? "

Anyway I'm starting in with the spanish I know and hope it catches on.

Friday sounds like a superfun day. :)

[tertia]

Sounds like so much fun!!!

[Jody]

Sounds like a blast.

Must be a special thrill for you to see them tumbling around, knowing where they started. I often find myself thinking things like that.

[SheilaC]

That was my reaction too: awe and wonder and delight that your tiny, sweet, vulnerable preemies are doing all those wonderful things! Truly, Sela can climb and jump like that? Carys can do the balance beam, and somesault? Jasper likes to balance objects, run around and be chased? Such glorious answers to those heartfelt prayers from not-so-long-ago. What deep joy it must be to watch them - almost as much joy as they are feeling themselves!