Well, curt and I just celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary by abandoning our kids and going to Dubai for 1 night/2 days. It was GREAT! here's how it went down:
we woke up earlier than we wanted on sunday to hearing our kids talking and bouncing and jumping in their cribs. By the time curt had showered and i had put breakfast together for them it was about 645 AM before I went in. I was struck by the OVERPOWERING smell of dirty diapers when I entered the room and just figured all three had given us anniversary gifts. boy was I wrong. I give Aidan, then Brady kisses and then i head over to Gavin and put his head in between my hands as I give him a kiss on the forehead to then see over his shoulder POOP all over his sheets. ALL OVER. I then realize he also has poop in his hair, which I just touched. He isn't upset at all, just poopy. i couldn't stop laughing at his going away present for us.
Curt comes in and I have determined that the only way to come close to cleaning this kid will be with a full bath (luckily he LOVES bath time). we do our best on a towel to get his shirt off, and wipe him down, get the diaper off and wipe him down and then i take him to the tub. He is completely confused since this is NOT his normal routine - baths in the a.m.??? he then decides to not look a gift horse in the mouth and go all out enjoying it. Curt cleans up the crib area (uggh) and gets the other two changed. we are still laughing at this mess of a child. he sure knows when we are going to leave him and how to send us a message!
we proceed to have a normal family breakfast, and some playtime (with clean up intermixed - i mean it was REALLY dirty - take the mattress top off and do some serious cloroxing dirty) before Tess and Marie get here. We put the boys down for their morning nap before we jet off to Dubai. The funny thing is while it was hard to leave them, it also felt really good knowing they were being left in good hands and curt and i could spend some quality time together.
We are now "silver" members with Qatar Airways which means we can check in at the business class lines AND we can use the business class lounges, even though we decidedly fly economy. As their tagline says - "Privilege has its priveleges". Ridiculous. and yet, i will not ignore a free lunch. We stayed at a LOVELY resort with beach access, several pools and CAMELS being walked up and down the beach! 
We had late afternoon tea at the Burj Al Arab (the 6 star hotel that looks like a sail), shopped for a friend's child's b-day and then enjoyed the SUITE we were upgraded to when we told them it was our anniversary!!! (since we almost never get anything for having triplets, we were HAPPY to take this!) 
Today we slept in (7 AM doha time/8AM dubai time), had REAL bacon for breakfast at the outdoor cafe downstairs and then spent the rest of the morning by the pool. There was plenty of people watching for me and the water was refreshing (which means it is chilled) for Curt (it's still in the high 90s people). We splurged and each had a massage and then caught our 7PM flight home to Doha. We missed putting the boys down, but went in to see their sweet sleeping bodies flung about the crib. Tess and Marie of course, took great care of them and reported the boys were just delightful while we were gone. Let's hope they will be as happy to see us in the morning!
We had late afternoon tea at the Burj Al Arab (the 6 star hotel that looks like a sail), shopped for a friend's child's b-day and then enjoyed the SUITE we were upgraded to when we told them it was our anniversary!!! (since we almost never get anything for having triplets, we were HAPPY to take this!) Today we slept in (7 AM doha time/8AM dubai time), had REAL bacon for breakfast at the outdoor cafe downstairs and then spent the rest of the morning by the pool. There was plenty of people watching for me and the water was refreshing (which means it is chilled) for Curt (it's still in the high 90s people). We splurged and each had a massage and then caught our 7PM flight home to Doha. We missed putting the boys down, but went in to see their sweet sleeping bodies flung about the crib. Tess and Marie of course, took great care of them and reported the boys were just delightful while we were gone. Let's hope they will be as happy to see us in the morning!
In other news, Gavin is our first active walker. It's only a few steps at a time, but he is the only one who is REALLY into it. Let's hope the others catch on that this is a cool thing . . . He is also into wearing a hijab . . .:) enjoy!
Gavin wears hijab . . .
