how is mr. and mrs. mdao?
Thanks for asking, Kenickie!
We're doing very well. The triplets are now 11 pounds and 4.5 months old, and really starting to develop unique personalities. They coo and babble, crawl, hold their heads up, clasp their hands, swat at objects, and follow the adults' voices around the room with their eyes. They have an amazing range of facial expressions, and sometimes when I talk to them, I swear their body language and facial expressions indicate they understand me. They're just getting over colds, but other than that, no major illnesses or health problems. They're pretty well behaved too. Mrs. Doors and I have had no trouble sleep training them -- they typically sleep 6.5h/night now, without waking up or needing to be consoled.
We get a lot of attention out in public when we have triplets. Whoever said strangers never talk to each other on the streets of NYC was clearly not a parent of multiples.
The hardest part of it all is living with my parents in the house. I have never spent more than 10d under the same roof with my parents since I was 18. I love them very much, but they have some very different living habits than us, and worst of all, my wife has found that she simply does not tolerate my father in more than small, vacation-sized doses. I find myself relaying a lot of messages between the two of them, which feels like a farce, and we've all decided that long term we can't live together.
I'm really not sure how things are going to go once I begin my medical residency in June, and my parents begin to be away more than present. I'm sure I won't be able to spend nearly as much time with the kids, which is why I'm glad I got to spend a good deal of time holding them and feeding them during the crucial first six month bonding period.
Being a parent has come very naturally to me, something neither I nor my wife expected. The little trials and tribulations of it don't bother me as much as I anticipated, even being woken up at odd times, which is something I normally despise.
I wonder if we're going to eventually see a critical mass of second generation BLers

(Though my kids will not know about my activities here, or what we talk about here, until they're at least 18, if I have anything to say about it.)