A set of triplets who refuse to sleep are cracking each other up — and TikTok is laughing along.
“They feed off each other so when one is laughing, so are the others,” Julia Platsman, a mother of 14-month-old identical triplets in Oregon, tells TODAY.com.
“Excuse me — you guys didn’t want to sleep? Are we going to be crazy tonight?” Platsman, 31, asked her triplet sons Cameron, Dominic and Beau, in a TikTok video. “Touch your head if you’re going to be crazy tonight. Oh no. Do we need to call dad and tell him to come home from work?”
Platsman had just walked into the bedroom of her triplets, who were wide awake — and roaring hysterically — during what was supposed to be their afternoon nap.
Not bothering to contain her own laughter, Platsman turned the camera onto a laughing Dominic. “Have you been the ring leader of all the no-sleeping?” she asked. “Dominic, you don’t want to nap?”
Platsman then asked, “Beau-Beau, no nap? You look kind of tired.” Beau replied with uncontrollable giggles.
“OK, you don’t want to nap?” said Platsman. “Is not sleeping funny?”
The video captioned, “I can’t be mad when they’re this cute,” shows Cameron, Dominic and Beau lined up according to birth order. TikTok was charmed.
- “Dominic is the reason the other two are awake.”
- “Beau is like, ‘Get these hyenas out of here.”
- "The more they laugh, the more grace you give them. They know how to work their momma!”
- “Triple the trouble, triple the love!”
- So much cuteness in one room.”
Nap time is usually smooth, says Platsman.
“They are generally happy babies — they’re so smiley — and their laughs are hilarious, but they also have their fussy moments,” she says.
Platsman says the triplets are pretty sound sleepers — they’ve slept through the night since they were five months old and if one wakes up crying, the other two continue sleeping. If one wakes up playing, however, it’s game over.
“They typically go down (for naps) really well but we’re now questioning if they need their afternoon naps,” says Platsman. “Sometimes they don’t take it.”
Regardless of whether the triplets are tired, Platsman puts them down for quiet time and observes them through the monitor. “As long as they’re not crying, they can play (in their cribs) ... for their designated nap times,” she says.
The day Platsman filmed, she had heard her triplets playing in their cribs.
“They were so funny ... and cracking up and I had to get it on camera,” she says.
Platsman said her triplets, who were born one minute apart, were in true form.
“Cameron, the eldest, is the jolly, goofy one,” she says. “He is easygoing and super independent and plays with his own toys.”
Dominic, the middle child, is the “wild card.”
“He is the ringleader — he’s the first one to crawl and pull himself up. He’s so determined,” she says. “We all see it in him.” When Dominic gets himself into a situation, she says, his brothers follow.
The youngest, Beau, is “very tender.”
“He’s our sensitive boy,” says Platsman. “He wants to cuddle and give hugs. He’s sweet.”
The triplets are on the same schedule, says Platsman.
“Even if they’re napping and two wake up, we’ll wake up the third because it messes up your day if they’re all on different schedules,” she says. “And if one is in a bad mood, we don’t get to enjoy the other two.”
After the failed nap, Platsman said the boys were well-behaved although they did fall asleep one hour earlier that night.
“None of it is in our control and you really have to laugh,” Platsman says of parenting triplets. “When they give you these good moments, you have to enjoy it ... and give in.”
Platsman tries to approach stress with humor.
“I laugh, but you have a small sense of dread because (you think), ‘Oh god, what do the next few hours look like?’” she says. “But we made it ... they didn’t have a meltdown.”
