My whole family doesn’t know I lost track of which triplet was which
I know I was lazy. I helped take care of babies when I was young and I never thought taking care of triplets is extremely hard and time consuming.
A family member sometimes asks who is bubbles or buttercup or blossom(obv not their real names) and my wife says their clothes are color coded but in reality I already got the babies mixed up. No one, including my wife, has the attention to detail to know which is which besides the clothes.
I don't have the same time(was working 2 jobs) and patience(burned out) with the extra steps my wife does so whenever it's my turn to care for the babies I do what's convenient, and oftentimes I get them swapped.
When they got a bit older they basically chose their own names, only one kid responds to one name, and now that they have grown a lot, its easy to know which is which but no one really knows who the original blossom/bubbles/buttercup is.
Edit: I did this when they were babies, my kids are preschoolers now, can be easily identified, and have their own identities. I love the suggestions and I would've done it if I knew then, but it's pointless now.
Edit: For anyone interested https://www.reddit.com/r/confession/s/N832xyTQzJ