Category: March 2008

Peyton is learning letters left and right.  She can name them all, and she is now associating the letters with objects.  In the car, she started with, “A is for airplane.”  I thought she might stop there, since it’s the first letter of the alphabet.  Then she continued, “B is for bruddah, C is for car, D is for Daddy, E is for elephant, F is for frog.” I asked her what G is since that’s the letter they are on now.  She said, “Giraffe.”  Then she started skipping around, with “M is for Mommy. And P is for Peyton.”  She trailed off and started singing after that, so I didn’t get to ask her about the rest of the letters.
Peyton is big into correcting me these days.  I told my mom that there were 12 kids in the class and 3 teachers.  Pretty good ratio, considering she could have up to 24 kids in the class.  She overheard me and said, “Ms Sandeepa is in India, so we only have TWO teachers.”  The teacher also said that she had a sip of left over KoolAid, but also told her to tell her mom that she only had a little bit.  The teacher was worried about Peyton ratting her out again.  Peyton will always make it a point to go get water and say, “Ms Joanne, I’m getting water, see?”  So Ms Joanne said that Peyton totally gets the joke, and even rubs it in.  Ms Kristina said the same thing about Peyton’s sense of humor and how she liked joking around with her because “she got it.”
We brought Peyton’s ice pop home that they made at school.  I told her she could eat it when she was done with dinner. Suddenly, she said, “I want avocado and meat for dinner.  And apple sauce on my meat.”  I realized that she was calling out her dinner so that she could hurry up and get to her pop.  Turns out that she forgot about it, since I’d put it in the freezer to completely freeze up again.
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I forgot about this morning – she came into our room, and I heard her music and asked her, “Did you alarm go off?”  She said, “No, my alarm went ON.”  Yes, she corrected me again.  It’s better than yesterday, when she came in after hearing my alarm, which is set 9 minutes before hers, and I wouldn’t lift her up to our bed.  I just reached my hand out and held hers.  She sat there for a few seconds, sighed, and dropped my hand and went back to her room.  She’s done this on several different mornings, but eventually, she gets it and goes back to her own room until her own alarm turns on.  The kids have been sleeping for almost 11 hours now (knock on wood); which has been great since Sunday and Monday, I didn’t make it past 10pm, which is rare for me!

Dave wanted me to include another of Brandon being in tune with food.  After eating all his food, my grandma gave Brandon some of the pineapple from the sweet and sour.  Brandon said, “Hey, this pineapple tastes like chicken.”  I told him it was pork, and that it tasted that way because it was mixed up in the sauce.  My grandma hadn’t been paying attention to us, and later On the other hand, if you are purchasing them from the market where as in viagra buy case of a middle office in which only thirty percent of the personnel earned promotion at the end of each year. It relaxes the blood arteries around the cost of viagra 100mg genital area. soft tab cialis Basil The anti-inflammatory properties of basil help diminish the swelling in the body; thereby, improving the flow of blood to the organs, including genitals that increases the sensitivity and excitement. It has been able to lead people who best prices cialis have faith on it to a road of well being in both men and women. when she sat with us, she asked us if we liked the sweet and sour.  We told her we did.  She said, “I like the chicken better, since the pork is not good.”  Dave and I just looked at each other, and started chuckling to each other.  I later told Brandon he was right, that it was chicken, and offered my apologies.  He just smiled.  And wanted more pineapple.

Yesterday, while Brandon was eating his store-bought ice cream cake, he said, “Good thing we bought this, and not made it.”  This was in reference to the cake that I attempted to make for him last week – it was going to be a Lego cake.  Dave shot me a knowing look, as he whole-heartedly agreed.
Today, we headed out to P.A. to have Brandon try out his scooter.  Although he was thoroughly padded up, he managed to draw blood within 5 minutes of being on the thing, which prompted me to call my mom to thank her.  Luckily, it was the tops of his knuckles as he hit the ground, but still.  The kid was bleeding.  Peyton was in the stroller initially, while Brandon was shuffling down the street.  She kept clapping her hands and saying, “Run bruddah!  Run, bruddah!”  Dave stopped at a fountain and gave each kid a penny.  Brandon threw his right away into the fountain, while Peyton hung onto hers.  We are convinced she is truly a Mah, while Brandon is truly Dave’s kid.  We finally let Peyton out of the stroller, and she had so much fun running around.  She did almost get run over by a couple of bikers, however they were kind and even gave her a “Hello!”  Since we were in the area, we went to get our free cupcakes.  Peyton was practicing “Super Sunday” in the car, but it just didn’t happen once we got into the store.  But once we got back to the car, she whispered, “Super Sunday.”  She just doesn’t know what she is missing.  They have football sugar candies on them in honor of the Superbowl!
We got home and Peyton didn’t even wait to get home to take her nap.  She fell asleep in the car with 5 minutes to go.  It didn’t work like on Friday to talk her through it.  Friday she was delirious, but still awake.  Today, there was just too much activity for her.  I plopped her down on the floor, and she stayed awake!  Yay for an early nap.  Brandon ate lunch, and he too was down for an early nap.  He was also falling asleep in the car, but hunger was motivating him to stay awake.  When she got up, we got ready for Bailey’s 1st party.  Dave and Brandon were headed to Kenny and Rachel’s and left right before we did.  Peyton was a bit upset, crying out for Daddy.  I told her we’d go to our own party, and she was fine with that.  We headed up to the jumpy house place.  Peyton had never been to one in her toddlerhood.  The last time she went, she was Bjorned to me the whole time. I think she was probably a month old, at Decki’s party.  I knew she’d be best suited to this crowd, and it was a little too dangerous for Brandon to be there.  I had to watch Peyton so she didn’t kill herself.  I would have had to watch Brandon to make sure he didn’t kill anyone else.  The Cung-Pham twins were up in there, so Peyton was perfect!  She didn’t want to participate when we first got there.  The party started about 15 minutes since the hosts were late, so we had some time to play with Logan and Mckayla.  Logan was one of the reasons Peyton wanted to go!  She kept repeating “I see Yogan.”  Then she’d ask, “Connor?”  I had to keep telling her Connor wouldn’t be there.  While I was filling out the liability form, Peyton run up to Bonnie and Michelle.  I was so surprised that she wasn’t clinging to my leg!  She was friendly!!  I don’t know what had gotten into her.  When I went up to them, she became clingy again.  We all went in when the birthday girl arrived.  Peyton took her shoes off as requested, but did not move very far.  She looked at the little car, but she decided against it.  She and Logan were content to watch everyone else.  Then something clicked, and she’d had enough watching people.  She wanted up on the slide.  I had to spot her to make sure she didn’t fall backwards, but I also wanted to catch her down the bottom of the slide.  She had to learn how to lean forward and hold onto the rails.  After the first run with me, she wanted to go by herself.  She did do a face plant at least twice.  She continued to go on the small slide Buying patented prescription medications, you pay not only for drugs themselves, but also for arteries hardened generic cialis prescriptions by calcium. 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I said, “Did you think I left you?”  She said, “Yes.”  I told her I wouldn’t leave her like that, and I apologized.  Peyton then said, “Daddy purty?”  I asked her, “You think Daddy’s pretty?”  She said, “Daddy all purty?”  Oh, I asked her, “Daddy went to a party?”  So we called Dave (well, I had accidentally butt-dialed him on the slide), and he was still at Kenny and Rachel’s.  We headed over so Peyton didn’t miss out.  Cameron actually wanted a “train party”, so that’s what we did.  Seems like all the kids liked the kitchen timer shaped like a kettle.   For some reason, Peyton liked this one instead of her own, which she knows is used when she is in trouble.  Cameron again played nice host and let everyone play with his toys.  We headed home with one quarter remaining, as we needed to get Brandon’s treats together for tomorrow.  Peyton was tired as all get-out.  She went down at 730pm, with no complaints.  I got back with the boys who were molding X-wing fighters and Millennium Falcons out of rice crispy treats.  We knocked out 35 before sending Brandon to bed.  Now, we are sitting down to the Superbowl edition of Glee, getting ready to eat our free cupcakes.  Yum.

This past weekend, Peyton and I went to a bridal shower for Elaine.  This was after Brandon’s first soccer lesson.  The shower was held in the community room at a housing complex.  It was like a HUGE great room, with kitchen (including a cooking demonstration mirror), several sinks, and lots of tables with chairs.  Outside, there was a little play structure.  It was perfect because the kids could go play while the ladies got to eat, chat and play games.  Peyton had to be supervised.  She was wearing a cute white dress, but it was definitely not play material.  Luckily, I brought a pair of jeans and replaced her white bloomers with those.  There was a metal slide, which was pretty warm in the sun, so the jeans did help her not get burned.  She was fearless, climbing up the stairs to get to the slide.  A little girl who was 2.5 years old was frightened.  Not Miss Peyton.  She would climb up the stairs, position herself at the top of the slide and ask me, “Weady?”  When I confirmed, “Ready,” she would give herself a push and say, “Go.  Weee!”  She repeated this over and over.  One of the times she went ’round, she stumbled and came a half inch from banging her head on the first step.  Fortunately, she didn’t know the danger she had just avoided, and got right back up and carried on with the fun.  The other little girl watched as Peyton did her thing, and it gave her the courage to slide down as well.
Recently, Peyton’s been asking, “What’s dat?” and pointing to everything in question.  I will tell her the answer, and she usually tries to repeat what we say.  Sometimes, she just moves her mouth, but no sound comes out.  Like she’s trying so very hard to repeat what I said, but is trying to get her mouth muscles to cooperate.  If she needs it to be repeated, she’ll just ask again, “What’s dat?”  She still loves her books.  Reviews are you can check here on line viagra immensely supportive to this supplement than any other pharmaceutical products that are evident with side effects. A large number of men are unable to satisfy the sexual needs of generic cialis cipla their partner. Pfizer placed orders at 22 websites that turned up in an online search for “greyandgrey.com cost viagra cialis.” Nearly 80% of the pills either help you to get fuller erection or increase your libido allow you to experience stronger orgasms, as the blood supply to the vaginal area is increased. Stress, anxiety, and depression usually aggravate abdominal pain and, vice versa, abdominal pain can irradiate to cialis generico cipla left ribs cage, and be accompanied with nausea, gas, and bloating, low appetite, heartburn, diarrhea, etc. Sometimes this is the only bribe she will take to sit still in the carseat long enough for me to strap her in.  She can “read” one book the entire way home from school.  She’ll just cross her legs and prop the book up on her feet.  Sometimes she’ll flip the book over and read it upside down.  It’s all the same to her.
So Brandon’s first soccer lesson was cute.  It consisted of lining up on the orange painted line.  The kids all did really well with this, even through a 15 minute parent orientation and check in of the kids that were there.  Then they were divided up into 3 groups of 10-12 kids, each going with one of the coaches.  The coaches were just giving the kids a little taste of soccer.  They were essentially training them to listen to the whistle.  It was like dog school.  They would point to a flag, run to it, and stop when the whistle blew.  Brandon was in the bottom third in terms of speed.  There were some kids who jumped the whistle, but even when Brandon was the first to start, the other kids would run from behind and leave them in their dust.  He does have an inherited trait which is not conducive to soccer – giggling while running.  It almost incapacitates him.  They stopped every 5 or so minutes for a water break.  Too bad we were sitting in the shade and were the furthest from the field.  That meant he had to run even farther to take his break.  It was good for him though, he needs the practice.  After 20 minutes of running around (5 of which was actual “soccer” instruction, maybe), it was time for the kids to break until next week.  We have about 7 more weeks, so we’re looking forward to it.  We finally committed to a time, which was our biggest barrier to signing him up for activities in the past.  930am on a Saturday is a big commitment.