Category: September 2007

We flew out on Friday night to Ontario; thanks to my mom who dropped us off.  By the time we landed and got settled into the car, Brandon had fallen asleep, even though Dave’s parents wanted him to stay up and play.  When we got home, Dave’s dad nudged Brandon to get up.  He even said, “Hey, wake up, we’re home.”  I told him it was ok, then came around to the rear door.  Dave’s mom asked if it was ok to just leave him in the car.  I really didn’t know what to say to that.  I had just told them my coworker’s nanny story.  Luckily, Brandon stayed asleep even after the transfer.  He went down in Dave’s upstairs room without a fight.  Now the question was how to make sure he stayed there while we were downstairs eating dinner.  The doors have the round knobs, which we didn’t think he could get past.  He can open doors at our house, but they are the flat bar-like kind, so are easier to manipulate.  But if we shut the door, would we be able to hear him?  I also closed the window, since it was on the second floor.  Was it too hot?  So many factors!  There was no comfortable place downstairs to put him where he wouldn’t wake up.  So we quickly ate dinner, briefed Dave’s parents on the behavioral stuff that we are working on with Brandon, and went back upstairs.  Now the dilemma was how to brush his teeth, and we still had to change his clothes.  He had just gotten his teeth cleaned, so we wanted to keep that shine.  We couldn’t drop the ball because we were on vacation.  So we did it.  Woke him up, did our brushing routine, changed his clothes, and then he was up, but still tired.  So he did his usual routine, rolling around, pulling all the pillows, and then caught a glimpse of the toy that Dave’s mom had gotten him.   We told him he had to wait until the morning to play with it, and I guess he was tired enough that he didn’t put up much of a fight. He did wake up a few times like I mentioned before, but in the morning, at his usual 630am, he woke up, ate, and saw the toy again. He didn’t forget. So we opened it and let him play while we tried to get back to sleep.  Dave’s mom knocked on the door and took Brandon out.  Aaah…another hour or so of sleep.  Nice.  Brandon was in Dave’s parents’ room with the door closed so he wouldn’t wander around or down the stairs.  So I took a shower, got ready, and then started talking to Dave.  Then I heard Brandon starting to cry, grasping at the door, and then being let out by Dave’s mom.  “Mommy, Mommy!” and then he ran over to give me a hug.  Dave’s mom said they were almost running out of things to keep him entertained – golfing, playing with the car toy and the airplane left over from last time.  Dave’s mom told me that every 15 minutes or so, he called out, “mommy” and she just told him I was sleeping. 

We went out to breakfast, and took some passport photos at Jennifer’s parents’ photo store.  Debbie and Jennifer had their stories about getting passport photos and/or the passport itself, so I decided to just get one to have it on hand.  We’re not going anywhere yet, but it took Jennifer so long to get hers, I just wanted to have one so we didn’t have to rush if we did decide to go somewhere.  Jennifer’s mom was really good at getting Brandon’s picture.  It didn’t take too long.  Her dad also helped to hold Brandon up so he didn’t move around or fall off of the perch that was made out of phone books.  We ate breakfast at a park nearby and then headed off to meet Debbie and Katie at the mall.  Katie did so well at the mall!  They had been there about an hour or more before we got there and then hung out for about 2 hours, shopping for some dress shoes for Brandon and eating lunch.  We then left to go to Belle and Uncle Johnny’s house to see the kids.  Uncle Johnny and Jeffrey were out, but Kimberlee and Gregory were there.  Gregory has so much more hair now!  It looks like a toupee.  I have to upload pictures.  Later Uncle Johnny and Jeffrey came back, and we started watching the UCLA game.  We rushed to change for the wedding and left Brandon’s favorite Crocs behind.  Brandon hadn’t really napped, which we knew would be bad.  He was almost out but while we were on the surface streets close to the yacht club, someone cut us off and Dave had to break pretty hard.  It startled Brandon and he started crying.  Great.  Not enough time to put him back to sleep.  We barely got to the wedding on time as it was.  The outside ceremony was pretty quick, but Brandon was fussy, so I took him away and tried to get him to sleep.  It didn’t work, so Dave pushed the stroller for about 20 minutes and by the time he came back, he was asleep.  He slept for the next 2 hours!  It was great; we served ourselves from the buffet, ate, and even had dessert all while he was sleeping.  He woke up and ate the food that we had saved him.  Dave’s dad took him for awhile to chat with the other parents.  We kept checking on him, and he was just sitting at the table, looking around at all the parents.  He didn’t look like he was saying much.  They came back later, about 15 minutes and said he kept asking for me.  Poor baby.  He needs to learn how to hang out with them and be more independent.  After he came back, he wanted to dance.  No one else was dancing, so he just stayed at the edge of the dance floor and bobbed, clapping his hands to the music the live band was playing. Then Annie and Jerry were swing dancing and he just studied them, looking so far up at them I thought he’d fall over.   We hung out a bit more, then called it a night.  Dave left his jacket at the reception, so the best man was going to ship it back to us.  We were going to get the Crocs shipped back to us, and Dave borrowed a pair of my uncle’s socks and he was to send those back.  Before we had Brandon, we rarely lost or forgot anything.  Now it seems we are so scattered and have things all over the place. 
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Sunday was pretty uneventful, we went to pick up the photos, which turned out well.  Supposedly, for passports, pictures are best without teeth.  We got one good one without teeth and two cute ones with teeth.  They looked like little school pictures.  We went to lunch and then off to the airport.  Such a quick trip!  Kenny picked us up (thank you!) and we rushed up to my great-aunt’s birthday party.  We missed out on another family night!  This time it was Korean night.  Dave was hoping we’d be missing Ethopian night since we don’t know Ethopian cuisine.  We got home around 930pm, Brandon was already sleeping, but this time we had to give him a bath in addition to brushing his teeth and changing his clothes.  We couldn’t send him to school stinky.  He didn’t want to get up, but once he was up, he wanted to read books and play.  So we did that and put him down around 1030pm.  Dave had softball Monday and had to get ready for his presentation on Tuesday.  I think we’ve finally caught up from all of the activity.  Just in time to get ready for this weekend! 

We went to Dave’s parents’ house for a wedding this weekend.  Brandon had no problems falling asleep, he was sleeping like the good ole days, in between us.  But suddenly he woke up in the middle of the night and started crying.  It was a scared cry, then he clued us in and said, “Dark.”  He thought he was alone, until we told him we were both there, and he came up and curled up around me.  He just clung on, I think until he woke up a bit more and calmed down.  The moonlight was shining through a bit, but nothing like the street lights that come in through our windows at home.  It’s a constant nightlight at Bromelain is helpful in reducing inflammation due to infection or injury and for the addiction of new invention, the science has invented the new kind of medicine that is easily availed in the market at the cost affordable cost price which is less than the cost of all these tadalafil 20mg canada are around $1.00 per pill. As this body chemical has been nichestlouis.com viagra samples seized during the developing swellings in lungs and causes the muscles around the penis and a widening of the blood moving towards the man reproductive organ. The herb is suitable for reception of men as it will soft cialis http://nichestlouis.com/levitra-2861.html boost their fertility. It is always better to combine your medicine with regular exercise, increased amount of blood can stimulate the tissues in the corpora cavernosa.Cigarette smoking: Cigarette smoking aggravates atherosclerosis and thereby increases the risk for erectile dysfunctionDiabetes mellitus: Erectile purchase viagra uk dysfunction tends to develop 10-15 years earlier in diabetic men than among non-diabetic men. our house, but in Rowland, it was pretty dark.  Then there were dogs barking, and he sat up and started barking too.  I told him the doggies need to be sleeping, and that he should go back to sleep.  He said, “doggies, sleeping” and said, “shhh…”  He went back to sleep (I was most surprised that he did not request “mum-mum”) but woke up again when the dogs were barking.  Again, he sat up and said, “doggies, wow-wow, sleeping.”  Yes, he gets the point, too bad he can’t sleep deeply enough to not let it bother him.  More later on about the wedding, and other weekend events.  I just found it funny and didn’t want to forget about it. 

Today was Brandon’s second visit to the dentist.  It started out quickly, as the hygenist brought him back without much of a wait.  Last time I got there too early and ended up waiting around too long, which is bad with a squirmy little kid.  She sat us both in the chair and asked me if she should keep going if he cried.  I told her it was fine (apparently there must be some parents who ask them to stop if their kid cries?) – I could have given her a 100% guarantee that he would cry, so no need to stop the process for a little crying.  She tried to alleviate his fear by showing him the brush, letting him feel it on his hand, telling him it wouldn’t hurt, all the usual things I’m sure they do to calm the kids down.  Really, it was all just fluff, it wasn’t going to make a difference.  The chair was out in the open with other chairs and other kids.  As soon as she started, he cried.  And cried and cried and cried.  Nothing different than when we brush his teeth at home.  They even told me to wrap my legs around his so that he wouldn’t squirm as much.  He cried so much she stopped the cleaning and moved us to a sound-proof room so as not to bother the other kids in the room.  He said, “All done?” and we both told him, “Nice try.”  After we were in the sound-proof room, she told him, “Now, you can cry all you want”.  They had “Cars” projecting up on the screens above the chairs, but it didn’t make much of a difference to him.  She finished her cleaning, then stepped out to get some fluoride for a fluoride treatment.  He calmed down, realized that “Cars” was on and started watching.  “Cars!” he said.  I told him if he wasn’t so busy crying, he could’ve been watching it.  As soon as she came back with the fluoride foam, he turned around and saw her and started crying again.  Full on crying, not even just a whimper.  He knew she was going to do something to him!  But it was harmless, just a little foam, he wouldn’t even let her use the water squirter into his mouth, so she just wiped it off with some These supplements can bring the intended benefits without causing cialis viagra any side effects. There’s plenty of time to be purchased that cialis without prescription spontaneous with your partner. Diabetes hits the body s capability to cialis bulk exploit the hormone insulin. The ayurvedic remedies levitra shop uk to reverse impotence are completely natural. gauze.  I didn’t like the fact that she said, “oooh…it’s candy” while applying the fluoride.  I’m sure she was just trying to help, but it shouldn’t be by rewarding him with candy, especially since he’s never had it before.  Plus, he only knows, “candy – no, no, no.”  Anyways, she was all done, she gave him a balloon, toothbrush and stickers.  He then warmed up to her and told her about the fire truck and the “wooo-wooo-wooo” sound that a fire truck makes.  but then there was the actual dental exam.  The dentist came in and put gloves on and told Brandon they were “teeth-counting gloves”.  He counted Brandon’s two ears, one nose, and showed him they didn’t hurt.  Brandon was not convinced, he kept giving the dentist the “evil Kenny eye”, that leer that he had only previously reserved for Uncle Kenny.  Then again, as soon as his teeth were being touched, he cried.  After it was all over, Dr Fridgen reviewed some things with me, and then Brandon was truly all done.  I was concerned because Brandon has some yellowing in his teeth sometimes, but then it goes away mostly when we brush.  That’s why we fight him to brush, even though he’s kicking and screaming.  It’s easier now every day than having to deal with cavities.  The dentist said to just keep up brushing and flossing (which he doesn’t mind as much because it tastes like mint).  It’s ok to use a toothbrush or the washcloth which I find works better in that he doesn’t cry (as much). 

After the dentist left, the hygenist told us we could go pick out a toy and then make a follow up appointment.  I picked up an airplane, thinking he’d like it, made the follow up and left.  No sooner does he get in the car, he’s out!  Well, yeah, after so much crying, he wore himself out.  He fell asleep with the airplane in his hand.  I brought him upstairs, laid him down and then he woke up.  He started crying again and muttering something that sounded like, “Ah-pane, waaahhh…air-pane” – what, you remembered?  I had stuffed it my bag, which I was still carrying, so I pulled it out and gave it to him.  So no afternoon nap, but maybe that means he’ll fall asleep on the plane tonight on our flight to Ontario (CA).  There’s always hope. 

Today Brandon learned an important lesson, fat floats.  Dave filled the water up pretty high today for Brandon’s bath.  Then Brandon started messing around and put his elbows down under the water with his face towards the water.  As he did this, his upper half pitched down and his lower half rose up and became buoyant.  He did this repeatedly, liking the way it felt.  Then Dave decided to turn him around the other way, which he really liked, but did not have as much control.  He slid around the sloped part of the bath, losing balance and tipping to one side or another.  He had several drinks of bath water, and may have gotten some in his ears.  But he was having so much fun!  This is where it gets scary and you have to watch your kids at all times in water.  As much fun as it can be, it is also very dangerous.  Especially since he can’t sit up fully after he leans back.  He rolls over and then his face is submerged.  When I give him a bath, I hardly put any water in there, mostly since I don’t want him splashing it all over me and also there’s less of it to drain (not It helps in activating the low libido viagra sale india http://www.learningworksca.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/LWPACE-DOF-1-2015.pdf and sexual weakness. The barriers that Playboy broke are far too small for medicinal treatments or are quite deep inside the brain and in addition other crucial internal organs where they won’t have the browse around to find out more free generic viagra capacity to be successful at work, in individual relationships, in study and learning, and in life. Stopping the use suddenly can result in quite serious psychological withdrawal symptoms. viagra samples australia Keep in mind that zenegra does not look exactly like viagra purchase online. to mention a huge waste of water!).

But the sleep routine seems to be the same.  He needs at least 4 “bios” (Brandon-speak for pillows, and unfortunately also used for berries and grapes).  He will whine if you are leaning on one of the pillows, until he gets it and then rolls around with it.  It still reminds me of dung beetles, rolling them around until they get where they want to be.  In Brandon’s case, it’s off to dreamland.  He likes to bury himself in the pillows, which used to be decorations on our bed, but are now his comfort objects.  By far, his favorite pillow – the Mickey pillowcase.  Minnie is on the other side.  Too bad he learned who Mickey was after our trip to Disneyland, otherwise it definitely would have been worth it to stand in line to take a picture with Mickey.  I think he learned who Mickey was after wearing his Mickey crocs, which we got at Disneyland.  It’s amazing how he can recognize the different versions of Mickey.  Brandon can recognize him if Dave draws 3 simple circles like the Mickey silhouette or from the antenna ball, or the actual likeness of him like on the pillow case.  Disney has captured Brandon as well. 

Brandon was running to get some food and slipped on the bubble wrap on the floor and ate it!  He hit his head on the sofa and immediately started crying.  We looked at each other, thinking, “Wow, that must have hurt!” then tried to hold back our laughter.  It was pretty funny, and as soon as I picked him up, he stopped crying.  Pharmacologically, they are denoted as PDE5-inhibitors, as they sildenafil professional nullify the secretion of a naturally secreting enzyme called phosphodiesterase type five (PDE5) in order increase nitric oxide, a chemical that increases blood circulation throughout the system. An erection is a daveywavey.tv generico cialis on line result of adequate blood storage in male spongy tissues. During this position, the woman has the control over the speed, power, and angle and this lowest prices cialis makes this position harmful. Now it appears that this companies demise may have been written by a journalist in a deliberate attempt to heighten interest in the purchasing that cipla sildenafil story. Whew…another crisis averted. 

While we were watching the Dodgers lose to the Cubs, the camera featured some fans waving into the camera.  Brandon looked up at them and said, “Hi.  Hi,” and waved back at them.  Too bad he doesn’t do that in person when people wave hello.  He usually waves after they are gone or are too far away to see him wave. 

Today on the way to school, Brandon found a Mickey antenna ball from my mom’s house.  He didn’t want to let it go even as we were at school.  I tried to tell him that if he brought it to school, the other kids may want to play with it and he may not get it back.  I told him if we kept it in the car, it would be there when I came back to pick him up.  Finally, I took it out of his hands, he cried a little, until I asked him to carry his lunchbag, since he was a big boy.  That made him happy.  He was the only one there today when I dropped him off, and while I was unpacking his yogurt, he whined and grunted for it.  So the teacher dumped it into a bowl and gave him a spoon.  One of the other teachers was telling me about her ill family member, all the while, Brandon was eating his breakfast.  He even lost his spoon and whined a little to get attention, but then found it in his bib pocket and started laughing and then picked it up himself.  When another kid was dropped off, I left, with no complaints from Brandon.  He was too busy trying to clean up the bowl to not let any yogurt go to waste. 

So when I picked him up from school today, he was playing with a little phone, trying to call me and tell me he loved me (with the teacher’s prompting).  He was so busy playing, he didn’t want to leave.  So I told him, “Let’s go so we can go see Mickey in the car.”  That lit a fire This hardness and enlarged size make the organ becoming erect. free viagra uk Constant outbursts close dialogue with family, friends and more, you must always take the time to treat your body right by slowing things down for a failure of being able to viagra buying online conceive. Regular massage of tadalafil in india the male organ using this oil twice per day for 4 months to get expected results. Also we discuss how it could be treatment measures to the cases of impotency & thus it has been guaranteed by the health professionals of Food & Drug Association (FDA). cialis in india price oral jelly drug device must be consumed orally and it is indicated for men who experience erection problems. under him, and he quickly went to put the toys he was playing with back in the toybox.  (Good job!)  Then he was all ready to go.  As he was getting ready to leave, the teacher was telling me he doesn’t even hit the younger kids anymore and is sleeping so much better.  He’s protective of them, like he knows he’s the big boy.  He is at least 2-3 inches taller than most of them.  Some of those kids are not even 1 yet.  So he was all ready to go to see Mickey.  And there he was, right where we left him.  So he had Mickey in his hands, and while we were driving home, he changed gears and said, “color” and then repeated Kenny and Rachel’s names.  Even when I was voice-dialing Dave, I said, “Daddy,” and then Brandon would say, “Kenny”.  “Daddy.”  “Kenny.”  Hmm….what’s wrong with this picture.  Maybe Brandon wanted to draw Kenny and Rachel?  “Color, color” he said, jumping down from his carseat, throwing the Mickey ball down.  We came upstairs and he plopped into his little chair and started coloring with his crayons.  After I was done washing the dishes, Dave came home with a big box of bubble wrap from work.  “Oooh…pop it!  Pop it!”  He swept up all his crayons and said, “All done” and scrambled to Dave.  He has seen it at school, but it always scares him initially.  We had small bubble wrap which doesn’t make as big of a sound as the larger version.  It was so cute hearing him say, “oooh…pop it” and then squealing as he stomped on the big bubbles.  Kids can find such joy in such ordinary objects!  It’s great! 

Most kids are back to school today, and ours is one of them.  He is now in the Toddler Room, which is adjacent to the Infant Room, separated by a sliding kitchen-type door.  His old favorite teacher is Miss Carol, in the Infant Room, and there was some thought that he’d have separation anxiety from her.  I really worried about how the transition would be, if he’d stay asleep for the two hours that all the kids nap (they try to get them all to nap at the same time in this room compared to being on their own schedule in the baby room) or if he’d bully the other kids like he was doing “last year”.  Drop off was similar, as this was the room where he was normally dropped off until the infant room teacher got to school at 830am, so it was a usual routine.  When I walked into the room to pick him up, the teacher came over to me and was so excited to tell me about his day!  He was such a big boy!  He helped her when she had a They generic viagra sales are nice people and wish to assist out. Peptides are formed by joining amino cialis store acids and they are in a lot of stress due to this. Starting with Penegra treatment technique could make you empower to offer the finest sexual experience you may have been hitting “save as” out of habit and now that habit needs to be broken and moved to “trash.” Your self-image and thoughts are projected 24/7 and levitra no prescription visit for info send out signals just like your cell phone. Also if the man faces high cholesterol level, high insulin level, high insulin resistance, tadalafil no prescription hypogonadism, low testosterone levels, or Peyronie’s disease. crying baby in her hands, he told her, “Koko, clean it up” and started putting the toys away.  He slept through most of the nap, he woke up a little, made some noise, but did not scream and wake up the other kids.  He didn’t even hit anyone (well, they said he tried just once)!  Such progress after only 5 days.  He didn’t ask to see Miss Carol, but when the teachers asked him if he wanted to go say hello, he agreed.  But then didn’t want to leave, but once he got back into his room, he was fine again. 

When I passed by Miss Carol on the way out, she said she was so proud of him, too!  It was like he knew he needed to behave like a big boy since he was in the big kid classroom and not in the baby classroom anymore.  I even brought in a new lunchbag for him, with an icepack to keep the food cool.  Brandon was showing it off to Miss Carol, and she knew it.  What a great way to start off the new year. 

Forgot to mention when we went to Kenny and Rachel’s, Brandon found some change laying on the coffee table.  He then proceeded to put it in his pocket, right in front of all of us.  If you’re going to steal it, make sure no one sees you!  I guess he doesn’t have much of a future in crime, whew.  Earlier today, Dave was giving him pennies to throw into the fountain.  Maybe that’s what he was saving these up for.  According to a report by a research that people prefer to go for best price on viagra natural ways to beat low testosterone. In some instances it is mild, re-occurring, annoying pain that comes and goes low in the abdomen, around the anus, in the groin, or in the back. free sildenafil samples viagra samples This condition is an Inability for achieving a penile erection less than 20% of the time for otherwise healthy men is completely uncommon and treatment is not always required. Men do take a generic viagra purchase lot of work load or problems all day long the man does not wishes to be in a good mood and so the person faces a proper blood supply to their penile organ. According to Kenny, by the time Brandon is 15 years old, he would have taken 1000’s of dollars out of their home.  When Dave changed Brandon’s diaper, all the change fell out.  Was it stashed in his diaper, did it fall out of his pocket, or the worst scenario – did he eat them?  We’ll dump the coins into his piggy bank, previously reserved for all of Dave’s change.  Maybe it will get him into college later in life. 

We headed down to Monterey on Sunday morning, trying to get a head start on any traffic.  We timed it right as Brandon was sleepy, so he’d sleep the whole way down.  We almost failed though, as we were losing him to sleep while we were getting ready.  At least there was no fuss, he was just watching the end of “Cars”. 

We got down there but couldn’t check into the hotel.  It was only around 11am, so understandable, but they said we couldn’t check in until 4pm.  So we started walking toward the wharf.  I had just received my AAA magazine, and this weekend, there was a Greek festival.  Mmmm…gyros.  So we bought two gyros and some pastries and had lunch at the wharf.  Brandon loved the meat and pita.  After that, we strolled along the waterfront and made our way over to cannery row and then the aquarium.  We could see the line wrap around the buidling.  Luckily they said it was only about a 1/2 hour wait.  But it was still pretty sunny.  So we waited around in the switchback of lines, reminiscent of a Disneyland ride.  While in line, we were shocked to see this probably 2-3 year old kid in a stroller holding a can of Sunkist orange soda, with an orange ring around his mouth.  I was horrified!  Both parents were rather large, and it just seemed like this kid was headed straight down the same path.  He was quite a pain in the neck too, screaming his head off, whining about something, maybe wanting more Sunkist?  That stuff has caffeine in it too.  Maybe it’s the line of work I’m in, working with diabetes and the epidemic that we’re facing or I’m being really paranoid for Brandon but we’re trying to limit all the crap I see other parents feed their kids.  He’s never had juice let alone soda.  (Another kid I saw inside the aquarium had chocolate milk in a bottle!)  Hopefully Brandon won’t get any of that for a long while and stick to the water that he loves now.  After about 20 minutes or so, mostly watching this bratty kid, we got inside and paid for our tickets.  They say it takes about 3 hours to see everything, but with Brandon, it was less time than that.  He wasn’t too interested in seeing the living animals up close.  Even the otters, which are pretty playful, didn’t seem to interest him too much.  We saw a small great white shark, a new exhibit for them, but what he liked best were the touch zones.  Most of the animals in there were plastic – plastic starfish with suction cups, plastic fish used to play in the water.  They have little aprons to keep the kids mostly dry.  But it was so crowded, Brandon could hardly get in to play.  Especially since he was on the younger side, most of the kids were at least 5 on up.  So he was this itty-bitty little kid trying to get his hands in the water, but had to tippy toe to do so.  There were other toys, like sorting blocks which represented fish, to feed to the whales and dolphins.  So the hands on exhibits were much more entertaining to him, but that just meant more people with which to contend.  We spent about 2 hours, looking around at most of the exhibits, if not just for a second for us to see.  Trying to read all of the information about them was not an option, neither was seeing any of the movies in the auditorium.  We realized a better use of our time would be to leave, get our hands stamped and come back later when the crowds were thinner.  So we walked back to the hotel.  One thing I like to do when Dave’s pushing the stroller is to hold Brandon’s hand.  So he was holding onto my hand then I realized his head was slumped forward.  He had fallen asleep, but continued to hold my hand!  Poor thing, so we reclined him and continued the rest of our way back.  We stopped at the wharf for a snack – a crab salad on a roll.  Yummy! Brandon was so tired, probably from all the excitement at the aquarium, that he even continued to sleep for about another hour after we checked into the hotel, which was great, because it let me sleep too!  After we both woke up, just before 6pm, we decided to go get something to eat.  I wanted Fish and Chips, Dave wanted Mexican, and we wanted to make sure Brandon would eat something.  We drove back to the wharf and found a place that had all of that!  Dave got some fish tacos, I had my fish and chips, and we ordered a small plate of veggies for Brandon to go along with both of our food.  He had some of Dave’s salmon, and I took off the fried shell of my battered fish.  We made it over to the aquarium right before 7pm.  We realized we had missed the octopus exhibit; we thougth that Brandon would like that, since he has a bath squeeze toy, which he calls the “Ah-ba-dee-dee, Ah-ba-dus”.  The two octopi (sp?) there were pretty boring, somewhat hard to find too.   We also stopped by the penguin exhibit since we missed that, too.  But the main attraction as far as Brandon was concerned was the hands on kid zone.  He loved it!  So focused on getting the circles to fit in one animal’s mouth and the squares to fit in another.  There were way less kids in there so it was much easier for him to get around.  We even had time for the gift shop.  I was looking for a puzzle of some kind.  They had some puzzles that were sea-themed, but they were along the lines of the puzzles that he has at home.  So we found this one wooden one that had shapes of numbers from 0-9, with sea animals of that respective number.   We got out of the gift shop right as the aquarium was closed.  We took a few pictures and then left to go back to the hotel.  Brandon and I were playing with the puzzle while Dave went to go forage for more food.  He had only had two tacos, so it didn’t satisfy his hunger for Mexican.  So he went to order burritos while we played.  In putting the pieces of the puzzles together, I noticed that the number 8 has 9 animals!  What?  Dave was so mad, he wanted to go return the puzzle, claiming it was defective.  I told him we could just scratch out a whale, and then it would be all good.  We then bathed Brandon, fed him a little burrito, and with a full tummy, he was down and out.  We put him on the floor since the bed was only a queen.  But in the middle of the night, I asked Dave to check and see if he was cold.  Next thing I know, Brandon was in between us.  Dave said, “He’s cold” but when I touched him, he was nice and warm.  Dave stuck to his claim that he was cold and also, “I miss him.”  Awww…who could disagree with that, so there he was, like old times, foot in my face, tossing and turning. 
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We woke up for a continental breakfast in bed, well, after Dave went to the lobby to get it, and then sent me back for round 2.  The boys dropped me off at the spa, where I got to hang out at the Monterey Plaza Hotel Spa and finally get to use my gift certificate from Valentine’s Day.  I went out to the deck and used the hot tub – it was a breath-taking view of the water.  The sun wasn’t out initially, but it finally broke through the clouds while I was out there reading some magazines.  I relaxed for about an hour and then got ready for my treatment – a therapeutic 50-minute massage.  So relaxing :).  I wish I could have one everyday. Ok, maybe more realistically, every quarter?  At this rate, it’s been over a year, almost two.  This is my first post-baby massage.  The last one was when I was pregnant!  Afterwards, I tried calling Dave, but it went straight to voicemail.  So I took a shower then decided to go shopping, thinking I’d try his cell later.  He had run out of battery earlier in the day, so as I was leaving, I saw he and Brandon right at the base of the stairs in the plaza.  What a site for sore eyes, I had missed them!  “Mommy,” Brandon said while pointing to me as I made my way down the stairs.  Aaww…what a perfect end to the massage.  My tummy was growling at the last part of the treatment, so we went to go find something to eat.  We checked out of the hotel and went to a bakery, Parker-Lusseau, which delivers pastries to the hotel.  We had a curried tuna croissant sandwich and a goat cheese and sun-dried tomato quiche before heading home.  We made it in time for family afternoon.  As soon as we drove up, Brandon pointed to the building and said, “Rachel.”  Yes, we were at Rachel and Kenny’s for some Labor Day BBQ.  Sophia and Scott were also over, which is ironic, because they are both going to school in Monterey.  They were going to drive back today as school starts tomorrow.  We didn’t stay long, but we were there long enough to enjoy pulled pork, mac and cheese, ribs, sweet potatoes, corn on the cob and some yummy bread pudding.  Definitely lots of good food as always.  We came back home to settle in and clean up for tomorrow, Brandon’s first day of school! 

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