This past weekend was another busy one. We started out Friday with a bunch of shuttling. I was planning on working for a few hours. The morning started out like every morning, and I had both Brandon and Peyton eating their cereal at the table. I went into the garage, and when I came back, Peyton was walking away from the sink. Brandon was still sitting at the table. On the kitchen counter was Peyton’s bowl. I asked Brandon if he told her to do it or if she did it herself. He said that she did it all by herself! I guess she now knows the routine 🙂 I started by dropping Brandon off at school first. I went to Peyton’s school to participate in their annual Spring Breakfast. Stayed for about 30-45 minutes, then drove back to work (which is very close to where I started by dropping Brandon off). After about only 4 hours of work, and seeing Jennifer’s new baby, Jayden, I left to pick up Peyton. I took her back to Brandon’s school to meet Dave for Brandon’s Parent Appreciation performance. The doors were to open at 330pm, and we got there at 332pm and the line was back to the office! It was super long! Dave met me soon after I was seated. He set up the camera in the back of the audience as it was a better view than where I was sitting. I had some toys I grabbed from my car to keep Peyton entertained. She just needed something to keep her occupied while waiting for the show to start and in between acts. There are 6 classes that performed, the 2’s, 3’s, and 4’s – each with two classrooms. Brandon’s class was in the middle. As the curtains were drawn, Peyton started to get antsy. Then I told her Brandon was coming up. She stood up and was looking. When the curtains parted, she started pointing, and calling out, “Ah! Bru-dah! Bru-dah!” Brandon started pointing to us from the stage, and then stomping his feet, and giggling with his friend. He wasn’t singing like he did with the Christmas performance. He hadn’t been practicing at home either, but I didn’t press since I thought his teacher may have told him that it was a surprise for us. I was a little disappointed, because he didn’t look like he knew the songs. In his defense, we had been gone for 2 weeks out of the last 5, so maybe he lost out on time to practice. After all the children performed, we went out the field to fly our kite that the school requested us to bring. Brandon, Peyton and Dave got it up in the air, and I snapped some photos. Peyton kept falling down because she was looking up so high and got disoriented. After about 10 minutes, we let the kite fall down, and we took off to head out for our next adventure. We had been mostly packed and ready to go to Dave’s friend’s wedding on Saturday. We headed out about 6pm, which is pretty early for us. We were staying at Dave’s parents’ house. It was a pretty smooth ride, given Peyton hadn’t had her second nap of the day, so she was out within 5 minutes of leaving home. Brandon hung in there, and I asked him if he knew the songs. He started to sing both songs, and then recited the poem perfectly. I think he was just nervous or something, because he totally knew it! After awhile, he fell asleep, too. We got in right after midnight, and as usual, both kids got up as we transferred them out of the car. Dave took Brandon upstairs to brush his teeth, and then laid him down on the floor in our room. Dave came back down, and I asked if Brandon wanted a hug from us (as is his usual routine). He said, “No, he asked me if he could go to sleep.” Wow, he MUST have been tired because that is totally unusual! After we were ready for sleep, Peyton went along with the program. Soon, all of us were sleeping.
The wedding was at 1130am, and it was probably an hour away. We were awoken about 630am, and then sent the kids to play with their grandparents. After some breakfast, we started to get ready. The wedding was just a reception, since the couple got married last week in Maui. Our plan was to go, have lunch, then take off to go back to the park 🙂 Part of getting ready was bringing some frozen veggies for Peyton. Dave just brought the whole bag, since we didn’t have time to transfer it to a smaller container. I thought it was a bit crazy, but whatever. The cocktail hour was about about that as it took us an hour to get seated. They were missing the tent cards with table assignments. We were going to the wedding of the girl who for our wedding at the last minute had her mom contact Dave’s mom to ask if she could come. We made arrangements with the caterer, and secured her a seat. I jostled some people around to make room for her a table where she’d know people. She had also asked to bring her boyfriend (whom we did not know), and we told her we only had room for her. She showed up to our ceremony, and as we were taking photos after the ceremony, she told us she wasn’t able to make it to the reception! And she came bearing NO gifts. So I wasn’t all that thrilled to be there, but was looking more forward to the park! The food was slow to come out, so we busted out the veggies for Peyton. They were still frozen, so we had to take the frost off by dunking them in water. Dave’s friend, Wang, was at our table with his son Garrett, who is 5.5 years old. He is a calm child, but still a boy, so he and Brandon got along well. They had met and were both shy at the cocktail hour, but after a few maraschino cherries, they were fast friends. Wang saw what Peyton was eating, and was amazed! Brandon asked for some, so we gave him some veggies but did not dunk them. We asked Garrett if he wanted them, too. His dad told him he shouldn’t eat them because he might gain too much superhero strength. That sent he and Brandon shoveling down their veggies. Evan, the 6.5 year old, came over and saw what the other two boys were eating. He was a bit more skeptical, but he still ate a few carrot “popsicles”. By the time the kids’ food came out, half the bag was gone! Good thing Dave didn’t parcel out just Peyton’s portion 🙂 The kids got a fruit cup while we got some salad. Brandon ate some of our salad, too. When our entree came out, so did the kids’ – chicken tenders and fries. Good thing the kids were so full on veggies, they didn’t eat too much of the fried stuff, except for Peyton. I had stripped off the fried part of the chicken and gave her the meat. While she was eating, she reached forward and grabbed a fry off her plate. I caught her out of the corner of my eye, looked down at her just as she put it in her mouth. I turned down to look at her, and she looked up at me and said, “Mmmmmm.” So goes her first encounter with the french fry. She downed a few more before saying, “Out? Wok.” She wanted to get out and walk around. Luckily we were right next to a mirror, so that kept her entertained. Brandon and Garrett were also a bit antsy, which was not good given it was speech time. Dave and Wang took them outside, while I watched Peyton walk in and out. She had fun playing with the boys, but just wasn’t up to speed. She was always a few steps behind. At least she had detached herself from me, as she had been stuck pretty much the first part of the cocktail hour. Dave’s parents tried to take her away to go meet their friends. Not successful. They had Brandon instead, but he was a little silly with them, almost knocking his mom down, as she wasn’t prepared for him to just cave in and fall to the ground when the adults started poking and prodding him. He was full of giggles, something he didn’t get over with until we left. After they cut the cake, it was our signal to head out! We all changed in the car, then headed out to the park.
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Today, we woke up later, and the kids went downstairs to play while we got ready to head out. We all went out to dim sum. Peyton was getting tired toward the end of brunch. She had soft tofu up her nose. I knew she’d go out soon, so it would be perfect to hit the road. We headed out, and even Brandon looked a bit tired. It wasn’t even noon. Peyton was up before Brandon, which was a little surprising. It is rare that she is up and he is not. I turned around expecting that she was asleep. Instead, she saw me, and started pointing at me, like “Hey, I know you!” Brandon had woken up for a second, just to ask for his favorite CD. Then, he went right back to sleep. Peyton enjoyed it and was dancing around in her carseat. It was an uneventful car ride back. Brandon woke up, we started to play a game. We were about an hour out, and with both of them up, we needed to do something. We started from A to Z, and Brandon would call out the letters in order then try to name an animal that started with said letter. He started out with “A, Yak!” Um, I needed to prompt him with alligator. He made it the rest of the way on his own, and he got stuck on a couple more, like I, and X. He said, “Exoskeleton,” and then after some clues said, “Tyrannosaurus rex” (I asked him to name me an animal with an X in it). He kept trying to get “Yak” in there. For “S” he said, “I know, Sasquatch!” I told him it was a pretend animal, and since there were so many more “S” animals, he had to name another. Silly boy. Peyton learned some letters too, since Brandon has to start from A in order to say all the letters in order. When he said, “B”, Peyton said, “Bee. Buh-buh”. Brandon will definitely be helping her learn her alphabet and phonics. We made it home safely. As I gave Peyton a bath, as I stripped her down, she had not wet her diaper. Dave had just changed her after dinner. As I was going to take it off, she said, “Pee.” Not knowing if she was crying wolf, I decided to be safe (she had peed on me without warning right before the wedding as we changed her in the car – yep, all over the dress, good thing it had a pattern). I held the diaper on for a few seconds, then felt it get warm. She was warning me! Good girl!
Both kids are back to sleep, which Dave didn’t think was possible, given how much they slept in the car. Hopefully we are going to be home for a little bit now. Brandon came home and said, “Mommy, I missed home.”