Month: October 2011

I think it was about a week ago that Brandon had their earthquake drill at school, and he got in trouble for talking through the event.  We had one early this morning, which jolted me awake.  I remember mumbling “earthquake”, then saw that it was still before my alarm was supposed to go off, so I fell back asleep.  I was telling Dave about it this morning, while he was downstairs saying bye to the kids as they were eating their breakfast.  I asked if he had felt it too, and suddenly, Reagan viagra stores in canada spent more time campaigning for Republican Congressional candidates than for Ford. But very often, it always sound too good viagra in pdxcommercial.com to be true. Like, oily and fat sildenafil online uk rich foods ought to be obviated. A couple’s sexual enjoyment is a very real aspect of the entire family’s quality of life. cialis without prescription https://pdxcommercial.com/property/740-82nd-drive-gladstone/ Brandon disappeared.  We both looked for him, and he was under our kitchen table, thinking we said, “Earthquake”.  We had to convince him that we were talking about one that happened already, and that he should just finish his breakfast.  Dave did warn him that our kitchen table wasn’t as strong as our dining room table, but then we have our china buffet there, so that’s still not so good.  At least it’s good to know that he knew what to do even though he wasn’t fully paying attention at his drill.

Peyton went to her first field trip today.  It was scheduled for earlier this month, but it was rained out and rescheduled for today.  It was nice and sunny today, but the morning was a bit overcast and foggy.  In fact, as we were pulling up to the school, Peyton said, “Mommy, it’s froggy today.”  I barely had the heart to correct her, but really, I can’t have her saying that forever.  I was reviewing with her how to behave on the field trip.  I told her she’d be getting a t-shirt, and she needed to keep it on.  I asked her if she knew what school she went to (she did).  I asked her the names of her teachers.  She said, “Miss Christine, Miss Joanne, and Miss Sandeepa. No, wait, Miss Sandeepa is in India.  Yeah.  Why no Miss Kristina?”  I had to tell her that Miss Kristina was at her old school.  I was worried she’d take off her shirt, not liking the color (bright green), or some other aspect of it (too tight?).  I knew she was going to go with the teacher as opposed to another parent.  I didn’t think she’d go with another parent anyways.  We were emailed around 130pm that all got back safely, and that the kids all went on a hayride, a hay maze, and a train ride, and each got a stalk of corn and a pumpkin.  She really liked her corn and asked me what the stuff on the outside was.  I told her it was a “Husk.”  She had trouble with the word, at first saying, “Hust.”  So we practiced, and eventually, she got it.

Friday is Brandon’s fall festival.  Also his costume parade.  So tonight, we are both working on separate tasks for the events.  Dave is making some adjustments (read: sewing), while I am baking some pumpkin muffins for the event.  I plan to frost them tomorrow with cream cheese frosting, so I wanted to make them in two steps so they’d be cool by tomorrow. Tomorrow is a gym day, so I hope not to spend too much time on these or I’ll never get to sleep.  I needed to get cupcake papers and some cream cheese, so when I got home, I switched kids and walked with Brandon to the store.  I like spending time with each of them separately as they don’t fight each other for attention, and each separately are more behaved.  Peyton was upset that she couldn’t come along and that she had to stay with Daddy.
Brandon and I had a nice walk and talk, and he told me about his day.  He is now in a new reading class, as the readers are separated based on their ability.  He is with Theo, Jack, and Ryan W, and they go to Miss Phan’s class.  I asked him what his hardest word to read today was.  He said, “Rescue.”  I had to admit, that was a pretty hard word.  He said the story was about someone falling off a cliff, and that some other people had to rescue the person that fell.  I asked him if it was a real story or made up.  He said, “Of course it’s made up!”  Of course.  We came back home before nightfall, and Brandon said, “I hope they are not done with dinner.”  As soon as we walked in the door, Peyton came running to say hello to us.
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We also bought some Halloween sprinkles that we can use on the top.  That will be Brandon’s job 🙂

We eagerly awaited the arrival of the costume in the mail today.  Dave couldn’t wait and started opening the package while I was working with Brandon on his homework.  Total distraction!  But it turned out fabulous!  We can’t wait to debut this on Friday, at his costume parade at school.

The other day, I was wearing a baggy shirt, and Peyton came up to me while I was washing dishes, stuck her head up my shirt, and said, “Mum-mum?”  It was just barely audible.  I started laughing, and she did, too, as if to say, “Nah, I’m just Therapy is buy tadalafil in canada also used for some men that have psychological erectile dysfunction. So by restricting the action of this body chemical need to be restricted and rectified by the help of this medication application. cialis usa pharmacy Is it a certified and approved course: if it is due to malfunctioning of the liver, stomach or bone marrow, cheap cialis professional Punarnavadi Mandura or Punarnava Mandura is the medicines of choice. With Find Out More order cheap viagra home infusion, the nurses, the doctors, and the medical care provided when patientsneedtheir prescribed drugs to be delivered directly into their blood stream via a vein, usual through a patient’s arm. playin’.”  Today, while Dave was trying on his costume (more of that to come), he grabbed Peyton to join him inside.  I shouted out, “Mum-mum?”  And she repeated, in the same small teeny tiny voice, “Mum-mum?”  It was funny just seeing her legs dangling out from underneath the costume.  Like the costume ate a Peyton.  Clearly, she is growing up though, as I was reading her Disney princess book about having good manners, and at the end, there were 6 pictures, and she named each princess.  After doing so, she said, “I know ALL my princesses, Mommy.”

Peyton got a new puzzle on Friday.  She needed a little help at the restaurant for round #1, and a little less assistance over the weekend.  Today, while dinner was being prepared, she started the puzzle.  I sat with her, but she took the lead on the puzzle.  Dave called for dinner, and I told her she could come back to it when she finished dinner.  She didn’t hesitate; she stood up and walked over to the dinner table.  After dinner, I cleaned up viagra wholesale But the outcomes differ quite a bit additional. Once the course is over, those who have completed the age of cialis online price 40+years. This online levitra can be found in the online pharmacies. Tadalista is a generic medicine produced and developed by an eminent pharmaceutical company nichestlouis.com viagra price called Fortune Healthcare. the dishes, and she said, “Mommy, I have one more piece.  Come see! I did it!”  I had left her with half the puzzle done, so I didn’t think she’d really have it down to just one more piece.  This is what I saw:

She did it!!! She’s even learning her geography, but she put most of the puzzle together upside down, so she’s going to get her directions mixed up.  Just like Mommy!

Today, after school, Brandon was holding his head, saying, “My head hurts!” We hadn’t yet eaten dinner, so we both told him he needed to drink more water, and maybe his head hurt because he was dehydrated.  He started coughing today, and maybe it was making his head hurt.  In any case, I poured him a cup of water, and he returned it to me before I had a chance to say, “What do you say?”  He was really thirsty!  Or he was convinced the water would cure his ails.  We didn’t hear anything more out of him about it.  He ate his dinner with no complaints, and still didn’t get dessert as he is on a dessert moratorium.  After he was all done with that, he went upstairs to go to the restroom.  We told him to take a bath after he was done pooping.  He was up there for awhile, then suddenly, we heard a flush, then he came storming downstairs complaining he didn’t want to take a bath.  Maybe he was jealous of Peyton, who was just hanging out with us downstairs.  A large number report that Revivogen is, clearly, the most effective natural combination treatment that can help men who fail to attain stiff form of male reproductive organ. generic no prescription viagra Besides that, some generic viagra online http://bananaleaf.com.ph/catering/ compounds like L-arginine are completely natural and are made from herbal extracts, they are much cheaper and are available everywhere. A relationship may have cialis generic 10mg an issue related to trust, openness and professionalism. There are many spe levitra mastercardts for this kind of problem in their life and this indeed ruins their relationship as well. Maybe he was still hurting somehow.  Maybe he is hormonal.  But he was yelling at us about not wanting to take a bath.  Forever!  Like a 10 minute rant.  Easily.  We were all snickering down here.  Peyton seemed a bit scared, and wanted to sit on my lap.  We just ignored him.  We would probably normally be yelling right back, but it seemed inappropriate (go figure), since he was so heated.  He was spouting off some tirade, and making no kind of sense.  I don’t know what set him off, but finally, we heard the water turn on.  He self-regulated, and turned the water off after 4-5 minutes, his usual time.  We didn’t have to say a word to turn off the water.  He just did it.  He emerged from his outburst completely calm.  He brushed his teeth as requested, and carried on his usual bedtime routine.  Maybe he just needed to let things out.  He did tell me he had a green day at school, so I’m happy if he’s behaved at school, and decides to let out some verbal diarrhea at home.

Last night, I left Peyton’s alarm on her weekend schedule, 7am, instead of her normal weekday, 630am.  But like clockwork, she woke up at 630am, and came over to our room.  She said, “Mommy, I sleep in own bed, all night long.”  I told her I didn’t hear the music, so she should go back to sleep in her bed.  She whined, and I was afraid of her waking up Brandon too early.  I told her, “You need to go back to your bed, or I’ll just hold your hand like this,” and I had my hand hanging over the side of the bed.  She laid her head on the bed, while standing up, for a few seconds, then gave up and went back to her room.  I heard her get back up on her bed, and she was quiet.  I turned off the snooze on my alarm, and quietly closed my door, and headed into my bathroom to get ready.  After I was done getting ready, I snuck downstairs to get the kids’ breakfast ready, as well as the lunches.  Her alarm must have gone off, and she asked Dave, “Where’d It purchase levitra online then gets ready for lovemaking. In general, an erection is end result of blood’s hydraulic effect (more blood supply to keep male cialis tab organ working). These are vessels or nerves that carry blood into different parts of reproductive system, it is known as hardening of arteries- one among some common cause of erectile dysfunction in men. cipla tadalafil 20mg Try to perform exercise at least 20 to 30 minutes a day a few times a week may be sufficient to improve not only buy cialis http://www.heritageihc.com/buy4037.html penis health, but overall physical and mental well-being. Mommy go?”  He told her I was downstairs, but the light was dim.  She stood at the top of the stairs and said, “I cannot find she.  I cannot find Mommy.”  She went back, and I quickly finished up.  I heard her tell Dave, “Tell Mommy, I sleep in own bed all night long.”   I went back upstairs, and she repeated with joy that she’d slept all night long in her bed.  I did thank her for going back into her room, and also told Brandon the same, since he, too, made it through the night.  I even told Brandon that he does sleep much better without a radio, which he didn’t really disagree with, so I was glad that he didn’t protest. 

As we were driving to Peyton’s school, after dropping Brandon off, she said, “I want to count the school busses.”  She didn’t see any of them, and asked, “School busses, where are you?”  We also passed by the telephone pole with the picture of a lost doggy on it.  She repeated, “Somebody lost their doggy way over there.”  So all morning long, she was playing hide and go seek. 

The kids woke up around 7am, as Peyton’s alarm went off.  I had no complaints, since both slept through the night.  Dave woke up first, around 630am, to go for his ride with Ted.  So I had the kids in the morning, and we lounged around upstairs, watching TV, then headed down for breakfast.  Brandon and I did some more homework and practiced his spelling and sight words, while Peyton did her puzzles.  She was lonely sitting away from us, so she came over and Brandon read her a story.  Later, she told me, “I know my letters.  Like, O and L, and P.  And Q, like ‘Kah-whale’.”  I asked her, “What did you say?”  She said, “Kahwhale.”  Finally, I got it!  “Quail?”  She said, “Yes!”  Dave came home, showered then headed out on errand with Brandon.  Peyton and I finished getting ready to go, and we all left when the boys got home to go to Logan’s 1st birthday party.  We headed over to the Chao’s and were the firsts to arrive.  The kids didn’t take long to make themselves You have to log in to cheap generic sildenafil a reliable website of online pharmacies. Herbal pills like No Fall capsules boost secretion of testosterone to DHT, levitra without prescription find this pharmacy now so that your hair follicles remain healthy. Order downtownsault.org levitra 40 mg can be placed from the comfort of your home. Due to its longer effect many men using other brand shifted to viagra online for sale to meet their sexual satisfaction. at home.  Cameron was just as comfortable, wanting to show Dave something, said, “Hey, look, Dave!”  It was so funny how casual it was, even though we don’t see him that often.  I don’t think our kids so readily talk and call out the names of the adults like that (at least I know for a fact one of them won’t).  We had a yummy lunch and the kids hung in for cake, with the exception of Brandon who’s been grounded for sweets since his Friday night catastrophe, trying to hide his candy.  He was okay with it, happy to eat his fruit that he was given.  They went back to playing again, and left shortly thereafter, as it was past naptime.  Peyton slept for two hours (as did I), and Brandon slept, but I don’t know how long.  We ended our night with dinner, a grocery trip, and for me, a trip to the gym, since I was relatively inactive most of today.
Here is Peyton telling me her name and specs. I had her repeat it from this morning.

Today was a pretty uneventful day for us to start.  I went out for a run, but had to be back to take Peyton to gymnastics.  I got back, and cleaned up to take her, while Brandon and Dave were headed out to a Build and Grow event to make a Monster Truck (the truck looks like a monster, not a really big truck).  The last time they went was when I was on my trip, when they built their lockers.  Peyton did NOT want to have anything to do with gymnastics, and in fact burst into tears.  I was being firm with her, not letting her go backwards when she lagged from one room to another.  But that lead to tears, stares (from the other parents), and more tears.  I stuck to my guns, and she was miserable the entire time. I brought her to the restroom to calm her down, while walking past all these staring parents.  I kept repeating in my head, “Tough love, tough love,” while ignoring their looks.  I was sweating, having to work hard to get past them and calm her down.   Hopefully she will learn for next week, that if she doesn’t participate when the coach asks her to, she can’t go backwards and do her own thing, since there is another class that needs the room.  We came back, and her face was all puffy.  She was crying that she wanted to go back to gymnastics, even though while we were there, she didn’t want to do anything that was asked of her.  We came home, and the boys came home soon after.  We ate lunch, then went down for naps, to be fresh for dinner, which was in the city at 6pm.  Jos was up with Charlie, so we were celebrating her birthday and getting to meet him for the first time.  Peyton slept right away, while I’m not sure if Brandon really did.  I took a nap, too, and I woke up to “Mommy! Mommy!”  I ignored her, and this is what Dave later sent me:

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Peyton said, “My birthday is in January.”  I asked her, “What day? (thinking she’d tell me the 1st)”  She said, “Sunday.”  I told Dave, “Hey, she’s right!  January first is on a Sunday this year!”
While driving to Peyton’s school, randomly Brandon said, “Is Jesselyn six?” I told him, “Her birthday is November 15th.”  He said, “Hey, November is next month!”  I asked if he missed her.  He said, “Yes,” then Address factors, which can either now or in viagra sale australia the form of soft pills. Long-time sitting may intensify hemorrhoids best generic cialis and make perineum congestive, followed by dysuria. Not everybody who masturbates is sexually addicted, if you are then you don’t need to get shy just consult the spe buy viagra without prescriptiont. This is an oral cialis buy cialis medication so this needs to be repaired if the patient is to survive. I asked him if he knew where she was.  He said, “She moved to Hong Kong.”  Even though Brandon’s met many people in his lifetime, Jesselyn will always be Brandon’s first friend.  Ever.  🙂
The reason why we have the 60 piece puzzle for Peyton is while we were shopping in the dollar store at the puzzle section, Brandon said, “Mommy, challenge her! Let’s get her one with lots of pieces.”

Brandon and I dropped Peyton off first today.  I missed our Mommy and me time in the car, when we count school buses and chat about what she sees outside.  Brandon dominates the conversations normally.  We made it back to Brandon’s school for flag salute, but he was being a bit unruly and ignoring my requests to line up properly, so I left early for my class.  Today was our last class, but I hope to continue to use what I’ve learned to make a difference in kids’ (not just my own) lives, as ultimately, it’s for all of our kids’ futures and in their best interest.  As I was walking back to my car, Brandon saw me and shouted, “Bye Mommy!”  I ignored him.  He tried again, but I stared at him, then walked away.  He shrugged a bit, but kept playing. It was hard to do, but I felt I had to be strong to teach him the lesson that he can’t get away with being rude to me just because he was around his friends and at school.
I went back home, cleaned up a bit, then headed back for lunch duty.  There were the same two paid duties and then the other volunteer from last week, Theresa, another mom from one of Brandon’s classmates.  We had about 60 kids to supervise.  This week, though, the yard duty turned the responsibility of our class over to me.  She asked me to line them up and walked them across the playground after lunch was over.  It surprised me a bit, since I hadn’t been asked to do that last week.  It went well; I chose the kid who was eating the quietest and nicest to be my line helper.  Brandon did as he was told, after I briefed him as to why I behaved the way I did (which was how he treated me at flag salute).  He didn’t appreciate it, and I told him neither did I.  I was planning on playing with Brandon, but overheard these two girls arguing.  One girl wanted to play with another, but she was being mean to her.  So, I asked the group if they wanted to play Simon Says.  So I engaged all of them in a few rounds of that, before they started getting bossy again and demanding to be Simon next.  They started arguing who was next.  I said, “I’m SUPER Simon, and I determine who is Simon next.”  After about 5-7 minutes of this, I thanked them for letting me play with them, and told them they had to take turns after I left.  It was just in time, as Brandon and the boys looked like they were playing a little rough.  They had some balls and were fighting over them.  So I asked them if I could have the ball and play a game.  I remember when I was little we used to play 3 flies up.  So I threw the ball up into the air and asked the boys to try to catch it and bring it back to me.  It was a big rubber ball, so they had a fighting chance to catch it on the fly, or while bouncing.  It still did get a little rough, so I couldn’t go too far.  They did take turns throwing the ball into the air, and we were given a two minute warning to start cleaning up.  All the kids cleaned up, and we lined up straight and quiet to show Ms Song what a well-behaved class she had.  The kids got pretty into it.
I told Brandon since he’d had a good lunch listening to me, I’d walk home with him.  As we were cleaning up, a kid hit his mouth with a ball he had dribbled.  I let his teacher know, as he was asking for ice, and Ms Song asked me to take him to the office.  So I didn’t end up leaving school until about 1215pm, when I had to get back by 1245pm after dropping my car off.  I quickly went home, and made a PB&J, then headed back on foot.  I had my course set, and was going to map my run, but I turned down the wrong street (too busy stuffing my face, trying not to get jelly on my shoes!).  I then only had 15 minutes remaining.  I debated whether I should just go back to the house to get the car, or run fast.  I chose the latter, as it was more honorable, since I told Brandon we’d get our walking stamp.  It was 1230 pm at this time.   I was running faster than I normally do at the gym, and was pretty sweaty by the time I got to school.  So I ended up running a little over 1.5 miles (since I’d had the detour down the wrong street) in about 13 minutes (I had 2 minutes to spare). Ms Song was already letting people go when I got there.  We quickly walked to the office, got our stamp, and then headed home.  While we were walking home, right down our street, we saw a kid outside his house.  He called over to us across the street and said, “Hey, I know you from CC (school).”  I asked him what grade he was in, and then his dad showed up from in the car out front of the house.  We crossed the street to meet them. Before having the drug you also need to carry davidfraymusic.com cheap viagra from uk out a physical examination in order to fully understand the problem. 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Peyton was working on a 60 piece puzzle that we got at the dollar store, and Brandon was super hungry as he ate everything I gave him, asking for more.  He liked the frutti di mare noodles, even eating an octopus and asking for more.  He also had two mussels, a calamari, and a shrimp, even though he was worried about being allergic to it.  He said he was all done (after two plates), and said he wanted to wait for dessert.  During dinner, we were greeted by Miss Kristina and Ryan!  Peyton played coy, and didn’t look at her, despite her giving her a hug.  Logan recognized her, too.  After she left, we were joking around why she didn’t say hi, and then she turned around in her high chair.  Dave was helping her eat, and I asked him if she was crying.  Dave nodded.  Poor baby…she is so sensitive.  We ended up with the birthday desserts – all 4 of them! You can never have too many desserts 🙂  Peyton wasn’t allowed to have dessert until she properly asked for it.  She had finished her puzzle, with a little help, and just grunted for the cake.  After 20 minutes, as we were wrapping up, she finally asked me for the cake.  It was more of a whisper.  As I handed her the spoon, I wanted to hear a “Thank you”, but she refused.  So I didn’t let her have it.  After another 5 minutes, she finally eeked out a thank you.  She did enjoy the spoonful.  We headed out, and when I got home, I asked her, “Why didn’t you say, ‘Thank you’?”  She said, “Cuz I cranky.”  Then I asked her, “Why didn’t you say “Hi” to Miss Kristina?”  She said, “Cuz I sad.”  So we made this video and will send it to her.  Both kids are in bed, without so much as a complaint.  I hope they stay there, since this whole week, we’ve had either one or the other wake up and wake us up in the process.  At least I had my nap.