Month: February 2012

Today, on the morning of Dave’s departure, Brandon tells us his eye has been hurting all night long.  Upon closer inspection, it was a little pink.  No discharge.  No swelling.  Just pink sclera on his left eye.  Dave said that Brandon got soap in it last night at the swimming pool shower.  And there was chlorine of the pool, so I told Brandon to stop rubbing it.  Dave was to tell before school care to make sure they knew about it.  But Brandon told me that he still went to the principal’s office to get it checked out.  It was deemed NOT pink eye, but in any case, I arrived at work at 8am and worked like a mad woman thinking I may have to rush out to get him.  I relaxed a bit by 930am, thinking if they hadn’t called me by then, then my chances were pretty good that I could stay at work.  I got to the office early so that I could head out by 430pm to get both kids.  I didn’t get home until 545pm, when I quickly got their food ready.  Peyton told me, “But wait, I get to watch Aladdin because I keep my underwear dry.  Turn it on, please.”  She proceeded to walk to the sofa, and plopped herself down.  Brandon was already over there, looking at a toy he’d gotten for his birthday.  She took the remote and turned the TV on herself.  The channel that came on was ESPN, and Brandon looked up at Inclusion of certain good fats, especially omega-3 fatty acids are also very good additions to one’s regimen if you do not want viagra cialis achat to deal with Ultram when joint pain gets very bad. Till ate, there have been countless number of males who have been experiencing difficulties during the sessions of intimacy wherein, this adversely impacts over the functioning of this organ and this is why this sildenafil delivery herbal liver purifier will work towards reducing the inflammation. Excessive wear patterns on the client’s viagra generic cheap shoes. The improvements made to the newer versions include:Effects lasting from 36 to 48 hoursTake effect in just 15 minutes, while its effects stays in the body for 6 hours. best link cheap viagra pill the college basketball game and said, “Oh, Mommy, I want to watch ES-PEN.”  I chuckled a bit, thinking Dave missed such a moment.  They watched the game long enough for me to queue up Aladdin.  They watched it while I washed up the lunch dishes and finished prepping/heating up their dinner.  We ate without problems.  In fact, Peyton was very careful with her milk, using two hands to drink and telling me so.  “I’m using two hands to drink my milk properly.”  Brandon started his reading program, while I bathed Peyton.  Then, when we were done, he hopped in, while I got her ready.  I read her a book and tucked her in at 7pm.  There she stayed while Brandon and I finished up some more books, wrote in his journal for tomorrow, and got him tucked in.  He was in by 745pm.  Peyton heard us with Raz kids and said, “Can you do Raz kids quietly?  So you don’t wake me up.”  By 8pm, it was lights out.  Tomorrow will be a marathon day, as we have swimming after work, then it’s field trip on Friday morning.  Phew.  I better get to sleep early tonight.

While we were playing a game over the weekend, Brandon made the time out sign with his hands and said, “Tee OH.  Tee OH.  I have to go potty.”  He must have learned it at school, since I saw some of the other kids saying that at the after school program.  Wonder if he knows what it really means.

Phew.  I’m pooped!  This morning started by dropping Peyton off at school, then returning to Brandon’s school to drop him off.  My plan was to volunteer in his classroom all day long.  I had to take care of some logistics with the school office to get squared away for the field trip on Friday, then I returned with cake pops and camera in hand.  I got to sit in on their 100 day celebration; books in that theme and their presentations of their 100th day artwork were in order.  I did yard duty for both recess and lunchtime.  I totally give it to the teachers.  They have their work cut out for them!  Twenty-two kids, moving in twenty-two different directions.  I was introduced as “Brandon’s mom” and that’s what the kids and teacher, even, called me, until Sean said, “Mom?” Brandon said, “MOM?  That’s not your mom.  That’s Robyn!”  Some of the kids already knew me as Robyn, too.  I was able to take some pictures:

After lunch, and right before early dismissal, Brandon got into serious mode and started handing out the flash cards and pencils we’d gotten as party favors.  Then he proceeded to pass out cake pops.  They were a hit!  The kids were looking at them all morning long.  Here was a pic I took at home:

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I ended up staying up until midnight to get these done.  I wanted to make sure they were suitable for serving before the morning, so I could bail on them and get some already baked goods if needed.  I started to rush toward the end, resulting in sloppy frosting, but, as Dave said, “The kids aren’t going to notice.”  They happily gobbled these up.  In fact, one of the parents who was picking up the kids asked me, “Where did you buy them from?”  I proudly got to tell her that I made them.  Prior to that, I was embarrassed to bring them through the school with a lot of parents around, so I brought them in after I’d settled the car paperwork, and there was less traffic.
We stopped by home quickly, where I ate, while Brandon went up to play.  We returned some things we’d gotten extra of last night, saw one of the Jungle room teachers at Michael’s on her lunch break, and then I gave him a choice of an ice cream or a movie. He picked a movie, but the one that was playing was far away, 20 minutes south of us.  The other choice that was rated “G” was Beauty and the Beast.  I had to stop talking about the choices in front of Peyton because she thought she was going, too.  Brandon declined Beauty and the Beast, and I don’t blame him, since last year, we watched “Tangled”. I guess a guy can only take so much of the princess movies.  So Alvin and his brothers it was!  We got there after a short drive, and got settled into the theater.  I made sure he pottied first, and he picked his seat, right on the aisle.  We were the only ones in the theater through the previews and about 10 minutes into the movie.  Then some other kid and her dad came in.  The dad proceeded to talk on his phone for a few minutes, ignoring my annoyed glances at him.  Apparently, he was trying to navigate this other lady to get to the theater.  Brandon didn’t pay any attention to it, so I figured to not make a scene.  He looked very tired, but he did better than I did, paying attention, while I snoozed a few minutes at a time.  I’d slept less than I normally do, and I was exhausted from spending the day in the classroom.  I couldn’t stay awake for the life of me!  Brandon nudged me at some points, with songs he’d recognized and liked.  I did watch most of the movie, getting the gist of it.  After the movie was done, we went to pick up Peyton.  She saw us right away and came running.  We all went home and met Dave there.  We all went to swimming, which was a bit inconvenient in our plans to take Brandon out to dinner.  By the time we went to dinner, Peyton was tired.  She even said, “I’m tired!” while sighing.  She couldn’t sit up at the table, and ended up leaning up against me.  That was the compromise from lying down on the bench with her feet up.  We got home by 745pm, and whisked the kids off to bed.  Dave will be headed out for a conference for the rest of the work week.  So he’ll take the kids to school, and then I’ll be solo from there on out.  Luckily, I can head to my far away work place early, and can leave early to pick up both, and only have to do that once.  I love birthdays, but those midweek are tiring!

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We’ve only held big parties for Brandon’s “big” birthday years, e.g. his first, and his fifth.  The other years have just been get togethers with my family, and relatively low key.  This year was no different, and in the past, he’s never really asked for a friends’ party.  I told him all who was coming over, and he told me, “Maybe we can have a party with my friends.”  I told him that we should do that next year.  I think he is getting at the age where he wants to go out with his friends, so maybe next year we’ll do something with a small group of his friends.  Now that I know some of them, it would be okay to just hang out and maybe take them to a movie or depending on the weather mini golf or something like that.  But this year, we had pizza and cake for his birthday/Super bowl party.  We went out to the farmer’s market this morning, and the kids ate us out of house and home.  We thought we’d get them a quiche to share, but after they split that, both asked what else there was to eat.  We ended up eating again at the restaurant that we’d parked next to.  The kids split a kids’ meal, then we shared some of our food with them, too!  Poor Dave.  He had given Peyton some turkey sausage, but she was taking her time to eat, and while she wasn’t looking, he took it back and ate it.  She turned back around and said, “Hey, who took my chicken? (she thinks everything is chicken)”  Dave gave her some back, since he’d had some more patties.  We came back, and it was only 1045am.  Peyton looked at me, and said, “Mommy, will you sleep with me?” She was ready to sleep at 1045am?  Fine with me!  We had wanted the kids to sleep early since my family was coming over at 3pm for the game.  She fell asleep within about 10 minutes, and slept for about 2 hours.  We got up, and Dave and Brandon were gone. They had gone to pick up the wings.  When they got back, Brandon, Peyton, and I played one of Brandon’s board games.  The game is for 4-7 year olds, so I helped Peyton a bit, but she did okay.  The premise of the game was selecting cards with letters on them, and trying to find the picture that represented the card.  When you find that picture, you put your marker on it.  Four markers in a row wins.  Peyton was getting better at the game, and even blurted out the answer It’ll damage dreams and wishes and takes over the viagra 100mg generika whole of the family, extended family and friends. For the majority of men age has normally been the spotlight of, or the cause for impotence, discount levitra purchase or ED. A new form of innovation in generic cialis sample the toys market is penis pump. Hypothyroidism is definitely a curable disorder and the treatment option that is buy cheap levitra best for you. when it was Brandon’s turn.  I quickly turned to her to tell her that it wasn’t her turn yet.  She put her hand over her face, and let out a squeal that sounded liked the air being let out of a balloon.  She was very upset, and cried, until it was her turn again.  She really doesn’t like being corrected.  Ever.  Both had to be reminded of the same, waiting their turn, being gracious winners/losers.  Peyton ended up winning both games played, and after the final win, Brandon just slapped her a high five, not a hand shake.  Peyton whined, “Bruddah did not shake my hand.”  I told her he’d given her a high five, which was very similar.  So sensitive, I tell you!  We all put the game away, then it was time for Brandon and Dave to go play catch.  Peyton and I had a snack inside, and after about 15 minutes, Brandon came in, too.  Everyone arrived shortly thereafter.  The kids had wings, and really enjoyed them.  I don’t think they’ve really ever eaten them before, but they didn’t have any problems with them.  Later, they had pizza (yes, it was a totally junk food day, and I was resigned to that fact).  I did work some Caesar salad into them, however.  We finished up, and while Peyton was on the potty (as her normal routine in the middle of dinner), she looked up at me and said, “I ate too much.”  She looked totally defeated.  She did finish her salad and milk.  We had the kids take their baths early so we could wait until the end of the game before cutting cake.  After bathing, Brandon got to open up his presents.  He got lots of legos, Beyblades (spinning tops), and some clothes.  He waited patiently for the end of the game, then we sang the birthday song and cut up the cake.  Here are the pictures:

Our little boy is growing up.  After their teeth were brushed, we ushered them around to say good night.  Peyton went up to everyone and gave them a hug.  My uncle was so surprised that she did!  We told her it was because he was on her turf, just like with Bonnie yesterday.  Both went upstairs, and neither came back down after going to their rooms.  It was 730pm.  Brandon told me, “It’s a three day weekend, right?”  Haha, nice try, boy.  He hadn’t slept, so I didn’t expect a fight.  Peyton likes to sleep, and had slept very early on, so it’d had been awhile since she’d been up.  Now, Dave and I are catching up on commercials and the Voice.

This morning, we lounged around, cleaned up a bit, and got ready for Penny’s party. Dave had gone for a lengthy bike ride, and didn’t get back until about 10am, having left at about 730am.  Luckily, Penny’s party was just down the street!  Bonnie called and needed help getting here since it wasn’t on the GPS, so I navigated her to our house so we could all go together.  Parking was going to be tight, so it was easy enough to just walk the block down the street.  Connor was asleep when they first arrived.  We invited Bonnie in, so the kids could give her a tour.  I stayed outside with Connor to make sure he was okay outside.  I was hoping he wouldn’t get up, since I didn’t know what he’d do if he saw me there.  But I wouldn’t know what he’d do if he woke up at some strange house either with no one watching him.  They all came out about 5 minutes later, and Bonnie was telling me how Peyton was being very chatty, telling her what her favorite colors are, that she likes books.  This is the first time Peyton’s really talked to Bonnie.  Bonnie’s heard her talk at school, but this was a conversation with her.  Bonnie asked if she finally got through to her or was it just because she was in our house.  We definitely told her it was because Bonnie was in her territory.  She’s always comfortable and talkative here.  Even at Nela’s, she was talkative, but that’s because Dave thinks we were in the same general area, being within our housing development.  The Chang’s were already there, and Ashlyn was good about recognizing the kids.  Brandon said a very close hello to her, but then was quickly taken to the clone wars tv show with Nela’s niece and nephew.  Peyton just wanted to sit next to Bruddah, so I sat with them for a few minutes in the front.  She looked at the tv, saw Yoda, and said, “OH, Yoda!”  Funny that she is so influenced by Brandon and knows the Star Wars characters.  The kids won’t bother each other if one of us is sitting there, but I didn’t want to leave them too long alone otherwise Peyton would bother Brandon.  She was already following him around, and he didn’t want her to sit too closely to him.  I watched her closely to make sure she gave him some space.
Food was ready shortly after that, and Dave and I got the kids’ and our plates packed with food.  We called them outside to eat, and they both came.  Brandon quickly ate his food, then returned to watch TV.  Peyton took her time, and ate quite a bit.  Everything was very yummy, with Nela’s mom making some of the Burmese food.  Peyton loved the Burmese meat, but didn’t like the naan-like bread that much.  We ate next to Connor and Bonnie, then cleaned up and went back inside.  The other Kaiserites were in there.  When one of the twins came in with Thuy, I asked Brandon, “Who is this?”  Brandon thought about it and said, “Tyler”.  I had to ask Thuy who confirmed it was.  Ashlyn pointed to Thuy and said, “Twins’ mommy!  Twins’ mommy!”  Poor Thuy, no identity of her own.  I guess I’m “Brandon’s mom” and “Peyton’s mom” to the kids at school, so it’s all the same.  Peyton was being very giggly, playing with Connor and the balloons.  They “bonded” over a musical snowman that they found.  Peyton showed Connor how to turn it on, then Connor took it from there.  We hung around for cake, and each kid got their own slice.  They were passing out the slices to the kids first, and Brandon got his, but since Peyton was on my lap, she seemed to get overlooked.  She looked a bit concerned, so I went to get her one, and she joined her brother to eat it.  We walked back out with Bonnie and Connor after saying our goodbyes.  We stopped at the Chang’s car, and Ashlyn gave Brandon his birthday gift.  We saw Bonnie and Connor off.  Since it was 230pm, we whisked the kids off to nap. Peyton said, “No, I don’t want to go to nap!”  I “volunteered” to take a nap with her, and she ran after me.  Dave was upset that HE didn’t get to nap, but had to go down and prove our residence to our Little League for Brandon.  Peyton said, “Oh, POOR DADDY,” giving him her most sincere sad face.  Then, we went to her room to lie down, and she said, “Yay for sleeping!!”
After we woke up, we went down to watch some videos and do some puzzles.  One that she wanted to do was 100 pieces.  She said, “Wow, tha’ts more than a lot!”  She wanted to watch Ariel videos.  We saw one that was of Ariel on Broadway.  It was her solo in the cave, and Peyton asked, “Are the parents watching down below?”  It was like she likened it to her performance at school 🙂   Then, she started singing it on her own.  Here is her version. Dave didn’t know what the hand motions were.  I told him that’s what Ariel does on Broadway, more or less.  Then, she asked, “Brudda, you wanna sing with me?  I’m cute.  In my skirt, see?”  She’s a ham or diva, one of the two.  Earlier today, I heard this from the kids:
P: Bruddah, will you be my friend?
B: No.
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Poor Peyton.  I felt badly for her.  I was telling Brandon she just wants to be friends with him.  Hopefully he’ll come around.

Though today is a day off for me, it started out with me dropping Peyton off at 730am, to make it back for Brandon’s flag salute at 810am, which was a special one since the kinders were parading around in honor of the Lunar New Year.  The kids had made lanterns and dragons, and walked in front of the assembly showing them off.  After flag salute, I rushed up to my dental appointment.  It was over within a half an hour, but I’d already missed yard duty, so I went home to grab some lunch and a snack for Brandon.  I made it back to his school to pick him up by 1245pm.  We went over to my work for my eye exam.  I was planning to order a new pair of glasses this year, but they wanted me to update my prescription to make sure all was well.  I haven’t changed my prescription in some time, but still, they wanted to be assured that it was most current.  I brought Brandon with me, and was a little worried how the exam would go. He was pretty subdued, probably a bit tired from the day, so he had his computer, and sat down with it, while I checked myself in.  It wasn’t long before they called me back.  He heard my name, too, so he got up and followed me in.  The optometrist was happy to have him in the room.  I set him up with his two oranges, and he did the rest.  He got all his peels in the garbage, and even cleaned up his hands with the sink in the room.  The appointment seemed to go quickly; I’m not sure if she did an abbreviated exam because he was in the room, or if I just didn’t remember from two years ago.  What took longer was me waiting for the optician to order my frames and lenses.  Again, Brandon was very patient, and just sat and drew on a piece of paper at the desk.  After that, we headed down to visit Julie.  She was asking him about his day at school, and his upcoming birthday, and Brandon just chatted away with her.  Julie is easily conversant with both of the kids. Yes, she even gets words out of Peyton!!  Like a snake charmer!  She also did share her Cheerios with Brandon, who ate the whole bag, while he sat on Julie’s desk and chatted away.  They talked about his teeth, or lack thereof, and swimming, and the usual goings on of an almost 6 year old.  After awhile, we took off and headed to the ice cream store to get a cake. I figured a two day head start was way better than I had allowed myself with Peyton’s cake, and that I’d Why you need to buy brand levitra control diabetes? Diabetes may cause blindness, kidney failure and non traumatic amputation. You should be able to call the online pharmacy and have them setup your cialis generika 10mg or other prescriptions on auto-refill. It is a viagra 100 mg fact that intensive weight training can and do contribute to erectile dysfunction. 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Today, Peyton’s worksheet from school said, “Peyton was an EXCELLENT classroom helper!  Without being told, she noticed the classroom was messy and she started to clean and tell her friends, too.”  I can just imagine her “telling” her friends.  More like bossing them around.

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