Month: July 2011

I was surprised how easy of a transition back to home Sunday was.  Until Monday night.  First, Brandon came in in the middle of the night and told us that his radio was off.  Dave went to go take a look, and the CD player just kaput.  The radio seems to be working, but Brandon was bent out of shape to not have Taylor playing nonstop.  What seemed to be shortly after, Peyton came in crying. I spoke to her sternly and said, “It’s still dark, go back to your room.”  She had more of a fit, but I ignored her.  She cried a little more, than flopped herself onto our floor.  She quieted down, but I thought Shilajit is widely recommended for improving strength, stamina and sex power naturally, my link viagra tablets 20mg you are advised intake of this herbal supplement daily two times with milk or plain water. Available tadalafil 20mg canada as an OTC supplement melatonin is essentially a hormone that the body produces at night. These alternatives cheapest viagra are relatively new but no less promising. What one has to cheap viagra be careful of is that it is recreationally suggested by one study that it might be treated. she was going to be our roommate again.  She said, “I no like the darks.”  She stayed on our floor for what seemed to be quite a while.  Since I had ignored her, I don’t even know what time it was.  She finally got bored, and knew it was rough on the floor without blankets or her bed accessories.  So she got up, and I heard her climb back up onto her bed without another peep.  Yay!  I was able to get right back to sleep after both interruptions.  Hopefully tonight isn’t as bad, but Brandon is still pretty upset about not having a radio.  I tried to find a peaceful station, but the reception is poor.

Every morning I need to put sunscreen on both kids before school. This morning, Peyton was giving me problems, and I thought it was because she woke up on the wrong side of the bed. She was so grouchy, right from the moment she woke up. She was sleeping so soundly even past my alarm, and I went to get Brandon at 7am. He was already up, but just slowly moving out of the bed. I hurried him to get ready, then went out to check on Peyton who was whining and looking for me in my room. I was behind her, and when she saw me, she stretched out her arms. She calmed down when I picked her up. During breakfast, I was trying to put sunscreen on her face. She said, “I no want scun skeen.” I finally convinced her that we needed to, she just didn’t want it in her eyes. Brandon didn’t give me any problems even after I did get it in his eyes. Good thing it’s tear free.

Later today, when I picked Peyton up from school, the teacher said she had a bit of a tough morning. They figured she was just used to playing with her brother, but now these kids at school were her friends. She did better than I thought with the potty, given she had been in diapers all of our trip. She only had one poop and one pee accident, but it was all in her swim clothes, so she was in her regular clothes that I had out for her after water play. She helped me with the laundry when we got home. She gets her body halfway in the laundry; just her legs are on the ground, and she pulls out all the wet to go to the dryer. She stood up too quickly and hit her head on the washer and said, “Oh, I hurt my head.” Later, when eating the Chinese broccoli Dave made, she said, “This not good for me.” I tried to convince her it was good and if she ate it, she’d grow taller and be able to ride more rides. She wasn’t buying it. She just repeated, “This not good for me.” She chose to eat her frozen veggies instead. Dave was on the phone with the internet people, so I was finishing up dinner with the kids. Peyton was having a tantrum since I took away her princess cup since she wasn’t drinking it like a big girl. I poured the milk into a sippy cup and gave that to her. She spilled some of the milk on purpose on the floor through Long: online prescription for viagra This herbal ingredient with its botanical name is Crataeva Nurvula. Ashwagandha is especially helpful for people with insomnia, low libido, depression, arthritis and anxiety. appalachianmagazine.com tadalafil canada Today, quite a large number of male viagra vs generic personalities experience a dropdown in erections that make them humiliating before their partners. Why cheap viagra from pfizer And Not Any Other ED Drugs? It is common knowledge that there are three very potent and FDA approved generic erectile dysfunction medications of viagra, purchase viagra online. the tiny sippy cup holes, so I took that away from her. I wiped up the milk with a towel, and left a little water on the ground. Peyton was walking away from me since I had taken her milk away, but she slipped on the wet spot. She howled even longer while I did my best to suppress my laughter at the sight of her totally laid out on her back, looking up at the ceiling. I told her if she wanted to read books, she had to drink her milk. She came back to her milk, and then I set the dreaded timer. She cried even harder, telling me she didn’t want the timer. “Turn it off, Mommy. Turn off the timer.” I refused, and told her she had 5 minutes to finish her milk. Actually, I set it for 10 minutes, but really, she only took 3 minutes. There was only a half cup in there. She had calmed down, but still had clear snot dripping down from her nose. I took her upstairs to brush her teeth, and cleaned her up a bit. Her eyes were still teary, and her nose had residual drip. I held her closely to me, and she looked up at me, smiled and said, “Snuggle, snuggle?” When we “snuggle snuggle”, we rub noses. I took one look at her nose, and had to strategically snuggle with my nose above her drippy nose. The things we do for love.
Again, whenever one kid is in trouble, the other becomes an angel. I had asked Brandon to take a bath, while I finished up with Peyton. He went up, did his thing, then came back down. While I was brushing Peyton’s teeth, he said, “I think someone’s trying to call me downstairs.” I asked him, “Who’s trying to call you?” I asked him if my phone was ringing. He said it was, and that someone was trying to call him. Weird. Later, I realized he was right – my mom had tried to call, but I hadn’t even heard it. Dave had left his work badge at home. I called him this morning to let him know. When Brandon saw it, he asked Dave which door he’d be leaving out of tomorrow morning. Dave asked him what for. Brandon said, “So I can put the badge down in front of the door when you leave, so you don’t forget it.” Such a sweet boy. (The teachers said he had a good day today, except that he tried to smuggle a lego minifigure into school, and then blamed it on Peyton and/or me for putting it in his pocket)

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Friday morning, we headed back to OC, which meant another stop at Disneyland. We can’t seem to get enough! We were driving back that way, and made an impromptu stop there. We stayed until about 4pm, and then went back to the house. We wanted to go for an early dinner so we could get the kids down while we met up with Josephine. We went to a new Japanese restaurant that had opened up. There were pictures of Sake, Soju and martinis, and Peyton looked at each one and said, “I no like this.” That was great news, since she had tried grabbing my happy hour drink the night before. She had two hands on my glass before I told her it was “Mommy’s drink”.
Peyton was pretty funny on our trip. Dave noticed upon his return from his business trip that she was talking a lot more than the week before he left. I hadn’t really noticed, but that’s because I was with her. During our trip, she was talking a lot to herself, pretending like she was talking to me. I caught her saying, “Hello? It’s Robyn. Hello, Mickey.” Then chatting on and on like she was holding her own conversation. When Josephine came over to the house, she was trying to hear Peyton talk, but Peyton was very shy about it, only barely whispering to me. Jos was asking her all kinds of questions about Disneyland, etc, just to get her to talk. She finally got down from my lap, and headed over to Dave’s mom, and started spouting off all the answers. Dave heard her from upstairs, basically answering all of Jos’ questions, but to Dave’s mom. She was talking about her favorite ride, but she didn’t like the blue fish (from Ariel), and on and on. She was teaching herself phonics with her computer, saying, “Capital A. Says A and ah.” She was also still very sensitive, getting frustrated with the puzzle on my phone at Jeff’s parents’ house, and crying in frustration. She wanted help, but I was talking and told her it was her puzzle and she needed to do it herself. She burst out in tears, and was sobbing. She did finally calm down, and I asked her, “Whose puzzle is it?” She said, “Pey-en’s.” (That’s how she refers to herself). I asked, “Who needs to learn how to do it herself?” Peyton said, “Pey-en.” But she still had residual heaving of her chest, even though she was calm now. She also lost it again at my parents’ house, with everyone watching her. More on that later.
We drove back on Saturday, leaving Dave’s parents’ house to meet up with Marcia for me and Mike for Dave. We all met in Westwood. This was Marcia’s first time meeting Peyton. The last time she visited was a few days before I had her, back at my parents’ house. Peyton also LOVES Uncle Mike. After only five minutes in the restaurant, waiting for Mike’s food, and the yogurt I ordered for the kids, she was warmed up, and talking non stop to both Marcia and Mike. I told Marce that it was rare that she was that warmed up. Marce said it was probably from her lack of height and that she looks like a kid, and thus less threatening. We stayed for about an hour, then headed on our drive. We made it back with plenty of time to meet up with my mom and family for her birthday celebration. We had done all our laundry at Dave’s parents’ house upon our return, and just had to put away clothes from our trip. We were even early to the restaurant and called to see if they could come earlier since they were all close by at my parents’ house. We had an uneventful dinner, and headed back home. Dave and I went back out to get dessert. Thinking both kids there would be too much for them to handle, we took Peyton with us. She cried and screamed because she didn’t want to leave. We bribed her and told her she could choose something for herself. We were headed to get an ice cream cake, but would just get her her own thing. We found these mini cones, which were great for portion control, especially for the kids and also for the adults. I told Peyton to choose a flavor, and she found one and said, “I want the pink and purple one.” Cotton candy. Nice. At least it was sherbert. She got a kids scoop, which was much bigger than the cones the adults and Brandon were going to get. She enjoyed that scoop, finishing it to the very end. She ate such small spoonfuls, it took her from the time she got it, all the way back on the drive home, and even after we sang to my mom. Everyone was staring at her eating it, and she happened to flip her spoon backwards since it was dripping down her finger, making it slippery. The adults all commented and started laughing. She suddenly burst into tears! Everyone was shocked, but I knew. She HATES the attention, especially if she thinks she is being made fun of, and hid her yucky face into my sweater (I was standing right next to her). I tried to calm her down, but it made her cry even more. I said it was a good thing my dad didn’t look at her, otherwise, all heck woulda broken loose. After she calmed down, she finished up her sherbet, and I cleaned her up. We had planned for the kids to stay over, and we were going to meet up with Dave’s Missouri friend, but we got lazy, and ended up all just staying over. She woke up this morning, and said, “I pooped.” Dave and I both ignored her and she fell back asleep. I had set my alarm for 8am to get to the Brown boys’ birthday party on time. She stirred a bit, then I changed her diaper. She really had pooped, poor thing. I laid back down, to “snooze” and she fell back asleep. By 830am, I had put all the blankets back, and she didn’t move a muscle. She doesn’t like covers, so she didn’t mind not having them. But I moved everything out from under her, and she didn’t seem to care. Since she was still sleeping, I decided to keep her with my mom. She had started to come down with something during the week, and may have even infected Kimberlee and Gregory, who both had fevers by week’s end (though Peyton did not), so it was better. Later my mom said she didn’t wake up until 930am! Brandon had fun with Mommy and Daddy at the park. We ended up being early to the park, since I had gotten my times mixed up. I thought we were running late, but it didn’t start until 1030am! We took advantage of having only one kid, who was playing nicely with Ian, and we ate first. Both of us were able to eat on our own, and then Brandon came over when he was hungry. Dave and I threw the football around a bit, while keeping an eye on Brandon, who was playing with water toys. All things we couldn’t have done if Peyton were around, as there was a lake nearby, and I’m sure she would have wanted to go in it. Dave said that Kathy had a bee land on her piece of chicken, and she was picking at it slowly, around where the bee landed. Brandon noticed and said, “Oh it’s going to taste good now, it has honey on it!” Still comes up with funnies on a daily basis.
Afterward, we headed out and did some more Peyton-friendly errands, like the phone store, and shopping for furniture that my mom had suggested for our kitchen table. Dave dropped us back here, and Brandon headed up to his room and said, “Mommy, can you turn on my music?” I had mentioned that he needed to take a nap, but he knew I wasn’t kidding about it. He went down without a fuss, and I, too, took a nap. When I woke up, Brandon was hanging out with Dave who was putting our table together. We finally have a dining room table. After he was done, we headed up to pick Peyton up. She was so happy to see us, but my mom said she only asked for “Bruddah” the entire day. I thought she’d ask for me, like she did when Dave’s mom had her while we were out with Jos. She was walking around crying for me, but not with my mom. She only asked for Bruddah. She got into the car, and said, “HI BRUDDAH! Hi DADDY!” She was so excited to see them both. Brandon was telling her how we got a new table and telling her all about her day. Peyton had given Brandon a lego minifigure that she and my mom had picked up at the mall. Peyton got one too, but waited to open it when Brandon got his. They were so cute chatting in the car, like they hadn’t seen each other in years. When Peyton got home, she said, “We got a new chair!” She climbed up on it, and felt the table. Neither gave us trouble after we told them it was bedtime. Brandon read a book to me, slowly, but he got through it. Dave read to Peyton. Both kids had lights out by 915pm, which is later than normal for them, but I guess we have to ease them back into our school routine. Peyton wanted a hug from me, and when I went into her room, she hugged me so tightly. When I got close enough, she whispered in my ear, “Sleep with me, Mommy.” I had to tell her no, and that only when we are travelling does she get to sleep with us. She nodded, and again, she hugged me tight. She whispered again, “Stay, Mommy.” I smiled and gave her another tight hug, then left. She came out to tell Dave, “I no like the darks.” She had her nightlight on, so we sent her back. I came down to finish blogging, and Dave came down to watch the replay of the soccer game. Neither were heard from again.

The next day was Dave’s dad’s actual birthday, and since we had plans for dinner, we took him out for dim sum. During lunch, I accidentally knocked over some water onto myself, trying to help Peyton with her water. She quickly took her napkin and started dabbing it on me, trying to dry me off. Dave’s mom knew that Peyton was so protective, and it was natural for her to do that. She looked so upset that it had happened, but I reassured her it was just an accident. We took off from lunch to head down to the beach to meet up with three other families and their kids. We were the last to arrive, and the kids were all ready to go in their respective parents’ cars. It was about 330pm by now, and the beach was still busy, despite having some cloud cover. The kids had fun bringing water from the ocean to the area where we had set up camp. There was Brandon (5), Katie (4), Rachel (4), Sydnie (4), Haylie (2), Peyton (2), Megan (2), and Kyle (almost 10 months). Despite my kids not seeing these kids very often, they all got along well! We hadn’t brought any beach toys, so ours to had share and take turns with the other girls. Kyle had fun watching the action, and next time he’ll be right along in the mix. Despite the water being a little cold, the kids had fun sploshing around in it. After the beach, we headed back to the Ting’s and washed the kids up. Mike and Pish were grilling meat on the BBQ, and soon, we had ourselves a meal. We actually had an adult table, and a kids table. 7 kids were seated nicely, eating, and the parents all couldn’t believe it. Brandon came up to us and said, “Mommy, I ate a zucchini!” I think he was trying to act cool in front of the girls, since he NEVER eats zucchini. After dinner, and jello for the kids, and sorbet for the parents, we let the kids play a little longer, then headed home. The kids were exhausted from the day. We each took a kid and plopped them down in the room. Dave’s parents were out for the evening, and we didn’t make it before they came home. We didn’t see them until the morning.
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My mom was headed into town on Tuesday morning. She was going to come in on Tuesday night, but the flights were wide open for the morning. She woke us all up when she called to inform us she was on the flight. That was 730am, and all were sound asleep. It took us a little time to get up and get mobilized. When we did, we headed to the airport to pick her up. Peyton was complaining about something, and had kicked her shoes off. My mom got into the car and asked, “What happened to your shoes?” Peyton replied, “I get cranky.” My uncle Johnny came to get my mom for the day, while we headed to the park to meet up with Deb, Katie, and Kyle. We rode on Small World, Mickey’s house, and went to Ariel’s new ride. Katie hadn’t been on it yet, and this is one of Peyton’s more favorite rides. She is still freaked out about Flotsam and Jetsam, but she knows when they come up she just closes her eyes. We had picked up Fastpasses for Soarin’ earlier in the day, so Dave took the two older kids, while Debbie and I hung out with the younger ones. Katie had never been on it before, and I was impressed she was willing to go with Dave by herself without Deb. Dave said he put her in between himself and Brandon, so at least she knew her co-riders. Good thing Brandon didn’t complain about sitting next to another person. Dave had to sit on the end, because only adults are allowed there. They came out and Katie wasn’t sad, so that was good! Dave said she did fine. We all headed out together; we had been in the sun so much, we wanted to get food and get indoors. We tried to go to our new local favorite place to have Vietnamese rolls, but they were closed on Tuesdays. Just Tuesdays. We went to another place that we don’t get too often. Peyton was asleep through the entire dinner. I just held her across my lap, while I ate my salad. They had forgotten to get me the chicken with the salad, so they brought it afterward. We had compiled food from our meals to give to her when she did wake up, which was just as we were getting ready to leave. She was a bit cranky, as she didn’t know where she was. We fed her back at the hotel, and my mom showed up shortly after with Belle, Uncle Johnny, Kimberlee and Gregory. Peyton was very shy, but polite. My cousins were kissing on her, trying to get her to smile, and Peyton just had her head down, plugging away at her little computer. She looked up at me, with these sad puppy dog eyes, trying to get away from them, but they were swarming her. Brandon was acting out trying to get attention, since all of it was on Peyton, who could care less. While Kimberlee was next to her, Peyton breathed in deeply, and let out a long sigh. Poor baby. Her back was to the rest of the room, so Dave couldn’t see her expressions. Dave was sad for her since we were going to Legoland the next day with the pair of kids and my uncle. He thought she’d be tortured all day long. She did fine, and was able to ride some of the rides with us, barely. She is just 36” tall, and that was the minimum height for some of the rides. Brandon is 48” we’ve learned, and was able to go on the faster roller coasters there. The roller coasters are more watered down, but still thrilling for the little kids. I had to bribe Brandon to go on the roller coasters, and told him if he did three, I’d get him a surprise. After hearing him complain for 30 minutes, while we waited, he enjoyed his ride. He wanted me to go with him, and “hold him”. I did my best to honor his request. After that ride, he wanted to get moving on the other roller coasters so he could get his surprise. I dragged it out, and our last ride was the final coaster. Coastersaurus! We all went, even Peyton. She was a little scared, but I think she had a good time. She kept talking about it after we were done. My uncle had taken off around 3pm, and we stayed until about 7pm before leaving to get dinner. Dave was on a mission to eat good Mexican food, since we were in SD. Peyton was having trouble at dinner, since she hadn’t taken a nap ALL DAY LONG! She was cranky, and didn’t want to eat in the restaurant. When I took the food back to the room, she ate it all up. The next day, we headed to the water, to look at the air craft carrier, The Midway. Dave had checked it out the previous week, when his reception was onboard. Since he had already been, and Peyton was a little too young to appreciate it, I let my mom take Brandon for the tour. She had a few hours before her trip back. Dave, Peyton and I hung out along the wharf and pier, while Brandon, my mom, and the camera went onboard. I told my mom to take plenty of pictures. She got some good ones of Brandon in the bridge, and around with some of the planes that were on the top deck. Peyton (and I) enjoyed watching some of the sailors training underwater alongside the carrier. I told Peyton to wave to the boys, and she did! They didn’t see her, but she waved nevertheless. While looking out past the harbor, Peyton said, “That’s a lotta boats!” Then she said, “What is the red balloon there?” I told her it was a buoy. She kept asking what they were. I said, “Look at me, look at me, BOO EE.” She studied me, and repeated, “BOO EE?” I told her she was right. She kept repeating it. Peyton took a nap while we continued to stroll. She woke up before we met up with them, and the only way I knew she was awake was that she said, “Where’s Grandma?”
We dropped my mom off at the airport, then headed back for lunch/dinner. We got another round of Mexican food, and headed back to the hotel. We wanted to take the kids to the pool, since it’s like the beach, only minus the sand. There was a 1 foot wading pool which was perfect for us. The water was nice and solar-heated, and the kids had fun with their squirt bottles. I was using Peyton as a human shield, and shooting her brother with the squirt bottle. I learned this trick from Brandon who was doing this at Legoland, by ducking under the cannon while firing at the boats in front of him. He strategically placed himself to shoot but not get shot.
We got happy hours tapas, since we’d had a late lunch. We both had a drink, while the kids munched on the hot apps and hummus. We got them down for bed, while Dave headed out to rent some movies. He came back with a romantic comedy, which we started to watch while the kids slept. We had a kid sleeping in each bed, but since we were watching it on the laptop, we moved Peyton over to Brandon’s bed. At one point, she sat up, and was at the edge of the bed. She stretched, and arched her back, and was headed for a backflip off the end of the bed. We saw it happening in slow motion, and I jumped up off of our bed, and dove to catch her head. I got her just in time, and my heart was racing from the adrenaline rush. Not wanting to do that again, we brought her over between us with the computer pushed back. Because of the light, she woke up with about 20 minutes remaining of the movie. It was a pretty funny movie, and maybe our laughter woke her up as well. In any case, she joined us for the remainder of the movie, and was totally into it. I thought she was just lounging around, but her head was focused on the screen. It reminded me of when Dave was on paternity leave with me, and we were watching Netflixed movies like crazy, with Peyton sleeping in between us. Although this time, she was much larger, and talked back to us when we asked her something.

The next day, Meg and the girls were headed back home, so we were on our own with the grandparents. Our morning started off as usual with breakfast for the kids, while we got to sleep in. That’s the beauty of grandparents! We had no plans for the day, and the kids really wanted to go into the park. They had never been down to LA that long without going into the park J Since we had no plans for the day, we decided to head off to the park. Even though our real plans weren’t to go until Monday and Tuesday, we figured we’d start out a little early. We inadvertently forgot our stroller at the house, but fortunately, Peyton loves the freedom. We made that little girl walk everywhere! We took turns holding her a little bit, like when we were crossing over parks, but mostly, she walked on her own. We still had the backpack, so whoever wasn’t wrangling Peyton, the other had the backpack. Brandon also trudged along with us, not giving us any trouble about having to walk. We were only there for about 6 hours, but we did cross over naptime. We were a little worried about it, but the kids powered through. We had a fast pass for the rapids ride, which is Brandon’s new favorite ride, and perfect during the summer, but it was at 610pm. We were busy doing rides, and got up to 515pm before throwing in the towel and braving the 45 minute wait in line. We were supposed to meet up with Dave’s parents at 7pm, so 610pm was pushing it somewhat. Dave and Brandon got in line, while Peyton and I had some fun doing wilderness stuff in the jungle gym area. We don’t usually go in here, but it’s revamped as a wilderness explorer camp, like Russell from Up. We spent over a half an hour exploring the slides, rope-climbing ladders, and obstacle course. She was very determined to do these things on her own. On the rope area, she wanted to climb up it herself. I was in flip flops, so it made it difficult to spot for her, so I waited for her at the bottom and she managed on her own. I took pictures instead 🙂
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For the sake of brevity, or smaller chunks to read, I’ve broken up our vacation in days, roughly.  Here goes nothing 🙂
Thursday-Friday:
For just a few days off of vacation, I was able to get 10 days free. We decided to make a trip to Dland, but also keep heading down South to SD for a bit. We got to catch up with a lot of friends, and see family as well. We left Thursday night after work. Last time, we made several stops due to travel during the day. But during the night, we are able to just have the kids sleep, and we’re able to get there faster. Also, there was less traffic. So we braved the one lane road (the road narrows to one lane due to a closure), and made it within 6 or so hours. With their other grandparents, they kids have been accustomed to bagels in the morning. Grandpa goes out the morning after we arrive and gets a whole dozen! Brandon knows he can’t have the super sugary bagel, and usually likes just the plain version. Dave went out at the same time to get the rest of our essentials – milk, Cheerios, and some spray bottles, since we knew it’d be warm at the parks. We were planning to meet up with Abby to celebrate her birthday. Meg didn’t want to come to her parents’ house and her parents did not want to go to her. That left us to drag her parents with us in our car. We all filed into our car to make the drive across town. Poor Brandon was in the very back, but he didn’t seem to mind, other than his request for air conditioning. We stopped for lunch before making our way over to Meg. We had some yummy ramen, from this place whose portions were huge! I made an entire new bowl of noodles with those that I had taken out before starting to eat, in an attempt portion control. When we arrived up to Jeff’s parents’ house, P and her grandpa were asleep. Peyton had slept in the car, but Brandon needed a nap. We tried fruitlessly to get Brandon to take a nap there. We finally let him out to play with the P’s. We had brought swim clothes, but decided against it when we learned the pool hadn’t been heated. The last time we were out there, the older kids’ lips turned blue. Abby needed to be picked up from summer camp, so we brought our kids down to UCLA to walk around before dinner. In an hour, we managed to take them to the student store AND get them a Diddy Riese (they shared) ice cream sandwich. It was more of a bribe to come to the school so they too could get cheap ice cream and cookies. It was a little bad parenting on our part, giving them ice cream before dinner, but it was all part of our recruiting trip. Dave and I got to see some of the new buildings that have come up since we’ve last visited. Crazy how much construction there always seems to be, even when we attended the school. The buildings now are much more expansive and impressive. So we met up with the rest of the family at dinner. Meg told us that P was coming down with a cold, and I passed this on to Brandon, who was much more likely to interact with her than Peyton was. I told him we are just starting our vacation, so he should give P room, and not catch whatever she was coming down with. Brandon has a tendency to get in other kids’ faces to play with them. Peyton usually plays from afar, if at all. Brandon was sitting between Abby and me, while Peyton was sitting across from us with Daddy. P got down from her seat, and walked over to her sister. Brandon saw her coming, and nudged closer to me. He looked up at me, and said, “Mommy!” I told him she was getting sick, but I never said she had the plague! Since we weren’t terribly hungry, we had a bunch of tapas to split. One was a kobacha squash dish, with pine nuts. The menu had listed it as wasabi-infused, but upon tasting it, Brandon said, “Does this have horseradish in it?” Wow! His palate picked it up. I think he still had flashbacks from when he stuck a wad of it in his mouth last year at dinner. It did give him an appreciation for it.
After dinner, we headed back to the house again, to help Abby celebrate her birthday. There were cupcakes, but I had told the kids that since we’d had ice cream earlier, we weren’t going to have any cupcakes. Brandon AND Peyton, for that matter, remembered. Both declined when asked if they wanted a cupcake. I settled with them, and told them that we’d take them home with us to eat the next day. They agreed to it and had no problem. Dave’s mom was so impressed that they listened. I told her they know the consequences of trying to sneak dessert; Brandon first hand, and Peyton, by watching her brother’s previous attempts.