brynbryn took two steps today. she hasn't repeated it, but yay her!
caleb is sitting at the table, contentedly eating banana lumpia that our neighbor gave us. that and halohalo are two things that he and dave can enjoy together cuz i won't eat it.
we ate a panda feast for christmas eve dinner...lol. hey, at least we helped support the big island trip.
tomorrow i have a spiral ham to cook and leftover pumpkin crunch. we'll open presents, i'll write thank you cards, we'll clean up the house, and then we'll go look at christmas lights.
yay for our first christmas with all four of us.
Friday, December 24, 2010
Thursday, December 23, 2010
MOMMY
a few good notes...
caleb did NOT cry at the doctor's office. he even showed shaka to the doctor and was very friendly to the nurse.
he is FINALLY calling me MOMMY. 2 years old...he decided to save it for my Christmas present!
brynbryn did NOT barf up her medicine yet. she doesn't like it, and fights like heck when we try to give it to her, but at least she hasn't done the projectile barfing like she's done before when we give her something she doesn't like.
caleb did NOT cry at the doctor's office. he even showed shaka to the doctor and was very friendly to the nurse.
he is FINALLY calling me MOMMY. 2 years old...he decided to save it for my Christmas present!
brynbryn did NOT barf up her medicine yet. she doesn't like it, and fights like heck when we try to give it to her, but at least she hasn't done the projectile barfing like she's done before when we give her something she doesn't like.
what a wonderful few days it's been
monday we noticed that brynna had a runny nose. monday night she woke up with 102.5 degree fever and more congestion. she had a hard time sleeping and breathing.
tuesday morning we wake up with brynna with a fever and the notice caleb's pajama pants are wet...and there's a doodoo smell. turns out he had a massive case of diarrhea that exploded out of his diaper and down his leg. touching doodoo is not one of my favorite things...blech. cleaned him up and as soon as it was 8 we called the doctor's to see about bringing brynna in.
after brynna's appointment, where she was given antibiotics, we headed to drop dave off at his appointment, then i turned around with the two kids and headed back home to wait until he was done. during the day, caleb started to have a runny nose too.
dave's appointment was supposed to be done at around 230 and i didn't want him to have to wait for us, so i headed into town with the two at around 2. we drove around, and around, and around, and finally i parked on the street behind straub to wait for him. finally at around 330 the nurse called to say he was ready to be picked up. she wheeled him down and we headed straight for jack in the box cuz he hadn't eaten since the night before.
damn holiday traffic...took us an hour to get from the aiea off to our house. caleb ended up having a fever that night and being super congested and waking up and crying cuz he was having a hard time breathing.
to make matters worse...i had freakin jury duty on wednesday so dave's mom came down to help out since dave wasn't able to lift caleb at all and was in pain from his surgery. thankfully i got a ride into town with mark and leish was able to pick me up when the trial got cancelled so we got sent home.
caleb wasn't doing any better when i got home so we called to see if doctor could see him. luckily we got an appointment and doctor gave him antibiotics and cough syrup.
thankfully the two kids are not having high fevers anymore and brynna's runny nose seems to be a little bit better. caleb's is still running like crazy and getting thicker and discolored. other than that, though, he's pretty much back to himself.
dave is in more pain today, though, so that sucks. just praying for them to be better before the madness of new year's smoke kicks in and makes their breathing even worse. may just hole up in the house to avoid all of it so they don't get affected. i don't care...not much of a new year's eve type of person anyways...don't know if i could even make it to midnight...lol.
tuesday morning we wake up with brynna with a fever and the notice caleb's pajama pants are wet...and there's a doodoo smell. turns out he had a massive case of diarrhea that exploded out of his diaper and down his leg. touching doodoo is not one of my favorite things...blech. cleaned him up and as soon as it was 8 we called the doctor's to see about bringing brynna in.
after brynna's appointment, where she was given antibiotics, we headed to drop dave off at his appointment, then i turned around with the two kids and headed back home to wait until he was done. during the day, caleb started to have a runny nose too.
dave's appointment was supposed to be done at around 230 and i didn't want him to have to wait for us, so i headed into town with the two at around 2. we drove around, and around, and around, and finally i parked on the street behind straub to wait for him. finally at around 330 the nurse called to say he was ready to be picked up. she wheeled him down and we headed straight for jack in the box cuz he hadn't eaten since the night before.
damn holiday traffic...took us an hour to get from the aiea off to our house. caleb ended up having a fever that night and being super congested and waking up and crying cuz he was having a hard time breathing.
to make matters worse...i had freakin jury duty on wednesday so dave's mom came down to help out since dave wasn't able to lift caleb at all and was in pain from his surgery. thankfully i got a ride into town with mark and leish was able to pick me up when the trial got cancelled so we got sent home.
caleb wasn't doing any better when i got home so we called to see if doctor could see him. luckily we got an appointment and doctor gave him antibiotics and cough syrup.
thankfully the two kids are not having high fevers anymore and brynna's runny nose seems to be a little bit better. caleb's is still running like crazy and getting thicker and discolored. other than that, though, he's pretty much back to himself.
dave is in more pain today, though, so that sucks. just praying for them to be better before the madness of new year's smoke kicks in and makes their breathing even worse. may just hole up in the house to avoid all of it so they don't get affected. i don't care...not much of a new year's eve type of person anyways...don't know if i could even make it to midnight...lol.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
2 years old!
wow. caleb is two years old today. he doesn't understand what "happy birthday" is, though. i didn't even get him a present or a cake. maybe after school i'll run and get him something small and a little cake or something. we're going to lunch on saturday for him and dave, and maybe on friday we'll be able to take him to chuck e. cheese for the first time.
everybody says, "time flies," and it's true. i can't imagine that he's been with us for two whole years now. glad we've been chronicling his life here and in pics cuz my black brain can't remember lots of things already!
everybody says, "time flies," and it's true. i can't imagine that he's been with us for two whole years now. glad we've been chronicling his life here and in pics cuz my black brain can't remember lots of things already!
Saturday, December 4, 2010
talking and basketball
caleb's vocabulary grows with leaps and bounds. he's such a little copy cat, so we have to watch what we say...it's funny how he even copies your tone and intonation. he's learning more letters, but still gets confused with several, like n, m, s, z, v, u, g, q. understandable, but hopefully with practice he'll pick them up quickly. he only knows capital letters so far, so we'll have to introduce lower case too. he can count to ten, but messes up in the middle...1, 2, 3, 4, 7, correct him back to 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. of course, once we start him counting he keeps saying, "Again, again, again," and will count many, many times before he gets tired of it.
today while he was playing basketball dave was laughing cuz caleb has picked up the point guard's mannerisms. he'll hold the ball on his side and point with his finger here and there. so funny. i said hopefully he has skills to be a point guard cuz that's all he's going to be tall enough for. he has the bossy attitude that will serve him well on the court. hehe.
today while he was playing basketball dave was laughing cuz caleb has picked up the point guard's mannerisms. he'll hold the ball on his side and point with his finger here and there. so funny. i said hopefully he has skills to be a point guard cuz that's all he's going to be tall enough for. he has the bossy attitude that will serve him well on the court. hehe.
top teeth
brynna's two bottom teeth came out at about five months...and since then...nothing. caleb's bottom teeth came out at four or five months and then his top teeth didn't come in until about eight months, so i figured brynna would be kind of similar. hers are taking a bit longer to emerge, though. when dave took her to her nine month appointment doctor said that the top two would be out soon...we can see that the gums are white, and i swear i can feel one coming through on the top left side. last night she woke up SCREAMING like i've never heard her scream before. we rubbed some teething gel on her top gums and gave her a little dose of tylenol. after about 15 minutes of screaming, she settled down and fell back asleep. i kept her on the bed with me because i felt so sorry for her pain (yep, i'm a wimp). she slept pretty well and only got up crying one other time and was soothed pretty quickly after putting teething gel on her gums again. i think i'm going to put some on before she goes to bed tonight and when she wakes up to eat, just to prevent anything.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
tired
for some reason caleb was up and crying last night at 130. went to lie in his bed with him but he kept fussing and crying. got him some water and put him on the couch with me and eventually he fell asleep. at 330 brynna started crying so got her milk and fed her and had dave move caleb onto our bed so i could sleep a little bit more comfortably. ugh. not good sleeps last night.
i wonder what's going to happen if caleb wakes up like that while i'm on my trip. guess he'll have to make do with daddy comforting him. poor dave. i'll pray hard that caleb sleeps nicely while i'm gone.
i keep getting choked up when i'm putting them to sleep or carrying brynna...thinking that in a week i will be away from them. trips are necessary, but definitely difficult. i don't even want to think about leaving them for a week in the summertime.
i wonder what's going to happen if caleb wakes up like that while i'm on my trip. guess he'll have to make do with daddy comforting him. poor dave. i'll pray hard that caleb sleeps nicely while i'm gone.
i keep getting choked up when i'm putting them to sleep or carrying brynna...thinking that in a week i will be away from them. trips are necessary, but definitely difficult. i don't even want to think about leaving them for a week in the summertime.
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