holy smokes

so yesterday was an adventure with brynna.  she was fine all morning long...we took her to school for gt testing where she played with caleb and emily.  took her to take my mom to the doctor, then back to school to pick up dave, then waited in the car for about half an hour for my mom to be done.  we finally got out of the car after picking my mom up and headed to denny's...but since it was too full, we decided to go somewhere else.  i guess by that time brynna had had enough of the car because she did not want to get in.  she did not want to sit in her seat.  she fought me...hard.  i couldn't hold her in her seat and strap her in so dave had to come back and the two of us had to pin her down so i could strap her in.  it was ridiculous.  she screamed and fought and tried to break free of her seat.  we ended up going across the street to zippy's and she finally calmed down after i carried her for a while.  after some errands in sears it was time to get back in the car...and she fought again.  this time wasn't quite as bad.  then off to waikele...and when it was time to get in the car it was a fight again.  i yelled at her and had to use all of my weight and force to buckle her in.  ridiculous.  i was afraid that she was going to fight again today...but no, back to her normal self.  i think she was just overly tired yesterday and it manifested itself in man-like strength and mommy-like hard-headedness. 

ho, long time...

hmm, i haven't written in forever and a day.  haven't uploaded any pics on my other blog either.  what can i blame...too busy, too lazy.  as i sit here, the two kiddoes are having tons of fun jumping on the couch.  we gave them baths early because caleb was tired and didn't take a nap...guess he's caught his second wind.  hopefully that means he'll have an early bedtime so that we can go to bed early too. 

these 4:45 wake up times 5 days a week are killing me.  actually, during the beginning of the week it isn't too bad...but come thursday and friday it's ridiculously tiring...and then on the weekend i find myself having to nap to make up for the missed sleep during the week.  week 3 of insanity and no drastic results yet...we'll see how it goes as we move forward cuz we haven't hit the MAX workouts yet.

dave's brother and sis-in-law visited so the kids got to spend some time with their aunty and uncle.  caleb even slept over at his grandma and granpa's house...brynna wanted to go too but i just couldn't let her.  :-)  I was scared she would wake up in the middle of the night and cry when she didn't see dave and i beside her.  i can't believe she's going to be two years old soon...that's so crazy!  she's talking more and more but it's still really hard to understand her.  she's getting nicer...she'll more freely give kisses and hugs now and laughs a lot more than she used to.  it's the cutest thing when she bus' laughs. 

caleb continues to make us laugh with his random comments...like how he told us that he had a boner in his foot, then after us explaining that he has bones in his foot and elsewhere, he comes back with..."i have a bone in my dingding."  today when we got home he had doodoo in his diaper and my mom didn't change it because when she noticed he wanted to make, she put him on the potty and he didn't do it.  then when she put the diaper back on he went in the bedroom to go make so she said she'd leave it there so maybe he wouldn't like the feeling...he couldn't care less, though.  my mom said she was telling him to do something and he said, "can you wait?"  so we asked him about it and he said, "because baba said to me, are YOU listening to ME?"  it was so funny.  his inflections and choice of words is soooo funny...and also convicting since sometimes the sassy that i hear in his voice can only come from me.

i wonder if i'll ever start to feel the longing to have another baby that many moms say they feel as their babies grow up.  so far, no longing for the crazy infant days.  we'll see if that changes as they get to be kids and not toddlers anymore, though!