last sunday caleb started a fever and while i thought it would just be a passing thing, it wasn't. i noted how brynna NEVER gets sick and caleb is always the one that gets colds, but alas, this time brynna caught it too. we finally decided to take caleb to the doctor on wednesday and it just so happened that brynna woke up with a fever that day. caleb's fever had broken but he had a horrible cough and brynna was just beginning with the fever (highest she had was 104, which was probably the highest fever i've ever seen in any of them). luckily it wasn't the flu, but caleb was out of school for the entire week and he's still hacking up a lung while brynna is fever-free now too but has a runny nose and is developing the same congested cough.
we've been battling brynna with taking her medicine cuz she just refuses. she won't take it in her milk, won't take it in chocolate pudding, won't take it at all. we wrestle her and choke hold her and even with both of us trying our hardest to get it down her throat, i'm sure she's not getting much at all. it's so different from caleb, who gladly takes any and all medicine and vitamins. brynna has been like this since she was months old, though...she would barf up the vitamins when she was a baby and still refuses gummy vitamins, which i thought ALL kids loved. i think she just does it to be the stubborn little girl she is. i seriously should take my blood pressure after we give her the meds because i seriously get PISSED and FRUSTRATED knowing that she's not getting the medicine she needs.
although they're sick, it sure hasn't stopped the two of them from FIGHTING! gosh. i seriously can't imagine what it's going to be like as they get older, more vocal, and stronger. they both hit and kick each other at random moments and caleb LOVES to irritate his sister. brynna will NOT let him get away with anything, though, and is vicious. their moments of loving behavior are being overtaken by stretches of tormenting each other.
on another note, caleb is at the height of irritating behavior. i dunno what it is, but he hasn't learned volume control at all and is LOUD as heck. we constantly have to remind him to lower his voice, especially when he's in public. he's also fond of repeating what you are saying, which gets old super fast. he's also sassier since starting school...grrr.
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
brynna and baba
i don't know if it's because she has baba all to herself now, but my mom said that brynna is a lot more affectionate with her now than she used to be. as she's getting older she's just a lot more social and smiley than she was in the past, which is nice. she's only cried maybe two times since caleb started school...which wasn't what i expected because i thought all of us leaving the house might be hard on her. she and my mom get out of the house more to go walking and she must just looovvveeee all the one on one attention she's getting that she's NEVER had before.
new routines
so if you know me, you know i'm slightly ocd/autistic. i thought it would be harder to adjust to the new schedule/routine of caleb going to school...thankfully (or maybe i'm just loosening up some as i age...hehe), it hasn't been as bad as i feared. it makes me a little antsy in the mornings when it gets past 6:45 and we're not ready to leave the house, and i do say more times than i'd like to admit, "hurry up, what are you doing, let's go" to caleb and dave, but it really hasn't been that painful.
caleb is a GREAT schoolboy. he goes to bed easier since he knows that he has to go to sleep early because he has school the next day. when the alarm goes off at 615 and i wake him up, he doesn't fuss at all...he jumps out of bed and knows that it's time to get ready for school. he does take some time with breakfast (we've found he's a slow eater and very distractable at eating time), but he does well with the routine for the most part. he happily leaves us at school with no problems whatsoever.
we also haven't encountered any traffic messes getting out of palisades and to school (though we are thinking of altering our route because of the holdup by our lady of good counsel with parents dropping off their kids there). we're usually at school by 720, which is later than i'm used to, but not as late as i thought we'd be. i feel a little bit more frantic in the morning and if i gotta make copies it throws me off significantly, but so far, so good.
caleb is a GREAT schoolboy. he goes to bed easier since he knows that he has to go to sleep early because he has school the next day. when the alarm goes off at 615 and i wake him up, he doesn't fuss at all...he jumps out of bed and knows that it's time to get ready for school. he does take some time with breakfast (we've found he's a slow eater and very distractable at eating time), but he does well with the routine for the most part. he happily leaves us at school with no problems whatsoever.
we also haven't encountered any traffic messes getting out of palisades and to school (though we are thinking of altering our route because of the holdup by our lady of good counsel with parents dropping off their kids there). we're usually at school by 720, which is later than i'm used to, but not as late as i thought we'd be. i feel a little bit more frantic in the morning and if i gotta make copies it throws me off significantly, but so far, so good.
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
first day of preschool
super fast/short one cuz we gotta get the kids to bed...
today was caleb's first day of preschool and even thinking about it last night i was starting to feel kind of choked up. i'm not sad he's going to school, but somehow it's a little bit sad knowing that my first baby is growing up so quickly.
anyways, he'd been well prepped for preschool...he visited the school this summer, the teacher came and visited with us at home, and we've been talking about it a lot. this morning he woke up with no problems and knew that today was the day to begin school. as we drove him up there he wasn't nervous or scared at all, just very excited.
once we got there he chose a cot to sleep on and put down his pillow and blanket. then he chose his cubby and we put his basket in it. we took him over the classroom and he quickly went to sit down with the aide and another little boy who was trying his best not to cry. when i told caleb we were going he said, "bye." no hug, no sadness, nothing. i had to tell him to come over and give us a kiss and a hug and then he quickly went back to where the others were.
when we go there to pick him up he was in the bathroom...apparently he had waited too long to go to the bathroom and had gotten it on the floor and his shoes instead of in the toilet. when we told him it was time to go he started whining and saying he wanted to stay. we let him play a little bit more while we talked to the teacher and then after he picked up all the balls he could find on the grassy area (great at stalling already, i guess), he was finally ready to go.
all in all, successful first day of preschool. i was worried about brynna and how she would react to being left home alone, but my mom said that when she came out of the bedroom after changing her clothes she looked around for us but didn't cry.
gosh...i'm a mommy of a child in school. that's crazy.
today was caleb's first day of preschool and even thinking about it last night i was starting to feel kind of choked up. i'm not sad he's going to school, but somehow it's a little bit sad knowing that my first baby is growing up so quickly.
anyways, he'd been well prepped for preschool...he visited the school this summer, the teacher came and visited with us at home, and we've been talking about it a lot. this morning he woke up with no problems and knew that today was the day to begin school. as we drove him up there he wasn't nervous or scared at all, just very excited.
once we got there he chose a cot to sleep on and put down his pillow and blanket. then he chose his cubby and we put his basket in it. we took him over the classroom and he quickly went to sit down with the aide and another little boy who was trying his best not to cry. when i told caleb we were going he said, "bye." no hug, no sadness, nothing. i had to tell him to come over and give us a kiss and a hug and then he quickly went back to where the others were.
when we go there to pick him up he was in the bathroom...apparently he had waited too long to go to the bathroom and had gotten it on the floor and his shoes instead of in the toilet. when we told him it was time to go he started whining and saying he wanted to stay. we let him play a little bit more while we talked to the teacher and then after he picked up all the balls he could find on the grassy area (great at stalling already, i guess), he was finally ready to go.
all in all, successful first day of preschool. i was worried about brynna and how she would react to being left home alone, but my mom said that when she came out of the bedroom after changing her clothes she looked around for us but didn't cry.
gosh...i'm a mommy of a child in school. that's crazy.
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