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In the car the other day we were eating In-n-out and I was handing back fries to the kids. I was trying to get her to say please for a fry. She was not doing it, so I was not giving her any, but she wasn't voicing her protest. I soon learned why. I looked back, and he was taking a bite of his fry and giving the rest to her. Tonight we went to get frozen yogurt. (I have been craving this for 3 months) We were driving home and I looked back in the mirror and he had this far off look on his face and the biggest smile. "What are you thinking about buddy?" "Sprinkles on my ice cream..." Why can't we all be so happy about such small things?We got home and sat outside on the patio to enjoy our frozen yogurt. She was having very tiny bites of mine, and enjoying it. Until she fell backwards and fell in her brothers lap, realizing that he had his own bowl. She took her finger, dipped it in his and put it in her mouth. She then sat in his lap for the next five minutes dipping her finger in and licking it. I don't think that I would of been okay with someone eating my food like that, but he just sat there smiling at her. And then at the end, "I love sharing with her." She however did not take the bottom of the bowl as well as he did. She screamed and stood up and started mooching off me again. I know the day will come when all they do is bicker and fight, so I am relishing all of this sweetness now.
Well Disneyland was fun, but was so tiring we used all of yesterday to recover. I plastered spf 50 sunscreen on all of us and I was the only one to get burned. Go figure. The kids are actually getting tan. I on the other hand am getting freckled. I used to think that if I got enough freckles, they would all converge together and I would be one giant freckle, but I would look tan. Never worked. Now I just look like a seven year old girl with freckles on my nose and shoulders. It was crazy to go on a weekend. I have seen it busier but it was still pretty crowded and not to fun to maneuver a stroller through. Noah got his own autograph book and got a whole one signature. Captain Hook. He was pretty happy about it. We have two more visits while we are here to get more. We got there at noon and stayed until ten. Crazy. Nuts. So stinking tired. But we got to see Fantasmic and the firework show which made it all worth it. The look on both of their faces made my heart smile. They were so amazed with it. I was too. It really is a good show. And the fireworks make me look forward to this weekend when I get to see that look on their faces all over again. All in all it was a good trip. Next time we are going to stay late at California Adventure and see the light parade. I know they are going to love that too. And on a side note, thank you very much to the A-hole who left the gum on the planter that I sat on to change my daughters diaper. It was a lot of fun to stand up after ten minutes and realize that my butt was stuck to the planter. And then it was even more fun to then go the rest of the day sitting on things taking a little bit with me every time. Sprinkles from It's a Small World, leaves from the ground at the parade, rubbbery things from Brothers Bears adventure. It wasn't quite what I had in mind as a souvenir, but now I have a little bit of Disneyland stuck to the seat of my pants that I can never wear again. Thank you.
Well the second day flew by. Kind of. I hate hate hate the drive after Sacramento. It is fine for about an hour and then you hit the farmlands and fields. It is flat brown stinky and every time you open a door, you get bombarded by flys from all of the cows. But I must say that I was grateful for one of those flys because it kept Bug entertained for almost an hour while Bear took a nap in the afternoon. Her eyes followed that fly all over the Jeep. She would start to get fussy and it would land on her and catch her attention all over again. I tried to plan our trip around LA traffic. I planned to leave at 4 from Redding getting us through LA before the bad traffic hit. It was a good plan in theory. But Bug, not being in her regular environment was up and crying every hour. At 3, I brought her back to bed with me, and then couldn't sleep for fear of her crawling off the bed. At 3:15 when my alarm went off, I thought, screw it, I am not getting up now for a 12 hour drive. So we left at 7:30 and hit wonderful beautiful 5mph traffic for 2 hours. Luckily, they slept through all of it. They would lift their heads every once in a while, look around, and go back to sleep. They did so awesome, I did not have to bust out the DVD player once. I did however indoctrinate my children with oldies. We sang out hearts out to Neil Diamond, The Beattles, Ricky Valens, and listened to a lot of Adventures in Odyssey. I saw one funny thing that still makes me wonder. It was a truck carrying two port a potties. On the outside door were scenes of a beautiful Hawaiian beach. And this made me think. Why don't they put those scenes on the inside walls so that as I am squatting, doing my business, I could peak out through my watery eyes every now and then and pretend I was somewhere else. Now I realize that these would have to be very strong pictures to be able to make me pretend I was not sitting in a box with other peoples poop and very questionable circulation, but still, it would be a nice try. So we are here. It is 80 degrees out. I am getting us unpacked and ready for Disneyland tomorrow. WAHOO!
Forgive me if I don't make a lick of sense. I am so tired and all I can think about is my butt. It is kind of tingly. Still. We have been out of the car now for 2 hours and I have been trying to stand as much as I can. But it still kind of tingles. You know when a foot falls asleep and it tingles for awhile. Anyways enough about my butt. We made it from Mukilteo to Redding in eleven hours and 45 minutes. Not bad. We only had to stop 3 times officially. One time not so official. I count it as official if we all get out of the car. We were 45 minutes out and I was informed that Bear had to potty. Now. So we pulled over and he peed in the back of the Jeep. Crisis averted. I rue the day I mentioned Disneyland to him. Every time we stopped today, "mommy, are we at Disneyland?" "No, we need to get some gas/go to the bathroom/get some food." "I would like to go to Disneyland first please." Every time we stopped. Although I am using it now. When he starts to misbehave, I just tell him that I am going to tell Mickey Mouse. For some reason, he bit her today. I don't think it was malicious, she kept sticking her fingers in his mouth and he was laughing she got nipped. A little later he shared a cookie with her. I told him I was very proud of him for being so considerate. "Mommy, can I tell Mickey Mouse I shared with her?" "Yes bud, he will be proud of you too. But if you bite your sister again, I am going to have to tell him that too." A look of horror crossed his face, "Mommy, I don't think he would appreciate that!" I am going to use this for all it is worth. They did okay. But it is my fault that there was so much touching. When we turned her around, her car seat did not fit properly with the head rest. And the only way to get the head rest off is to cut it off. Now I am no expert but I can't imagine this would be too good for resale value. So she got put in the middle. And he is right next to her. So there was touching. Hand holding, food sharing, food stealing, toy trading, toy snagging, poking, licking, biting, kissing and at one point I think I saw him picking her nose. There were the usual threats from me. "Do not make me pull this car over!" "Leave your sister alone!" But my finest hour came at the end of the day. I was tired and cranky and my throat hurt from singing so much. He was just touching her and she kept squaking every time he looked at her. "STOP TOUCHING YOUR SISTER, GET YOUR FEET OFF MY SEAT, DO NOT LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT, AND STOP MAKING ME YELL!"But even after all of that, I tucked him in tonight he looked up at me and said, "We had a fantastic day today mommy!" I am glad he had fun.
As I pack for this trip, I realize I am a little apprehensive. Not just because Bug woke up today in a "put me down, and I will scream my head off mood," but because it is now the summer months and there will be more people on the road and at rest stops and gas stations and Disneyland. I mean we are no stranger to these trips. This will be our third coast trip this year. The kids always do so awesome, I guess I am just waiting for the trip where the other shoe drops. The one that they don't do so well. The one where they scream their heads off the entire time. I am also nervous because this is the first time we are doing a road trip with no pull ups on Bear. Okay, he has not had an accident in a month and always tells me when he has to go. I just have this image in my head of us being in the middle of no where and he has to go potty. And we will be on the side of the road peeing in a bush. Ha ha. I did buy a potty that is in the back, so I guess I don't have to teach him how to pee in a bottle yet. :)We are going to Disneyland on Saturday and Sunday. I am so excited. I think I might be more excited than Bear. Although he has been asking me every 10 minutes if we are going to Disneyland yet. And he keeps listing off the rides he wants to go on, Teacups and Dumbo top the list. I really want to take them at night to see the electrical parade. I think they both are going to love it. I just have to keep them both awake until 9pm. Well wish us luck. I can't wait to go and lay out on the beach and feel the warm sun on me and let them play in the sand. I am also looking forward to the fact that tomorrow night at this time I will have had 2 plain cheeseburgers, an order of fries and a vanilla shake from In-n-out.
(Okay, if you didn't get that, it was Ross from the TV show Friends, telling Rachel and Chandler to pivot the couch around the corner. I think one of my favorite moments in the show.)Anyways. I had forgotten how much I loved watching babies learn how to turn around when walking. They get to a spot and decide to turn around and then pivot on one foot until they have done a 180. She did that for a few days but has figured out how to turn around like a regular person. She is walking even more now. The majority of the time. Actually the only time she seems to crawl is when I have the camera pointed at her. Not that it matters because I cannot find the USB cord to the camera that takes movies. So all movies I take will remain on that camera until I decide what to do. Who knows, I might be showing her kids movies of their mommy learning to walk on a dinosaur of a camera 30 years from now. I took Bear to the drive in last night. We had so much fun. I put Bug to sleep and then we left. We went and got slurpees (he got the smallest cup with about 2 inches of Cherry in it. But he loved it.) We got a giant bucket of popcorn and settled in. We saw the movie UP! It was a cute movie. He really loved it and he talked the entire time about what was happening. I don't think he is ready to go to a theater yet, he never stopped talking. He got very upset at some parts when the villian was up to no good. He had to crawl in my lap, because he was about to cry. I have never seen him so affected by a movie like that before. And today that is all he could talk about. He tells everyone who will hold still for 10 seconds all about the movie he saw. We even stayed for the second feature. He like that one too, and stayed awake the entire time. In fact, he stayed awake for the ride home and didn't stop kicking the wall until two oclock. And he promptly woke up at 7:30 this morning. Bless his heart. I have always prayed for my kids to take naps at the same time just to give me a chance to rest during the day. Or even just a few minutes to hear my own thoughts. But for the past week, she has gone back to two naps a day. So she sleeps before lunch, he goes to sleep after lunch and then she goes down about when he wakes up. It has honestly been really nice. It has given me some really good one on one time with each of them. I have been regretting how much I have not been able to do all of the things with her that I did with Bear and I am really going to try and make up for it now. She is going to have just as many pictures and videos and a baby book too. Ha ha. That is my goal now. To finish his baby book and start hers. Wish me luck. That might be another thing I end up doing with her kids. :)
I am not sure at one point when you can say a baby is officially walking, Bear just stood up and walked and that was that. She is not like that at all. She walks more than she crawls. She walks across the room, she still falls but she picks herself up and continues on. She walks better when she is carrying something in her arms, which I think is really funny. She tries to run and that just ends with her crumpled on the floor. If she is walking to a person, she will just dive the last couple steps. But, If she needs to get somewhere fast, she will just crawl there.
