Day 50

Happy was watching TV with me on Monday night :)

Day 49

My boys...I finally get to go home tonight! YAY! Emmanuel just called and said he's in Philadelphia and he'll be home by about 11pm! They are really cute kids, and they're generally pretty good kids too. But I am so ready to go home! It has been a VERY long weekend and a lot has happened and I hope it's a while before he asks me to do it again.
On the up side I have survived my first time ever taking care of kids over night! In all my years of watching children I have never had to stay overnight with them.

Day 48

This is Braxton, he's pouting on the steps of Sesame Street at the Strong Museum of Play. It pretty much sums up my day lol. I thought it'd be a great idea to take the boys to the museum, I did have a little bit of hesitation because I didn't know how many people would be there. So we started off great. Both boys were playing and happy, then we went to another area to play...Brycen had a meltdown. I decided to let him lay on the floor and scream while Braxton happily played. I finally calmed him down by giving him a cheez-it and a drink. So we played nicely for about 15-20 minutes. Then Brycen had another meltdown. So we decided to go eat lunch. All well and good. Then we went to the bathroom. I took a little longer because I had to take care of Brycen, and when I came out Braxton was nowhere to be found! I panicked! I asked around and no one saw him, I asked someone to look in the bathroom, nothing. I'm sure it was just a couple of minutes but it felt like a really long time until I realized he had talked about wanting to go on the carousel by the entrance. I ran over there and there he was screaming at the woman running it because he wanted to go on. I got to him and hugged him and he just got mad at me for saying I didn't have money for him to go on. So another major meltdown later we finally left. I was so disappointed it went the way it did. We got home and I made them both lay down for awhile so I could cool off. The rest of the day went okay (besides Braxton jamming paper in his dad's printer and then opening it up and nearly breaking it).
I'm really glad I get to go home tonight!

Day 46

So these snow creations are really cool! They're right by Braxton's school and I love seeing what will show up next!

Day 45

Brycen is really very entertaining! He's been in a really great mood the last couple of days and since we're both feeling better we have so much fun!

Lately he loves to run down the sidewalk while we go to pick Braxton up from school.

Day 44

So there was a random quick little snow storm while I was driving around...

I left the house and there were a few flakes, I got to work and it was still fine, 15 minutes later I go outside and it was a blizzard! It was a short little flurry but it was kinda crazy!

Day 44

So we've been working on Your Baby Can Read stuff lately. I don't know if it's going to get Brycen reading, but it's definitely getting him to say more words! He likes repeating the words on the DVD!

While he still has a long way to go, I have seen a lot of improvement in Brycen's speech since we've started these. I think he just needs to be pushed a little more and he'll be talking in no time!