Lexi's birthday

Yesterday was Lexi's birthday! She turned two already!

We had a little birthday thing at her school for her and got Brandan and Kyle over from their classroom. I baked pound cake cup cakes for the class and i was afraid they wouldn't eat it. Turned out, they gobbled all of them down and some kids even asked for seconds.  Lexi knew it was her birthday too, she had a paper crown on her head and she was walking around in the classroom with breeze and a smile on her face.  However when the candles were lit on the cupcake, she didn't want to blow it out and everyone else had to help her to blow the candles off.  I guess we didn't teach her enough on that part.  After that we opened gifts at home, she didn't want to have anything to do with those wrapped up boxes either, excited Brandan opened almost every gift for her.  Out of all gifts, she loved the baby doll the most as we expected. Brandan was happy about that, because she left the tub toys alone and he loved it, he played with it way more than Lexi did.  

After doing gifts at home, we went to Ruby's to meet up with Kyle's family, we all had yummy foods and the boys had fun together. Lexi got even more gifts from Irene. Somehow she knew Lexi would like Tinkerbell, and she got her lots of Tinkerbell gifts for her even got her a little pair of tinkerbell heels.  Of course no birthday is celebrated without a cake for her and she again, didn't want to blow off the candles, without Brandan and Kyle we would have to blow them off ourselves.  The cake was yummy, but had too much leftover that will feed our sweetooth for the coming week.

Can't believe how fast time had past, and believe it or not, I already have plans for her next birthday.

Lexi talks too much

Lexi is starting to talk in real long sentences now, sometimes i am amazed as to how much she talks. I guess i shouldn't be surprised considering how much i talk on the phone with my friends. She had told me today that "Ge-ge cry, he fell down, he no good boy, but he got ouchies and no touching it" all at one shot! I was just in complete disbelieve.

I went to pick her up from school today and i was kneeling down to tie her shoes on and the other girl sat next to her said Mommy. I guess she was trying to say "she is your mommy" but Lexi took it as if she was trying to claim me to be her mom not lexi's mom.  Lexi instantly said "MY mommy, not yours, your mom go work" She then emphasize it with "MY mommy" again with her head tilted and a little frown on her forehead. The other girl now took it serious and finally said "ok" and walked away. 

She has been doing well with potty training, she's had more accidents at home then she did outside or in school. Maybe she gets too comfortable at home and just forget to go. She is going to take a free class of Gymnastics and hope she will like it. 

Brandan took his first lesson and he loves it, except that he tries to do the stun he learned at home and didn't go well with the hard flooring.  I think i will sign both of them up, just once a week, will probably benefit them a great deal. Especially with clumsy Brandan.

Brandan's memory starts to be more mature too. He saw a picture of him and Marsha playing on the beach a few weeks ago, he told me "Marsha is a very nice girl, she is my mimi".  The way he said it was so cute, i wish i had recorded it.  He kept talking about playing with Toneo and going snow boarding with Toneo later.  I think it's about time to set up some more play dates.

chocolate cow?

Brandan is soooo into chocolate milk these days. I try to get him the non fat, low sugar ones, he can't tell the difference and still loves it.  We finished one carton and he wanted another one when we were in Trader Joe's.  When i explained to him that he could only have chocolate milk or jelly beans. He picked choco milk. Later on he told me, mommy, chocolate cows drink chocolate milk and then he gives us more chocolate milk.  So i told him, baby, cows eat grass and give us milk.  Pauses for a few second, he told me the cows eat chocolate grass, so we have chocolate milk. And the cows love it and the ate lots and lots of chocolate grass everyday like bunny rabbits. 

being an attorney everyday.

It must be more frustrating to be a lawyer, but being a parent is sometimes more frustrating then being an actual lawyer.  It's a 24 hour debate with your kids, you spent 14 hours to debate and 10 hours to sleep, but you are actually spending the time thinking about how and what you can say to make your point across with the most authorities and the simplest logic to get the least amount of talk backs.

Tony went bike riding, and he was so tired.  He came home and told me that he just "hit the wall" when going uphill.  Brandan over heard it and said, Daddy, you got ouchy? Don't hit the wall, go around it.

Trying to get brandan to read more, the text on the books reads "Sam said to his car...." (from transformers) I pointed to each word and ask him to "repeat after me", so he said, "repeat after me, sam said to his car".  Then he asked me why is Sam sad? His car is not nice, makes him sad. --left me speechless.

Brandan saw his toy in the container inside the garage. He wanted to play with it, so i told him that George is painting our house and when he is done, we can bring his toy inside.  So George came and finished as much as he could but still got weeks worth of work to do. When he left, Brandan asked "are you done?" So George said "yes".  The minute he walks out of the door, Brandan asked for his toy.  When i said yes, he said "you told me, mommy, you told me when George finish, i can play with my toy" He's got a good point so i had to give in.

i was cleaning up toys for them. When i was throwing a few items into the box, they fell out. So i asked Brandan to help me pick them up and put them into the box. He tells me the same way i talk to him "mommy, i told you don't throw your toys, i told you don't drop them, i have to help you again and again and again. Sigh--!"  All i could say was "sorry!"

Lexi sat on the potty, and tried to move her hand over into the toilet to play with the "water", then i told her NO, caught on the spot, she was shocked, and dropped her little toy into the toilet.  When i put my tool in to get the toy out, Lexi said "No mommy, no touching, go time out"

November already.

There are always so much going on everyday! 

We had started seriously potty training Lexi, and she has been without diapers except for sleeping for 4 days and only had 2 accidents.  She is doing great, she loves to go sit on the little potty that brandan hardly ever used. Brandan loved the adult size ones ever since he could sit up. But lexi is more into sitting next to Brandan in her own potty. Two kids potting together side by side is so cute.  It definitely won't be long until they are out of the stage and want to be on their own due to their gender.

Brandan gets really fed up with Lexi sometimes. He doesn't like Lexi talking too much, he will just ignore her sometimes.  He sometimes say "Lexi is not my friend, she is too bad!"  Lexi does take his toys away, hurt him, cry and scream and usually puts him in timeout because he hits back. But sometimes they get along so well.  I took them out for a walk to the store today, he loved it so much that Lexi was just holding on to his hands and relying on him to make the right steps in the dark.  Later Brandan told me Lexi was his favorite baby, and he loved her. They even hugged each other in the middle of the road.

Lexi can be a big pain in the butt for sure. She is pretty smart too, we let her cry it out twice and she went to sleep all on her own after that. But at times she will call us into her room multiple times before really laying down to sleep.  She has even totally took off her pjs and her diaper and peed in bed and then called us.  It always pisses Tony off, but we just had to quickly change the sheets and tell her to go to sleep and threat her with time out.