An Eventful Day...

So I don't usually post without any pictures, but I have been TERRIBLE lately about pulling the camera out and taking pictures. I also feel like I've kindof had "blogger's block" lately and really didn't know what to write about! Anyway, today we had an eventful day. It started out pretty slow this morning because I was exhausted after a terrible nights sleep. Dave had to go to Pheonix yesterday and of course, both kids decided to sleep terrible. It started out with me going to bed about midnight, which I really need to work on. I tell myself every night that I am going to go to bed earlier, but for some reason it doesn't happen! Then, Halle woke up crying because she is fighting a little cold and couldn't breathe, so I had her sleeping on my chest for a little while, and then I was woken by Brynlee at 2 a.m. wanting to be awake and to turn on the TV! Not Happening!!! So after going back and forth between them, I finally fell asleep just long enough for Halle to wake up at 6:00 wanting to eat and Brynlee following right after at 6:15, and this time there was no talking her out of being awake! (I know...you are all exhausted just reading this aren't you:)) Of course this only happens when Dave is gone. Ok, Ok....Moving on! So we were starting to get ready to head to the gym when I got a phone call from my good friend Damon and his wife Jessica and they wanted to do lunch! Well it doesn't take much to talk me out of the gym, so we threw ourselves together and went to see them. I hadn't seen Damon in years, so it was a lot of fun to catch up and be able to meet his cute family! Thanks Damo....lets do it again sometime!! Afterwards we headed home for naptime and after waking we decided to hit the park.....thanks to our 60 degree weather and sunny skies.......all you up north are jealous, I know! :) After lots of fun of swinging and sliding I noticed Brynlee kept pulling her shirt up in the back and scratching right around her waist line. After seeing her do this a few time I asked her to come here and found that she was being somewhat attacked and biten by RED ANTS!!! Ahhhhhh!!! I tried to swat off all the ones I could see, but didn't get them all, so I took her to the car and stripped her down. Poor kid had little bite marks on her belly and back, but luckily she didn't freak out too much! If it would have happened to me, this would have been a different story. Anyway, I had put her in the front seat where she started to play a little bit and I proceeded to put Halle back in her carseat while she was messing around in the front seat. I then strapped Brynlee into her carseat.....shut the door.....walked around the car to get in AND.....IT WAS LOCKED!!! Both kids in the car, in their carseats, locked in!!!! Brynlee had pushed the lock button without me knowing when the doors were open, so I had no idea. Of course, my cell phone was in the front seat of the car and Dave was/is out of town....so what do I do? Thanks to a nice person at the park for lending a cell phone, I called 911 and an officer came and unlocked my doors. I was just standing at the window talking to Brynlee trying to keep her calm. She cried a little, but was a trooper. Halle luckily had no clue what was going on, and was sitting in her carseat playing with her feet! I couldn't help from just laughing after it was all said an done, cuz it could have been a lot worse! Don't know if anyone else has ever done this, but it isn't a good feeling! *********************************************************

Brynlee said something funny today.....like most every day! We were talking and I heard her say "stupid". Now she knows this is a bad word, and scolds Dave and I if she ever hears us saying it, so I told her that we don't say that word. I told her if she said it again she was have to go to timeout because lately she has gotten a little mouthy pulling an attitude with me, so I am trying to fix that problem. So guess what her response to me was after I told her she might have to go to timeout......"WHATEVER!" With a shrug of her shoulders! She has been using this word a lot more lately, and seems to always use it in the right context. Like I said....ATTITUDE!!