Go Dada, Go

Carter and Aubrey didn't really eat much of their bottle last night so I pretty much knew they were going to get up during the night.  They did eat their solid food, but normally when they don't eat much of their bottle they don't make it through the night.  Of course they had to prove me right and woke up sometime around midnight. 

It's interesting that it just dawned on me that we haven't been giving them rice cereal mixed in their bottles.  I know that we did that with Calvin and Brayden.  I also remember people saying that as soon as we started giving them cereal in their bottles they would start sleeping through the night.  Someone never told that to Calvin and Brayden because it didn't change anything for them.  Erin reminded me that we actually started giving Carter and Aubrey rice cereal in their bottles, but they got so constipated that we stopped.

The crew was back to normal today so everyone went to daycare and dada went to work.  I'm sure Brayden was happier having his brother with him at daycare today.  If you think about it they spend more time with each other than with anyone else by far.

I got out of work late today and barely made it to daycare before 5:30.  I always hate it when I'm stuck in a meeting that runs late.  Especially now since I can't just call on Erin to pick up the kids.  It's me or nothing for the next four weeks or so.

Everyone was happy to see me when I arrived at daycare.  Calvin and Brayden didn't want to get in the minivan though.  They fought with me to get their seatbelts on.  I hate it when they do that.  It's quite difficult to hold them down and get them buckled in.  After finally getting them buckled in and loading Carter and Aubrey I gave Calvin and Brayden some snacks which made them happy.

Everytime I stopped at a red light I would say "stop dada, stop.  the light is red".  Calvin would say "go dada, go".  And I would repeat "stop dada, stop".  We kept saying that back and forth until the light turned green.  Then I would say "go dada, go.  the light is green now".  Calvin would reply by saying "fast dada".  It sort of reminded me of the scene in the movie Talladega Nights where Will Ferrell's character as a young boy said "I wanna go fast".

It sounds like Aubrey says "hi dada" at times.  I know that she has no idea what she is saying at this point, but it's still cute.

Carter has figured out how to roll and turn his body and roll some more to get to where he wants to go.  Lately he has been going over to where his brothers are playing.  Then he decides to pick up something that they are playing with and play with it himself.  Sometimes Calvin and Brayden don't mind and other times they take it from him.  Is this a prelude of things to come?  We'll see over the next fifteen or twenty years.  Being the youngest of three boys I know what it's like to get picked on and left out.  But it only makes you stronger.  Perhaps my brothers were preparing me for difficult situations in the future.  Perhaps.