Roses for Mama

Calvin and Brayden continue to only want mama in the mornings on weekdays.  I really wish they wouldn't fuss and fight so much with poor dada when I'm just trying to get them ready for daycare.  Unfortunately I don't have time to wait for them so I just have to basically hold them down and change them.

Carter and Aubrey continue to sleep through the night.  I realized that I don't feel tired while driving to and from work anymore.  Obviously that's a good thing.  I can also concentrate more at work.

Dada had flowers delivered to mama at work on Valentine's Day.  The daycare lady also had two roses for Calvin and Brayden to give to mama when we got home.  Brayden decided to use his rose as a weapon on the ride home.  He was smacking the flower against the car seat.  He also would move it over and touch Calvin with it, which Calvin did not appreciate.  Calvin kept asking Brayden to "stop poking me".  By the time we got home Brayden's rose was almost completely beaten up.

The kids all received a dollar in their Valentine's card from my parents.  They didn't understand what money was yet.  We told Calvin and Brayden that it was money and they could buy stuff with it, but they still are a little young to understand currency.  As a matter of fact, Calvin has been picking up a piece of paper (I think it's instructions to something) and saying that it's money.  If only it worked that way.

The kids have all been playing with their Hot Wheels cars more and more.  One day I was playing with them and had two Lamborghini's.  I told the boys that the cars were called Lamborghini's and I was surprised at how well they picked up on the name.  Of course Calvin proceeded to call just about all cars Lamborghini's.  He even would say that cars he saw on the road on the way home from daycare were Lamborghini's.

Carter likes to attack his giant teddy bears.  The babies each got a huge teddy bear for Christmas.  Carter will crawl over to one and then tackle it.  Then he'll turn around and do the same to the other.  He has the biggest grin on his face while he is doing it.

Brayden and Calvin finally had their two-year doctor's office visit on Thursday.  I dropped the babies off at daycare when Erin took the boys in and then I met them at the doctor's office after I dropped off Carter and Aubrey.  The pediatrician's office is directly across the hall from Erin's office so she took the boys a little early so that her co-workers could see the boys.  Brayden did quite well even though he was a little bored and wanted to go.  Calvin was not happy at all.  Brayden doesn't appear to have an allergy.  The doctor said that it looked more like Eczema.  It doesn't appear to be itchy which is good.  We got some medicated lotion to put on Brayden that will hopefully make it better.

We decided to stop using the baby timers.  We got to the point where it's easy enough to tell if the babies are hungry without seeing how long it had been since they last ate.