I asked Brayden yesterday to clean up his toys. He said that he didn't want to, and I was explaining how we need to keep our house clean. He then started inquiring about when we'll have a different house and said "When I'm a Dad and have a son then I'll live in a different house?" Yep. "And my wife will clean up the toys?" "Your wife will help your sons clean up their toys." He replied saying "And I will help my wife clean up their toys!" So I went with it and said "But Brayden, how are you going to help your wife if you don't know how to do it? That's why you need to practice when you are 4 so you can be really good at it to make her happy!" He rushed into the living room and cleaned up his toys. "I want to make my wife happy!"
About 2 hours later, it was nap time. B was saying how he wasn't tired. His eyes and whiny voice said otherwise. I said "Brayden, taking naps is good for you. It makes you grow big and strong." In which he replied "If I don't take naps, I will be 4 forever, and I won't get a wife?"
I have no idea where this sudden obsession with having a wife is coming from, but she's going to have a huge affect on the latter 2/3 of his life...why not let the dream of her affect the first 1/3!
Everett is paci-free. He actually hasn't used a paci since the beginning of December when I lost his last one in Marysville. I bought him a new one but he had absolutely nothing to do with it. He never once even sucked on it. He just gummed it, tossed aside and never looked back. I love love love that he was unattached at 6 months. I'm sure that was SO much easier than waiting til 2.5 or whenever it was that we took it from B and A.
Everett has another tooth about to pop through. And he's walking along furniture. And climbing stairs. He did that for the first time this morning. Sean let him get up 6 stairs before finally setting him back down on solid ground. Slow down, Tiger!
As of today, I officially have no more children in Nursery! Asher is a Sunbeam, and Brayden a CTR 4! I cannot believe that they are both into primary. It is blowing my mind!
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| (Picture taken Christmas Day... in their new ties!) |
Asher is as rambunctious and rowdy as ever. He is fearless and has so much fun wreaking havoc everywhere he goes. We have recently started eliminating red food dye from his diet. He has a cousin that reacts extremely negatively to it so we are taking A off of it to see if we notice a difference. It has been 2 weeks since we started trying, but considering he eats candy off of the floor whenever he finds it (Mike and Ike's at the Sprint Store? Yup.) and there are a lot of obliging adults that will indulge him a Christmas Candy Cane, we haven't been able to accurately determine if there is any real affect. Now that most of the adults in his life know about it, and Christmas is over, I think we'll be able to figure it out soon. By default, we've taken B off of red dye as well, but with what I've learned in the little research I've done, I am definitely not hurting him. That stuff is POISON!! We are all making a concerted effort to eat less (if any!) of it. Did you know there is red and yellow dye in WHITE cake mix and WHITE cake frosting!? Apparently it makes it look more Golden? Whatever. It is not healthy for us Humans so I'm grateful for things like "Dye-Free Children's Tylenol" and 100% natural tomato sauce!
The chickens are doing really well. We've gotten 24 eggs total. They are delicious! It's crazy the difference in a farm fresh egg vs a store bought one. We are having fun collecting those every day.
Stephen, my brother, got a job at Intellectual Ventures, in Bellevue, Washington. He starts Tuesday! He was able to move his wife and 3 daughters back to Washington State after graduating from BYU with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering! Congrats Dr. Harston! I am SO super proud of you. I guess technically he doesn't graduate until April, but he is done with school and got to bring his family home. I am so glad to have them closer!
