I am back in my WW maintenance range, thank goodness. Last week I had strangely gained 2 lbs more than I should have, which I couldn't really figure out. I think maybe some of it was water weight, because with Christmas this last week there really wasn't any reason for me to have lost 2 lbs. Oh well, as long as I'm on track I won't worry. I do need to get more consistent exercising, though. Now that my sickness is almost over I have got to get a consistent time for running and the gym. I'd like to go to the gym right at 4:00 PM to take advantage of the childcare so I can use mornings for computer work. And jogging, I think my best time is going to be immediately after the boys get in bed. I can go out jogging then and get back before Ben is going to bed. I WILL get my life organized!
Tonight we went to On the Border for dinner with the Curtises. Our boys are very good at restaurants, I have to say. Even with the sometimes tempting examples of the Curtis girls (who took great fun in racing up and down the wheelchair ramp next to our table), they sat nicely and behaved nicely.
On the way to dinner, though, Ben told the boys that they could not eat or drink in his truck (we took the Hummer). The boys (I think it was Brigham, but not sure because I wasn't there) immediately informed Ben that *he* wasn't in charge, mom was! I got a chuckle out of that one. I wish!
After dinner we went to Barnes and Noble so Ben could use a gift card he got for his birthday. The boys are very interested in space (all stems from the Going to the Moon book at Grandma Frandsen's house) and really wanted to find a book on Mars. There weren't any childrens books specifically on Mars, but I did get a good one about the solar system. They both sat on my lap and I read a good portion of it (it is pretty long) to them at the bookstore. Later as we were going up to buy our books, Joseph actually DID find a book on Mars! I was amazed. It was in the bargain books section but we didnt' end up getting it because it would have been quite a bit beyond their comprehension level. We also got Sylvester and the magic stone, a book I remember very fondly from childhood. And an Arnold Lobel anthology in the bargain books section. So, a good haul. But really, I need to get in the habit of taking the boys to the library. I need to go every week, regularly, on a particular day. The boys love books and always want to buy books, but most of the books they want to buy I don't necessarily think are worth the investment (Scooby Doo books and the like).
I heard Mosey say Joseph's name for the first time today. He has been saying Brigham's name for a while now ("Biiig-un!"), but not Joseph's. I only heard him say it once and I think it was something like "Jos-us," but I'll have to see if I can get him to say it again so I can listen closer. Moses was playing really well with Joseph this afternoon, wrestling on the bed while I folded clothes. I love seeing how much Moses loves his brothers. What a lucky boy he is!
One more interesting Brigham story, this one actually another story he told. As we were driving around tonight trying to get the boys to sleep, Brigham calls from the back seat, "Let me tell you a story, dad." After getting the ok from Ben, he says, "Once upon a time there was a light that came down from space. It was a meteorite and it fell into a volcano. Fire came up out of the volcano and pushed up the meteorite into the sky and it fell down, down, DOWN! until it hit a mountain and rolled down into a monster city. And the monsters came out and the meteorite flew away and then the monsters flew away because they were bats. The end." Pretty good story, huh?