You're gonna miss this

The last few weeks I have wanted to freeze time because my kids are at such a great age and stage. I love the silly jokes, funny comments, and my baby is starting to walk. It kind of hit me that Logan will go to Kindergarten soon and my baby won't be a baby anymore. This last year my friend Jenn kept been saying, "we are going to miss this". Every time she said it, I was thinking, "What is she talking about? I can't wait until my baby is sleeping through the night and Logan has school so I can get a break. " Then it hit me and two days ago I heard this song.

I am technically disadvantaged so copy and paste the song below into your browser. It makes you watch a 15 second advertisement. It is a great 3 minute song.


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1343550417933955594&q=%22you%27re+gonna+miss+this%22&total=20&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=3

Night Time Protection . . .

So tonight I was putting Logan to bed on our couch downstairs (Gavin crying always wakes him up so he's sleeping down there now). I turned off all the lights except for a small one and he protested saying he wanted the big kitchen light on. I said "no" because it wakes him up too early in the morning. He protested again and we went back and forth back and forth until I finally said, "you need to tell me exactly why you need the big light on." He finally admitted that he didn't like to close his eyes and that the big light helped him stay awake. He said that he was afraid of nightmares and that bad men would get him in his dreams.
I had an idea and I picked up a small plastic baseball bat about a foot in length and told him that he should keep this by him at night and if a bad man came into his dreams that he could bonk the man on the head with the bat. He looked at me . . . . then he looked at the small little bat . . . . and then he looked back at me and said in a very serious tone, "Dad, I think maybe I'm going to need a bigger bat." I bust up laughing so hard thinking how he had processed that the little plastic bat I had given him was just not going to get the job done against the big bad men in his dreams. After i picked myself off the floor and caught my breath, I brought him the bigger bat. He clutched it tightly and I said, "Just put it next to you and you can grab it if you need to." He resisted saying, "I've got to be ready to bonk them in the noggin." I finally convinced him that he could lay the bat by his side with one hand on it to be ready. We said prayers and I prayed that his arms would be strong and his aim swift and true. And I left him to go to sleep. A half an hour later Emily took the photo. Fast asleep . . . . but ready, at a moments notice, to bonk any bad men, right on the noggin.

Picture will be posted tomorrow.

Tom

Newport Vacation

So with Lisa and Sam in Encinitas we thought we would try switching kids for a weekend and taking a vacation close to home. Tom and I decided to go to Disneyland/California Adventure since we have passes. Of course in late January there is hardly anyone there so we went on just about every ride. I hadn't been on the adult rides for years. It was fun and and a little scarier than I remember. It was weird to be there without kids because everything there reminds us of them and the things they love. The parade came by with "High School Musical" and we both thought of Logan. He has never seen it, but is obsessed with it due to Disney Channel's brilliant marketing. So we stayed in a cute hotel on Balboa Island and rented a boat for a few hours and cruised through all the little islands around there. That was my favorite part. I liked it because it was relaxing to be on the water and that would be my favorite past time these days. We also drove by the "this is the place" spot where we decided 4 years ago that we wanted to live here. Then that night we headed to L.A. to see "Wicked". We ate at a REAL italian restaurant where the food was great and fun to be around so many italian people. It is an amazing show and fun to see it with Tom. We slept in until 8:00 again and then met up with Tom's mom and brother who were here for a conference. So we got to chat with them for lunch before we picked up the kids. It was a fun weekend and it was only after it was our turn to have the 4 kids under the age of four that I realized we may have to shorten those vacations.