Those other Brunson Boys

For the past few days Scott, the boys and I have been staying at Russell and Collettes house while they are on vacation in the bahamas. We stayed in their home to watch their two year old, twin boys, Dallin and Bowen. It was only for three days, but man it wore me out! I felt like the mother of 4 boys ages 3 and under, it was crazy!!
At times it could get pretty hectic and noisy, but I think they all had a good time. Luckily we made it through the three days with only one injury, poor little Dexter fell down the huge stairway hitting the tile floor at the bottom. He scraped his nose and lip and got a bloody nose, it was very traumatic for both of us and we had a good cry together (I think I cried harder than he did).
We also had a minor incident of Corbin breaking a cupboard door on their entertainment center, but hopefully we will be able to fix it. Other than that it was a pretty successful experience. Maybe I will have more kids!

The picture is of Bowen, Corbin and Dallin taken last summer, I haven't uploaded my pictures from the past few days yet.

Being a single mom

For the past four days I have basically been a single mom. Scott left Wednesday morning for a seminar in Salt Lake City and will not be home until about 2:00 am, which is only about 5 hours away. Hooray!!
Anyway, these four days without him have been good, bad and at times down right ugly! The whole situation gives me a new respect for single mothers. I don't know how anyone can do it alone all the time. It got pretty rough almost everyday when bedtime was approaching, the kids get sick of me by then, and they're tired. Corbin and I start fighting a little bit and it's pretty frustrating. The worst part is in the middle of the night and one of them wakes up and cries waking the other, and they are both wiggin' out. At 4:00 am my patience level is pretty low, and with both of crying it's not fun. What am I supposed to do?!
Luckily, we are at the end of the four days and no one died or was severly injured! So I suppose we'll have to call it a success. I should probably get used to this setup for future seminars, but I am not looking forward to it.

My funny Corbin

Now that my little Corbin is 3 years old, he has a little personality of his own and he can be so funny sometimes.

Yesterday at church he had to go potty, so I took him into the bathroom and there was a lady already in there. As soon as I sit him down on the toilet he says, "The poop is coming out of my bum!" The lady starts laughing and I tell him to talk quieter, but it was funny and embarrassing. A few minutes later, he is still sitting there on the toilet with no success so I decide he isn't going to go and take him off the toilet and start to pull up his underwear and he says, "No, I don't want to poop in my underwear!" Luckily the lady had already left the bathroom. Anyway, to make a long story short he finally went like 5 minutes later.

Later on at church he refused to go to primary or nursery, so I tried to take him to sunday school with me, which didn't work out. We ended up walking the halls of the church and went into an empty room. On the floor there were these silver discs screwed to the floor (I think they have something to do with the microphone system or something) Anyway he wants to know what they are, but I didn't know so he says, "Open it, where's a screwdriver? Open it, I want to go potty in it." I laughed so hard I cried and then explained to him that he can only go potty in a toilet not random holes in the floor.

What a funny kid he can be sometimes. I love that he can carry full on conversations with me now, he is so much fun!

Spring weather

What a beautiful day!! For the past two days the sun has been shining here in Boise and melted all the snow. I am so excited for spring! I can't wait to take the kids outside to play in the grass, and run and go for walks. Although, it is pretty windy and a little chilly out there today, a storm is probably blowing in. But only one month left of winter, and then on to spring baby!!

look out for the poop!

Do I have a story for you! Today while I was going through our bills, the boys were watching a sesame street movie in my bedroom. I didn't think anything was wrong until I heard the toilet flooding in the bathroom. As I get up to check it out, Corbin comes in and says he pooped in his underwear. I quickly stop the toilet from flooding (due to an overwhelming amount of tp) and start to clean corbin up. Just then Dexter comes in, covered in Corbin's poop! I kid you not! It's all over his hands, belly and legs, it was down right disgusting. I immediately throw both boys in the bathtub, and ask corbin where his underwear were, he told me he left them in my room on the floor.
After I get Dex out of the bathtub, I walked into my room to find the dirty underwear. It was like walking into a war zone! Poop was everywhere, including the carpet and Dexter's pack n' play. There in the midst of 500 carpet stains lies an enormous green turd! He didn't poop in his underwear, he pooped on the freakin' carpet! I quickly got some tissue and got rid of the giant turd, then got some carpet cleaner and started the disgusting task of scrubbing the 500 carpet stains in my room and hallway leading to the bathroom.
All in all it took about an hour to get the boys out of the bath and get everything all cleaned up, and back to normal. Oh, being a parent! What a fun day!

Not a baby anymore

I have come to the realization that my sweet little Dexter is not a baby anymore. I know he is only 10 months old but for the last few days now he has begun to take his first steps without the help of the couch or table or some other stationary object. He also says "no" almost constantly, I don't think he knows what it means so it is still cute. He is such a well tempered little guy, he can entertain himself pretty well, and gets along so great with his big brother Corbin. What a great addition he has been to our little family. Now if I could only get him to drink some milk from a sippy cup!

Our sick house

What a week it has been! Last Sunday I started to feel a little sick, not too bad, still functional. By Wednesday I couldn't even stand up so Scott had to stay home from work to avoid neglecting our boys. He was so very helpful! Then on Friday he started feeling a little sick too, poor guy he caught my unpleasant illness. By then I was feeling a lot better so I was able to watch the boys while he stayed on the couch all day. Today, we woke up for church at 9:00am, when Scott stood up to get in the shower he almost puked, so I sent him back to bed and the boys and I went to church without him. He has spent the day sleeping and hopefully he will be okay before work tomorrow.
I am hoping that our boys have somehow managed to dodge this bullet, but I guess time will tell!