i don't know how single mom's do it!!! i must say i have been so impressed with my patience this past whole week. part of it is due because i'm in bed most nights by nine pm. sleep = calm & loving patience. anyway, saturday we did absolute nothing all day and around 2 pm mom and i took brayland on a few mindless errands. well, of course he fell asleep. if we are ever in the car early in the afternoon he will fall asleep. but this time he didn't wake up when we went into the store. he calmly laid on my shoulder and slept. and then i put him back in the car and he slept some more. we get home and i pull him out of his car seat and he flops back onto my shoulder. he wasn't waking up. and when brayland takes over a 30 minute nap he doesn't go to sleep at night. we come in and i sit and hold him...yes, i totally enjoyed that part. what i didn't enjoy was he was going on full steam when it was time for bed. i think he slept for almost 2 hours. there was nothing i could do about it. it was either let him sleep or listen to him wail if i woke him up! i let him lay with me in my bed, we read story after story, and i couldn't resist the urge to close my eyes. 30 minutes later i find him still wide awake on my bed. okay brayland to your air mattress. so i laid him on his pillow and i zonked out again. 20 minutes go by and i wake up again to brayland bouncing on me. well, thankfully we have a loving grandma who is a night owl. she was up doing scrapbooking still at 10 pm in her cave so i took him to the basement and asked mom to watch him. well, he didn't go to sleep until 1 am! thank you mom. and surprisingly brayland woke up happy, 
got dressed for church willingly, listened to the speakers, held the hymn book open, folded his arms whiled we prayed. these things never happen. and to top it off he and his sister left right away when sacrament was over to go to class. i couldn't keep up with them. brilee took him straight to nursery, he willingly stayed and brilee hopped off to her own class. i couldn't believe it! brayland back in KY hates going to nursery. after church was great too; dad and i took the kids to the Mormon Trial Center to see some Book of Mormon stories in big paintings. and by the way, thankfully we were the only people there! it was a huge open room and the kids were rolling and chasing each other all over the place. all super quietly of course. well, when that was over brayland had reached his limit. he fell asleep for 20 minutes on the way home. when we got home i woke him up because i wasn't going through another night of bouncy brayland. so here he is
wailing uncontrollably; wouldn't stop rubbing his eyes. he was so tired; the poor thang. but i was in a little dilemma. let him sleep now at 5 pm and let him wake up at 4:30 am or keep him up til normal. yes, normal was the answer. so the only thing i could do was let him be. it was ridiculous! i did attempt to change his diaper and put on his pajamas. i got as far as his pants off and a clean diaper on with the help of mom holding his legs and dad holding his arms. we ignored him for the most part. he did take off his diaper; i put it on again once while being thoroughly thrashed upon and of course it came off again. dad said, why fight it? "uh, so he won't pee on your carpet." (no sarcasm in my voice) and he just gave that look of "oh well." i said so you don't care that there is pee on your carpet. he said, dogs do it. -we don't have dog- but the carpet is old and dad just doesn't care. Brayland eventually snapped out of it at 5:50; 40 minutes later! and he turned into him self again. mister happy. here he is immediately afterwards laughing at cousin grant. and he calmly and oh so gentlemen like said, "mom, can i have my diaper on and my thomas pants?"
BUT now we are back to bedtime battles. he doesn't want to fall asleep. and i want to be done with this madness! again thanks to aunt amanda who has more love than i do at this point. she has entered the bedroom. so again i say, how do single mom's do it and stay out of jail?
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