A Quickie

So I’m going to try and update right now that Alaethia’s still asleep and the boys have begun their video game time. Let’s see how far I get!

Okay, so I didn’t sleep very well Sunday night because of Alaethia’s cough. I had to sleep propped up with her on my chest so that she wouldn’t be choking on her congestion. We didn’t fall asleep till 2am and in between that I kept waking up during Jaylen’s coughing fits. Poor dude. I had to take Mom to her follow-up doctor’s appointment that morning and figured it was a good a time as any to get Aly and Jaylen squeezed in for an appointment.

The office was almost empty, which was cool for us. We got called in so fast I only read about 3 pages of my book (usually I can read 2-3 chapters — that’s how long they take!). We got into the vitals room and I spotted Mario’s cousin, Jennifer, across the hall in the lab department. We found out she’s having a tough time with health concerns right now and she’s pregnant, so please keep her in your thoughts.

My tiny girl still weighs 13.15 lbs. and she’s almost five months old. Big difference from the boys who were lingering around 16-18 lbs. by now! I guess there is a big difference between boys and girls when it comes to weight; I would carry my friends’ daughters and they always seemed so light!

Our doctor wasn’t in so we saw the other one, Dr. M. I don’t really like him. He doesn’t answer my questions and really just doesn’t listen to me. I asked him to give me a generic prescription for Jaylen (since we’re so short on cash right now) and he told me he’d be giving me a cough medicine for him that “wasn’t expensive”. Right. When we get to the pharmacy they tell me it’s my regular co-pay of $20 for the name brand because that’s what he gave me. Grr!

He diagnosed Jaylen with a dry cough and no chest congestion. Aly’s got chest congestion, but he says it’s not too bad. He said her ear was red, but only gave me one prescription for her, which I believe is only for cough (see why I don’t like him?). He said it wasn’t bad enough that she’d need antibiotics. I hope he’s right — she’d been pulling at her ear yesterday. I’m to give her nebulizer treatments every 4 hours, but I only give them to her 2-3 times a day, right after she wakes up and at night usually, because they raise her heart rate tremendously.

Eenan stayed at home with John that morning since I didn’t want him exposed to any more sicknesses at the doctor’s office. He just got over his nasty cough and I’d like to keep it that way, especially since the wedding’s this weekend. Poor thing spent all morning cleaning their room since he was expecting his friend, Rolando, to come over. We waited all afternoon and he never showed up :(. Eenan was pretty sad. He remained hopeful even after I left with Elda, Noelia, Yadira, and Sonia to Noelia’s Lingerie Party, but nope, he never showed. Mom stayed with all my kiddos since no kids were allowed at the party.

Let me just say I know some crazy women. I laughed so much that the back of my head was throbbing by the end of the night. We’re all a bunch of pervs, that’s for sure LOL. They’d told Noelia it was only a Lingerie Party and not a Bachelorette Party to surprise her. I’d never been to one in my life and I had an awesome time. There was a penis cake and I even won the only two games of Dirty Bingo! Woo!

We got home pretty late, around 10pm. I got the boys ready for bed and then Alaethia and I began another sleepless night. Mario got home, late of course, around 12:30 and Alaethia was still awake. We had a long talk about some issues we’ve been having lately, mostly having to do with him always being out. I try to be patient, but it gets tiring. Hopefully we can work everything out and continue to have a good, strong relationship.

I spent yesterday trying to do housework (as much as Alaethia would let me). I’ve been doing pretty darn good with upkeep in the kitchen, even with Alaethia being sick. The dishes haven’t piled up overwhelmingly at all these past two weeks and it’s been such a weight off my shoulders. Yes, dishes were this much of a burden to me. I hate washing dishes and ever since Alaethia was born they’d become even more of a bother. But now that I’m doing them after each meal, after every dish we use, it’s SO much easier. Whodathunkit?!

Around 5pm Yazmin came over and she downloaded some songs she needed. Then John and I started remembering some old cartoons and searched for those on Youtube and I downloaded some old jazzy songs I’d sang in middle school choir. Gotta love technology.

I got in a bad mood quickly though when they asked me to drop Yazmin off at church in Peñitas, only to be sent right back when I was already arriving because the priest hadn’t shown up. This is like, the 2nd time he stands them up. How unprofessional. Still, I was pissed because I was in the middle of getting ready and had to be in a hurry now that I had to be driving around. It’s my luck that when I’m actually getting ready early something happens where I’m still going to be the one they have to be waiting around for. (Same thing happened the night of Noelia’s party.) But I took my time and we still made it on time, at 7pm, to the rehearsal.

Everything was all over the place and really unplanned. My boys were being extra hyper and were not minding anyone. I just pray that they’re on their best behavior the day of the wedding. They moved us around the three times we rehearsed, so imagine how confused they are. Mario and I are supposed to do the readings and when I was up there “practicing” I was told it was the wrong reading and I read too damn fast. Well, that’s how I read, dammit! So now I have to practice reading SLOW. Nice. Mario and I were practicing in front of each other and I was joking around that I was going to read it William Shatner slow. Buahaha.

So tonight we shall be practicing walking down the isle down our driveway. L33t. I should be getting my dress back from the seamstress today and I just hope it came out alright. I seriously need to go buy some double sided tape or something guys. I had a dream The Girls popped out and scarred everyone for life.

I need to start getting ready. The boys have their dentist appointments today and after this, we’ll have a grand total of $6 left in our bank account. Nice, eh? Thank God Mario gets paid this Friday. We’ve got so much shit we’ve still got to buy (Eenan’s party stuff, both boys’ school clothes and supplies, the rest of the wedding stuff, and soon they’re going to want to Baptize Aly *pulls out hair*) I’m so ready to hide in my closet until at least September. September seems like a safe month. Nothing overwhelming happens in September.

(Woo! I just finished this up and Aly woke up. I’m GOOD.)