All About the Little Men

Friday was a pretty laid-back day for Mario and I. I took Jaylen and Eenan to school in the morning and spoke to Eenan’s teacher. When I picked Eenan up from school the day before he’d told me his substitute was a total bitch with him (though not in those words, LOL). Turns out she’s the mother of a student Eenan knows and who knows why, but she had it in for Eenan.

First, a boy kept bothering Eenan; writing his name over and over again on an invitation list. They don’t get along to begin with, but when Eenan had had enough, he scribbled his name off the list. Eenan was wrong in doing that but the boy kept insisting. When Eenan crossed his name out again the boy screamed and Eenan took the heat for it.

Second thing that happened was a boy named Rolando–who has the highest amount of books read in the class–went into Eenan’s desk and tossed his whole pack of notebook paper into the air. Eenan had no idea what happened; I asked him over and over again if he did anything to provoke him and he said no. So what does the substitute do? She asks them both, Eenan and Rolando, to pick up the papers. Rolando refuses to, so she makes Eenan do it himself. Eenan’s friend Christian is thankfully nice enough to help him. My question is: why the hell should Eenan pick it up if he had nothing to do with it???

I went to the teacher with all these complaints the next morning and she listened patiently. She told me she had a list of students that “misbehaved” according to the sub, but she’d speak to them individually. She said she’d especially speak to Rolando, since he was wrong and she’s repeatedly told them they should stay away from others’ desks.

I’m so glad she was so understanding. I asked Eenan if he was left out of free-time or if he wasn’t going to attended the Good-Life Celebration (a big festival they have for them at the end of each 6 weeks if they’ve behaved well in class and have good grades) because the sub told him he wasn’t going. He said no and that she didn’t mention anything about the Good-Life. Mrs. R. didn’t even talk to him about anything, which he was terrified she’d do. When I was walking him to the class in the morning before I spoke with her, she saw him and asked, “Where’s my Eenan? Are you hiding, Eenan? I know why you’re hiding.” But she was really cool about everything.

My poor boy. If I ever run into that bully of a woman or if she ever subs for their class again I’ll definitely have a word with her. How dare she pick on a child? Or choose sides with the kids, y’know?

I ran into Brandon and Elda when I was approaching my street on the way home (she didn’t have a car that morning) so I gave Brandon a ride to school and then came home. I sneaked back into bed where Mario was still peacefully sleeping and we slept till around 10:30. The phones didn’t ring or anything, but I kept waking up every half an hour since I’m so paranoid that I’ll be late to pickup the kids.

We were starving and Mario saw how tired I was so he suggested rushing to Whataburger while they were still serving breakfast. We had some delicious sausage biscuits and a cinnamon roll. OMG–I crave those rolls every single day. I want one right now! *drool*

The kiddos played in the room while we finished giving the bedroom doors and hallway entrance another coat of paint. Mario finally also closed up that 1×1 ft. square hole he’d made in the wall to accommodate the wiring for the surround sound. God it was ugly–I’m so glad he finally patched it up after what? A month?!

We picked up Brandon and Eenan after that and got all the kids in the car to drop off movie rentals and some junk at storage. The kids got a few (okay, more than they should have!) toys out of their bins since they took a bag over there of stuff that was old or that they didn’t play with anymore. We’d already fed the littlest ones fish sticks at home and Eenan wanted fish sticks too, but since Mario and I were starving we picked up $1 double cheeseburgers at McDonald’s (I ate so much junk that day!). And there was a hair or some kind of suspicious lint in our $1 fries. Why the heck do we keep going back there?! *gag*

We chilled out the rest of the day until around 7pm when Mario was going to pick up a drill Ricky was buying from a friend of Mario’s. I was bored so I went with him while the kids watched movies with Mom.

Since the guy was all the way in Weslaco we stopped by Jorge’s for a while. He told us about the headaches he’s been having and how the doctor told him to take it easy or he’d end up with high blood pressure. I told him we’re getting old since doctors are warning us about stuff like that already. These days you just can’t be too sure. It’s so scary :(.

We went through the “backroad”, which is Old 83, and found a gas station at the corner of Old 83 and Greene Road that had gas for $2.16. You can bet your buttons I told Mario to stop after stopping by his friend Manny’s so we could fill up the truck. That’s the cheapest I’ve seen it!

In my previous entry I’d written how I didn’t want to do anything all weekend except stay in with the boys. Well, that was out the window when Jaylen’s friend Karlyn invited him to his first non-relative-friend party! He was so excited I had to take him. He clutched onto that invitation all day yesterday and today LOL. I invited Mom and Mary to go with me and they did. We got ready then left at 1:30. We stopped by Target to pick up Karyln’s gift–a Bratz doll. My gosh, I felt the impulse to start buying a whole bunch of them for Alaethia; those dolls are so cute! I wish I had toys like that when I was little…darnit.

Mary got the kids some toys and I had the pleasure of putting together a Star Wars Lego thing for Eenan. I was feeling horrible for stupidly skipping lunch (I have no idea what went through me) so I was irritable, dizzy, shaky and HOT. I had the air conditioning on full blast and I still felt terrible. It’s so weird how hot I feel this pregnancy compared to the others. I didn’t feel this way till around 8 months with the boys.

We stopped by Michael’s and Bealls since Mary needed to return stuff and then went to see Gramma for a while. Then we lectured Eenan on how lucky is he to have all the things he does and that he needs to quit being a brat (he was throwing fits left and right for every little thing) on the way to the party. When we got there we got a call from Noelia that my friend Jessica stopped by. I know lots of Jessicas and she didn’t leave her last name so Noelia described her–it was Jessica M.! I can’t believe I wasn’t home when she stopped by. Wish she would have called though, so she wouldn’t have made the trip out here for nothing :(.

The kids had so much fun, even though Eenan was grumpy and whiny for most of the time we were there. Jason, Mireya and Brianna went also since Brianna’s Karlyn’s friend, too. I spoke with Karlyn’s mom for a while; we’d already met before I just can’t remember where. She said she *had* to invite Jaylen since she’s always saying he’s her best friend–aww!

The only ride they got on was the bumper boats, but they had so much fun. Jaylen was 3 inches too small to get on by himself (Eenan was exaclty 44″ and could go on) and they wouldn’t let me on since I’m pregnant, so Mary went with him. By the time the ride was over (and let me tell you, it was long!) all three of them were SOAKED. Mary’s mascara was running and everything LOL. Only two other little boys were in there with them and they were having so much fun spraying Mary, probably because she’s a lady LOL.

All 3 of the kids had so much fun hitting the Cinderella piñata. Eenan was the oldest there and ended up breaking it. He was hilarious though–I regret not taking video! He practically jousted her in the butt with the stick and then reached his hand in there and pulled the candy out. Everyone was cracking up. I need to upload the pictures I did take to my Flickr tomorrow. I must go now, as I have this warm, delicious cinnamon roll from Whataburger my love picked up for me on the way home from work <3.