Category: Family

Thanks to our very late night the night before, we woke up late. Well, I woke up late and woke Mario up late for work again. I didn’t even have the strength to wake up and make Mario breakfast. I slept in with Alaethia till 11:40.

I’d gotten up to pee and John texted that he was at Target and heard a kid yell “Obama!” when he saw him on TV. I think it’s a bit creepy that he has that effect on people. Even Alaethia can spot his voice in a second and yells, “It’s Yobama” LOL.

I asked John if he’d go with me to work. I had to pick up the Constellation Turtle I’d ordered for Alaethia and my W2 form. He said yes, but he was running an errand. Alaethia and I ate leftover meatloaf from the night before. John came over and ate while I showered. Mom came over and offered to watch Alaethia. Even better, because then they’d never let us leave talking to her and I had only an hour to get over there and back and pick the boys up from school.

We went over there and said hello to everyone at the office area and even got to see two of my kiddos, Tony and Manny. We went to Vero’s office and I picked up my stuff and chatted with her for about half an hour. We went to the library before we left but it was empty. As we were leaving I saw Mrs. V. inside the office. We chatted a little bit. She told me the kids missed me *tear*. I said, “Aww, I miss them, too. I miss everyone.” The principal was standing right there when I said that and he said, “See? I told you not to leave!” I laughed it off, but I felt weird LOL.

We rushed out of there because I felt like I was going to pass out from the hot flashes I was having. We went straight to pick up the boys and we got home and got started on homework. Of course I had to take Eenan back to school because he lost a pencil his friend had lent him and he was afraid she wouldn’t talk to him anymore. He’s lucky we only live a few blocks away.

I started cleaning and washed a few things. I tried updating a bit and then went to chill out at Mary’s and gave the boys dinner. Aly and I ate leftovers again (pancakes LOL) but she kept sucking on the pieces and spitting them out. Grr. I was certain she’d eat well since it was something she liked, but nope.

I washed dishes while she played and then she wanted to watch TV, Noggin, of course. I made Mario some dinner and waited for him to get home. I bathed Alaethia, then caught up on my entries some more. Mario got home and he showed me pictures of their latest project. I must say, I was quite impressed. Mario watched TV while I updated some more (gosh, it feels like I’ll never catch up).

The baby’s been moving around like crazy. I feel every little movement. She flings her little limbs all over the place and it hurts sometimes! I can even feel her tiny foot pressed up against the left side of my belly. I press my hand to her foot every chance I get. I think she’s running out of room in there. I get a pain on my lower back and, er, nether regions whenever she starts rolling around.

While I was sitting at the kitchen table typing on my laptop and Mario was on his laptop in the living room, we hear Alaethia in deep conversation with someone. We turn and listen closely. She’s talking to “Pum-bah”, which is Spongebob. She’s talking to him on her princess cell phone. “How are you? You good? I’m good. Thank you for the magic water.” How cute is that? She’s like a sponge herself, this kid! She’s amazing.

We had such a tiring, crazy night after weaning Alaethia from her milk sippy that I slipped into sleep after the alarm went off and I woke Mario up late for work. And then she woke up early.

Mario left to work, rushing, poor thing and I made banana pancakes. Alaethia actually ate her pancake. And then she ate lunch, too. I washed dishes after breakfast and lunch (it’s so nice being able to keep up with the dishes now that I’m home). I cleaned up the kitchen table (that thing’s a magnet for crap) and then I got started on sewing the curtains. Man, they’re just valances and it took forever to do. That, or I’m just out of practice.

I took a break and went to my bedroom and started organizing my document drawers. I have TONS of documents to shred, it’s not even funny. I went to pick up the boys from school and went to the ATM to activate my new debit card, since I was supposed to do that since mid-January.

I went to Dollar General to get a few things, which ended up being a lot of things because that’s what happens when the boys go with me. We came home and they had snacks before starting homework.

I finished up the curtain and we visited with Mary a while. I started dinner, took it over to Mary’s, ate and came back. Mario was already sleeping. Oh well. He’s been such an old man lately, yet he’d get mad almost every night that I had to go to bed early because I had to wake up early to go to work the next day. I got online and began sending out invites to my baby shower. When I was just about to go to bed Mario woke up. He ate some of the dinner (meatloaf, broccoli and cheese) I’d made earlier. I was just sitting at the table with my laptop to start uploading pictures to Myspace and Flickr when he asked if I wanted to watch a movie. Alaethia was still awake, but sure, why not.

We watched The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. We got the ottoman ready with pickles, pepsi and popcorn just like at the movies. Alaethia fell asleep and we continued watching the movie.

SPOILER ALERT!!! SKIP THE NEXT PARAGRAPH IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE MOVIE!!!
I sort of figured how it would end, but when it actually got there and everything started panning out I couldn’t stop bawling. I just didn’t like the fact that he was an innocent baby when he eventually died. It was awful. I was literally watching between my fingers and Mario was laughing, but being kind about it, the whole ending. He reached over and squeezed my arm and said, “Babe, c’mon! You knew how it was going to end!” And I blabbered, “Yes, but it’s not fair that he’s a baby! A baby! I hate this movie!” Could have just been the hormones talking, but it was so sad. See, I’m getting teary-eyed just remembering.
SPOILER OVER!!!

Between having to pause the movie while Alaethia was awake and asking for stuff, my potty breaks and the movie being long itself, we went to bed at 2:45am. Oy. It was going to be hard waking up the again the next day.

I got up, made breakfast, paid bills online, washed tons (and TONS) of dishes, did all the laundry, organized all my drawers in the kitchen, pulled all of Mario’s miscellaneous junk and tools out of said drawers and into little containers that I bought especially for him (now to train him to actually use them). By the time I knew it, it was lunch time.

I made lunch for Aly and myself and as soon as she was done, I tried potty training to no avail. She loves to follow me in and remove her diapie and sit on the toilet, but I can keep her there for 10 minutes and she won’t do anything. She’ll look around and point at the ceiling and tell me, “Guess what, Mama?” and I’ll ask her, “What, Baby?” And she’ll say something random like, “Spongebob?” LOL

As soon as I let her off the toilet and I grab a diaper, she’ll get up and pee on the floor, I’m not kidding you. I feel a little like a failure because everyone was constantly talking about how fast girls were at learning. Maybe it’s just because I’m pregnant and Emily will be here soon?

I started clearing off the kitchen table and then went to pick up the boys. I was dead tired by the time I got back and helped them with their homework. Not even putting my feet up was helping. My status on Myspace was something like, “Is so exhausted” and Mario left a comment in return that said,”Rome wasn’t built in a day baby, I told you to take it easy”. I can’t take it easy though. I need to move around and do something or else I feel useless.

I chose that night to finally start weaning Alaethia off milk at night. It’s kind of like she’s still waking up for a bottle and wakes up even more now that she’s not in her crib (since it’s in her room) and is sleeping between us again since she’s scared to be in her room still. I was sure, that even after she’s weaned off milk, that she’ll still want a sippy cup, but I’d rather she just take water and eventually get bored of it, than keep drinking milk and messing up her teeth.

Mario went to bed early and then I took Alaethia with me. She made a big ol’ racket trying to wake her Daddy-O up and then, after about 15 minutes started asking for her mee-ulk. She literally screamed her head off for 2 hours, tossing her orange sippy at me in anger. Mario got so sick of not sleeping that he gathered up his pillow and another comforter and left to the living room. I was losing my mind, but I told myself this was it; I’d promised I’d wean her off when I stopped working, because it was impossible to do when I was.

Just when I thought I’d give in and get her a sippy of milk, I got an idea. I told her, “Look, I didn’t want to tell you, but Spongebob sent this Magic Water especially for you from Bikini Bottom. He doesn’t want you drinking anymore milk at night because then you’ll end up with teeth like his.” I even threw in that what if the Magic Water gives her mermaid fins since it’s from Bikini Bottom? She eventually conceded and either liked the story so much or was just so exhausted that she just drank the water LOL. It’s safe to say I got about 4 hours of sleep that night. The good thing was, I was 2 days closer to having her weaned completely off the milk at night.