Category: Family

I’m finally getting a few minutes to just sit down and relax. I’ve decided I’m just going to start updating already; no more waiting to see if I’ll have time to catch up on all the entries I’ve already missed. I will update those eventually, just not anytime soon. I still haven’t even written about Christmas or Alaethia’s 1st birthday, but I will!

I’m sitting outside in the cool breeze with Alaethia and Eenan, who are both swinging in their swings. It’s such a nice day out. I had an excellent day at work. Circulation was low for some reason (probably because teachers are busy helping kids cram for the TAKS) which I’m really glad about because I was so sleepy and tired. I had a chance to shelve all of yesterday’s left-over books (which weren’t many to begin with) and check for and stick labels onto the new books. I’m almost done with those, which I’m a little sad about. I really like doing the labels LOL.

I got to finish everything I needed to do so I actually got out on time. Well, at 3:05, but still. Once they finally install the time clocks, or whatever they’re called, I’m going to have to make sure I clock out on time. And go in on time for that matter, heh.

I picked up the boys, rushed home and then changed Alaethia to take her to the doctor to get her 1 year shots. I took her in the Friday before last, when she got sick with a horrible cold, and they went ahead and gave her her 1 year physical. They told me to take her back when she was feeling better to get her shots. We were in and out in less than half an hour, which is awesome considering we’re usually there 1 and a half hours.

Since it’d been six months since her last set of shots I was not prepared for the screaming and the tears. I had to hold down her arms and the nurse held her legs while she jabbed (yes, jabbed) the needles in. Ooy. It was awful. She didn’t do too bad though; she only screamed for about 5 seconds after each poke and got over it pretty quickly. I still gave her some Tylenol, just in case.

When I got home I got a chance to install Alaethia’s new toddler car seat into the Equinox. I bought it since Monday and barely had time to set it up today. Now she’ll be much more comfortable when we go out. She was enjoying watching Alice in Wonderland this past Sunday when Mario, the kids and I were on our way to Long John Silver’s for dinner. Got to get some cute educational DVDs for her!

Since I haven’t update in so long I haven’t mentioned just how brilliant my boys are. Jaylen’s reading at about 2nd grade level (he’s in Kinder) and can write and spell very well, with hardly any help when he has sentences for homework. Eenan’s also doing great. His conduct’s improved and he recently placed 2nd in Oral Reading and 3rd in Storytelling district-wide in UIL. I’m so proud of them :).

I’ve been incredibly tired all week. Well, since last week actually. I don’t know what came over me; Noelia convinced me to sign up for sewing classes with her at Life’s a Stitch. It’s only three classes, but they usually last two hours and I’m exhausted by the time I get home (half hour drive). I ended up staying up till 12:30am Tuesday night (Wednesday morning?) to finish up my “homework” from last week’s lesson: making my own pillowcase without help. I’m making matching Transformers pillowcases for the boys. Then I plan to make curtains (right now they have Pokemon ones in their Transformer-themed room. It’s pretty fun though. Our first lesson was making a pillowcase with piping and the one we had yesterday was how to make a quilted bag. We’re halfway done. Our homework is to sew our straps on the bad and then sew up the edges. Then next week we finish it up and start on the next lesson, which will be patterns. We’re going to learn to make pajama bottoms! Like I’m not obsessed with them enough already!

But yeah. I’ve been tired. What with the lessons, endless laundry, tons of stuff to do every day, hardly sleeping and finally getting over our colds (Alaethia and me) my body’s drained.

Which reminds me…I’ve got the white laundry to do, I need to make dinner, get the boys in the shower, get myself in the shower and try to work on my bag a little. No. I probably won’t do that. But I do have to read to the kids tonight. I promised Jaylen.

I can’t believe a year’s already gone by. My little baby girl is a whole year old today :). It’s so weird, the weather’s exactly how it was last year when I went into labor with her: cold and gray with misty rain.

Since we’re having a little get together for her during the weekend we just had a little cake I baked for her (chocolate with pink and purple sprinkles!) after I ran all my errands (going to the store, bank, Sprint and then dropping off Rolando, who’d come over for a while due to canceled UIL practice). We gave her the “small” present we got her, which was a Taggies ball. I love those things. I totally need to get her a blanket. I’m just sad I didn’t see them any sooner, when she was still into sucking on her blanket/stuffed animal tags. Mario got home early, Mom was here, my in-laws, Noey and Andy, and the boys of course. We let her go crazy with the cake — it was everywhere! She had fun, I think.

She’s blabbering like crazy right now and using her bottle as a telephone (one of her favorite things at the moment). Obviously, she’s fighting her sleep. Poor thing caught someone’s cold. Just about everyone’s sick right now except for Mario and Eenan. Crossing my fingers they’ll stay healthy. I currently have laryngitis. It’s awful. I can’t yell at the kids at work when they’re running through the library =\.

I weaned Alaethia off of her formula around Monday or Tuesday. She did great! We’re not having any problems in the poopie department, either, thank goodness. Next is weaning her off the bottle completely. Eek. It’s going to be tough since I’m working. I think Mom would gouge her eyes out if I left her with the task. As for walking, she’s not walking completely on her own yet, but we’re thinking it’ll happen soon.

Okay, time for bed. They finally installed our computers in the library and they installed the electricity into the walls. Yes. We didn’t have any plugs along any of the walls AT ALL. That contractor/company are geniuses, I tell you. There’s so many things wrong with that place it’s not even funny. But anyway. I’m just happy things are getting better and not worse, as glacially paced as they are.

I’m taking time from folding the massive, monstrous pile of fresh laundry that’s eating my sofa to complain about how unfair it is that Heath Ledger is dead :(. Whether it was due to his own stupidity and overdosing on drugs or if there was “foul play” involved…this is just too sad. Even my mother loved him; she could watch 10 Things I Hate About You on repeat all day.

They found him naked with pills strewn all around him. It’s no laughing matter whatsoever, but I couldn’t help cracking up when Yadira said, “Dammit. Why couldn’t I have found him?”