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Let’s see if I can keep a blogging streak going, shall we?

The whole family came over for the bar-b-q on Saturday night. It was insane. All the girls were on the side patio and the men were under the Party Porch. It seemed like all the cousins that were arriving (like Jason) brought a friend and a case or two of beer. Let’s just say all the guys were in heaven LOL.

While all us girls were chatting we got into a conversation about how damn hot it was. Somehow that steered into a conversation about weight and when I started whining about how huge I felt Annie concurred and said, “Yes, you did stay chunky this time.” This time after having a kid. Yajaira finally, actually got fat LOL. I know I look chunky, but for someone to come straight out and tell me was a slap in the face (though I do appreciate her honesty). I’m SO going to try and lose weight even more now. I’m starting with a workout routine but I’ve got to start eating healthier. I munch on junk food when I know I should leave it alone!

Annie, Mom, Mary and I stayed outside the longest and then when Mom and Mary went home Annie and I stayed up sharing the craziest gossip I’ve ever heard! It was insane stuff. From our little perch on the patio bench (with Emily in my arms the whole time) we could clearly hear the guys’ jokes and stories. They’re hilarious. At one point Mario and Isaac were “ball checking” each other, which merely means that they were punching the other in the privates when he wasn’t looking. They’re quite entertaining.

The kiddos were all up playing in Alaethia’s room. My boys went to bed about 11pm and then the rest of the kiddos played in Alaethia’s room till 2:45am, when Annie and her kiddos went home. I was exhausted. I got into bed with the girls at 3am but of course, couldn’t sleep because the Party Porch is right outside my room and I could hear EVERYTHING the guys were arguing about LOL. I wanted to claw at my face, that’s how sleepy and annoyed I was. I finally ended up passing out sometime around 4am.

Mario was off on Sunday and since he’d been up so late (he sneaked in at 3:30 and fell asleep on the sofa while he left the rest of the guys outside till 5am). Mary and I (and Emily) went to the movies to watch “My Sister’s Keeper”. Mom stayed with Alaethia and the boys. It was so sad, but I didn’t cry as much as I thought I would. I didn’t like the ending because they completely changed it from the book. Don’t you hate that?

We got home and Mario was still in bed. He woke up around 2pm in the crappiest mood, ever, and annoyed the heck out of me for the rest of the day. I don’t know what happened; we haven’t had a day like that in months. We kind of just chilled out for a bit and then I left to McAllen with Emily to meet Carmen and the rest of the girls at The Zone. She’s going to be stationed in Germany and we wanted to meet up before she left. I still can’t believe that tiny Carmen is in the Army!!

Karina ended up having to go to Mexico because her dad was sick and Sally was getting sick herself so she wasn’t going either. It was only me, Carmen, her hubby and her kiddos and later her brother and sister. But we had a nice time. We took some pics and I’m so glad we got a chance to chat a while. And I behaved myself: I only had once slice of pizza, one tiny breadstick and a small glass of soda, heh. Trust me, it could have been much worse.

I left and got home around 7pm. I don’t understand how I can be away for 2 hours, have 3 people watching the kids (Mom, Mario and later Mary joined them) and somehow Alaethia still managed to rummage through my Re-Ment box (grr), tear up my foam scrapbooking stamps and bar on the sofa. Aye, aye, aye.

Anyway, we had an impromptu movie night with the kiddos, Mary and Mom and watched “Changeling”. I felt so angry watching that movie. I wonder if the poor woman ever found her son, or if she at least remarried and had other children?

When the movie was done the boys went over to Mary’s and Alaethia stayed with Mom watching Noggin while we left with Emily to Jorge and Maggie’s. The girls stayed inside with the kiddos and we had some pizza (yes, I caved in and had just one slice) and a Smirnoff. We gossiped a bit and then we went outside with the guys. It’s always a laugh going over there. Javi and his insane jokes and his “pervy faces” LOL. I’m still laughing about stuff we were joking about that night!

I woke up to get Mario’s lunch together around 8am and then I went back to sleep till 11:30 with the girls. OMG I have to stop doing that. I feel lazy and disgusting when I sleep that late. I at least did laundry, tidied the dining room up a bit and started jotting down ideas for Eenan’s 10th birthday party. I can’t believe I’ve been a mom for almost 10 years! I can’t believe he’s going to be TEN. I want to do something nice for him since we only had a small get-together here last year. Since I was working and pregnant I didn’t have time to plan anything. We won’t be able to do anything extravagant, but I want him to at least invite a few friends.

I had the boys take their showers and get ready for Taekwondo while I got on the treadmill for about 20 minutes because I cut my time too close to the boys’ Taekwondo classes. I did 100 crunches, 25 squats (OMG, pain) and got in the shower.

Not only was the young guy teaching them that day, but another man I’d never seen before, too. He was the main instructor and told us how they would now see 5-7 year-olds from 5-6pm and 8-10 year-olds from 6-7pm. Now we’d be spending 2 hours straight there. I’m going to have to make dinner before we leave for those days that Mario gets home early. Eenan was not happy about that at all LOL.

We had another movie night and watched “Land of the Lost”. I made some Margaritas for Mary and I but she only had one. I had 4 and a Michelada Mario made for me and finally, finally felt a bit of a buzz LOL. The only other time I’d felt anything close was when I had some Jack Daniel’s Watermelon drinks with Elda. I’d only had 2 of those!

Adan came over and we watched “The Unborn”. Now I know why Javi asked why the heck we have a hanging toy with a mirror on Emily’s car seat handle LOL. Stupid, creepy movie. I couldn’t sleep at all! I wasn’t really scared, but my mind was racing and I just couldn’t fall asleep. When I finally did fall asleep I had a horrible dream. Mario, Jorge, Emily and I were in the living room watching TV. We were waiting for Maggie to get back from doing nails in Sullivan. Mario had gotten up to get some beers so it was just Jorge, Emily and me in the room. Emily fell off the sofa, which was really weird because she was being blocked from falling by my legs. Jorge asked if she was okay and she was; smiling and everything. Jorge and I are talking and again, Emily falls off. This time I pick her up and her head falls back and just lolls from side to side. Jorge screams, “She broke her neck!” I’m frantically trying “reconnect” her head to her neck and I’m having no luck. I’m freaking out and ask Jorge, “Where the f*ck is Mario?! Why’s he taking so damn long?!” She’s turning blue from her oxygen being cut off from her neck being bent as it was. Mario finally comes back and we rush to the hospital while Jorge waits here for Maggie. Cut to Mario and I walking in through the door around half an hour later and Emily’s perfect again. Jorge asks, “What happened? Is she okay?” And I’m smiling and say, “Yup, she’s great!” And then I wake up because I’m freaking out.

It takes me forever to fall asleep again and when I do I have another dream where I’m standing in a really old, brown-walled, hardwood floored room. The curtains hanging from wrought iron rods looked like they’d once been white, but were now sheer and yellowed and they billowed somewhat creepily in the wind coming in through the open windows. There’s an old fashioned Phonograph playing a song. The song was “Little Boxes”, the original theme song to Weeds. Thanks, Javi LOL.

Mario was off today and he slept in for much longer than I did. I only slept in till 10:30. I got the girls fed (although Emily only ate a few spoonfuls of her rice cereal and Alaethia refused to consume anything but milk—I don’t know what to do with that girl) and the boys had already eaten cereal. Those boys won’t starve LOL. John came over and he told me about a dream he had and I told him about mine. Then we laughed at some dumb stuff he showed me online and then I went to change Emily’s diaper. She’s been getting awful diaper rashes the past 2 days so I’ve been checking on her frequently. I woke Mario up when I turned the light on and he said we should eat at Kumori. You don’t have to tell me twice! I got lunch ready for the kiddos and Mom and then I got myself and Emily ready to go.

Since Mario had to wait for me he was in a pissy mood. I couldn’t help but laugh out loud when I remembered that it was “A No Fun Zone” at the house because Mario gets mad when there’s too much noise LOL. He got into a better mood as we neared the restaurant, though, thank goodness. We joked around and had a great time. I love my funny guys :).

We got home and I was about to start working out when I looked at the clock: 4:00. There was no way I’d be able to work out and also shower, so I postponed both. I’d forgotten the boys now go in at 5 for Taekwondo. I felt gross and fat for not being able to at least jog, but oh well. At least I was doing a good job with my diet today, meaning I wasn’t eating excessive junk food.

It was awesome seeing the instructor work with the kids. Now that he’d split the kids into groups, Jaylen’s class only had 5 kids in it and Eenan’s had 2! That’s fantastic. Jaylen enjoyed it a lot more today, especially because they got to hold the kick-bags (I forget what it’s called) and he knocked down a few kids and knocked them out again when he was practicing his own push-kick. Eenan’s still a little unhappy about being in Taekwondo, but he does really well! I wish he’d get into it. The only thing I didn’t like about today was that the instructor made a big deal about Jaylen not speaking Spanish. I know we’re in the Valley and the majority of people are Hispanic, but hello? We are in America and English is the primary language! I wanted to say something but 98% of the parents there mainly spoke Spanish and I didn’t want to offend anyone =\.

We got home and I started making dinner: artichoke lasagna. Yummo. Even Eenan likes it. I washed dishes for what seemed like eternity while all the kiddos watched Coraline. The boys went to bed and then Mario watched the girls while I showered. And now I’m here, finally done with this entry at 1:43am and again the internet went out. WTF, internet?? Oh well. Gonna have to post this tomorrow. I can’t wait to see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince!!!

For the first time since…almost a whole month I’m writing an entry in “real time” LOL. I’m just so bored. I wouldn’t be bored if I actually had something to do. That, and when I’m bored, I tweet like crazy. I think I’m finally going to start blogging and stop tweeting so much (although I’m completely in love with the fact that I can be ANYWHERE and share what I’m thinking or show you a picture of something!).

I feel so tired and lazy. I took Mom grocery shopping yesterday and of course, Mario asked me to bring some beer. We have a bottle of Clamato in the fridge that expires on the 14th and since it was Friday and Maggie and Jorge were out of town and we wouldn’t be hanging out with them that night I thought Awesome! Micheladas and movie night!

Well Isaac F. recently got out of a relationship and he was coming over. It’s nice to see him finally come out after all these years LOL. I got some pizzas and totally thought we were going to watch movies and drink here, but they abandoned me and left to chill with Jose. Javi recently hooked me up with Weeds seasons 1 and 2 and I stayed halfway on the 1st season. The boys and Alaethia were sleeping at Mary’s (but Alaethia was brought to me about an hour later because she gets scared LOL). I stole Mario’s Michelada and snuggled up with Emily on the sofa to watch the shows. It’s actually really good! I’m surprised I never heard of it before, but it could be because we stopped ordering Showtime on cable a few years ago.

I forced myself to stay awake till the whole 1st season finished (around 2:30am) and then when the girls and I were getting ready for bed, I turned on the TV and got hooked to a show on HGTV. I must have passed out because next thing I remember Emily squirming and cooing for a bottle around 5am and Mario was in bed. My neck was all crooked from being propped up on the pillows I fell asleep on watching TV LOL.

Of course I didn’t wake up when Mario’s alarm went off to go to work. Thank God he woke up on his own. I told him where to find his lunch in the fridge and that’s all I remember. I didn’t wake up till 11:30am and I felt horrible; my head hurt, my darn cracked tooth was hurting and I felt lethargic. I hate feeling like that.

So now it’s 5pm and I’m still in my PJs LOL. All I’ve done is normal stuff like taking care of the kids, feeding them, and all that jazz. I wanted to paint my kitchen cabinets white, but I need a new paint brush and don’t feel like going to Dollar General or Walmart. I wanted to put all the random stuff we’ve got in the dining room away (two boxes, the old surround sound stuff and a whole bunch of crap from my room, too) but the storage closet’s already full of junk and I can’t even reach up to pile anything up there. That little problem would all be resolved if I could take the boxes of my collections out and put them on shelves surrounding the perimeter of my room like I used to have, but hanging the shelves is a two-person job and I know Mario won’t help me with that :(. I even tried hanging pictures up but I need a drill and I don’t know where the one Mario was borrowing from Jason is.

I want to jog, but I have to tidy up (vacuum, clean up the kitchen table and counters) before everyone gets here and I have a living room full of boys right now. And to top it off it’s super hot outside; I don’t feel like having a bar-b-q today!

Alright, alright. I’ll go clean. And then I’ll at least do some crunches and shower and then I’ll go outside. And sweat all over again.

I’m still alive. Just been enjoying summer and at the same time, trying not to go completely batty having all 4 (loud) kids home at the same time LOL. I took for granted just how peaceful it was when the boys were in school during the day. The girls would get to sleep without being bothered. I could nap if I wanted to. Emily would take her afternoon nap when she was supposed to. But now the boys are constantly yelling; at each other or just, you know, randomly. Poor Emily wakes up screaming every time. The boys love to play with Alaethia, but she’s a little diva and can only take so much of their energy LOL. She’ll smack them and squeal for them to leave her alone.

My favorite thing to do when I have a chance, of course, is to surf the web. I probably have plenty of time to update my blog, but right when I log in to WordPress I somehow get distracted and start looking for Re-ment stuff on Ebay. I’ve become quite obsessed with those little miniatures recently. I’ve got Rachel to thank for introducing me to the world of minis! Shoot, I’ve even got Mom and Mary collecting them!

Those are just a FEW of the gazillion things I’ve collected the past few months!

I also get distracted by browsing through people’s photos on Flickr, search for decorating ideas on Flickr or I’ll chat on Twitter. I hardly even use my Myspace or Facebook anymore, either. I guess whoever’s following me on Twitter has the most up-to-date goings-on of my life.

And when I’m not plastered to the laptop I’m reading. I’m still on Breaking Dawn. Crazy shiz happening in that book. I won’t go into detail so as not to ruin it for anyone, but it’s crazy. I still think New Moon was probably my favorite. I CANNOT WAIT for that movie! So many awesome movies are coming out in the next few weeks, too!

So yeah, I’m doing great. Loving the awesome new, comfy living room. Not enjoying the scorching heat; we’re probably going to end up having to get a bigger central air unit: this one doesn’t feel like it’s cooling much anymore, probably due to the extra square footage and the fact that the heat index’s been 105-116 the past few days. Bleh.

As for the kiddos, Emily’s such a doll. I never knew what people meant when they said they had “happy babies” until I had Emily. It’s so easy to keep her happy. I don’t even have a problem lugging her around with me everywhere. As long as she’s in her sling, nestled near me, she’s completely happy :).

Alaethia, like I mentioned earlier, is turning into quite the diva. Everyone’s amazed by how much she speaks “for a two-year-old” but it’s really nothing new to me. She’s been a chatterbox since she was around 7 months old. Mario says she takes after me LOL. She’s really into her Noggin shows right now, especially “Max and Ruby”, “Ni-Hao Kai-Lan”, “Wonder Pets” (she sings the song ALL THE TIME!), and “Backyardigans”. I’m not too fond of those last two, but what can I do? LOL

I definitely need to start sitting down with her and teaching her the colors and alphabet. She’s excellent with shapes but she’s still confused about the other two. As for potty-training, she’s a pro, though she still has her accidents at night but not too often, thank goodness.

The boys are doing great, when they’re not trying to smack each other. But I separate them and what do they do? They’re together 10 seconds later, like magnets. Jaylen’s had some anger issues, which I can only blame on “middle-child syndrome” but we’re working on it. I have noticed that he’s gotten better.

Eenan’s usually the instigator when it comes to their arguments and physical fights but he’s a lovable kid at the same time. He’s usually the one who tries to calm Jaylen and Alaethia down when he notices that I’m getting frustrated. He’s having to learn responsibility for a pet since he’s got Daisy and Lady to take care of now. He’s not too happy about it sometimes, but I remind him that they’re really cute and someone would really love to adopt them and he gets right on task LOL.

We took the boys to the library this past Tuesday and they each checked out a stack of books. They were all excited about it that day and read for a good hour without being “told” to, but the novelty wore off. Eenan’s been more reluctant about reading. I’ve got to get them on some kind of schedule so that they know when they can and can’t play video games and when it’s time to read and learn and go outside to get some exercise. I don’t want them to become couch potatoes, or act like it’s the end of the world when they can’t pass a level on a video game.

Mario and I are doing great, I’m thrilled to say. Ever since I stopped working and he went back to his old job we’ve been on Cloud 9 again, like nothing ever changed. We’re spending time together, he’s actually getting to see the kids and we watch movies in the evening in the new living room (which is almost complete; Mario just finished up the shelves, we just gotta paint them), either by ourselves or Jason, Mirella and Adan come join us.

I’ve become quite the social drinker (LOL) and we have a few cocktails before bed while we watch TV, chat, or surf the web when the kiddos are asleep. I love that boy :).

Noelia should be coming over tomorrow and we have a dinner to go to. I’m hoping I can get some cleaning time in and I’ve really got to spend that gift card Pete and Sally gave us from Pier 1! Maybe on Sunday, if Mario gets a chance between all that extra work he’s got. It’s all for the family LOL. He’s quite the popular one!