Category: Daily

My baby shower was yesterday and it was even better than I could have asked for. There were a few discrepancies, like the hotel saying they seated 50 when they only had 32 chairs available and about 3-4 games that weren’t played since we forgot the pads of paper and pencils, but other than that, it was great :). I’ll post a more detailed entry about it tomorrow, hopefully with pictures (if I came out okay, that is).

We got tons of pink little outfits, and other friends and relatives were so generous with gift cards and money that we got just about everything we need for Alaethia’s arrival. I can happily say that I’m SO READY for her to be born!

John and I spent 2 hours shopping around at Target tonight getting important things we needed, like the carseat and stroller combo and diapers and all that sort of stuff. I also got a whole bunch of other little things on clearance, like a Boppy Slipcover (still have to go back for the actual Boppy, though!) and some outfits. We figured I should go tonight since this “Winter Freeze” is blanketing the Valley and I probably shouldn’t be driving around tomorrow when there’s sleet and ice on the roads.

I totally thought I was going into labor on Saturday. I felt sore and could barely walk–seriously felt like she was about to fall out. It was the strongest, sharpest round ligament pain I’d ever experienced. Jose came over to get something and got a little startled by my demeanor. He tattle-taled on me to Mary, Mom and Elda after they got home from shopping that day LOL. He thought I was faking being okay just so I could attend the baby shower :P.

I was feeling great the day of the baby shower, Sunday, which was totally weird. I’m feeling fine right now, and that’s because I spent the night driving and walking around. I am getting little jabs of pain every-so-often, and it feels like she’s using my bladder as a trampoline (I’m not kidding!) so maybe sometime soon. There’s 14 days left. Mayra told me yesterday that she’s predicting–just has a feeling–that I’ll go into labor by Thursday or Friday.

She (and her daughter, Sharlyze) have this foresight about things. Her daughter predicted, even before I was pregnant with Alaethia, that I was going to have a daughter. She even predicted that Mario wanted to start trying for a baby before he even mentioned anything about it! I’m totally psyched about Thursday and Friday LOL. It would be ideal if it happened on Friday, while Mario’s at home. But we do have bills to pay that day, so maybe she should wait till Saturday, if anything :P.

Well, I’m exhausted and need to take a quick shower so I shall leave you now. I’ll totally post if there’s any change!

Since I’m not allowed to do anything today, like walk or do my piles of laundry, I’m frantically trying to get my old entries up (I had 2004-ish to June 2006 to upload; I’m currently on April 2006 Woo! I’m done!) so that I can get the plugins I want installed (perferably before Alaethia’s born, as I know I won’t have time for zip then :P). While reading through each entry (because I’m anal-retentive like that and every old entry needs to be catergorized, too) I figured out the exact moment that Mario and I got sick with Mono, when my friendship ended with Ricci, when Mario surprised me with wanting to try for a baby (and we found out our Padrino had been murdered in the most dreadful way), when we bought our truck (and Eenan got his very first stitches), and when I found out I was pregnant with Alaethia!.

It’s kind of weird, sometimes heartbreaking, and sometimes fun to go back and read all that stuff. I remembered a meme I’d seen floating around and decided to finally do it. I just hope I don’t have one-worded sentences as the first sentence, which, knowing me, I probably do :P.

Directions: Write the first sentence in your journal from every month.

January: I tried blogging yesterday, mostly because of the fact that Annie was talking about all these superstitious things, one being that doing something on the 31st or the 1st will help you do whatever you did all through the year.
February: I’m fine, I’m alive.
March: So much has happened since I last updated.
April: You know what just blows my mind?
May: So we’d planned on leaving for our Mini Vacation at South Padre Island on Friday after Eenan got out of school.
June: Hmm…seems like I’ve gotten the hang of updating once a week.
July: I wish I could say that I haven’t updated because I’ve been working at my new fabulous job, but the truth is I’ve been running around doing errands and taking Mom to her doctor’s appointments since last Monday.
August: I had the weirdest dream last night.
September: I really hate taking a shower. (LMAO)
October: I think part of the problem with me trying to update daily is that I can’t think of anything interesting to write.
November: We didn’t do much on Halloween night.
December: The cold front came in and has been lingering since Thursday.

Well, it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be, but we can officially establish that I do not know how to start off a journal entry (or end one, for that matter!) :P.

I’m sort of freaking out guys.

I didn’t sleep much last night (in fact, I should be sleeping right now instead of blogging) because our darn dog, Rocko, decided to bark all night long and rile up the neighbors’ dogs who also barked right along with him. I also felt these horrible cramps, only I don’t know if it was upset stomach cramps or if they were contractions. I’ve forgotten what contractions feel like (that’s why we end up having more than one kid–God wipes our memory free like that little device they use on Men in Black) so I’m not sure what’s going on. As I’m sitting here I’m feeling lots of pressure in my lower abdomen and I feel it even more when I’m lying down.

And now for a little TMI Yesterday, when I actually got so tired that I had to lay down and tried to sleep in the afternoon I felt like something trickled out but when I checked (about half an hour later after I woke up) there wasn’t anything there. My water’s never broken at home (with Eenan they popped it for me at the hospital and with Jaylen it broke at the hospital right before they administered the epidural) so I have no idea what the start of that feels like. I’m a little nervous since Mary said Mario came a month early since she kept “dripping” water all day long. *gulp* End of TMI

When I dropped Jaylen off this morning, I had my daily chat as I usually do with his teachers. They asked how I was doing and I told them about being almost 2 cn. dilated. Their eyes get wide and say, “Miss! Shouldn’t you be lying down right now?!” and that’s the same thing Ricky, Big Mario’s friend, said yesterday. I wish I could just be lying down, but I’ve got children to drop off and pick up. I’m getting a little apprehensive about the whole drop off/pick up situation as I get closer to delivering. I know Mario will be here for about 3-4 days and Mary’s going to take a week off, but I can’t help but worry a little. I’m going to feel so…weird not having control over everyday things like that.

I’m also worried about the cooking! I know Mary will probably feed us for a few days, but what do I do after that? After the novelty of taking care of New Mom wears off and I have to do everything I usually do, only now I’ll have a newborn attatched to my bosom.

It does sort of excite me in a strange way. I don’t want to feel stressed, and I know I will in some cases, but I wonder how our lives will change now that we’re going to be 5 and not 4. Jaylen’s already talking about how we’ll have to get a new chair for the kitchen table and how it will go at the end so she can be “next to” all of us. How will it be now that I’ll have 3 babies with me while I grocery shop. I think it’ll be good for the boys though. They want to feel responsible and have both promised me they’re going to be the best helpers when Alaethia’s born. Let’s see if they keep that promise LOL.

I can’t wait to meet this little lady (and see who she resembles more!). I just hope she waits till at least 6pm on Sunday!