Category: Grimmy Grim

I never know what to title my entries anymore. Hmph.

I was reading my book (I’m polishing up on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix because I’m already forgetting the details of the book since the last time I read it and I want to be prepared for the movie, which unfortunately doesn’t come out till next July :*(!). I’m in the middle of doing laundry too, but at least it’s sort of a low-key day. Mario went into work since he didn’t work on Monday and Mary treated us all to lunch at Peter Piper Pizza. The kids are playing Star Wars II on Game Cube with Brandon and the house isn’t completely in shambles (yet) so why not blog?

Eenan’s cold got much worse Thursday night when he went to bed. I gave him a nebulizer treatment, his medicine, rubbed his chest in Vapo-Rub, and propped him up a little so he wouldn’t feel so congested. After 2 hours straight of coughing and trembling because he was afraid he’d throw up, he finally got some rest.

I asked him if he was up to going to school the next day, but he didn’t want to ruin his perfect attendance (he’s determined to get another trophy this year) so we agreed that he’d go in half a day and I’d pick him up when I picked Jaylen up from school. He pocketed some of his cough suppresant lollipops and we were off to school.

I told his teacher about his bad night (to which she replied, “He’s got such a bad cough! He got us all sick!” Grr) and that I’d be picking him up before lunch. She said it was fine. He only got to do one test, his Spelling one, and has two to make up but he said he could do them on Monday.

When I dropped Jaylen off, I spoke with his teachers about my pregnancy and Mrs. S. said she remembered Mario from somewhere. After we switched details for a while we discovered she was in band with Noelia and they graduated the same year. She said Mario must have looked so familiar because they look so much alike LOL.

Mario and I napped till it was time to pick the kids up. It was the best nap I’d ever taken. Usually, any small noise wakes me up or I have things on my mind like, ‘Did I set the alarm for 11?’

‘What if I don’t wake up on time?’

‘Where are my phones? What if there’s an emergency and they call me about the kids?’

But on Friday morning, I slept like a log. Nothing woke me up until the alarm went off at 11.

I picked the kids up, brought them home and called Elda to let her know I wouldn’t be picking Brandon up since I’d already picked up my kiddos. We chilled out, had lunch, and then we left to some hardware stores so Mario could find some tools he’d lost (again) at work. That man spends about $300 a year on tools that he’s constantly losing or leaving in customers’ cars!

We stopped at Pet Smart for some crickets for our lizards and then we headed home. My dad-in-law was here when we got here, along with his friend Ricky and we agreed to bar-b-q for dinner. Mario and I went to buy meat at the meat market place. I’d been craving a brownie so I bought one of those 25 cent ones from Little Debbie, or whatever the brand is. I ate half, then Mario at the other half. He growls and makes a face and tries fishing something out of his mouth with his fingers. We get to a red light and he opens the car door and spits. He tells me there was a LONG hair in his mouth that he chewed out of the brownie. I felt so sick. Sure, this type of thing unfortunately happens when you eat at restaurants or at home (my mother used to be guilty of never picking her hair up when she cooks *gag*) but this was a brownie that gets made and packaged at a factory. Bleh!

Anyway, it was cold out so the kids played and ate inside where John was watching him since he was on the computer. Mom, Big Mario, Ricky, Mario and I ate burgers and ribs outside while the men played pool.

When it was time to put the kids to bed, Eenan’s cough started up again. I gave him his nightly ritual of meds and a rub down with Vapo-Rub and kissed him goodnight. Then Jaylen started with his cough, though not as bad. Eenan kept coughing every 5-10 minutes for about an hour and then got up because his heart was racing and he felt like he would throw up. I gave him a cough lolly, a spray of Cloraseptic then Mario and I got smart and got their humidifer down from the closet shelf and turned it on. I swear to you, neither of them coughed the rest of the night.

Thank God too, since Eenan had a UIL meet the next morning on Saturday. I’d already made up my mind that he wouldn’t go since his cough had been so bad, but I thought I’d ask him anyway at 6am. He leaped out of bed and said, “Yup! I’ll go!”

I took his chipper mood as a sign that he was doing much better and gave him breakfast then got him ready. He put some of his cough lollys in his pocket, I strapped his DS pack onto his belt loop so he wouldn’t lose it and gave him $2 for snacks (which I later found out was wholly used to buy 1 Nerds Rope!).

We got to the school right on time and I wished him goodluck as he boarded the bus. I said a little prayer for him as I drove the few blocks home and slipped back into bed with Mario for another half hour before I woke him up for work.

Mario left and I ate breakfast while checking my mail. I didn’t want to fall back to sleep, though I was really sleepy because I’d be dropping John off at work at 9:30. I noticed Mario left his new drill bits in the car and I knew he needed them so I called and told him I’d drop them off to him. I also planned on buying the Harry Potter book since I didn’t feel like borrowing it from the library then worrying that I was going to have fees because I forgot, once again, to return them on time.

Mom tagged along and Jaylen was in a semi-bad mood since he’d woken up really early. We dropped Mario’s stuff off first, then stopped by the nursing home to see Gramma for half an hour. We talked and caught up and she asked to see my belly. I stood up and she gasped, “Yajaira! Are you sure there aren’t two in there?!” I laugh and tell her no, that I’m sure there’s only one girl in there and she says, “You’re so small it makes your belly look really big!”

We said our ‘see you laters’ and went to Target. Mom wandered around while I picking out my book and made a mental note of others I want to go back for. I got some Nitetime Triaminic for the kids and ended up coming home with various foods like canned pears, sprinkle yogurts, smoothies and other stuff I can’t remember right now because Jaylen wanted everything in sight. At least he didn’t whine for candies =\.

Yadira picked Eenan up for me at the UIL meet so I went to pick him up at her house. I’m so proud of my little dude; he went all the way to the Finals! We’re not sure what he placed, but his coach told Yadira that he should definitely get a ribbon. He was beaming. I sat and talked with Yadira for a while and then brought Eenan and Angela home with me. All 3 kids were very well-behaved while I ate lunch (they’d all already eaten) and then cleaned up a little.

I made tacos for dinner and after Mario had gotten home and eaten, we watched Accepted. It was much better than I thought it’d be. The chunky guy with the glasses (don’t know his name!) made it so funny. And the biggest surprise? There were NO BOOBS! There might have been one set, I’m not sure, because that was the time Eenan ran into the living room, sat next to me and I cupped my hands over his eyes since it looked like a girl was going to take her top off. When I told John he said, “For real? Well, thanks for warning me. Now I don’t want to watch it.” Dumbass :P.

I can’t wait to be done with laundry. I didn’t hate it as much as I do now, and that’s because now I actually have closet space. I wonder how many loads of laundry it’s going to be when Alaethia arrives. When Jaylen was born, I remember having to wash every 3 days!

And speaking of Alaethia, I really can’t wait to meet her :). Mario and John find it hilarious how I sit on the couch with my shirt pulled over my huge belly while I watch her move her knees around. I’ve put my bottle of water or remote on my belly and she’s literally kicked it to the floor!

I’m also realizing that I need to hurry up and finish cleaning my room and organizing my closet. I just feel so tired all the time! Seriously, no matter how well I sleep at night (well, I really don’t sleep “well” anymore) I’m still falling alseep all over the place during the day. I still don’t know when I should nag ask Mario to assemble the crib. I should do it soon, that way I’ll know if there’s enough room for the bassinet next to the bed. I also need an area rug, a nice, thick cushion for my rocking chair and God knows what else. There’s about 10 weeks left till she’s born. I’m so excited and nervous. Nervous because I don’t know how the last month of this pregnancy will be. I’ve never actually had my water break on my own; both Eenan and Jaylen were induced for one reason or another and my bag with Eenan was broken at the hospital while Jaylen’s broke right before I got my epidural put in at 4 centimeters dilated!

John just asked me what I was thinking about since I was daydreaming. “My water breaking,” I responded. All he heard was “water breaking” because he jumped foward and said, “REALLY?” I say, “No, I’m thinking about it!”

“Oh, good,” he says, “I was about to leave.”

My mouth drops and I ask him, “You’d really do that? You’d just leave me here?!” and he says, “I already had to watch Bookas (Brushka, our cat) go through that. I wouldn’t know what to do if it happened to you. I’d ask Bookas to bring some floss and tie the umblical cord like you did for her and I wouldn’t let her put you on your rug since you’d get mad once you came-to and saw blood everywhere. Or maybe I’d call the vet. And Mom would probably pass out before you so I’d have to call the doctor for her first.”

Lord, please let someone else other than John be here when Alaethia decides to come into this world.

I missed all of Ugly Betty tonight due to a splinter stuck in Jaylen’s foot. These boys never listen to me. “Put your shoes on before going outside!” I say. But do they? No.

Jaylen was in a hurry to run outside this afternoon while Bimpa (my dad-in-law) was home for lunch. Totally ignored me when I yelled for him to put his slippers on, at least. He must have been running around on the deck and got a huge splinter in his foot. He told me about it around 6:30. Spent half an hour carefully digging around the splinter with a (sterilized) needle; tweezers were not helping. When he’d had enough he scooted to the middle of my bed, where I couldn’t reach him since I was sitting on the floor, and held his leg to his chest and cried. I told him I was only going to help him right then and there, and if he didn’t let me take it out I was going back to the living room.

He wailed, “But I don’t want it to bleed! It’s alweady wed (red)!!”

“Would you rather it be red, or black because your foot’s going to fall off?” Nothing like a little motivation.

He chose for his foot to turn black so I left him alone. I’d put Eenan in the bathroom to take a shower. Jaylen followed me to the living room and sat on the couch crying and yelled, dramatically, “I don’t want my leg to fall off! I want two legs! I WANT TWO LEGS!!”

Eenan got out of the shower and I stuck Jaylen in. I was hoping the water would soften up his skin to make digging the splinter out easier, and it did. It still took an additional 20 minutes to get him to lay still long enough to let me poke it out. He yelled, “God, OH GOD, help me! Please God, help meeee!” over and over again and when it looked like he was about to pass out I gave him a break. He gets a really sad look on his face and says, “I wish I was still in your tummy!”

I convinced him to let me give it one more try and sure enough the darn splinter came out…in three pieces. I hope they (I say they because Eenan was as terrified as Jaylen was) learned their lesson and listen to me when I tell them to put shoes on!

A few entries ago I mentioned that my darn toilet was giving us problems (and shortly after my stove almost caught fire). Well, it got much worse last night.

Eenan had been eating Hot Tamales candies and it never fails that they either make him throw up or give him diarreah. It hadn’t happened in a long time so when he asked for a little box of them I let him have it. Big mistake. He got diarreah within 10 minutes of eating them. The toilet worked fine until I was getting ready for bed around 10pm.

I’d asked Mario to fix it earlier but he ended up falling asleep on the couch while watching TV. I peed and what happens? All the day’s, um, excrements started flowing back up to the surface. It was about half an inch away from the top of the darn bowl. Plunging didn’t work at all. I freaked out (I’d barely mopped the day before for Pete’s sake!) and yelled at Mario to get up and do something. He told me he’d check it on Friday (!) and didn’t budge off the couch. I went Drama-Queen on him and started muttering how I couldn’t live under these conditions and how was I supposed to pee at night and what if Eenan had to throw up because of the candies? The stuff would splash up into his face!

I’m so bothered by this I start sobbing, look for a remedy on the internet with no luck and just decide to go to bed. I hadn’t seen Mario get off the couch and go to our room. I see him lay some jeans and a t-shirt down on the bed and I roll my neck at him and say, “OH! You can’t fix the toilet but you can go out for a drive?”

He growls, “No stupid. I’m going to Wal-Mart to fix your damn toilet.”

“Oh,” I said, feeling like an asshole, “Good.”

I’d fallen asleep and woke up around 10:40 and he was back with some thing to fix the toilet. I go back to bed and wake up at 12 something to Alaethia pushing on my bladder. I can see the light on so I stop in the hallway and realize Mario and Chris are both there working on the toilet. I felt so embarrassed because 1) My bitching was not only bothering Mario, I was inconveniencing Chris, too and 2) Chris was seeing our poop soup, eeww!

As much as I needed to go pee, I tip-toed back to my room and fell asleep again. I woke up at 1am with my bladder feeling like it would explode. I sneak my head around the hallway and Mario and Chris are gone. I inspect the toilet and it’s clean and the water’s clear and low where it’s supposed to be. As guilty as I felt I worked up the courage to call Mario and ask him if the toilet was working. To my relief he doesn’t sound mad at all and says, “You didn’t read the letter I left you?” I go to the kitchen table and read the note, which says the toilet’s fixed, cleaned with Clorox spray and that I owe Chris $70, plus parts. That last part was a joke, thank God!

He’d also written on the note that since he was up at 1am already that they may as well have some beers. He didn’t end up getting back till 4am! He had to get up at 8:00 to be at work by 9am. Since I still felt super guilty I didn’t end up taking my nap after he left. I figured he suffered because of me (although he could have gone to bed as soon as he was done!) I’d suffer, too.

John treated me to Whataburger since he didn’t work and later on after picking Jaylen up from school we all went to visit Gramma, Target and Game Stop so John could buy some game he wanted. While we were there I saw so many games the kids like for really cheap. They’re used of course but I don’t think they’d care. We’ve gotten them used movies and games as a last resort when we haven’t been able to find them anywhere else new. Tomorrow is the beginning of our Christmas shopping. I’m so grateful (to the hubby, of course) that we’ll get to Christmas shop early this year :). Still, I don’t think it’ll keep us from doing last minute, Christmas Eve shopping like we do every year though O_o.

Sleepy, need shower, I hear Eenan coughing, goodnight!

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.