Category: OMG

I got up early and started making breakfast. I had a buffet of regular pancakes, banana pancakes, omelets and bacon available. Sally was coming over later, around 9:30am, so that gave me enough time to have everything ready. Mario ate breakfast and left to work. He was going to work a half-day only, so that was exciting :).

Sally got here and we ate and talked for a good while. She said we spent a lot of time eating but I would have felt horrible just getting straight to work and not even chatting. She’s such a doll, though. She gave me such great advice and even moved everything around in my closet to make more space. She even brought me two Rubbermaid storage boxes she’d bought at Target! She also foamed up the crack at the bottom of the closet floor, which I’d been asking Mario to do for the past year! I was so sad she had to leave so soon, but she also had things to do and it was her dad-in-law’s birthday.

Mario got home around 1pm. He wanted to take a nap, but asked if I wanted him to do anything around the house first. I said SURE! You don’t have to ask me twice! He began disassembling Alaethia’s crib to turn it into a daybed for her. He finished and John, who was in the living room, went to help him move it into Aly’s room. They couldn’t get it into the room at all! The hallway curves weirdly so they couldn’t make a complete turn to get the bed inside. So there’s poor Mario disassembling the crib again in the hallway, then dragging all the pieces into her room and reassembling them. He was not a happy camper after that so he wasn’t too thrilled when I asked him and John to help me (and by help me I mean they did it all since I can’t move anything heavy myself) rearrange the furniture in my bedroom. John went home and Mario went to sleep when they were done while I looked through old magazines. Mario and I had 11 magazine folders in total. Most are his. He needs to look through all of his and I still have a few folders to go through, plus a pile of junk to sort and put away.

I made up Alaethia’s daybed all pretty with her Amy Coe bedding and then I took a shower. Everyone started arriving a while later. Much to Mario’s protests he went with me to buy fireworks for the boys. While we were at the ATM we ran into Rolando and his family. Eenan was sad he missed him; I told him to go with me!

Mom spent the whole day making buñuelos and burritos for everyone. We all ate and then started taking chairs out to watch the fireworks. Just about everyone stayed under the Party Porch since it was drizzly and cold. The boys had a blast with their fireworks (under adult supervision of course—I was freaking out scolding everyone even like that LOL) and kept their hoodies and shoes on for once.

I felt so left out LOL. Everyone was having some sort of mixed drink. I’d never wanted a Margarita in my life so badly. How strange that my pregnancies with both girls have caused me to crave alcohol (not that I drink any while pregnant of course). Jose made me a virgin salty dog. It was alright.

Mario made the mistake of bringing out his shot glass that’s like 5-6 shots in one. A boy we didn’t know, Mario and Adan all took full shots of Vodka from it, instigated by Jose. I kept telling Mario not to do it, but he never listens. At least 5 people did walk away with incriminating photos and video LOL.

When midnight neared people started going crazy firing their guns into the air. I hate that about where we live. Yeah, it’s almost like the boonies, but it is a very-populated, residential area. Some of our own relatives brought out their shotguns and at first were shooting into the ground and then started shooting into the air. I herded all my kids inside and made them stay here while I helped Mary, Elda, Mom and Mona clean up. I gathered all the dishes, washed them and got in bed with Alaethia. I was a bit upset with Mario because he was out there with the gang, but I got over it. Not before lecturing him on gun safety and how dangerous it is to shoot into the air. Heck, I learned my lesson last March! The whole conversation was a bit pointless though seeing as how he was quite drunk. John had come over towards the end of the night and Mario was telling us all this story that he’d just told the night before to the exact same people that were at Adan’s. I even repeated word-for-word to John what Mario said about a second later. He didn’t believe me, which was funny.

As soon as Mario got into bed he was OUT. First time we’d ever gone to sleep “early” for New Years!

Alaethia woke me up at 3:30am for some milk and I couldn’t sleep from the horrible stinging pain in my lower abdomen. I had an immense urge to pee and still, nothing. I didn’t fall asleep till around 4:30. I felt like death warmed over at 5:20 when my alarm went off. I was going to try and tough it out till today, the day of my actual prenatal appointment but no…I felt awful and called in. I couldn’t get any actual sleep since I had to wait till 6am to call Mrs. V. about my absence and then wait till 6:30am to report my absence.

Jaylen woke up before I even went in there to wake him up. He had diarrhea. He said he was too sick to go to school and had stomach cramps…then asked if he could play video games. Um, no. I told him he could stay, but no games since he was to use that time to recover from illness. At the last minute he decides he wants to go to school, so fine. I told him to call if he still felt ill. Mary took them to school and I got to sleep for 30 minutes before Alaethia woke up. Good thing she was in a good mood.

I made chorizo and egg tacos for breakfast and coffee. I woke Mario up, who freaked out because I was still there (he thought I was waking him up at 6 LOL). I got dressed and ate and left to the doctor after Mario left to work.

When I was signing up and saying hello to everyone I asked if I could have my prenatal appointment that day since I was to have it today anyway. They said sure.

Took an hour and a half for them to call me in, but I didn’t mind too much since I was reading. I had to squeeze my legs together from the pain though; I still felt as bad as the night before.

They called me in and I got weighed (133.4 *gulp*) and gave them a urine sample. When the doctor came in to see me he said I must barely be getting the infection because hardly anything came up in the specimen! Shoot, if that’s how it feels when it’s barely starting out, I don’t even want to know what a full-blown UTI feels like! I only ever get them when I’m pregnant, and never have they felt like this!

I took out my camera to take video of the ultrasound—because today was the day I’d find out the gender!! The doctor starts rolling the wand around my belly, taking measurements, showing me the beautiful heartbeat and showing me various parts of the little body. And yes! He starts looking for the privates; every which way he’d move the wand, trying to get a view from every angle. But Baby wouldn’t let us see! Dr. C. even went as far as jiggling my stomach back and forth with the wand to wake up the baby, but nope, nothing worked! He said we’d check again in two weeks when they do the AFP.

They gave me my antibiotic prescription and let me know they were moving offices by my next appointment…to MISSION!!! Not cool. I hate driving all the way over there and it’s going to be so inconvenient; I’m going to have to call in half a day for every appointment! I’m going to test it out my next appointment and see if I get there on time (by 4:00) after picking the boys up at 3:20. It takes about 20 minutes to drive over there…no, maybe around 25. I might just make it.

On the way to the pharmacy I call Mario and let him know how his baby wants to keep us in suspense. I call Mary to tell her the same (I didn’t call Mom because she won’t hear me over the phone; would rather tell her in person). 5 minutes into our conversation she asks if Jaylen’s called. I tell her no, he hasn’t, and then the other line beeps. It’s Jaylen’s school nurse; she’s got him in the office because he feels sick again. I told her I’d be right there.

After I pick Jaylen up and we park in the drive way I get a phone call. It says District of Colombia. WTF? I answer and it’s the Border Patrol investigator trying to get ahold of Mario. I give him Mario’s cell number.

I’d spoken to Sally the day before and we’d made plans so that she could come over and pick up Bobo, Jose’s goose who will now be Sally’s, and we made a date to meet at Olive Garden. Mario promptly calls me back after speaking to the investigator asking for a favor: ironed clothes dropped off at his job site because he was meeting with him in person. I ironed his clothes, quickly ate lunch, and unfortunately had to cancel plans with Sally since I was going to be driving back and forth all over the place. We decided Sunday would probably be better.

Jaylen went along with me and he fell asleep on the way. I think that’s why he likes to be in the car…it helps him sleep. We dropped Mario’s stuff off and he and Jorge showed us the massive house that’s their current project: a 5 bedroom house on two lots in a fancy subdivision. I’d love to see it complete! We went back home and chilled out for a little bit and then picked up Eenan.

I didn’t get to rest at all, but I was feeling much better by the end of the day. Poor Mom and Mary had both caught Jaylen’s 24-hour bug, so they weren’t doing too good. When Mario got home he told me how the investigator said it’ll be another 5 days of the background check and then a month or less till they call him to the Academy. I’m so nervous!!

(For those of you subscribed to updates: yes, you did just receive a notification that I just updated an entry from January 2008! It’s one of the last entries I had pending and I finally added it. Now I just have to add the one of Alaethia’s birthday and I’ll be all set…or so…I think I will?)

Is it completely coincidental that I was searching for TEP-time trainings on the ERO website and one of the digital photography trainings I came across is being presented by a man by my grandfather’s name? Too bad there are no openings. There never is on those things. I’m curious to see who this man is (although I have no idea what my grandfather looks like to begin with). I bet he resembles Mom, because Mom and Gramma don’t really look alike. Or what if it’s his son? My uncle?! I put myself on the waiting list, just in case!

Anyway. It’s going to be a bummer getting up to go to the training tomorrow. Especially because it’s a complete repeat of one I already took last year in November. Boo. The new one I was going to take on Wednesday was canceled, probably due to Tropical Storm Dolly making it’s way over here.

These past few weeks have been pretty awesome. I’m loving this summer. I’m clutching onto it with my claws, like it’s going to be ripped away from me any second! I still have so much I want to do (like paint my kitchen, all the trim & mouldings need a retouch of white, I haven’t scrap booked, my kitchen needs to be cleaned and wiped out, and my closet and bedroom need to be reorganized, BAD!).

Rewinding a little bit: the 8th, after I found out I was pregnant, I went over to Maggie’s–well, Judith’s actually–and picked them up, to get my mind off everything. Maggie was going to get her eyebrows tattooed, but I found out she didn’t even have an appointment and the lady wasn’t taking any more walk-ins. We drove over there for nothing! My gas, people! So they wanted to go to Anna’s Linens instead. Maggie got tons of nice stuff to start redecorating her house. Then we went to eat at Chick-fil-a and went to Wal-Mart, where lucky Maggie found a gallon of yellow paint in the perfect shade to paint her kitchen! I’m debating whether to paint the kitchen yellow or light lime green (very light).

I went to the doctor on the 11th, just to get a proper pregnancy test done. All the girls were congratulating me and poking fun at me LOL. Laura, one of the nurses whom I get along really well with, said from now on I was just going to walk in, take my own urine sample, strap myself onto the ultrasound machine and do everything on my own since I’m so familiar with everything now LOL. I’m not kidding; I had that sheet in my hands with big, bold POSITIVE typed out on it and it still didn’t feel real!

If I remember correctly we went to watch Hellboy II on Friday, the 11th. It was actually much better than I thought it would be. Jaylen went with us (Eenan went along with Mary and Noelia to watch Journey to the Center of the Earth) and he was terrified the whole time! He even fell asleep through one part so he wouldn’t have to endure anymore LOL!

We went to visit Gramma on the 12th (and actually went to Goodwill for once, but it was quite disappointing =\). Then we had lunch with Mario at Taco Bell, yum.

Can’t remember much from Sunday…what is happening to my mind lately? I used to be able to remember things I did MONTHS ago!

I had an appointment on Monday, to get additional help with my insurance from work and I qualified! YES! John and I went to eat at Kumori (this time the one on Ridge Rd., which wasn’t very impressive–the Spicy Calamari sucked). I love my Fiesta Rolls. I plan on craving them muchly this pregnancy ;).

We went to the mall afterward, where we bought stupid things at Hot Topic LOL. We had some good exercise walking around. I’ve got to admit, the outings with my lil’ bro are always a laugh. He says some crazy shit LOL.

I had my doctor’s appointment on Wednesday. That day I was 5 weeks along, gestationally, and 7 weeks along as per my LMP. I weighed in at 126 (eek!), but am doing fine with my weight gain (I’ve gained about 4 lbs. since the beginning). They didn’t even mention anything about my sugar, which is awesome. I hope it stays that way.

There wasn’t a heartbeat, yet. That always makes me nervous. I have another appointment on the 6th of August, so I hope to hear it then. That heartbeat’s what confirms the whole thing. I think it won’t feel completely “real” until I hear that beautiful sound.

Dr. C. gave me a sono pic of the baby. He/she is incredibly tiny! The amniotic sac looked like a bean, and the baby looked like a spec in the bean. The boys turned to mush and “awwwed” when I showed it to them LOL.

I went with Mary to Mexico that night to get some pills for my dad-in-law, ’cause he’d run out. I got a few chips (yum!) and we came home. Then we went to Walmart and got a few things. Mary shared some stories with me about her first few years with my dad-in-law. I love those kinds of stories :).

Thursday was the night (I think?) that Maggie invited us over for dinner. Eenan stayed with Mary of course, but we took the two younger ones with us. Jaylen loves to play with the boys–although that night they were extremely hyper which caused them all to get in trouble quite often. Alaethia was busy exploring her new surroundings and was being a good girl. Maggie did a great job painting the house. The kitchen are a combination of yellow and red walls, and as you walk in to the house you see green and blue walls. Her kitchen looked totally different and new from just adding new seat cushions to her chairs and a painting!

I think it was Friday that John and I went to Kumori again. I love that place. I ordered for Mario and as I was dropping it off to him he was already getting ready to come home–at 4pm! I wish it was always that way. Friday’s are usually his day off, but since they’re having an inventory sale he had to work. Grr.

We called Mary and made plans to go to the movies to watch The Dark Knight. Oh my gosh, it was awesome! I knew it was going to be good, but it exceeded my expectations. I couldn’t help but be sad over Heath Ledger’s death. He was amazing. So talented :(.

Jaylen, Aly, Mom and I went to pick up Mario’s paycheck the next morning (Eenan went with Mary to watch Hellboy II) and then I got to paying bills. We’re trying to pay off all our credit cards so we can be a little free once the baby arrives. It’s stressful and we’re having to pinch pennies, but it’ll be worth it.

I had to come all the way back home to cash the check, though, because they were giving me trouble at the bank in McAllen. I stopped at Stripes to get gas and a Mario wanted cigarettes, and I made the mistake and letting Jaylen get down with me. I spent $8 on chips and drinks. I took Mario some and boy was he grateful. He loves when we take him little snacks out of the blue :).

We visited Gramma and went to Target, where I bought 2 maternity blouses, a pair of maternity capris, and another blouse that looks maternity-ish, but isn’t. This pregnancy’s finally starting to feel real, especially because I can’t stop peeing and my boobs feel like they’re on fire at the slightest touch (getting into the shower feels like someone’s shooting at me with a million bb guns!).

I left my keys behind at the counter when I was making a payment, so I lost my mind for a minute, but I went back and the girl had them.

It was Annie’s birthday that day and we had to be at her house (well, the pool anyway) by 4, so we tried doing everything as quickly as possible. We left the house at 5, though, since they’d asked Mary to make some potato salad at the last minute.

The kids took their swimming gear (and I stupidly forgot their new boogie boards and goggles in the truck!) and had a blast. I was feeling dizzy since I hadn’t eaten all afternoon so I didn’t get in, but Yazmin and Angela took Alaethia in for me. Angela’s been Alaethia’s favorite lately. As soon as she sees her she climbs into her arms and won’t leave her alone LOL.

Yesterday I lazied around and did some laundry and then I got to making the white rice I was contributing for a little celebration we were throwing for Annie (the party from Saturday was from Cat). We got all the kiddos ready and went to Annie’s. They weren’t home so we took the party to Yadira’s LOL. Elda made her famous chicken enchiladas–gosh they were good. I’d learn how to make them if making the salsa for them and frying them wasn’t so much hard work!

I started reading The Tale of Despereaux to the kids (and Mario LOL) last night. It’s such a cute story. They all listened attentively while I read, even Mario. We only got to chapter 8, but I’m planning to read them the whole thing before school starts. Our goal is in 1 week.

That’s what I love about this summer. We’ve been having movie nights, reading, ah…it’s just so awesome. Alaethia’s so talkative and brilliant. I want to soak up as much of her as I can, especially with the new baby coming. Eenan and Jaylen are almost 3 years apart and I sometimes confuse their stories because they were so close in age. Now imagine these two! So I’m trying to take as many pictures, video and document everything she does and says. My favorite sentences right now? When she gets annoyed with my mom she says, “Awwww! Mudduh! I told juuu!” which means, “Awww! Mother! I told you!” I wonder where she gets that one?!

The other one is when she gets upset with someone, especially when the boys are trying to take something from her. She’ll say, “No, don’t touch it!” or “No, don’t take it!” She’s so hilarious! And so girlie! She walks around with a purse most of the time, filled with little bracelets and toys. It’s the cutest thing, ever!

As for today…I woke up and got a huge shock: Tropical Storm Dolly’s heading our way! So I called John up after I stopped feeling too sleepy and asked him to go with me to stock up on canned goods and batteries. I couldn’t sleep all night. I keep wondering how exactly I’m going to break it to my boss that I’m expecting and that I might not go back after a) the 2nd semester or b) after my maternity leave–both of which I know she won’t be too happy with :(. I hate abandoning her, as I love my job and think she’s awesome, but I just can’t imagine Mom trying to take care of both my kiddos :(. I really can’t. But more on that later.

We’re all stocked up. Mary got tons of canned goods too, and snacks! We picked up dinner at Whataburger for the adults and McDonald’s for the kids, which is awesome because I have this training tomorrow and I was already feeling tired and lazy. Speaking of, it’s already really late and Alaethia’s been asleep for about 45 minutes so I should join her. Poor thing gave herself and everyone else a scare…I ran to tell the boys to brush their teeth and go to bed in the next room and she managed to fall off my bed. I’m going to sneak her into her crib right now ’cause she kicks like crazy. Maybe that’s another reason I kept waking up last night.