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Grr. Darn dog. He was doing so good with his potty training yesterday; he’d whimper at the door everytime he needed to go out. He totally reversed today and is back to peeing and crapping wherever he pleases. We are completely out of paper towels (eating dinner tonight was a task–we had breaded (fried) fish, corn and Ranch Style Beans) because I’m constantly cleaning up after him. We have plenty of toilet paper, but his pee sops right through. Yuck.

I woke up this morning and expected to find Louie sleeping in his bed or to come running at me and attack my legs. To my surprise, he wasn’t in his bed, didn’t attack me and there was no sign of poop or pee anywhere. I whispered, “Louie! Where are you?” because they took the door down when Mario and his dad were working in there and I didn’t want to wake Mario up. Then it dawned on me–he must be sleeping with Jaylen. It’s the only other soft surface he can jump on besides the couch and he wasn’t on the couch. I check, and sure enough, he’s under the covers and comfortably sleeping beside Jaylen. It even looked like Jaylen had scooted some to make room for him. Before I could scold him I ran and got my camera and as soon as I took the picture he sprang up.

He’d gotten up so fast his ears flipped over themselves–he looked so funny.

John and Jaylen accompanied me to my doctor’s appointment since John needed to “officially” withdraw from school and Jaylen didn’t like the Spiderman backpack we’d gotten him so we needed to exchange it. John waited outside and Jaylen went in with me.

They got my vitals first. I lost a pound. I’m 124 right now, so I guess I heard wrong the last time and was 125? There was no glucose in my urine this time, nor were there signs of my bladder infection–it’s all gone! My blood pressure was also fine. Thank goodness.

After they took my vitals, Dr. C and I chatted and he talked to Jaylen for a little bit. Then he scooted Jaylen closer to the exam table so he could see his little bro/sister.

I had a list of questions tucked under my side and I told Dr. C. I had a few things to ask him when he was done with the sono. He said, “Oh, let me see,” and got the list and started reading and answering:

– Is family allowed during delivery? Only 1 person is allowed with you, maybe 2. It’s usually very crowded with all the nurses and doctors.

– Is husband allowed to stay overnight? Absolutely!

– Is there private rooms available? Yes.

– How much extra if not covered? Ooh. I’m not sure. You usually get one anyway unless it’s extremely crowded that day.

– What can I do about my acne? We’ll talk about that right now.

– Pain in the pelvic area is due to ligaments? Correct.

– More prenatal vitamins; need prescription. No problem.

We got to talking about my acne. I told him I couldn’t stand it anymore. He said, “You know, usually acne clears up during pregnancy.” I said, “I know! That’s what happened with my other two, but with this one it’s been terrible!” To my surprise, he nonchalantly said, “It must be a girl this time.” He also checked to see if I was able to use any kind of acne medication and the answer was no–everything’s too strong. He said to try Neosporin. We’ll see how that works out.

He got measurements of the baby’s body (the baby’s size shows that I’m 12 weeks 5 days, as opposed to my LMP which says I’m 12 weeks 3 days), then got to looking around for privates. He searched and searched, but we saw nothing. We did see the baby move and her/his heartrate was at 152bpm so that’s great. He asked if I was feeling any movement yet and I told him I’d been feeling something but I wasn’t sure if it was the baby or not. He gave me a sono pic, my prescription and said he’d see me in 3 weeks when I’m 15 weeks. Jaylen behaved so wonderfully.

The whole visit took about 30 minutes, which was great. I love my doctor and office!

We went to pick up my prenatal vitamins left (have to remember to go back tomorrow since they owe me 30-some pills). They were really quick this time; they usually take half an hour!

Next on the to-do list was getting John withdrawn. We get there, speak to the head honcho who tells us she was going to drop him today anyway since it was the 10th day. Basically, we didn’t have to make the trip over there. We got some Nesteas and some Hot Cheetos with Cheese and left to Target.

Jaylen was cranky and was acting up at Target, but once he found his backpack he was more calm. He liked a Darth Vader one, but it was too long. He liked a Spiderman one, but only because he liked a water bottle it came with. We showed him some dinosaur ones and he ended up picking a brown/tan T-Rex one with the condition that we’d get him a water bottle.

Where the heck do I find a water bottle like the one that came with Eenan’s backpack (which just so happens to be The Annoying Thing–thank you Babe and Cartoon Network for introducing him to that darn thing)?

I bought myself two cute pens (one with 6 colors!) and some for the boys from the Dollar Spot. There were SO many cute things this time. I had a whole bunch of stuff in my cart, but put them back after thinking for a bit.

We went to visit Mario at work for a little bit and I showed him the sono pic and told him how everything went. He’s so excited. He told me he has a feeling the baby’s a girl too, especially since that guy, Luis, did that calendar thing for us. We’ll see if his 99.9% accuracy is true with us as well ;).

John and I laughed all the way home. I was scaring him because I was singing along to “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” by The Darkness and sounded just like the lead singer. Buahaha.

We ate lunch when we got home and then watched Click. Mario, Jaylen and I watched it last night but John wanted to see it. It was so funny, but at the end, OH MY GOSH. It tugs at your heartstrings. I found it very difficult to stop crying (damn hormones). It was so sad, even Mario teared up. Jaylen gets scared when I cry, so he was just silently staring at me while I buried my face in the blanket.

So, while John was watching the last part, I was throwing the trash out and cleaning out of earshot of the TV. I couldn’t stand crying again. When it’s over I sit next to John and ask him, “Did you cry?” and he yelled, “YES! I was expecting The Water Boy and instead I got The Notebook!

After the movie my 1st doctor’s office called–the one that sucked and wouldn’t be seeing me till tomorrow? The nurse called to remind me about my appointment and that there wouldn’t be any nurses available at that office for two weeks so I’d have to go to the clinic in McAllen. I told her I wouldn’t be going to their clinic anymore, so not to worry. I’m SO GLAD I stopped going there!

As for Isaac, he’s doing a lot better than he was yesterday. Mary informed me that at the time of his arrival at the hospital, his kidneys were already failing. I can’t believe he was that sick. It’s scary. Turns out he’d also been having symptoms of diabetes for a while now but he never really said anything because he didn’t know what was going on. I’m just glad they found it when they did. It could have been much worse :(.

On a happier note, Liz has been more active during the day. She hasn’t been as secluded as she was a few days ago. She also did her first poopie (that I’ve seen) and has enjoyed eating her live crickets. We’re out again. I should have bought her more today while I was already in town.

Whooo. Getting sleepy. I can’t believe it’s already midnight. At least I got everything done that needed to be done today. I have another long day tomorrow–Mom has her hearing aid appointment. Joy.

I can’t remember much from Wednesday except that I flossed the kids’ teeth at night and while I was flossing Eenan’s I noticed he had two new teeth! Problem is: his baby teeth (the two bottom front ones) haven’t fallen out yet but he has his two adult teeth growing behind them. When I told Mary she told me what I feared: Mario had the same problem. He had really bad teeth as a child, which is why he wore braces when I met him. I wonder how much it would be to take him to the dentist? His CHIPs insurance only covers a certain amount and he already went to the dentist in March. And will they pull his baby teeth out? What if they don’t get pulled out? Will his teeth be crooked? Oy.

Mom’s new glasses came in the next day so we went to pick them up (only took a few minutes, thank GOD) then went to visit Gramma for a little bit since we were already in town. We joked around with Gramma and then started telling Mom how we were going to put her in the same nursing home Gramma’s in and they can be roomates. Mom was not amused.

I was invited over to Mary’s to try the mole Elda and Jose made. I got a little to taste and when I was going to sit, I got that sharp pain in my lower abdomen. The round ligament pain is happening more and more often. Yadira reminisced about her pain and we all talked about how large I’m getting and then I came back home to make dinner.

I made steak and steak fries for dinner. The kids loved the fries (they had hotdogs instead of steak) and Mario was in heaven. He said, “I’m so glad I have a wife that knows how to cook.” It gives me such an ego boost when he talks nicely about my cooking :D.

After we ate dinner, Mario presented me with our new pet: a lizard. She’s so pretty (well, for a lizard) and spiny. At first he thought it was some kind of horny toad, but upon closer inspection we noticed her scales are much shorter and she’s a totally different color.

As we’re walking towards the desk to get some info on her I notice the computer’s acting funny; the right-click menu keeps popping up, the Start menu keeps sliding out, windows are being minimized and opened. I freak out and whisper, “Babe, look at the computer!” as if the hacker’s going to hear us. Mario runs over to the computer chair and just watches what’s happening. He starts closing everything, because we’ve heard about these types of hackers that use Spyware to mess with your computer this way, and then I notice Jaylen’s sitting on our wireless keyboard and his butt’s been pressing the buttons. Talk about paranoid!

We couldn’t find any info on our new lizard. I stayed up till 1am looking for something, anything! But no such luck.

After Mario ran a few errands the next morning, we left for town. Since we’d made plans to go watch The Omen at the Dollar Movies, we left the kids with Mom and the in-laws. First we stopped by Mary’s office to drop some money off for Norma C. All the ladies were really surprised by how big my tummy was. While Norma D. picked up my blouse and examined my belly, everyone else gasped and said, “Oh, you’re definitely having a girl!” They all asked me to call the office as soon as I get the sono confirming the baby’s gender. I promised I would and left since Mario was probably asleep in the car because I was taking so long.

Speaking of the pregnancy, I made a page for my Pregnancy Timeline. You can see just how huge I am for barely hitting the 3 month mark.

We stopped by Pet Smart next. We needed to ask someone for help on what to feed Dragon (Jaylen picked the name). A sales associate told us it was called a Pink Bellied Swift and it was a desert lizard as we thought. She mostly eats crickets and worms, so we decided we’d come back later because we didn’t want them to die in the heat.

We picked Jorge up from work so we could have lunch. We went to New Wave Chinese Buffet–it was delicious. With this pregnancy, I’ve really been on a fruit and veggie kick and that day was no exception. I had two full plates of long green beans–they’re just SO good. I especially love how Chinese buffets prepare them for some reason

We went back to Pet Smart to pick up the crickets, a water bowl and sand for the tank then to Wal-Mart to find a lid for the tank we had in storage since Pet Smart didn’t have them. We left the remote start on while we were at Wal-Mart so the crickets would stay cool.

Since the movie wasn’t until 5 and Jose and Elda had invited us to their bar-b-q at that time we decided to skip the movie. We still had two more stops: Mary’s storage unit and then ours and then we went home. To our surprise, the tank in storage already had a lid. Grr.

We got home and fixed Dragon’s tank. I looked up info on a Pink Bellied Swift and upon looking at pictures of it I found out it was actually a Texas Spiny Swift and because of the lizard’s color realized Dragon was actually a girl, so we named her Liz/Lizzie. Only one website actually had info on her and it was a pet speciality store. Most of the only places I found pictures of her were specialty stores (where lizards like Liz ran for $14.99).

We were at Mary’s the rest of the afternoon and had talks about babies and other women things. When we came back home, Mario had a craving for a Slush from Stars so we went.

We got some Slushies (only for Mario and Jaylen. Eenan was sleeping over at Mary’s and the ice hurts my teeth) and then rented some movies at Video Plus. We watched the rest of Failure to Launch that night, which I thought was really funny.

The next morning I cleaned, bathes and got dressed, then took Mom to the bank. At around 12:30 the beautiful sisters, Mayra and Erica, picked me up so we could go to the movies. We’d be watching The Devil Wears Prada–we’d all been wanting to see that movie since it first came out. It was a REALLY good movie–much better than I thought it would be. Not to spoil anything for anyone who hasn’t seen it, but it’s TOTALLY different from the book. I actually liked how the movie ended rather than the book.

We went to eat at King’s Chinese Buffet (because you can neve have too much Chinese) and had great conversation and great food. It was sad to leave them after not seeing Mayra for so long. I really wish we could get together much more often.

Mario got home early that night and he was in an outdoor mood. We took the dog out (who is STILL not potty trained properly, by the way) then he and his dad got to chopping down a tree. The mosquitoes were running rampant that night so I came home and started making dinner. After that, we watched The Hills Have Eyes and oh my gosh, I couldn’t sleep for an hour after watching it. I love scary movies, and this one was just creepy and one of my favorites because the “monsters” in it were something that could possibly be real because of everything that happened back in the 50s. AND another favorite? NO BOOBS! All the other horror movies have to throw in a tit or 10 and it makes the movie tacky.

We woke up semi-early Sunday morning, since Mario and his dad were going to start the construction on our bedrooms! After we ate pancakes (that Mario made!) they got started. They had the studs that would split the room up in half an hour and then I left with Mary to Target and Wal-Mart to get some school supplies that were in the ads. I can’t believe how early people get there and how much people buy. There was hardly anything left! We did get all the things on the kids’ lists, but it would have been nice to get a few extras =\.

Mary stopped by Luby’s to pick up some food for my dad-in-law and then we stopped at a raspa stand to get some Elote en Vaso (corn in a cup) for Mario and I. Never again will I go to that place–a medium, which was the size of a small, was $2.50! The size of the cup I got usually cost $1!

When we got home they had most of the studs up. All they were working on was the kids’ closet and then they were done. Everything looks really good–I can’t wait till everything’s done! My closet is going to be awesome.

I need to get the rest of my 80s stuff out of the room :(. I can keep a few things, but there isn’t room for everything else. That huge 8 foot shelf I have is going to have to go, which sucks because I love it and everything on it. Here’s all I have left in my room, plus a few other things that aren’t pictured:

I’m so sad. I don’t want to have to put everything in storage, but I really don’t have a choice. Mario’s talking about possibly staying with this house (because his parents want us to have it), but there isn’t enough room! I need to have a room especially for my babies :(.

I have a lot of cleaning and organizing to do today. Mom’s already asking me to take her all over the place but I’m waiting to do that till I have to drive her to her appointment on Thursday. Oh and Lizzie doesn’t have any food. The genius at Pet Smart who gave us the crickets in a plastic bag failed to tell us crickets have teeth and can escape from the bag. Yeah, they escaped. We’ve only found 4. The other two are hiding inside the house.

And speaking of bugs, Jaylen said the cutest thing this morning. Eenan was frantically calling for me to kill a bug in the bathroom. I go in and notice it’s a tiny water beetle, but squash it anyway (I’m horrible, I know). Jaylen says, “Mama! It was harmless! It was looking for its Mama. Next time don’t kill it, okay?” This coming from my little 4 year old. He said it in the cutest, most innocent way. I wish I had a recorder with me all the time. I never want to forget their baby voices :(.