Jaylen’s 5th Birthday

Gah! There’s so much I want to do and I just don’t have enough time to do it all. Alaethia’s been in a great mood all day and she’s been taking her evening nap for the past 2 hours, but of course I can’t just sit and blog, or read, or scrapbook because I STILL have 2 loads of laundry to do and 3 to fold (grr). It never ends, the laundry. I’m watching Jon and Kate Plus 8 on TLC and I just admire that woman. She must have TONS of laundry to do. I wonder if she ever has free time to just do something for herself. I only have three children and I can’t get a moment to myself what with all the housework and stuff. I should have been balancing my checkbook but I had to look for a car charger for my cellphone since it’s constantly dying on me. I’ve had that phone for over a year and I’m barely getting a car charger for it…

ANYway…I never finished writing about last weekend and another weekend’s already passed.

Sun. Apr. 15th — Woke up, got ready, got Alaethia ready then Mom, Aly and I rushed to Target to get the boys some nice, new shirts for the party. The boys were still sleeping so Mario stayed with them (he was outside fixing his old rat cage for the new rats).

We found them some shirts that were on sale for $6, found one with a similar print for Mario, got I don’t know what else and rushed back home. I straightened my hair, got the boys in the shower and ready, got Alaethia ready and Mario got himself ready and we left. John was working so he wasn’t attending the party. First stop was picking up Jaylen’s beloved Darth Vader cake.

We rushed to Joy Dollar to pick up some table covers, which were just solid black ones. I later realized they just looked like trash bags over the table; should have gotten some red or orange ones. While I was there I also picked up some flip flops, a plastic lime green bracelet that matched my shirt and some comfy grippers for the pencils we were putting in the candy bags.

When we arrive at the pizza place we start setting up and are joined by Annie and the kiddos. Cat, Jose and Jorge were back at Yadira’s building a storage unit so they weren’t going. We were a bit upset about that, since it’s the first party for any of the kiddos that Jorge would have gone to, but what can ya do?

Anyway, Mario and I quickly start opening the candy bags and shoving pencils and grippers in them. Family starts arriving little by little, then Mayra and Sharlyze get there and a little later Pete and Sally arrived and then Eddie and Sylvia. It was a small party, like I mentioned in my last entry, but a lot of people didn’t go, which is usually the case. I regretted making 30 darn candy bags and I swear, for Eenan’s party (because we plan to have a small one for him) I’m sticking to only 20 bags. We had 10 left over. Ricci didn’t go, and a few other friends didn’t go so that was pretty shitty. I don’t even wish for people to bring gifts, I just want friends and family there, y’know?

But anyway, I digress. It was so much fun for all the kids and it was nice sitting and chatting with everyone and spending time with Mayra, Pete and Sally. It’s always a treat seeing them :).
I also let myself have 2 slices of pizza and two wings and lots of soda (which I later wish I hadn’t done since I felt like a blimp full of hot air, if you know what I mean!). I was about to have a 3rd slice of pizza when Mario called me to take pictures, so I thank him for that LOL. The cake was great, the kids had ice cream and we had a good time till they started to kick us out to get ready for the next party.

My boogers are growing up so fast and into such handsome little men *sniff*.

We said goodbye to our friends, family and then opened Jaylen’s gifts at home. We made the mistake of giving him ours first (Final Fantasy III for DS and Spectrobes for them to share since they both wanted it) so he didn’t want to open any more, but he eventually did and loved everything. Even the clothes. Both the boys are getting into clothes lately and loving picking their own stuff.

The rest of the day was psening just lazying around at home. I can’t remember much else of what happened that day honestly, but I think I got most of it down. I wasn’t going to publish this post till I was done with the rest of the week, but I think I will. It’ll save you from wanting to gouge your eyes out from reading such a long entry, heh. That, and Alaethia’s just begun to scream which means she’s ready for bed. Another 30 minutes of the screaming and we’ll be off in slumberland.

Oh, and Mario, for the first time in his 8 years of being a father, folded tiny, pink baby clothes for me while I blogged. If that’s not love, I don’t know what is.