We had such a tiring, crazy night after weaning Alaethia from her milk sippy that I slipped into sleep after the alarm went off and I woke Mario up late for work. And then she woke up early.

Mario left to work, rushing, poor thing and I made banana pancakes. Alaethia actually ate her pancake. And then she ate lunch, too. I washed dishes after breakfast and lunch (it’s so nice being able to keep up with the dishes now that I’m home). I cleaned up the kitchen table (that thing’s a magnet for crap) and then I got started on sewing the curtains. Man, they’re just valances and it took forever to do. That, or I’m just out of practice.

I took a break and went to my bedroom and started organizing my document drawers. I have TONS of documents to shred, it’s not even funny. I went to pick up the boys from school and went to the ATM to activate my new debit card, since I was supposed to do that since mid-January.

I went to Dollar General to get a few things, which ended up being a lot of things because that’s what happens when the boys go with me. We came home and they had snacks before starting homework.

I finished up the curtain and we visited with Mary a while. I started dinner, took it over to Mary’s, ate and came back. Mario was already sleeping. Oh well. He’s been such an old man lately, yet he’d get mad almost every night that I had to go to bed early because I had to wake up early to go to work the next day. I got online and began sending out invites to my baby shower. When I was just about to go to bed Mario woke up. He ate some of the dinner (meatloaf, broccoli and cheese) I’d made earlier. I was just sitting at the table with my laptop to start uploading pictures to Myspace and Flickr when he asked if I wanted to watch a movie. Alaethia was still awake, but sure, why not.

We watched The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. We got the ottoman ready with pickles, pepsi and popcorn just like at the movies. Alaethia fell asleep and we continued watching the movie.

SPOILER ALERT!!! SKIP THE NEXT PARAGRAPH IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE MOVIE!!!
I sort of figured how it would end, but when it actually got there and everything started panning out I couldn’t stop bawling. I just didn’t like the fact that he was an innocent baby when he eventually died. It was awful. I was literally watching between my fingers and Mario was laughing, but being kind about it, the whole ending. He reached over and squeezed my arm and said, “Babe, c’mon! You knew how it was going to end!” And I blabbered, “Yes, but it’s not fair that he’s a baby! A baby! I hate this movie!” Could have just been the hormones talking, but it was so sad. See, I’m getting teary-eyed just remembering.
SPOILER OVER!!!

Between having to pause the movie while Alaethia was awake and asking for stuff, my potty breaks and the movie being long itself, we went to bed at 2:45am. Oy. It was going to be hard waking up the again the next day.

I got up, made breakfast, paid bills online, washed tons (and TONS) of dishes, did all the laundry, organized all my drawers in the kitchen, pulled all of Mario’s miscellaneous junk and tools out of said drawers and into little containers that I bought especially for him (now to train him to actually use them). By the time I knew it, it was lunch time.

I made lunch for Aly and myself and as soon as she was done, I tried potty training to no avail. She loves to follow me in and remove her diapie and sit on the toilet, but I can keep her there for 10 minutes and she won’t do anything. She’ll look around and point at the ceiling and tell me, “Guess what, Mama?” and I’ll ask her, “What, Baby?” And she’ll say something random like, “Spongebob?” LOL

As soon as I let her off the toilet and I grab a diaper, she’ll get up and pee on the floor, I’m not kidding you. I feel a little like a failure because everyone was constantly talking about how fast girls were at learning. Maybe it’s just because I’m pregnant and Emily will be here soon?

I started clearing off the kitchen table and then went to pick up the boys. I was dead tired by the time I got back and helped them with their homework. Not even putting my feet up was helping. My status on Myspace was something like, “Is so exhausted” and Mario left a comment in return that said,”Rome wasn’t built in a day baby, I told you to take it easy”. I can’t take it easy though. I need to move around and do something or else I feel useless.

I chose that night to finally start weaning Alaethia off milk at night. It’s kind of like she’s still waking up for a bottle and wakes up even more now that she’s not in her crib (since it’s in her room) and is sleeping between us again since she’s scared to be in her room still. I was sure, that even after she’s weaned off milk, that she’ll still want a sippy cup, but I’d rather she just take water and eventually get bored of it, than keep drinking milk and messing up her teeth.

Mario went to bed early and then I took Alaethia with me. She made a big ol’ racket trying to wake her Daddy-O up and then, after about 15 minutes started asking for her mee-ulk. She literally screamed her head off for 2 hours, tossing her orange sippy at me in anger. Mario got so sick of not sleeping that he gathered up his pillow and another comforter and left to the living room. I was losing my mind, but I told myself this was it; I’d promised I’d wean her off when I stopped working, because it was impossible to do when I was.

Just when I thought I’d give in and get her a sippy of milk, I got an idea. I told her, “Look, I didn’t want to tell you, but Spongebob sent this Magic Water especially for you from Bikini Bottom. He doesn’t want you drinking anymore milk at night because then you’ll end up with teeth like his.” I even threw in that what if the Magic Water gives her mermaid fins since it’s from Bikini Bottom? She eventually conceded and either liked the story so much or was just so exhausted that she just drank the water LOL. It’s safe to say I got about 4 hours of sleep that night. The good thing was, I was 2 days closer to having her weaned completely off the milk at night.

I saw Mario off to work and then started tidying up here and there. I had a whole to-do list and it just seemed like it was impossible that everything’s going to get done. After lunch, John came over and I asked him to tag along with me and Alaethia to Hancock Fabrics. I’d started the morning by putting her in training pants and letting her walk around and use the potty everytime I had to go (which was often), but then she peed in the kitchen so we just took a break, heh.

I wanted to get the other valance done for my kitchen and I ran out of fabric. I hoped I’d find the right fabric; I’d gotten it back in November when the autumn colors were popular and wasn’t sure if I’d find it again.

It took forever to get there because first I got off the wrong exit, then I couldn’t remember how to turn around and find Business 83, and then I couldn’t remember if we were supposed to go East or West on Old 83. Grr. Needless to say, I had to rush and find some fabric (they didn’t have the one I wanted so I picked another stripey fabric that’s still cute) and still get to the school on time to pick up the boys. Alaethia didn’t make the end of the trip easy, either. Someone took her to town with them once (and I WILL find out who it was!) and let her sit in the basket part instead of the actual seat. Well, she made a big fuss when I wouldn’t let her out of the seat. It was awful. We finally gave in and told her she’d better sit before she fell out. So she did.

We picked up the boys and then John went to the bank while I got the boys started on their homework. I needed to go to Target and Walmart and Alaethia was already tired so the kiddos all stayed with Mom.

We went to Target first and then went to Walmart. Mario met us there since I wanted his opinion on what toddler bed to get Alaethia. We couldn’t find anything we liked. I really wish we could find a bed like the one the boys had. It was that hard Fisher-Price-type plastic and it was really cute. We’d sold it at a garage sale we had when Alaethia was around 4 months old because her crib turns into a daybed and full sized bed…and we didn’t think we’d have anymore babies LOL.

After we got home, put everything away and had dinner, we went over to Jorge’s. Mom offered to stay with Alaethia, so that was good since the time we’d gone over with her before she kept spilling stuff and was moody. I think this was the second time going over to their house since they moved into Jorge’s mom’s house.

We chilled out with Jorge, Javi and Maggie while the guys tried their hardest to make the internet work. At the same time, Jorge was transferring a whole butt-load of movies from his computer to Mario’s external. We were going to have movie nights for a month!