I can’t believe I haven’t written since the 12th! It’s been a crazy few weeks. Trying to get into a new routine, spending time with the kids and still holding up the fort (although the fort’s a little messier than usual these days!) barely allows me time to check my e-mail, much less update my site.

I’ve gotten the hang of all my tasks at work, even when we have a flood of students stopping by the library. I imagined myself running away screaming if it got overwhelmingly crowded (which it does), but I’ve dealt surprisingly well. My boss is great, the parent volunteers are great and just about everyone I’ve met there is great. I’m still not too thrilled about waking up at 5:50am (and tossing and turning about an hour before that because I’m paranoid the alarm won’t go off), but I like getting out early and spending time with my kiddos. I see Mario even less now, unfortunately, but we’re trying to work on that =\.

It’s time for me to iron and shower, so I’ll go ahead and make this quick. Alaethia turned 8 months old today…aww, my little baby’s growing up so quickly! She’s been teething since Saturday, which was the day of Yazmin’s Quinceañera, and Mom recently taught her how to dance (i.e. bopping up and down) and clap! It’s the cutest thing! She brightens up the room with her gummy smile and she’s thrilled to see me when I come home from work. She’s got separation anxiety like crazy, but it makes me a bit happy that she does because I was certain she’d forget me now that I’m working LOL. She stands and crawls like a pro and takes wide, ski-like steps with our help. She’s a doll :). She already got sick with a cold this past week (woke up every 2 hours the first night!), but it went away pretty quickly.

The boys are doing great at school. Their teachers speak the world of them. I’m so proud :). They performed so well at the Quince–I need to add all this past month’s pictures to Flickr. The sad thing that happened that night was that Jaylen was running around and tripped on his shoelace and busted his lip open. I was so afraid he’d broken all his teeth, but he’s alright, thank God. I had fun, even though Mario and I only danced to one son (I’ll Be – Edwin McCain) which was prompted by Yazmin. Eenan asked me to dance though, and then he requested the Chicken Dance and took me and Angela with him LOL. It was a nice night.

Okay, I probably missed a whole bunch of stuff, but I’ve gotta go. Hope everyone’s well and thank all 20 of you who’ve stuck by me even though I’m not updating much. Okay, at all. One day I’ll get all this worked out and I’ll have room for updating again! I’ve got my insurance meeting tomorrow. Wish me luck with that. I feel like I’m working for insurance alone–it’s so darn expensive!

I’m still alive, but just barely. Kidding…Sort of…

I’m still trying to get used to waking up at 5:30am. That’s really the only thing I dislike about working: the exhaustion from lack of sleep thing.

I totally thought Alaethia was sleeping through the night since she’d done so well Sunday and Monday night. Sunday night we went to sleep at 10pm and she didn’t wake up for a bottle till after I left at 6:20am, mom said. That was the most restful night of sleep I’ve had in a year!

I told my boss and just around everyone around me how happy I was that she was sleeping through. I spoke way too soon. We went to sleep at around 9:30 last night (EARLIEST I’ve slept since I was pregnant with her!). She was up for a bottle at 2:20am — and stayed awake, playing and cooing happily, till 3:43! I joked with Mario about calling in (he actually stayed up with us!) and set the alarm for 5:50 instead of 5:30.

I wake up at 5:28 and sigh with relief because I still have a few more minutes. I wake up again and look at the clock: 6:47!!! I had just woken up and I was ALREADY late to work! Stupid alarm didn’t go off! I’d never gotten ready so fast. Thank God I’d already packed my lunch the night before and just grabbed everything and ran out of the house. Mom was already waiting outside to watch Alaethia and for the first time ever I wish she’d knocked, loudly, on my window or something! As I’m fumbling with my junk, I’m getting my cell out to call my boss and tell her I’m super late and the phone rings in my hands. I’m panicking, because I think, ‘She’s going to scold me!’

I answer, it’s her and I start babbling 100 miles a minute about how sorry and late I am and she says, “Well, that makes two of us.” LOL I was SO RELIEVED.

I joked with everyone about it all day. I’m so glad they bring me breakfast along with our two student aids. I don’t know how I would have survived till lunch at 12:30! I’m even going to get to make up the 39 (!) minutes I was late tomorrow, so that’s cool. I thought Veronica, the girl in charge of punch-ins, punch-outs was going to yell at me, because just yesterday she was praising me for what a good job I was doing about being prompt. We laughed that she’d jinxed me and all was good. I’m so glad!

It was an overall good day, although I’ve been doing the same thing for about 5 days straight: inputting students into the Reading Renaissance system and the library system. 700+ kids, every-single-one. It’s cool though, I don’t mind being on the computer and it makes time pass quickly.

As for the weekend, it was the usual cramming everything into two days thing. I finally went to Goodwill on Saturday and scored two awesome brand-new frames from Target and 2 sets of glass tumblers, which we needed! All for $12! We visited Gramma and then went to Target.

Sunday was Mary’s 50th birthday so we got together at Yadira’s to celebrate. We all pitched in to give her a surprise party and it actually worked out! We had a really nice time. I hope she did, too :).

I spoke to Sally after almost a month because her phone messed up. We’ll hopefully meet up this Saturday with Carmen and Karina. I’ve also got to cram in getting the boys’ tuxes, mom’s and my dresses, and Yazmin’s necklace sometime this weekend too!

Alaethia started standing all on her own on Monday (9-10-07), right when I got here from work. She just stood up in her playpen to greet me :). She’d been trying since she was 6 months old and finally got it. We already lowered her crib down, just to be on the safe side.

I took Eenan to the doctor that day after school to get his Varicella vaccine, finally. He didn’t even cry! He was so proud of himself, and so was I of course :).

I had to pick up Jaylen’s Singulair since he’d run out and was already starting to get a runny nose and had that funny cough he does. I wonder what exactly he’s allergic to? I wouldn’t want to put him through the test though–I hear it’s brutal on them :(.

Eenan had UIL practice today so I picked Jaylen and Brandon up from school. I spoke to his teacher and she said he’s incredibly smart *beams*. I’m so darn proud of all my kiddos :).

Okay, it’s 10. Time for bed! Gotta make sure that alarm’s working first!