My first version of this entry was rather cheerful. Then I tried saving it and I got that bastard Sorry, you need to enable sending referrers for this feature to work. and it wiped my entry clear. ARGH!!!

Since Mario and John don’t understand that clearing the cookies fucks up WP, I had to draw a big, colorful sign and tape it to the tower. Hopefully, they’ll understand that: goddammit I clear the cookies once a week–they don’t need to do it every day. They can look at their porn or whatever they don’t want anyone to see elsewhere!

*cough* Anyway, before I left to pick up the children I’d successfully put Matthew (it’s my day to watch him) to sleep all on my own. Mom kept asking for him since he was screaming, wailing and flinging his body all over the place but I insisted on keeping him. I NEEDED to put the child to sleep on my own. The whole time I watched him last week I only put him to sleep once and that’s because he was sitting on my lap and quietly fell asleep. The rest of the times Mom had to take over since he was kicking me so hard.

But not today. Today I held his legs down until he got so tired of screaming he had no choice but to fall asleep. Too bad he’s awake and screaming now :(.

Since I didn’t have Matthew Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday I took the opportunity to clean the whole house. I didn’t get to organize my room at all because I still had to look after Brianna and Jaylen, but I’ll get to that this weekend, hopefully. I’m praying nothing comes up. No parties, nothing. I just want to be home with my kids. MY KIDS.

Sally came over Tuesday afternoon. We chatted and gossiped for about 2 hours before she left at 3. I’ll hopefully get to visit Vero soon, who bought a house with her hubby and kids. I’m so happy for her :). Sally says her house is decorated as eccentricly as her personality. I can’t wait to see!

I picked the kids up after school that day plus Yazmin. It was her birthday so we all got ready to go to her get-together. Thankfully Mireya picked Brianna up at 5:15 that day so I could get everything done.

Everyone went over there, except Annie of course. She’s still supposedly hurt over what happened during the weekend (surprisingly, not what happened between her and me).

I went to the doctor yesterday morning. I’m 21 weeks now and Alaethia’s growing well. She’s so much bigger than she was the last time I went 3 weeks ago. I got to see her little knees and feet. She’s so active! I’ve only gained 1 lb. since the last visit, which I’m thrilled about. Hopefully I can keep eating well and gaining enough weight for her and nothing extra! Speaking of weight, she’s weighing around 0.8 lbs. How cute is that?

John and I grabbed a quick lunch at McDonald’s after we picked up the kids before I took him to his appointment at 1pm. Thankfully, my double cheeseburger was fine. When Mario went to get me a parfait a few nights ago it was 3 days expired! When I called to complain about it the lady who answered swore I’d be fine if I ate it. I took a bite and not only did it taste gross, the strawberries were a pale pink color–not the red they’re supposed to be! Bleh!

Anyway, John’s stinking appointment took 2 freakin’ hours! I was so pissed. It’s not his fault of course, it’s the damn ladies at the workforce. On top of it all he said they were rude and totally discouraging about him finding a job. What bitches.

Mario got home super early from work last night, which was a nice surprise. After eating dinner (Mole and rice), we watched Prime while eating Hershey’s Sundae Pie and then had some nice cuddle time after the kids went to sleep. I took a shower after we *cuddled* and then ironed. I didn’t fall asleep till midnight. Jaylen woke me up at least 3 times during the night. One time he was totally out of it and told me to go back to bed (!). When he woke up in the morning he said 2 “Cucuys” were chasing him and bit his back. He said, “I kept scweaming, ‘Mama, mama!’ and then they twansfowmed into six moh Cucuys and chased me!” Poor thing. That must have been the time he had no idea why he was calling me LOL.

I’m going to eat lunch now, some leftover Mole and rice maybe (and then follow that up with some Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and pickles!). Hopefully this darn entry gets to save!

First things first: I wanted to ask you guys, my readers, if adding an e-mail notification script for comments and e-mail subscription for when I actually update my blog would come in handy for you? I don’t want to go through the trouble if nobody’s going to use it, or worse yet, if you do and it annoys you LOL. Let me know, I’d greatly appreciate it!

Man, Channel 4 wasn’t lying when they said there’d be thunderstorms all night. Mario and I fell asleep around 11:30 pm, only after joking around, being annoying to eachother and joking about how our apartment was going to end up like the Winchester House since we have windows all over the house, but they’re all covered up because of construction and remodeling. He was also half-joking that I didn’t care about his well-being since he has a sore throat and I refused to sleep without the fan. I wasn’t going to suffer like the night before–I ended up having to sleep in the living room with the fan on full blast since I was sweating up a storm (and yes, the central air was on). It’s just my pregnancy making me get hot flashes.

Anyway, I fell asleep feeling cool and relaxed (I’m not a bitch I swear, I pointed the fan to my feet so Mario wouldn’t feel it on his face) and woke up in a startled jolt around 2:15 to crashing thunder. Since I’m a very light sleeper, every single thunder would wake me up and it didn’t help that my eyelids must be paper thin since I could see the lightning with my eyes closed O_o. I kept an ear out for the kids since I knew at least one of them would wake up scared half to death from the thunder. Sure enough around 3am Eenan tip-toed into the room and whispered, “Mama, I can’t sleep because of the thunder,” and proceeds to climb over me to sleep between Mario and me. We hardly had any space to move around, but I felt so bad for him I let him stay. He’s always been terrified of thunder. Jaylen on the other hand is such a heavy sleeper he slept through the whole thing! Thank goodness, too. I didn’t know where he’d fit on the bed!

As for the weekend, Mario and I spent all of Friday running errands like crazy. Elda watches Matthew on Fridays so I only had Brianna, but Mom watched her while we did everything we needed to do.

We had to rush to Home Depot, again, before we picked up Jaylen and Brianna to get some trim for the doors, 1/6 planks for the frames of the hallway entrance and the kids’ closets, paint, nail-gun nails, another door-knob, and I forget what other miscellaneous things we needed. Total cost: $260. Ho-lee-shit. Needless to say, we won’t be using that credit card anymore, no matter how much we “have left” on it.

Mario was a total turd to me that day. He was annoyed from the minute he woke up and kept taking it out on me, especially at Home Depot. He kept rushing me about adding measurements faster for the wood and kept stomping and huffing and being a big baby.

We got home on time to pick up the kids and left Brianna with my mom while Jaylen, Mario and I went to Target to get the games we’d promised the kids for good behavior. Jaylen picked out his, we got the one Eenan wanted and I whined about how I wasn’t going to be able to buy the amazing $104 4-in-1 crib I wanted from Target. I was going to use the credit card, but I restrained myself and we just left (we’re trying to get our credit cards paid off). Mario promised we’d get all the stuff we needed, no matter how much it cost. It just pained me that I could have saved $30 on it!

We picked up Eenan and Brandon, where Mario finally got on my nerves and I cried and told him off. I felt so embarrassed crying at school (hopefully nobody noticed) but I was so fed up and frustrated. He finally got the point and shut up.

Mom stayed with Eenan and the other kids while we deposited money at the bank, picked up a Miter Saw my dad-in-law was borrowing from his friend Ricky, bought some pork ribs for Mario and his dad to bar-b-q, then stopped by at Stars where I picked up a burger since I hadn’t eaten since 10am and was starving. When we get home Mario made himself some Jalapeño Tuna and said he didn’t get a burger since he didn’t want to waste money. I rolled my eyes, since he constantly buys cigarettes and buys beer every-so-often. He did every little thing he could that day to upset me and it didn’t stop later on while we were outside with our parents during the bar-b-q. I could have rung his neck.

He was finally in a good mood later that night while we were watching Take the Lead. He noticed I had my hand on my belly feeling the baby kick so he put his hand in place of where mine was. He finally felt the baby kick! I’ve been feeling her for awhile now, about a week and a half, but he hadn’t. His eyes widened when he felt her. He probably realized, as I did when I first felt her, that this is for real!

My dad-in-law worked on the trim and doors for our rooms and hallway all of Saturday morning. Everything looks SO NICE. I especially love the hallway entrance. All we need to do is buy more joint compound to fill in the nail holes and finish painting. Woo!

Mary got home from work (she actually had to go in on Saturday morning!) she called me over to her car so I could check out some baby things Norma C. had sent over in case I wanted them. I found that kind of strange, but went out anyway. I was so shocked to see my dream crib in her car! She’d told Mario not to let me buy it, to try anything he could because she wanted to get it for me :). How freaking sweet! I can’t wait till Mario puts it together!

Mom and I went grocery shopping at around noon, where I only spent $70 on a whole bunch of groceries and Mom bought me a whole bunch of things I’d been craving. She’s really into the superstition that a pregnant woman should always get a taste of something she craves, and hell, I’m not complaining LOL.

We rushed home and put everything away since I needed to meet Mary and the boys on time to go to the movies to watch Everyone’s Hero. It was a really cute movie. I didn’t think I’d enjoy it, but I honestly did. Next, the kids want to watch How to Eat Fried Worms. 😛

I don’t remember much from yesterday, except that we were lazy till 11am and actually got to sleep in (Mary had the boys). We went to Leo’s to get some tacos and muffins and just enjoyed our ridiculously fatty breakfast. At around 1pm everyone got here for Jose’s (belated) birthday celebration. Elda made Posole and it was good. Annie didn’t come over because she was hurt about something that happened last weekend. Always some kind of drama.

We stayed over there talking till around 4pm, and then Mario and I went to rent more movies and make a payment. We didn’t end up watching anything, but at least that gives us something to do when he gets home from work and we’re kid-free. I didn’t have to watch Matthew this morning so instead of sleeping, I swept and mopped. I need to eat lunch right now and then I’m organizing my bedroom. I’ve been so caught up with the kids’ room I’ve totally neglected ours.

It feels so fresh in the house (as opposed to how hot it feels even with the air on) and it feels great outside. I love rainy days :).

My darling Jaylen was good when I dropped him off in the morning. It seemed like he was about to cry, but when his new teacher’s aid told him he was going to get stickers because he always behaves his mood quickly changed and he strutted proudly to his chair. He had grilled cheese and milk and made me stand there for 5 minutes till he was ready for me to leave He usually does this, but I don’t fight him about it since I know it helps calm him down.

When I picked him up after school he beams as he shows me his two new stickers. His teacher’s aid says, “Oh yes. Jaylen always behaves well! If all the kids would behave like Jaylen, it would be a great day.” I’m so proud of my little dude :).

I don’t have Brianna today (her mom picked her up since she’s off), but I do have Matthew, Mario’s 6 month old cousin who I’m now babysitting as well. Monday and Tuesday were alright–he did throw a few uncontrollable fits, but he was quickly calmed down by a bottle and nap. Today–OMG…I’m a bit traumatized from the tantrum he threw about 10 minutes ago.

He was screaming his head off after 5 minutes in his swing, so I picked him up and changed his diaper. Put him back and gave him his Corn and Potatoes. He ate the whole jar. Screamed again. Made a bottle and he didn’t want it. I noticed he was all sticky, so I gave him a nice warm bath. He calmed down while he was being bathed–I even let him play in the water while it was warm but the screaming started again once I started drying him up. Tried giving him the bottle, chupy (pacifier), rocked him, let him jump on my knees–nothing worked. He even gave me a nice, huge kick in the stomach. Alaethia must have been asleep because once she felt that she started moving like crazy and now I have a pain near the bottom of my belly. Not cool. If it keeps up like this, I’m going to have to stop watching him. I’m already stressed, I don’t need to have physical pain, too. I couldn’t take it anymore so Mom took him and I don’t know how that woman does it, he fell asleep right away. Seriously, if it’s one thing Mom can do it’s put babies to sleep LIKETHAT.

I thought an afternoon without Brianna would be a little more laid back, but man was I wrong. Doesn’t help that I’m super exhausted from Monday and Tuesday and it’s catching up with me. But can I take a nap. OFCOURSENOT! Damn me for not taking advantage when I wasn’t watching any kids in the morning. But no, I would have felt like a damn lazy slob if I slept during the day. Eff that…next time I get the chance I’m sleeping every damn chance I get!

Supposedly I’m only going to be watching Matthew Mondays and Tuesdays. Let’s hope I can even manage that.