Author: Yajaira

So.

I just renewed my domain for another year. And I’m still paying for monthly hosting so I guess I’m keeping the site another year. Me and my packrat tendencies; I’ve had it so long (2001, or 2002–don’t remember) that I can’t bear to get rid of it. Even though I’ve hardly updated in the past year and have missed blogging about TONS of details of the girls’ lives…I just can’t get rid of it.

I’ve made a promise to myself that I’ll try updating again. I’m just so out of…practice, I guess you can say, that it’s kind of odd for me to try and update like I used to. I’m going to aim for at least once a week. Let’s see how that goes LOL.

So I’m going to try right now. I’m drinking my coffee and eating a bowl of sugar Cocoa Crispies. I just finished feeding Emily her baby cereal and she’s doing her Funny Face in her high chair and drinking her bottle.

Okay, scratch that. Alaethia woke up so I moved Emily to her play pen so I could stick Alaethia in the high chair to eat her breakfast, which consists of strawberries. Yes, she’ll be 3 in January (already, OMG!) and I’m still having trouble trying to get her to eat breakfast and sometimes to eat in general. Fruit is always my back up.

Took a break there to get Alaethia situated in the living room to watch her Noggin–I’m sorry, Nick Jr. And I dusted the shelves in the living room and moved 2 more from my bedroom to the living room…don’t know if that was a mistake or not, after last night (I’ll get to that in a bit, heh). I’m so happy that this year I’ll get to actually put up a few Christmas decorations. I just need to FIND them.

We had everyone over last night, Jason, Mirella, Brianna, Jose & Elda, Adan, Aide & her kiddos and Mom & us of course. It was a nice night but the moments that’ll stick out in my head are when Jaylen & Jason were tossing a pillow back and forth & my Disney Jasmin snow globe broke. I left a gel pen uncapped and it stained the sofa bright blue. I almost had a heart attack but a few baby wipes did the trick–I love Enduro-suede sofas! And then–the climax of the night–the moment I walked into the bathroom and Alaethia and Belle were happily tossing cat litter all over the bathroom…again! They’d also dumped the cat’s food into the toilet and replaced both the food and water bowls with soggy litter. My whole world closed up; I didn’t know where the hell to start cleaning up. Mario, at first kind of rudely, had to take over and did a pretty good job cleaning up. Alaethia got reprimanded; I’m hoping this’ll be the last time she assists with that.

(OMG this darn cat just scratched my legs again!!!)

I guess this is enough blogging for now (it’s taken me about 3 hours to type this up little by little!). I just put Emily to sleep by singing “Morning Lullabies” by Ingrid Michaelson to her. They both love that song when it’s time for bed.

I need to do more laundry, wash dishes, vacuum the living room and practice everything for Taekwondo. Our Yellow-Advanced test is on Nov. 28th, 2 1/2 weeks from now. *gulp* I need to work on the form because I get mixed up if someone else is doing it at the same time or if someone even TALKS. I need to time myself and make my movements stronger and stiffer. I also have to work on my side-kick. That kick’s the devil. I get everything else except that. Oh yeah, and I also can’t get the Mula kick with my left leg and my left leg’s the stronger of the two, which is odd for someone who’s right-handed like I am. This is why I want one of those standing targets; so I can practice here at home. They’re expensive though and right now, let’s just say the bad economy finally reared its ugly head at us. Not cool now that Christmas is coming up!

Ok, ok. I won’t stall on my chores any longer. And Emily’s up already. Nice LOL.

I had to post this because it’s too long for a Tweet, heh. And she might hate me when she has her own blog and reads this when she’s older, but Alaethia just said the cutest thing:

She asked me to wipe her bootie because she’d gone #2 so I went into the bathroom with her. I look into the toilet to see the teeniest poopie I’ve ever seen; something around the size of a mini M&M LOL. I ask her, “That’s the poopie you did, Mommy?” She replies in the sweetest, saddest voice, “Yes. It’s so little. It’s all by itself. It misses its friends. It wants to go home.” Buahahaha!

I just had to post that :P. I might, MIGHT actually post tonight because Mario’s going over to his grandpa’s to chill with his uncles and it’s just going to be me and the girls (the boys are with Mary, of course. We really need to get that new room built soon *sigh* or at least a passage way into Noelia’s old room so they’ll feel like they’re “here”.). Ok. Mom’s treating us to Subway again so I’ll be back later.

We had a BRUTAL workout tonight. My legs didn’t feel normal again till an hour after Taekwondo. We did the usual stretching/warm-up, 100 jumping jacks, running in place with your knees reaching your belt (he always picks on me when we’re dong those!), pi-chagi laps, bernies (high, knee-level & low), stretching, 70 leg lifts/reverse crunches, 30 crunches, 60 sit-ups, 100 pushes–I think that’s what he calls them? You sit on the floor with your hands behind you, stretch your legs forward and bring them back without touching the floor. And 30 squats? Yeah. Norma and I had to sit and collect ourselves for a bit before we got in our vehicles to drive home! My legs felt like JELLY.

I’m–in a way–grateful he didn’t make us do the yellow belt form. I DON’T GET IT. I’m so uncoordinated. And I haven’t gotten a chance to practice it, or the walking blocks, at all because it’s been a hectic two weeks. And when I’m not busy doing laundry, dishes, cleaning, running errands, I’m with Emily, who’s going through her “separation anxiety” stage and has a meltdown when she doesn’t see me within a foot of her. She sounds like her lungs are going to explode when I leave to Taekwondo with the boys and then to my class on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. It’s quite heartbreaking.

Well, since Sept. 19th, when I last updated, I became a yellow belt! I had a whole ton of stuff to do before the test and then when it was time to leave the boys didn’t want to go, Mom was staying with the girls and I was afraid Mary wouldn’t make it on time. I felt so…alone! Mario was working of course. In the end, Mary and Eenan went and Mary recorded some of my test. Luis practiced a little with Salvador (the boy who’d been helping me the night before) and me and we worked on our one-step sparring. I felt ready, but extremely nervous because Ernesto, who was grading us, notices everything. When it was over and he was telling us what we needed work on he said we mostly got A’s and A+, but for both of us, our blocks aren’t 100% correct. I wish they’d told me the night before that I was doing it wrong so I would have been aware of it. Of course it was during the walking blocks thing that I messed up. AND THEN! We had to break a board, just like the boys did. Only our boards were 3/4 in. thick! It took me three tries to break it, but I’m glad I did. I just got nervous. But it’s okay. I BECAME A YELLOW BELT! Never thought I’d see the day!

Darn! I thought I’d get to finish updating up until now but it’s almost 1am. I promised myself I’d go to sleep before 1 from now on, if not I can’t get up in the morning and I HATE “sleeping in” till 11 or so because I get a headache, feel lazy and the whole day goes by and I don’t get anything done! Good night.