Author: Yajaira

Last night, when everyone was over for dinner, we got to talking about babies again. It’s like the main topic of our conversations now. Yadira will be due in April, Annie wants to try when she turns 30 next July, Elda and Jose want to try and we want to try. Well, we’re “considering” trying .

Noelia printed out Ancient Chinese Birth Charts for everyone, including herself, and we all started calculating and highlighting like crazy. So, if we do end up trying, my greatest chances of having a girl when I turn 24 are in June, August, and November. The rest of the months I’ll supposedly end up having a boy. And with my luck…

I keep thinking, though…last time Mario and I were trying for a baby, when we conceived Jaylen, I was so hopeful about having a girl and then turns out we’re having a boy and I had all these complications. What if it God was punishing me for being selfish? I hate to think that, but it’s the thought I go back to all the time. After I found out we might lose Jaylen because of the bad chromosome that was showing up on the AFP test I just started praying that it didn’t matter what I had, I just wanted the baby to be healthy. I don’t want the same thing to happen this time .

If we do end up with a boy though, it would be really cute to see what he looks like since Eenan and Jaylen look so different :).

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I think I have a stalker.

I’ve been getting calls from a certain number and some from “PRIVATE” for the past few days at odd hours of the night (early morning, actually). At first I thought it was Ricci calling from her sister-in-law’s and that we were playing phone tag, but when I called back they told me nobody’d called me.

I got a call at 2:26a.m. and a guy left a message! He said:

Hey, que onda. You call me back okay, I really want to talk to you. I’ll be waiting for your call. Okay. Bye. Cuidate.

At first I thought it was Ricci’s cousin playing a joke on me, but I don’t think it’s him. I need to block private calls, I just don’t know how to go about it.

Maybe it’s some random caller. That happened to me once already, where a group of high school boys kept calling me because “they liked how I sounded”.

I’m thinking maybe it’s someone from school. There’s this group of guys who’re always saying things when my friends and I pass by them. For instance, there was a time Mayra, Ricci and I were walking to class and they were all standing against the walls next to our room. One of them busts out singing, “Every step she takes, every move she makes”. Mayra and I stared at each other wide-eyed when we got into the class and burst out laughing. Ricci, who was a few steps behind, walks in and said, “They said something about ‘I’ll be watching her'”. There’s also two guys who Rolando told me liked me, but they don’t hang out with that group of guys and hello, Rolando told them I’m married!

Maybe I’m being too paranoid, but this is just weird. How would any of them have my number, though? Not even my guy friends have my cell number. I need to tell Mario about this. They won’t stop calling and they only call after I’m sleeping.

[edit 7:55a.m.] I just got to school. I told Kim about it and she called the number they didn’t block and said she was returning the call. The exact same guy answered. I took the phone and asked who was calling and he said it must have been his cousin, David. The one I was talking to was supposedly Alan. Grr. I told him, “Well, I don’t know you guys so please quit calling me. Tell David too.”

I really need to block private calls![/edit]

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I’m sneaking away from my nightly chores (I should be ironing and getting ready to take a shower right now) because I just got such exciting news from my husband.

I don’t know if it’s all the baby talk or the fact that Yadira’s pregnant and the whole family’s just ecstatic that there’ll be a new baby here soon (or not soon enough!) but Mario just came up behind me, put his chin on my head and said, “After you finish school, I’ll consider having a baby.”

I was in total shock and couldn’t believe what I’d heard. I spun around and asked, “WHAT? Really? Where’d that come from?”

“Don’t ask, just accept it”, and he smiled as he walked out the door.

This is totally unexpected. My body, not so much me, as been ready for a baby for quite some time. This means I have to start getting in shape, too. I weighed myself at Jaylen’s doctor yesterday and I weigh exactly 120 lbs. (although the scale at home says 116, darnit!). I don’t want to be at the weight I’m at now and get pregnant. With both the boys I gained 20 lbs. with each pregnancy; if I gain that much this time (and I will!) I’ll be 140 lbs. and 4’11” tall. Not good!

It’s like some kind of sign or something. All week the women in the family have been talking about babies when we get together. I was reading pregnancy magazines at Jaylen’s doctor’s office last night. We especially got into baby talk tonight. Elda wants to try, Annie might be pregnant and of course everyone’s hoping Mario and I will try soon since “Jaylen’s getting older”. The plan I’d formed in my head was that I’d try when Jaylen was 4. I graduate in April and he turns 4 in April!

Granted, he said he’d consider it and the word consider doesn’t mean it’ll actually happen. It’s still nice to think that it might.

The only two things that I’m worried about if we do decide to conceive are that I’ll have another complicated pregnancy and that they won’t want me at a new job newly pregnant. I don’t want to think about that right now though. I just want to bask in this lovely idea :).

Jaylen’s doing much better. I took him to the doctor last night since he had his 3rd fever since Monday. They checked him for Strep, Flu, and gave him a blood test but all was negative/healthy. Dr. Z gave him Amoxillin, Motrin, congestion medication and ear drops just in case, since he was complaining about his ears and throat. It took forever at the appointment, but I’m just glad they actually saw Jaylen. We took his prescription in (I saw Johanna’s hubby there!) and that took a while so we didn’t get home till 10p.m.

I was up waiting for his fever to subside for an hour and a half last night. I kept praying to God and checking up on him every 10 minutes. One of the kids toys mysteriouly went off on it’s own and I thought to myself, “God, are you giving me a sign? Is he okay?” So I got up and checked on him and his fever was gone :).

I should do my chores now. Ricci’s going to stop by to get our assignment (she didn’t go to school today) and to pick up some stuff. G’nite!

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