Author: Yajaira

I finally got this layout up. I planned to have it up before February 1st, but never got around to it. Then yesterday, when I was almost done coding it, the lights went out and I lost everything . So I started it all again this morning. Then, since I saved as .gif, the light pink got all grainy so I had to fix that. I added new music (click on the music note on the Quick Menu). Those who’ve been visiting for a while will remember them being the songs I put up 2 Valentine’s layouts (2 years) ago LOL. They’re all songs that remind me of Mario, 2 are “our songs”. I bawled like a baby, reminiscing about our lives together so far, while I was skimming CD’s to find the songs. I just feel so happy, and blessed .

Speaking of layouts, after 2 1/2 years, Lil’ Mama finally has a new layout . I was doing a “random code check” and ended up getting tired of looking at the layout and started on a new one. Gotta finish those code checks soon (so many Mamas are gone ) and then alphabetize the members since I’m not liking the having-to-move-members when I remove people or whatever. I have 91 members, I have a feeling over half are going to be broken links .

As for the potty training, Jaylen ended up pooping the night I last blogged. He proudly called me and pointed to the toilet and said, “I poo-ooped!” I was so happy, and relieved, that he went. It was only a little nugget of a poop, but I was just glad he did something. I made a big ol’ fuss about how proud I was of him and dumped his stuff in the toilet. He got all happy because he flushed “like a big boy”. It was too cute…he waved and said, “Bye poopie!”. Eenan used to do that too . He got really sad once because he had to say goodbye to his poop LOL.

After that, he went 2 more times. Now he’s got the hang of it, thank goodness. He is still wetting the bed at night, but he’s pretty much potty-trained besides that. We need to get Eenan’s toddler bed back from Yadira. Since it’s a plastic-y mattress, it would be so much easier to “clean up”.

Mario had yesterday off, which was nice. We cleaned out all the animals’ cages, picked Eenan up from school, then made lunch and watched movies. We watched First Daughter (was that the name?) which was really cute; The Village, which wouldn’t have been as scary had Mario not been poking at me during the suspenseful parts and yelling, “BOO!”; and Barber Shop 2, which was pretty funny.

Mom saw Angie. She’s a manager…which makes me feel like a failure because she graduated a year after I did. But I know, I know, I have kids and yes, that’s a whole job all on it’s own (I already got lectured). Anyway, Mom said she looked pregnant and Angie asked her if she was my Mom. I wanted to call her yesterday, but I thought, “Well, she didn’t call me to invite me to her wedding, why would she call me to share one of the most important things to happen in her life?” I also felt like calling Jessica, but I don’t even know where to find her. But anyway…

Speaking of pregnancies…since she finally shared the news I can express how incredibly happy I am for Tara and her hubby! She’s 20 weeks pregnant and may be having a boy !!! Awww…she must be so elated!

Okay, John’s here to spend the weekend and wants to set up an account on my site, so I’ll get to that before I get lazy and don’t want to do anything. Then I must clean. I can hardly contain myself.

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Well, I spoke too soon. The child peed not once, but twice, during the night. And he didn’t even wake up . The only reason I woke up was because my wrist was hurting me and I needed to pee.

I think he’s on strike. I think his whole body’s on strike, actually. He still hasn’t pooped, and I’m worried. I think he needed to go this morning because he refused to put his undies back on and screamed for a diaper. I even sat on the toilet while he was sitting on his potty chair to encourage him to poop. I even made grunting noises (no, I wasn’t really pooping!) just in case that would help him push, or something. He peed so much during the night — I think — that both times he’s tried to go pee, nothing comes out. He just says, “My pee-pee’s gone!” .

He’s also got this annoying cough that comes and goes. He coughed so much this morning that he ended up puking. Poor guy. I started him on cough medicine again. If it keeps up, back to the doctor we go.

I don’t know HOW I’m going to do it next month. The kids have their appointment at the dentist and I probably won’t have a car since it’s at 9am, and Mario leaves by 9:20 for work. Gotta start figuring SOMETHING out.

Speaking of next month, I can’t believe Valentine’s Day is almost here. It’s on a Monday, and Mario is working of course, so we’re probably not even going to “properly” celebrate. On March 27th, we celebrate our 6 year wedding anniversary. He’s already asking for that day off, and is even promising to work an extra Sunday (he gets two on, two off) if he gets it. I hope they have a heart and let him get it. We’re already planning on where to go have dinner. I hope it happens. I’d like to make it super special, but I have no idea what to do. We were watching Committed again last night, since Mario hadn’t watched the most recent episode, where it’s Marni’s birthday and Nate has this dinner for her on the roof. I tell him — half-jokingly — that I wish someone would do that for me, and bat my eyes at him. He replies with, “Well, good luck”, and smiled sarcastically. I know he was joking, but argh. I remember when he would go all out on our anniversaries or special days, and even if it was nothing fancy, he would do something nice. I remember once, before we were married, he laid out a blanket in front of the big fireplace his dad bar-be-cues on outside, lit the fireplace and bought these floating candles and put them in water-filled glass bowls. We snacked on stuff and just cuddled and had a good time. I miss that *pouts*. When we talk about it he tells me he was just doing it to get in my panties . Bastard . It worked…obviously . But I know, I know…he’s so busy with work and we barely even have time to talk and see eachother. I’ll figure something out .

Gonna get lunch ready. Spaghetti O’s it is!

*edit 1:09pm* Jaylen asked for a “snack”, which usually means some sort of sweet, and since I’m out of those littler Gerber gummies I gave him a Honeybun (not the best choice, I know!). The in-laws have him addicted to those things, dammit, and he usually finishes all of it. I’ve been lecturing him about how too many sweets are bad, and “your teeth are going to fall out of your face”, etc., so today he brings back more than half of the Honeybun and says, “I can’t eat it all…I’ll die.” I’ve got the poor boy tramatized….*/edit*

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I love Committed! I just finished watching the most recent episode. It’s hilarious, yet it never fails to make me want to cry, just a tad bit. It’s too cute!

Speaking of shows I missed, I finally watched the final episode of America’s Next Top Model Season 3 (late much?). Eva won! I was so happy she won. I thought Yaya (ha!) was gonna win since she always did really well. She had this holier-than-thou attitude though, and that bugged me about her. Eva’s kind of a drama queen, but she’s cute and I loved her Cover Girl photo…and her eyes! I stayed up till 1:30am yesterday waiting for the final 2 bytes to download . I watched it first thing in the morning LOL.

After watching that and having my coffee, I looked around at this dump place and decided it was time to do some heavy-duty cleaning. I was trying to come up with all kinds of ways to hang up the PILE of clean clothes that were on the edge of the couch and draped over one of the kitchen chairs. Yeah, not too pretty. A light went off and I remembered that little closet we’re using as a linen closet. The part that has the rod had all kinds of extra hangers on it and nothing fit in it because there was a bunch of folded blankets. I dragged out the huge box that’s filled with my shoes (I’ve got to sort through the shoes and get rid of the ones I don’t wear), piled the blankets in there and voilá! The living room is clothes-free! I swept, mopped, tossed the kids’ toys in the bedroom (so they’d put them away), then I cleaned everything in the bedroom that the kids couldn’t. Tomorrow, I’ll finish cleaning the bathroom and kitchen. I couldn’t do as much as I wanted (everything) today because my wrist is really hurting. I have this huge bump. I thought maybe it was Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, but I did some research and the symptoms I have don’t match up. It’s something else. Mary said it looks like it may be calcium deposits, or something like that. Big Mario had that problem a while back. It’s so painful . Damn not having insurance or qualifying for medical help . Anyway, I also need to get all the rest of the music, shows, etc. off of the computer now that we have CD-Rs.

I’d bid on a Rainbow Brite lot on eBay and checked up on it after cleaning (a matted 12″ Lucky Sprite, Baby Brite wearing Rainbow Brite’s dress; a naked, faded Patty O’Green; an Indigo wearing her outfit, a naked Red Butler, 2 mini Twink Sprites, and a mini Lucky Sprite). I really wanted this lot, since it had Indigo’s pants, the 18″ Rainbow Brite dress with the emblem (my 2 don’t have it ) and of course it never hurts to have mini sprites! So I bid, and then got frikin’ SNIPED at the last 20 seconds. I got outbid by 50 DAMNED CENTS ! I was beyond outraged. I was so angry I stuffed my face with two little cakes Mary brought for us from this bakery in Edinburg . I know, dumb thing to get all worked up about, but I was really excited about buying it and I hadn’t really shopped on eBay in a long time (bought something at the beginning of the week after not shopping in forever) and that totally ruined it for me. The whole lot sold for only $6.50. And I got outbid by 50 cents *shakes head*.

I ran out to the mail after that to check if the Popple bottle I bought a few days ago had arrived and it had. That made me feel a little better . Now my Bibsy has her bottle:

If anyone would like to make me feel better, you can get me this. No? Damn *snaps fingers*…it was worth a shot . I wonder if anyone will buy those…they’re so rare…and in the box!

I pathetically scanned over my Rainbow Brite stuff, still cursing myself for getting sniped, and thought, “I’m not doing anything, I’ll clean up my stuff.” Hadn’t dusted them in a long time already, so I cleaned them up and reorganized them, then took pics. I’ll hopefully put the pics back up in the Rainbow Brite page soon.

I don’t collect the new My Little Pony’s (though some are really cute and I just might sometime), but the McDonald’s Happy Meal ponies are really cute! I wonder if I could get the neighbors to get me the whole set and I’ll pay them back. That would rock. I have an old MLP from the early 90’s that they gave out at McDonald’s, but I think I’m going to sell it. It looks slightly different from the actual ponies and I like the original-looking ones .

As for Jaylen’s potty training, I think he is officially potty trained! He had four accidents yesterday in the morning, but only because he was watching TV and was distracted. He’s done well since then though. He doesn’t even pee in the bed at night! And thank God too, because he sleeps with me, heh. I’m not sure if he’s constipated or if he’s not sure what he’s supposed to do about poop now that he’s wearing underwear but he hasn’t pooped since…Thursday? And he only went a teensy bit, too. If he doesn’t poop by tomorrow afternoon, I’m going to give him some orange juice…that always does it.

I thought it would be much harder to potty train him, as it was with Eenan, but I’m surprised it went so well! I think it’s the whole “Rule of 3” thing Mario and I learned about back when we first became parents. They told us that if you take something away from a baby, they won’t remember it after 3 days. It worked when weaning them from their pacifiers and bottles. The whole 3 days are a bit hellish, yes, but it really does work. After the first three days of potty training Jaylen this week, he started doing very well, so I guess it works with toddlers, too! I’m just so thrilled…and proud *beams*.

I’m also quite proud of Eenan. He’s doing really well in school. He was having trouble at the beginning of the week–he was distracted and unwilling to do his work, which really surprised Ms. Ortiz–but he’s doing much better now. I hope he continues to. He’s being tested the remainder of this year to check if he’ll do well in GT (gifted & talented–don’t remember if I already mentioned that?) classes next year. He’s barely in kinder and they’re already teaching them double and triple digit math! And he can do it! It boggles my mind. We weren’t learning that till 1st or 2nd grade! I think it’s great. His teacher makes it easy for them too…he loves her .

Oh my gosh, how incredibly CUTE! Jaylen’s watching Care Bears and he’s singing the theme song: “I wanna be a Care Bear…” which sounds more like, “I wanna be a Cay-o Bey-o” LOL!!!

OK…I should get to bed. I really need to stop going to sleep late…

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