Category: MLV

I’ve been up since 4am. I kept tossing and turning and it had nothing to do with how absolutely hot and sweaty I was.

I awkwardly rolled out of bed and went to pee and had the hardest time falling back to sleep. I was in between sleep and consciousness and all I kept thinking about was Is my truck payment due this week or next? Did the walking help? Will I go into labor today? I do have $200 in my wallet, right? For the truck payment? and so on…

It was so annoying.

I woke up at 6am feeling the weirdest pressure in my lower regions. I couldn’t get any relief. Then my pelvis started feeling like it was being cracked in half. Then Emily started festering around, kicking her little feet into my ribs. I finally got up to pee again and check if maybe that’s why I was feeling so much awful pressure.

I went back to bed and just sat there, gently rocking back and forth. My back was killing me and the pain in my pelvis was becoming so strong it was radiating down my thighs. Mario woke up and was completely alert. He’d fallen asleep at 10pm and couldn’t sleep anymore. I told him I couldn’t either, and described my symptoms to him. He just stared at me and said, “Well…today’s the day!” I was hoping he was right…but I didn’t want to count my chickens.

I told him about everything I still needed to do (reconnect the clean canopy to the car seat, reassemble the bassinet, pack my bag, clean up the bedroom and hang up the clean laundry, mop) and he shook his head–because I’m weird like that and would be worrying about mediocre things if I was actually in labor.

We put on our glasses and came to the living room at 6:25am. I kind of just sat motionless on the sofa, willing the pain to subside. Mario played Mobsters and I got my book and started reading. I decided to test myself: if the pressure was real then drinking coffee wouldn’t make me um, visit the bathroom. So I set the pot.

Jaylen came in just then, gave us hugs and asked if we were giving him the $3 for this week’s (prorated LOL) chores. We said yes. He’s been carefully saving his weekly allowance (my in-law’s give them a dollar a day to spend on ice cream or whatever they’re selling at school) so he can buy the new Fire Emblem game. With these $3 we owe him, he’s got more than enough.

I told Jaylen to tell Eenan to come with me before Mary dropped them off so they could take a picture with me. I wanted all of them to be in the picture with Emily (or my belly anyway LOL) but I wasn’t going to wake up Alaethia.

I prepared my coffee and drank it while I read New Moon. Mario beat me to the bathroom about 10 minutes later, followed immediately by me. Nope, still felt the pressure.

I started making Mario breakfast; a breakfast sandwich with bacon. The weird pain was now starting to feel like menstrual cramps in my lower abdomen, complete with the tingly pain radiating down my thighs and back pain.

The boys came in to take a picture with me and then the in-laws came to check how I was doing. I told them about my weird symptoms, but that I was okay for now. Mary told me to call and keep her updated.

Mario was already ready for work and I figured I wouldn’t stop him unless I felt a real contraction between then and 8:30, when he leaves. I didn’t, so he left. He told me to call if there were any changes.

So I’ve been here now…about an hour after Mario left to work and I still feel the same. I’ve already eaten breakfast and I’m taking a break from reading to blog. I wanted to get started on everything I still need to do, but the sleep I’m lacking is starting to catch up with me. If today’s not the day, at least it’s the weekend.

Wow. I really do have pregnancy brain. I’m trying to collect my thoughts so I can construct an entry about yesterday and I really can’t remember what the heck I did. Hmm…

If I remember correctly I had a quick lunch of a Rice Crispies Treat and some pineapples. It’s so weird; I’ve had no appetite during lunch for the past week or so. I have to force myself to eat something since I don’t get hungry at lunchtime, but then I’m eating dinner early around 4:30-5:30.

I also sort of forgot to eat since I was trying to tidy up my messy bedroom. I really need to get Mario to get help me put all the stuff that belongs in the closet in there. The room had been looking so nice after Sally came and helped me with it on New Year’s Eve, and now it’s back to looking horrible.

I made sure the boys did homework after they’d had their afternoon snack (banana bread). Well, Jaylen had already done his at school. Eenan’s was fast. They did some chores (Jaylen really wants to start getting paid for chores; he says he’ll do anything LOL) and then went off to play. They’re doing amazingly well now that we’ve gotten into a routine of not playing video games during the week.

I see a cloudy gap for about an hour after the boys got home. I might have read…or gotten online? I can’t remember. I started getting all the ingredients out for the spaghetti and meatballs I was making for dinner and then I texted Mario around 6:30 to ask where he was (he gets out about an hour earlier) and he said they were already driving in. Jorge was with him. I had chatted with Maggie on Yahoo earlier in the day and she wanted us to go over, but she’d gotten busy so they were going to visit again. No problem for me.

It took forever to work on the food but I called the guys in when it was done, they ate, the kids ate and I followed them outside to eat in the cool breeze. I couldn’t get relief inside the house; the air conditioning is on and the fan was facing right at me and I still couldn’t stop sweating.

So I ate out there and Alaethia played around. Adan and Aide got here with Belle and we just sat around talking. Jorge started feeling really ill, then Mario’s stomach started to hurt and I got like, 4 strong contractions. My contractions went away (poo), Mario felt better but Jorge still wasn’t feeling good at all. When Maggie got here they left right away. The rest of us stayed outside for a while and then came in once the mosquitoes started biting.

We chilled out a while and then Adan, Aide and Belle left. Alaethia was nodding off watching TV so I got into the shower. Mario and I spent some alone time together trying to uh, hurry the contractions along, heh and then we all went to bed. I had to “tickle” Alaethia’s face (run my fingers slowly and softly over her eyes and all over her face) in order for her to fall asleep.

I woke up 5 minutes late this morning and made breakfast. I didn’t know what I was going to make but BACON stood out in my mind. I scrambled some eggs, toasted the bacon, got some slices of cheese out, some refried beans and corn tortillas. I really wanted flour ones but someone seems to have stolen them again. That, or they were used up during one of our many weekly bar-b-q’s.

So I made these really awesome tacos and packed them for Mario along with his lunch. He left and I made myself a glass of chocolate milk to go with my tacos, and opened up New Moon and read for an uninterrupted hour.

Mary called right after I finished breakfast and filled me in on the gossip. I washed dishes while we talked (it always goes faster when someone’s talking with you) and then I texted Mario to let him know about the gossip LOL. I closed up Yahoo and then went to wake up Alaethia. My mistake is laying next to her when I’m going to wake her up so I pass out. Same thing happened again today LOL. I slept for half an hour and then the phone rang (wrong number, I HATE THAT!) and I slept for another half hour before I was rudely awaken by the doorbell ringing about 20 times in a row. It was my dear brother.

I scooped Alaethia up in my arms and forced her awake after that. She had breakfast (not very much of it) and John and I just chatted and then we made plans to go to the mall so I could do some walking. I really want to have this baby on Friday. Not only is it an even numbered day, it’s the weekend! If Mario misses tomorrow it’s okay, and then he has two days to spend with me and the baby. I would be perfect.

So I picked up the boys. Made sure they had their snacks and then Eenan started working on homework (Jaylen finished his at school again). I went to a quick appointment while Mom and John stayed with the kids and then came back and John and I left to the mall.

I parked at Sears, which is on the opposite side of the store I needed to go to: JC Penny. I got some good exercise. I had to return one of Emily’s Carter outfits–because she has the exact same one in the exact same size–but it wasn’t from any of the stores I went to. They told me to try Macy’s, Beall’s, and Toys R Us. I’d rather just keep the darn thing LOL.

I had a $10 coupon I wanted to use (I love those) and found some amazing discounts on PJ’s. I actually wanted to find a nice blouse for after delivery to go with my new black sweat pants, but I found a pink tank and two cute PJ bottoms instead. I only paid $15 out of my own pocket after the coupon :).

We rushed to Mario’s work, because he asked me to pick him up, and then we came home. John had the rest of the banana bread and some lemonade and went home. I made dinner (steak and corn-on-the-cob) and I must say, it was delicious. The steak we got was really tender and just good. Alaethia ate ALL her steak, surprisingly, but left all the corn. Well, it’s not much of a surprise; she’s a meat-eater like her dad.

So after that we just chilled out (Mario and Aly watched George Lopez and I read) and now I’m waiting to put the laundry in the dryer. I’m hoping tomorrow’s the big day! I need to go to sleep early to finish up my chores, just in case *crosses fingers*!

Well, I didn’t end up boiling the bottles and pacifiers that last night I blogged. I think I finished with laundry that night, then washed the rest of the dishes, and then Mario finally woke up and actually helped me clean up Alaethia’s room. We re-organized her little toy drawers with the proper toys and it took us much less time than if I’d tried to do it on my own. While I was sitting on the floor with Alaethia we played with her My First Dollhouse for a while and then she got bored, put her toys away and started playing with her baby and stroller. It’s so cute; she walks around with her Cinderella cell phone in her hand while pushing her baby (who actually sucks on a pacifier). I can’t wait till Emily’s big enough to walk around and watch them play together *sqee!*.

Alaethia, once again, didn’t start nodding off till almost 2am, so needless to say, she endured much poking and prodding in the morning and didn’t budge an inch. I boiled all the bottles (which all fit perfectly on the spinning drying rack) I tried going to sleep but I was hot so I kept tossing and turning, and then John came over quickly followed by mother. Oh well.

John and I’d opened up the playpen to test it out yesterday…and I hated it. We couldn’t close the darn thing back up if our lives depended on it. The pad was awful, too; it had 2 inch gaps between each padded part, where it folds. I asked Mario to help me fold it back up at night and not even he could do it. So yesterday afternoon, John and I struggled with it until the damn thing let us fold it back up and took it back to Target. I don’t even think I’m going to bother getting another one. The only reason I’d want to get one would be for Mary’s house, but then again we have the monitors and can just set those up when we have get-togethers and stuff.

I wanted to go to a thrift store, but John didn’t want to. He said I’d tricked him into walking around with me to induce labor, just like the day before LOL. So we just went straight to Walmart, where Mom asked me to pick up 3 more skeins of yarn and some bread for her, and I needed a few things, like detergent, TP, and milk. I seriously can’t wait till they open up the Walmart in Peñitas…it’ll be so much closer!

We got home and I unloaded everything. John was walking around the kitchen, eating whatever he could find and said he’d wait for me to start on the banana bread I’d asked him to remind me to make. I figured it was a good day, since the bananas probably wouldn’t last another and Mario was going to bar-b-q outside anyway, so I didn’t have to worry about dinner. Maggie, Jorge and the kids were going to come over that evening, so it would be a nice dessert.

I got everything started as the guys (Mario, Jorge and Adan) were getting here. The bread would take approximately an hour to bake, so I joined them outside. I laughed at their jokes and Jorge filled me in on some family drama that’s going on. It’s crazy.

My Mom and dad-in-law were out there and so were the kids for a while. Well, Jaylen was, anyway. Eenan was inside entertaining himself with his tons of Legos. Jaylen was outside being a boy, asking Mario to wrestle with him every 5 minutes LOL.

Aide and Belle got here and much later Maggie and the boys and then Jason, Mirella and Brianna. They’d brought food, too, from Golden Chick, but I only got a bite and waited for the wings the guys were making. Once we ate, I brought out a loaf of the banana bread. Almost the whole pan was gone by the end of the night (I was surprised the other pan made it!).

The guys got all crazy by the end of the night, playing jokes on each other and just being guys and I was exhausted. Mario actually went straight to bed after we cleaned up and everyone left. Alaethia was so exhausted from running around that she crashed out almost immediately, too. I was the only one having trouble falling asleep…and it was because I was sweating up a storm (yes, the fan was pointing directly at me, too).

So this morning I woke up and made Mario a quick breakfast and a quick lunch. I really wanted some eggs overeasy, like I made him, but I don’t want to risk it. I already had a queso fresco quesadilla last night, and although I’m not supposed to eat quesso fresco at all because I’m pregnant and it may contain the Listeriosis bacteria, I did ask for it grilled and toasted, just in case.

I ate breakfast (Rice Crispies cereal and some decaf coffee) and chatted with Mario online for a while. I helped him set up his Flickr account and started getting sleepy again. I felt fine in the morning, but I got tired really quickly. I tried sleeping but Alaethia woke up. When I gave her breakfast and tried taking a nap while she sat next to me and watched Noggin, mother showed up. It’s not enough that she was embarrassingly out there with us while all the guys were being gross and making their jokes (she didn’t leave till almost midnight), she shows up early the next day. Grr. And all she’s doing is nodding off on the sofa.

I’m 38 weeks today and I totally feel it. My feet are killing me and I haven’t even washed dishes yet. I need to vacuum, sweep, mop, clean up the kitchen table and counter, clean up my bedroom, and tidy up the living room. I don’t know if I can do it. Maybe once I’ve just sat for a while I can. Mario warned me again about over-doing it I just never listen. I guess I’ll listen today.