Collections & My Children

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…

on Monday, January 31st, Steph said:

i hate being outbid at the last second on eBay, so i feel your pain. congrats on getting Jaylen potty trained though! it’s definitely not the most enjoyable task in the world, but such a relief when they learn. 🙂

on Sunday, January 30th, Vic said:

Wow, congrats on the potty-training! I should be ashamed to admit this, but since it’s not a problem anymore, I will LOL. My son is turning 5 on Tuesday and I have just now gotten him off pacifiers holy shit! He was using it just to relax in bed at night, but still. That’s embarrasing man. Well it only took 3 days for him to stop asking about it, of course!

on Sunday, January 30th, Melissa said:

lol yeah switching to css layouts is always hard. Which is why i got Becca to design for me. I’d have major error problems if I’d done it on my own. I needed a break from my iframes though 😉 hehe cay-o-bay-o too cute!

on Sunday, January 30th, Johanna said:

Wow, they are teaching them THAT already! I hope Frederick doesn’t have a hard time when his time to learn this stuff comes.

on Sunday, January 30th, Ana said:

I love commited once I watched the first episode I was hooked lol, I must watch every single episode, I missed the last one though, last one I saw was when they her and her friend broke into his apt and made a mess of his mess lol. Good job on the potty training, I might need some tips when I start potty training my jr 🙂

on Sunday, January 30th, jolene said:

hey i haven’t been here in awhile, But i love your new skin, it rocks.

on Sunday, January 30th, Rachel said:

I just started @ ebay again, too 😛 I *hate* getting sniped :S I hopefully shall win this Bollywood DVD I want 🙂 I have to go check it now, actually.

on Sunday, January 30th, Diana said:

Ah little ponies at McDonalds! I wonder if they’ll have those here too. They have Strawberry Shortcakes at the minute. I said I wanted one when I saw my little cousin’s and she replied “No, but those are for little girls!” hahah

on Sunday, January 30th, Jessica said:

Yah for potty training! I know that must be a chore. I was in GT – though I don’t think it really mattered because we didn’t do much more than anyone else in our class, so hopefully he’ll get it and be actually challenged! Dang for the $.50, but *claps* for Bibsy bottle. 🙂 Thanks for being so caring about my Grandmom. Have a good one.