So-niele

What an absolutely fun night of screaming and singing and dancing all in the name of love for the New Kids on the Block. Back in the day I was a big fan. I don’t even know how many concerts I went to, but there were many. My room walls were covered in posters and pictures from Tiger Beat, Bop, and the likes. I tried to collect as much paraphenalia as my parent’s wallets could handle, one of which was NOT the jacket, *runs away crying*! I did have the whole sheet set though and secretly I wish I still had them .

I think I’ve jumped shipped from my fave though, and if you don’t know who my fave is then truly you don’t know me. Why are you still here? And why do you even think you’re my friend. Lol, j/k!

Mr Wahlberg was #3 on my list back in the day and after last night he shares the #1 with…

*swoons* shootz I’d looooooooove some “face time” with Mr W and I’ll log on all the rest of those hugs he needs to make it to a million. Without a doubt .

Upon hearing about their reunion tour there was no doubt that I wanted to go and I want to thank the BM for making that happen. And for scoring us some primo seats on the FLOOR in the SECOND ROW! I also want to thank Mama Toots for accompanying me on this journey back to my teen years. Funny I recognized a few faces at the arena from back in the day, one of which had been like my bff freshman year (b/c of our love for NKOTB, lol) up until I lent her my video tape of all their tv appearances and she erased it! Yeah, believe you me I was f*ckin pissed. I ended that sh!t with a quickness. UGH! B!tch! I’m still a lil hostile 15 years later, HELL YEAH! That was some time camped out in front of the tv and subjecting myself to getting yelled at by my dad for a piece of scotch tape that she placed over that tab and erased my sh!t. [/end vent] We also ran into some current friends that I didn’t even know were going to be there!

Seriously I’m in love with them all over again. I can’t stop listening to their music and flipping thru the photos from the concert that I took. So much fun. And I want to do it all over again! I sooooooo want to do it all over again.

I missed bakesale Wednesday this week. I was busy Tuesday. But why oh why have I been itching for a cupcake? Not that we have leftovers or extras from the ones that go to school. So today, I made that itch scratchable . I baked up a box of Golden Vanilla. Yeah, yeah hate me and *tsk* me all you want. I use box cake. Plain and simple! I changed it up a bit from using a recipe in this book. A simple substitution of 1 cup of buttermilk for the water and an extra egg. Can I just say, that this cupcake is moist! Yum ! Of course I had to have a sample. After dinner I’m going to pipe some vanilla pudding in the middle and frost with lemon frosting. Lol. That’s was lilman’s choice. I was going to do buttercream but he said lemon. I would have preferred lemon puddin in the middle but couldnt find any. Pffft!

[edit] And here they are in all their glory! So pretty. I only sampled a cuppie straight out the oven. No filling. No frosting. It was delish. Lilman had a full on cuppie and wanted another. But he’d just about eat anything with frosting on it .

Tonight I tried the 10 minute stroganoff recipe and it was a hit with the 2 big kids. Next time though I think I’ll omit the ground beef and just go full on mushrooms! Oh yeah and also add another can of cream of mushroom soup! .

I also had my first go around with making homemade baby food for babyM. My mom bought me this book from Ross today for a whopping $7. When she first came out with the book I was skeptical b/c she claimed to be the originator of mixing veggies in kids’ food. NOT! Some of the recipes seem rather fake too (as if her kids would eat stuff like that), but it gave me some ideas for the kids. The kids eat veggies more or less but sometimes it gets challenging.

I knew how to make the baby food but after reading the book it inspired me even more. I couldn’t very well feed her what the other kids were eating and I had some things in the kitchen. So I busted out my bamboo steamer and steamed her 5 baby carrots, a small sweet potato, and one of my mom’s homegrown apples. It said to puree in a food processor, and we have one but it’s a frickin pain to clean that thing just for that small amount. I just smushed with a fork and portioned out about 2 teaspoons for her to try tonight. I put the rest in the freezer. Well she inhaled that stuff like a champ and may as well have licked the bowl b/c she was looking for lots more!

I can’t wait to try spinach and butternut squash!!!

Since J started school, life has been rather non-stop. I like it and yet I don’t. I still never filled out my week-by-week calendar that is supposed to be on the fridge. I did find all my colored pens tho !!! Just need to squeeze in some time to play around with that. And that would probably be about this time at night b/c they’re all asleep and it’s ME time but I don’t wanna.

We had our first Catechism meeting today and it wasn’t as bad as I had anticipated. J did all this extra work for nothing. Pfft! Typical! Next meeting is in December so come then, I won’t be such a spaz on him. It’s his religious teacher’s fault. He told us to do it ALL! Always the overachiever , better safe than sorry right?

Soccer is winding down. They didn’t win this weekend, BUT they didn’t lose either! It was a tie 0 to 0 ! And basketball is about to start up and J is having second thoughts about it . Not a competitive aggressive bone in his body. But doing nothing is not an option. Karate is always in the wings but he still doesn’t seem into it anymore. Lilmiss, however, wants to do everything under the sun. Hula. Yes. Karate. Yes. And I sooooo want her to do it all, but these things are NOT cheap.

It’s heating up here again in these neck of the woods. Indian Summer don’t fail me now!

The holidays are creeping too! I’m rather excited for them b/c of the kids! Last year I was rather bah humbug only b/c my family wasn’t here, mainly my mom. But we’re making her stay for Thanksgiving and Christmas too!!! WOOT!

Uhm so yeah she can kinda cruise now. WTF! She loves to pull herself up to standing along the ottoman or even the couch and stands there and bobs and bounces. If she’s not holding on tight enough she falls over and if you ever happen to hear her, you would think her arm broke or something. So she has to be surrounded by pillows, but like the drama queen that she is, like her sister, anything to pad her fall isn’t enough. She moves, she cruises, she gets around. Not. Even. Funny!

So you see this picture? She crawled over to the Bumbo, that would be it under her. And she was standing for awhile. Doing her dance, her bob, her swing, her sway! Whatevers. And then sooner than I know it, she’s reaching over it and got stuck like that. She could not figure out how to get off/out. The legs and feet were dangling, the hands were reaching for things, but the meanie that I am, I sat there and watched the whole thing and of course grabbed my camera. She wasn’t crying. She was just making a whiny kinda sound. But not full on whining either. Guess you just had to be there. Unfortunately no video.

And guess what was keeping her stuck??? Her tummy. Muahahahaha

With the lilman this book WAS my bible, with all things baby. First time parent, clueless. I turned to the books. And of course my ma! I knew to look there to see where he should be developmentally. What he should and should NOT be eating. What to do when he had that funny rash on him.

Despite the age gap, and I really needed the mind refreshing I didn’t use it so much with N b/c I had a handful of friends who had babies all around the same time. I just called on Mama Toots or followed her lead .

So now with babyM, in some senses I feel like I’m a new parent. Especially with the feeding thing. I can NOT for the life of me remember what she’s NOT s’posed to be eating at her age, other than honey.

In the room move, I miraculously found my book!!! Albeit outdated, but last night I flipped through it. Still didn’t find that section of the book but I seriously feel like I’ve uncovered some buried treasure or something.

For breakfast today the baby had ‘nanas and blueberry yogurt. Hey at least it wasn’t lemon! She’s not big on babyfood. What. So. Ever. She still not eating meat and I’m still holding strong on that one. Oatmeal cereal has to be given to her first thing, just so she’s fooled by the spoon. She’ll open her mouth to ANY spoon. She stares you down when you’re eating. She’s really good with the puffs. Yes! Despite her lack of teeth, she does well with the puffs!!! Despite teeth, she loooooves texture. So forget that strained mush stuff she doesn’t do it!!!

Unfortunately they lost again! Maybe BM is bad luck . This was the first game for him to attend, his first to actually see the boy in action. By the way we were yelling the other parents probably thought we were mean. Muahahahah. And from what I saw, 95% of the boys on the team are scared of the ball! Oy! They don’t go after the ball. They’re afraid of it. They wait for the ball to come to them and even then they don’t know what to do with it. I think I finally learned what J’s position is, fullback? Not sure still tho . Once again he played against some friend from karate. This game they were getting spanked. These kids were good, they knew what they were doing! *sigh*

Tomorrow we head out for my niece’s sweet 16. No big shindig just a picnic/ bbq. Here’s hoping for some good eats. I can count on mom’s pancit. Yum!

Something FREE on your birthday?

Disney corporation is giving you a FREE ticket into the park of your choice: Disneyland or Disneyworld, on YOUR birthday!!!

More than likely we’ll be in Hawaii when J, N, or even my birthday rolls around. But maybe for BM’s? Even if you’re a season pass holder or have a multi day ticket you can still take advantage of a FREE something. Be sure to check it out and register!!!

We are soooooo itching to go to Disneyland!!!

Finally!!!! S got a hold of the tickets for the concert on the 10th. WooT !!!! FREE is the way to go. We are on the Floor, Section ONE, row TWO, seats 1 and 2. I’m going with N’s ninang and she’s just as excited as I am. I’m so glad I mentioned it to her when I had heard they were going on tour b/c I knew I wanted to go, I just didn’t know who the hell I was going to be going with!!! I looked on their site to see how much tickets were going for.. and somewhere similar a row behind us and and a row in front of us between $1566 and $1026. Woo hoo! Maybe I don’t need to go and I’ll just sell them tickets. Muahahahah. Just kidding!

A friend had these at her daughter’s party but couldn’t remember where she bought them *rolls eyes*. Never bothered to look for them but came across them at the Super Walmart and had to buy them. So cute. So tiny. And just right to satiate the desire for ice cream! I even let the baby have ‘em, sans ice cream of course. She gobbles them up.

Speaking of the Super Walmart. Damn that place is looooooooove. One stop shopping. Seriously! Too bad I have to travel across 2 bridges to get there. And to top it off they’re building a Sonic’s in that very same plaza. Oh to live in the boonies and have all the luxuries of suburbia .

Seriously. I’m crying here! BabyM doesn’t like to be confined so much anymore. I’m lucky if she sits in the exersaucer and gives me time to do things. Mostly, she just likes to roam the living room finding paper and things to stick in her mouth. Today she was crawling around the living room and crawled over to one of N’s toy boxes. And… she pulled herself UP to standing! And not only that, but she rubs it in my face with a big old grin on her face. Sure I’m glad she’s achieving milestones, but it just means she’s growing up and that she won’t be a baby much longer. I pulled her AWAY from the box, and guess where she went? Straight back to the box to pull herself up again!

My poor son’s soccer team lost their game today and secretly I think it’s b/c I wasn’t there. B/c I’m a good luck charm, or maybe one of his sisters is a good luck charm ? B/c none of us were in attendance. My brother took him and they lost 0-2. Or maybe my brother is bad luck, or his lady is bad luck. Hopefully this will be the only game I will miss this season.

The girlies and I attended a wedding for one of my close friends from high school. She was glowing. She looked lovely! I’m so happy I was able to attend the ceremony at least. I couldn’t do the reception b/c I just wouldn’t have been able to handle the girlies. I’m sure I would have gotten help from the JQ but the baby is so, UGH! Just UGH! Had the reception been super informal and I could have donned some sweats then I would have been all up in there but me dressed up wrangling the 2 girls= hot mess! I’m sad I missed out but that’s the price you pay when you have kids, right?

BM had his first day of training. He left the house feeling nervous and at some point I thought he was going to bail on this new found job b/c he was already feeling overwhelmed with the schedule they’ve given him. 8 hours later and he says it was cool. He says he can’t wait to go back tomorrow. Like what? YAY! I hope he stays as enthusiastic

This weekend is booked. I’ve got a wedding to attend. BM has training for his new job. J has a soccer game that my brother will be taking him to. The girls… they’re supposed to be tagging along with me. I’m only going to the ceremony though and not the reception. The ceremony is in the city, at the grammar school that my siblings went to. It’s the bride’s parish as well. The reception is down in San Jose and as much as I would love to attend, it’s just not a good thing to travel with the baby. She sucks. UGH! The last time we were in the San Jose area she cried. And cried. And screamed. And cried until we were like 10 minutes away from home. UGH! And to top it off, I was sitting right next to her. Singing, talking, singing, talking, laughing, making goofy faces, and even tried to be quiet. But nothing. NOTHING worked. So I’m sitting out the reception on this one.

Life is busy. Has been busy. I bought a week by week calendar that is going to go up on the fridge. Visuals. I need them. I know I’ve got my iCal in the iPhone but I need to see color! Different colors. Plenty of them. Busy I tell ya.

In other news, lilman had an incident occur at practice that is making him NOT love soccer so much at the moment. One of his teammates (the goalie) yelled at him. The lilman is sensitive. Very. The goalie told him to pay attention. I could see it happening, I wasn’t there, but I could totally see it happening. Lilman is often in space. He waits for the action to come to him as opposed to going towards it. I had to explain to him, that he’s working on a team and that his teammates rely on him. He doesn’t get it. His sensitive side is swaying him. So much so he’s trying to get out of even going to the game tomorrow. We told my brother it’s NOT an option. And now he’s even contemplating not joining basketball when season starts. We’ll see. BM said NOT an option, he’s playing!

Yay! My mom is coming back 2mrw night. The plan was for me and the girls to pick her up. She’s been missing the 2 girlies something fierce, especially the wee one. Thinking about getting this for her ! Cute eh? My brother calls to tell me that he’s going to get her, so we don’t see her until Wednesday! Phooey!

Back to yummy in the tumminess! I have been forced to cook for the kids and I’ve been making it a point for it to be good for them. Lilmiss is rather hit or miss which makes it difficult. I think she’s lost some weight since returning from the islands. But now that Mama is in town she’ll be gaining her cheeks back again. Not that she’s ever really lost them.

Tomorrow I’ve got cuppies to make again. This time I’m making funfetti with strawberry frosting! I’m kinda excited for those!

J’s team won their first game of the season and he even started 1st string! I don’t know what position he plays but he actually did some work . His foot actually touched the ball a couple of times. The other parents were uber excited b/c I think they won ONE game total last year.

There were so many familiar faces we saw at the field too, friends from karate. Even one of the kids on the opposing team!

Here’s to a great start to the season . YAY!!!!

Yesterday was J’s 1st practice. It didn’t go well, in my eyes anyhow. J has never played competitive sports. Most of the boys started last year as CYO starts in 3rd grade, J had no clue. I stayed, with the girls, for the entire 2 hour practice. Yeah, that won’t be happening too often. Thankfully babyM fell asleep for a portion of it in the Ergo. Lilmiss didn’t nap all day so you can imagine just how much fun she was *rolls eyes*.

Seemed he was more used to the idea of dodge ball and running AWAY from the ball. Not charging for it. At one point he kicked the ball to the back of the coach’s head. OY! They scrimmaged and why was my son NOT paying attention, looking off in another direction???

We got the snack list and I am the 1st orange mom. I have to bring orange slices for halftime. Why did I have a helluva time finding oranges? Lol. Costco had none. I got ‘em but they’re certainly not the most vibrant shade of orange either. Oh wells. At least I’m not drink/snack mom.

Uniforms were distributed today too. Good thing I had him pull it out of his bag as soon as he exited his class. He wasn’t too happy about my request, but shootz that ish would NOT have fit him. He is one the biggest kids in the class and the biggest one the team. So we had to go to the principal’s office and inquire about it. At first he was a bit hesitant to switch out uniforms b/c he seemed VERY busy, but the baby caught his eye and made time! WOO HOO! J got a better fitting uniform and all is well.

Here’s hoping that the first game goes just as well tomorrow.

I finally had my appt with the optometrist! He was soooooooo nice! My glasses broke while in Hawaii and I need to replace them asap b/c the super glue will only last so long. I also noticed a bit of a change in my prescription anyhow. I”ve had these frames for a loooooong time too so it’s time for a change, and I need to refill my contact prescription too.

Which reminds me, I need to set up an appt for the boys. J has been complaining about not being able to see. Most of the kids in his class wear glasses already. It’s probably from all the gaming and computering.

After my appt we headed to Sp.ortmart to get J some cleats and shin guards and socks. He has his first soccer practice tomorrow! Was looking for red socks b/c his uniform is red, but they didn’t have ‘em. Daddy of course picked out the shoes b/c he has to look cool. Ahahaha. $76. AUWE! That’s not including the fee we had to pay in order for him to play. And then it’s basketball after this, gotta get him shoes for this sport too. Damn this kid is expen$ive, but I suppose we’re saving a bit from not putting him in karate, right?

Whatever the lilmiss has been harboring in her system, it finally got to me. Ugh! I hate that I’m sick and the weather is lovely out. We were invited to some Labor Day swimming and I loves me some swimming, but I had to pass. B/c had we gone, there is no doubt that I would have been in that water just prolonging this sickness of mine.

It’s all nasal congestion. Thankfully there is no cough. I think the 2 lilmissys are finished with the majority of the ickies. Thank goodness. I was so getting tired of swiping noses.

So this morning, at about 6:30AM, the BM comes in b/c he heard the stirring of the baby to inform me that I would have to take her to get tested for TB! WTF? Mind you I’m soooooo not awake but he’s rambling on about a news report he had seen.

All day I had been stressing over the fact about being exposed to TB. Possibly being a carrier. And it doesn’t help that the baby and lilmiss are sick right now. I know for certain that lilman and lilmiss are in the clear though b/c they recently had TB tests come out negative.

So I finally got a hold of the actual news information and we are in the clear. Thank God!!!

Funny after hearing what the BM told me this morning and then thinking we might be carriers, I had been VERY weary about taking her out. AT.ALL. And exposing her to ANYONE.

So we’re safe for now. *whew*

Yesterday the boy was sent home with two books to cover. I’ve always wanted those stretchable book covers, so off I went in search of them. Why did Tar-jey only have florals and pinks left? I dug through the bin and there happened to be two really ugly brown, orange,and yellow with footballs and helmets on ‘em? UG-LAY! I picked them up anyhow. Then I went to Rite Aid and came across some Pokemon ones by chance and an ugly plain orange one. I figured he would have more books to cover as the days go by.

So I get home and guess what? NONE OF THEM FIT! Ugh! Too small! So if I have time today I’ve gotta return them all, save for the orange b/c the packaging didn’t hold up well when I opened it.

So I had to forage for paper bags. I was hoping to come across some shopping bags from Nordy’s or Old Navy b/c I like the whites, but that would require shopping there and that hasn’t happened in a great while. So good old brown paper bags is what it was.

Back to school supplies… so while I was looking for those book covers I was also looking for a solution for his pencil pouch. Saw a whole bunch at Tar-jey. But… they were all for girls. ALL. OF. THEM. Florals. Pink stripes. Purple dots. WTF? And if it wasn’t those it was High School Musical or Camp Rock. Then the same at Rite Aid with the all pinks, Bratz, and the like. Did all the boys buy out the pencil pouches I doubt it.

I looked around the house for some sort of pouch for him to use, and all of mine are rather girly. *scratches head*

He is winding down and trying to adjust to his new schedule. Last year he went to bed at 8:30PM, no ifs ands or buts. Now that the boy is in 4th grade, he must have lights out at 9PM. He has to be in his room by 8:30PM no more tv. He is allowed to play with his toys or read or draw. But no video games or tv.

His first day went well I suppose. He’s in the new teacher’s class so no one really knows how she is. I was hoping to get the man teacher b/c his friend had him last year, and at least we would know what to expect and such. Oh well. The kid he was s’posed to know in his grade has also transferred out b/c they moved. Oh well #2. We did run into some of the other families we did know:K, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, and 6th graders. I saw some of the moms that were at the princess party #1 on Saturday. Heh. Such a small world.

Already with the forms and such. Ugh. Annoying.

We’re signing him up for soccer. Try-outs are on Friday. THIS Friday. Oy! And practices start next week. Yes. Already. He’s a bit apprehensive as he’s never really played competitively but I’m hoping he does fine.

Tomorrow is a half day at school. Daddy will be drop off this year and I’m pick up.

Plenty of errands to run tomorrow.

So lilman embarks on another journey 2mrw, 4th grade and a new school at that.

Uniform is completed. I finally picked him up a belt today. He is like me and normally doesn’t like to wear a belt. Oh well he’ll have to learn. We actually need to return one of his “lipstick” red sweaters as he can wear the official mandated school sweatshirt! Remember he hates the sweater

I busted out the labeller this morning and labelled all his school supplies. Only thing is his pencil case is a little on the small size and won’t accomodate his pencils. WTF? And it specifically said in BOLD, BIG letters that pencil boxes are NOT ALLOWED? WTF? Where is he s’posed to put his markers, crayons, scissor, tape, glue? Oh don’t they know how messy my son can be?!?!?! Seriously.

Only 2 hours of school 2mrw. Meet and greet kinda thing. We’re all going.

So I relayed to DrM that rice cereal isn’t going well with babyM. The other day I even mushed some ripe super sweet watermelon that we had with it… and again with the raspberries, gagging, and spitting. I tried just plain rice cereal and she did better but she doesn’t quite take to it like she does rice and teensy pieces of bread. I was told I could incorporate fruits and veggies too with the cereal, but to wait 3 days in between introducing new things, for allergies sake.

Last night I gave her peas and oatmeal. Oh my GAH! She was screaming hysterically as if I was killing her. She would gag and salivate and spit it out. Yeah that didn’t go well. At. All.

This morning, I’m thinking I’ll do oatmeal with some sort of fruit this time around. Hopefully that should go better.

She just stares at you when you eat, makes me feel bad sometimes.

Yesterday the BM, the baby, and I went to the Mandatory parent orientation at J’s new school. We were s’posed to meet our “Shepherd Family”. S’posed b/c they weren’t there! How rude! Uhm negative service points for them, sheesh! And they expressed how Mandatory it was for us. The “Shepherd Family” is s’posed to help us through our transition phase to the school, let us know of any important things, etc… basically be our guide this year. It’s all good tho b/c we’ve already got friends in the school to help us. No doubt. One in J’s actual grade, which I’m hoping is in the same class as him. And another family that just finished the 4th grade.

I didn’t really come away with anything that I couldn’t have read in a handbook. It wasn’t as Mandatory as they made it seem. Pfft.

Lilman is going to play CYO. I’m so excited. We want him to play soccer and he wants to play basketball. That’s 2 back to back seasons, so he will be taking a hiatus from karate. No point in paying for it if he’s not going to be there, right? I figure he probably won’t be back until after the holidays, maybe. I’m not sure how long the seasons last.

Seriously?!?!

I was sitting on the pot today thinking about how much we spent on the lilman’s uniforms. My mom bought him a bunch of the white standard polos for $4.80 each when we were in Hawaii from Old Navy. We scored on those b/c they were 2/$12 and mom got an additional 20% off. The uniform place wanted $16.75 EACH for stinkin white polos. Sheesh. 3 pairs of grey corduroy pants, 2 button up cardigan sweaters in red (yuck!), and 1 oxford shirt (for mass days). Total= $185. AUWE!!! And we still haven’t bought his shoes or school supplies yet. His shoes have to be ALL black, no colored logos, no hightops.

4th grade. I can’t believe I am the mother of a 4th grader. HOLY SH!T! Seriously? I refuse to believe it. He just turned 9 for goodness sakes.

4th grade I was the star of our volleyball team. I knew nothing of the sport, I just figured “What the heck! all my classmates are signing up too.” And since then I’ve always loved volleyball but only played from 4th to 8th grade. We’re hoping that lilman signs up for soccer and at his own request basketball. CYO here we come.

Lilman is starting a new school again. Catholic school this time around. We know a handful of kids at the school already so his transition shouldn’t be too bad. *crossing fingers* For K-2nd he went to a private school that we absolutely loved. It was nice and small, he got the attention he needed as well as being challenged. Shootz he was learning Spanish, music, PE, History, and Science in Kindergarten! Yes! In addition to the other stuff, it was amazing. But the owners of the school sucked. Majorly. And they raised the tuition, so there was no way we would able to keep him in there and survive. He did 3rd grade in our neighborhood public school and he wasn’t challenged. It seemed he was repeating a lot of the work that he had done in 2nd grade and they refused to advance him b/c of age. Lame. B/c there are always so many budget cuts there weren’t any extra curricular activities or classes. So hopefully he’ll be challenged again this year.

I’m dreading the mandatory service hours though. OY! With 2 little ones at home, I’m kinda limited with the sorts of help I can give them, unless they don’t mind me bringing them along to help. Which I’m sure they’re not. Pfft!

1 more week of summer for all of us. *sigh*

We came home to appointments upon appointments.

First up was the lilman’s last Monday. We won’t get into how much he weighs, I think he’ll be embarrassed if I told the rest of the world. He is 4′9″ though in height and she said that if he continues to grow and grow like this he might just be 6′2″. He got a TB test and it was checked this morning, negative.

Lilmiss and babyM had theirs today. Lilmiss is 31 lbs, 25th percentile, and 36.5 in, 50th percentile. She’s looking good DrM said and she’s right on track. She also got a TB test and a shot, but she didn’t even cry! YAY. BabyM is 14lbs and 10 oz, only 10th percentile for weight. And she is 24.8 in, which puts her in the 25th percentile for height. I got the go ahead to try her on various foods, being that she didn’t take rice cereal too well. I’m thinking I might try her on some oatmeal just to keep her “regular”. Something she hasn’t been much of lately. I used to be able to count on a morning movement. Not so as of late.

Other than that the kids are doing well. Just now getting back into pacific standard time. And getting J back into school mode. UGH.

The reality of going home is settling in *sigh*. Back to being Mommy again, full time. It’s nice to have an extra pair of hands around with the baby. Sure the BM is home, but he’s not “home, home”. He works most of the time so it’ll be just me. With all 3 kids. Just me. I don’t remember how I functioned before, but I have to get back into that mode. Of course the baby is bigger now and better with the neediness. Remember she’s mobile now *rolls eyes*. I’ll have to empty out the pack and play and corral her in there.

And not only can I corral her in there, but hopefully it can keep her sister out *sigh*. We already knew that she would be the “hard one”. Ya know the child with the mind of her own. The independent one. Well this same child managed to nearly sever the baby’s finger off the other day. With her own mouth. Baby was minding her own business on the floor, crawling, tummy thumping, whatever you want to call it. The lilmiss laid down with her and then sooner than we know it, the baby is SCREAMING. As of late she only cries for 3 reasons: hungry, wet, or tired. Other than that she’s a happy baby. My mom loves that she’s so happy and flashing her gummy smiles. Oh wait, I forgot one more. When she’s hot. She does NOT like to be hot. WHo does really though? So yeah, as I was saying, she was screaming! Couldn’t be consoled and we noticed the lilmiss hiding under the blanket that the sisters were both on top of just moments prior. Checked everything on the baby and she kinda kept holding her finger out. Sure enough a huge bite mark at the thumb joint. Poor thing. It was nearly purple.

The lilmiss is constantly patting her back, really hard, ya know the kind, where you HEAR the thumps! She’s also managed to poke her in the eyes, her reason is that she’s taking out the eye guck. Well in the process of her removing the eye guck, she’s managed to give the baby some sort of yuck-disease that the baby gets the really bad eye guck in the morning. OY! And we’ve been trying to heal/cure her, but somehow the lilmiss always gets to her. Oh and same goes for boogers. She has this thing about picking the baby’s boogers. This poor little baby of mine. She’s going to hate her sister, and soon.

So one of my top priorities when we get home is to get to that pack n’ play and clean it out so the baby can utilize it. WHere the stuff inside is going *shrugs*. I just wish our house weren’t so small and that we didn’t have to much junk amongst the 5 of us.

That would be the baby’s new moniker. She is nearly almost crawling *sigh* She gets up on her fours and rocks back and forth. And then she lunges forward, kinda like Frogger. She doesn’t like to sit in the bouncy chair anymore and leans forward, to the point that she’s almost falling out and the chair is on te verge of covering her like a honu. We put out a blanket on the floor for her and she’s supposed to stay on that blanket but someone always has to go and reposition her back onto it.

Mobility. *crying*

Now that the lilmissy’s birthday is over with for this year. My mom’s is fast approaching, then mine, and then the boy’s. I planned our trip so that we’d be with my mom on her birthday! YAY . And then we’d leave before mine and the boy’s. Although, maybe I should have stayed and been with the one that birthed me for my birthday?!?!?!

I’m sure it will be plenty low key being that we fly home the night before. Jet leg. Unpacking. Being home after not being home for nearly 2 months. Blah!

Someone asked me what I wanted for my birthday. Not that I get gifts anymore. And not that I really expect to anyhow. My mom is funny and while we’re out and about, if she sees me eyeing something, she’ll say “You want it? I’ll get it for you for your birthday.” So I often tease her about it and pick up random things.

Of course if I could have anything in the world and money was no object, jewelry would be on that list, as well as my dream car, and another trip somewhere.

What have I been coveting as of late?

Blame it on the child in me. I’ve always loved Hello Kitty and never could understand the girls who didn’t. Yeah yeah I’m brainwashing my kids to love her too! So what

I loved it from the beginning. Yeah I’m a bopper at heart. Guess where I’ll hopefully be on October 10th. LMAO. But yeah I loved this show and would love to add this one to the collection.

B/c my other point and shoot went on the fritz before this trip I’ve been lacking on a small compact camera. And one that shoots video too. Been missing all the baby’s moments on film, but I’ve got them in my memory. Right? Pfft.

My “gear” is so lacking when it comes to the 40. I like to take pictures as much as I can, but I’m not so much into the fancy gear. Something that won’t break the bank, and I can still use on a daily basis. Mama Toots has this 18-135mm and I quite like it.

Not so much needs but I can have wants on my birthday right? I would say that I need clothes as of late b/c my wardrobe is quite dated. It could use some sprucing up. But after losing the weight and then some, then gaining a bit of it back again, I am in no mood to look at myself in the mirror.

Yes, yes the lilmiss is 3 today *sigh* Where is the time going? She has grown from her chubby cheeked self into a strong willed, independent, outgoing 3 year old. She’s still got some cheeks on her though . This year her love for Hannah Montana has won over my love for Hello Kitty. We’re celebrating here in the islands, yet again, and having a small shindig with family and friends on Sunday.

For her actual birthday, we have no real plans, just to make her feel special, and if you ask her, she thinks she’s special *everyday*. Which in all honesty she is . She can drive me up the walls on some occasions but on most she keeps me laughing and smiling and giggling right along with her.