So-niele

My lilmiss

November 30, 2008 – 12:00 pm

Every morning she asks what we’re doing “today” or where we’re going. This morning was no different as I was getting the baby’s breakfast together. Honestly I have no plans. For the past few weeks we’ve been heading to my mom’s for Sunday lunch/dinner. And normally that’s b/c my brother is BBQing. My brother is on this weekend, so more than likely he’s sleeping, so no BBQ.

So I told her “Nothing and nowhere.”

She didn’t seem too happy about that. And then she realized that she’s gone a whole day without seeing my mom. “I miss Mama. I want to go see her!!!!”

That is honestly not in the plans. And really I hadn’t even anticipated it for tomorrow either. Only b/c I don’t have anywhere I need to go, no money in my wallet, and J has bball practice tomorrow so I don’t want to have to drive here and there and everywhere… and then back again.

Maybe she has cabin fever? We didn’t leave the house at all yesterday. I have plans to leave the house today either.

How is she going to handle things when my mom leaves in January to go back to Hawaii? I’ll have to admit that my mom spoils her to the point where she’s just plain and simple BAD. Everyone notices it too. She tries to get away with things with my mom that just don’t fly with me. It’s annoying. She downright protests to my mom when she says she’s leaving and has even said she’s going with her.

*sigh*

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yawn

November 29, 2008 – 9:18 pm

I’m tired, seems I’m always tired as of late. I blame the baby b/c despite having a full tummy, taking consistent naps, sleeping at the right time… she still wakes and OFTEN through the night as well as having her internal clock wake anywhere between 630 and 7AM. UGH. I’m not even going to ask what’s wrong with her not sleeping through the night yet. Her siblings didn’t do it, so why should she, right? It would be a nice thing, but I’ve accepted it!

Thanksgiving has come and gone and it was a good one. Being with the ones that matter the most and most importantly Mama wasn’t all the way across the ocean. Tummies were satisfied. Food was good! Now to figure out what to make for Christmas . I made piggies in blankies, lumpia, and pumpkin cheesecake. More than likely I will make lumpia and piggies again, but will do something different for dessert.

As in past years I braved the crowds with Mama Toots and did midnight madness. This year I didn’t. I just couldn’t fathom bringing the baby out at that hour of the night. I can’t leave her with anyone, especially not at night b/c I am her human pacifier, lest I be gone, sure as hell no one will sleep. Instead I woke at 530 and got ready and headed to Tarjey. Picked up a bunch of good loot for gifts and then headed back home to pick up lilman. For some reason the lilmiss had already been awake and was aware that I was heading out, she wanted to come too. Funny thing is she thought it was still night, b/c it was dark. And of course, had to bring baby along. They did very well. Then it was off to my mom’s to p/up mom and SIL. We headed down the peninsula and they went to town at both Old Navy and Guess. Crowds surprisingly weren’t bad at all the whole day. Thank goodness.

26 more days til Christmas!

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PPD

November 23, 2008 – 11:48 pm

Tomorrow we’ve got a mini meet and greet to meet the new baby on the block. He’s not so new though as he’s almost nearly 2 months old. Better late than never though, I’m kinda excited and talking to the new mommy on the block, she seems just as excited. Poor mommy went through a baaaaaaaad bout with PPD (post partum depression0. I felt so bad for her. I got bits and pieces of what she went through and I’m thankful mine wasn’t so bad.

I had a small stint with it with the lilman and I think it stems from the fact that we both failed, miserably, at breastfeeding from the get go. I wanted to do it so badly and the poor guy just couldn’t latch on. We failed so bad, he dropped 2 pounds. 2 WHOLE pounds. Not good! We had to bring him into the ped and they immediately put him on formula. What a disappointment in my book. I failed at something that I thought, should have been so easy. It wasn’t and it isn’t. When the lilmiss came, I was all ready to go with bottles again if it just didn’t work out. But surprisingly it worked! It worked so well, we continued on for 17 months. And with babyM it’s still going.

But yeah PPD is a scary thing. I felt like such a failure. I cried for a good few days and even after he was put on formula and started gaining weight back, I still felt like a failure. I didn’t even want to be around him. I remember leaving him in the room with BM, crawling up into a ball in the living room and just crying. I’m glad I was able to shake it off and I’m glad that whatever help she needed to get out of her “funk” she got it and she seems to be doing fine.

I’m rather excited to see her and meet the new bundle!

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Ramblings

November 20, 2008 – 9:14 pm

For the life of me, I can’t remember where I put the Sleeping Beauty DVD!?!? Bought it at Target last month and I have not seen it since. OY!

I need to go through the girls’ clothes and put some away and give back or donate the smalleys from babyM. Been stocking up on some stuffs for her b/c there was a gap in the 6-18 handmedowns. And for some reason I need to go thru some things b/c onesies seem to be lacking. Where the hell did they go? Lilmiss was wearing stuff from when lilman was a baby, so where did those go?

Today I finally got J an appt for his flu shot. Thankfully it went fast. When we arrived at the office it was packed. Not a seat in the house. As soon as a seat opened up they called him in and I also made an appt for babyM’s 2nd dose for next month. Then we were off to the lab to get her blood drawn. OY! I can’t believe she even put a tourniquet on her. She’s so itty bitty. I had to hold her and she didn’t like that one bit. She let out a teensy cry from the poke and was more irritated that she couldn’t move.

Thanksgiving is next week. Weeee!!! I’m so excited. I’m appetizers and half of desserts. I’ve gotta roll lumpia next week and ~~I need to think of another appetizer~~ I forgot about the pigs in blankets those always go well at family gatherings. My mom ordered kutsinta and maja blanca and I’m making a pumpkin praline cheesecake. Mom’s is making the turkeys, yes 2 and the mashed ‘taters. My sister has side items. I’m wondering if anyone else is coming to Thanksgiving?

I want to watch Twilight, of course! But I think I’ll have to wait til AFTER the holiday weekend. So I can watch it in the middle of the day when all the screaming FANatic tweens are in school. I had to go back thru my archives to see when I read the stinkin thing. Over a year ago. And to think I was encouraging my niece to read it back then, did she heed my calls? Of course not, and guess who’s reading all 4 of my books now? HA! I told my sister she should read them now. She’s gonna try. Or so she says.

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California Mission Project

November 16, 2008 – 12:25 am

If you didn’t know, 4th grade in California Catholic schools is the California Mission Project. I’m not sure what is done in public schools, I know they learn something about the Missions but I don’t think a project is assigned. As mentioned before we were handed down a bunch of good loot from Sabrinasmom. An awesome book that J can use for his report as well as some fences, monks, greenery. Before J had been assigned his Mission, I had hoped that he would get something close so that we could do and visit the Mission. With our luck, he got Mission Santa Clara. Woo hoo. So today we made our way down the peninsula.

The Mission is located on the Santa Clara University campus. What a nice campus at that. Wow. And the weather today was wow too, so it might have added to the wow factor. Lol. Just our luck though, a wedding was taking place right as we got there so there was not a lot of snooping done inside. We walked the outsides and students were sunbathing on the grounds. Lol. The kids were caught off guard when people would plop their belongings down on the grass and start taking off their shirts. The main point in our visit was to get an idea of the construction. And I think we got it. J is supposed to do the construction mostly on his own, so that will be quite a challenge. He has big ideas but can never complete them on his own. We were also lent a book from HotDad and son about the Missions. They did them last year, and that should come in handy as well.

I’m excited and yet fearful at the same time. As always there will be a lot of parental contributions but we need to mask those somehow

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Happy 9 months babyM!

November 13, 2008 – 12:16 pm

Today marks babyM’s 9th month. Wow. Seriously where is the time going?

This morning she had her well baby check. She weighed in at 16.5 lbs putting her in the 15th percentile for weight. 27″ in height, 25th percentile. And I didn’t get her head circumference number but she is in the 50th percentile for that. She also got 2 shots, the 2nd installation of one of the Hep ones and her first installment of the flu shot.

Still on the small side but thankfully nothing to be concerned about. YAY!

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I am blown away

November 8, 2008 – 12:09 am

In a good way.

The other day when S came home from the PTC, he handed over lilman’s test scores. They took some test a couple weeks ago and he scored well, really well even. Like 84% higher than other 4th graders nationally.

Sometimes I’d like to think it’s because he got a wonderful start to his education when he started Kindergarten. I will always remember his 1st teacher, I even consider her our friend. As a teacher myself I know how hard a job it is. She did something right that’s for sure and I hope his dedication and interest in school continues on well into high school and college. Hell even on his way to his Doctorate . (a mom can hope can’t she)

We do push him a little b/c he’s a very passive child. But a little pushing, in my opinion, is okay. Doesn’t it mean that we care? Lol. When he 1st started with soccer, he loved it. And then a week later hated it and wanted to quit. But that was never an option. The season is over, but he had a ton of fun and really can’t wait to play next season. Next up is basketball. He says he sucks at basketball, but quitting is not an option. He needs to try it out and hopefully he’ll have the same reaction as he did with soccer.

These past 2 weeks have been a nice break from having to take him to practices and games. But it’s all about to start up again and even moreso b/c he’s got 2 games a week. OH BOY!

4th grade is also the California Mission Project. We just got the info and we’re about to go head strong into that too. We’re NOT allowed to use the kits and think of other things we might be able to do. Be creative it says. Thanks to Sabrinasmom for that bag of goodies she gave us a couple weeks ago, we’ll definitely incorporate it all. I can’t wait. First up, a field trip to his assigned Mission. Thankfully it was one of the ones here in the Bay Area! YAY!

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Parent Teacher Conference

November 6, 2008 – 2:13 pm

It’s Parent Teacher Conference Week at J’s school. We were scheduled for today @ 1PM. It’s 1:08PM and I sent the BM to the conference. He’s normally working right now, but got the day off b/c he filled in on Monday. I’m always the one to go and honestly there’s nothing that they really tell me that I don’t already know.

And with J’s grades this quarter, there’s nothing much to worry about. Mostly A’s with the exception of a B- in a class he’s never really had other than attending church, Religion. And it’s laziness on his part more than anything! He claims it’s b/c it’s something new to him but really it isn’t.

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In other not so fun news, me and the lilman were hit with something ugly over the weekend. A case of food poisoning. ICK! Not fun! Lilman had basketball tryouts on Sunday too and spilled his cookies all over the court. There’s going to be 3 teams in the 4th grade b/c so many boys want to play. Wondering how hectic our schedule will be once that picks up.

babyM is sprouting 2 more teeth, to make it a totaly of 3. Thankfully she hasn’t been complaining much.

Lilmiss got her 1st official haircut yesterday. Just a trim so her hair can look healthy again. My mom trimmed off about 3 inches.

[eta:] So BM and lilman returned home in record time. Apparently there was nothing to say about J. He’s doing great. He just has a few problems with late work but other than that he’s doing good. Good thing I didn’t go. Lol.

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