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That was my breakfast this morning. Egg in a basket, or as my ma calls it Popeye. It’s just a piece of bread with a puka, (hole) in it and the egg cooked in that puka. And on the side is the bread made from the puka. Sure it’s easy peasy but Ma didn’t make it for me all the time. Only on Sundays! Ma didn’t have all the time in the world during the week, she was a working mama Monday thru Friday. My dad did the dinner cooking as he had the graveyard shift, so my dad was the one home with me afterschool. Saturdays were spent cleaning the house and then off to the grocery store to replenish the reefer and cabinets.

So when Sunday rolled around she would sometimes indulge me and make me a Popeye !!! And as I’ve said, sure it’s an easy peasy recipe, one that I’ve even found in The Joy of Cooking, but she only made it on occasion. Which made it rather spayshal (special) to me!!! And I do the same for my kids! I don’t cook it up all the time, I’m trying to make it a special thing for them too. And when I do make it… you better believe their plates are licked clean. heh.

I made this one just for myself tho. *shh Don’t tell the kids. J is off to school and N spent the night t my mom’s. M is here but she don’t know any better. But I swear she was eyeing my food as I tried to feed her her fruit and oatmeal mush, that she refused to eat. She never liked to eat the oatmeal/ rice cereal but I have to force her to eat the stuff b/c she’s borderline anemic, so her ped encouraged me to just keep trudging on and feeding it to her. She also said to try the drops and she won’t even take those. So whatever I can do to help her.

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*

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!

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!

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.

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

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!

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!

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.

So far it looks to be a wet one this year. The rain has graced us even a day, or at least a few hours early. A couple years ago I remember a light drizzle. Here’s hoping the rain subsides long enough for the kids to even get just a little bit of loot. Why, earlier, did I have a craving for a chocolate bar? That’s certainly not something I normally want to eat, so I told myself that I’d have to wait until I inspect the kids’ candy .

As for costumes… they’re finally complete. Lilman is going to dress up as a “brain donor” and his costume cost us a whopping $3.29! Lol. $2.29 for the head of cauliflower that will pose as his “brain”, and $1 for the fake blood that I have to put on his gauze. My brother snagged a hospital gown and some gauze from work and I scrambled around the house for a jar to put the “brain” in. Lilmiss is going as “Snow White” and babyM will be a panda. I fashioned a little red bow on the top of my panda’s head, just in case people wonder if she’s a girl or boy!?! And I’ve gotta snag a bamboo stalk from my mom’s house.

J’s school has a parade scheduled but it might be rained out . And we’ve got plans to t-o-t with my cousins and their kids while my mom and aunt stay home with the littlest of the trick or treating crowd! Woo hoo! I’m kinda excited! Let’s just hope everything pans out and the rain waits it out a little for the showers!

Happy Halloween everyone! Be safe!

Well…. maybe!?!?! There’s this school, close by even, that has 3-4 year old hula classes. Can you only imagine how cute that is? I’ve been wanting N to take hula ever since J started, but his halau doesn’t take them til there 6. Kumu wanted to be sure that they were serious and could follow directions. N would sit and watch the other keiki and even do a little of her own swaying. So I found this school even before she turned 3 and I’ve been wanting to check it out. She has her days where she says she wants to do it and other days where she turns her nose and head away and says she’s doing “nothing!”

Yeah she’s at that age, and as of late she has not been the princess she claims to be. OY! We’ve thought about running her through karate too, and even though they take kids at 4, they said they’d take N now. But I don’t think she would take them seriously. She grew up there and is pretty comfortable with ALL the instructors, even has a crush on one of them .

So back to hula, I emailed the school and I think we might check them out next week. See if she likes it and such. Right now she says NO! But I think once she sees the other kids she’ll definitely want to do it. She won’t be able to start until January though and by then basketball season for J will be in full swing. A lot on my plate.

But I’m really hoping we can fit it in and that she’ll enjoy it! It’ll give her something to do other than drive me up the walls. Right??!! I can hope!

The soccer one that is. They didn’t lose. But they didn’t win either. We thought for sure we were going to be walking out of there with our heads down low. But they scored, and so did the other team. And although they’ve tied before, somehow walking out of there with a goal is somehow better. They were all so happy, as well they should be.

We made a trip to the pumpkin patch for the baby’s 1st pumpkin patch visit. She was in snooze land when we arrived and I was very hesitant to wake her, but she was all smiles . Yay! I think I got some good pictures in. And funny babyM was the most cooperative of the bunch, even compared to the Daddy. Ha!

We were s’posed to be in many places today and made it to the select few that we did.

Oh yeah, think we might be on the hunt for a new school… AGAIN! Oy! This is annoying. Lately we’ve been missing out on some vital info from the school. Stuff that’s s’posed to be in the twice a month envelope that gets sent home, only it hasn’t been in OURS. And more than a month ago, I sent in a sheet of paper indicating that we’d be donating some food for the International Dinner. S gets to the school to drop off the goods and they’ve only got us down for 1 donation. The one that gets LESS points. WTF???? And then she nearly refused to accept the other one, and only gave us HALF the points. Biiiiiiiiiitch! He forced it on her! Bullshit! The damn school is so damned cliquish it’s annoying. J is doing absolutely fine, excelling even and I hate to pull him out when he’s made some good friends, again, but sometimes it’s better for our own sanity. It’s strange to me that tuition is so varying around the city. Oy! Decisions, Decisions!

Her tooth. *cries* Yep now all she needs to do is let go of the couch and take steps and she will officially break my heart into a million pieces.

Yeah probably! I can’t wait to see them next summer. *squeeeeeeeeal*

So in addition to the teething and fussiness she woke up with hives this morning. WTH?!?!?! Yeah hives! All over her face and upper body, save for her arms. So I called the peds and got an immediate appointment this morning. Her normal dr wasn’t in today tho so we saw another one. They weighed her in and she’s roughly 16lbs with all her clothes and diaper on. Then the dr proceeded to look her over and she came to the conclusion that she has the Roseola virus. Thankfully it’s noncontagious! And the rash only lasts a day and a half. I thought the fevers she had earlier in the week were due to teething, but it turns out she has this virus. Well at least we know what it is, right?

The past few days and nights haven’t been pleasant. The poor baby has finally been hit with the teething woes, and I’ve forgotten what it’s like *sigh*. I feel like it crept up on us b/c she didn’t have the tell tale drooling signs. I just noticed a change in her otherwise happy attitude and lots and lots of warmth. Then the lethargy set in and the full on fevers, ranging from 103.5-100.3. And she’s not easy, in that she doesn’t like to take meds orally. She’ll purse her lips and when you finally manage to get anything in there she starts to gag and proceeds to throw up. So guess where the meds have to go? Yeah not fun *sigh*. I can only imagine her pain, poor thing. Oh and not only with the meds does she throw up but a night or so ago, she couldn’t keep anything down. I’ve had to change my clothes twice and thankfully only change the beddings once.

Still no drooling which is just so strange for me. She wants comfort and I can’t help but to give to her, but sometimes it just gets so tiring and I’d like full use of my arms. Her appetite is rather hit or miss too. I get afraid to feed her at times for fear that I’ll have to change clothes again or something.

She refuses to let you see anything in her mouth other than her tongue. As soon as you attempt to pull her chin down, her tongue comes out. I’ve felt the tooth (with my clean finger) that is cutting and thankfully she hasn’t bitten me (you know where), yet.

Seems 2 days of the meds have done her good and she’s slowly getting back to her old self. She’s hesitant with the smiling. Still whines like a puppy dog. But still as cute as ever .

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!