So-niele

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!

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!

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!

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*

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.

Srsly! Where?

We’ve been here for what? *goes to open iCal, b/c brain is melting from the heat*…
2 weeks + or 17 days? Right?

Yeah well the lilmissy’s birthday is next week and we’re supposed to be throwing her a party. Albeit a small one b/c we don’t know too many people here but still. My mom said this Sunday, uhm hello? Invitations? I haven’t done anything in the way of those. Party favor bags? Yeah none. Food? Not exactly nada but still.

3. I can’t believe she’s been here for 3 years.

So yeah I’m stressing a little bit about that.

In other news, it’s hotter than a mo’fo here. But apparently it’s hotter than a mo’fo everywhere else too.

Okay this is kind of a funny post.

We have befriended the neighbors on the right of the house. I’m talking we have parties we invite them. They have parties they invite us. The kids get along, etc. We have extra things to share, we share. And we are reciprocated. It’s one family extended. The grandparents, their 5 children, their children’s spouses/ bfs gfs/, and the grandchildren. At any time there could be up to 15 people there, me thinks. Give or take.

Yesterday the kids were playing out in the yard. My kids were told specifically to stay outside with them! Somehow my kids and 4 of their kids ended up IN our house. OY! No one came looking for them. No one was yelling out the window b/c we can literally hear them next door. As I am typing I can hear them watching tv. Anywho they were here. Eating. Playing. Being all rowdy. I don’t remember how we got them out. But they left.

Today lilmiss heard them playing and to tire her out she was told to stay out there with them. But she’s not allowed to go on her own, her brother has to go to. He was reluctant to go but ended up going. He gets along with the oldest girl. She’s a bit of a tom boy. So, he was told that they were NOT allowed to come over to play. And the stinkin kid repeated it to them. How embarrassing! They were playing and we hear the door open. Hello. It’s not one of our kids. But the neighbor boy. He comes in with his slippahs on too!!! *shakes head* So he comes over to see what we’re going in the family room and goes looking for N’s scooter. My mom says to take it outside with him, mind you N was told she could only play with the scooter IN the house. My mom just didn’t want him inside. He leaves. He comes back and asks for a snack. I grab 5 and send him on his way. N comes back with another one of the kids and says she wants her backpack. They’re going to play school. Fine. She packs up her things and they’re on their way. Lil boy returns for the 3rd time. And then leaves. N comes back with friend to go potty. Then J comes back with 2 more of the friends while my mom is eating at the table. OY! J grabs a water stands around my mom, who is eating and they leave.

5:30PM rolls around and the kids are told to come in, it’s time for dinner. And we send the other kids on their way. J doesn’t want to eat b/c he’s got a headache but N gets her grind on. 6:30PM rolls around and it’s time for J to eat. There’s a faint knocking on the door and it’s the boy… again. He asks my mom if we have food and so she makes a plate for him. Oh man! No one is looking for him. Nothing. He’s 3. He’s here for a good half hour before we hear them calling for him. Oldest cousin comes inside the house and is just kinda standing around. She leaves. Boy still stays. By this time I’m cracking the hell up. He leaves, he only ate half of what was given to him. He came back… again around 8PM. He wanted to come in and watch tv, but my mom sent him home.

WTF??? A little too comfortable don’t ya think? I was telling my mom we need to lock the doors when our kids go out so the neighbor kids just don’t walk in. Shooots, what if I had been feeding babyM???

Vamos day is creeping up on us. And I’m ready more or less but now the anxiety is creeping up too. I was thinking that the plane would be no sweat, well a teeny tiny sweat might break out but I think I could handle it. Now that the reality is getting closer, my sweat glands are about to burst!

I feel like telling people to not get behind me in the line. I’ve got shit to unload and people to get through. If only I didn’t have to take the laptop and camera out the bag I think I could handle it! B/c there’s still the matter of folding up the stroller all with the infant! Not in it of course. OY! The lilmiss will be getting the limo ride through the airport while the baby will be worn. And then being on the plane itself, here’s hoping that the lilmiss knocks the funk out for a good portion of it. What was I thinking getting the 3 seats in the middle? I should’ve opted to get 2 window seats and having the boy on the other side just so that N could be corralled and entertained with the window. But my hopes are that she’ll be, again, knocked the funk out. The baby I’m just hoping will be happy that I’ll be holding her the entire time. I mean really that’s what she wants now, why should she complain otherwise.

And then there’s the issue of my baggage luggage. We’re allowed a parcel for every seat we paid for, that makes 3. We’ve got 2 suitcases and I’m checking the infant carseat. But I’m worried the luggages might be overweight, what else is new? Then there’s the other issue of bills that need to be taken care of before we depart and then the spending money. Damn, maybe we shouldn’t be going?

What am I dreading over there? The mosquitoes. The heat. The humidity. The food. Yeah as much as I love to eat over there, it’s sure to put on some poundage that I got rid of. But it’s nice to know that my mom will be there so I can take a shower in peace knowing that the baby isn’t screaming bloody murder. I can’t wait to hit the beach either and work on my tan. Lol. I want to go swimming and get some aerobic exercise going.

I really shouldn’t be sitting here. But I needed to get some things off my mind. I think my anxiety is only escalating even more. Aloha for now…

Had things to do and got all of them done. Boy’s last day of school today and the daddy picked him up. He walked up the stairs in tears. He’s emotional like that. He’s leaving the school. I think it’s more that he saw someone else crying and it hit him. Oh wells. Yesterday was his last day of karate until September. We return from Hawaii in early August but I figured to get acclimated and what not we wouldn’t return him until after school started.

At karate we learned that a fellow family would be staying in the same town as us come July. I was tempted to exchange information but they’ll be spending time with their family as well so no biggie.

The weather has cooled down a bit. Which is nice.

I’ve got so many things I need to do before we leave. UGH! Dreading every stinkin moment of those things.

Have a lovely weekend and Happy Father’s Day too!

10 days! 10 days! 10 days! Wo0t !!!!

In other news we went cherry picking with the Toots Family.

Cluster of Bings (?)

My faves, the Rainiers!!!

It was so much fun! Albeit it cost an arm and a leg to drive out there with the ridiculous price of gas as of late… but so worth it!!!! We’re going to try and make it an annual event. There were so many other sorts of fruits I would have loved to pick but we made plans to just pick cherries and then lunch! babyM did so well the entire time EXCEPT when we were driving away from the farm and on the way to lunch. The entire, I’d say, 20 minute drive she screamed like a banshee. She howled. She cried. OY! She sucked! I’m so scared as to how riding the plane will be on my lonesome. But there should be no reason for the baby to have any sort of meltdown b/c I’ll be carrying/ wearing her the ENTIRE time.

A short sort of update. We’ve got to head out to karate. His last week until his summer hiatus .

So yesterday, at my mom’s request, I decided to take the kidlets back to church to attend mass. And also to pick up the bulletin and witness the kids name in print! LoL. Yeah they officially announced them in the bulletin as being full fledged members of the Catholic church. Not in those words exactly but you get it .

It didn’t start well. The boy went swimming earlier with my brother and so he was a bit tired. I had to “bribe” him that if he went without complaints or problems we would go to Target and he could spend some money. OY! I don’t know how many times I had to elbow him. And let’s not even get into the little miss. Since going with my mom, the kidlets are separated and the lilmiss sits with my mom closer to the aisle. Well she climbed into our pew and kept getting in. To annoy his sister, the boy decided that he wanted to sit on the aisle. OY! Anything to be difficult. Right? She turns around and sees where he is and without controlling her voice starts yelling at him in church and pulling him out of where he’s sitting. Remember we’re in church. Acoustics! Thankfully only a handful of people were in church but still. They were praying. OY! She gets over it and throughout mass she’s sooooooo fidgety. She decides she’s going to lie on the kneeler. Then happens to find the gum under the pews and wants to pull them off. Soooooo nastay! Nevermind that I’m yelling at her in a hush, b/c by this time mass is going on . Then there’s a procession going on b/c it is the feast of the Corpus Cristi this weekend, and she needs to be front and center. One of my mom’s friends in church tells her she can be on her aisle and as the priest who baptized her passes, she’s waving at him and smiling. There was no way he wasn’t going to ignore her so he gave her a smile. Mind you, she calls the priests “Master” where she got that is beyond me. They processed every aisle in the church and she managed to get my mom’s friend in front of us to let her watch from her aisle, remember the boy was in the aisle seat of our pew.

Thankfully throughout most of this the baby is asleep.

I got a good message in the Homily. That yes if I can spend so many hours on the computer or on the phone or hanging out or shopping or watching TV, I can give the Lord an hour a week. Right, but it seems my hour is soooo hectic when it involves my kids! I think He’ll understand when I’m not there all the time, but I’ll certainly make the efforts now, right? B/c then what’s the point in having my kids baptised and send them to Catholic school?

I saw this Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream @ Lucky’s the other day but had no desire for ice cream. What with the hot weather and all… I’ve been on the hunt. And so far no luck! And what more, I’ve got a coupon for $1 off purchase of 2. Hmmph!

I’m a sucker for cheesecake. Oh for the love of cheesecake. And brownies aren’t too bad either, I prefer them with nuts though, but plain with ice cream is yummy.

You get the best of both worlds….. lmao, in one bite.

The weather has certainly cooled down but the fan is still running and it’s nearly 10:30PM.

Actually I did though! Mama cooked up one of her delish batches of chicken tinola. Yeah she’s still cooking up the soups for me and I love it! But yesterday’s batch is still on my mind b/c there were little critters in there that I didn’t care too much to see. Found a bit too many creepy crawlies with legs and wings that just threw me off. Not that she put them in there and not that they purposely fell in there either, they were in the chili leaves that she used and didn’t wash out too well. Sucks man when I’m hella grinding and then this big fat juicy ant floats up amidst my rice and chicken and greens. ICK!

I had to kind of shrug it off though. I plucked all the ones I could see and just sucked it up and thought protein! It could have been worse, right? And hell at least I know where they came from. Shoot, you don’t know what kinda things fall in restaurant food, let alone if the cooks washed their hands.

Mama has also decided to delay her date of departure. Yay and nay at the same time! She’s staying b/c she needs to help my brother. He’s supposed to have surgery on his knee again and that would leave him all alone. Well not really though, as I will probably be guilted into caring for him. As if I don’t have enough people to care for. Sheesh. So she has decided not to leave next week afterall. She’s thinking that hopefully he has his surgery and then his girlfriend comes to take care of him. We’ll see.

…. my brain. Or at least the thoughts that are currently inundating them at the moment.

Mother’s Day was low key. Saturday we went to dinner with my fams @ Broadway Prime. It’s become an annual tradition. But this year the prime rib wasn’t as “melt in my mouth fantastic” as it has been in years past, my plate wouldn’t have told you otherwise though, b/c I was grinding on that like it was nobody’s business! No point in wasting the food . Then we went back to my mom’s to have dessert and exchange gifts. Mmm cheesecake! Costco’s cheesecake certainly does not disappoint. I especially like the nonthick crust. Nomnomnom .

Sunday the baby reminded me that I was a mother and that I would have to wake up with her at 6AM. *rolls eyes* In my feeble attempts at putting her back to sleep: sticking the boob in her mouth, patting her, rocking her, pretending I was asleep… she decided otherwise. She was all giggles and smiles. So as not to disturb anyone else, I brought her to the living room and played with her and we both fell back to sleep. Only to be awoken by the lilmiss looking for us. Tried to crawl back in bed but that didn’t happen. As again baby was awake and bright eyed and bushy tailed. Oh well.

Opened up my card from the BM and kids and just milled around the house. Read the paper and then we all got ready and headed out to visit BM’s grandma. Hung out there for a bit and then sent the BM to pick up lunch from Ono and headed over to my mom’s. She wasn’t even home and being as hungry as I was, the lilmiss and I started in on the grindz. She came home and we chit chatted a bit. Then somehow I ended up in her living room taking a nap with the baby. And somehow my mom managed one too.

A low key Mother’s Day surrounded by the ones that mean the most to me, that’s all that really matters in the end anyhow right? Oh yeah and good food too .

In other news, the keiki are getting baptized this weekend. Yes. All 3. I still need to order the cake. The Toots Fam is helping me with favors. And I still need to finalize/remind the reception site. It’s going to be a small affair despite all 3 kids being baptized at once. Which is better for me anyhow b/c I didn’t want to have to deal with all the planning and stressing.

Mom is leaving next week , she’s headed back to Oahu on Tuesday. What am I going to do without her? Who’s going to feed us? No seriously! I haven’t really cooked since she’s been back and I’m not even really sure if the baby will allow it. And then there’s the whole thing about us heading out to the islands for the summer. The plans are to leave a few days after Father’s Day and return sometime before my birthday. That’s a nice big chunk of time at our second home, but tickets have yet to be purchased. Waiting on the BM’s tax return for that. And we’re wondering where it might be?!?! Tickets are frickin expensive too. AUWE!

Oh well I’ve emptied my brain for the night. Time to go to sleep.

It’s May did you know that? Sometimes I don’t know where the time goes. We’ve had something every weekend and this weekend is no exception. Both days gone. And Mother’s Day to boot. I’ve got some shopping to do tomorrow, here’s hoping I don’t run anyone over with my cart b/c I get irritated fast when it comes to annoying peeps and having to get things done. I’m on a mission and I know what I need to get and where it is in the store. Why I waited til the last minute, I don’t know. Well I guess I do, but tomorrow is when it’s happening.

The boy had sparring today after a month long break from it, and he was very excited b/c he didn’t have that kid he gets intimidated by. I think he stepped up his game. Which is good! He needed that boost of confidence. It sucks though b/c as he’s getting back into karate mode and being interested in it, he’ll be gone again for the summer as we’ll be taking our summer vacation to the islands.

The lilmiss has become quite the ham. She’s so outgoing and has a magnetic personality that she can nearly charm the pants off of anyone. Oh but she certainly has her moments. Don’t let her fool you. She’s a sh!t stirrer (not in the literal sense), she causes problems ALL.THE.TIME. But in the end always turns out becoming the victim. OY! This girl! From hitting her brother to waking the baby, it always becomes their fault! And then everyone makes noise at the same time, causing the blood pressure to rise.

The baby. Poor thing has a cold of some sort is all kinds of nasally and boogery. ICK! You can hear it when she breaths and nurses. And the only time I can relieve her of some of that ickiness is when she sneezes. She has become quite the cooer. And I ♥ it so much!!! Putty. In. Her. Hands. She’s got the sweetest smiles too. Oh and her pouts are adorable, followed by her screaming like a banshee, which isn’t adorable. At. All. But the screaming and crying have slowed down a bit. And so has the sleeping. DAMN! Heh! She’s awake for longer periods of time but she doesn’t like to sit. Just sit. It’s sitting with shaking. Sitting with swaying. Sitting with dancing. Sitting with jiggling. Which all occurs in someone’s arms.

The mama is leaving soon. Oh no. What are we to do? It’s only a short time that we’ll be apart from her though as we’re headed to the islands in June! Hopefully. That’s still up in the air as plane tickets have yet to be purchased.

Have a wonderful weekend.

B/c my mom is in Las Vegas and I told my brother to shove it today (more about that later), we had nothing pressing to do and we had no where we had to be this morning. Stupid me though I’ve been downloading all these apps on the iPhone and I got stuck playing “Parking Lot” til 2:30AM. And the only reason I probably stopped was b/c the baby needed a feeding.

So of course both girls decided to wake up early. *groans* Thankfully the BM was still here to take the lilmiss potty and entertain the baby even for a second. I stayed as awake as I possibly could with the baby, it’s her normal “awake window” and then an hour and a half later she started to get cranky! Woo hoo , I knew that meant some more sleep. I warned N that we would be sleeping and she stayed on her bed and watched Nick Jr.

I got a teensy bit of sleep as lilmiss jumped on her bed. She found this toy that moos like a cow and over and over again she played with it. Then she would jump and move the foot stool that I have on my side of the bed, mind you we have wood flooring. The phone kept ringing too. Oh yeah and let’s not forget her LOUD calls of “Mommy” or “M….e” or “Hellllooooo?” But I managed to get a little extra sleeps in.

I wanted to vacuum the living room but that didn’t happen. I bathed the baby, dressed both girls, fed both girls, put baby to nap, jumped in shower, dressed myself, made myself lunch, washed the dishes, and now this is where I am. And the baby is still asleep. But I’ve gotta wake her soon b/c we’ve got the boy to pick up and then head over to my mom’s to hear about her trip to LV.

I relish days like this. It’s nice not having to be in a rush to be anywhere. But at the same time it sucks b/c unlike her siblings, babyM is a light sleeper and vacuuming couldn’t be achieved. I suppose those 3 baskets of laundry could’ve been folded though, huh?

Last night went well. Yay! She woke up bright eyed and bushy tailed. When I woke for feedings last night, she was fine. I was worried she might fall out being such a small bed and all. Her blankets actually stayed on her. She woke up before me, and when she saw that I was awake she turned to say, “Good morning Mommy, I slept good.” Good!

But tonight the kids were giving me a run for my money. *sigh* Rough night to say the least. Since leaving from karate the baby would cry on and off and off and on. I thought maybe she was hungry but she was being fussy with the feeding. Gassy. UGH! Tummyachers for her. Then of course lilman and lilmiss were at it with the constant fighting. J does things to irritate N and the crying and whinyness ensues. Once I got the baby settled, those 2 would be at it and get the baby riled up again. Lots of yelling and screaming on my part.

So I sent J to his room, which he gladly did and then it was just to deal with the unhappy baby. I hate when I can’t help her. And then it was constant shushing of the lilmiss so I can watch Gossip Girl, which I kinda did and kinda didn’t . OY! Then the topper of N peeing all over the bathroom floor. I just about done and had it, I grabbed a diaper and put the lilmiss in it. Yeah I did that! She didn’t object either which worries me. And sent her to bed and told her to close her eyes b/c I didn’t want to hear it anymore. Then I came back into the room to the wailing and screaming baby and burrito wrapped her super tight and just rocked her. Attempted to put her down a number of times only to have her wake and cry again *sigh*. I don’t even know how long it took me, but it felt like forever.

Everyone is asleep and I think I have my sanity back.

So as I said a couple posts down, I think I’m sick. I no longer think that. I know that. B/c I sit here with a stuffy dripping nose. Is that even possible? And my ears keep plugging. It gets worse at night. I don’t understand the logisitcs of that but it gets worse at night. You would think mama’s tinola made with love would help, it doesn’t.

I hate being sick. And I really hope babyM or any of the kids for that matter don’t get sick. BLAH!

I blame it on the weather. Hot. Cold. Hot. Cold. It was warm today. Guess what it will be 2mrw? UGH! And apparently we’re supposed to be on the lookout for rain!

*clutches throat* Oh no I’m feeling a little something. Like a sore throat or something. YUCK!

Spring Break is going well so far. But the weather hasn’t been all that cooperative. Suck! Took them to the park yesterday and it was blustery winds and cold. We were only there for 30 minutes b/c it was just too cold out.

Grandma (paternal) is doing well, in case you were wondering. She’s been conscious. They took her tube out so she can talk. Good. But….. we got word that now my (maternal) grandfather is in the hospital. *sigh* He had a mild heart attack over the weekend and his kidneys are failing *sigh*. He is alert and joking, his usual self. But now he has to go through dialysis. Tomorrow is his birthday so my mom wants to go down the peninsula to the hospital he’s at and bring him some Pilipino sweets.

So despite it being Spring Break, I thought my duties of driving and rushing to and fro would subside… it seems it’s the same. Only I’ve got to travel farther now. Down the peninsula most days and a plan to cross the bridge on Friday.

In other news I’ve been reading/ looking at other fellow parent blogs and looking at their children’s photos. Yeah I suck! I hardly take pics of my kids on significant days. Like monthly birthdays and I really should, b/c seeing growth and how they’ve changed over a year’s time really makes a difference. *makes note to self*

I can’t sleep. Can you tell? And I got up fairly early this morning in anticipation to get out the door early enough and pick up my mom. I snuck out of the bed while both girls slept and managed to get a lot done before the baby realized I had been gone. Yeah! She’s difficult like that sometimes. It sucks.

Lilmiss woke up first, just as I had finished drying my hair. As I was taking her potty the baby started to stir and then as we were in the bathroom the full on howling ensued. Sheesh. I let her howl though, washed up the lilmiss and managed to get her dressed. Then it was the baby’s turn to wash up and change clothes. And then a feeding and we were out the door. Only to find my mom not even ready. Sheesh #2.

We finally headed out and about. As usual the keiki, at least the older 2, made out like bandits. Mama is cool li’dat . Such a spoiler.

BabyM has been having issues. Tummy issues that is. And my mom is saying that it’s coming from what I’ve been eating. Which makes sense, being that I am her food source, and whatever goes in my body goes to hers. On Easter Sunday my mom got a big taste of one of her blowouts. OY! It was a doozy. Not only did she get her Easter outfit, but she got my mom’s too! Luckily mom was only wearing jeans and one of her usual button ups. I thought it was from all the lumpia that I was stuffing my face with. My mom thinks it might have been the spinach salad that I had been stuffing my face with, . Either way something didn’t agree with her. She’s been having a bit of spit-up issues as well. I feel so bad for her. I don’t know what to do. So today I asked my mom to make tinola in the hopes that it would help baby’s tummy issues, only to have her be HELLA gassy and fussy. I nearly almost went out in search of gripe water b/c nothing could help her. Then to make matters worse, she had another big spit up. And everytime she spits up, it also comes out of her nose. Poor thing . Good thing she’s not on formula anymore, b/c those kinds of poops and spit ups STANK! I honestly feel like going back on the liquid and soups only diet for her b/c I don’t like seeing her (and hearing her) be all fussy.

Well I need to force myself to sleep now. G’nite.

That would be the lilmiss *sigh*. Oh what to do. At this point, I just have to deal, right?

Last night she refused to sleep in her designated spot and decided that she would sleep between my legs. I moved her to her spot once she was in a deep sleep. We were all rudely awoken at 630AM by her screams and cries though. She was not happy. And she didn’t care who was in the bed, she needed to get to my arms. She nearly squished babyM in the process. Daddy came to comfort her but she wasn’t having anything with him. So she’s been up since then causing havoc.

I’ve been making it a point to spend some 1 on 1 time whenever babyM is sleeping. I’ve watched tv with her. Played tea party with her. Read her a few books. Just me and her. She needs it. She doesn’t show jealousy to her sister, at least not to me. Actually, she is constantly wanting to touch her, tickle her, open her eyes. Poor babyM.

We had a lovely moment this morning *rolls eyes*, where normally I would have been yelling at the top of my lungs, but I held it together. She asked me to go potty. Which I took her. And then she told me to get out, which only meant she needed to do the doo. No problem. Minutes later she’s yelling, “I’m done!”. So I went to help her, only to find her already off the toilet only with her onesie and socks on. She kicked off her panty and pants. We wiped up and flushed, and then I proceeded to put her clothes back on. She wasn’t having any of that. She didn’t like her panty. OY!!! I tried my darndest to get ‘em on, but wasn’t going to fight her so I left her, as the baby was crying. To which she then responded to closing the bathroom door. I changed babyM and once I was done, I went to check on lilmiss, fearing that maybe she locked herself in the bathroom. She didn’t, thankfully! Instead I found her standing by the sink, cowering. Why? B/c there was poop all over the floor, and even smeared poop. Yes! To which I calmly asked her, “Did you touch it? Let me see your hand.” Clean. To which then I knew she had to have stepped in it, with her white socks! Oy! I would only clean up the mess and talk to her.

This is only the beginning. I know this. I thought she was doing well though. Apparently she has a different agenda. I should have already known that b/c she’s such an independent person.

Help. Me!

She is home tonight. I was heartbroken last night when we went to my mom’s and she said she didn’t want to come home. I thought for sure she would want to being that her brother came home, but she didn’t.

I hadn’t planned to stop by my mom’s today. I only planned to go to Tarjey for some diapies for babyM and ended up with a bunch of goodies for lilmiss. Go figure huh? A dress, a shirt, some sunglasses, some hair doo-dads, a sticker book, and a bag of Goldfish. My mom asked for some milk too. So I dropped over at my mom’s and lilmiss wanted to come home!!!

So home she came . She fell asleep on the ride home, which I think made her a little easier to deal with. Unfortunately she’s under the weather. Something I didn’t want babyM around, especially since she hasn’t had any shots. The only solace I have is that she’s been breastfeeding like a champ so hopefully my antibodies will help her somehow!

I think lilmiss wanted to “come home” b/c she knew that I was going to “school” to p/up lilman and she wanted to see her “homies” . And then she knew it was karate day today too so she got to see her “homies” there as well. But when we rolled up to the house after it all, she kinda got whiney, like she didn’t want to be here *sigh*.

S is getting kicked out of the bed tonight. The girls have taken over the bed. Heh. How will we ever get them out . Too bad their room looks like a war zone with clothes and clothes and more clothes EVERYWHERE. And nevermind that we haven’t gotten the lilmiss her princess bed yet either.

The lilmiss has to go back to my mom’s tomorrow though b/c babyM has an early appointment on Wednesday. And then she comes back as my mom has to go to a wake an funeral in the next coming days.

Slowly but surely I’m getting the hang of having them all with me. It’s easy that babyM isn’t sooooo needy just yet. I have to keep a close watch on the lilmiss with her though, she doesn’t quite know her strength.

We’re slated for yet another down pour sometime within the next 24 hours, and it had better not be like last month’s!!! No power for over 24 hours is NOT fun! Thankfully the big kids are still over at my mom’s so I don’t have to worry about entertaining them! HA!

Spent a teensy bit of one on one time with the lilmiss today and she was driving me up the walls. We went to the mall to do a few exchanges and pick up a birthday gift for my cousin’s son. She refused to hold my hand. She would run ahead. She would hide in the racks. She would take clothes off the racks and walk with them around the store thinking I was going to buy them, regardless of size. She wanted to be able to see the other kids, despite where I wanted to go. OY! It’s no wonder a headache was brewing. I should have known better and brought the stroller to corral her ass. I was supposed to bring her home tonight to hang out but 1. she was cranky and 2. my brother is taking the kids to a birthday party (my cousin’s son’s 3rd birthday). My mom has ordered to me to stay home anyhow with the weather and all.

Aloha Friday everyone… stay dry this weekend!

Her button fell out today
Still looks nasty.
I’m going to keep it in a plastic bag.
I think my mom has the other 2 kids’ buttons saved.

Voluntary naps I’ve taken since being released from the hospital: 2
Number must be increased!
I just woke up from one of those glorious naps.
Not sure why I don’t nap more!
I should!

Hearts, cards, flowers, and candies… the non-Holiday has somehow crept up on me. And normally I’m all about the hearts and the red and the cards but this year apparently I’m not. I don’t even have Js class Valentine’s. I did look at them, without him and opted NOT to get them and let him choose, but I haven’t managed a trip to the store with him. I’d better hurry up. And then today a note was sent home with what he NEEDS to bring for the class party. I knew there was going to be a class party but I like the option of choosing on my own what he’s contributing. Unfortuantely no homecooked goodies b/c of allergies and such. Sucks to be a kid nowadays. I’m sure they don’t care though as long as the sugar laden treats are brought in huh? I just never liked those store bought cookies and cupcakes. Blech!

But yeah I’m just not into it. My poor children. Heh. I’ve been seeing the things at Tarjey, but walk right past them… and I’m sure there’s slim pickins now. A month ago I managed to change the table linens to reflect V-day with a red table cover and heart placemats, but no one seems to care or notice. Heh. Oh wells…. soon after that is St Patty’s Day and then Easter…. OY!

That’s the sound of the rain and winds outside. Yeah again! And it looks like we’ll have another steady week of it, through the weekend.

*Sweats on- check
*Slipper socks- check
*Glasses on-check
*Laptop charged- check
*Dinner= leftovers- check
*Heater on- check

All the things I need to get through the evening. Here’s praying the power doesn’t go down!

Time to get LOST tonight…. finally!

I’m really kinda groovin on our “new” schedule with the switch of karate. Although I miss my fellow parents to converse with in the other class, it’s kinda nice not having anything to do on Thursdays and Fridays. But then there will probably be another schedule change with all that’s going on with hula. UGH.

Super bowl 42 on Sunday. I have no personal plans and the BM is going to watch it with some friends from work, so I have requested that he take the lilman with him. I don’t have any plans as of yet either, but I might.

Okay time to fire up my DVD and finish off this KDrama.

And this is not the time for the heater to be acting wonky either. It kicks in only when the thermostat is set btwn 75 and 80. Yeah, like WHAT? And sometimes it doesn’t even kick in.

In other news, I am due for a serious nap right now. Been sleeping late due to being hooked on K dramas, and being woken earlier than should be b/c of the lilmiss.

Tonight’s dinner? Crock Pot pork chops, rice, and asparagus. My own Crock Pot throw in. I turned it on 1.5 hours ago, a little late by my usual standards, but it’s set on high for 4 hours, so dinner should be ready by 6ish?! Let’s hope so b/c it’s hula tonight. I threw in some chops that I bought at Lucky’s for 98cents a pound. Threw in some pinapple mango soy based teriyaki something or other that I had, a half can of Sprite, sprinklings of garlic salt, and half a chopped onion. It certainly smells good and I’m already hungry. That’s my fault for not eating much at lunch time. But maybe if I sneak in that nap, by the time the chops are ready, my tummy should be really ready.

That the wee ones grow when they sleep. Can someone tell that to N? B/c she missed that memo and refuses to nap, oh hmmm… ever since maybe last month. I used to be able to guarantee a nap from her when we get in the car. Now those are few and far between and it seems like she’s willing herself to stay up just in case she misses out on something. Lilman on the other hand is always napping in the car, despite how long or short the ride is. And no matter if he just woke up an hour or so ago. I’m not saying that she’s not growing, but I could really use for her to sleep sometimes and get some me time.

For example right now. We just got home from the Blondie’s 1st birthday. I asked her to take a nap before we went. Didn’t happen. She was all kinds of wild and playful at the party and ate nothing but cake and juice. Don’t force her to do anything she doesn’t want to do, like say eat something wholesome, when there are other people’s toys to play with and cake to be eaten! Geez. (oh but she gets me all kinds of embarrassed whenever we’re at Chez Tootles, nevermind that she just ate, once Mama Toots offers her something/ anything, she’s ALL over it, or will kindly ask for it. OY! Makes me look like I starve her, I swear I don’t.) Very strong willed and determined this one is. I’ve had strangers tell me this just from watching her. I thought for sure she might try and sneak in a nap on the ride home, a short ride at that, and thankfully that didn’t happen…. but… she’s still awake. She’s actually crawled out from next to me and gone into her brother’s room. He is sleeping b/c I am not hearing him complain about her being in there. She just popped herself in here and has taken it upon herself to take her jammies off and walk around in her panties. OY! This girl.

And you would think from the lack of day sleep she gets, she would conk out easily at night. Yeah. NO! She does thankfully sleep in til about 9AM most mornings, but still.

We’ve got another birthday party tomorrow, a 3rd birthday for one of N’s homies . The rain let up today, but I heard it’s supposed to storm again tomorrow. UGH! I can hear the pitter patter at my window as I type.

Time to retrieve the NONsleeping monster, put her clothes back on, and get her back in bed. G’nite!

Oh wait in other news… I’m so excited I have a new hook up for Korean dramas. YAY! The Epidemiologist’s mom is all over them and has quite an extensive library. I got my first installments. Heh! Right now I’m watching Lovers in Paris and so far I like it. She also gave me Phoenix, which came highly recommended by her mom. Anyone else out there watch any K dramas? Any recommendations?