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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

Yeah, yeah we’ve all heard that it’s expensive to live here. Makes sense. It’s a rock in the middle of the ocean and to get anything here, it either has to be shipped or flown. The other day we were at Thinker Toys at Alaz and we came across these super cute play sushi sets. I don’t think the lilmiss remembers sushi, but she likes it, more or less. I think it was more the novelty of getting something. I was thinking more along the lines, that her birthday is coming up .

Saw this one first and loved it. Loved that it’s wood too and has those velcro things so she can pretend that she’s cutting sushi. The only thing that had me put it back is the price $24.95. Not bad I know, but I passed on it anyhow. Her love for kitchen things comes and goes.

Also saw this one… and almost considered getting it b/c of the lower price, $14.95, but it wasn’t as “nice” and fun with the cutting and velcro.

Well looky what Amazon has… the velcro one for $14.20, AND the fun one for only $10.99.

I think I might just have to order her both of them as well as the dim sum one.

She loves her some pork siu mai or as they call it here in the islands, pork hash!

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???

Despite the small language barrier I have been anticipating the start of the Philippines version of the K Dramedy My Girl!!!! It starts tomorrow on TFC! LoL.

And here I was telling the BM to cancel our subscription but I’ve actually been watching quite a bit of it and now well I’ll be watching it even more! Not just for the game shows and variety shows.

My mom was the one who actually said it first. I used to have a few dolls. I’m wondering if the others are still at my mom’s house. I clearly remember bringing 4 of them on my trip to the Motherland when I was 7 and a “cousin” of some sort falling in love with them and being asked to “give them” to her . You know the whole guilt trip thing. But I clearly recall her living in a huge house and having servants and such *shrugs shoulders*.

If you’ve seen the baby, don’t you think she can pass for a Monchichi.

I can still remember the song…

Monchichi, Monchichi
Oh so soft and cuddly
La, la, la

The YouTube find will reveal otherwise. But pretty good memory on my part huh?

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?

It took me an hour to finally decide on dinner. I had been bouncing back and forth with salad and Hawaiian BBQ. So I just asked the kids what they wanted to eat. Lilmiss said “SALAD!” Very enthusiastically! The boy didn’t hear the option of BBQ and was getting all excited over the prospect of unlimited bowls of clam chowder and ice cream @ Fresh Choice.

So we got in the car and headed to the closest Fresh Choice. The line was out the door! WTF! We could’ve driven to the next closest Fresh Choice but with the ridiculous gas prices we pay here in the Bay Area, I wasn’t about to do it. We could’ve eaten at Sizzler’s but I like the salad choices at Fresh Choice better. And I had already mentioned BBQ to the kids and the boy was all kinds of excited. Heh!

So as we were getting out of the car I told the boy to get a mini plate. The lilmiss responded very nonchalantly, “Well then I want a Mickey plate!” Did you get it? She’s so funny! At first I had to think about it. LoL. She said she wanted a Mickey plate, as in Mickey Mouse b/c her brother was getting a mini plate, or in her mind a “Minnie” plate.

Smarty pants fo’sho!

If you haven’t already heard… the NKOTB are making a come back. First is an appearance THIS FRIDAY on the Today show. You know I’ll be there.

I watched a little snippet of them together and still in the background are Danny and Jonathon.

I was such a *Blockhead* back in the day. I’ve still got all my fan paraphenalia at my mom’s house in the closet. Never owned a jacket though. I had the beddings though. LMAO.

I made the mistake of NOT going to see Jordan Knight in concert when BM opened for him. BIG MISTAKE! I didn’t think anything of it, but sheesh he talked to him and everthing. Damn me! And now look… they’re going back on tour. I’d love to see them in concert again. I’m wondering if it will be craziness like it was back in the day?!?! Most other *Blockheads* are in their 30s and late 20s. OY!

I can’t even remember how many concerts I went to. Heh.

Despite her early arrival, I was still showered today with a lovely ladies’ tea. AWWW YEAH! What a way to feel loved and to be able to feel normal again. I’m telling you that curtain did some things to my psyche. Heh!

Got a lot of good loot to boot which is always nice. After lilmiss had outgrown her goods I willingly and wantingly gave them away. They went to friends, family, even the motherland. I saved little outfits here and there, but I can honestly say that they amount to 5 pieces of clothing. BabyM is considered a preemie so even the newborn clothes she is swimming drowning in.

I felt bad that we almost didn’t make it to the shower. Lilmiss who initially hadn’t been on the invite, at my request, joined in on the fun and she was pure entertainment to me. She wanted to drink out of the tea cup, so we had to fool her and put her lemonade in there just so that she could. My girl had her pinkies up and everything. Comedy. She even daintily ate her little sammiches. I’m hoping my friend got some good shots of her. I love the Secret Garden’s food. Oh yum!

I’m surprised my mom has been allowing me out and about as much as she has. It’s Pilipino superstition to be out so much after giving birth. She is constantly yelling scolding me for even the littlest of things… even down to the speed of my walk, just so my va-jay-jay isn’t dragging to the ground some day. LMAO. Constantly trying to feed me and telling me what to eat and what not to eat. We were released yesterday and being church day for my mom, we tagged along. I thought it appropriate, I didn’t think it would be a bad thing… it’s church afterall. Well my parents’ old school church chronies (all Italian) thought otherwise and scolded me for actually wanting to be in the house of the Lord to get my prayer on and thanking him for letting us get through the birth and everything safely. Sure I know I could do that anywhere, but since my mom was going, why not tag along. Today my mom came for the tea which was nice. Tomorrow she’s got a whole list of things for me to do and places to go. What a nut. But shhh… don’t tell her I don’t think she’s realizing it herself.

I should really be sleeping, being that I have to set my alarm every 2-3 hours to feed BabyM, she’s so little she can just sleep and sleep. Pfft. She’s off an on with the breastfeeding and we have to supplement her a little too. Got some freebies from the hospital so once those are done, hopefully at the same time this engorgement goes away, the full on breastfeeding will kick in.

The house is in SERIOUS disarray. It sucks. But we haven’t really been here the past week. And when we are here, it’s to sleep or we’re confined to the room b/c damn it’s benn cold.

But showering… yeah it’s a nice thing, especially when it’s in your honor. Or for the early arrival of your new little one. Actual showering with the whole water and everything is also a good thing… especially when you’re not allowed to do it after birthing someone b/c you’ve got meds stuck in your arms.

Oy literally! What a difference being behind that damned thing makes.

So as you may or may not have noticed, I have been MIA. Some of you may or may not have known this but our little family of 4 has become a family of 5 in the past few days. And no, we didn’t get a pet, although SHE does sound like a little bird to me at times. She wasn’t supposed to make her appearance for another 4 weeks but they forced her out via induction, and like her sister it took a long 3 days to do so. Unfortunately for me, my health was in danger, *tsk, tsk* oh the joys of having chronic hypertension *rolls eyes*. I was on Magnesium Sulfate to prevent me from going into seizures anytime during this whole ordeal, and the reason why we’re not home already is that they’ve had to still monitor me as I’m wearing down the mag. Sucks to be me. Seriously. And b/c babyM didn’t quite make it to the safety zone (37 weeks) she’s had to stay an extra few days.

THese few days have unfortunately been stuck in a double occupancy post partum room, behind a curtain, to maintain any kind of privacy. Oy the first set of “roomies” were a doozy. Having visitors past midnight. Having more than 2 staying visitors, and a baby that had some lungs on him. Oy and nevermind they took the placenta home and joked they were going to BBQ it. Really hoping he was joking!!!! They snuck out last night into a single room, lucky them. And here I thought I had the whole double room to myself… nope come 2AM, comes strolling another family with a nurse who has no kind of manners and talked as if me and my child weren’t even there. Lucky them, they went home today! So tomorrow we go home, or at least I hope we do. My BPs are still an issue, something that hopefully can be maintained with medication. Baby M is doing well, I’ve had a few scares with her already, let’s just day PURPLE can certainly make your BP high when it’s your child that’s turning that color. My milk hasn’t come in yet, but I’m working on that. She’s a little pipsqueak this one. She’s teensy. She only weighed in at 5lbs 10oz, but she’s feisty. BM says she looks like lilman. She certainly does NOT have the cheeks or baby fat that lilmiss had that’s for sure. But there’s hoping that it comes to her easily!

I had been worried that the lilmiss would not take to her too well. So far, they’ve had a good first meeting! *whew* I have yet to see the lilman but I know he’ll love his other little sister just as much. So if I go missing again you’ll know where I am. Pictures to be posted…. yes I know… in due time… and you’ll know where to find them .

N cracks me up! A couple months ago I saw this camisole like jammie nightie at BabyGap for a whopping $2.97. It’s pink and it’s got hearts all over the damned thing. I was saving it for Valentine’s Day. Not to wear out or anything but for her sleepwear. The thing is tank style and comes past her knees and it’s cotton. She spotted them awhile back but I kept holding off on her wearing them, of course she finally got her way. She changes her jammies every 2-3 days b/c she’s a hot one when she sleeps. Just ask her daddy… she is the heater in our bed. And b/c she sleeps in the middle and kicks off her covers, and ours too, we have to hold on for dear life for our own blankets sometimes. Anyhow she’s BEEN due to change the jammies and ABSOLUTELY refuses. She gets excited at bedtime to get in the damned thing. B/c it is tank style I make sure she’s wearing a long sleeve onesie, but she’ll often put up a fight… b/c it’s not pretty anymore, to her. I’ll have to hide to try and hide them from her again in the morning. She’s a nut I tell you and only 2.5 years old. OY!

The sun is shining!!! The sky is clear, but it’s way too cold to venture to the park, heh, so we’ll stay home until it’s time to pick up J from school. We’re hanging out with Mama Toots and the keiki tonight, so other than that… we’ll be relaxing at home for the time being.

It’s lunch time and the tummy is telling me so but I think we’ll just eat some sammies and apple slices.

I finished Lovers in Paris and as much as I loved it… I HATED the ending. UGH! What a disappointment. They ended it STOOOOOOPID! The last 20 minutes of the Final Episode, I was like WTF? How irritating! That’s the only thing I didn’t like, was those last 20 minutes!

N is currently watching her dose of Yo Gabba Gabba. It’s a strange show. She hasn’t been watching long, but I will have to say that it does get her up and dancing A LOT! She’ll randomly get up and start dancing and say “I like to dance!” Just like in the show. There’s some random stars on it too, like Elijah Wood is on right now… and there’s random pop-ins from good old rap stars.

Okaaaaaaay hungry now… I’ve prolonged making lunch too long. Have a wonderful weekend.

All is quiet for now. The keiki are at the dining room table busy with crayons and paper and getting along… for now. So I’m giving myself some i-net time and FRIENDs.

Dinner has been eaten (SPAM, rice and eggs ), dishes are washed, J’s lunch has been made, the heater is going b/c it’s frickin cold, and just waiting on some Ugly Betty and off to bed we go.

I’m unsure, as lilman wasn’t really paying attention, but I think his Science Project went to the city wide competition. Hot damn! And a woohoo! His topic, “What type of water do plants grow best in? Tap? Bottled? Or Ocean?” A bunch of kids were walking around afterschool with their project boards but J said he couldn’t bring his home, b/c he won for the 3rd grade but doesn’t know much else about it. Typical!

We’ve got birthday parties this weekend and I’ve still got gifts to purchase for them. The rain is supposed to continue through til next week and lots more with the chilliness.

So I’m doing well with some of those resolutions I put upon myself and some not so well.

1.stop yelling @ my kids I think I’ve been doing pretty good. Albeit I need the cooperation of the kids, and that’s no easy feat b/c #1 is an instigator and #2 is a whiner/ crybaby. But seriously I think I’ve been doing alright with that one. I don’t feel my blood boiling as much. It just boils for other reasons, that I won’t bother to get into.

2. stop yelling see #1

3. cook more home cooked mealsHa! That’s a joke as for dinner yesterday we had pizza to enjoy with the sad , very sad, football game yesterday. And today although we didn’t eat dinner out, I also didn’t put any big efforts into cooking something wholesome for the kids. They had grilled ham and cheese sammiches with apple slices. I, on the otherhand, had a bowl of cottage cheese with peach slices and a handful of blueberries. Then topped it off with a TJ’s oatmeal raisin cookie. I need some oatmeal in my life . I’ve been trying to get a bowl of wholesome oatmeal in the morning, but it just hasn’t been happening.

4. eat out less Yeah another HA! BM brought home Wendy’s for lunch yesterday, and as I mentioned we had pizza last night. And although I hadn’t planned on eating BK, we were at my aunt’s house and my uncle picked it up for everyone. I guess they weren’t planning for lunch and the other option had been pizza but her grandkids are not fans. Good for us, being that we had pizza the night before.

5. use the computer less I’ve actually been very good about that one too! Yay me! I’ve decided to try and not get on the laptop until the lilmiss is asleep. Achieved 2 nights in a row. I will twitter from my phone though but not much.

6. spend more time with J I’m trying, but I need to work on that better. It’s just difficult b/c N doesn’t nap and she gets very jealous.

7. take more photos w/ my camera HA! There’s still photos sitting in the camera from the 30th and 31st and no attempts to get them out. And I just haven’t been feeling it.

8. de clutter Yeah haven’t gotten there yet.

9. stop swearing I’m not sure, I haven’t been consciously watching/ listening to myself. Working on #1/ #2 certainly aids in this one though.

10. start walking to pick up J from school in April Can’t work on that one until April

11. spend less/ save more Haven’t really been spending as I’ve been utilizing gift cards. Cheating, yeah! But it hasn’t been frivolous cash spending.

12. take my vitamins So far so good

13. read more Not yet, will as soon as I hit publish and close the laptop.

14. more QT time w just S Hasn’t been possible b/c he’s been having to run to work for meetings and such, and we don’t really have anyone to watch the kids.

15. clean the house I’m trying, but I also need the help of the other home inhabitants.

So on Day 2, not doing too bad. At least I don’t think so .

In other news… I’m honored , I was nominated to be part of the Yelp Elite ‘08. I’ve always wanted to be part of the Elite but never bothered to submit why I should be on it. I don’t think I ever would have… instead today when I opened my email there it was ! Which only means I want to Yelp! more, but that would require me to be out and about more. Heh. So yeah. I’m a dork , I thought you knew!

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HILARIOUS! From Yahoo! on the front page, which came by way of the NY Times… Not the same street! Old episodes not suitable for children! Honestly I can’t stand to watch the new shows. J used to looooooooove Elm.o’s World. But with N it just seems soooooo babyish! The way he talks. The subjects. The bouncing around. She’s not even interested so it’s good and fine we don’t watch Se.same Stre.et, and it’s sad to say considering I grew up on the stuff… but then again what does that say considering what they’re saying about these old episodes?

It’s all bad when you’re watching tv at night, and damn it’s not even the food channel, and you get a craving for something to eat… like pancakes. I’m talking about the melt in your mouth fantastic variety. I can’t do ‘em myself like that. I’m not a pancake making sunday mama, I’m just not. Eggs in a basket aka popeye I can do. I’ve even managed to make a grubbin home fries potato kinda dish, but pancakes I just can’t do. And sadly the damn tv has me hankerin’ for some melt in your mouth fantastic pancakes and it’s nearly midnight. Last time I ordered pancakes was at an all bad experience at Max’s Op.era Cafe down the peninsula. Pancakes. Weak sauce. Even the ones at Den/ny’s and even I.hop are better *gasp* Yeah no kidding. So how do I fix this? I can’t. I will just have to turn off the tv, close up the laptop and dream of yummy pancakes and only hope that I can have some soon.

So the Big Book came out this weekend. We don’t get home delivery of the paper so we picked up one @ 7-11 yesterday and imagine how pissed I was to NOT find my the Big Book in our paper !!! Thankfully my friend had an extra and passed it on to us. Ever since we got home from the party lilmiss has been oogling and googling the thing. Lilman hasn’t even had a chance to look in it, but honestly I think this one is heared towards the girlies.

Everyday we head to pick up the lilman early just so N can get some socialization and playtime @ the preschool that I usd to work at/ sub on occasion at, also the preschool that J went to. She’ll play with her lil friends for a bit and then gravitate towards the play kitchen. She loves that thing, and actually would love to get her one, but there is just NO room anywhere in the house for something like that… unless we get rid of a TON of the junk in here.

I would love for her to have the one on the bottom but that’s just HUGENESS. The one on the top seems more reasonable. It’s a double sided thing with a grill like thing on the backside… she saw it in the add and just keeps pointing out the hangabur (trans: hamburger) . Maybe Santa can bring it. As we lie in bed… she’s got the book open on her lap and won’t let me take it away from her.

I do remember as child, looking through the Serv.ice Mer.chandise, JCP.enney, Sea.rs, and Be.st catalogs during the holidays and wishing and hoping to my ♥s content.

Okay so I just got done watching the first 6 episodes of Season 3, and damn this is good tv. I love cable. Seriously! This show just trips me out to no avail, and NO I don’t smoke out/ up/ what ever in the hell. It’s just an interesting storyline that I would never want to be subject too! Some of the characters are just bonkers and they drive me nuts, but they make the show what it is. Mar.y Kat.e, OY! The girl is just NOT cute. I always thought she and her twin looked like monkeys when they first showed up on the tube. But whatevers, they did something right, somewhere. Right? They’re frickin kazillionaires, too bad they’ve got issues.

I tried watching Tell me you love me on HBO and man oh man that was just pron. OY! I couldn’t sit past half an hour b/c it seemed every 10 minutes there was a sex scene or some nudity. Seriously, cable, they get away with everything. I’m no prude don’t get me wrong, just I don’t know about this show. Maybe I need to watch another episode to weigh it’s true wealth in my book.

San Francisco is a huge city, as if you already didn’t know that. It’s divided into districts. Today we were in the Sunset. My mom used to work there and we had some errands to run out that way. Anyhow there was a restaurant out that way that I’ve been wanting to try for a few weeks now. Well today was the day to get me some dry fried chicken wings at San Tung!!! We walked in and instantly I spotted ‘Fesser (lilman’s Professor @karate) sitting at a table alone enjoying his lunch. Sent the lilmiss over to say “HI”. He was surprised to see her! The place was crowded, which is to be expected apparently, it was afterall lunchtime. So they seated us at the same table as him. Lol. That was random siting #1 of the day.

So we walked to our supremo parking spot, no meter! no 2 hour limit! within a block of where we had to go in both directions! And as I’m getting the lilmiss into the car, I hear a “pssst” come from the males milling in the driveway. Ewww, oh no he d’int! I wasn’t going to bother to even turn around, but it was a friend from back in the day. Someone I had a crush on pre-bigmister times . We talked for a little bit and his friend looks @ the lilmiss sitting in her carseat, asks how old she is, says hold on, and runs back into the house. So I’m chatting with the friend and his friend comes out bearing gifts for the lilmiss. Heh apparently he’s got an online clothing store and gave the lilmiss some shirts from their toddlers line. Awesome!Funny my friend, I used to talk to him for hours on end back in the day, and now it’s random occurences that we “run into” each other. Even though he still lives in the same neighborhood as my ‘rents house and I’m there nearly 4 days of the week. Yeah random siting #2 all within the same neighborhood of such a huge city. Heh.

Okay so I think I’m finally settled into this new routine of ours, up until my mom leaves at the end of the month *sniffles*. Man it really is hectic but thankfully I’m pickup and afterschool activities! Although pickup isn’t always oh so convenient!

So the keiki are doing well. Lilman is settling into his new schedule, new school, and being back to hula and karate. Although I was quite disappointed in last week’s hula class. Jordan did “exercises” and that’s pretty much it. Yeah I understand he’s been gone for 2 months BUT having him sit out for 1 WHOLE hour was kinda pointless, he might as well have told us to go home.

He’s gotten praise already 2 days in a row. First was last week for an overall week report on how well he does in class and how well behaved he is. And then today his teacher approached me to tell me how wonderfully patient and smart he is. He’s ahead of the rest of the class in math so she allows him to work independently, he happened to finish a problem on his own and was asked to teach the class step by step how he did it. MsH said he explained it perfectly. Nice job lilman! As a reward, I treated him to an Icee pop! Strangely it’s been hot again.

As for the lilmiss, she’s doing well. The pottying is coming along wonderfully!!! She speaks so well, it’s fun! And she’s fun too. She still has her terrible 2 moments but the good far outweigh those!

So we’re walking the aisle of Paci.fic Su.per in Wai.pahu and N yells out “WO.WO.WEE!!!!

LMAO !!!! So as we cruised the store they played nearly every song on the show, save for the opening song. All 3 of the kids were singing along, and NOT quietly either. So I knew that I had to see if they sold it there.

And low and behold they did. And guess what we’re bumpin in the truck?

In other news, BabyGap and GapKids is having some major sale. All the baby and kids clearance is an additional 25% the lowest marked price. I found some really good stuff, I hate that the boys stuff is such slim pickin’s though. Lilman is going to public school in the fall, they don’t have uniform implemented so that means he needs more clothes. Which only means more laundry for me. Blah!

We’re going to check out more sales tomorrow!!! YAY!

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I thought my name was already Pilipino, considering my first name is a combination of my parents names . Come on now… you know you know HELLA pinoys like that! With some crazy a$$ names from the combos of their parents’ names.

My Pinoy Name is Dulcinea Xalbadora Little Sister Pagaspas.
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I forgot how addicting Animal Crossing could be. I had it for the GameCube and used to stay up just wandering round and round. Now I find myself doing the same thing. I can’t seem to get past a level on both Diner Dash and Cake Mania… so I’m subject to wasting time with this game.

I “chaperoned” the lilman on a field trip to Six Flags Marine World Discovery Kingdom, and I decided to leave the lilmiss home and be baby free today. I just didn’t want to hassle with her, have to worry about the stroller, fight her as she would want to get out and walk (which in turn what do I do with the stroller?), and have to carry all that extra baggage. And it was a lovely carefree kinda day !!! But I’m sad. B/c I miss her . I woke up @ 630 this morning and tucked the blankies round her and made sure to give her a lil peck. I closed the door in case she woke up while I was getting ready and we were on our way. And now… I don’t get to see her til 2morrow morning, when I retrieve her from my mom.

Big Mister is mixing @ the second chance Prom and the headliner from that is Jor*dan Kni*ght *swoons* LMAO! He’s texting me and telling me he’s good! LoL. As if I didn’t already know that . I had the opportunity to go but I didn’t want to dress up, I would have been by my lonesome (bigmister is working), and I was on the field trip anyhow.

In other news, I’ve been seriously considering cutting my hair. Don’t know what I want to do with it though. It’s just looking scraggly (LMAO, as if that’s a word!). I would looooooove something wash and go, but we all know that’s not happening with my froish tendency hair. But I want something simple and to cut some of the length *gasp* did I say that? Hardly do I ever want to cut more than a few inches, but this time I think I do. I can’t hang on to hair forever, right? And it’ll grow back anyhow.

Eh, don’t mind me just rambling… Have a lovely weekend.

* don’t eat too much rice, if need be only 1x a day
* get J in a summer program
* work on my tan
* read some books
* learn how to use the dSLR to its full capacity
* sleep @ reasonable hours and wake @ them too
* exercise: early morning walks, ride dad’s bike, swimming, beach
* get N FULLY potty trained
* get J to do workbooks EVERYDAY
* bring karate DVDs and get him working on it every morning so he totally doesn’t fall off
* get N working on some things too

So far that’s all I’ve thought of. Which means I need to find a program for him. I’ve seen 2 different summer day camps that he can possibly do. Don’t know if he’ll be too shy about it b/c he won’t know anyone, but they look super cool. And then there’s always the tutoring camps. And then there’s the matter of getting him some workbooks too. We tried it last summer and it didn’t fair too well with him, he was all about it in the beginning, of course, and then he just slacked off. But I already know what I’m going to hold over him, his Nintendo DS (which has been my hostage for the past month, not b/c I want it I have my own, but b/c he’s been acting out) and the cartoon watching. He got morning television yanked from him as well, big mister did that one, for doing something out of character at school and getting a note sent home *gasp* Yeah I know!!!! He was the one that actually said he wanted to bring the DVDs and said he would do them in the morning. Good boy!

Lilmiss has continuous back and forth with the potty training. She does sit on the potty everyday @ every chance she can possibly get, but it’s hard when we’re out or we’re at someone else’s house and they don’t have a potty insert so she doesn’t fall in. When she wakes up, she sits. When she’s brushin her teeth, she sits. Before we leave the house, she sits. When she asks to sit, she sits. When I catch her midpoop, she sits. One day, while we were homebound, she sat every hour. It worked pretty good up until her brother came home and was in there when she should have been. Sometimes she wakes up completely dry in the morning after a long night’s sleep. But I don’t think she has control just yet. As in, she can hold it and then tell me she wants to go and we go. Nope. So with the busy schedule I’ve been holding lately, I’m just going to hold off til we get there. It shouldn’t be as hectic, I hope. So I need to remember to bring the pink bag of panties.

I’ve been working on songs, numbers, and ABCs with her too. Her songs are the funniest/ cutest things ever b/c of course she leaves words out. Her favorites right now are *Twinkle, Twinkle* and *Wheels on the Bus*. Oh yeah and the theme song on *Wonder Pets*. I’m working on the 1 to 10 and it’s going pretty well, it works when we go up and down stairs. The letters are different though, she doesn’t care too much for them. She’s only got ABC down. Heh.

ETA: I found my keys. They fell into the washing machine with a load of whites and did the full cycle. Heh. Luckily for me it didn’t short the door locker thinger for the car.

Went to the Farmer’s Market last Thursday and picked a bunch of cherries. Saw this one in the bunch and threw it in my mom’s bag. And low and behold, 4 days later no one has eaten it! The ohana got a good laugh out of it today, shitsandgiggles is always good fun. Lilmiss of course didn’t quite understand what all the laughter was about and just wanted to eat the damned thing. And that she did. She popped the whole thing in her mouth and I was scared that she would choke on the pit/ stone/ seed. Alas, my girl knows how to eat cherries and I didn’t even know it. She took my mom’s hand and spit the pit into it, all clean and flesh free.

1. You know how to get every where but can’t give directions.

2. You say “the city” and expect everyone to know that this means San Francisco.

3. You will never understand why people come here to see a bridge

4. You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from one side of the city to the other, but can’t find Wisconsin on a map.

5. Hookers and the homeless are invisible.

6. The muni makes sense.

7. You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language makes you multi-lingual.

8. You’ve considered stabbing someone just for saying “Frisco”.

9. You call an 8′ x 10′ plot of patchy grass a yard

10. You know all the districts

11. You think Golden gate park and the presidio are “nature.”

12. You see nothing odd about the speed of a crack heads speech.

13. You’re paying $1,200 for a studio the size of a walk-in closet and you think it’s a “steal.”

14. You pay more each month to park your car than most people in the U.S. pay in rent.

15. You haven’t seen more than twelve stars in the night sky since you went away to camp as a kid.

16. You go to dinner at 9 and head out to the clubs when most Americans are heading to bed.

17. Your closet is filled with black clothes.

18. You haven’t heard the sound of absolute silence since the 80s, and when you did, it terrified you.

19. You pay $5 without blinking for a beer that cost the bar 28 cents.

20. You take fashion seriously.

21. Being truly alone makes you nervous.

22. You have 27 different menus next to your telephone.

23. Going to Oakland is considered a “road trip.”

24. You’ve gotten jaywalking down to an art form.

25. Your idea of personal space is no one actually standing on your toes.

26. $50 worth of groceries fit in one paper bag.

27. You don’t notice sirens anymore.

28. You live in a building with a larger population than most American towns.

29. Your doorman is Russian, your grocer is Korean your deli man is Israeli, your building super is Italian, your laundry guy is Chinese, your favorite bartender is Irish, your favorite diner owner is Greek, the watchseller on your corner is Senegalese, your last cabbie was Pakistani, your newsstand guy is Indian and your favorite falafel guy is Egyptian.

30. You’re suspicious of strangers who are actually nice to you.

31. You secretly envy cabbies for getting away with their crazy driving

32. You think paying for fastrak to cross a bridge is a fair price.

33. Your door has more than three locks.

34. You consider eye contact an act of overt aggression.

35. You walk slower when you see a flashing “Do Not Walk” sign at the intersection as you cross.

36. You’re 35 years old and don’t have a driver’s license.

37. You ride in a bart car with no air conditioning just because there are seats available.

38. You’re willing to take in strange people as roommates simply to help pay the rent.

39. You know the differences between all the hoods.

40. You’re not in the least bit interested in going to Union Square or the Embarcadero on New Year’s Eve.

41. Someone bumps into you, and you check for your wallet……..while putting theirs in your back pocket.

42. You cringe at hearing people pronounce Gough St.

43. You know what real weed feels like, smells, like and taste like. For sure you don’t smoke bammer

44. You say hella

45. You see sun and wear shorts and it is still 60 degrees outside - that’s warm to you

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I remember getting a bunch of these when I was in college. Totally made me miss home seeing as how I was in Central California. Some of these totally don’t refer to me, and I really wish I had some of those ones I used to get in college. Oh well, HAPPY FRIDAY!

The lilman and my niece flew in yesterday and imagine the look on the lilmissy’s face. She couldn’t control herself she was a babbling mess. Heh. She didn’t want to miss a thing, that she missed her nap and was up for over 12 hours before she got one in, and a short one at that. Here’s a small snippet of a conversation that my 2 were having after the airport on the way to Mitsu-Ken for some grubbin garlic chicken.

lilman: N I missed you so much. And daddy missed you.
lilmiss: I miss you
lilman: You’re so cute. I love you!
lilmiss: I lab you!

Yes my daughter is ever so fobulous. Just ask my sister. So everything in that above conversation just imagine it in toddler speak with a fobby accent. Maybe she’s just been watching a little too much Wowowee since we’ve been here

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More news in snackage… . We’ve had the strawberry ones but now Costco has the new Blueberry ones. Yumm-O! Me and the lil miss fight over the purple and blue ones all the time. That we had to buy a box. Now if only I had the lil book that the lil man had when he was growing up so the lil miss can entertain herself. I’ve been looking at Ross for the book but they’ve been out. Now if only I could have my cereal and milk with banana slices *sigh* damn lactose intolerance. So yeah if you’re a cereal eater, or your local Costco is sampling it, definintely take a taste. We like it.

Please say that it’s TRUE!!!! Tokidoki and Hello Kitty team up!!!! The big mister is in so much trouble if this is true!