The heat

I love hot weather, I really do. I love sun! I love just putting a shirt on and shorts and not worrying about sweaters, jackets, etc.

But lately it’s just been too much! I mean it’s almost October and it’s 100+ degrees out here. As much as I like it hot, I think it’s a little too hot. Especially for this time of the year. I wouldn’t mind if it would be 80+, but not 100.

It is fall and a lot of people are pulling their fall decor out, but I just can’t get myself to do it. And it’s all because of the heat.

Anyone, please send some cooler weather our way. Thanks!

Have you realized…

… that there are less then 100 days left until Christmas? Eighty-six to be exact. Wow!! Where did the year go?!

I know I know, it is way too early to be thinking about Christmas, but how can you not think about it where all the stores already have some Cristmasy stuff. Crazy, I tell you. We still have a month left until Halloween.

Anyway, I kind of started thinking about it. But mostly it’s because the kids are older this year and will be more into to it. They, or at least Kapitonas, will really understand what’s going on. He already knew things last year, but this year it will be more fun. I can’t wait to experience all the things with him this year.

I’ve also started thinking about the gifts. We will be going very light this year. We already have a few things for the kids that we picked up in WA, and I have an idea for a couple more. I’m just having a hard time with all the nieces and nephews. Since they all live so far away, I think gift card might have to do it this year.

Anyway, I was just thinking about it this morning. The only thing I don’t like about Christmas is the bad weather. Not that we get a bad weather here in CA, but still, you just never know when that crazy wind or the rain will come in.

It was one of the best

The weekend went by way too fast. Actually, all the weekends go by fast. Last weekend was one of the best weekends I’ve had. Yeah, it had to do with the fact that it was my birthday, but also because we had a really good time.

So for my birthday we went out to dinner at Red’s BBQ and had a very good dinner (well, besides the fact that the kids didn’t really eat much and were wanting to get out, lol) and then hubby took me to get me a b-day gift. He got me this. I’ve been wanting one for a while now, but I knew it was just a little too much. Well before my b-day he asked me if I still wanted one (you know what was my answer:).

So when he told me that we’ll go to the mall after dinner, I knew why. Ok, so I didn’t really really knew, but I had a good feeling about it. Also, when he gave me my birthday card, I kind of knew that the gift was to come later. I know I know. So we went to the Apple store and he told me to pick the one I liked; they have them in black and white. At first I was thinking about the white one, but the black one just looked better. So I decided to go for the black one. Well what do you know, they were out of the black one and the white one. That’s ok, because there is AT&T store a couple minutes away. So we went there. I asked the guy if they had any and they only had 2 left. And they were black. Yay for me!!

After we got home, hubby and Kapitonas went to pick up an ice-cream cake they ordered for me. Yummy!! Also my friend came over. They sang me happy birthday. It was so cute seeing both of the kids singing happy birthday to me.

Even though my parents and my sister weren’t here, I did have a really great birthday!! But they were missed.

Oh, and then of course we had some drinks.

So what do you know…

Princess decided to wake up at 6:30 this morning instead of 7-7:30. I guess I shouldn’t have said anything about one of the kids waking me up in this crazy hour.

Usually, when Princess wakes up at somewhere between 7-8 (lately it’s been 7:15), Kapitonas will wake up too, because she is so loud. Then I put TV for them and snooze for a little longer. Sometimes even for an hour or so. Yeah, bad me. But they are happy. 1. because they already had their milks; 2. because they’re watching TV; and 3. because I do so much better after getting that 30-60 minutes of extra sleep.

But today I heard her calling for Dadda (don’t know why because he already was gone to work, and she usually calls for me in the mornings) I opened my eyes and thought that it’s still a little too dark outside. So I look at the time and it was 6:30. Way too early for me to get up, but even earlier for Kapitonas.

So I run to her room, pick her up and we come downstairs. And so here we are. She’s snacking on cheerios while watching tv, and well here I am. I should’ve just layed down, but computer was calling my name.

Maybe I should just go and crash for half an hour.

Happy Birthday

to me!!!

Yup, tomorrow is my birthday. I will be turning 29 years old. I thing I will stay at 29 for a long long time. What do you think? Twenty nine is a good number, right?

A little annoyed though and even though I still have one day left (tomorrow) I’ve only received one birthday card. Yeah, I’m throwing myself a pitty party!

Thank you to my dear friend who did think of me and send the card out early and I already received it yesterday. Thank you!!!

I know my parents and my sister will be sending or already sent the cards out, but it kind of depends who sent them out. My parents have been staying at the summer house all summer and they are still there. They don’t come to the city too often, so it could be that my mom asked my sister to get a card from them. The thing is with my sister, she’s ALWAYS late sending them out. So I’ll probably end up getting it sometime next week, or the week after that. Agh, I guess as long as I get it.

And to all the other family members, well, I don’t know. At the moment I’m thinking that I probably won’t be sending them Christmas cards, and for those that have birthdays between now and Christmas, they won’t be getting a b-day card. Yeah, sounds mean, but that’s how I feel at the moment. I’ll probably get over it and end up sending all the cards out, but sheesh people, is it hard for you to send me one card?

It’s not like I’m asking them to come see me, or take me out for lunch, or dinner. They live thousands and thousands of miles away, in a different continent. They should send me a card and make sure I get it on time, not a month later.

Maybe I should call, text, e-mail them all a month before and let them know, that it is time to get a card and send it out. On average, it takes about 2 weeks for me to get it.

Blah.

I guess I could still get it tomorrow. We’ll see.

Oh, the Princess is coming down with something. I swear, we can never avoid any kind of cold/bug/what-ever-you-want-to-call-it. So now she has a cough and a snotty nose. Oh, and wait, I think I’m feeling something too. Great! Just in time for my birthday. I might as well start getting drugged up now.

We are planning on going out to dinner. Probably Red Robin since it is kid friendly and they do pretty well there. After that, I don’t know. Maybe walk around the mall. Maybe I’ll go to Victoria’s Secret and get something there. I did get a gift card to VS from that same dear friend who’s card I already received. I really could just stay home and do nothing, as long as we are all healthy.

I’ll let you all know what we’ll end up doing. Goodnight!

I. Can. Not. Believe. This.

OMG!! Seriously, the boy is going to drive me crazy a lot sooner then I thought. Geeezzzz, I already have gray hair, and I’m not even 30.

It’s about the night time sleeping. You won’t believe this! So last night I wasn’t home for the bedtime routine. I was about 30 minutes late. As I walked up to the door, I saw that it was already dark upstairs. I thought wow, can they be really asleep? Hubby knew what I did the night before, so I knew he was going to do the right thing.

I open the door and I hear little boys screaming. Oh no!! He was whining and crying that he wants his puppy back, and that he doesn’t want to go upstairs by himself (hubby already put him down the first time) that it’s too dark (he does have a night light in the room), that he wanted Daddy to cover him up, etc etc.

I gave him a hug and a kiss and walked him to his bed (since I wasn’t home originally, I thought I’ll do that). He came down one time, got a spanking and was put back in bed. So all this was last night.

He didn’t have his puppy for the night, but I had it in my bed when he came in the morning.

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Well tonight, it’s just horrible!!! Hugs, kisses, put him down, tuck him in and leave the room. Like a minute later guess who’s coming down? Yup, it was Kapitonas! So of course he lost his puppy and told me that he’ll have it in the morning in my bed. It was like he didn’t even really cared about it anymore. He knew he was going to get it eventually.

So he goes back down and another minute later he comes down, telling us that he needs to go kaka. Fine! Whatever! You better go kaka! So he takes his sweet ass time in the bathroom. I’m not kidding, about 10 minutes. And that is the same kid that is always in-and-out of the bathrooms. He says he’s still going. Fine. After he was done, Hubby walked him to his bed and came down. Before he went up I told him that if he comes down again, he won’t get the puppy in the morning. And yup, you guessed it right again, he did come down again. So now he lost his puppy for the morning.

Now I’m just hoping that he doesn’t throw a fit 5-6 o’clock in the morning wanting his puppy. But if he does, then I guess I will be up at that time. Definitely not something I want to do, but…

Anyway, I walk him back up again. So now it’s been about 10 minutes and he’s still in there. I hope he doesn’t come down.

And you know what I’m thinking? I’m thinking of getting a lock for his room and locking him in there until he falls asleep, and then unlocking and opening the door when I go to bed. It sounds cruel, it probably is, but I’m desperate here for him to go down on his own.

The whole saying “You just walk them back in there, and eventually, they will get used to and not want to come out anymore”. Well, I DON’T BELIEVE IT!!! It’s freaking been like 5-6 months already. I want to know how long did they mean by “eventually”.

Or, I guess my other option would be is just letting him stay up all night, and see what he likes better. Sleep or no sleep. (I’m j/k about this one)

Did that really work?

So you guys won’t believe this!! Kapitonas did NOT leave his bed or room last night! Woohoo!!!

Did taking his puppy the night before really helped? Did it finally clicked to him that it’s ok to fall asleep on his own? After all, he does fall asleep on his own during nap times. I just couldn’t believe it.

To tell you the truth, I was a little worried about him not coming down last night. I kept thinking what if something happened to him? Is he alright?

This has never ever ever happened in 4 years! I am very happy!

But I won’t get too excited yet. We’ll see how tonight goes.

And because he stayed in bed last night, hubby and I were able to watch 3 shows last night! Too bad it was a season finale for Big Brother. (spoiler alert!!) ………………………………………………………But I’m happy Dan won!

There it goes again

I wrote a while ago about Kapitonas not going to sleep on his own. I used to always have to lay down with him. Well after doing for 3+ years, I started getting a little tired of it. Don’t get me wrong, I love to lay down and cuddle with him. But it was getting to the point where we’d be laying there for an hour and he would still be awake. I wouldn’t mind if it would be 10-15 minutes max.

Well about 4 months ago or so, maybe even 6, I stopped laying down with him and we’ve been trying to have him fall asleep on his own. And you what?! no. such.luck.!!! Argh!!!!

Every night, he comes out of his room and starts walking downstairs like 10 times. It’s really annoying!! Hubby always walks him up and puts him down, puts a blanket on him and leaves the room. A minute later there comes Kapitonas again. And so on and so on.

Hubby is a really softy when it comes to the kids. I like that, but sometimes you just have to put your foot down and tell them no! To the kids I mean.

Well last night we put the kids down and I didn’t even get downstairs, when I heard Kapitonas walking out of his room. Oh, I was so mad! I go up and tell him to go to bed. He starts whining and asking me to put a blanket on him. I told him that he has to do it himself, because we already put a blanket on him originally, and it was his choice to get out of bed. He starts crying in the bed for his blanket. I’m sitting there and telling him that he has to do it on his own. He still doesn’t do it. So I threaten him to take his puppy away(puppy is this little blankie that looks like a puppy, that’s his favorite thing) if he doesn’t put his blanket on. And what do you know, he does!! HA! It worked! Before I left the room I told him that if he leaves his room and comes down, he will loose his puppy for the night.

“No no, I don’t want to loose my puppy!” he yells.

“Well, good, then stay in bed”.

And oh about 10 minutes later I hear the little footsteps. He is coming downstairs. Yup, I took his puppy away and sent him back to bed. Yeah, yeah, I know it was mean, but sometimes you got to do what you got to do.

He lays back down in bed and I tell him that if he comes out again, he won’t get the puppy in the morning. If he stays in bed then he can have his puppy back in the morning when he comes to my bed. (Every morning around 6 am, he comes to my bed and falls back asleep. I don’t mind him doing that, as long as he sleeps most the night in his bed and most of all falls asleep there on his own.)

I leave the room and then it was all quiet for the night.

In the morning when I woke up, he was already sleeping next to me and holding his puppy.

We’ll see how tonight goes. Wish me luck!

Check this out…

Turn up your speakers if you can. This is one of the funniest things that I’ve seen lately.

Don’t worry, it’s not long, about half a minute or so.

Enjoy!

Click HERE to watch it.

Our weekend

We had a very nice and relaxing weekend. It was really nice just not to do much.

Saturday we went to SV Days. We’ve never been to one, so we were curious to check it out. And especially now that they moved to a new location, closer to our home, we decided to go. Since it wasn’t that far, we ended up walking. It was about 20 minute walk. Not bad at all!!

It was pretty nice and not that crowded. Kids had tons of fun and we enjoyed watching them have fun.

The only thing is that it was kind of expensive. Entrance fee was $6 per person and $3 for children 4 years old and up. So we paid $15 total. Then for the rides you had to get tickets. We got 24 tickets for $20. Not bad, until we realized that all the rides were at least 3 tickets. That would make it almost $3 a ride! And with 2 kids, it was coming out to almost $6 a ride. Kind of a lot if you ask me. But the kids enjoyed the rides and had fun, so that’s all that matters.

Later on I ran into a friend that I haven’t seen in several years. We talked for a little and caught up on some thing. It was nice!

Here are a few pictures: