Sunday

Well first of all, we had a really really great time visiting old friends in LA yesterday. It was really fun to talk and catch up on things. Can you believe that we stayed there four hours?! With kids?! And that they were very good. I did bring them some stuff to keep them busy – coloring books and crayons, Leapsters and of course cars.

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Today it was such a nice day. It was a little windy outside, but we ended up spending most of the day inside. We cleaned out our pantry. It really needed to be reorganized as we were not finding things in there, and even found some stuff that we didn’t know we had. Now I know what we have and where exactly everything is. It’s nice!

Kids were having a blast playing all day. They were getting along pretty good, and that is always very important. Kapitonas wanted to make a tent in the middle of the room, so we did that and they were having so much fun with it! The only thing is that they didn’t really eat much today. Maybe it’s because they were playing nicely.

Princess woke up with a little runny nose. And she woke up 6 am. I am really hating this time change. Why do they even bother with changing the times?! It just messes everyone up, especially the kids.

I still hope that the kids don’t get sick and that those runny noses will go away by Wednesday. The kids and I will be going away for a few days for a mini vacation with a friend and her daughter. We will be going to Disneyland! My friend got a 2 bedroom with a kitchen time share for free!! And it is just down the street from Disneyland. You can’t beat that!! So I’m really looking forward to it. Now lets just hope we stay all healthy!

There still is hope

Since we’ll be soon heading out for the day, I thought I’d post something.

Kapitonas is feeling better today, still has a little sniffle here and there, but he is very active and being totally normal healthy boy. Which makes me wonder if he is getting some kind of allergies? It has been windy here the last couple days. Hubby gets allergies once in a while. He always gets itchy watery eyes, runny nose and sneezing when around cats. And once in a while he’ll get it from the wind. So there is a chance that Kapitonas might be starting to get them too. Who knows?! I guess we’ll see.

Even if this turns out to be allergies, I still feel the same way about sick people going to the partys. I just don’t understand this and I don’t think that I ever will.

Anyway…. it is gorgeous out here today. No wind, sunny, and temperature is in low 80s. Perfect if you ask me!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone! 

Sleep in, please!

I knew that with this time change the kids will be waking up earlier. This morning they got up a little after 6 am. Thank goodness Hubby was home. As usual, Sunday morning he gets them and lets me sleep in.

Now I’m just dreading tomorrow. We put them down an hour later, which makes it same time according to this new time. I’m hoping they don’t get up at 6 tomorrow!

This is the first year that I didn’t start the time transitioning earlier. Usually in the past, I’ll start about a week or more before the actual time change, and start putting them down like 15 minutes later each day until I reach a good time for them to go down. Gosh, I hope this all makes sense!!

Hanging in there

I’m still here. Haven’t really been in the mood to write anything lately. This is also our third weekend that we are spending home. Actually that I am spending home, nubby and kids did get out today.

Two weekends ago Kapitonas came down with some cold virus. Was coughing a lot and wasn’t feeling good for almost a week. Then when he was started feeling better, I though wow nobody else is going to get what he had. Well guess what?! I spoke to soon! As we were getting ready to go out for a little last Saturday, Princess started coughing and when I felt her she was warm. Took her temperature and sure enough, she had fever. So we spend a second weekend staying home.

By middle of this week she was doing better, but still had that cough. Actually both kids still have it. Nut I thought no big deal, everybody is coughing everywhere we go. So we were making some plans to go out this weekend.

Wednesday night I felt like I was coming down with something. Went to bed early, thinking that might help. Wrong! Woke up Thursday morning with a soar throat and a stuffy nose. Blah!! So I’ve been pretty much out on Thursday, Friday and today-Saturday. Today actually is the worst. My nose is so stuffy that I have a hard time breathing unless I’m sitting. Which makes it really hard to sleep. But being it Saturday and hinny home, at least I can stay in bed and rest, even if it is half ways sitting up.

Hubby took the kids out today. I think they went to the park, drove around and then McDonalds. They brought some for me too.

Anyway, just a little update on us.

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!