Do you know what my daughter did yesterday?  Well, let me start this with saying, she’s been taking off her diaper and peeing on my carpet.  I lead her to the potty, where she sits and just laughs, thinking it’s a jolly good ol’ time.  Well, yesterday I look over to see my daughter has no diaper on.  I said, where is your diaper??  Katiana said, “and look mom!”  I look to what she is pointing at.  No, not on my carpet.  She had emptied out my clothes basket, stepped into it, and peed in that.  ROFL  WHAT?  You know where your potty is.  I guess that was close enough to her potty.  So, my basket sat in the shower with water and Clorox for a bit.  LOL  Just to be safe. 

Then, (if you get grossed out easily, skip this paragraph) what happened at soccer practice almost had me lose my dinner.  I am now for tougher pooper scooper laws.  ROFL  Man, I’m sitting there with Alyce, watching Kat play.  I look at my hand and there is poop all over it.  HUH??  I look down my daughter’s diaper, nothing.  You got it, dog poop.  *gagging*   Did I have a baby wipe?  No.  Did I have hand sanitizer?  No.  Was there a sink with soap?  No.  I sat there rubbing the back of my hand on the grass (after looking for a spot I was sure had no poo) forever getting it off.  Katiana was rolling.  Not funny.  Prayed for the minutes to get over so I could leave.  Came home and I swear to you I washed my hands for 15 minutes when I walked in the door.  Put the baby down, put my purse down, and ran to the bathroom.  What the heck is wrong with people, not cleaning up after there dogs in an area where people are sitting on the ground watching their kids play????  I am now going to take our chairs with us to practice.  I usually don’t bother because it’s just easier (and more fun) to be on the ground with the kids.  Blech.  I called my sister and said, “Do you use a pooper scooper when you walk Daisy?”  She said no, but that she takes her out to the back yard to poop before and after walks and they clean that up back there.  Ok, you’re lucky man.  Don’t let me catch your dog pooping where people sit.  ROFL

That’s about it.  Jordan got to play goalie last night for the first time this season under his new coach who obviously didn’t know that that is Jordan’s position.  (I’m being a little sarcastic here, my son thought the coach should automatically put him in because Jordan told him too.  LOL)  But, once he started playing goalie, the coach kept him in there the whole game.  He really loved it.

Tomorrow Kat has soccer at 9.  And Jordan has it at 1:30 an hour away from us.  I’m sure I’ll have tons of pictures for you on Monday.

In the meantime I should invest in one of the nice espresso machines.  Just a shot here and there.  I’m so tired.  Ok, I shouldn’t.  If my cappuccino and coffee makes me sick, I’m sure espresso would too.  LOL

Have a wonderful day!

What a poop.  LOL  I had a really good day yesterday.  Starting with my new New Kids On The Block CD getting here.  I ordered it off their site so I could get the t-shirt also.  I feel so 1989 again.  LOL  FYI - VH1 has the new video up for Single.  I LOVE the cd.  It’s not hangin’ tough.  But, I think I’ve kinda out grown that.  ROFL  I think that song in the video is my favorite one on the album.  Wooohooo!

Then we had preschool orientation for Kat.  That was fun.  She didn’t want to leave.  LOL  It took awhile to get her to understand that starting Sept 11, she’d be there Mon, Tues, Thurs, and Fri from 8 - 11:30.  She’d have plenty of time with her new friends.   And plenty of time with the play kitchen.  ROFL  It’s funny how that’s the thing she gravitated to, when she has one here with all the food, plates, etc and hardly plays with it.

Then we came home, my mom stopped by on the way to my sister’s OB appointment.  I went dancing out to her car holding up my new t-shirt.  She is afraid that I shall now corrupt her grandchildren.  ROFL

After that I started feeling really cruddy.  Light headed, eyes funny, feet and hands going numb, shaky, had trouble keeping my balance.  I called my OB.  She told me to lay down the rest of the night and if I still felt like that to come in in the morning.  She also told me to eat some protein because it was probably my blood sugar falling.  Then I actually fell.  Almost hit my head on my treadmill.  I went over to my neighbor’s and took my blood pressure.  168/85.  When I told her about what the doctor said about my blood sugar (my neighbor is diabetic), she took my blood sugar.  It was 115.  I said, is that good?  Knowing nothing about blood sugar.  She said if you’re not diabetic that that is high.  Never been diabetic.  So, I don’t know.  I came home and got on the American Heart Association page and checked the results of my BP.  I can never remember where I should be.  All I know is that when I’m not pregnant, my blood pressure is always perfect, and my OB is always surprised to hear that because my blood pressure starts going up from my 8 week appointment on.  Are you sure you have good blood pressure when you’re not pregnant?  Yes.  That site said that my BP (the top number) was severe high.  And that I was likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke in the next 10 years if it stayed that high.  Thanks for that alarming piece of info.  LOL  Then I looked up blood sugar, and the site I found said that if you don’t have diabetes you shouldn’t worry about your blood sugar unless it’s over 200.  Don’t know how true that is, but it made me feel better. 

I’m pretty sure what was making me feel icky was my blood pressure.   Kind of scary falling like that when I was by myself with the kids.  But my mom isn’t too far away (about 30 minutes), and one of my brothers is even closer (10 minutes).  So, if something was really bad I have people semi-near to help me.  And lucky me, I have the type of family who will drop anything if I’m in bad shape to help me. 

Pato was constantly calling and texting to find out what was going on.   He wanted me to go in last night, but eventually I started feeling a little better.  I felt normal when I got up this morning.  So, my blood pressure must have gone back down to normal.  It just worries me because I swear that’s where my BP was when they put me on bed rest with Alyce at 20 weeks.  I still have 4 weeks to go before I get there.  And I can’t be on bed rest easily with a toddler.  and a 4 year old.  And a 9 year old.  Ok, the 9 year old could help.  Last night he chose to be a PITA though.  Pato had already talked to him and asked him to help me with the girls and help me period because I was sick.  Did he?  No, he got mouthy, and whiny, and angry, and it wasn’t pretty.  My mom had to get on the phone and talk to him about the way he was acting.   He has to pick the night my blood pressure is rising and I’ve already fallen once to start having a I’m not going to listen to anything you say and have a complete meltdown moment. 

I keep telling myself, there are so many plusses to Pato being gone.  No more job searches, no more working for anyone else, we’ll have a house soon, we won’t have to budget so stinking tighly, he’ll be happy, period.  He wants that restaurant so bad.  Those are future benefits.  It’s just hard to analyze that when I’m feeling like crap and worried about the baby and my own health.  LOL

On to a happy topic.  My sister is at about 2 1/2 weeks to go.  At her appointment yesterday she was dilated to 1 still, but starting to efface a little.  So, her little one is doing what she’s supposed to do.  LOL  I’m so happy that she’s had a problem free, normal pregnancy.  I was worried with us being from the same gene pool that she might have the same problems I do.  But not one.  She’s done great.  My mom has good pregnancies too.  I must just be an odd ball.  ROFL  Well, we know that.  LOL

Alright.  Alyce is up and wants some attention so I’ll give her some mommy time while Kat is still sleeping.

Have a great day! 

Don’t forget to check out the specials in the store!  Thursday is dollar day!  3 personal use products/3 commercial products on sale for $1.00!

Very long with Jordan having a teacher in service yesterday also. 

Saturday was the long awaited baby shower.

I didn’t take a lot of pictures because I was so busy directing traffic.  But I got some of her opening presents.  That’s her friend Rachel in the pink.  My sister opening presents.  My mom.  and that’s Alyce peaking behind her cup.

Opening her travel system

my grandma

Then we spent all evening at my mom’s.  Then Sunday we just hung out here at home.  Monday, back out to my mom’s for labor day with the family.  The guys were still putting a roof on the house.  I think they’ll be doing that for awhile.  Though they are on the shingles.  So, hopefully not much longer.

Yesterday Kat had soccer practice.

yeah, it was cold.  LOL  she was copying Jordan here.  The temperature dropped like 15 degrees after we got to soccer.  Like her mosquito bites on her face from mom’s house the night before?  Poor baby.

Yes, she likes to color on her legs.  LOL

Jordan’s idea of smile for the camera.

again, smile for the camera.  ha ha ha Jordan.

Katiana

Kat and her coach. Doesn’t she look so little out there?

Dribbling

Seriously, this child was BARELY paying attention last night.  LOL  At one point her coach is teaching her how to dribble through the cones.  She stopped to pick flowers.  He’s like, no we’ll pick flowers later, come on.  Then she stood out there spinning around, and waving her arms back and forth and side to side.  Then she watched the sky for a little bit.  Then it was time for her to kick off, she gave herself a big old hug, while she was kicking off.  LOL  I’m sitting here going, you are my child that doesn’t have ADHD.  What are you doing????  ROFL  She’s 4.  What can you say?  LOL

Came home, went to bed.  I was worn out from the weekend.

Today we have preschool orientation.  She’s really excited.  As long as I go with her.  LOL

This morning, Jordan hands me a stack of papers due today.  Student directory, pictures, book order.  I was like, um - could you have warned me that pictures were today?  I would have cut your hair.  Lord child.  I need to start going through his book bag.  Usually I say, bring me your work.  He obviously leaves everything else in his book bag.  Until the day it’s due, then he runs to me saying, I need money!  Pato’s thrilled.  ROFL  I sent him a text message, um…need more money in the account, today.  LOL  Had to write 3 checks this morning.  For what?   School darling.  School.

That’s what I’ve been up to.  Hope you all are doing good!

My CT has a new template challenge up this month!  Go check it out!  You could win a GC to the store! 

Thanks for your comments yesterday!  I’m not as upset today as I was say the day after he left for Mexico.  I’m more just tired of this.  Oh well, what do you do?

Yesterday, Jordan had soccer practice and I got a couple of pics snapped before Alyce got so cranky I just had to hold her.  I tried to put her down for a nap twice, nothing.  She just laid there.  Never went to sleep.  So, by 7 when soccer started, she was ready for bed.  I didn’t even manage to get a picture of her before she had her meltdown.

Katiana

Jordan is in the middle.  In the blue shirt with yellow stripes that doesn’t match the gray shorts with white and green stripes.  He wouldn’t change into something else that matched one of the pieces of his ensemble.  Choose your battles, I say.

Katiana

Going after the ball.

That’s it.  That’s all she wrote.  All the pictures I got to take.  :o(

I am having issues with my camera too when we’re outside on bright days.  Everything comes out with a greenish tint.  Then I have to edit it in PSP to get rid of it.  I need to play with my white balance and see if something wasn’t changed somehow.

I talked to Pato after practice and he was finally safe and sound at his uncle’s.  yippie.  He stopped to sleep finally a few miles into Ohio at a rest area.  I guess he got a whole 3 hours sleep in.  So, he must have been exhausted by the time he finally got there. 

Not a lot going on here other than school and soccer.  Tomorrow is my sister’s baby shower.  She’s due in about 3 weeks.  We’re all excited!  Then preschool orientation is on the 3rd.  Kat’s starts on the 11th.  4 days a week from 8 - 11:30.  I think things will get quite hectic for the first week as we get used to it.  With Pato in Ohio, I think I’ll have to get both kids up at 6:30, get Jordan in the shower.  Get Kat and Alyce ready.  Then all of us pile in the car at 7:40 to get Kat to school by 8, then turn around and get Jordan to school at 8:40.  Which shouldn’t be too hard.  Timing should be ok.  It’s just having the girls get used to getting up early and getting out the door.  Jordan will be getting up half an hour earlier.  Let’s see the drama that little change creates.  He already calls me on it when I get him up at 6:50 instead of 7.  LOL

Have a great day!

I have a headache from you know where.  He left at 2 this morning, which means he should be part way through Illinois right now.  Life sucks.  I’ll look on the bright side that we should have our restaurant in about 3-4 months tomorrow. 

Thank you guys for being here for me.  I’m going to get Jordan on the bus, hope the girls stay asleep, and go pull the covers back over my head for awhile while I alternate between praying he makes it there safely and being really angry.  At least he’s in the states and the kids can talk to him on the cell phone whenever they want right?

Oh, she was adorable!  There are 2 - 4 year olds and 4 - 5 year olds on her team.  Kat and another little girl, who is just so cute, are in preschool, while the others are in kindergarten.   She had a blast!!

learning how to dribble - next time I put her hair in a pony.  Than I can get face pics.  LOL

Pink outfit - check.  Pink shin guards - check.  cleats with pink on them - check.  Pink ball - check check.  She was a happy girl.  She’s my I love pink child.

Playing Sharks and Minnows - it’s a game where everyone has a ball but one person. That person has to go around and kick everyone else’s ball out.  Jordan loves this game too.

Got to have a picture of Alyce!

With one of her coaches whose head I cut off.  Sorry Amy. 

Daddy and Alyce - he was all excited to see her play.  He was going crazy.   Look, look, first soccer practice and she’s already dribbling.  Look!  She’s keeping it away!  Look!  She was the last one in that time in sharks and minnows.  She’s a natural!  LOL  I’m not exaggerating.  If he could have put her in the world cup last night, he would have.  LOL  Makes daddy proud when he sees his kids playing soccer like he does.

Pink soccer ball?  Where’d it go?  She wasn’t thrilled when they had to share the balls because one of the little girls forgot hers.  But then Jordan to the rescue!  He brought his big old regulation ball (size 5).  The girls are playing with size 3.  This little girl was so sweet, she came over at the end, and thanked us for letting her use the ball.  Just so cute!  Does your heart good as a parent when you see other kids with good manners too.  LOL  We’re always griping about kids these days.  ROFL

Leecy-Lou (as I like to call her.  LOL) and her new binky.  Seriously, child could be in a toy aisle and ignore EVERYTHING.  Go down the baby aisle, if she sees the binkys she gets the huge eyes, hand out, pointing, uh uh uh uh!  LOL  I really should take it away, she’s only been using it for 2 months, and she can’t go without it.  She replaced the boob with the bink.  That she calls her bean bean. 

I love this one, cuz you can see her smile.

With her other coach

After being kicked out in sharks and minnows.  Waiting for another round to start.

That was her first soccer.  And mommy had a blast too!  Where was Jordan?  Running around on the playground behind us.  Wouldn’t come watch her.

Ok, everyone ask if Pato has left yet?  He told his job he was done last Saturday.  Was going to leave Sunday.  Then I threw my tantrum.  He decided he was going to leave last night.  This is taking me all back to when he was supposed to leave for Mexico.  You can tell he doesn’t want to leave.  He found tons of stuff that had to be done last night.  Including working on my car some more.  Finally changed the fuel filter.  He said that when he pulled it out, the gas that was in the filter was black.  EW!  I don’t think that’s natural.  ROFL  How often are you supposed to change that puppy?  We never have in the year we’ve had my van.  Then he came in and did some stuff in here.  Finally it was 1 in the morning and I said, you better just leave tomorrow, you’ve been up all day, and half the night.  You can’t drive 13 hours now.  So, he came to bed and said he’s leaving today. 

Yesterday before soccer we hit Buffalo Wild Wings, which I haven’t been to since we lived in Ohio.  So yummy!  Then we went to Target and got stuff for my sister’s baby shower.  I’m going back to a different Target this morning because the sling that I got her isn’t the sling I really wanted for her.  I was thinking it was the same, just a different brand name, got home, looked at it, it’s nothing like what I wanted.  So, off to the other target where I know they have the Moby Wrap.  I was so stoked to see it there the other day.  I’ve wanted a wrap forever, but I just got my ring sling with Kat when they came out with the wraps, and I didn’t think  I should buy another one when I just got the ring sling.  So, I made it last through 2 kids.  I’m getting a wrap with this one.  I can’t live with a baby without a sling.  It’s a lifesaver.  Dishes, supper, walking through Walmart.   ROFL

That was pretty much our day.  Came home, I laid down for a bit, exhausted.  Yeah, I thought this was supposed to go away in the second trimester.  He made spaghetti, I got up and ate, watched House.  It was good. 

Today, we’ll see if he leaves.  I hate the anticipation.  I know it’s hard to leave the kids, but I get them worked up that he’s leaving, and then he doesn’t leave.   Not fun!

Ok, got to get Jordan motating.

Have a great day!

*sigh*  Fifth day of school and Jordan is already dragging.  I’ve been trying to get him up and in the shower since 6:45.  It’s 7:18.  Now he’s out of bed, but he’s messing around because he has to have his apple in a baggie for snack.  In a baggie?  It’s an apple.  Throw it in your book bag.   I love difficult days.  He finally just took his adderol, while complaining that he wants to take ritalin again.  Because the ritalin made him skinny.  I’m sorry, honey, you cannot use your adhd medicine as diet pills.  I have noticed though that his new pants I just bought him for school are already loose.  It kills me.  The kid was out running and riding his bike all summer.  He shouldn’t have been gaining, but he was.  And it hurts him.  It worries me because I worry about his heart.  And being healthy.   But, 5 days of school and the adderol and he has dropped enough weight to need a belt on his new jeans.  Maybe I shouldn’t take him off his medicine during the summer.  It seems that it just screws up his metabolism.  He gains it so fast when I take him off.  It doesn’t matter how healthy he eats, and that I’m giving him a good child size portion.  It’s weird, because he eats the same things as the girls, and I can’t keep weight on them.  They are both in the upper teens/lower 20’s percentile on the scale for weight.  While they both are in the 90’s for height.  Jordan is opposite.  In the 90’s for weight, and in the lower end for height.   I just want him to be healthy and to feel good about himself, that’s it.  Is that too much for a mother to want?  

I finally got up the nerve to ask Pato when he is leaving.  He said this afternoon.  I think I’m going to have him stick around to go to Kat’s first soccer practice.  Then he can take off for Ohio.  I’m not happy about this still.  He did tell his uncle if he is coming up for training that he is going to come home once a month.  I can’t just go up there.  Jordan’s got school.  And Kat’s preschool starts - crap, I don’t remember.  I have orientation on September 3.  It starts after that.  Plus soccer.  Hopefully that will keep me busy enough to not dwell in my own self pity.  ROFL

Oh my lord, my son is still not in the shower and it’s 7:30.  I keep having to stop typing and go redirect him.  ADHD - it kicks in hard when he has to get up early.  I really didn’t see any problems with it over the summer.  I’ve been having him go to bed at 8.  He gets up, usually, at 7.  Today I got him up at 6:45 because yesterday he was dragging a little and I had to take him to school.  So far I’ve had to get him out of sister’s room, playing with her Dora the Explorer Backpack.  Out of his room where he was reading a poster.  Off the couch where his clothes that I sat out were making a “nice comfy pillow, mom”.  Out of the kitchen with his baggy and his apple, when he decided to get in the fridge just to see what we might make for supper.  I love mornings. 

And, not that you want to know this, but the baby has decided we don’t like cappuccino anymore.   I already stopped drinking coffee because it was making me sick.  I barely drink pop anymore.  I don’t keep it in the house because I love my diet mt dew too much.  This way I force myself to drink water when I’m thirsty.  LOL  Yesterday, when I took Jordan to school, I stopped and got an English Toffee Cappuccino.  Drank 3/4 of it and had to take off running.  That’s just wrong.  Not many things that taste really really good to me right now, and that was one of them.  Was being the key word there. 

Later on Pato looked at me and said, what is that red stuff all over your face and under your neck?  It looks like you have hives.  I went in and looked, looks like I broke all the blood vessels in my face and neck.  Haven’t done that since I was pregnant with Alyce.  I just love being pregnant.  ROFL  I’m 14 weeks and NOW the morning sickness kicks in good and hard.  Yesterday, I ended up laying down most of the day, since he was home to take care of the kids.

Let’s go from morning sickness to the democratic national convention.  ROFL  What a jump.  I’m a McCain supporter, I have been since before the Iowa caucuses.  I was one of the few people who voted for him here in the caucuses.  But, I watched part of the convention because I like to see the other sides point of view.  And can I say, whether I agree with him or not - Ted Kennedy got to my heart.  His doctors told him he couldn’t go to the convention.  He said, nope, I’m going.  They kept saying he was going to be speaking.  He said, I’m gonna speak.   All this while going through the treatment for his brain tumor.  Kind of made me want to cry to see him up there.  I don’t have to agree with him, but I can be happy for him.  You don’t want to ever see anyone sick or hurting.  I missed Michelle Obama’s speech, though I wanted to see it.  I think I’ll see if I can’t find some video of it today.  I ended up going to bed because Pato changed the channel when I wasn’t looking, Alyce was tired and cranky, and I said, it’s time for bed.  I fell asleep next to her.  Pato was happy.  He couldn’t understand why I had to make him suffer through the convention on the main TV (that his playstation is hooked up too.  ROFL) when that’s not even my guy.  Plus, he HATES politics.  Ours, Mexico’s.  Politics in general.  He hates it when I turn on the talk radio station here.  More blah blah blah he says.  I love news.  Opposites attract they say.  LOL

Alright, he is finally out of the shower, and I need to get him going.  So, that’s all from me today.

Have a great day!

No, not on my apartment.  My dad decided it was a good time to put a new roof on the house.  And since my dad is a construction worker, we don’t need no stinking contractor!  LOL  I decided I was running away from home yesterday.  I was cranky and upset (more on that in a bit), the kids were on top of me, and Pato was home.  I said, I’m going to my mom’s.  No children allowed.

I took some pictures of my dad, his brother - my Uncle Joe, and my brother working.  My dad said, are these going to be on the internet tomorrow?  I said, why of course they are dad.  LOL  So, here they are.

One of my dad’s 4 brothers (10 other siblings in total), my Uncle Joe in blue, my dad in day glo yellow. 

My daddy

How do you walk on a roof like it’s nothing? 

Say cheese dad.

My baby brother Josh (whose not really a baby anymore LOL).  Not a great picture, but the only one that wasn’t completely blurry because he didn’t think he had time for a photo shoot.  LOL

I got out the little magnet on a stick and helped get some of the nails up.  Only because my mom wouldn’t let me climb up on the roof to take pictures while I’m pregnant.  ROFL  She’s really no fun.  Just kidding mom. 

Then I sat out there and vented for awhile.  About how life just sucks.  I was upset because I know that Pato’s uncle wants him up there to train for 3 months before he helps get the restaurant here.  I understand that.  But, yesterday Pato sprung it on me, I’m going to leave tonight.  No warning.  And I felt my insides just collapse.  All of a sudden those 3 months when he was in Mexico came right back up on me.  How stressed I was, how stressed out the kids were.  I just started bawling and had to get out.  The thought of doing that again while I’m pregnant?  UGH.  Everything has gotten back to normal, the kids are well behaved - or the kids are kids.  LOL  I don’t feel like I’m losing my mind.  All is good.  And he is leaving?  I know it’s for the best.  In the long run, it’ll help us.  But right now, it just sucks.  And I feel like being selfish and cranky for a bit.  And he must have understood, because he didn’t leave last night.  Now I’m wondering if he’s going today?  Or did I put to big of a guilt trip on him that he doesn’t feel like he can go?  In which case, I’ll have to apologize for the I feel like you’re deserting me when I’m pregnant remark.  That was horrible wasn’t it?  Can I chalk it up to hormones?  I was a crying mess.

I also went to mom’s on Saturday with the kids and was inspired to make some CU overlays.  I love how these came out.  If your looking for natural - or wood overlays, I’ve got some for you!

Make It Easy - Natural Overlays 2 - This is dirt, dry leaves, dry grass, and pine needles or boughs - what’s the proper term?

And the wood

Make It Easy - Wood Overlays 1

Make It Easy - Wood Overlays 2

And they are 30% off right now!  Woohoo!

That’s it from me!  Have a great day!

And I got like 2 pictures of Jordan from across the playground and 2 soccer fields.  ROFL  On the plus side, got lots of pictures of Alyce playing.  I’m such a good mom.  No, really I was watching him as I pushed her.  He even made a goal last night!  Not bad first practice of the year.

Swinging - that’s her carebear Jordan got her for Christmas last year.  He got each of the girls one.  She’s decided she loves it now.  And it made a handy dandy cushion to keep her from toppling over the top of the swing. No really, she wouldn’t have fallen out, but she loves to lean over the top and look at the ground, which in turn, leads to my horrifying thoughts of what could happen if she fell out going what 20 MPH on a swing?  How fast is she going here? Probably 2 MPH.  LOL

Me and My carebear.  She really has more hair.  It’s in a pony tail on the top.  LOL

See, Jordan really was there.  This is zoomed all the way out and then cropped quite a bit to see him.  Then a lot of noise removal. But, you can see him practicing. 

Kat was there too.  LOL  (red shirt)  That little girl with the blonde hair in the pink is her best friend.  She can’t wait for practice and games because she gets to see Morgan.  Ok, this picture is the same as the one above.  Zoomed all the way out.  Kat and Morgan were with Morgan’s mom on the playground for the big kids while I had Alyce on the little playground.

She came over to say hi to me.  And yes, she picked out her own tights, and yes, I thought she really needed them.  ROFL  It was wet and kinda cold, and if Pato hadn’t packed up all our winter clothes in boxes, leaving not one long sleeve shirt for anyone, they would have had layers on too.

Hey mom, you can start taking pictures of me again!

notice no motion blur?  she couldn’t slide very well in her adidas.  LOL

That’s all the ones I edited for today.  I need to edit the rest of Jordan’s from the first day of school.  He had requested that.  He wants them posted for all to see.  Especially the one where he is sitting on his backpack.  He thinks he is styling!  Well, he is, but he thinks so too.  LOL

I’ll do that tomorrow.  See, I blogged 2 days in a row.  I’m on a roll here!  Back to normal!  **knock on wood**

No plans for tonight.  I’m thinking of going out to my parents, but Pato hasn’t put my new fuel filter in my car and though it’s been acting normal.  I’m afraid it’ll start doing something funny again while I’m on the road.  We’ll see.  More car parts, that’s all we need.

I’m craving a breakfast burrito from McDonald’s again.   I haven’t caved in in awhile.  But, I may just go get one today.  LOL  YUMMY!  Not the most healthy choice though.

Have a great day!

P.S.  Don’t forget everything in the store is 40% off through tomorrow!

Yesterday we got a little package with some pictures and other stuff in it for Pato from his sister Yuri (pronounced Judy) in Mexico.   Here are the pictures that she sent.  (You’ll notice in some of these where Pato gets his lack of smiling in pictures.  LOL)

Yuri, Pato, Viviana (the one we think Alyce looks like) and Yuri’s son, Mateo on Pato’s lap.  And um, that’s her son Emiliano’s hair.  LOL

Viviana, Yuri, her husband Juan, Pato’s mom, Pato, Emiliano, and part of Mateo’s head.  someone is EXCELLENT at cutting off heads.  LOL

Pato’s mom, Pato, Viviana, Yuri, Juan, Mateo - notice when you’re in Mexico, all your hot sauce choices on the table?  LOL

Pato and Mateo in front of their church in Mexico.  This is for Mateo’s baptism.  Notice the nice sore on his head?  Pato said that Mateo is even  more, um - how to put this nicely?  more active than our children.  ROFL  This was from a face plant on the cement.  His got a lump on the one side and a sore on the other.  Poor kid.

This picture really hurt Pato’s heart last night.  And it makes me want to cry too.  This is from Viviana’s quinceañera.  It would have been taken in January of 2007.  That is Pato’s mom, Viviana, Pato’s dad, Yuri, and Emiliano.  It’s really hard to see his dad here.  The last time I was in Mexico, Jordan was 3.  And that was the last time I saw him before he died in March of this year.  It just hurts to see him, and I really wish I had been able to take the kids down to see him.  He never met his granddaughters.  :o(

His sister Daniela is the only one not in any of these pictures.  That is because she has been here in the states for I want to say close to 9 or 10 years.  I don’t think I have any pictures of her, but she looks like Yuri with lighter hair.  Next time we go up I need to take some.

Jordan had a great day at school yesterday.  He really liked his new teacher.  He was mighty relieved to have friends in his class from previous years.  And he was worried he wouldn’t know anyone.  I told him he would know almost everyone.  LOL  Kids - when do they listen to their parents? 

The girls and I survived our first day without Jordan.  Though Katiana didn’t want to go back to taking naps.  She wasn’t tired.  Yet at 2 I finally got them laid down and Kat slept the longest - til 5:30 when I finally went in and told her Jordan was home.  She popped out of bed, ran out here, and greeted him like he’d been gone for months.  LOL  She missed her brother.  She’s a little upset that her preschool hasn’t started yet.  She doesn’t go until after labor day. 

And soccer is tonight for Jordan. I am missing a shin guard.  That is my mission today if I so choose to accept it.  Find another red shin guard.  I guess I have to accept it because he can’t play without it.  LOL  Into the shoe closet I must dive.  I’m kinda scared that I’ll get lost in there.

Kat’s practice starts Tuesday.  Pato still needs to grab her a soccer ball and shin guards, but she has the cutest white, silver, and pink cleats.  I can’t find a pic of them online, but they are so little and so cute.  Now she wants a pink ball.  Cuz you know, it all has to be pink. 

Alrighty!  That’s it from me today!  Have a wonderful day!  Don’t forget everything in my store is 40% off through Saturday!