yeah, i suck at promises

sooooo about a week ago i promised "a flurry of activity" and new blog posts to recap the awesomeness that was the first part of june. ahem. so didn't happen. reminds me of e's witty little comment (*cue eyeroll here*): "You know what else is MIA? Your blog."

anyways, discovered that i had a draft post that never was published because it's woefully incomplete. so here it is, in all its random, jot-things-down-while-i'm-thinking-of-it glory.

Me: "Maddy, Who's that?" (Pointing to Ami).
Maddy (clear as a bell): "I don't know"

More fun things that I'm thankful for / still need to blog about:

• belly's THIRD birthday!!
• dinner with ana
• patron
• sitting on the beach (not so much the burning and peeling)
• drunk on the airplane
• family gatherings - baptisms and birthdays
  
• belly randomly shouting around the house, "I'm the Queen!"
• belly's birthday wishlist: a mic, a tray, a new puzzle and an iphone

what happens when you lack sleep

i'm exhausted... can't do many more of these late nights... feels like i'm in college again... too much work to do, not enough time to do it ... slave driving managers ... want something now, this is an emergency! ... my "normal" now is to work 9-5:30, make dinner/play with kids/put kids to bed until 8, then back to work from 8-2a... when will it end?

on the bright side... in my half-asleep/half-wakefulness this morning, i hear belly singing, "what do you want from me? what do you want from me?"

then this conversation ensues:
b: mommy are you tired?
m: mmm hmmm.
b: are you really really really really really tired?
m: yes.
b: but you have to work.
m: no it's ok.
b: but you have to, ok? because you have a lot of work.
m: but i'm tired.
b: but you have to work so you can get money.

total 180

it's my usual type of post... kid things that happened today.

1. belly wakes up from her nap, looks up at me, smiles and says, "i had a good nap."

2. belly, bulilit and nanny are watching tv in the basement, i'm sitting in the dining room doing work slash having lunch. i hear:
belly: it's pocoyo!
nanny: what? who?
b: i think it's pocoyo!!
mommy: pocoyo?? what channel is he on?
b: nick jr!

(is it totally wrong that i am super excited about pocoyo being on nick jr.? if you have no idea what i'm talking about, check him out. ah-dor-able and so catchy.)



3. e is out at a baseball game, so i get the kids situated and belly helps me cook dinner of homemade chicken tenders and pancakes. (can you tell she helped with the menu?) anyway, we are sitting at her new princess table (thanks pinky!) and chowing down. bulilit starts saying, "dada" so belly proceeds to go through the (short) list of words that bulilit knows.

belly: say, dada.
bulilit: dada.
b1: say mama.
b2: mama.
b1: say more.
b2: moooooor (at least that's what it sounds like).
b1: say doggie.
b2: WOOF-WOOF!

4. but of course, the evening could not end there. belly decided she didn't like having to sleep in the basement and would not sleep. awake babies + no daddy at home = mommy not being able to do her nightly ritual of cleaning up the house and catching up on work (because it's absolute hell with work right now). cue yelling match slash crying with a sprinkle of screams (and, um, spanks) for good measure. 2 hours after belly finally, FINALLY goes to sleep, bulilit wakes up and is yelling something fierce. SIGH. (i'm going to go hide in a corner now.)

soooooooo it's now 2:10 am and i think i am finally ready to go to bed. wonder if it will be a peaceful night ...

i know, i know...

ahh, blog, how i've neglected you. as a lifelong procrastinator, i have many excuses prepared ...

My reasons for not updating in almost 3 weeks:
-post miami funk
-prepping for e's trip to vegas
-absolute insanity at work
-belly's 3rd birthday
-continued insanity at work

so you see i haven't been purposely ignoring my blog! i always want to write a little something after belly and bulilit go to bed, but there's a kitchen to be cleaned, work to be done, showers to be had... it's quite frustrating really.

but through these past 18 days, i have many, many things to be thankful for... an unbelievable bachelorette party for my sis2be in miami, a husband who loves his wife and kids, fun family times and most of all, my eldest child's THIRD birthday.

ANYWAYS ... this is just a quick post to explain my absence. in the meantime, just to jazz it up, i've switched the design of the blog (this just seems more cheery!) to celebrate the first day of summer. rest assured, i have a few draft posts i just need to polish and then there will be a flurry of postings in the next few days. promise!

welcome to miami

a photo blog of the fun-slash-crazy time we had in miami to celebrate sis2be's bachelorette party!


relaxing on south beach saturday afternoon.


our sweet ride to the club saturday night. SWOOP!!


SHOTS!SHOTS!SHOTS!SHOTS!SHOTS!SHOTS!SHOTS! (i think these were woo woos, though it seemed like the shot of the weekend was patron. mmm.)


see the pink and black bracelets? yup, sis2be is in the middle of that mess!

the trip was ~heavenly~ and we all had a blast - good food, good music, good company. YAY girls weekend!

p.s. you know it was a good weekend when i was still drunk on the plane coming home on sunday!

MIA

i love things with multiple meanings... i will be m.i.a for a few days while i'm in MIA. haha. (i'm such a dork.)

A few days of sun, dancing, good food and drink, all with girls i adore? YES.

see you in a few!

sleep

e calls me the sleep nazi. i'm obsessed with my kids' sleep patterns. i worry when they don't sleep enough (which happens too often) and when their normal sleeping schedule is interrupted.

maybe it's just because i'm jealous and secretly wishing someone would impose a strict sleeping schedule on me so i can get 11 hrs overnight and a 1-2 hr nap in during the day.

thankful for my husband

nanny was sick today, but didn't figure out that she shouldn't be working until about an hour after she got here. so after i drove her home, belly, bulilit and i took a trip to my favorite store to pick up some necessities. the girls were surprisingly well-behaved during our 45minute trip, but then we got to the check out counter. bulilit decided she'd had enough of sitting in the cart and she wanted to run around. let me tell you, determined little almost-16 month olds can be very fast! i was literally that mom at the store with the toddler throwing a tantrum, holding up carts behind me as we attempted to exit the store.

because e felt sorry for me having to watch the kids unexpectedly, he arranged to be home at 12:30. while i still think we would've been fine on our own, i can't deny how much easier it is with e here. he kept belly busy while i did a little work (bulilit was napping by the time he got home), then kept bulilit busy while i put belly down for her nap. then, he packed both of them up in the car and had some daddy-daughters time while i cleaned up the house and caught up on emails.

to top it all off, e grilled dinner - steak and eggs. i heart summer grill season!