SURVIVING THROUGH TODDLERHOOD

MONICK'S BABY SHOWER

2010-02-23T23:15:00.000-08:00

I finally got to do something without eddie or the girls so so nice! The baby shower was decorated so nice and the cake balls were to die for! Love baby showers and cant wait for my own!

A few pictures I borrowed from brandie's photo album:

PARK PICNIC WITH MONICK AND LILLY (wed. 17)

2010-02-23T23:04:00.000-08:00

We spent a few hours at the park with monick and lilly, we brought our lunches and let the girls run and play. Nice excerise for them and me since lei lei and lilly decided this park wasnt cool enough for them and would take off..lol This week we've been so busy with doctor appts for me and tune up / oil change for suv, also dealing with this slumlord. Life is a lil hectic, and its also hard when my camera is acting up!

my climber

lilly playing in the dirt

TOT SCHOOL TIME - VALENTINE'S THEME AGAIN ? LOL

2010-02-19T22:10:00.000-08:00

Since we did so much last week we did less, and did more outside activities too. We learned about the number 2, things that are big and small, and tracing lines, also some valentine activities.

lei lei picked this activity to do off my craft table

marble trasfering with tongs

tracing straight lines

love the heart shaped ice cube trays

identifing big and small

They painted and added glitter and buttons to wood hearts
lei lei's
angelina's on the left lei lei's on the right
craft: making valentines for family

they both loved this activity

trip to the mall for some indoor excerise
lei lei falling down the slide

Unfortantely my park pics didnt make it to the upload, my camera really needs to be replaced.

A VALENTINE'S DAY TO REMEMBER

2010-02-19T22:05:00.000-08:00

The girls spent the night at grama's so and eddie and me could enjoy our valentine's day. We started with breakfast in seal beach, and we walked all of main street and up and down the pier. After we had ice cream at cold stone, yum! Then as we were leaving eddie handing me a valentine's themed bag which inside had a 2 rings, engagement and band. I put on both and were fleeing to vegas after the baby is born to get married, with 3 girls we dont need the wedding rather save it and have a hella of time in vegas :0)

THIS DRIVER IS UP TO SOMETHING!

WHATS IN THE BAG?

AND HERE IT IS ..

IGNORE THE MUCH NEEDED MANICURE NAILS

IT'S ABOUT TIME...

2010-02-19T21:55:00.000-08:00

We got our tax return and a good one at that, and decided it was time for a family vehicle. I wanted a suv that we could pay cash for no payments but that didnt go well, looked at several on craigslist then headed to used dealerships. I fell in love with the biggest one a chevy suburban, shes midnite blue and leather throughout, really clean, not dents, dings or imperfections, seats 8 and has electric everything. Oh my is it different to drive a v8 from the blue thunder( my kia v4..lol) I did name her, BIG N SEXY! Alertations we've done so far is new alarm with kill switch, and motion sensor (hey I live in buena park) GARMIN nagavgation , 22" BOSS rims with Toyo proxies low pro tires, complete wash and wax, and 2 bulit in headrest 9 inch tv's for the girls. She's my work in progress I want her slightly lowered, 24" RIMS, I want tv's for the third row and a tv for me in the front. wishfull thinking but hey maybe one day..

Room for tons of shopping and strollers :0)

Her profile

finally navagation

third row

second row with lei lei's seat protector

MY BOSS 22" RIMS

LEILANI'S 2ND BIRTHDAY

2010-02-19T21:50:00.000-08:00

Finally the weather was nice enough to throw her party, a month late and changed the date 3 times finally we celebrated, being 2 days before valentine's day of course we had a valentines theme! The girls had the cutest heart dresses on and it was a beautiful day at the park. My mom came too with my grandma. Thanks everyone for celebrating with us!

the heart cake I made

heart PB&J SANDWHICHES

BIRTHDAY GIRL

CRAFT TIME!

OUR YUMMY FOOD (SORRY MONICK!LOL)

NOT IN THE GREATEST MOOD

PAYTON AND HER CUTE TIGHTS

PLAY AREA

I HAVE A SLUMLORD..

2010-02-10T22:22:00.000-08:00

And I dont say this lightly, as before we had many problems in the above apartment, things are going downhill in the below apartment, I've asked several times for these things to be fixed and its excuse after excuse. I just wrote a formal letter, dicussing the problems that need to be fixed asap, and a timeline, of course with my mom being paralegal I document everything, and take pictures. On the other hand it has pushed me to start looking for a house, well the search is going but hard to find one in under 2000 a month price range. I looked at 5 so far and been actively looking for a couple weeks now. Need some prayers, I will take my time though and find the right house and the right landlord! What have the girls been up to ? Tot school and crafts and family time with the inlaws, plus lei lei's super late and put off birthday party is friday, and its really small but will be fun, I bought lots of fun stuff for gift bags, and super cute decorations, she's really excited! Me?! well im preggo 19 weeks and have two girls and another girl on the way, so im busy and worn out and tired but I keep going day in day out. The paranormal stuff and disappeared for now, lei lei's sleeping through the night for almost 2 weeks since the room was blessed again. Which is such a relief and I dont feel anything anymore, which now I can sleep!

USING THEIR TAG SYSTEM TOGETHER

SUPERBOWL AND A BLOODY NOSE

2010-02-08T19:25:00.000-08:00

On sunday we went to a superbowl party at visna's brother's house. They have 3 kids so the girls always have someone to play with. Well like usual lei lei was being daring and jumping off their stairs and fell leaving her with a bloody nose. We ended up leaving early to get her home and calm her down and give her some tylneol. After we got home we rented the movie THIS IS IT micheal jackson. Angelina is a huge fan and couldnt stop dancing and singing and copying his moves, I was very impressed ..lol I took two video's of it but for some reason they wont upload, any tips on fixing this???

angelina dancing

lei lei's pajama choice for the night

DATE NIGHT AT THE GUN RANGE

2010-02-08T11:36:00.000-08:00

It was eddie's turn for choice of date nite. He picked the gun range, well I can't shoot preggo but I so wanted to do, Eddie did about 200 rounds and helped with loading and his marksmenship. It's called INSIGHT in Artestia, really affordable and if you dont own a gun its only $10 to rent and you can try different ones! Eddie was using his bro in laws 9mm but I wanted to see a 44mag or maybe a 357. I can't wait not to be preggo and be able to shoot, seems like a stress reliever. After we headed for Roadhouse grill for dinner, yum! It was packed but ended up being a 20 min wait. Eddie invited lyn and visna over for a movie , we rented Zombieland. I loved it and want to buy it. It was funny and scary. It was so late they spent the night and visna had to borrow a pair of pj pants from eddie well visna wears size m and eddie wears xxl! Plus we need to do laundry and all he had was heart bottoms..haha I forgot to mention the girls were with my mom and grams for the night..lol Nice break. I'VE BEEN TRYING TO UPLOAD THE VIDEO BUT IT JUST WONT! I GIVE UP...

OUR TOT SCHOOL FOR THE WEEK

2010-02-08T10:29:00.000-08:00

This week we did alot of stuff and included lei lei in everyone of the activities. Alot of the idea's we used this week we borrowed from jill's tot school playdate, I wanted angelina to try all these and lei lei to try them again. I had to hit up all of the hotspots for supplies, alan party supply, target, joann's and the dollar store. I prepared all of them for the week, so when it was time I was quick and ready! Eddie helped out too, and was impressed with what the girls could accomplish in one week, He did question why is angelina going to preschool when I could be teaching her like this at home and probibly better than them. It is a question I need to think about...

First activity was these glittery heart stems from the dollar store and a round piece of strofoam, I marked holes and had the girls match up the sticks with the holes.

Next we did these 6 mini hearts with a 6 plastic organizer and a pair of metal tongs. I bought the items at joann's.

Then we did the salt shaker actiivty with tissue paper, flower beads and pipe cleaners. This challenging for lei lei with lil patience she can do it every time, angelina it wa easy but made her count out 3 beads for each pipe cleaner to make it a lil harder.

We also did a sugar shaker with glitter pipe cleaners, all they had to do was put them in the holes.

The the letter were learning about is F and they did a couple of worksheets on these, like letter tracing, coloring a fish etc...

Next I traced heart earsers with a pin on cardstock and had lei lei match up the 4 hear shapes, for angelina I did numbers 1-4 on the earsers and on the carstock I mixed the numbers order up for a more challenging activity.

Daddy did a heart sticker matching on cardstock, for angelina I did two different heart patterns that she had to copy by order and color, and for lei lei I did a simple big to small hearts, This activity lasted a good 20 mins with all the combinations of angelina's.

Since angelina's activity took longer I was prepared for another for lei lei, I had 3 small red plates with big, medium and small labeled on them and a bag full of 3 different sized pom pom's. She like this activity alot and spent a good amount of time on it.

Angelina still had her worksheets to do for her name tracing and a couple valentine activity sheets I had her do.

I did these 8 lil plastic container hearts with 1-8 written on the inside and and top of them, also picked up some different red buttons, lei lei I just had do 4 of them, but angelina I had do all eight and when it was clean up time had them match the tops to the bottoms.

A easy activity we did, I used a recycled pasta sauce jar and some plastic fake baby clothes pins and some tongs, the idea was to get all the pins in the jar before the timer of one minute was up, it ended up being a really fun acitivity.

One of our new activities was sweeping! I bought at the dollar store a small broom and dust pan and had some white buttons, I had both of them sweep them up and empty them in a container, quite challenging for a two yr old, she kept spilling them everywhere.

Our last activity I brought out my saved caps collection and let the girls play with them, I had angelina and lei lei sort by colors then sizes.

In the end the girls asked for more to do, which we did so much! Hoping for another sucessful week.

MUFFIN TIN MONDAY~ VALENTINE'S THEME

2010-02-08T10:17:00.000-08:00

We have been M.I.A. on this but were back..lol I mostly just forget, I end up reading the blogs and see oops it was muffin tin monday..lol I decided to do a valentine's theme since its the last monday before febuary 14. Each of the girls got three heart cups containing, mini pancakes, red grapes, and yogurt with heart sprinkles and of course pink and red juice (juicy juice). I added some cardstock voila! The girls loved it and finished their breakfast in record time.

TOT SCHOOL AT JILL'S

2010-02-08T10:10:00.000-08:00

Our friend had a tot school playdate at her house, we get alot of idea's from her and love reading her blog. Angelina got to spend the day with grams out to lunch and the park, so me and lei lei could have some one on one time. It was valentine's themed, lei lei did pretty great, I dont know if it was the noise or distraction, but she did almost every tray without her usual atitude. It was also nice to get out the house and see all our friends too! This was a great idea and I hope she does it again :0)

THE BIGGEST FIT EVER ~ LEI LEI

2010-02-01T00:37:00.000-08:00

Lei lei lately has been on my bad girl list, ,these little fits she throws are getting worse over the stupidist(if thats a word?!) things. Her biggest one is not wanting to sit in her carseat, not sure what triggered it but its literally a fight to hold her down and buckle her and she will cry, scream, and kick til she is out. My patenice is running so thin....I do have a video but it wont upload will try tomorrow!

Proof in the pictures:

A MUCH NEEDED DAY OUTSIDE

2010-02-01T00:28:00.000-08:00

First we started with having lunch with grams at McDonald's, then headed to my favorite park in buena park. The girls had a blast and so did grams(look at her picture hilarious!). We spent forever there. Then home for a snack for energy, I opened the garage and let them ride their many bikes/ ride ons for a hour. Grams was impressed that angelina rode her bike so well, and lei lei is pettling on her tricycle. In all it was great day and we need so many of these :0)

IT'S TOT SCHOOL TIME! WEATHER, MATH, NUMBERS 0-1

2010-01-31T23:52:00.000-08:00

Back on track with tot school this week. I introduced math to angelina, weather , and numbers 0-1 to both girls. This week It was more of a sucessful week for lei lei, she actually interacted more.

MATH AND NUMBERS:I made home-made flash cards (check my other post on how i made them) with simple numbers 0-3 and their combinations, she did well the hardest was the 3+2 combo but we worked through it. We also worked on the number 0= nothing and why it means nothing. The next was number 1. We did a color sheet, counting and tracing and writing out one.

WEATHER:We used our lil chart on the fridge I made everyday they took turns on the weather determination, We also did matching worsheets, and a rainbow craft with grandma as a helper, since they seen a rainbow for the first time in long beach, now angelina is really interested in them.

RAINBOW CRAFT:

ANGELINA:I did seperately name tracing and letter reconizing in her name, and a couple letter worksheets.

LEILANI:We did matching colors and shapes, counting with fishes, matching letters in her name and angelina's.

LOST POST~ ANGELINA'S FIRST HAIRCUT

2010-01-31T23:47:00.000-08:00

This some how was soposed to be posted a week ago! But I must have looked over it!
I finally trimmed angelina's hair, 2 inches off, and she asked for bangs. She looks so different and cute. What brought this on is eddie asked for lei lei to have bangs again so I cut her's. Of course angelina wanted her hair cut too.

PARANORMAL STATE OF MIND

2010-01-27T23:42:00.000-08:00

Lately "things" have been happening, sounds, playing with toys, walking in the girls room, I go in there and the girls are sound asleep. Starting two nights ago lei lei refuses to sleep in her bed, you literally cant force her, last night was the worst. We put her asleep at 830 but she cried off and on from 830 to 10 then brief sleep til 12ish when we heard cry for a good amount of time, I finally went in there to her she was sobbing uncontrolably and practicaly leaped in my arms. She was shaking and mumbling, I brought her to our bed, and tried to calm her down and talk to her, which communicating with a 2 yr old is hard. She kept saying monser monser..and I said show me whats bothering you..Well I carried her to her room and she pointed to the same window angelina seen the boy and most family that comes feels something, it gave me chills and wanted to cry, We went back to eddie and of course he skeptical and took her himself, she led him by the hand and ran to her room and pointed again. We finally got her back to sleep and put her back in her bed. Then around 3am angelina came in, which is highly unusual crying, saying "something is bothering me", Then fell asleep on our bed. The next day after picking her up from school she said, mommy I need to tell you something, of course thinking something to do with school or whatever is on a 3 1/2 yr old mind, She said, my fancy nancy doll was walking in my room last night, and I was scared, then continued to say and when I tried to get off my bed, she tried to hold my feet down" This gave me mixed feelings, I immediately told her oh you were dreaming, and no mommy not dreaming I was awake, thats why I came to your room" I want to believe my 3 yr old but this is a pretty crazy story, and she's so serious about it and constient in her story. (this is just one of the incedents)

My question is whats real and whats fake? Do you believe we are alone on this earth?
I know alot of people are skeptical, which hey thats how feel. I've witnessed many things throughout my life, especially with my mom and sister, and gloria. His mom believe's us and his family. I know your thinking theres got to be a logical reason, my girls dont watch scary movies or shows,and have never had these experiences before with them. At this point i'm not sure where to turn or what to do? We have had the apartment blessed, holy water, crosses and rosaries. It's my girls, my job is to protect them in any way possible and I feel like my hands are tied. My bro in law wants to set up a camcorder in their room, but im not sure on that. I'm asking for some prayers, please. I know this is a touchy subject, but its happening to us if you believe it or not.

HOME~MADE MATH FLASHCARDS

2010-01-27T11:34:00.000-08:00

Frustrated lately with angelina's school, I just dont think she's learning as much as I can teach her, when the teacher asks you for ideas and websites several times, plus the parents there suck their not friendly and always talk in spanish around me haha since I know, lil bitches! I'm the white devil I guess. In her class there is angelina which is mixed mexican and irish, and one black kid and the rest of latin decent and most dont speak english, so the debate is do we keep her in this school or pull her out? I love that she's interacting with kids her own age, but Im finding hard to find the positives. Anyways this post wasnt about that! lol

I couldnt find flash cards for math that would be good for a preschooler, So I made them! I made some problems on the laptop and printed them stuck them on pink cardstock, then added buttons to the numbers , then the answers on the back I did in number and word, so she can start reconizing the word that corasponds to the number. So far their a hit.

LUNCH AND THE MALL WITH LOLA AND LOLO

2010-01-27T11:18:00.000-08:00

As we were getting ready for a playdate at becci's, there was a knock at the door, not expecting anyone was lil hestiant about answering it, (I watch too much criminal minds) ..lol It was the inlaws, Surprise visit. Thinking they were just stoppng by continued on getting ready, til I hear their taking us to lunch, the akward feeling to tell them I have plans and why wasn't eddie telling them we have plans and agreeing for us to go..Pulling eddie aside, he of course said I'm not telling them no, So of course we ended up going with them, which really sucks havent seen my friends since december and feeling better damn it. After lunch we headed over to the B.P. mall to walk around and shop. Leilani talked her lolo into as many ride on they had, and theres alot in this mall. We headed to sears at the end of journey, where im not really a shopper there, but eddie is due to all the tools. Out of boredom I checked out the maternity section, Not bad! Nice stuff and plus size wow, not crappy looking stuff. I have one pair of pants that fit me and now that im showing my shirts arent fitting right. She offered to buy me a pair of pants and 3 shirts, which of course said no but she insisted saying you need clothes that fit and your comfy in, which is true. The pants needed to be hemmed but other than that the fit loose and comfy. Picking up angelina from pre school we caught up in that rain storm and no rain coat, which by the way her dad dropped off rain coat and rain boats last night, uhh anyone think its a lil too late? Whatever.
Sorry for the long post, had alot to say I guess..lol

POTTY TRAINING GIRL!

BBQ AT OUR PLACE

2010-01-25T01:03:00.000-08:00

On saturday we had a bbq at our place with lyn and visna, steak, pork chops and hot dogs, with salad, rice and grilled corn on the cob. YUM! They brought their wii controllers so we could battle it out at the new Super Mario Bros. So fun to be able play with 4 players now. I was in last place almost everytime, im a sore loser and suck at video games, hard to focus when you have lei lei is up to no good! Well got caught up in a game, and Eddie noticed it was too quiet, and angelina was in her room where's lei lei? She got real busy in our room/ bathroom, she got into all the bathroom cabinets, my make up and drawers, it was such a mess that I took pictures, this girl will be the death of me! She was probibly out of sights for 3 -5 minutes, she did alot of damage in a lil bit of time. I still can't get the carpet make up stains out, need some stronger stuff!

FINALLY TOT SCHOOL TIME!

2010-01-24T23:40:00.000-08:00

With being so sick and dizzy and preggo, its been rough adjusting with two toddlers and pregnant, not gonna sugar coat it , its hard! not supermom, But life is getting easier and with our winter break, I feel refreshed and ready for a challenge. We started slow this week and started tomorrow we will back to normal, I even planned the week out and put stuff together, hopefully it was help move things along.

First activity we did was color matching for lei lei , When I was with eddie at home depot we took a few double color samples to do a color matching board, It kept her entertained for about 7 minutes..lol

For Angelina, I printed out some cutting practice sheets, which I'm the worst to show someone how to use scissors especially since I'm left-handed and and cant cut straight for crap! She did good, needs more practice but seen progress with daddy's help.

Eddie cut out some hearts for the girls, and they decorated them with glitter and markers, I dont have one to show due to lei lei threw them in the trash, shes so nice!

Our next activity ended up being canceled due to a button fiasco, I had these button flowers planned out as a craft but lei lei got hold of the button and sprinkled them all over the house, Angelina would clean them up, which would take forever with lei lei's help , then lei would pour them out again! Drove me crazy and my patience was done at that moment.

(she knows she's in trouble!)

We also spent one day just doing puzzles, they have quite collection, so I put them all over the rug with their pieces, and it actually kept them occuipied for a good amount of time.

One puzzle I did alone with angelina, was her clock puzzle, LOVE THIS ONE! It teaches shapes, colors, numbers, and time. I did a lesson on how a clock works, and what number is that etc..

I'm starting numbers this week and the first number we did was Zero, I did a explain on what zero means and let her color a zero to add to her book of numbers im putting together.

Last I made a weather chart for the fridge, out of cutouts, cardstock, laminent, and magnets. (got the idea off allkidsnewtwork.com) and our friend jill's blog. All it is a sign saying TODAY THE WEATHER IS: I made 5 different magnets cloudy, snowing, raining, windy, sunnny. Angelina wakes up and wants to know the weather lately due to the storms, thought this would be a great way to learn for them, Today she said it was windy and sunny. I didnt think it was windy but she showed me that the trees were moving..lol Well I guess she was right!

FAMILY TIME AT JOHN'S INCREDIBLE PIZZA

2010-01-16T19:52:00.000-08:00

For a perfect saturday eddie's family and us met up at john's incredible pizza for some food and fun. There was no line which was amazing for a saturday, The food was great and they were impressed with so many choices of food, and drinks :0) The girls and everyone else had a blast with the games and rides, I won a horse race against my mother and sister in law, yea..lol We ended up staying over 3 hours. After we headed home for a movie and to try out the new super mario bros game for wii eddie bought us, which is so hard, I suck at video games..lol in My mother in law blessed our place and gave the girls blessed crosses to keep them safe with all the werid stuff going on in this apartment. She said the girls room has quite a presence feeling, I just for some reason feel uncomfortable in their room. I that just pray god protects us and keeps us safe from anything that shouldnt be here.

visna not feelin' so hot after that ride

angelina loved it

the guys racing against eachother

yes I'm the winner of the girls race

a lil rocket fun

everyone on the ride inlcuding brave angelina

average lei lei expression

CLEANING OUT THE GARAGE

2010-01-16T19:31:00.000-08:00

Eddie needs to get a hold on this garage its a mess, and we need some major organization, we threw out alot of stuff and donating shoes/clothes/ toys, and still have more to do but it is looking better. We let the girls play outside on their many ride ons which is awesome to be on the bottom floor with a connected garage. Angelina is getting so good at riding her bike, Eddie put on a bike handle to help but we dont even need it.

patiently waiting for the battery to charge and I cleaned their escalade and made it shiny again

there she goes

so proud of her!

FAMILY GAME NIGHT ~ AND A CREEPY EXPERIENCE~

2010-01-16T19:21:00.000-08:00

We had our first family game night, with lei lei turning two I figured it was time to try it out. First we played ELEFUN a game lei lei got for christmas, its a elephant that shoots butterflies out his trunk and you catch them with a net, we played this over and over, it really was fun and entertaining to watch them try so hard to catch one butterfly. Next we played Dora's version of candyland, Now that game went well except lei lei was trying to take all the cards and throw them, it was a good counting and color matching game for them , angelina was the winner! As we were all getting ready for bed angelina came to us and said there is a bow starrng at her in the window, well I freaked, eddie went to the window and their window is the last in the complex and faces a back area that is unused and overgrown, no one there of course. We asked for a description she said white skin black hair and no eyes, ok now im scared and I think its time to this place blessed. So I'm asking for some protection prayers, and if it is human pray I dont grab the gun and threaten them or worse, I wont have someone looking in on my girls, funny thing is the blinds were closed, when I asked why she looked out she said, she just said I dont know.

and here's our winner!

OFF TO THE DOC'S I GO

2010-01-16T19:04:00.000-08:00

I've been so sick and its not going way, I get out of bed, cant sleep, cant breathe just miserable, finally eddie talked me into going to my new doctor to get checked out. I have a really bad cold combined with a sinus infection and U.T.I dont forget im also 15 weeks pregnant..lol Life has been hard trying to deal with the normal every things, especially when you dont want to get out of bed. Lei lei was with us and she was all over the place, thank god they had a kid area, and a man was making her oragami animals which she would throw back at him, hence no pictures of that. Lately her new thing when she doesnt get what she wants is throwing herself on the ground and screaming so loud and high pitched that I think the glass will shatter, no seriously, girls has some lungs. She also doesnt like to be in her carseat now she thinks she should sit like us for some reason, which ends in one of her fits and screaming and crying til she either passes out or she is removed from the carseat. I thought she was in her terrible two's early, boy was I WRONG! My angelina bina has been so good lately with her homwork, cleaning her room, she feeds her puppy, and she also gets herself (after the shower) dried off, lotioned, dressed all by herself! So amazing how she's turning from a toddler to a big girl.

she loves these boots and wheres them all the time at home

doing her homework

at the doc's office "reading"

she says shes the new fancy nancy

HAPPY 2ND BIRTHDAY LEILANI !

2010-01-09T22:00:00.000-08:00

(Today my baby turned into a toddler, she's a big girl now. Her Lola took the whole family out tonite for dinner which we had plans to take her to john's incrediable pizza but the wait was 1hr and 1/2! Can you believe that? We ended up at Pat n Oscar's for dinner, lei wasnt herself really sulky and shy, you could tell she wanted to go to john's. After we headed over to the mall and walked around with the family and did some shopping and watched the ice skating which eddie wouldnt let me and lei lei go since im preggo and clumsy...lol We let her run around with her lil attitude. By the time we pulled in to our parking spot she was out. Were having her birthday party at the end of the month, since the apartment isnt ready for visitors :)
(angelina was at her dad's for the weekend :0(.. )
This look is after she found out no john's

then the fake tears

walking by john's

atleast she got one ride!

family photo

caged toddler for sale

this is a look to kill! no ice skating!

ice skating wall

yes im alread showing and yes m eyes are closed, both pics taken of us!

FINALLY FOUND MY CAMERA

2010-01-09T14:04:00.000-08:00

I've been so behind on my blogs due my damn camera disappeared, and then with the move then we really couldnt find it, but I found it today and trying to be back on track :0) Unfortnately we dont ave many pics of the things we have done lately. Well we moved down 3 flights of stairs to the bottom I couldnt do the stairs anymore and with all the problems we really wanted to move, We actually didnt want to stay here at all but didnt want to pay another deposit, the owner offered this apartment at the same rate we pay. This place is slightly bigger as far as the kitchen and the celings are taller, we have a patio not a balcony and our garage is attached to the kitchen which is really nice. Our apartment is right next to the laundry room too, so life will be alot easier for us. We are fully moved in since yesterday now to the unpacking, which I hate. The girls spent 2 1/2 days at gramas for us to get this place in liveable condtions for them. They had a blast going out to eat all over, parks and movies.

WE HAD A MOVIE NIGHT AT HOME

BOUGHT THESE GREAT POPCORN HOLDERS FOR $.25 EACH

IT'S 2010 AND TIME FOR A NEW YEAR

2010-01-09T13:56:00.000-08:00

We celebrated this year at the inlaws. They had a lil party with karaoke and movies and lots of food and family, also some booze but not for me. I let the girls this year stay up, we had noise makers and popers. It was a really good nite. This year has been such a roller coaster of events and feelings. We went through moving to our own place, angelina starting preschool, leilani getting her first scar, eddie getting laid off, lots of negative family stuff, and positive too and also a pregnancy. I'm hoping for a much better year, and I hope also for a happier year too. Everyone has resloutions mine ?? Well more patenice with the girls, to lose weight which will be a challenge with being pregnant, and be more relaxed. I hope everyone had a safe and fabulous New year's eve.

SHE DID THIS ALL NIGHT!

LOVING HER BELL

AND TO A NEW YEAR TOGETHER

SEE I TOLD YA...

SCARED OF ALL THE NOISE FROM OUTSIDE

VISNA LETTING ONE OF THE POPPERS GO

DINNER AND A LIL BOXING

2009-12-31T02:46:00.000-08:00

Eddie had the day off, we headed out late to do some errands and head over to his parents for dinner and a movie. As they are a pretty crazy family, their so warm and welcoming. Always with hugs and food! Even if its digusting fish..lol His sister, lyn picked up a movie and pizza for a family night in. The movie never happened due to a boxing fight with COTTO VS PACQUIAO. If I havent mentioned this before their Filipino, and very proud of their fighter. I gotta say he's a pretty amazing boxer. Uncle tay tay gave the girls their christmas presents, 3 procelain dolls, one for lei lei, angelina and the new baby, thanks for the faith of it being a boy! (im being sarcastic!) They were really pretty but scared with how hard the girls play with their stuff, I tried to put them up but tay tay kept giving them back to them , oh well! Angelina named all 3, ASIA, ANGELA, AND ANNALISE. Where did she get these names?! no idea, but she's firm on them..lol We had a great time and some sleepy lil girls ready for bed.

The whole family

two of the pretty dolls

angelina loved her "asia" doll

NOT A PRETTY POST

2009-12-31T02:17:00.000-08:00

Well I knew certain people wouldnt be estatic about a new baby, but did I think this would open up such a can of bullshit? ahh NO. This is my blog and my way to vent, and I dont have a loving and caring family, their (almost) all backstabbers and shittalkers and all around haters. I know that sounds harsh but its so true, and I wish it wasn't. I didnt have a fairytale childhood, actually quite grimm, with a mom that had a drug problem, and always put herself first, a redneck, beating KKK member of a father, did I mention mentally unstable?! Plus I've been the black sheep, my mother loved and treated my sister differently from me that you would think that I was not of blood, I used to dream that I wasn't related and my real family would save me, but they never did. I vowed to have a better life, well I "messed up" alot as a teen and got married young, and then divorced. Meet angelina's dad which to be honest I didnt want relationship, but got pregnant(which for 7 years I was told no babies for me) I had my beautiful angelina, I promised myself I would do everything in my power to give her a better life. I would give the best clothes I could afford, healthy food, lots of love, and raise her to be a smart woman. Her dental health was important to be in a werid way due to I grew up with black teeth, my mom feed kool aide in a bottle to me. As far as religion well I believe in god but in the whole religion thing, why? well my mom and aunt are avid church goers but yet talk shit all the time, judgmental, never offering a helping hand. If this what their church promotes, no thanks. As I felt the rejection from my mom as a child/adult, I see her doing this to my girls now, If you could see how she acts or her normal behavior, I hear about a few of my friends parents and I'm so jealous on how they act like real grandparents, and why am I surprised? well I shouldn't be. I've decided to cut some of my family completely out of my life. I know it seems harsh, but some people will never change. Eddie's mom is very religious and not once has she judged me or talked shit about anyone, and always offered to help in some way, his dad too, trust their not perfect but I would take them anyday over what I have. I'm just fed up with them and dont need this extra stress in my life.

On postive side Me and eddie are doing so much better, and are moving to a bigger, better apartment on the bottom at the same rent and eddie is up for a raise. Also we are excited about our thrid and last, We actually are planning to move to a house in 6 months as soon as eddie completes his school for class A, his job at fed ex will double in pay after he gets his lic. I'm really excited about that. I'm glad I have some good friends I've called lately to vent, thank you!

IT'S CHRISTMAS

2009-12-27T17:14:00.000-08:00

We woke later than I thought at 830 am, eddie ran down stairs to get the "santa gifts". Leilani was very excited, angelina not so much she was so grumpy that we woke her up took about 5 minutes for her to realize what was going on, then she got excited! Leilani loved opening gifts, and angelina was so fast, she would open and say next! With all the gifts they got from all our family and us, we had enough to open a toy store..lol After came the aftermath of clean up of paper, and taking all the stuff out of boxes. Grama made us a delish breakfast and we all tried out my new special edtion KEURIG coffee machine, I also got a old navy gift card from eddie for $$$ to get new clothes. I have another gift but I dont get it til next week, wonder what it is??

After a lazy morning we headed to his parents for a christmas party and more gifts. I was the master of the karaoke! All the men ended up drunk and acting special, always fun to see drunks act up when your not. This was one of best christmases, I missed my bear, but spyed on him to see how his christmas went.

OUR CHRISTMAS EVE

2009-12-27T17:08:00.000-08:00

Eddie had to work, but he didnt have to work late! Angelina went to her dad's last night, they celebrate and open gifts on christmas eve. With me and lei lei being sick we decided on having christmas eve dinner out. Not to mention no clean up :0) I forgot everything closes early, We ended up at chili's which I love. My grama and mom joined us and came back to the house to spend the night. We watched movies and opened one gift. Leilani got a pair of red glitter fancy nancy dress up shoes. I got some pedicure stuff, eddie got new slippers. Lei lei got worse and threw up all over me and her cute christmas pj's! YUCK! Angelina finally came home (late!) and we all headed to bed. Christmas morning is going be great!

christmas eve tree

weridest picture of my mom creeps me out

sweet lei lei at dinner

her christmas eve present
fancy nancy shoes!
isabel hiding behind grams
opening her gift
daddy's gift
love the shoes

EARLY CHRISTMAS FOR ISABEL

2009-12-23T13:40:00.000-08:00

Eddie and me ventured to dinner and marshalls by our selves while the girls played at gramma's. We had some good burritos at baja fresh and my favorite black salsa. After we headed to a new Marshall's in seal beach, jill told us about. I bought some cute sliver flats for angelina but they didnt have lei lei's size. We also bought the rest of our christmas gifts and a hot pink plush bed for Isabel and she some good smelling doggy shampoo. I was going to wait til christmas but its been cold and she needed a bed.

its a corner bed and it has glitter!

she's so cute!

A TODDLER CHRISTMAS PARTY

2009-12-23T13:26:00.000-08:00

I thought having a lil christmas for the girls would be super fun for them, We invited a few of our friends it was held at monick's instead of my place due to the nasty situation. Everyone came and had a fabulous time. We did a sugar cone christmas tree's and we a gift bag for the kiddies. And the food was delish and tons of it. We also did a book exchange where angelina got a great craft book with asscories. and Leilani got a light up musical nativity book. The girls were exhausted. Thanks everyone for coming and sharing this holiday, and special thanks for monick for holding it at there house.

SANTA AND FAMILY TIME

2009-12-23T13:16:00.000-08:00

Eddie finally had a day off and we took the girls to see Santa. They were so excited, but the line was long and the mall was crazy! Angelina wasnt scared this year and excited to tell him what she wanted which was a bike, camera and a pink tag system. Leilani wasn't either did say much and wouldnt smile for the camera. After we headed to the inlaws for dinner and a movie. The girls wouldnt leave the tree alone and touching their gifts. We had a great time.

I have no idea why they have such a bermuda tan.

NEW DOLL FOR THE DOLLHOUSE

2009-12-23T13:11:00.000-08:00

I came in their room to find them using the puppy as a doll in the doll house. So cute and funny. We finally have a name that is agreed upon ISABEL. We call her bell for short.

her patio terrace

I think she needs a cushier bed

wheres the bubbles??

AND WINTER VACATION BEGINS

2009-12-22T07:40:00.001-08:00

Angelina had her last day of school last week, with a lil christmas party. She recived some fun gifts. I can't wait to enjoy doing what we want for a couple without being on a schedule.

her present from the class

ohh a game!

a book from her teacher

and a framed picture of her.

COOKIE DECORATING TIME

2009-12-22T07:31:00.000-08:00

With the cookies we baked yesterday we were ready to decorate, even eddie and grama were in on the fun, I made sure my lil monkeys washed their hands good, I ended up letting the girls munch on the ones they made. Leilani was decorating then eating over and over, angelina is a over decorator and wants it all on one cookie. Eddie made one then he ate it and gave up, figures ...lol I made a bunch with grams, we were lil competive on who did the better cookies :)~

Everything we needed

go lei lei

eddie is on love with his cookie

angelina and grams

finished product

BAKING UP A STORM

2009-12-22T07:24:00.000-08:00

Before all the "madness" Angelina and me got our bake on! We made peppermint bark, which both girls helping peel and smash the candy, 3 chocolate nut clusters, and sugar cookies for decorating. She's such a big helper and is really interested in baking. Was too happy that all this stuff wasnt for us to eat! Eddie even helped with the mixing.

M.I.A. DUE TO GROSSNESS

2009-12-22T07:02:00.000-08:00

Forget everything that happened before this incident this ones superseads over all! I went into the kitchen around 12am to get water, and noticed like brown smears on the ground, thinking mudd?? not sure, then I felt something on my arm, WTF! looked down to see a maggot, yes a FING' MAGGOT! Looked at the ground closely again, and they were on the floor, then all of sudden they were falling from the ceiling, looking up was like a horror movie, in slow motion, to find a ton of them coming out of the water sprinkler system! I was so digusted, freaked out, ran yelling for eddie, and he couldnt believe his eyes, the damn things caused the the sprinkler head to drop down and they were climbing out, We had no idea what to do, called the owner, no response eddie tried, killing me, sealing off the hole, and taping it up and then came the 3 hour clean up. I was so exhausted, tired, and disgusted, and was sick of throwing up. Finally our owner called us back around 730 am, almost to accuse me of lying which took pictures, and they came back in the morning! She and some random guy(no professional) came and did the ghettoest clean up ever, I left with my grams, so I could take the girls for breakfast,(cant eat in a maggot infested kitchen!) To come home to a half ass job, and still maggots, and this was caused due to her SLUMLORD ways of not keeping the buliding up to par, a rat crawled up in our attic and died, how lucky for us. At this point I completely lost my mind, and called the owner and the health dept, and housing authority, When Im pissed watch out. I told her im moving and not paying a single penny more of rent, want my deposit back and I wont be cleaning when I leave, she complied but If she didnt had made my formal complinants with health dept. For a couple of days we stayed away from home except to sleep, they finally all died, I did a head to toe bleach of the kitchen and floors (twice) My hands were literally raw. And there gone, and were moving and looking for a new place that is maggot/ slumlord free. This was a hard story to share to me, due it was embrassing/ disgusting but It feels good to get it off my chest.

this is what they were coming out of (aftermath photo)

PUPPY PLAY TIME

2009-12-15T21:06:00.000-08:00

The girls really enjoy this puppy, they snuggling with her, and playing on the ground, and putting her in their doll house and strollers. I also enjoy this lil puppy snuggling up to me to watch tv. Unfortantely her name can't be Lola, eddie said no go, lola in eddie's language means grandma, and his mom would be really pissed about that..lol So we still haven't decided on a fancy enough name for angelina.

the sweater is lil too big, its a size xs

a closer look

lei lei enjoying her puppy

TOT SCHOOL : LEILANI CRAFT TIME

2009-12-14T15:25:00.000-08:00

Christmas tree:
We used a handful of pom poms scraps of green, brown and yellow cut into shapes, and glue. Definate hit with lei lei and she really enjoyed the one on one time.

our items we used

hard at work

finished project

Second project: A blizzardy day!

blue construction paper, white pom poms, various sizes of snowflake foam stickers, and glitter/snowflake glue. She like this one but hated touching the glue, keep saying oh no! and want the glue off her fingers. This was my favorite project.

our items used
very careful with the glue
almost done
finished masterpiece

A TRIP TO FONTANA AND BACK FOR A NEW FAMILY MEMBER

2009-12-14T15:06:00.000-08:00

Yes! eddie is crazy , had to start with this, because you will be thinking this! Eddie decided he wanted to buy the girls something really special for christmas, a chihuahua puppy. See we dont have the greatest track record with animals especially cats,they run away or dont mix well with us, or our fish died, Tragiedy! We did have a chihuahua before named chicco but we couldnt keep him at grams and kept him at eddie's parents which his sister fell in love and stole him from us. I always wanted another. Eddie wanted a male but im more of a femal type of animal, angelina got to pick and she picked the cutest female puppy ever! Tell you the truth she is mine! and I love her and she's my pet already loves sleeping on me and following me around, Eddie totally spoiled her too with a sweater, matching collar and leash and really good puppy food. Now if only I can get her potty trained. Were trying the puppy mat method. She's a teacup and 11 weeks old. As far as a name well angelina wanted fancy nancy but I talked her out of that to pick LOLA. Still fancy she says. Unfortantely our car has been acting up and battery died over there and we replaced cost us way to much! But what were we gonna do stranded in horrible fontana, bleh on that place, since we were stranded there for a lil bit, Angelina got to see her dad and I got to see the house she goes to for the first, interesting...

thank god they had toys!

patiently waiting daddy

the new puppy

i'm a cutie pie

lei lei is chocking it!

STEP BACK IN CHRISTMAS TIME

2009-12-13T00:47:00.000-08:00

Remancing about how fast time flys heres the girls christmases.

ANGELINA:
2006

2007

2008

LEILANI:

2008

PLAYDOH FUN SATURDAY

2009-12-13T00:20:00.000-08:00

With the rain and a killer miagraine, we stayed home and mostly in bed in our pj's all day. We watched christmas movies and snacked. I broke out the playdoh for some fun, I made a snowman and a christmas tree, the girls made stamp shapes with these little playdoh set I bought at the $1 dollar store. Kept them busy and me for about a hour :) Eddie got pizza and breadsticks for dinner, and I passed out! This migraine is killing me. Hopefully tomorrow it wont be raining so we can get out of the house and go see Santa.

OUR CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS

2009-12-11T23:12:00.000-08:00

Christmas is my favorite, tied with halloween, holiday. Wanted to share our decorations Our tree looks so pretty but when I take a picture im not happy, oh well! really need a new camera, think i'll buy one with my tax return!

here's our tree

our countdown to christmas I made

all dressed up!

all 4 stockings hung

look how cute angelina's is, its lights up too!

corner of the kitchen

our "holiday mirrors"

the table is ready too!

EXPERTMENTING 101 : SANTA GROW

2009-12-11T22:42:00.000-08:00

I went to micheals and picked up a santa grow in water, in the dollar section. I thought this would be great for me and angelina to work on this one. I explained what it was and what were doing. DAY ONE: First we measured him at 1/2 inch and submerged him in water, We checked after one hour but no change, Decided we would just check him again in the morning.

DAY TWO: It's been 24 hours and hes lil over 2 inches, were going to leave him one more day and see if he grows anymore.

Third and final day: he ended up being only 3 1/2 inches. Angelina I think was hoping for a huge santa..lol

a whole 3 1/2 inches

happy with her santa and lola

this picture is too cute not to post~

CRAFT TIME: SNOWGLOBES

2009-12-11T22:32:00.000-08:00

I've been wanted to one of these with the girls for awhile, but couldnt find the right one to test out, decided in the end just to do it my way, I wasnt completely satisfied with them but the girls loved the finished product. Leilani helped with glitter and beads and picked her figurines but that was it more into playing with the beads. Angelina on the other hand was very hands on, kept saying, I can do it, let me do it ..lol We ended up making a different type of snowglobe where the items move and float around when you shake and it sits upright, I kinda like it better :)

here's the items we used

adding some beads

some glitter glue with snowflakes
dont forget the water
Finished product, lei lei's on left and angelina's on the right

RAINY DAY AT LAZY DOG'S

2009-12-11T22:26:00.000-08:00

Agelina had a special day at school, Pajama day! She was lil skepitcal at first but then loved the idea. After we dropped her off We headed to Lazy Dog's for lunch, I've been wanting a buffalo chicken sandwhich with blu cheese butter forever. But Lei Lei decided she wanted to act up the whole time there, thanks for ruining a delish meal LEILANI!

NO PICTURES PLEASE

WONDERFUL FACE

CRAFT TIME: JINGLE BELL BRACELETS

2009-12-11T22:21:00.000-08:00

I thought jingle bell bracelets would be a great craft and motor skill activity, They both worked on it, shockingly. Leilani had trouble with the bells but the opening was lil too small next time I'll pay attention when shopping, angelina actually did a pattern and kept throughout the bracelet, we will be doing this again, very fun! All we used was red/green pipe cleaners, gold bells, and white pony beads.

KAYLA'S 2ND BIRTHDAY PARTY

2009-12-11T22:14:00.000-08:00

Our friend kayla turned two and we celebrated with a tinkerbell theme at Jill's house :0) It was really nice to get out of the house and see our friends and play. Leilani was into everything, maybe you can see how my daily life is and why im completely exhausted! I actually got to relax for a sec, and catch up with the girls, its been so long, need to venture out of the house more. Happy Birthday Kayla!

The whole group

leilani really interested in kayla's face painting

my lil piano player

ANGELINA'S TOT SCHOOL TIME

2009-12-08T21:25:00.000-08:00

I'm going to do seperate posts for different activities for each of the girls. Seems like leilani isnt interested in what angelina does and angelina gets bored with lei lei's stuff.

Angelina is 3 1/2 and goes to preschool, I still do activities at home with her. (just in case your new to the blog..lol) She did two pages in her workbook, (great $1 investment from target dollar spot) Then I printed some activity christmas pages for her to do, Angelina did great, the drawling other side of santa she said was tricky but she did fabulous. She always does good on her word and picture matching. She's growing up so fast, and getting more beautiful and smart by the day. I'm such a lucky mom.

A MUFFIN TIN MORNING

2009-12-08T21:15:00.000-08:00

I've been a funk and tired decided this morning it ends. I mad the girls a special breakfast in our christmas muffin tins. Since I usually do lunch and only for lei lei, angelina was so jazzed about it. I did heart shaped waffle and bite size dippers, maple syrup, applesauce, and clementane cuties oranges and of course a juice box. It wasn't really a theme but they love all these items so does that count ? lol

A VERY RAINY MONDAY

2009-12-08T00:21:00.000-08:00

I haven't seen it rain this hard in a long time, almost didnt take angelina to school but had to do some errand with eddie anyways. Now I think about it I should have taken atleast one picture. Leilani was very into the rain and loved it. Angelina was worrying about getting wet. I let the girls open there gifts from the christmas party, hands down lei lei's favorite is the talking baby doll and angelina's was the barbie dress rockstar. Well lei lei loved the dress up too! I did get some pic's of that, and they thank their aunt amy for the fabulous gift!

also a favorite was her mermaid barbie

rocker lei lei (why is the picture down? ask lei lei)

her baby she loves

rocker barbie angelina

AT THE INLAWS (SUNDAY NITE)

2009-12-08T00:16:00.000-08:00

We headed over to the inlaws for dinner and family time. As usual the girls tear up the house! and couldn't wait to get a hold of their tree. It was nice to let their lola and auntie chase after them instead of me. We always have a great over there.

candy stealer

my mother in the 80's

never told to sit on yours mom's lap

they were playing there favorite game , bum!

BIRTHDAY FUN (sunday)

2009-12-08T00:08:00.000-08:00

We headed over to friends house to celebrate Tyler's thrid birthday! The weather was cold but never stopped my girls from enjoying the bounce house and sandbox. The girls loved getting out of the house and playing with other kids then themselves. We didnt get to stay as long as they wanted, due to we had plans with the inlaws, Great Bday party :)

playing with many elephants

taking a break, well angelina never stopped bouncing

funky net picture

OUR FAMILY CHRISTMAS PARTY (saturday)

2009-12-07T23:53:00.000-08:00

It was held in Temecula at Amy and Brian's house. Eddie wasnt able to with his holiday fedex schedule. But mom, grams me and the girls headed out there. It was nice to see everyone and the food was great too. Mckenzie and angelina really got along and I was so surprised the little conversations they where having. There getting so big so fast, they are only one day apart, so that makes them special cousins. Leilani was up and down the stairs and into everything, making me nervous with her stitches being almost healed. The group pictures of the kids didnt go so well, but what did you expect with 4 kids under 4??? In all we had a great time and cant wait for next year.

take one (one of my favs)

take two

take three?

here they are best picture I could get..lol

there's the girls

piano lover's

love this picture

ITS A BLUR

2009-12-07T23:50:00.000-08:00

From tuesday to friday I was still feeling the same, blah, and I did homework with angelina every night we just didnt do anything else, If I could do the laundry and some housework that was fabulous, I feel really bad, I did have a few pictures but there again missing, I m wondering if I need a new camera or a memory card. hmm First time there is no pics for this post...

AND HERE COMES THE TREE (monday)

2009-12-07T23:42:00.000-08:00

Me and the girls on monday were taking a late nap and eddie came home with a surprise, our christmas tree! I love real christmas trees, nothing like the feel and smell of it. As soon as the girls woke up they wanted decorate it, I wont show a finish product til im done shopping for more decor, which will be in another post :)

CHRISTMAS TIME AT DISNEYLAND (last sunday)

2009-12-07T23:32:00.000-08:00

To start out I have been feeling feeling very under the weather and behind on everything and on top of everything my camera is earsing my pictures so I wont be posting any tot school or muffin tin monday. BLAH.

We had our usual lazy sunday then headed to disneyland for some christmas spirit. I absolutely love christmas there, it doesnt feel like christmas til we go to disneyland. Unfortantely I'm limited on pictures due to my stupid camera, I do have some! It was pretty busy but was able to get on quite a few rides. It was chilly but still enjoyable. Can't wait to go again.

sideview of the castle

she tired really hard!

MY FAMILIA

NEW HATS

FUNKY ASS PICTURE OF US AT AUTOPIA

LEILANI + ER = STITCHES

2009-11-28T19:25:00.000-08:00

The girls woke me up this morning a lil bit before 9 am, as usual on a saturday eddie works and we usually hang at home til he returns. I was watching tv, listening to the girls run around the house and play, then a loud "thud", screaming then angelina saying "mom theres blood" I jumped out of bed headed to the screams theres lei lei walking towards me with blood running down her face, I had a mini panic, then mommy skills kicked in started cleaning the wound, it deep and kept bleeding, cut through her left eyebrow, superfical as this sounds, thinking oh god I hope it doesnt scar! I didnt want her growing up with a scar down her face. I knew it needed stitches, so I called grams to take us to ER, I knew someone would have to sit with angelina. And as I predicted the doctor said it needed stiches. I had to leave the room as my baby was held down and put a needle in her face, and got stitched up, I have never heard my daughter scream so sadly that I went in the bathroom to cool down, felt like forever but was only 4 minutes as soon as she seen me she jumped in my arms and I cried like a big baby. My lil scarface. As dramatic as this sounds (if you know me, then you already know this fact) it only took 2 stitches and wasn't that big of a cut.

(will be adding a picture of stitches when the swelling goes down, it swelled up lil bit, yikes)

MY FIRST TURKEY

2009-11-26T22:16:00.000-08:00

I'm 30 yrs old and never did a turkey all by myself, this year I did ! and it didnt burn or raw and was on time and not dry! Very happy about my success. I did a very basic, traditional Thanksgiving dinner, cranberry sauce, candied yams, stuffing with celery and apple, turkey gravy with homemade mashed potatoes, green salad, rolls,and of course TURKEY!! We did have pumpkin pie, mini apple pies for dessert. I'm so thankful for my family and to have our own place and to afford thanksgiving. My grama and mom joined us today. BUT, this is the first year in so so long, that my sister and her family hasnt joined us. Now that was something I wasn't thankful for. Maybe next year things will be different. Thank you God for all blessings this year.

MY PRETTY TURKEY

GRAMA CARVING THE BIRD

THE GIRLS MEAL

HERE'S THE FAMILY

SOME OF OUR FOOD..

(I really need some serving dishes I will buy this year!)

MAKE YOUR OWN PIZZA NIGHT

2009-11-25T00:34:00.000-08:00

Our day started as usual angelina to school, then off for the errands, grocery shopping, a return at old navy, and a stop for a car ride for lei lei.

Then home to prepare for dinner. I thought making our own mini pizza's would be a great dinner and learning activity. I handmade the dough in advance and got the sauce stuff ready to make, When angelina got home from school we made the sauce and layed out all the ingridents for assembly. We had Italian 4 cheese, homemade sauce, mushrooms, onions, pepperoni's. First angelina went and I let her shape her own dough and make her own pizza, leilani I helped lil bit with the shape of the dough, but she did all the toppings herself. Eddie got really into it, tossing his dough in the air, SHOW OFF! LOL It all came out great, and even eddie wanted to do another night like this. Grandma was there for dinner too, but was hesitant about trying the pizza. Great family night.

Before (angelina on the left, lei lei on right)

AFTER

MUFFIN TIN MONDAY ~ FOOD I'M THANKFUL FOR

2009-11-25T00:28:00.000-08:00

Another muffin tin moday is here. I did a theme of Food i'm thankful for as a mom, things the girls will eat when there being super picky! I had a tree shaped muffin, perfect for the holidays.

Whats in it?!
1. vanilla yougurt, (dora package!)
2. apples
3. turkeyn cheese mini hawaiian bread sandwhich
4. cheddar cheese cubes
5. spongebob cheese its
6. a dill pickle
(lei lei and me love cheese!)

ANOTHER GREAT WEEKEND

2009-11-25T00:02:00.000-08:00

Saturday eddie works, So we headed sears for a sale with grams, which didnt last long with no stroller! We only bought a couple pairs of pj's for angelina, I'm not a sears fan, except for appliances. After we had lunch at McD's(girls choice) and let them play outside. Eddie got home early,and talked grama in a game of WII. We actually spent almost hour in bowling and kareoke. Leilani actually trys her best to sing its so funny. Grama and eddie battled it out in bowling. Grama offered to take the girls overnight and to church the next day. At first I said no, I dont like her taking on too much, but she insisted and the girls actually act like angel's with her. Me and eddie headed out for a date nite. I wanted to go check out the new gardenwalk in anaheim, shops and resturants. It was nice, kinda empty. We had dinner at Cheese Cake Factory their food is so good! After we headed to rent a movie and a short stop at Target for a few nessities. I also go to show some ideas for christmas presents for the girls, We can't do that when their with us.

Yes we condone bag play! (only with us around!)

leilani ripped it!

serious keraoke girl

Sunday Eddie woke me up early and took me to breakfast in Huntington beach, after we walked around the beach and the shops. I picked up a new Bob Marely shirt for angelina at Born Punk. Her old one has a new owner, leilani! After we headed to Old navy, since I froze my ass off last night, I dont own a jacket. He bought me a beautiful black wool jacket hits my knees, looks so nice on, and the best part it was 50% off! Finally got the call the girls were at grams so we headed over there. I helped my mom with starting a facebook account, yes my mom is on facebook. Then it was dinner time, and we all headed to CoCo's for dinner. Leilani wasn't in the greatest mood, but still ended up being a great dinner. Perfect Sunday nite.

TOTALLY TOTS

2009-11-21T11:13:00.000-08:00

my girls were featured on TOtally tots!
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SNOWMAN CRAFT

2009-11-19T22:13:00.000-08:00

Tonite I had a fun craft planned, out of cotton balls, blue paper, felt, googly eyes, glue,pipe cleaners and chalk.. I did all the cutting of felt and drawing of outline of snowman, but the girls did all the assembling, well with lil help from me with lei lei ..lol They loved, loved this craft, and kept them busy for awhile. I got this idea from: allkidsnetwork.com. Leilani tore hers up later on and angelina's too, which caused a big fight between them. What angelina doesnt know, I put the snowman back together, and will be the first thing she see's on the fridge in the morning, and lei lei can't reach it.

ITEMS NEEDED

ANGELINA'S IN THE MAKING..

LEILANI'S FINISHED SNOWMAN

AND ANGELINA'S

TOT SCHOOL TIME

2009-11-19T17:31:00.000-08:00

Angelina has been working on the letters E, F, and G. We did a few tracing worksheets including these letters and her full name. She getting much better at it.

The first project we did was marble painting, which included a blue piece of paper, marbles , white paint, tape,sicssors, tongs and cookie sheet. Since I have no pictures due the damn camera I'll try and explain, tap piece of paper to cookie sheet with tape, dip marbles in paint with tongs and drop on paper and roll around, we used 3 marbles, we were trying for a snowflake effect after it dried we folded it several times and we cut shapes of the paper. I did this was leilani too and she loved it.

The second project we did was a fall tree, use green paper, different color bingo markers,sicssors and toliet paper rolls. This was a simple but fun activity that both enjoyed, I just cut out a tree shape, cut slits on the top of the roll, and let them decorate and figure out how to attach it.

WHAT A BUSY DAY

2009-11-17T20:25:00.000-08:00

Started out with cleaning a very messy home, and cleaning of two lil dirty monsters. Then off to school for angelina. We went to lunch with grams at subway, which leilani ate about 4inches of my sub. After we headed to Kohl's to do some xmas shopping. Grams bought angelina some warm pj's, Leilani has so many they barely fit in her drawer, and with no help again this monthfrom her dad, this was very much appricated! Grams did some xmas shopping and so did I, I bought matching christmas eve pj's for the girls, and kids tough digital camera for angelina for christmas. After we headed to the dollar tree for a night light for the girls room(which I forgot in the van!, halloween one is put up now, Then to micheals to find a product for my felt to cut on the cricut of course I forgot the name and they had no idea what I was talking about, why do you work at micheals which carrys the whole line of cricut stuff and no nothing about it, one girl I asked seemed so confused, like she never of the cricut. We still didnt waste enough time til we had to pick up angelina, so we headed to my favorite place STARBUCKS! Where Leilani danced and entertained a college girl working on her computer. After picking angelina up headed home for a snack and some tot school time. I also made these absolutely delisous cookies with help of angelina. (my camera earsed all the pictures except for a couple of tot school time and the cookies, really sucked we had some great photos)

MY FIRST MUFFIN TIN MONDAY

2009-11-16T22:16:00.000-08:00

I actually feed my girls like this often, but never seem to be able to do it on a monday. lol My theme was all things dipped for celery sticks, cream cheese, peanut butter, applesauce, raisins and a star pb&j sandwhich. The shape of the tin was in snow flakes, since it was such a cold monday morning, thought it was perfect.

this is the best pic I could get, she kept closing her eyes!

YUM! YUM! wouldnt you want this??

24 HOURS OF OF PEACEFULNESS

2009-11-16T22:07:00.000-08:00

I woke up with the worst pain ever in my back, took some meds went back to bed, when I woke up again it was so worse my breathing was off and tears were streaming down my cheeks. I dont know how possibly it could get worse. My grams showed up during all this to take the girls to church, of course they werent ready, she seen how bad I was and insisted on taking the girls and me going to the ER, the thing is my back was even getting worse and couldnt walk. Living on the 3rd floor is just horrible and I want to move so bad. I stayed home due the stairs were a no go, and gramma took the girls for a day, so I could rest, I really dont know what I would do without her. After a couple hours pain resided and was able to shower and walk around. Eddie took me to lunch, didnt do much after that other some errands, we came back home and relaxed. I started to feel much better, eddie took me to the movies to watch Of the 4TH Kind, Very creepy and realistic, were not alone! lol After we had Berry Sweet and to walmart for a few items. You dont know how it felt to get a break like this, feel so good and refreshed! I miss my girls but enjoy this break so much. (no pics due to no paparazzi after us! lol jk)

DON JOSE'S SATURDAY NITE DINNER

2009-11-16T21:52:00.000-08:00

Eddie works on saturdays now, leaving me and the girls at home. I usually clean and relax and til he gets home. I did a lil bit of tot school time, with a egg carton numbered to 10, you can do so many different activities with this, we did counting with mini earsers, and matching.

When eddie got home, he took us to dinner at Don Jose's. Very good mexican food, and the girls were pretty good on behavior, we were gonna go to disney but my back started acting up. I'm really sick of my back problems, causes so much stress and anixety, I hate being the reason we cant do things.

DOLLFACE

PEEK A BOO

FUNKY CHEESY FACES

BEST SMILE WE COULD GET OUT OF LEI LEI

TRYING TO GRAB THE PLANTS!

JUST ANOTHER FRIDAY

2009-11-13T23:03:00.000-08:00

Today angelina had to stay home school due a rash, which it wasnt a rash, its bite, but the school knows best over her own mother. I couldnt get a doctor appt. til Monday morning. We pretty muched bummed around and made messes all day..lol They made such a mess in my room, as angelina was cleaning it up i was working on the rest of the horrible apt. Came in to find my bed made?! I was so shocked she made our big bed, never asked or even thought she could do it. Angelina has turned into such a helper, and she's growing up so fast. Lei lei too, her favorite word lately is Ewwwww, she says it for smells and sounds, and things she sees she doesnt like and shes loud about it too, her second favorite word Pease! meaning please, she thinks if she says this when she wants something she will get it everytime, funny thing is shes so cute saying it I usually give it her..lol When daddy got home, we went to the bank and walmart, then dinner at the girl's favorite place Mcdonald's. We rented a movie too, the Orphan, and wow was that a crazy movie! Out of our laziness today I did let angelina do one activity page, P is for pumkin page and you traced the p and the pumpkins.

Bed made angelina's way

hard to see her tracing, she's getting much better!

TOT SCHOOL TIME THEME: THANKSGIVING

2009-11-12T20:40:00.000-08:00

Past couple of days we've done a few different activities all themed around Thanksgiving. First angelina did 3 different preschool sheets, including tracing words, finding word to picture, and matching.

Then a color sheet on T is for TURKEY.

Finally for a craft we did finger painted Corn stalksI cut out the shapes, and angelina helped glue together. We used bottle caps to hold the paint. They both did great then lei lei decided to smear the whole thing. oh well. lol All ideas above were from Allkidsnetwork.com.

leilani had fun messing up both of them!

CRAFT TIME WITH DADDY

2009-11-11T15:34:00.000-08:00

I needed a break, I decided to take a nice long hot shower, while eddie watch the girls, He decided he would have craft time with them, and use a whole roll of aluminum foil. He made them hats and dresses, and told them they must wear them to be protected from the ALIENS! Great Job scarying the girls. lol

RELAPSE OF BLOGGING

2009-11-11T15:14:00.000-08:00

I havent blogged since halloween night, I know way behind. But with some unexpected sickness, and no sleep and no school, throw up, diarrahea the past 10 days have been quite hectic! Angelina has been sick for over a week, lei lei too. she missed some school, but cant let her go til theres a 100% recovery. Eddie is still waiting on his very FED EX truck, done with training too. He also starts school on monday for his class A license to drive the BIG BOYS! As far as me well ive been sick and not feeling so hot. Always tired too. Went to the doctor's for a blood work up and physical. Hopefully everything is ok. I did get early christmas present, a my Cricut Expression! I sold my old on ebay and put the money towards the expression. I also got a new COACH purse, for free, yes free. They recalled my Carly and got to get a new purse, and wrislet. I swear I dont want nothing for christmas!, well my maybe some new coach sunglasses?! lol I havent done any tot school or projects til last night, with us being sick, just took a week off. Well im back and ready to blog again, craft, some tot school time is on its way! Also we got a new fridge, had to ours broke down and we lost a ton of groceries. This fridge we got at sears outlet for so cheap, its a SAMSUNG french door, with water dispensed on the inside, no lei lei making a mess and ice dispensed in the freezer, love it!

and here's the frige!

this picture reminds me of "cribs" lol

water dispensed

freezer on the bottom

my pretty purse

HALLOWEEN FILLED DAY

2009-11-01T01:59:00.000-07:00

Angelina went to her dad's for the night, they had a party to go to, and with no school on friday worked out perfect for her. That left me and lei lei all day by ourselves. I spent the whole day halloween themed things for her to do. First I did lunch in a halloween shape muffin tin which she loved the variety, then we a activity with a skull ice cube tray and some earsers, she spent some doing that, while I made some halloween cupcakes. Then I made some cute lil Intial halloween purses for the girls. Leilani did help me decorate the cupcakes but ended up eating more than decorating :0) Our neighbor's lil girl Brooke came to visit for lil bit, and they played in the girls room and sorta watched Nightmare before Christmas. Leilani really needs to learn how to share! Since I have some new cricut cartridges decided to make Mason's B-day card and bag for his birthday. Yes it was overkill halloween but its a day before halloween! lol

UNEXPECTED DOCTOR'S APPT

2009-11-01T01:54:00.000-07:00

Angelina has complaining and itching "down there" so I took her in to her doctor to check it out. She checked it out and made her go pee in a cup, should find out on monday whats going on. While we were there both girls got the flu vaccination. She ended up missing school due the wait at the doctor's. Doc prescribed some cream for now.

MICKEY'S TRICK OR TREAT PARTY (WED)

2009-11-01T01:45:00.000-07:00

Bear, me angelina and leilani met monick and lily for our second annual Mickey's Trick or Treat party. This was bear's first time, and with him moving in a fews days, I wanted the kids to spend as much time together. Handling 3 kids 5 under is hard but managable, wouldnt want it any other way! They had a blast and took home so much candy, that gave alot away still left us with a huge bag.

BUSY LIL BEE'S (mon-tues)

2009-11-01T01:35:00.000-07:00

We were so busy these past fews days. With school, eddie working, crafts and halloween coming up. I did some southern cooking with I love..lol we did feet ghosts, which we just traced the girls feets turned them over added glitter, eyes and a mouth, simple but the girls loved them. Angelina got a halloween witch barbie for the dumpster incedent, see I keep my word! As far as tot school time we just be tracing her name and recaping on the letters A thru D, also singing more with letters. We went and visited bear on tuesday and the girls played in the yard and ran their lil hearts out.

VERY BUSY HALLOWEEN

2009-11-01T01:21:00.001-07:00

Our day started with Mason's First birthday party in Temecula. Super fun, the girls had a blast. We made hunted house's which mine was the best! lol

After we headed to visit grams but she wasnt home. We headed home bathtime, quick wash of the costumes, with all the acitivites their costumes have gotten nasty. After getting in costume we headed to Cypress, we always trick or treat in grams neighborhood, It was really busy and lots of house's with candy. One of the house's went all out with a haunted house. Eddie went in and said it was good, and actually talked angelina into going, I was shocked and went too. She did scared but in the end she said it was real and it was fun but didnt want to go again.

After we made it home we decided on carving the pumkin we ran out of time to do. Eddie had this crazy idea for the bug pumkin. He did the carving and me and the girls did the guts and cleaning of the seeds. Angelina and leilani were both hands on which last year wasnt like that at all. Angelina even helped with baking the seeds. The pumpkin was creepy to me but still was interesting. We ate our seeds and watched a scary movie. This was a perfect halloween to me, and so blessed for my girls and eddie.

PUMPKIN PATCH IN LONG BEACH

2009-11-01T01:13:00.000-07:00

ngAfter Eddie getting home from work and being at home all day we headed out for dinner at Mimi's which is one of my favorite places. Leilani was not her cherry self and threw a fit and was being a brat, her mood changed after the food came, thank god. After we headed to a pumpkin patch across the street, really nice one with tons of things to do. Eddie was after the perfect big pumpkin, and lei lei was getting that energy out by running all over the place. Kinda sad angelina wasnt there, but they were busy with their own pumpkin.

Ignoring me at Mimi's

trying her best to carry the pumpkin

HAPPY 2ND BIRTHDAY LILY

2009-10-25T12:40:00.000-07:00

My day didnt end up being so good today...let me explain.

First: I accidently threw my keys away in the dumpster, taller than me, panicked no way to leave or get in the house, best thing to do, throw your daughter in there! Took almost a hour and lots of coaxing, and, bribing and helping from a neighbor we finally got them out.

second:We finally headed to lilly's bday party, angelina and lei lei loved the pool so much, when it was time to get out a meltdown of high mangitude, so bad we had to leave.

third:we had a family party all the way in Eagle Rock, which we drove in over a hour! of traffic to go to, to find out his family left already?! really couldnt let us know pick up the phone, we tried calling them several times no answer, I guess we should took it as a sign.

I did save the night and made lots of muchies and homemade monster cookies and popcorn, Bear got to spend the night, we watched pooh's heffalump's halloween, first movie of 7 nights til halloween count down, lots of halloween things for the next 6 days!

maddie and angelina

pool party fun

(pictures courtsey of jill's blog!)

LUNCH WITH SOPHIA (FRI)

2009-10-25T12:31:00.000-07:00

We had lunch with becci and sophia on friday at shakey's pizza buffet. Always fun eating lunch with two toddlers! We let them play for a mila second in there game room, then headed to their house for playtime for the girls. Now with eddie at work and angelina at school Leilani and me have time to ourselves, hopefully we can have more playdates too!

TOT SCHOOL TIME

2009-10-25T12:22:00.000-07:00

We did several sheets and tracing names and letters, shapes and colors. We did a dot art tree for fall. This week was a transistion with Eddie starting a new job and getting up at 5am every morning, wow what a change. So we didnt do as much as I wanted, but next week will be better.

TANAKA FARMS (WED)

2009-10-25T12:10:00.000-07:00

We took the girls to Tanaka Farms in Irvine, and met our friends jill and monick there too. It was hot and dirty. urgh. I'm the type of girl that like the fake pumpkin patches..lol All the pumkins there were dirty and beaten up and rotten, slim pickings! The girls had fun as usual, and then even went through a corn maze lead by angelina. Overall it was good times!

best picture we could get of all 4

corn maze

cheese!

can I have this one?

HUGE PUMPKIN PATCH

PUMKIN'S MOMMYPICKED! LOL

FUNNY PICTURE OF THE DAY:

MY LIL MULAN

2009-10-21T00:39:00.000-07:00

Angelina has been changing her mind for weeks on what to be for halloween, I really wanted her to pocahantas but she decided on Mulan. Her dad dropped it off tonite he got her the matching crown and shoes too. She loved it and so did I.

SHE'S OUR LIL KITTY

2009-10-20T15:12:00.000-07:00

I finally got lei lei's costume in the mail the other day, she's being a black and white kitty, OMG! she's so freakin' cute in it and didn't want to take it off! I bought it on ebay.

HERE'S OUR KITTY

SPOOOOKY GHOSTS

2009-10-19T22:17:00.000-07:00

I was so tired but still had to get up and get going! I've been selling on ebay for the past two weeks so usually now on mondays I ship, nice extra cash for me! Angelina had a good day at school , after was grocery shopping and some supplies for our craft tonite.
We made spooky ghosts, simple but fun. Angelina has become hands on, and lei lei well she wasnt interested until they were finished. I got this I idea from a blog I follow. The girls ran around the house with these making noises and chasing the cat. For some Tot school time I made a laminated card of numbered pumpkins. Sized largest to small. What I had angelina do was copy my pattern on her own piece of paper, also we counted the pumpkins, and I would ask which pumkin was bigger and what number? She liked it, I love anything themed halloween!

items i used + tape forgot to add to picture

A SCREAMING GOOD TIME

2009-10-19T21:03:00.000-07:00

On sunday nite we headed over to disneyland for the new screamin' fireworks. Hands down my favorite so far. Leilani's face was so funny! and angelina would jump up then hide in her sweater..lol So many people but so worth it. After we headed for some rides, Eddie took angelina for the first time on Matterhorn ride. yes she's finally tall enough, I thought it would be too scary for her, but I was wrong, she loved it and still today was talking about how much she loved the ride, and its her favorite, she did say she was scared of the white monster with red eyes, but she also said he couldnt get her with daddy and they were super fast! We went on the safari cruise at night for the first time. I liked it, felt 'more" real. Finally it was time to leave, so tired from all the rides, we headed towards the exit, eddie stopped in and bought the girls these disney babies doll ones boo for lei lei (looked just like her) other tinkerbell baby for angelina, eddie never buys souviners but the girls were so good! Long fun late night.

theres us!

firework faces

tea cup spinning

oh no! lei lei is the typical women driver, eyes arent on the road!

I love this chair, its in the castle.

heres the dollies

IGOR AND PIZZA

2009-10-17T23:23:00.000-07:00

Today in we were lazy bums, seriously our pj's just chillen...lol I did get one motor skills activity with lei lei. she had a jar of glass marbles(dollar tree) cocktail tongs (target) and a paint that is divided(walmart). She still gets really impatient with the tongs but she's getting better. Even daddy helped out. After that we showered and got dressed, headed to my moms to visit bear and take him to target to pick out his birthday present. I thought he would pick out some elborate toy, but he didnt he picked hot wheels track for only $12.99?! I tried to show him other items, but it was a no go...lol After that we picked up pizza and bread sticks and brought it back to grams and had a pizza party, we watched IGOR, very cute movie, I will be buying this for the girls. We loved seeing bear, and will miss him so much when he leaves in November.

his pick

playing with it

jack ears!

3-D MOVIE NIGHT

2009-10-16T22:02:00.000-07:00

Instead of going to mickey's house we stayed home for a 3D movie night, we just bought them CORALINE, came with 2 pairs of 3d glasses, we needed of 4 of course! Leilani wouldnt wear hers anyways, but she wanted to wear her sunglasses, go figure!
They actually both sat through the whole movie. SHOCKING! After angelina's dad came to get her for the weekend, leilani through a fit this time, she wanted to go, hmm how will I explain this one?! I let her do a activity to get her mind off of it. I hoping for bedtime soon, but since she actually took a nap, of over 2 hours! lil shocking. Her new word for this week is "pease" meaning please. and her other word that she gets from daddy, is "YeAaaaa. Kinda hard to type how she says it.

SCRAP PAPER PUMPKINS

2009-10-16T16:11:00.001-07:00

Me and the girls did these really cute scrap paper pumpkins, got the idea of this website :http://www.allkidsnetwork.com/crafts/fall/paper-pumpkin.asp.
I did some of the pre cut work, but angelina was insitant on tapeing her own, leilani wasnt that interested and I ended up finishing hers. It was angelina's idea to add the glitter, and she did it too, hence the glitter all over the place now.

A BETTER DAY AT PRESCHOOL

2009-10-16T16:04:00.000-07:00

Angelina did awesome at school, and apoliged on her own to the lil boy and her teacher. Im so glad she's out of that funk. Eddie's mom offered for the girls to come over and spend the night for the first time. We drove them over to long beach , and in the car we did some Tot school time, with singing our ABC's and naming things that start with letters A-E. We also counted to 12 in english and spanish, why only 12? well she said that all she knew! Leilani joined in on the fun too! After me and eddie headed out to disneyland for a date nite. It was crowded but we got all on the big kid rides, and used fast passes. We even got a romantic boat ride alone on pirates of caribbean. We stayed til midnite. Super fun nite.

NOT SO GOOD DAY AT PRESCHOOL

2009-10-14T20:26:00.000-07:00

It was raining hard when we woke up, meaning no Tanaka Farms for pumpkin picking. I picked up angelina from school, to find out angelina had a bad day, her teacher told me about her attitude when she doesnt want to do something she says she doesnt want to be at school, plus she stabbed a boy in her class with a fork for being by her. NOT OK! I think angelina has too much on her mind for a 3 yr old, with gramas being in the hospital, her dad not being active and steady in her life, and bear being taken out of her day to day life, its finally caught up and taken effect on her. We got to see big grama though she had aunt sheila bring her down to a few doctor appts. She's doing better and staying at sheila's for lil bit longer. That perked her up lil bit. We sat down tonite and had a long talk, she told me how she felt. I called her dad and let her talk to him and I talked to him, hoping this would help too. I'm sure things wont be better overnight, but maybe improve a little? Please pray for some peace in her trouble little mind. To make her feel better I made rice krispy treats(eddie's favorite too). Today I found this awesome site for kids :
http://www.kidslearningstation.com/. So many ideas and activities for preschool, and other links for crafts. Tonite we did a few pages from the website I printed, I put the sheets I printed in page protectors, so we could reuse them over and over. We have moved on to the letter "D". She colored a picture of a dog, i was impressed by her improvement on coloring in the lines.

angelina's "A" is the bottom "A"

coloring is getting so better!

LOVING THIS WEATHER (TUES.)

2009-10-14T20:16:00.000-07:00

I'm loving this weather, the rain, the cold. LOVE IT. Angelina got to wear trench coat to school today since it was sprinkling. She looks so old to me in it. Today was any other day, housework, cooking, dealing with the attitudes and tantrums of these two toddlers. Tonite for some Tot school time we did matching letters, which she did perfect on, I just used 6 foam sticker letters from the alphabet. Second I put out 5 large foam flowers and spilled some buttons on the table, I had them match the button color to the flower, lei lei did ok and angelina did great, but she did agrue that dark pink button didnt belong on the pink flower..lol

MORNING TOTSCHOOL TIME

2009-10-13T10:37:00.000-07:00

Since the girls took a bath last night, and they woke up early, decided to try a new activity with both of them. I bought these colorful lil bowls and cocktail tongs at target, for the first activity I lined up the bowls and poured out some poms poms, had angelina use the tongs, and match the colors till the bowls had 4 each. Great use of color matching , motor skills, and counting. Angelina did this for about 10 minutes and then they switched places. For the scond activity I bought skeleton ice cube tray at dollar tree and the other pair of cocktail tongs, and mini earsers. They needed to use the tongs only, place a mini earser in each skeleton. Leilani had a hard time with the tongs but did get about 3 done in place, after she just put them in with her hands, then I had her add a second earser that matched, she did awesome, I so impressed how shes improving. They both did so good on both activities, just need to work on more tong use with lei lei.

:ANGELINA:

ALL DONE

:LEILANI:

IT WAS A HOLIDAY?

2009-10-13T10:27:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I didnt even realize it was a holiday and tried to go to the post office to mail off all the ebay stuff, been cleaning house and getting rid of stuff . On the way to dollar tree for packing supplies we always go down LaPalma ave right next to knotts berry farm, just happens it was Bears 5th birthday! and my mom and sister was there, we couldnt go do to she couldnt miss school. As we were stopped at the light something told me to look up and low and behold there was mom and bear on the ferris wheel, how crazy that! I screammed mom! bear! no answer, then called sandra! she looked and so did bear they seen us! thats a one and a million chance to see them at the park on the ferris wheel, with the ferris wheel being on the top and us being stopped right next to it! so werid. Angelina had a great day at school she was the model for the class for the dentist that came. They gave her a goody bag of stuff and special stickers for being so good.

goody bag, the stickers!? M.I.A. FIGURES!

TOTSCHOOL TIME

2009-10-12T22:56:00.000-07:00

Today we did 3 learning actvities, which we only usually do 1 to 2 a day, but I was feeling good and the girls were in the learning mood! First we made puppets, from a martha stewart kit I bought for only $2 at big lots. Came with everything you need for 5 complete puppets a bird, pig, lion, frog, bunny, with detailed instructions. It was for 4 and up and but angelina did fine, who cares if a arm is lower than the otherside! ( I do kinda tried to fix!..) Lei lei tried to help but more interested in running around with the parts! After we were done, Angelina and me did a puppet show for daddy and lei lei. Angelina would say Hi im MR BIRD, my color is blue, I make the sound tweet tweet, I live in trees, it was so cute! Eddie took some pictures, I was behind the coach holding the bird and helping if she forgot something. We went over all sounds, colors, places they live before the show. We cant wait to do this again.

Second thing we did was trace the letter "c". She is getting so much better at this!

And the last we did bottle cap names, I finally had enough caps for leilani's so I made hers today. They both worked on these for awhile, angelina can do all 8 of her letters in less than a minute, lei lei tried to show her she got 2 right but it could have a lucky guess :0)

TUTU TOO CUTE OF A DAY..

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Today I finished leilani's tutu outfit for halloween and decided to have a mini photo shoot. I really need a better camera! hint hint(eddie). Leilani was not into it, but angelina was she loves modeling, usually lei lei too but lately she gets into this funk attitude. After we got dressed and headed to church with eddie's mom and dad. Believe it or not leilani slept the whole hour, yea no melt downs or yelling. Surviving through toddlerhood is harder than I thought even though I learn something new every day with the girls they keep me on my toes. We came back to the house and I cooked some italian for the family. Another great sunday, hoping for many more.

angelina ballernia

as she twirls

leilani not so happy

her tutu

complete outfit

throwing a fit..

standing perfectly for the picture
sisters