We Are The Littles

Well, the month of May has historically been a chaotic one for almost everyone’s household who has kids and any form of extended family relations. May is the month where you see your bank account dwindle. First, there are graduation gifts, end of season parties, last minute doctor’s appointments, end of school parties, and buying parting gifts for teachers, school personnel, bus drivers, scout leaders, volunteers, blah blah blah. Our family is no exception to this chaos and money sucking month. In fact, we not only have to celebrate two birthdays (James and Savannah), but we also managed to add a grueling move, two birthday cake projects due on the same day, driver’s ed for “the mouth”, a baby shower, and a VERY pregnant and moody woman (me) to the mix. Gabe and I have been hot, testy, and have gone from moments of elation to feeling just down right sorry for ourselves! Today, we decided to play hooky from unpacking boxes and cleaning and just go to watch a movie to be mindless and carefree for a while. So, what movie do two children from the 80’s go see? You guessed it, the new Indiana Jones movie. I think it is safe for me to say (with Gabe’s support) for all of you to SAVE your money! Use it to go towards your graduation gifts or something. I will not give much away except some good things should just be left a lone. To me, this movie made Indiana Jones seem more like King Solomon’s Mines (the awful movie with Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone) genre and that is just not the way it was. However, I really loved being in the theater, next to Gabe, escaping with him while resting my head on his shoulder and munching on popcorn and M&M’s, sometimes together. Then, we went to a new dive and ate a huge BBQ lunch with fried pickles, chopped beef, pulled pork, sausage, fries, and fried okra. We will definitely have to take my in laws there! Of course, it was not healthy, but we were on a roll. We also had my 32 week doctor’s appointment. We got to see Gabriela again today! My has she grown. She is huge. She already had turned head down which explains why I feel more of her movements all over and more intensely. I get a lot of Braxton Hicks now and walk very funny because of her big ole head. But, I must say, she is a beauty. I could tell by the Ultrasound that she has my lips and Gabe’s nose. Gabe could not make any of this out to save his life, but we all could. The doctor and I kept pestering Gabe about how he could not make the images out that were so obvious to us. My poor baby. Oh, well, we have another picture of her which Gabe will put up for all of us. Anyway, the doctor ordered me on one year’s bed rest and no house work. Too bad, he was just playing. We had a great jolly visit. I even let Gabe go peruse the nearby Best Buy to cap off our excellent day. I, of course, stayed in the car and read yet another magazine that I stole from the Doc’s office. I think I have a problem.

Okay, well the house looks like a house now. The bedrooms look like normal rooms. We have a few “hidden items” to unpack still, but as long as they stay hidden, the house looks nice. I love my kitchen. Our neighbors are VERY friendly. The boys are outside more than inside, playing with the mass of little girls on our block! We tried to have a dog play date for Rocky with the other neighborhood dogs. Let’s just say, it was not a huge success. But, we are all happy, exhausted, but excited to be in our new home. Did I mention that I love my kitchen???

Although I did not care for the new Indy movie, Harrison Ford was still awesome. I just wanted to throw that in there.

*GABE’S EDIT* - I put the newest picture of Gabriela up. You can see it here. I can now tell what is what in the picture. Can you?

We managed to finally get all of our junk out of the old house. Our living room was full of excess crap up until yesterday when we finally got it taken care of. Not really taken care of, but transferred to the appropriate room or thrown in a big closet for MBM to go through a little later. Once we get it all gussied up I’ll put up some pictures. In the meantime you can go to the CCG (Carolina Cake Gallery) and check out her High School Musical cake and Monkey cake she did last weekend for a birthday party. It was her first paying cake gig. Wonder if she is going to frame her first dollar bill???

This neighborhood is definitely not like our old one. We’ve had neighborly visits from someone on our block almost everyday we’ve been here. One nice neighbor brought us some cold-brownie-chocolatey treats and another brought us fresh banana bread straight from the oven. Both treats are gone.

So far I’ve put in 3 new lockable door knobs (master bath, Savannah’s room, spare bathroom) and one electronic dead-bolt on the back door that operates on a 4-8 digit code. I still have a couple more to change and I’ll be done with that task. Tomorrow I’m going to buy an invisible electric fence to keep our sorry mutt from running away. I’m sure that will be fun to install.

So, there’s your update. We’re about to go for a short walk/run so I can make another attempt to get my girlish figure back.

Later!

We are officially moved into our new house. We’ve been sleeping here since Tuesday night, but haven’t had all of the creature comforts until today. The last one to arrive was our gas which meant we had no hot water. Carolina and I went back to the old house to take hot showers while we subjected the chirrens to cold ones! How nice are we?

Mom and dad have been here the last couple of days and except for getting in the way every other minute have been quite a bit of help. They’re especially helpful when they buy me and the family dinner at Lupe Tortilla.

The neighborhood is a trip. Absolutely nothing like our old one. Very Desperate Housewifish. I’ll let MBM give you the details. Speaking of, she’s downstairs making two cakes for birthday parties tomorrow in her whopper of a kitchen.

Guess I need to get back to work. Pictures of the new abode will be up sooner or later.

Adios!