3-0 is the new 20!!!

long time! i decided to get back into blogging again. life has been crazy here. lilsprinkles has consumed my days and nights. if you're reading this, and you have nothing to do the weekend of july 16th, come to the renegade fair! it's going to be at the la state historic park.

i wanted to remember this crazy day, so i decided to blog about it! i turned 30 today. yay! NOT! actually it doesn't matter to me. it doesn't feel any different. i still feel young. i'm going to feel even younger this weekend when i celebrate with my girlfriends. :-) my body feels the pain of being one year older though. i cannot lose the last several pounds for the life of me!

sooo...what did i do today to celebrate this big day? my sis took me out to eat lunch at our fave buffet - VIP. lila had a meltdown and tabs had one too because she heard lila crying. it was a sad sight. i wanted to eat a couple more plates of food, but with the two of them crying i had to leave. i guess it was a blessing in disguise. i saved myself from eating another 1000+ calories of unhealthy food. the hubs said he would be home late tonight, so he told me to treat myself to something good to eat. hmmmm...suhlungtang sounded so good to me, esp in this 85 degree weather. i packed up the kids in the car, got to the restaurant, ergo'd tabs, waited for 10 minutes in a non-air conditioned restaurant, took lila to go pee pee in the bathroom (remember i'm still attached to tabs), and to top it off, the suhlungtang was not good. today was just a bad day of eating for me, and i love to eat.

anyways, i have updates with pics!!

almost potty trained! the past two nights have been a big breakthrough with dry diapers!


tabs at 7 mo. happy baby for sure! she's worm crawling!





lila insists on going inside the crib after tabs wakes up. it's a cute sight to see. this makes me want them to share a room!



k, till next time!

Easter!

We had to visit the Easter bunny this year! Contemplated on whether or not Tabi needed an Easter bunny pic, and I had to do it since Lila got one when she was her age at 4 months.



My how things have changed in the last two months. Lila's relationship with her sis has grown leaps and bounds! She'll share her toys with her, say "Bless you Tabi" when she sneezes, and most of all, she'll be sweet to her throughout the day. It's been awhile since I had to discipline her about being a meanie towards her sis.



Loves to pose like this with tabs.



Seriously..she's such a sweet natured baby. It's so fun to see her laugh now, esp when her cousins make her laugh. They love her so much already! It's the cutest thing to see. They'll definitely be ready when their baby brother OR baby sister make their debut! I can't wait!

Happy 2011!

Ahhh my first post for the new year and my first post since Tabie was born. It's been awhile. :)

First off, I want to give much props to all the moms out there. Esp moms of 2+ more kids! I knew it was going to be tough but never did I imagine it was going to be this hard. (To all the moms with a +1 on the way, hehe don't worry, after the first few weeks it gets better!) Don't want to scare you guys, but you know how it was with my firstborn.

Lila went into a slight depression and had a major jealous streak once she realized Tabie was not just a visitor at our home. She came to visit me at the hospital, and once she saw me holding Tabie, it went downhill from there. She wouldn't dare come near me. I wondered if she thought she was being "replaced", and that just killed me. Let me tell you, I had some major emotional breakdowns.

It didn't help either with the pain of nursing. I look back and think of Lila's newborn days and realized she was an easy baby when it came to nursing and sleeping. It's the exact opposite with Tabie. When people told me nursing was worse than giving birth, I couldn't relate. Of course, I never wanted to admit that to those moms. They'd prob want to strangle me. But now I UNDERSTAND! The pain that came with nursing T was almost unbearable. I wanted to give up. I was very close to doing that until I went to St. Jude Wellness Center to see their Lactaction Consultant. T was not latching on properly. It was such a poor latch that I already formed two big blisters on my you know what. After a few days of just keeping at it and clenching my teeth, my blisters soon healed and bf became painless.

The sleep is another story. Lila was a eat and sleep kind of gal. Hardly ever woke up crying at night. Never made a peep. T on the otherhand loves to hear her own voice. She is still on Zantac for reflux, but it definitely is getting better. I've been on many forums to see what other parents say about grunting children in the wee hours of the morning, and they all say their children grow out of it around 2-4 months old. Crossing my fingers that I won't have to stay up from 3-6am any longer. I'll prob look back at this post when T's one year old and wish I back at this stage. They do grow up so fast. I can't believe she's already 7 weeks old!

As far as Lila's and Tabie's relationship goes, T is still caged in her area. Lila made huge progress though, and I can see that she understands when it's T's time to eat. It used to be a big deal when it came time for her feedings. I needed to make sure I had the remote handy, a new toy out (new doesn't mean "new" but it means that I've put away an old toy of hers and I'm bringing it back out after a week or so), or a snack at her side. Just thinking how it was during the first week and how it is now, it's a HUGE difference. A good difference. Slowly but surely they'll be bffs, right!?

See...







(getting ready to dogpile her till I intervened)

and the single shot of Tabitha...



Cooing has officially started!

Turquoise, pink, and yellow

The colors for baby #2's room. Hello again! I've been neglecting my personal blog. :/

With every spare minute I have, I've been consumed with gathering ideas for redecorating not only Lila's room, but baby #2's room, and the office/guest room. The hubs is freaking out that I'm going to spend all this money, but I promised him I would be doing it on a budget. It's kinda fun to do things on a budget anyways. Makes me appreciate all the hard work. What I'm hating is that I can't do things on my own - like picking up furniture and moving things around OR painting OR hanging stuff on the walls. I guess I can do the latter, but I've been getting light headed these days. My excuse!

Seriously, preg #2 is soooooo different from the first! Who knew? Esp cause I'm having another girl again!

My first purchase was this lamp base from PBteen (on sale now!):



Imagine cute vintage baby blocks inside? I love the idea that I can replace whatever goes inside as my kids get older.

I have an ivory colored lamp shade that has been sitting in my garage. I'm hoping I can spruce it up by adding some ribbon or fabric to it.

Anyhow, my journey to decorating will be posted on the lil sprinkles blog, so find me there folks!

I finally found his twin

I've never been a Dancing with the Stars fan. I'm a huge reality tv show junkie, but for some reason I never got into DWTS. I got sucked in this season...maybe because I wanted to see Kate Gosselin fail or maybe because I had a secret crush on Evan Lysacek!

Every time I saw Evan dance, I kept thinking to myself that he reminded me of someone. It finally clicked today! Hello, Lee Min Ho from F4!!!! I'm watching yet another K Drama, Personal Preference, which features Lee Min Ho. Still hot as ever. :P





Do you see the resemblance or it just me?

A better pic of Evan...



Drool. Is he gay??

I will forever be a teeny bopper.

happy birthday to the twinsies

We had a blast at their birthday party at Fun City. It was so crazy and hectic, I didn't even get a picture of the twins. :(

Since it was her second time here, I'm assuming that's why she wasn't as scared? Maybe she remembered the slides? She had to because she went down the monstrous one like 5 or 6x. Even my mom took her down on one of the slides.



sis friend taking her down the slide...



then my sis...



then my mom...

Maybe I need to get a bounce house for her 2nd birthday??? She absolutely loves these slides and bouncers. I thought she would be a scaredy cat!

On another note, she got her first major "owie" this week. She fell down our front porch steps and hit her eye and scraped it. I felt HORRIBLE! I was watching her from behind and thought she was able to go down the stairs by scooting her butt down. She decided to somersault down the steps though. Her first black eye...

Easter

Can't believe a year has gone by, and I can still recall everything that happened in 2009 Easter!

I got to see Lila in action during the Easter egg hunt, and it was HILARIOUS! She would pick up an egg, shake it, and depending on if she liked the sound (I'm guessing here), she would either drop it back down or put it in her bag. No rhyme or reason why she chose certain eggs to make the cut.

"Shake, shake, shake"





She hit the jackpot!



With her unnis



Yay for Spring Break! Time to relax and play with friends :)