Oh the horror stories I had heard about satin sheets before I bought them. Little children LEAPING into bed and sliding into walls and such... Although, yes, I did buy them (43.something cents with tax at Wal-Mart!) in black and my oh my, do I reccommend them no matter what other people say!

Although... don't plan on sleeping with a blanket or anything, because the problem we seem to have is that the comforter ("Microfiber down-alternative" as the label said) seems to slosh around inbetween me waking up and him rolling about.

Great, though.

We plan on doing one room at a time and somehow the bedroom came first. Now... I was supposed to get the say on particular, ah... DECOR, but I let him decide as I will sneakingly do the living room... or not, who knows. I'm too lazy to think sometimes.

Anyway, the bedroom we want in kind of a modern theme. Well... that would mean cleaning it first. Even though we all ready got the new bed threads. I was thinking some kind of black and white photos, probably of the baby or both girls, but I don't know. If not, some of those "cube" or floating shelves would be good. And plants somewhere in this place would be nice.

Anyway... Annelise is great, to skip up to her update since I haven't seriously written anything in quite some time. My brother's birthday was this past Thursday, by the way, but everyone reading this all ready knew that.

We had the baby's pictures taken in her Christmas dress and I'm hoping that once we get paid again next Friday, we will get some more taken.

Also got a photo album from Kim, my sister-in-law (Thanks, Kim!) so I have plenty of slots to tuck away those hospital photos... which means you won't have to send another, Cath, unless you REEEEALLY want to!

The girls at work make fun of me because I take pictures of her on my phone and I even have a video where she's "talking" recorded on there.

Aireka's birthday was on the 15th (Sunday before last) and the Tuesday after, Felix's brother, was Tony's 27th birthday. Yikes! Aireka is all ready five and I was thinking, "MAN! She's gotten B-I-G" since I first met Felix and Tony. Spoiled rotten. She got in trouble for lying. That girl could wind up with a lot of confusion in her head regarding rules at certain places. She has her mom's house (no rules... whatsoever), then her grandma's house (limited rules, but LOTS of spoiling) and then our house, (not a lot of rules, but totally different ones). She got in trouble for lying after she dropped a glass and broke it on the back of our new bigscreen. When I asked her why she was back there by the fireplace, she said she wasn't. I asked her again and told her that she wouldn't be in trouble if she would tell the truth and she told me she wasn't back there again... well, I gave her one last chance and she made up some story about her being asleep and walking with her eyes closed and blahblah... (I would have believed sleepwalking if she weren't so alert at the time of potential confession)... anyway, long story short, she went to her room to go to bed. I'm sure her daddy did the same thing, but she ignores us and lies constantly, so I'm trying to teach her not to and that if she tells the truth it's much better than making something up.

She also stands and climbs on our furniture. When we were living in the townhouse in Nassau Bay, she used to play on the stairs. I asked her if her grandma and grandpa let her do that at her house and she came back with, "My mommy lets me do it at HER house." So I said, "Well, I'm sorry, but you're not AT your mommy's house." God knows when the last time she was even over there was... well, I think it was her birthday.

Felix's mom is going to try to get custody of her legally, otherwise his child support is going to complete waste. Well... it's not going to Aireka, that's for sure. It's going to his ex-wife's hair and nail fund... day spa fund, whatever the h3ll it is!

Anyway...I managed to get rid of some hours this last Saturday... the [only] guy at work offered to take them so I said okay. Boy was he sorry he asked after going out the night before and not getting home until five am.

Had the lease to own company call me again. Does this woman even know what the heck she's doing?! "I'm calling to talk to you about your lease agreement." So I rudely replied (mind you this is AFTER she's called and harrassed two members of my family... one of which is not even living in this STATE) "What about it?" Ooooo, if you're going to hire some one, make sure they remember how to do the job. *choke choke*

Have a cheesecake that's, like, two weeks in the making. I better hurry up and make it for this lady at work or my strawberries are going to rot...

Anyway, I'll see you guys around. Pictures will be on their way somewhere closer to the beginning of February... they're not available for pick up until Jan. 31st anyway. Hoping to get you some cuter copies of her earlier pictures before then when we get paid that following Friday.

More to come!!!