Leslie (25yrs) + Annie (2yrs) = Felix (27)



Crazy equations and what's even crazier is the fact that I even came up with it at all.



Still tired, for those of you that have read the previous blog. And not to make you think that Felix hasn't been doing ANYthing... that night he watched the girls for me to sleep,which I did for nearly twelve hours or something like that. I'm just worried about how he's going to sleep in the mornings when I have to work... the last thing I need is for him to be working overtime until three in the morning and fall asleep at the wheel.



Looks like it's going to be lots of energy drinks and caffiene for a while.



P.S. We haven't slept in the same bed in months.



Annie has had only slight tinges of jealousy with Bailey, but has done well with her potty training... moreso than usual. It's proof that if I were home enough she would have had it down a long time ago. It goes something like this. Bailey gets milk, Annie asks for Juice. Bailey gets a diaper change, Annie wants to use the potty.



Felix was talking about getting two jobs for me to stay home with the girls, but that wouldn't solve anything. The equation to THAT goes something like this.



Felix + 2 Jobs = No Days Off



I think I would go insane anyway. But hell, what does it matter, we don't sleep in the same bed. Having a two year old and a newborn... who needs birth control? I'm only glad I'm getting a semi-permanent solution.



But that's the update for those of you interested. Not to make you think it's all been bad and frustrating. Bailey is only ten days old after all.



Medicaid is an issue. We're covered, but the people there are either complete idiots, don't care about the working class or.... I don't know what. It seems like everytime I "deal" with them, they push me aside despite the fact that I'm not some penniless, jobless hoe with ten kids (and only 25!) who refuses to get off her ass and do something about it. Although, if I DID have ten kids and a job, I wouldn't be able to afford daycare.



I just don't get it. Some one that doesn't have any money but doesn't work gets everything while people like me who are just barely making it have to go through all kinds of red tape and questioning, "investigation", scrutiny, etc... just to name a few to get even a little help.



By the way:



Annie + Felix + Leslie = Gamer Baby.



Same goes with Bailey. It's expected, I'm sure. She's playing a learning game on the PS2 right now.



I'm out, peoples.

Tiny baby or big doll? You decide.

I am going into this weekend with somewhat apprehension of how it will turn out. Hopefully all the bad events have filed themselves out and are done.

First of all, yesterday, Mom and Annie got into a car accident and (it looks like) totalled the truck. Thankfully, both of them are okay, if anything a little sore. Mom is a bit bruised up she says (and sore) but both are okay.

Secondly, Felix's sister had a miscarriage somewhere between yesterday morning and yesterday evening. She is completely heartbroken (of course).

So that seems to be two major events that normally would happen with a little more spacing. I'm in the paranoid frame of mind and a little worried that the friends that we have coming down tonight for the weekend will not be having a good trip. I am crossing my fingers.

Bailey is good, however, if a little fussy every now and then. I think she likes to toy with daddy when he gets home. Felix likes to stay up until about six or seven in the morning after working all night. I had to take a shower and run an errand at the grocery store today so he had to watch Bailey.

She, of course, was crying when I got out of the shower and he was still dead asleep (with the monitor on right next to him) in our bed. So he decided to sleep in Annie's bed while I went to the grocery store and apparently, she didn't go to sleep the whole time I was gone.

Maybe it's her way of telling Daddy he needs to go to bed earlier than that. He's going to have to if he means to help me with Annie and Bailey.

Oops. Speaking of crying children, there she goes. See ya around!

Here is a comparison of Annie and Bailey in case any one was wondering... I was and the similarities are surprising. :)

6 days away from the "alleged" due date of the second baby in our lives here is proof that not only am I dead tired (look at my eyes) but also that Annie is still the silly, lively little girl we all know and love.

Something happening?

I've had two people call me today asking if I'd had the baby yet. No. No baby, much to my disappointment. However, I am getting the feeling that maybe something might be happening? Felix said this was "the" day he thought she would be born or I would go into labor, so we shall see.

A blessing and a curse (labor) considering we just got Annie back from mom's last night. She's been a million miles of fun in less than twenty four hours all ready. Destroying her clean room and watching movies with Daddy in bed. She looks like she's about ready to knock out on the couch watching cartoons. It's too misty and rainy for her to do anything outside other than bubbles on the porch (which she did earlier).

Now she is just loving her blankie. "I LOVE my blankie" she says and hugs it. Here are a couple of pictures (if I can get them up) from the camera. She is a classic candy hound, by the way and loves fruit snacks and strawberries.

Ah, okay, the pictures uploaded to the top of the page. Anyway, they are of her watching Alvin and the Chipmunks (ponytail in the chair), lounging with a cup of J (juice and blankie), sleeping with daddy, her classic "Super Billains" cape pose (a cartoon she's apparently seen, but I have never seen her watch, even though I know what it is) and whatever else, I can't remember what I plugged in up there.

I came home and there was a mess that I had totally forgotten about. It's called my entire house except for my bathroom and (somewhat) master bedroom. Pregnant brain or selective memory?

Not much to update. Decided (probably) to work the rest of the week of the 8th. Have another appointment on Monday. 2 cms down, 8 to go. Wow that seems like a lot. Been picking things up super cheap. There is a HUGE selection of Goodwills and Salvation Army's in this area believe it or not. And Austin isn't a cheap town, so you know they have good stuff.

The Salvation Army I stop in every once in a while I found out last week has a 50% off day every Wednesday on EVERYTHING in the store. Including furniture and the like. Most of the time you see the musty smelling couch there, but today I managed to get a snap side t-shirt, a receiving blanket, two onesie type outfits a baby bathtub and....? Something else for $9.00 Oh. A cover for the Futon we have because Annie keeps getting crumbs and what not on it.

Then I went to Goodwill and got some curtains for the girls' room for four bucks which normally would have been, like, well over twenty for one panel because they were Liz Claiborne. Super cute pink stripe. Along with the three onesies, two pillowcases, two crib sheets, chocoloate velvet grommet curtains and whatever the heck else I got LAST week, I'm not doing so bad. I think I'll make it a point to go there every week to see what they got. I've gotten some useful things so far, Cath would be super proud :D

By the way, people, the top ten list of things to say to a pregnant woman (at ANY time during her pregnancy) does NOT, believe it or not, have the phrase, "Wow, you're HUGE" on it. Just thought I'd throw you a bone. I have no where to grow but out and that would be the main reason I don't have any other new pictures of me.

I have some of Annie, I swear. The ones of her from Easter in TX City consist of her mainluy looking like a homeless hand-me-down child which I'm not proud of, but MAN she is white!! I will have something up as soon as I can get Fe to reconnect the wire for the camera.

Been gradually packing "the bag" even though there is nothing in there for me yet. I washed my robe, but tell me... if I should bring it if I don't have anything to wear but the hospital gown so far? I haven't found anything I like. I did find a pair of slipper socks, which hopefully will fit my insanely enflamed rhino feet at the point of delivery. I have had to resort to flip flops at work, which I don't know what I'm going to do when the DM comes next week, that won't look good.

Well, Belly and I are going to bed. It's almost one and I should have gone to bed a long time ago. Thankfully Fe is finding a ride home so I won't have to wake up in two hours to get him. Night.