It's June 29 and baby A is 10 months old. Where did the time go?
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Viva Costa Rica
If you aren't living under a rock or shuffling in outer space, then most likely you've heard something about the world cup, the biggest event in soccer.... the soccer olympics, of sorts, that comes around just once every 4 years. I, for one, am not much of a soccer fan myself but it is hard to not hear, read or see what is going on now with all the competing countries vying for their chance THE world cup. And if you have access to internet or television or newspaper or radio, then you've heard about Costa Rica, who just made history today by making it to the 2nd qualifying round of the FIFA world cup, becoming one of the best 8 competing teams in the world. The first Central American country to do so.... way to go Costa Rica.
If you want to see how people celebrate a historical victory over a European giant, then come to Costa Rica. Today is INSANE. Ticos of all ages are 'loco', out of their minds with emotion and happiness, it would bring tears of joy to anyone's eyes. The excitement in the air is so invigorating; not sure how people will go to bed tonight, as in true Tico style, the celebration will most likely continue until the wee hours of the morning.
The game was a true heart-wrencher, with Costa Rica and Greece tied at 1-1, having to go to penalty kicks to decide the ultimate winner, the country that would qualify on to the next round. Out of the 16 teams left, only 8 would advance on to the next round, with each country getting just one chance to prove their might.
As a small country, with far less 'talent' than most of the European and bigger latin juganauts, Costa Rica was not expected to advance past the first round. They weren't even expected to win their first game against Uruguay. But not only did they blow their first competition out of the water, they went on to not only beat Italy but eliminated England as well. Costa Rica came out on top over 3 former world cup champion countries, proving to the world that small countries can have big talent. Their surprise victories got the world talking, as everyone started to take notice of "the little country that could".
For the first time since 1996 (I think, but don't quote me), Costa Rica had made it past the first round in the World Cup. It was a HUGE deal. But if anyone was thinking that Costa Rica just got lucky, well todays game proved that theory wrong. Up against Greece, with one less player, Costa Rica proved again to the world that it's talent, not luck, that got them to where they are. They are scheduled to play Holand next and as a non-soccer fan, I hope Costa Rica kicks ASS.
If you want to see how people celebrate a historical victory over a European giant, then come to Costa Rica. Today is INSANE. Ticos of all ages are 'loco', out of their minds with emotion and happiness, it would bring tears of joy to anyone's eyes. The excitement in the air is so invigorating; not sure how people will go to bed tonight, as in true Tico style, the celebration will most likely continue until the wee hours of the morning.
The game was a true heart-wrencher, with Costa Rica and Greece tied at 1-1, having to go to penalty kicks to decide the ultimate winner, the country that would qualify on to the next round. Out of the 16 teams left, only 8 would advance on to the next round, with each country getting just one chance to prove their might.
As a small country, with far less 'talent' than most of the European and bigger latin juganauts, Costa Rica was not expected to advance past the first round. They weren't even expected to win their first game against Uruguay. But not only did they blow their first competition out of the water, they went on to not only beat Italy but eliminated England as well. Costa Rica came out on top over 3 former world cup champion countries, proving to the world that small countries can have big talent. Their surprise victories got the world talking, as everyone started to take notice of "the little country that could".
For the first time since 1996 (I think, but don't quote me), Costa Rica had made it past the first round in the World Cup. It was a HUGE deal. But if anyone was thinking that Costa Rica just got lucky, well todays game proved that theory wrong. Up against Greece, with one less player, Costa Rica proved again to the world that it's talent, not luck, that got them to where they are. They are scheduled to play Holand next and as a non-soccer fan, I hope Costa Rica kicks ASS.
Sunday, June 15, 2014
Dude, Where's My Blog...????
Yeah this sporadic posting is not doing me any favors when it comes to stretching my writing muscles at all. I miss blogging and posting pics but like I mentioned previously, I am electronically disabled at the moment. However, it looks like things might be looking up and might change pretty soon.... I might be able to post more frequently now since hubby got a power cord for his Mac, which I am am assuming I will be able to use on occasion; more frequently than before when I was just using his work Ipad.
Anywho, what's new? Lots. The baby is nine and a half months old, fast approaching his 1 year birthday, so I have been heavy into planning that event (as you know I am a party planning freak). I have also gotten my Youtube channel up and running and have over 40 videos posted so far (already, I know). I am loving documenting my life and little things we do. It's fun. So now I have a blog and a vlog, hehehehe. I will need to start blogging more often again though so I can link my vlog channel on the tube to my blog posts here and vice versa. But all is well.
I have a few vids I wanna post about my party planning adventures, since I have not posted any pics on here in a while (that will change very soon though, I am hoping). I have pics of Princess' 7th birthday to post and a few of my P's 14th b-day paintball fun. Those pics will be coming soon......
So, on to more recent happenings... today is Father's day. And it is just another day in the SC household. Not much going on that I know of (maybe hubby has plans, not sure, but as I write we have no plans). We did get him a few little goodies for the day though. The kids made him a couple of cards at school, which are always cute. Princess got him a little 'sumthin, sumthin', though I am not sure what. She brought it home from school all wrapped up (no peeking).
JC brought home a card too, which is super cute with all his little stick people that have no bodies, just arms, legs and a head LOL. He also was supposed to bring home a chocolate lollipop for his dad, but he promptly ate it (no worries, I went and got a replacement chocolate bar to go with the card). And not to be left out, Baby A made a card as well (well, mommy helped.... A LOT).
We (meaning moi) also got hubby a knew brace for his workouts (he runs and is about to start mai Tai martial arts classes). And yesterday I went to a Father's Day celebration at my mother in law's church and I won two raffle prizes for dad, so hubby will get those too from the kiddos (some socks and a cologne). I won a prize too for my, ahem, karaoke singing... not to brag, since that has nothing at all to do with Father's Day :)
I wanna post pics of the day, but it's not really anything exciting so if I film anything and post it to the vlog, I will link the video here. So exciting the things that are happening in my life right now. I won't go on and on here in this post as it will get too "wordy", but more posts coming soon.
Anywho, what's new? Lots. The baby is nine and a half months old, fast approaching his 1 year birthday, so I have been heavy into planning that event (as you know I am a party planning freak). I have also gotten my Youtube channel up and running and have over 40 videos posted so far (already, I know). I am loving documenting my life and little things we do. It's fun. So now I have a blog and a vlog, hehehehe. I will need to start blogging more often again though so I can link my vlog channel on the tube to my blog posts here and vice versa. But all is well.
I have a few vids I wanna post about my party planning adventures, since I have not posted any pics on here in a while (that will change very soon though, I am hoping). I have pics of Princess' 7th birthday to post and a few of my P's 14th b-day paintball fun. Those pics will be coming soon......
So, on to more recent happenings... today is Father's day. And it is just another day in the SC household. Not much going on that I know of (maybe hubby has plans, not sure, but as I write we have no plans). We did get him a few little goodies for the day though. The kids made him a couple of cards at school, which are always cute. Princess got him a little 'sumthin, sumthin', though I am not sure what. She brought it home from school all wrapped up (no peeking).
JC brought home a card too, which is super cute with all his little stick people that have no bodies, just arms, legs and a head LOL. He also was supposed to bring home a chocolate lollipop for his dad, but he promptly ate it (no worries, I went and got a replacement chocolate bar to go with the card). And not to be left out, Baby A made a card as well (well, mommy helped.... A LOT).
We (meaning moi) also got hubby a knew brace for his workouts (he runs and is about to start mai Tai martial arts classes). And yesterday I went to a Father's Day celebration at my mother in law's church and I won two raffle prizes for dad, so hubby will get those too from the kiddos (some socks and a cologne). I won a prize too for my, ahem, karaoke singing... not to brag, since that has nothing at all to do with Father's Day :)
I wanna post pics of the day, but it's not really anything exciting so if I film anything and post it to the vlog, I will link the video here. So exciting the things that are happening in my life right now. I won't go on and on here in this post as it will get too "wordy", but more posts coming soon.
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Easter
Easter was April 20 this year and it turned out to be an amazing day. Last year I had no energy to celebrate Easter with the kids, which left my oldest, especially, disappointed. I had to make it up to him, to them. Plus it was the baby's first Easter. I was working with a very small budget this year as I was in the midst of planning princess's party, but I still wanted to make the day special and fun.
First off, I reused baskets I already had on hand, so I saved money there. Second, I decided not to go all out on the baskets. It's Easter after all, I don't want my kids expecting extravagant gifts. I kept things simple and lowkey but it ended up being amazing anyway.
The day started off with the kids having French toast and eggs for breakfast. Then the egg scavenger hunt began. A note was left behind with an egg that had a clue and they had to follow each clue inside each egg on the hunt to find their baskets.
The clues inside the eggs took them all over the house and the backyard and finally to their baskets, which were hidden inside the laundry room. Inside their baskets were goodies for them to enjoy.
P's basket: Gillette body spray, chips, chocolate covered peanuts, cookies and caramel and gummy candies and his favorite butterfinger candy bar.
Princess' basket: temporary tattoo, hello kitty journal, bracelets, chips, chocolate covered cookies, peanuts, caramel, hard candy, gummies, fruit pouch.
Jc's basket: temporary tattoo, coloring book, sticker book, stickers, chocolate covered cookies, caramel, peanuts and hard candy and gummies, fruit pouch.
Baby A: rubber ball, abc puzzle, faux croc sandals, stickers.
After the kids found their baskets and were allowed to enjoy a few treats, we had brunch. I made breaded tilapia, tuna pasta salad, rice, lentils and banana bread and cheesecake for dessert. It was truly an amazing day.
First off, I reused baskets I already had on hand, so I saved money there. Second, I decided not to go all out on the baskets. It's Easter after all, I don't want my kids expecting extravagant gifts. I kept things simple and lowkey but it ended up being amazing anyway.
The day started off with the kids having French toast and eggs for breakfast. Then the egg scavenger hunt began. A note was left behind with an egg that had a clue and they had to follow each clue inside each egg on the hunt to find their baskets.
The clues inside the eggs took them all over the house and the backyard and finally to their baskets, which were hidden inside the laundry room. Inside their baskets were goodies for them to enjoy.
P's basket: Gillette body spray, chips, chocolate covered peanuts, cookies and caramel and gummy candies and his favorite butterfinger candy bar.
Princess' basket: temporary tattoo, hello kitty journal, bracelets, chips, chocolate covered cookies, peanuts, caramel, hard candy, gummies, fruit pouch.
Jc's basket: temporary tattoo, coloring book, sticker book, stickers, chocolate covered cookies, caramel, peanuts and hard candy and gummies, fruit pouch.
Baby A: rubber ball, abc puzzle, faux croc sandals, stickers.
After the kids found their baskets and were allowed to enjoy a few treats, we had brunch. I made breaded tilapia, tuna pasta salad, rice, lentils and banana bread and cheesecake for dessert. It was truly an amazing day.
Struck with the sickness
My princess has been sick and so it has been a roller coaster. I mentioned in the previous post that she woke up sick on the day of her party and came this close to missing the actual event. Well the Thursday before her party (actually the Friday), she woke me up out of sleep, crying. She was riddled with stomach pain and I was at my wits end trying to figure out what could possibly be the matter. That was around 12:45 that morning. She finally was able to go back to sleep around 2am. That day, Friday, we took her to the clinic, where she was checked over and prescribed antibiotics. She was supposed to be on three kinds of meds for 3 days. Doctor was not sure what was the matter but we ruled out appendicitis and other more serious ailments. Could be a bug, could be something she ate. Could be. She felt better, so we got our meds and went on our merry way home.
Saturday she was fine. But Sunday morning at around 4 am, she came down with a high temperature. She stayed that was, feverish, on Monday. She felt fine on Tuesday, so I sent her to school. Big mistake. She came down with fever again that Wednesday and got even sicker on Thursday. By Friday I decided to take her to the children's hospital. I needed to know what was wrong and why she was not getting better. Plus Thursday night, her temperature spiked to 102F.
We spent all day at the hospital, for about 11 am until we left with the meds at 7:30 pm. She had blood tests and two rounds of X-rays. Come to find out, she has a sinus infection. Did you know sinus infection causes fever, tummy aches and headaches (which princess complained of having on and off the whole time she was sick)? I had no idea. Now she is feeling much better, a day later ( hospital visit was yesterday). She is on antibiotics, again, for 10 days this time and ibuprofen for 5 days for the pain and fever. The panadol I was giving her was just covering up the fever, not helping at all.
She has lost quite a bit of weight as she was sick and weak (although she was eating just not enough to keep her weight up). So now we're working her getting back to full health. She can't wait to have a piece of her birthday cake and a few pieces of candy from the piñata.
Saturday she was fine. But Sunday morning at around 4 am, she came down with a high temperature. She stayed that was, feverish, on Monday. She felt fine on Tuesday, so I sent her to school. Big mistake. She came down with fever again that Wednesday and got even sicker on Thursday. By Friday I decided to take her to the children's hospital. I needed to know what was wrong and why she was not getting better. Plus Thursday night, her temperature spiked to 102F.
We spent all day at the hospital, for about 11 am until we left with the meds at 7:30 pm. She had blood tests and two rounds of X-rays. Come to find out, she has a sinus infection. Did you know sinus infection causes fever, tummy aches and headaches (which princess complained of having on and off the whole time she was sick)? I had no idea. Now she is feeling much better, a day later ( hospital visit was yesterday). She is on antibiotics, again, for 10 days this time and ibuprofen for 5 days for the pain and fever. The panadol I was giving her was just covering up the fever, not helping at all.
She has lost quite a bit of weight as she was sick and weak (although she was eating just not enough to keep her weight up). So now we're working her getting back to full health. She can't wait to have a piece of her birthday cake and a few pieces of candy from the piñata.
Princess's Monster High Themed Gymnastics Party
We had Princess's party this past Sunday on May 4 at her gymnastics academy (oh yes, did I fail to also mention that my princess is taking gymnastics classes?) Anyway, her party was held at Jaguares gymnastics. Her actual birthday was on April 26 and we kept that day lowkey with just cupcakes and a few small gifts.... We'll, one small gift from us. The following day, she had a cake and a big gift from my inlaws.
Now for the party, I planned it down to the last little detail as best I could with the time and budget that I had. Seeing as her birthday is literally less than a month after her big brother's. I was working with a tight timeline and an even tighter budget.... Two parties a month apart with four kids ain't easy.
Princess wanted a Monster high party and she wanted it at the gym. I wasn't really sure we could afford that but I was going to make sure she got the party she wanted. Being pregnant last year, I had no energy for party planning and vowed this would be the year for birthdays. So I got my pen and pare out and got to planning.
As it turned out, the gym did host parties and it was actually affordable, I booked the venue and went from there. I got my color scheme together, red, black, teal, some pink. I got the piñata, ordered the cake, the favor bags, the favors, decor, treats, food, etc. this party was so easy to plan, set up and decorate. Since it was at the gym, I did minimal decorating. It took maybe half an hour to set up. And the food prep was super simple.
The kids has the time of their lives. It was quite possibly one of the best parties I planned, and we came this close to it bring one of the worst. Day of the party and my princess woke up sick with a fever and headache. Luckily she felt well enough to go to the party and she had the best time.
We had 23 or so kids and 20 or so adults, around 43 people total. Just the right amount of party goers to make the day special. Plus, it was a GORGEOUS day, just beautiful, sunny and hot. The party was two hours and pretty laid back. I barely had to do much at all. Here's the party breakdown.
Food: sandwiches, chips, fruit cups, chocolate covered marshmallows and strawberries, iced tea.
Cake
Decor: red tablecloth, Monster high toys and dolls, red forks, black plates and cups, red and black and teal balloons, red and black streamers, Monster high birthday banner.
Favors: Monster high cloth drawstring bags filled with bracelets, vampire teeth, jelly candy, cookies, chocolate for the girls. For the boys, red pencil cases filled with the same goodies minus the bracelets, they got temporary tattoos.
Activity: gymnastics (mini bars, trampoline, etc).
Piñata: chocolates, jelly candies, peanuts
Invitation: Monster High
Outfit: my mother in law made princess an outfit similar to the character Clawdeen wolf from MH.
I have a ton of photos from the day and will post them soon.
Now for the party, I planned it down to the last little detail as best I could with the time and budget that I had. Seeing as her birthday is literally less than a month after her big brother's. I was working with a tight timeline and an even tighter budget.... Two parties a month apart with four kids ain't easy.
Princess wanted a Monster high party and she wanted it at the gym. I wasn't really sure we could afford that but I was going to make sure she got the party she wanted. Being pregnant last year, I had no energy for party planning and vowed this would be the year for birthdays. So I got my pen and pare out and got to planning.
As it turned out, the gym did host parties and it was actually affordable, I booked the venue and went from there. I got my color scheme together, red, black, teal, some pink. I got the piñata, ordered the cake, the favor bags, the favors, decor, treats, food, etc. this party was so easy to plan, set up and decorate. Since it was at the gym, I did minimal decorating. It took maybe half an hour to set up. And the food prep was super simple.
The kids has the time of their lives. It was quite possibly one of the best parties I planned, and we came this close to it bring one of the worst. Day of the party and my princess woke up sick with a fever and headache. Luckily she felt well enough to go to the party and she had the best time.
We had 23 or so kids and 20 or so adults, around 43 people total. Just the right amount of party goers to make the day special. Plus, it was a GORGEOUS day, just beautiful, sunny and hot. The party was two hours and pretty laid back. I barely had to do much at all. Here's the party breakdown.
Food: sandwiches, chips, fruit cups, chocolate covered marshmallows and strawberries, iced tea.
Cake
Decor: red tablecloth, Monster high toys and dolls, red forks, black plates and cups, red and black and teal balloons, red and black streamers, Monster high birthday banner.
Favors: Monster high cloth drawstring bags filled with bracelets, vampire teeth, jelly candy, cookies, chocolate for the girls. For the boys, red pencil cases filled with the same goodies minus the bracelets, they got temporary tattoos.
Activity: gymnastics (mini bars, trampoline, etc).
Piñata: chocolates, jelly candies, peanuts
Invitation: Monster High
Outfit: my mother in law made princess an outfit similar to the character Clawdeen wolf from MH.
I have a ton of photos from the day and will post them soon.
Where in the world have I been......
Good question. I'm typing this blog post on borrowed iPad at the moment as I have been electronically unavailable these last few months. My last post was quite a while ago, ages ago it seems. As it's now The month of May, it's been about five l o n g months since I've made any sort of post or update to mt blog. I have missed this place sorely. I tried my hand at vlogging, which is the video equivalent of blogging on youtube. I figured having both arenas to post my thoughts and we'll, life updates could only be a good thing. But my video blogging days have yet to come full circle.
Admittedly I was initially afraid of putting myself out there in the youtube world. But I realize now, it's not such a bad thing. Once i get my computer fixed and a decent camera, I will be vlogging in the future and linking my videos here as well. I look forward to that day. For now though, I am computer-less and feeling disconnected. I finally checked my email for the first time a couple of weeks ago and I had five months worth of unanswered emails, about 4000 or so....yeah!
So little by little I am trying to get back to the internet world, but it's not easy without the right tools. My oh so dumb smart phone recently deleted all my pictures and videos I had Benin saving, waiting to download to my computer once I got it fixed. Précis video and pictures of the baby's first Christmas, youtube video ideas and random cuteness if my kids being themselves. I wanted to bawl. But it's like I never learn. This sort of thing has happened to me before. I gave list precious pictures that I took; pics that were list fri. A crashed computer or a lost camera. I hope to learn my lesson thus time. I need to start backing up my photos because those are memories I can never get back gone forever. Sad!
So, what has been going on with us? You may be wondering.... Baby A is now 8 months old and as babies do, is growing like a weed. I had two birthday parties, one for my older son P and one for Princess, who both respectively turned 14 and 7. P asked for a party, although much more lowkey than his previous birthdays. He is 14 years old after all, and had not had a party since his 10th birthday. He asked for a Minecraft themed party but after much thought, decided against decorations. He did allow me to make a birthday banner and asked for the cake to be Minecraft themed, which was a Creeper cake (since I knew nothing about Minecraft, I had to search images online). Besides that, he also wanted it to be a paintball party, so he gave me a list of people to invite, a few friends and cousins around his age, and I searched online for paintball places to host our group. It was about 10 kids and 10 or so adults. I'll have to check my list for the exact count but it was a good number, perfect amount of people for a teen party.
We booked the underground paintball in San Pedro for an hour and a half and as I couldn't go, I heard everyone had a blast. I stayed home with the baby and little kids and set up for the party at home. We ordered pizza, something for everyone: veggie, cheese and pepperoni. And we had iced tea, chips (cheese it party mix, sun chips,chips party mix...all my sons favorite) and cake. We also had ice cream in cones.
It was a great party and my son had a blast. And one of the best parts, he received cash gifts from his guests. What teenager doesn't like getting money as a gift. It was amazing and I wish I could post a few pictures here. I'll have to make an update blog of just pictures of all the things I have failed to blog about. So as nit to make this post five pages long, the next post will be info on my daughters party, which was last Sunday.
Admittedly I was initially afraid of putting myself out there in the youtube world. But I realize now, it's not such a bad thing. Once i get my computer fixed and a decent camera, I will be vlogging in the future and linking my videos here as well. I look forward to that day. For now though, I am computer-less and feeling disconnected. I finally checked my email for the first time a couple of weeks ago and I had five months worth of unanswered emails, about 4000 or so....yeah!
So little by little I am trying to get back to the internet world, but it's not easy without the right tools. My oh so dumb smart phone recently deleted all my pictures and videos I had Benin saving, waiting to download to my computer once I got it fixed. Précis video and pictures of the baby's first Christmas, youtube video ideas and random cuteness if my kids being themselves. I wanted to bawl. But it's like I never learn. This sort of thing has happened to me before. I gave list precious pictures that I took; pics that were list fri. A crashed computer or a lost camera. I hope to learn my lesson thus time. I need to start backing up my photos because those are memories I can never get back gone forever. Sad!
So, what has been going on with us? You may be wondering.... Baby A is now 8 months old and as babies do, is growing like a weed. I had two birthday parties, one for my older son P and one for Princess, who both respectively turned 14 and 7. P asked for a party, although much more lowkey than his previous birthdays. He is 14 years old after all, and had not had a party since his 10th birthday. He asked for a Minecraft themed party but after much thought, decided against decorations. He did allow me to make a birthday banner and asked for the cake to be Minecraft themed, which was a Creeper cake (since I knew nothing about Minecraft, I had to search images online). Besides that, he also wanted it to be a paintball party, so he gave me a list of people to invite, a few friends and cousins around his age, and I searched online for paintball places to host our group. It was about 10 kids and 10 or so adults. I'll have to check my list for the exact count but it was a good number, perfect amount of people for a teen party.
We booked the underground paintball in San Pedro for an hour and a half and as I couldn't go, I heard everyone had a blast. I stayed home with the baby and little kids and set up for the party at home. We ordered pizza, something for everyone: veggie, cheese and pepperoni. And we had iced tea, chips (cheese it party mix, sun chips,chips party mix...all my sons favorite) and cake. We also had ice cream in cones.
It was a great party and my son had a blast. And one of the best parts, he received cash gifts from his guests. What teenager doesn't like getting money as a gift. It was amazing and I wish I could post a few pictures here. I'll have to make an update blog of just pictures of all the things I have failed to blog about. So as nit to make this post five pages long, the next post will be info on my daughters party, which was last Sunday.
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