7 Random Things

I got tagged. Yea! I'm not asking for more but it's exciting because it's my first tag. Thanks Andrea.
1. I was an RA in the dorms at ASU my junior and senior year. I decided I really don't like drunk college freshmen.
2. I danced with the stars before "Dancing with the Stars". David Hasselhoff, Mr. T, and Donnie Osmond just to name a few of the "stars" I got to dance with at the Stadium of Fire events for the 4th of July.
3. My best friends from high school are still my best friends today. None of them blog though. Come on girls! Get with it!
4. I turn the music up really loud and yell, my attempt at singing, while dancing with my kids on pretty much a daily basis. We rock out. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, Dame la gasolina, Tim McGraw, . . .we do it all.
5. When Dionys and I met he didn't speak English and I didn't speak Spanish, but somehow we managed to communicate.
6. I thought baseball was a boring sport and was glad when the players went on strike in 1994. Who wanted to watch baseball anyway?
7. I've been to 4 different countries, 8 Mexican states and 28 American states. I've lived in 3 different countries, 2 different Mexican states and 9 different American states. I speak two languages. We have a house, 2 cars, and a dog. I have the best husband ever and 4 wonderful kids. I'm very happy with my life. And I owe it all to baseball.

That was fun. Now, who to tag? . . . Do I even know 7 people who blog?

Adam, Fabiane, Whitney, Juan, Kasey and Heidi
Your turn!

Rules: Link to the person who tagged you, Share 7 random facts about yourself, Tag 7 other blog friends & leave a comment on their blog with the rules! Have FUN!

My Little Sister's Married

That's it. My parents have no other kids of their own at home. Whitney was the youngest and the last to get married. She got married on October 19 and Dionys was somehow able to make it. I was so happy I wouldn't have to see another wedding by myself in the temple. With him here we had my whole family and their spouses in the sealing room. It was awesome! Congratulations Whitney and Juan! We are very happy for you. Here are some pictures of the kids. They had the best outfits. All the cousins matched and I think they stole the show, not really, but they looked adorable. Janalyn found the dresses for the older girls, Brooklyn, Alexandria and Maya. I found the dresses for the younger girls, Isabel and Cicily and Mom went all out and got the tuxes for the boys, AJ, DJ and Cade (I didn't get a picture of him :( ).

These are for you babe!

Dionys was saying that he's been checking the blog and that there aren't any new pictures of the kids. So these next few posts are for him and you too.

Bathroom Buddies

So I edited out the bottom of this picture but it was so funny I had to post it. I think this would only happen with twins potty training at the same time. They thought it would be funny to go at the same time so they tried and laughed the whole time. All it was really good for was a Kodak moment but whatever gets them to try I guess.

Halloween Time

They are just too cute! I'll just let the video say it all.

We have had so many Halloween parties and Fall Festivals this year. My kids are definately getting good use from their costumes. I think they've already worn them 3 times and we haven't even had Halloween yet. Good thing they like dressing up. AJ and DJ love putting on their gloves because Papi wears gloves too (for the unbaseball people like I was, hitters wear gloves to bat). And they made sure that I took a picture of them to show Papi because he's not here. That's how I got such a good picture of them together. Usually it's impossible to get them to be in the same picture together and both smile at the same time. Alexandria is Pocahontus and her hair ( you can't really tell in the picture) is almost to her butt when it's straight. She loves getting it straight because it gets really long.

Blog Etiquette

I know I'm relatively new to this whole blog thing but I still don't get when it's appropriate to list the blogs of people that you know on your blog. I go to some people's blogs and they have tons of friends listed and I wonder if they really have that many friends or if it's just other people they would like to know and they like to look cool. Then there's the whole question of if you should list someone even when you're not listed on their page. Maybe they don't want to admit they know you. There's more people I could list but maybe they don't want to be listed. I don't mind being listed on other people's pages. I think it's fun. It makes it easier for old friends to find you and for me to catch up with people I haven't seen for awhile. But, I'm sure that's not how everyone feels. That's why there's so many people going private. They don't want their pages looked at, right? What's up with that? Then there's the people who don't want their last name used and some people who use fun made up names. Do I put their real name in my blog or their last name? It's all so complicated. That's why it took me so long to make a friends list. I kept all the blogs in my favorites but I never made a list on my blog. I'm just not sure of when to list someone. Is there a right way to do this?

Papi Plays Baseball

That is exactly what my boys say if you ask them, "where's Papi?" For those of you who are interested, I just put the links to Dionys' new team on the side bar. I also put a link to his stats. He's playing Winter Ball in Mexico for Los Caneros de los Mochis. You can listen to his games online. That's fun, especially if you understand Spanish. So far he's doing really well. Check out the links.

Why I love twins

We always read a bedtime story and AJ always sits on one leg and DJ on the other. Tonight DJ told me he wants to sit on one lap. I guess since the twins I now have two laps. If only my arms could multiply like that.

Mean People

So, I got yelled at today by some complete stranger for being such a bad mom. After parking right next to the glass doors so I could see the car I ran in to drop off an application. It probably took 30 seconds. With one sleepy baby and two tired two year olds I decided I could get everyone out and have this 30 second dropoff turn into a 10 minute fiasco or I could run inside and be done. Remember I could see my car the whole time. I parked right next to the door and only had to go about 20 feet. So I told Alexandria to lock the car door behind me and I left her with my cell phone for "just in case". I left the car running because it is still warm outside and all the windows were up. This lady must have seen me get out of the car because when I came back she started in on me. "Shame on you", she said. I just agreed with her, "I know." She continued to lecture me but I just got in the car and drove off. I know it was not the safest thing to leave my children in the car but, I believe it was the better decision. I was watching them the whole time. The kids just stayed in their car seats and continued to watch the movie that they were watching. They could see me inside. They had nothing to be afraid of.

Maybe I am a bad mom though because it's not the first time I've been yelled at by someone who thinks they can do a better job with four children all under the age of five. Last time it was in the parking lot at the mall. I had already gotten Alexandria and DJ out of the car and they were looking at a cactus about 3 cars down. I could still see them. I was still getting Isabel and AJ out of the car so Alexandria and DJ went to see the cactus on their own. I didn't tell them they could go. I told them to stay by the car but I don't have eight hands. I couldn't get AJ and Isabel out and hold Alexandria's and DJ's hands too. I wasn't too worried though because I could still see them and there wasn't much I could do without leaving AJ and Isabel in the hot car. Well, some lady decided I wasn't doing my job and proceeded to yell at me that I'm not fit to have kids and that she wished she could put me in jail for treating my kids that way. She was going on and on and on so I got mad and yelled back. Oops. She was complaining that she can't believe people let their kids do that sort of thing "out here". So I told her to go "back there" where she came from. I think that only made her more mad. My children got upset too because there was this scary lady screaming at their mom and Mom was yelling back. She pretty much ruined our trip to the mall. If she really cared she could have said, "I see you have more kids in the car. I'll just watch these two while you get the other ones out." But, no, she had to be mean about it. What purpose did that serve? We stayed about five minutes then had to leave because the kids and I were so shaken up.

Since then, the first time that happened to me, I decided I would never let someone tell me what to do with my kids and make me angry like that again. People that do that are not worth my energy. They don't know what's going on. They don't know me or my kids. I know my kids better than anyone else. And it would be me that would hurt more than anyone else if anything happened to them. If I don't feel good about something I won't do it. But in both of these situations I felt that my children would be alright. So, since I had already decided not to get mad if it ever happened again, it was easy to get in the car and drive away today. None of my children even knew what happened. I stayed happy, they were fine and mean lady can go bother someone else.

Gimme Five

This is Isabel's new trick. High fives!!

Isabel's 1st ponytail!

September 28 was an exciting day. Isabel finally had enough hair to wear a ponytail. Okay so it was like 10 hairs but they were long enough and that's what's important. We even got the bow to stay in. Since pulling out the rubber band can sometimes pull out the hair we save this style for special occasions. I wouldn't want to make her lose that hair she's worked so hard to grow. So I think she's had about 4 ponytails since then. I remember thinking I would never put a little ponytail on top of my baby's head. It looks so ridiculous. But now I understand why mom's do it. She won't leave the headbands in anymore so when she doesn't get the little ponytail she just looks like a boy. And she's really working on her hair so we have to show it off somehow.

Who do we look like?

It's Ondria, no it's Eva, no it's Ondria

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Will we ever be diaper free?

So I finally started potty training the boys. I've been putting it off because I just did not want to deal with potty training two at a time but they do go by themselves so I think it's finally time. We were using chocolate chips for a reward. Everytime they went they got either 2 chocolate chips for #1 or 5 chocolate chips for #2. I realized we really have to watch out for DJ though. That little boy comes into Dionys straight out of the bathroom, acting all excited and told him he went #2 in the potty and he wanted 5 chocolate chips. Dionys told him he needed to see it first in the potty and wipe him. DJ said, "No, I flushed it." Dionys was already kind of suspicious but when he walked DJ into the bathroom to check him there was no sign of any potty training going on. The toilet wasn't running and DJ was clean. He was totally trying to get a freebie!

Now, chocolate chips don't work as rewards either. We've had to graduate to suckers. Thank goodness it's Halloween time and I can get the bags of dum dums.

"Extrasize"

We were talking about the gym today and Alexandria told Papi he needed to get some "extra-size".

Can't get enough chocolate

A few days ago Alexandria asked Papi what flavor of cake he wanted for his birthday. He told her he wanted vanilla. Today, Alexandria told me if Papi would have said he wanted chocolate she would have asked him why because he is chocolate. That probably explains why I can never get enough chocolate.