Toys!

On Saturday when we went to Kroger, Manny needed a boot shine kit. I told him that Dollar Tree sells them. I know that store like the back of my hand, so I know what they sell. Haha 

On Monday night we went to Dollar Tree. Oh yeah :-) Manny got his boot shining kit and two toys for Muñeca. Manny got her a rope and a stuffed soccer ball. She chased the soccer ball all over the house! She plays with the rope too, but she mainly just carries it around. 

On Sunday we didn't get to finish doing laundry because we got home so late and had church. Today I discovered that Muñeca has been going through the laundry basket. She is trying to get to her blue rug she likes to sleep on. What a stinker!!

Yesterday I got a sample of dog food and dog treats. 

I held the dog treats up to Muñeca to let her choose which flavor she wanted. She sniffed both and then jumped up to get one of them. She chose what she wanted :-)

One of my kids today told me at recess that they were going to play tag. He told me "Tag is when you run, run, run, and then tag someone." I said "Yeah I know." He said "Oh you've played it with your mom?" Hahaha I said yes. 

At the end of the school day, one of my kids asked why he got on yellow. I told him he was talking too much and didn't finish his work. He said "Is it ok if I stay here for a second and write that down?" I told him he could. All the other kids had left, but he was busy writing. His parents must ask him why he gets on a "bad" color and he must not remember. I'm not surprised! Most five year olds can barely remember what they ate for breakfast. Haha! It cracks me up. Things like these are the reason I love my job.

I hope everyone has a wonderful evening. I'm hoping to get to bed early. It's been a long week. Only 12 more before Christmas break!! Haha

Paper

Today was a lazy morning. I've been enjoying my last week of not setting my alarm. I got up this morning at 10:30. It's hard to believe that next week I will be working at 10:30. Where did summer go? Come back!!!! 

This afternoon I discovered why people are crazy drivers other than having diarrhea. I was driving my friend to the doctor and her phone was giving us directions. It was saying keep right and so I was keeping right and then bam! The phone says turn left. I can't turn left from the right hand lane. Dumb Siri!! 

Driving home from the doctor, I was directionally challenged again. We were trying to go home, but Downtown kept getting closer. I know where I am once I get Downtown, but I didn't need to go that far, so we turned around. We made it home. No worries. I could've just used my phone to figure out to get home. Hahaha oh well! 

Next week Manny finishes his EMT course. This weekend he has to read 15 chapters. He has his two final test and then he has clinicals. He has to deliver a baby!! I told him not to pass out. Haha

I didn't go to my classroom today, but I will tomorrow. Manny will get to read his chapters while I work. Fun fun!!

I stopped at Dollar Tree to pick up some contact paper. Our laminator at school is broken so I figured covering stuff with contact paper would work fine. The contact paper I had at was not sticking. I tried googling "How to make contact paper stick better to itself." Google came up with some pretty strange hits. I'm not going to say what I found on my blog... If you want to know, just google it. I don't recommend it though. Haha alright so I was covering some things with contact paper and I would through the paper backing on the ground. Muñeca thought it was a toy for her. I was cracking up! I caught some of it on video.

The part of the video where Muñeca isn't in the screen was when I got distracted. I was looking at something else. Oops! I am not the best videotaper obviously. Haha Manny said our dog would be boring because she doesn't have a friend to play with... I think she's good. Hahaha 

I hope everyone has a wonderful rest of the summer. Get some rest :-)

Surprises

Last night when I got home from Starbucks, Manny had a surprise for me. He got us a puppy!!!

I was at Starbucks with my friend and we were busy looking up puppies. I was sending Manny the links to some of the puppies I found online. Apparently one of the links was to a family in our apartment complex. The family owned the mom and dad and they had six dachshund puppies-two females and four males. Manny chose one of the females because he knows I don't like male dogs. Manny chose the name Muñeca which means doll in Spanish.

We did not get much sleep last night because Muñeca was crying all night!!! She is only six weeks old and it was her first night away from her family. Poor Baby! Manny got up and checked on her around 4am. I had been lying awake for a while. I was so tired and so I just prayed that she would go to sleep. It got quiet. I didn't hear anything from her until Manny's alarm went off at 5:15. Praise the Lord! This just goes to show that God cares about the little things :-) like sleep! 

This morning I got up and brought Muñeca into the bedroom. She cuddled up next to me and went to sleep. I guess she didn't get much sleep either. I let her sleep a few hours, but then I had to go get some things for her.

I didn't want to leave her here alone, but she didn't want to stay in my purse.

I went out and bought her food, a collar, food, and food/water dishes. 

I bought her dishes at Dollar Tree and I bought a squirt bottle. The lady at the register said someone had been looking for the squirt bottles earlier. I told the worker where they were and I told her that there are smaller squirt bottles on the hair aisle. Another worker had been listening and she said that I really know the store. Haha I told both the workers that I go to Dollar Tree way too much! One worker said "Well think about all the money you saved by not buying this stuff at Walmart." I said "That's true, but you end up spending way more money than you intend to." Haha my Dollar Tree addiction. Manny is no longer surprised when he comes home and I tell him I went to Dollar Tree.

As soon as I showed her the food, she started eating. Poor baby must've been hungry. I guess milk isn't too filling.

Well Muñeca is back to sleeping. She keeps looking around for Manny, so hopefully he comes home soon!