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Roll it! Rolling!
One of the things that Ellie really understands and loves is rolling. She gets the biggest smile on her face for patty cake, for the moment we get to the line, "Roll it!" Right now, she rotates her hands a little bit but is starting to be able to rotate her forearms around each other. There's nothing like this pure joy out of such an innocent ( Read more... ) -
Ellie stories
Normally we don't cosleep. We've tried it and I don't think the punches and kicks to the face not to mention getting absolutely no rest are worth it. There have been times when it has worked and has been an amazingly sweet experience. Ellie was all about cuddles when she had the flu and she slept in my arms better than anywhere else. This past ( Read more... ) -
2013 Biking
I knew it was coming up, but I'm now officially 13 weeks out from the Tour de Cure. The Tour de Cure is a fundraising event for the American Diabetes Association. I've been riding with them for the past 3 years. Every year has been a challenge so far. We started off with the 30 mile route (from not riding at all). The second year my husband and ( Read more... ) -
Fitness progress after 6 months
Here are my initial stats (July 31, 2012):
PUSH UP TOTAL 5
SIT UP TOTAL 12
RUN / WALK (mm:ss) 13:37
*sit ups and push ups are to the Army PT form in one minute
And my final stats from today:
PUSH UP TOTAL 12
SIT UP TOTAL 28
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Weight loss Recap
I decided to lose weight during the summer of 2006 for my wedding, when I was approximately 225 pounds. I really wasn't keeping track and I had assumed that I ate well because I ate mostly fruits and veggies. I was right around 200 for my wedding in August 2007 but gained 10 pounds back after the wedding and honeymoon. I picked up the fight again ( Read more... ) -
Another fitness thing I haven't mentioned
Back in July, I was super lucky to be selected into a pilot program at work in which I am paid to exercise 3 hours a week. This couldn't have happened at a better time. Before July, I was going out of my head with pumping so there was no free time to exercise especially with a needy 9 month old. Those 3 hours became hours in the day I didn't have ( Read more... ) -
The Triplets Saga
I know it has been ages since I last posted about this, but there is an end to the saga! Earlier this year, the triplets' house was put under foreclosure and then they were told to vacate. They did, over several months and after many returns to take whatever they could from the house. Our favorite trip was when they hauled away a shed/garage. In ( Read more... ) -
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I swear that I would get more done in a day if I could just remember where I left that piece of paper...oh, this item needs to go to the bedroom...and now that I'm in the bedroom, I see a few items that need to go into the laundry. Oh, now the dog needs to go out? And without fail, as I'm taking her outside I'll see something else that needs to be ( Read more... ) -
Organizing my thoughts (publicly)
- I'm finding my old LJ posts to be incredibly useful. Since the dawn of digital cameras (2004 for me), I stopped using photo albums since I also stopped printing from rolls of film. I thought I would become a scrapbook master, but sadly the hundreds of dollars spent on scrapbook items sit unused. In the last year, I started designing photobooks ( Read more... )
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Welcome Eleanor Marie!
On September 21, our daughter was born via c-section. Here's a picture of how large I was before the delivery. This was taken at 5 am right before we left for the hospital. I was 39 weeks, 5 days here, just two days shy of her due date.
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