Little Bug's birth story

Haley Marie was born at 6:07 am, January 2, at 8 pounds 4 oz, 20 1/2 inches long.

I started having irregular contractions on Christmas. I was due December 27, but from Christmas night on, I was having sporadic contractions.

Around 3 pm on New Years, the contractions started coming a little more regularly, about 20-30 minutes apart. By 8 that night, they were roughly 10-15 minutes apart again. We sent our midwife a text to let her know what was going on, and she told me to take a bath and try and get some sleep. I did, and went to bed around 11. The contractions had pretty much died out again. I went to sleep and slept until 2 or so. They were roughly an hour apart. Went to the bathroom, had some bloody show, went back to bed. At 3, they started coming 10-15 minutes again and were getting difficult to work through laying down, so I got out of bed around 4. I started watching The Office to distract myself, and then suddenly the contractions were coming every 5 minutes or so. They had gotten very intense, so I woke Zach up after 3 of those. He came out and helped me through some and called Kat. Kat and her assistant showed up a little while later and they set up the birth pool. At some point, before Kat got here, Noah woke up. Zach's mom took him back in the room and put him back down to sleep. Shortly after Kat got here, she listened to LB's heartbeat and checked me- I was dilated to 6 already. The contractions started coming right on top of each other shortly after that. Around 5:30, the pool was finally ready and I climbed in. The relief was instantaneous. I was sitting in a sort of squat and was starting to feel like pushing already, and after a few contractions in the water, I started pushing without being able to stop. Everything happened pretty fast after that. Kat told me on the next contraction to reach down and see if I could feel the head. My body just took over, and I was pushing again, so I reached down and I could feel the head. Feeling the head coming out with my hand was a really incredible feeling! Another push and the head was almost all the way out. After resting for a minute, I pushed with the next contraction, and Little Bug was out! I pulled her to my chest, and Kat had to use the suction bulb to clear her airways before she would cry. She also had the cord wrapped around her body (not her neck, just her body), so Kat unwrapped that and then she cried. We still didn't know if it was a boy or girl. I think somebody asked and I looked and said its a girl! She started nursing shortly after, and after a while, I got out of the pool to deliver the placenta. After that happened and Haley nursed a whole lot more, Kat checked me over and her assistant did the newborn exam and weighed and measured her. I know at some point before she was weighed, I commented on how small she was. She's 8 pounds, 4 ounces, which is over 1 1/2 pounds smaller than Noah was- no wonder I thought she was tiny!

She's nursing well and is super adorable. Noah has a cold so he hasn't been able to get too close to her yet, but he seems ok with her right now.

From the start of active labor to birth was 2 hours and 6 minutes. It was crazy fast! All the irregular contractions had been doing something. =)

I'm sure I'm leaving some things out, but that's how I remember it right now.

Haley is named after Zach's great grandpa Hal (hence the spelling) and Marie comes from me and my grandma.

25 weeks and appoinment

We had an appointment on Tuesday. Baby is doing great, heartbeat is 147 (which is very boyish), and I measured 24. I've gained 6 pounds so far, and I'm still below starting weight with Noah. Urine test was clear- no more infection and no ketones! Probiotics galore did the job. =)

Kat talked about birth supplies and some of the options we have for after baby is born. She talked about this herbal bath thing we can do after and it sounds amazing. And she was talking about how Zach or I could do the baby catching part- she would provide support through crowning and once the head is out, provided there's no cord in the way, Zach or I could grab the baby. That made me super excited! I've been daydreaming for a few weeks about pulling the baby out and putting him on my chest. The thought of finally being able to hold LB makes me very excited an teary-eyed. I'm so excited.

LB is still transverse, which isn't a problem yet. Kat mentioned doing some poses from spinningbabies.com to help him (....or her) get into a good position. I think baby should generally be head down by 28-30 weeks or something. So we're still ok for now, but I'll add the poses to the end of my prenatal yoga workout.

Symptom wise... I feel mostly fine. I've noticed a little bit of heartburn over the past few days, and my feet are swelling a little. No big deal.

So that's about it.

20 week appointment update

We had a good appointment. Blood pressure was great, and I'm measuring 20, which is spot on. Kat found the baby's heartbeat right away, which was nice. Last time LB tried to hide. She said he's hanging out right in front, which is cool, and right now he's lying transverse facing in. She could feel his bum. =)

Noah was being very adorable and studying everything Kat did. When she was feeling for my uterus, he started feeling my belly too. After she had measured me, he lifted up his shirt and she measured him too. And when she was rubbing in the aloe (she uses aloe as the gel to transmit the doppler noises), he helped. Super cute. =)

LB's heartbeat was 137-149. He would move around and be all excited, and his heartbeat was higher, and then he would settle down, and that's when it was 137. Kat said that's what boys do. So I've just started referring to LB as a boy. I think it's a girl, but I know it's probably going to be a boy, so I'm just referring to him as a boy for now.

I lost about half a pound this past month. I'm up a total of 2 1/2 pounds now (still about 5 pounds lower than where I started with Noah). I think that's a good starting point. The rest of the pregnancy is when the weight really starts to come on, so I think I'm doing well so far. I'd like to keep the weight gain at a -healthy- minimum.

The only slightly bad thing is that I have an infection that's trying to get started, and I'm spilling keytones, I think, but Kat gave me some instructions on how to take care of it.

That's all. Other than that I'm super duper excited for December. =)

20 weeks

Half way through again! I'm surprised. It feels like it's flying by and dragging on at the same time. We're going Team Green again, so I kind of hope it continues to fly. I want to know if LB is a boy or a girl! It's driving me crazy. I don't know why I do this to myself. Team Green. Bah.

LB is the size of a banana now. 6 1/2 inches head to foot, 10 1/2 ounces. Goooo LB! 

I'm feeling movement every day now. It's still pretty spotty throughout the day, but I enjoy it. I haven't really had too much in the way of symptoms lately. Some headaches. Some heartburn. Hot all the time, but that might be because I live in Vegas. Crazy, crazy dreams. Like dreams that could be turned into novels about this scary distopian universe and become best sellers and turn into a smash hit movie, Hunger Games style. Maybe I should write them down.... I wouldn't turn down a book contract. Or movie rights. Then when I'm being interviewed and they ask me where I got the idea for the novel, I could say "oh, y'know, I was pregnant. Having crazy dreams. And I was watching a lot of Doctor Who."  Score.

There are a lot of foods I've been wanting lately, although I think Pinterest is largely to blame. Cinnamon rolls, shrimp, crab rangoon, any Chinese food (oh, how I love Chinese food). I haven't really been hungry though. I'm mostly eating because I know I need to. I've had a cold lately, though, and that may be why I haven't had much of an appetite. Whatevs.

Noah... is going to be 2 next month (what??!?). Um. I don't know how that happened. I'm still trying to figure out what happened to the sort of little baby that I held that first day. Wasn't that just yesterday?

He's becoming a lot more verbal. Most of his words aren't super clear yet, but he's been stringing a couple words into sentences, which is super cute. He likes to watch the garbage truck empty the trash can every week, and when it drives away, he runs back to me and says "cah go?" holding his hands up. I don't think he could be more adorable if he tried.

We're going to have to turn his carseat around soon. I'm super bummed. He's an inch away from the height limit, so once he gets there, he'll have to be forward facing. We'll have to turn him around once LB comes anyway, since we can't fit two rear facing carseats in our itty bitty car. I'm still hoping he can make it until then. He's got 6-7 pounds until the weight limit, so he should be good there. We'll see. December's not that far away....

If there's any truth to "mother's intuition," LB will be a girl and will be coming early. I've been feeling very convinced of that. But trying to prepare for it being opposite. Because this family makes boys. And Noah was super duper late. So. There's that. We'll see in December. Or January. Probably January.

16 week appointment

I love our midwife. She's awesome. Just wanted to throw that out there. =)

LB (Little Bug) is taking after his/her (his) brother and evading the Doppler as much as possible. But we kept hearing him move, and I felt him move every now and then. Kat (midwife) eventually got the heartbeat for a couple seconds- it was 155. Noah's was usually in the 145-155 range, I think. She kept commenting on how fast LB is; he'd dart around when she moved the Doppler.

Uterus measured 16, which is spot on (at 12 weeks, I measured 13). Blood pressure was a little high, but still ok. We went over the results of my bloodwork from a couple weeks ago, and Kat was super excited that my hemoglobin was 14. Apparently that's awesome and highly unusual. There were a couple minor things that showed up in the bloodwork to take care of- I'm losing (leaking?) trace proteins, and I'm not completely sure what that means, but Kat mentioned it could just be a dietary thing and recommended a couple things to do to take care of it. She mentioned the Brewer pregnancy diet, so I'm going to look into it. I also need to drink more water. I've been really bad about it this time around. I just lose track of time and get to the end of the day and realize I've only had 32 ounces of water. That's no good.

So I have a few things to take care of. Nothing big, and Kat said if we listen to our bodies like this and address problems, we have less chance of running into bigger problems down the road. I really like Kat. =)

Otherwise, I'm doing well. I have random moments when I feel sick, and I sporadically feel LB fluttering around. I love those flutters. I'm very excited to feel them more consistently. I've had a couple instances of heartburn and hip pain, but it hasn't been a big deal.

For the record, I think LB is a girl. But because boys are pretty much what this family has, I'm going to assume its a boy. And if it's a girl, we'll just be pleasantly surprised. =)

Cravings

I don't seem to have weird pregnancy cravings, like pickles and ice cream (the exception of course, being french fries dipped in a chocolate shake- but that was a pre-pregnancy favorite). My cravings tend to be normal foods that I just don't like. With Noah, I wanted sauce on my spaghetti, and mayo on my sandwiches. And I started eating bell peppers. All normal things, but not something I would eat.

This time, I'm wanting jalapeño poppers. I hate spicy food. I do not like jalapeños. And yet I keep seeing jalapeño poppers on Pinterest and it makes my mouth water.

I'm also really wanting potatoes. And soups. But I love those anyway.

So. Jalapeño poppers. I may be trying some soon. (Or I may substitute bell peppers for the jalapeños... But y'know)

Announcement

Deep Thought

This is going to be an unusual and serious post. Just FYI. I'm not expecting anything; just writing what's on my mind.

I always feel like I'm an annoying person. There are aspects of my personality that I'm sure are annoying to some people, but I mean in general, I think I'm annoying. I feel like if I start talking more, people will notice how annoying I am. I don't like that. I want people to like me. And I know that's not great either, but it is what it is. I yam what I yam (and apparently I'm Popeye?).

I tend to go through this cycle. I'll start feeling like I'm kind of left out of groups of friends, so I start talking more, and then I feel like I'm getting annoying, so I stop talking. And then I start feeling left out again. It's a vicious circle, and I can't seem to find a way to be happy. I shouldn't care so much what people think, but I do. I can't seem to get past it.

There are times where I can just accept that some people may not like me and that's ok. But those moments of clarity don't happen very often, and they don't last very long.

I think I need to just get out and make some friends. I haven't established a group out here yet, so maybe this is just a result of being lonely. I haven't had any friends (apart from online relationships) in a long time, and maybe that's all I need. There are also hasn't been very much good happening, and life is just very stressful, so I'm sure that's playing into it too.

Anyway. That's what's on my mind today.

Potty training Day 2

Day 1 ended with 4 hits, 7 misses. One of the hits happened after he ran over and sat down on it by himself.

Day 2, it's now noon and we've had 4 hits and 1 miss. Two of his hits were him putting himself on the potty again! They were also very small amounts of pee, like he was squeezing it out just because he enjoyed doing it and me cheering and then taking it to the big toilet to dump it.

But he's been putting himself on the potty and going, and I'm very excited about this. I think it's huge progress, and it looks like he's actually getting the hang of it! Instead of it just being me watching him like a hawk for signs that's he's going to go and then rushing him to the toilet.

It's nap time now, so he's back in a diaper. Hopefully he'll keep running to the toilet on his own this afternoon!

Potty Training!

Hi there. Remember me? The long-gone, horribly blogger that runs this little shin-dig? I felt like blogging. So here I am.

Noah is just over 20 months old now. And today, we started potty training! He's been showing signs of readiness and interest, so I figured we'd give it a shot.

We're doing the 3-day potty training method, and I know there are a lot of skeptics out there who are laughing at the idea of potty training in 3 days. But people have had a lot of success with this method.

So far today, Noah has been enjoying running around naked. He's had a couple misses, and a hit. It's nap time now, so he's back in a diaper. When he wakes up, the diaper goes back off and we'll keep doing what we're doing. Supposedly by the end of the first day, there are supposed to have been lots of accidents, but he should be starting to get the hang of it. Day 2, less accidents, and really getting it. Day. 3, he should be good. For the next 3 months following these 3 days, he'll probably have an occasional accident. But that's the very general premise of it. If he's not taking to it, we'll stop and try again in a few weeks. But so far he's doing well! Hopefully it keeps up.

Quiet Book!

(This is an old post that I started {eh... In... March} and never finished... Here it is now!)



It is finished (er... almost)!! I have been working on this project for about a month (and thinking about it for 4 months on top of that) and I am now happy to say that it is done! Except for 1 eyelet. 1! Why would they put 19 eyelets in a package? Would 20 really have been that hard? Ugh.

Anywhoozle. I'm not great at implementing the picture in my head and making it turn out right, so some of the pieces in the book aren't quite right. But I did my best. And Noah's not going to care.

The goal of the quiet book is to keep Noah occupied and at the same time be educational. There are things to promote fine motor skills (using zippers, tying shoes), things just for fun (finger puppet zoo, mr. Potato head-type thing, fishing), and educational things (matching colors/shapes, numbers).

He's played with a few of the pages as I was finishing them and he really seemed to like them. I'm really pleased with how it turned out. Maybe I'm just euphoric over finishing such a big project, I dont know. But if he likes it, then it serves it's purpose and I'm happy. Even if it's not perfect.

The pictures were taken before I finished, so it turned out a little different than what's shown here, but you get the idea.

A little blurb for Old Navy

I've been part of this community called Crowdtap for a while, and every so often, they have opportunities for people to sample things with different companies. I got to sample some Old Navy clothes for free, which is something I always love. I got a free tee shirt and tank top. I love Old Navy's tee shirts. If you know me, you know I dress pretty casually, and Old Navy tees are one of the things that I usually wear. They're so comfortable, and they hold up to all the dirt and food that Noah smears all over me well.

So that's my little blurb. If you're looking for some basic things to add to your wardrobe that are both functional and look good, I'd recommend the Old Navy tees. Super affordable and they're so comfortable. I love them.

Goodnight gorilla

I'm rocking Noah to sleep right now and he's holding his bear tight and has a very sullen look on his face. It's very cute. He hasn't had his pacifier in 4 days now. Tonight he's missing it. I can tell by his grumpy face. He makes the funniest grumpy face. He glares and furrows his brow when we say no. And rolls his eyes. It's hilarious and adorable now. I hope he outgrows it before he's a teen.

Potty Training!

We have officially "begun potty training!" And by potty training, I mean we bought a potty seat and we're going to sit Noah on it when he wakes up, after naps, and before bath and bed time. We're just letting him get used to sitting on his little chair. No pressure. If he goes though, I'll be super excited!

So that's as much potty training as we're doing right now. In a few months, we'll be more intentional about it, but right now, it's just kind of fun and maybe we'll have a few less diapers to change. =)

That aside, we're settling in here. Noah turned 14 months yesterday. He love love loves having dogs around. He keeps pointing at them and saying "da," which makes me very excited, thinking he's going to start talking soon. But "da" seems to be his new favorite noise, so maybe he won't be talking just yet. I don't know. I'm excited for it to happen, anyway.

I've been looking at Pinterest a lot, and I have so many ideas for projects I want to do. One is to make a quiet book for Noah (2, actually). It'll have numbers, letters, some stuff to help with fine motor skills, a couple games... I'm really excited to get it together! However, I have no money with which to buy my supplies. Sad day. Pinterest is bad for my wallet.

And now.... A certain little boy needs my attention. =)

Goodbye Missouri!

I haven't posted in a while, so I don't think I've mentioned anything about moving. Our lease for our place ended at the end of October, so we moved all the way out to Chino, California. Whoah. Big change, right? We had our move-out inspection Monday morning, then Zach spent a couple hours tetris-ing everything into our car. Ran a few errands, and then headed out. We drove all night because Kansas sucks, and then got into Denver around 5 or 6 am- I'm not sure when, I was asleep- and we hung out at a McDonalds for a while. We wanted to wait until it was light out to drive through the mountains, since the drive through the Rockies is just beautiful.

After lots of driving, a two hour stop at Urgent Care for Richard (he was pretty sick), and a random snowstorm that left us with almost no visibility, we made it to Bryce, Utah Tuesday night. There we set up camp and snuggled up under a ton if blankets. It was so cold! The low that night was 12 degrees. Seriously. Cold. We had Noah bundled up, and he slept between us in the tent, then we had 4 or 5 warm blankets on top of us, with a crocheted quilt I made covering our heads. It was too cold without having our faces covered! Mali slept in the tent with us, she was snuggled by my legs for a while. If the ground hadn't been so cold, we would have been fairly comfortable. Apart from where we were touching the ground, we were warm. But anyway. We woke up pretty early in the morning, went to look at a few neat things around Bryce Canyon, and then drove on to Zion, Utah. It was beautiful! We stopped a couple times to hike to a few different interest parts. From there, we headed to Vegas. Stayed the night with Justin and Krista.

Thursday we hung out and Noah and Jake played. That afternoon, we went to visit Zach's mom at her new school. =) we left Vegas that evening and pulled into the driveway in Chino around 1-1:30 am.

And that brings us to today. We briefly introduced Mali to the dogs. It didnt go well. Merle chased her into a corner and she cowered and hissed at him. Thats going to be interesting. =)

Zach and I still need to unload the car and get settled in our room. So that's pretty much what's been going on with us. I'm pretty excited about this new adventure we're starting. I love that we can step outside and see the mountains. And we're an hour or less drive away from the beach, which I'm super thrilled about. =)

I was going to add some pictures from the trip in, but most of them are already off my iPod. All I have is a shot of the sunset in Henderson last night. So here's that. =)

Noah's First Birthday!

My boy turned the big O-N-E this past Friday. I don't know how that happened. He was just born. How can he be one? How can he be smiling and laughing and waving and walking and crawling and saying "hi" when he was just born? It's ridiculous how quickly time has gone by.

2 hours old

1 year old

This past year has been absolutely amazing. I've loved it. I love that little boy so much. I first got baby fever in May of 2008, and waiting until September of 2010 felt so long, but Noah is so worth the wait. He's such a sweet boy. I can't believe how blessed I am.

We had a small party for him this past Saturday. There wasn't much to his party, since he doesn't care right now. In the future, I'll make a bigger deal of it, but it turned out fine, and he enjoyed himself, and that's what's important. I made cupcakes, he opened presents (with help), and then got to play with his new toys, so I'd say it was a success. =)

Birthday cupcake

He liked the strawberry more than the cupcake.

Presents!

In different news, I mentioned a craft I was making a while back. It was this container that I was making pretty. Well, I made it. Was in the process of taking pictures. And then accidentally broke it. So. There goes that craft. But, for the two of you actually reading this, I just did another craft. I didn't take pictures of it in process, just the end result. But it was super easy. And it looks pretty cute. I may even get pictures of it up at some point.

Noah-specific news: he's walking. Not full-time, I think he's somewhere in the 70/30 crawling/walking range. But he's definitely roaming all over. And it's adorable. He waves, says hi, signs milk, claps whenever you say yay. Clapping is his favorite. =) He loves playing "Cat Hunting Airplane," where we zoom him around the room after the cat. Mali is not as excited about this game. And that's all that I can really think of. It's crazy to think of how much he's changed. A year ago, all he did was eat, poop, and sleep. And now he's all over the place, and communicating a little. =)

Crafting

I went to Hobby Lobby today. Pinterest has got me all up in a tizzy and wanting to craft. The problem is I don't have a crafty bone in my body, but I thought the combination of my Pinterest addiction and browsing through Hobby Lobby might inspire me. So I roamed the aisles for a while, while Noah patiently sat in the cart and tried to grab all the bows and springy decoration things he could almost reach.

I have this container that I use to store some stuff (nursing pads and stuff), and it's just a very boring clear plastic container. So I thought I'd (erm, try to) spruce it up. So I bought stuff for that, and then I got sucked into the wood frame and miscellaneous wood things aisle. I ended up buying a big frame and a lion puzzle thing that you can paint and stage around stuff. I'm hoping to make the lion sort of peek over the wood frame... and the frame will be decorated and inside will be a collage of pictures of Noah. I'm hoping to have it done for his first birthday (which is next month!). And I'm hoping, hoping, hoping it doesn't turn out like crap. Because I am not very crafty or talented, so this is all kind of a long shot.... but dangit, I wanted to try.

Tonight I pieced together the scrapbook paper to cover my storage thing in. It's all covered and looking much cuter, but man, I'm terrible at making it look seamless. I have pictures of what I've done so far, but it's not done yet, so I won't post anything. I'm hoping to finish it tomorrow and then try and get a post up, so you can all laugh at my feeble attempt at being crafty. I told Zach that if we had money, I'd totally go crazy and buy a ton of stuff at Hobby Lobby. Then I'd get home and look at everything and have no idea what to do with it. It would probably sit in a corner and be purposefully ignored for a while.

So... that's all, really. I still have Mod Podge on my fingers. Must go wash them more.

Oh, and my baby turned 11 months this past Tuesday. What? I've been totally failing on getting a good picture of him for "x-months old." Mom fails. But here you go.

Spelunking!

We went spelunking today. It was a lot of fun! Mostly because the word "spelunking" is fun to say. Spelunking. Spelunking. I'm a spelunker. Also, saying it several times and in different fonts makes it cooler. Right? Right??

Anyway... There's this state park nearby that has this cave system and there are two ways you can go once you go through the low part in the entrance. To the right is this 8 mile or so passageway with lots of water and mud, and it's a (paid) guided tour. To the left is a small passageway that just ends in this cavern with a big pool of water. We went left. It wasn't very far, only a couple hundred yards or so. I think. It's hard to tell how far you've gone when you're concentrating on finding a steady rock to step on and not hit your head (or the baby who is strapped on your back) against the rock wall.

This is from 3 years ago, but this is in the entrance. I think I'm under the low part, you can see the cave ceiling above my head. It's like a 4 foot gap to crawl through.

Also from 3 years ago, still the entrance, but past the low part. 

So we got to the end of the passage in Conner's Cave (the whole system was called Devil's Ice Box, but Conner's Cave is the short one), and we were just kind of shining our flashlights around and looking at stuff and then I think it was Richard who mentioned the secret staircase. It was just this steep set of stairs made of clay from people climbing up them, I guess. Anyway, Zach, Richard, and Karen all went up. I didn't, because my shoes had very little traction and I didn't feel like risking falling down the super slick clay stairs and hitting my head on the rocks and dying in the middle of a very dark cave. Because that just sounds like something I'd do.

There was one point where we all turned off our lights just to see how dark it was. And... it was dark. Very, very dark. Like if you didn't have lights, you'd totally hit your head on a rock and never find your way back and die because it's so dark. Suffocating darkness. Did I mention it was dark?

So Noah is now a tiny spelunker. I think he enjoyed it (except for the couple times I accidentally brushed his head against the rock entrance). It felt really good down there, it was like 55-60 degrees or so.

I think we were probably spelunking (haha!) for 20-30 minutes. Then we found our way back and hiked back out through the park and went to eat. It was a good day.

After our spelunking. Noah's chewing on the ergo. That's what he did the whole time. It was a very educational trip for him.

I enjoyed it, and would like to go spelunking again. Maybe when Noah's a bit older and can walk and actually appreciate how cool it is. =)

Pinterest

http://realmomkitchen.com/1505/baked-cheesy-chicken-penne/Have you heard of Pinterest yet? It's kind of amazing. And by amazing, I mean highly, highly addictive. There's just so much to look at. It's this virtual pinboard where you can pin all of these pictures and keep things organized. There are so many different categories- food, crafts, clothes, dream houses/setups, kids stuff. It's just this way to keep things organized, or to waste soooo much time.

One of my favorite categories on Pinterest is the food. There are so many tasty food ideas. For example, there's this recipe for ready to eat cookie dough. YUM. I love cookie dough. More than once I've made a batch of cookies, baked some, and slowly eaten the cookie dough over the course of the week, hoping the raw eggs won't get me.

Pinterest is also how I found this recipe for Baked Cheesy Chicken Penne. Karen and I made a slightly modified version of it a couple weeks ago (when our AC went out in the middle of a heat advisory), and it was pretty good! I just love that I can find so many new food ideas for dinner. It make me so hungry. Which is awful, since I'm attempting to diet (attempting being a very important word in that sentence).

Speaking of dieting, I've been working out (almost) daily doing the 30 Day Shred. I kind of like it, I have this love/hate relationship with working out. I enjoy the feeling of accomplishment after I'm done, because being soaked in sweat is oddly satisfying. But I hate getting up and actually doing it.

My whole attempt at dieting would be so much better if I weren't SO addicted to sweets. I'm able to maintain my weight, which in theory means that if I didn't have ice cream all the time, I'd be able to lose it. But I have the hardest time not eating ice cream or cookies or chocolate. But I'll get there.

Noah's up now, which means my short time to blog is done.So I'll leave you with a picture of Zach, Noah, and Boba Fett.

A new goal

I have a new goal for this blog, inspired by Erika over at Wannabe, and that goal is to not be boring. I've kind of been on this monotonous "here are the details of everything Noah and nothing else" wheel. So. The blog is going to be turning a little more family-centered and not Noah-centered, although you can be sure that there will be tons of stuff about Noah on here. Because all I do is chase the little boy around the house. So for now I'm off to look for a new theme for the blog. =)