Is it wrong to be out of breath during the warm up of an exercise video? My baby weight seems to be hanging around and something needs to be done. Why can't eating chocolate chip cookies be a form of exercise. If you do it right it really can be an aerobic work out. Baby boy is almost 7 months old so saying that I "just had a baby and that's why I'm fat" is basically a lie at this point. I guess it was too much to hope that he was going to weigh 35 LBS. What did I expect though. At one point during my pregnancy I roasted a whole chicken just to eat the skin. SO nasty but at the time made perfect sense.
So I'm cleaning my oven today. Got the spray stuff and everything. I've never cleaned an oven in any place I've ever lived. Is that gross? But last night during a chocolate chip cookie baking frenzy (why can't I lose weight again?) the smoke alarm went off thankfully not waking my baby but it did let me know that the pie I baked last week ( diet food right?) may have spilled over onto the bottom of the oven and action had to be taken. So the spray is sprayed and I'm waiting the required 2 hrs. Hopefully that will take care of the prob and I can do my late night baking without fear of waking my sweet child.
2 hrs are up and the oven is .....cleaner. I would have had to put in a lot more elbow grease to get it totally spic and span and frankly I don't have it in me right now. As long as the smoke alarm doesn't go off I'm good. Pot roast for dinner tonight will be the test.
J has figured out that he can crawl to his toy box and take out his own toys instead of playing with what mama thinks looks fun. He's leaving me in the dust.
Last night I was changing him and he was playing with the wipes box. He figured out that if he pressed the button on top the box opened but when he went to close it his hand was in the way. I moved his hand for him to show him how to close it and he gave me such a look and a very displeased grunt basically saying "I want to figure this out for myself!". Then he went back to trying to close it and once again his hand was in the way. He then moved his hand out and closed the box. Very pleased with himself he did it a few more times and then lost interest.
The first time your child says back off is such a special moment.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
Alone time
This past Saturday I left my sweet baby alone with his Dad for the first time. I had t0 go to Drivers Ed and before any of you ask yes I am way to old to be going for my license but I'm a city kid and I never got it, lets move on. So my hubs and baby spent 8 hrs together. I wrote out very detailed instructions showed him where everything was, to the point where he was giving me that "I'm not an idiot" look. But hey I was nervous.
So I get to class this guy comes in, puts a video in the VCR and walks out, comes back at 11:30 and says 30 min. lunch, comes back at 12 puts in another video, comes back at 3 and says go home. The videos were from the 80's, one was creeepily hosted my Christopher Reeves. As soon as he walked out of the room at 9 AM I pulled out a magazine, read it cover to cover. When finished with that I began my book. AND READ THE WHOLE THING. The last time I curled up and read an entire book was - well before my son was born. I actually finished my book with 9 min left to go in class, it was a long 9 min. But I used the time to text with my friends about how I just read a book with out being interrupted.
Now yes it was a mom magazine and yes it was a humor book on being a mom but i had 8 hrs of alone time and I loved it. Don't get me wrong, I missed my baby like crazy, my husband actually had to send me 2 pictures of him while I was gone just so I could see that he was ok, my boobs were swollen and painfully bursting with milk. But those 8 hrs were well worth the $35 that I had to pay for the class. And now I get to take my driving test. If only I can get better at parallel parking I may actually get to go to the grocery store all my myself, with the baby.
So I get to class this guy comes in, puts a video in the VCR and walks out, comes back at 11:30 and says 30 min. lunch, comes back at 12 puts in another video, comes back at 3 and says go home. The videos were from the 80's, one was creeepily hosted my Christopher Reeves. As soon as he walked out of the room at 9 AM I pulled out a magazine, read it cover to cover. When finished with that I began my book. AND READ THE WHOLE THING. The last time I curled up and read an entire book was - well before my son was born. I actually finished my book with 9 min left to go in class, it was a long 9 min. But I used the time to text with my friends about how I just read a book with out being interrupted.
Now yes it was a mom magazine and yes it was a humor book on being a mom but i had 8 hrs of alone time and I loved it. Don't get me wrong, I missed my baby like crazy, my husband actually had to send me 2 pictures of him while I was gone just so I could see that he was ok, my boobs were swollen and painfully bursting with milk. But those 8 hrs were well worth the $35 that I had to pay for the class. And now I get to take my driving test. If only I can get better at parallel parking I may actually get to go to the grocery store all my myself, with the baby.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Beginnings
baby crying. please baby take a nap.
i need a shower, but if i take one will the noise keep him up if i wait to take one till he falls asleep will the sound wake him up. or do i as i have many days before not shower but is that cruel punishment for my sweet baby boy. i need a shower.
i need a brownie, make that 5 brownies. oh please darling child take a nap.
you rub your eyes, you yawn but alas, you refuse to go to sleep. am i the worst parent ever for letting you cry for 15 min praying all the while that you will drift off to slumber land.
slumber land, that should be a game, who needs candy land, i need slumber land,
wait i don't hear anything, did he fall asleep, is it possible
what is that, OMG is that the lawn mower next door. holy #$^%^ if you wake up my baby with that
and there he goes, crying again, i am going to
no i'm going to take a deep breath, i am going to survive this, he needs a nap, hell i need a nap,
but he needs one and even if i have to pry the lawn mower out of my neighbors hands i will make him stop in the hopes that it will some how make a difference and my baby will fall asleep and wake up happy well rested and still love me after this whole ordeal.
i need a shower, but if i take one will the noise keep him up if i wait to take one till he falls asleep will the sound wake him up. or do i as i have many days before not shower but is that cruel punishment for my sweet baby boy. i need a shower.
i need a brownie, make that 5 brownies. oh please darling child take a nap.
you rub your eyes, you yawn but alas, you refuse to go to sleep. am i the worst parent ever for letting you cry for 15 min praying all the while that you will drift off to slumber land.
slumber land, that should be a game, who needs candy land, i need slumber land,
wait i don't hear anything, did he fall asleep, is it possible
what is that, OMG is that the lawn mower next door. holy #$^%^ if you wake up my baby with that
and there he goes, crying again, i am going to
no i'm going to take a deep breath, i am going to survive this, he needs a nap, hell i need a nap,
but he needs one and even if i have to pry the lawn mower out of my neighbors hands i will make him stop in the hopes that it will some how make a difference and my baby will fall asleep and wake up happy well rested and still love me after this whole ordeal.
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