Being a mom...

                                                      
Is the best gift I've ever received...

Is this the face of a model?!

P1 and I had a mini photo session the other morning and one of these pics we're going to use for the Gap contest that is going on right now!!  She was a ham at first, and then she started getting cranky, and then she started being crazy!!  Here are a few of the shots of my precious pumpkin pie!  LOVE THIS GIRL-RILLA!! 

And this is where she started copping a 'tude

And this is where she started getting crazy!

P2's first food

So P2 had her first taste of cereal on Sunday night, 9/27.  She wanted nothing to do with it too!!!  She a few days short of 5mo and I thought for sure she would know what to do and be like her big sister who LOVED her cereal!!  Piper was great and took two bowls of cereal the very first time she tried it!!!

Anyway, so Pen basically just made funny faces and spit out most of it.  We tried it again last night and again she was not interested.  I think we're going to wait a few weeks and try it again.  I do have some fruit/veggies that I bought too, but I don't want her eating sweet stuff first because she will certainly turn up her nose to the veggies if she gets a taste of the good stuff.  I use that term loosely!  We're still talking about baby food.  bleh.

My first bite!

happy girl

Anxious and Irritable

I'm anxious and irritable this evening.  I've been like this for a few days now.  I've also been out of my 'happy pills' for a few days because someone with the money keeps forgetting to pick them up for me. That would be M if you don't know.  He did mail a package to my neice that I've been meaning to send for days now, so at least he did one of my chores for me.  Since he's out and about for his job, it's easier for him to get errands done then it is for me to do them.

Here it is almost 11pm and I'm still wide awake.  My body is tired, but my brain seems to be wide awake.  I might read this in the morning and think otherwise, but for now it seems that way.  Maybe that's the anxiety?

I had a good day with the 30DC.  What's that, you ask?  Some hairbrain idea I got while watching the documentary 'Supersize Me'.  A movie about a guy who only ate McDonald's for a month (was it a month, I can't remember?) and how his health totally declined because of it.  So being the smart one that I am, I came up with the novel idea to give up fast food for a month and see how it makes me feel.  Much to my surprise, a lot of my online friends (shout-out!) decided to do it with me! Even M decided to go along with it and I'm so glad he did. They are the reasons I haven't cheated. (well, there was that one free meal at Chipotle early on, but I digress...). 

So back to my good day.  Yesterday sucked.  I almost cheated and went to get something for lunch.  I was hungry all day and my frozen yuck meal wasn't going to cut it.  Plus I was pissed because the scale said I was back to the same weight I started at a month ago. WTF?!  How is that possible?  I might not be exercising, but I'm certainly cutting half the calories I had normally been consuming up until 9-1-09.  I was strong though and I didn't cheat.  I wanted to SOOOOO bad, but I didn't want to let my girls down!  I felt like I owed it to the ones that have stuck it out so far.  Besides, I'm the one that started this happy horsesh*t so I'll be damned if I'm going to go out...especially this close to the end.  So I was strong.  Oh, I also decided I wasn't going to weigh myself again until 10-1. 

Ya, that didn't work.  I weighed this morning and I was pleasantly surprised (read: SHOCKED) that I had lost 5.5lbs since the beginning of the 30DC.  I don't know how that is possible, but that's what it said.  Well, mid-afternoon I decided to weigh at work (obsessed much?!).  What I saw really SHOCKED me.  The scale reflected a 20lb DROP from what my scale at home said.  How the frick is that possible?!?!  Did someone cut off my leg and I didn't know it??  Luckily I have a coworker who goes to Weight Watchers and I asked her how accurate our scale at work was.  She had just weighed at WW on Monday and when she stood on the scale today she said there was a 4lb difference between the two.  So, and stay with me now; I added the 4lbs to go along with the WW scale, and in one minute I lost 16lbs!!!  I LOST 16 FREAKIN POUNDS!!!!!!!  To go from thinking I weigh XXX to finding out I really weigh 16lbs less than XXX, that's awesome and a great pat on the back to me for sticking with this dumbass challenge!!!  HAHA    I am happy to report that I am down 5.5lbs from the beginning of the month.  At the end of the month I will sit down and figure out how much money we've saved from cutting out the fast food.  That is probably going to be even more shocking than the 16lb instant weight loss!   

Damn Tooth Fairy!

On Saturday afternoon, P1 decided that she had had enough of her loose tooth impeding on her eating enjoyment.  So after lunch, M decided to help her out and tie some dental floss around it and out popped her tooth.  I think this makes tooth number 6 or 7.  We're not new to the 'tooth fairy' business, but we almost blew it this weekend!  On Saturday there wasn't a dollar to be found and we didn't want to borrow from P1's piggy bank again.  (Yes, I said again....we've always replaced it, but it's a short term fix for two parents who rarely carry cash!)  Anyway, so she wakes up on Sunday morning and lo and behold the TF didn't show. Surprise Surprise.  Now, I think he who pulls the tooth should make sure he has the money to pay up.  Just sayin'.  But we both forgot, until a whiney P1 comes in and is not bashful in her disgust for the TF that morning!  Being the quick thinker that I am, I convinced her that switching the way in which she stored the tooth confused the poor TF (she put it in a little pillow instead of the little box she normally does).  She fell for it.  Point for mom! 

OK, so last night we got home real late from my SIL's house. By the time both kiddos were in bed, it was almost 11pm and this mama was tired.  This morning when I walked in her room I sat on her bed and started to wake her up.  In my horror, what do I see sitting on her windowsill?!  Yes, the tooth in the 'original' box that the TF is used to!  CRAP. We forgot AGAIN!!  I quickly grab a dollar from M's wallet (yes, he got cash earlier in the day or I would have been borrowing from the piggy bank!) and armed with my pixie dust (body glitter) I take care of the task at hand. Very quietly!  Sprinkle the dollar. Check.  Put the dollar in the box. Check. Sprinkle the sill. Check.  Sprinkle some on P1. Check.  I run back to my room, put the glitter away and rinse it off my hands.  Then I went back in there and woke her up.  First thing she did was notice the glitter on her arms and then it was all over with.  Success!!!  Thank goodness, disaster averted...  this time!

Getting the hang of it

I've had this blog for a while now and I never really posted on it before.  I didn't like the way it looked and I never thought I had enough time to learn how to use it.  Well, after a little trial and error on a relaxing Sunday, I think I may have figured it out. I hope my friends and family will enjoy all of the stories and of course all the pictures!